Project exchange
What businesses submit
- Live business cases
- Real business problems
- Market research
- Branding projects
- Marketing projects
- Financial analysis
- Business plans
- Operations projects
- Sales strategy
- Customer research
- AI business applications
- Social media strategy
- Economic development projects
- Procurement research
- Community business projects
- Entrepreneurship challenges
Cadence Coffee Roasters (Demonstration)
Student team analyzes foot traffic, demographics, competitor density, and lease comparables for four candidate corridors.
- Market research
- Data analysis
- Presentation
Undergraduate business · One academic term · Deliverable: Market study and recommendation deck
Business mentor: Owner + operations manager
Matched to Harrington College of Business — MKT 340
Meridian Logistics Group (Demonstration)
MBA team maps current-state operations, models bottlenecks, and proposes staffing and layout changes.
- Process mapping
- Modeling
- Change management
MBA · 12 weeks · Deliverable: Operations report with implementation roadmap
Business mentor: VP of Operations
Matched to Lakeshore School of Business — MBA Capstone
Northline Credit Union (Demonstration)
Students design campaign concepts, messaging, and a channel plan with measurement.
- Brand strategy
- Social media
- Copywriting
Undergraduate + high school academy · 8 weeks · Deliverable: Campaign playbook and creative concepts
Business mentor: Marketing Director
Halstead Family Hardware (Demonstration)
Student team evaluates tools, costs, and adoption steps for a 12-person business.
- Technology evaluation
- Cost analysis
- Training design
Community college + undergraduate · 6 weeks · Deliverable: Adoption guide and vendor comparison
Business mentor: Owner
Experience exchange
Ways to give a student real exposure
Business tours
Grades 6-12 · 2 hours
Job shadowing
Grades 9-12 · 1 day
Executive shadowing
College + MBA · 1-2 days
Entrepreneur shadowing
All ages · 1 day
Career days
K-12 · Half day
Site visits
All ages · 2 hours
Community business tours
All ages · Half day
Industry panels
Grades 9+ · 90 minutes
Business lab + challenges
Practice environments and competitions
- Business simulations
- Live case studies
- Sales labs
- Marketing labs
- Finance labs
- AI business labs
- Entrepreneurship labs
- Negotiation
- Pitch practice
- Business plan development
- Marketing
- Finance
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Operations
- Technology
- AI
- Community development
- Social impact
- Procurement
- Scholarships
- Internships
- Mentorship
- Business exposure
- Prizes
Family business learning
Business knowledge that stays in the family
- Entrepreneurship
- Family business
- Money
- Ownership
- Succession
- Legacy
- Leadership
- Investing
- Careers
- Business communication
- Youth + parents
- Young adults + mentors
- Business owners + successors
- Multigenerational families
- Succession planning
- Next-generation leadership
- Family business transition
- Employee succession
- Mentoring future leaders
- Business sale education
- Legacy planning
Mogul Chamber provides education and referrals only. Nothing here is legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice. Work with a licensed attorney, CPA, or financial professional before making succession, sale, or estate decisions.
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- • Every student-facing project must have a documented educational purpose.
- • Projects are reviewed by Mogul staff before matching.
- • Faculty or program staff supervise all student work.
- • Projects may not replace paid employees with unpaid student labor.
- • Businesses provide a named mentor for every project.
- • Student deliverables are learning artifacts, not contracted deliverables.
Student deliverables are learning artifacts. Projects may not replace paid employees with unpaid student labor, and every project requires a named business mentor.