Form a five-person team of students from diverse professional backgrounds
Capstone
Your capstone thesis is the culmination of your core courses, allowing you to put what you’ve learned into practice. During the capstone thesis you will:
Consult with company executives, attend industry conferences and conduct interviews
Present the finished business plan to company executives, industry professionals and potential investors
Spend six months gaining consulting experience conducting in-depth primary and secondary research, including market assessments, competitive analyses, and other critical functions
Gain insights from experienced faculty advisors, many of whom have directly managed and provided consulting services to leading companies worldwide
Choose the Capstone That’s Right For You
Strategic Management Research (SMR)
Work as a consulting team to address a business challenge or opportunity on behalf of a client organization.
Business Creation Program (BCP)
Work with a team to transform an idea from a business plan to a functional startup organization.
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA)
Work with a team of classmates and a faculty advisor to conduct research in a target industry, then identify potential candidate companies to acquire and operate.
Strategic Management Research
UCLA Anderson pioneered the first business school field study program in 1968. During the six-month SMR project, your consulting team will work with corporate executives to improve a specific area of their business. You’ll gain new industry and cross-functional experience that will influence your critical thinking and decision making.
Recent SMR Client Companies
Capstone Thesis Project Options
Business Creation Program
Instead of working on behalf of a client organization, your team, along with an advisor from the entrepreneurship faculty, will spend six months transforming your idea from a business plan to a functional startup organization (Business Creation Program or BCP). BCP teams can make use of the new UCLA Anderson Venture Accelerator.
BCP Success Stories
EMBA BCP - Elims
Belinda, co-founder and CEO of sustainable oral care products company ELIMS taps into BCP capstone, the UCLA Anderson Venture Accelerator and other campus incubators to develop her award-winning business.
EMBA BCP - Nur Labs
Sumita '21 leverages UCLA Anderson Venture Accelerator's Summer Activate program, the interdisciplinary studies of UCLA Biodesign, and the necessary connections to launch Nur Labs, an early lung cancer detection platform.
EMBA BCP - Bluefin Foods
Bluefin Foods Inc., is a cell-cultured seafood company focused on bringing bluefin tuna sushi products to all the sushi lovers in the world. Bluefin Foods success is a prime example of the benefits of cross-campus and student research collaboration at UCLA.
EMBA BCP - Amptron Medical
Before COVID-19, a UCLA Anderson Executive MBA team developed a low-cost ventilator to deploy amid the pandemic.
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Newly launched with the Class of 2025, we introduce ETA...
Instead of working on behalf of a client organization (SMR), or launching your own company (BCP), your team, along with an advisor from the entrepreneurship faculty, will spend six months conducting research in a target industry, then identify potential candidate companies to acquire and operate.
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