Lab Courses

You'll have the chance for hands-on learning as you deal with actual business challenges in lab courses.

• Management Labs - You'll tackle consulting assignments that focus on strategic thinking, management and research skills. Working in teams with executives at major companies, you'll work on new product development, business strategy, and operational research. Recent Management Labs teams have traveled overseas for extended periods of time to manage projects on site.
• New Venture and Small Enterprise Lab - You'll work closely with senior management at early-stage companies on strategic and operational projects. You'll be directly involved in helping them take their ideas to market. Student’s have worked on market research, strategy development, consumer studies, pricing models and marketing messaging for:
  • Bias Power, an angel-backed technology company that has patented low-wattage power supply technology
  • Cleversafe, a Chicago-based new venture that aims to store the world's data
  • Orion’s Mind, a Chicago-based educational company that designs and executes after-school tutoring programs where students learn by playing games and participating in creative activities
  • TVCompass, a venture backed start-up developing an exciting new consumer electronics product and content services platform for the broadband, WiFi mobile messaging and interactive TV markets
  • Windy City Harvest, a transitional jobs program and urban horticulture production business in the North Lawndale community of Chicago
• Private Equity/Venture Capital Lab - You'll intern 15-20 hours a week on projects ranging from evaluating new market/business opportunities to specific issues and opportunities for portfolio companies. The classroom component features guest lecturers from private equity and venture capital companies. Companies who participated several times in the lab include Sterling Partners, Dunrath, Duchossois, OCA Ventures, Lake Capital, Essex Woodlands, Roundtable, WHI, Seneca Partners, Arch Development and Prism Capital.
  • GSB students have helped Dunrath identify the different segments of the security industry and focus on specific opportunities.
  • They have helped Essex Woodlands research investment opportunities in healthcare in China and India.