Building collaborative engagement
The Office of Business Partnerships at Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business creates and provides solutions to the business challenges of today and the future.
Dedicated Daniels School professionals streamline opportunities for industry partners and alumni to connect with students and faculty beyond the traditional classroom setting. The partnerships office helps companies solve business challenges through consulting-focused experiential learning projects across all business functions via course-based engagements or contracts with our centers.
Applying the power of data to serve industry needs is in the Office of Business Partnerships’ DNA. Moving beyond theory into real problem-solving is a call to action our office takes seriously. We understand organizations large and small face uncertainty, rapid technological changes and the continuous need to train employees and cultivate new talent.
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There are so many ways we can work together to create and nurture a rewarding partnership that benefits your organization. Explore the opportunities that make up the core of a strategic partnership with Purdue and the Daniels School.
Enhance your organization's leadership capacity by investing in their development through a residential, online or hybrid degree program, certificate courses or a custom offering.
Collaborate with our centers of excellence and expert faculty researchers to gain access to top thought leadership.
Develop future team members while filling your most challenging positions. Your next hire could be that talented intern, a stellar full-time candidate or a transformational executive you meet through a tailored recruitment strategy designed for your company.
Join forces with our expert faculty and top students to create a consulting project that will define and test solutions for your pain points.
Drive industry and academic innovation through board membership, mentoring, guest lectures and curricular guidance.
The company partner, which produces, distributes and sells non-alcoholic (soft drinks, juices) and alcoholic beverages (malt beverages, rum, beer), partnered with the Master of Science Human Resource Management program. The student team designed a DE& I strategic plan to integrate the acquired brewery into Fortune 500 ownership. The team conducted meetings with DE&I leadership craft sites and the surrounding community to gain insight into initiatives, strategies, and definitions for both the conglomerate-owner and craft beer partners. In addition to internal research, the student team investigated and researched external strategies for DE&I from peers and competitors, including benchmarking and SWOT analysis.
For this project, the company is trying to find ways to better understand data in both their manufacturing processes and customer service. In their manufacturing processes, they have high-tech robotic assembly processes. This product assembly is complex and requires high quality data collection. That is why they need to develop a better understanding of their data collection to create better flows in the manufacturing process. The company wants to implement generative AI as they believe it will be more efficient.
On the customer service side, they service customers in the education sector, workforce preparedness, independent living and consumer electronics. They want to develop a better understanding of their data here in the customers they service to see how they can expand their products in the future and better their products to all the audiences they attend to.
Student teams helped develop a tool that the company can use to simulate outcomes for each possible decision the company can make based on data. The tool will be built on historical data and take into account the variability that exists in that line of work. The goal is to predict better outcomes for big decisions to see if they’re worth pursuing. This tool will mainly focus on production inventory first.
Academic and industry partnerships bring together the best of industry-specific and cutting-edge business knowledge to craft new and innovative ideas.
Mike Pettit
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Wabash
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When we explore different avenues through what the students help us understand, that opens up new ways of solving the problems that we face.
Dave Teeter
Vice President of Talent and Organizational Effectiveness, Wabash
What's really impressed me is [the students are] clearly getting a lot of training very early on. They’re well prepared for what's going to be required of them as they move from the academic world into the business world.
Michael Day
Executive Director, Engine Business Segment, Off-Highway Finance, Cummins
