Rutgers Business School MBA Team Consulting students to tackle HCESC management challenges

Dec. 18, 2009 - PRLog -- The Hunterdon County Educational Services Commission (HCESC) will work with the MBA Team Consulting program at Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) on a strategic plan to assess its programs, organizational structure, and financial model.

A team of second year MBA students will work as consultants to HCESC recommending solutions to management challenges faced by the agency. “We are very excited to be working alongside HCESC,” said Dr. Susan P. Gilbert, program director and associate dean at RBS. “The Rutgers MBA Team Consulting Program continues to expand its alliances with and make an impact on the New Jersey business community and government.”

The team will work with a faculty advisor, Dr. Gilbert, and faculty experts in corporate strategy, marketing, supply chain management and finance, to bring state-of-the-art analytic tools and methods, as well as a fresh outlook to HCESC’s mission, offerings, and structure.

“We exist to provide for the needs of our school districts,” said HCESC superintendent Dennis Cox. “We are looking to the MBA Team Consulting program to help us strategize on delivering the services they need, make them aware of what we can offer and maintain our financial stability,” he said.

HCESC’s shared-services philosophy, where pooling together resources, benefits all school districts who utilize their agency. Programs like Alternative Education, Special-Ed, and services like co-op purchasing of school supplies and student transportation, give school districts benefits they either wouldn’t be able to do on their own or would provide at a higher cost.

The MBA Team Consulting program was established over 40 years ago and has performed over 1,600 separate reports for clients ranging in size from one-person startups to Fortune 500 firms. This is the second time Rutgers Business School has worked with HCESC through the program.

The 15-week engagement starts in January 2010.

About Rutgers Business School
Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick is an integral part of one of the nation’s oldest, largest, and most distinguished institutions of higher learning: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Today, Rutgers Business School is educating more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students at two main campuses in New Jersey as well as six satellite locations in New Jersey, China, and Singapore. Rutgers Business School is ranked #10 nationwide for “Most Competitive Students” by The Princeton Review; and is part of the campus that is ranked #1 in diversity nationwide by U.S. News & World Report, for 12 straight years. Full-time MBA and part-time MBA programs give excellent options for people looking to boost their careers.

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About HCESC
The Hunterdon County Educational Services Commission was organized under the Education Laws of the State of New Jersey in 1980. The Commission has no tax base and receives no state aid for its operations. Its income is derived primarily from fees for services with a small amount raised from various grants. All assets belong to its member districts. HCESC’s mission is to help communities discover and realize their life-long potential by providing superior programs and services at exceptional value, which are responsive to their educational, cultural and leisure time needs.

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