The capstone project is your opportunity to apply tools from the core curriculum to a real-world business challenge. Whether you’re part of a consulting team solving a business challenge for a real organization or creating your own business from the ground up, UCLA Anderson offers proven and exciting options to satisfy this requirement.
Strategic Management Research (SMR)
SMR is an experiential learning project in which you will form a consulting team to address a business challenge or opportunity on behalf of a client organization. After a deep dive into research, you’ll present key insights and recommendations to the leadership of the organization.
Business Creation Option (BCO)
BCO gives you the chance to work with a team of classmates to develop an implementation plan and launch your own business.
Recent Client Companies
Business Creation Option
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. BCO teams can make use of the new UCLA Anderson Venture Accelerator.
BCO Team Lucina Embryo (left to right): Greg Jensen (’17), Liana Pogosyan (’17), George Abe (BCO Faculty Advisor), Shana Berg (’17), Jeff Dang (’17)
BCO Stats
BCO Success Stories
Left to right: Vikram Saurabh (’20), Shannon Demus (’20), Stephan Hwang (’20), Aanchal Kumar (’20), Nirav Patel (’20), and Dezireh Sevanesian (’20)
Amptron Team (Class of 2020)
Before COVID-19, a UCLA Anderson Executive MBA team developed a low-cost ventilator to deploy amid the pandemic.