Creating solutions to complex challenges

The capstone unit allows Macquarie Business School (MQBS) students to apply their skills and knowledge to a real-world project.

Capstone is a project-based unit in which final year undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students:

  • reflect on the knowledge they learned in the course
  • work in groups and individually on a real-world project.

Become a capstone client

As a capstone client, your organisation can benefit from fresh insights and innovative strategies as students collaborate on projects that address your specific business challenges.

Once our partner and problem/project are identified, our students:

  • work with the partner or client to help them solve the real-world problem
  • go through the process of problem identification and problem solving
  • offer recommendations or solutions to the client’s problem using relevant theoretical frameworks in business strategy.

To become a capstone client, please provide a problem you would like our students to work on. The problem should:

  • be at the corporate/strategic level
  • allow students to integrate all knowledge their have learned throughout their studies.

The client representative/s will:

  • come to a class and introduce the problem to our students at the beginning of the term.
  • return to the class in the last week of the session and listen to the final presentations by our students and provide some oral feedback/comments.

Specific dates will be shared once the capstone project has been approved.

In addition to the opportunities to interact with our students, our capstone students will provide you with:

  • presentations with business analysis and any recommendations/solutions
  • a written business plan and report detailing the proposed recommendation and business plan.

Industry Partnership Program (IPP)

Capstone units are also offered to IPP partners. IPP is an opportunity to sculpt future business leaders.

See the program