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Anderson’s Executive MBA Field Study program gives organizations in the U.S. and worldwide the opportunity to engage a management consulting team of five experienced professionals in their final year of study for the Executive MBA. The Executive MBA Field Study is led and administered by world-renowned faculty who have extensive experience managing field study programs in both academic and professional settings.

The executive MBA team represents a cross-section of business functions and specialties, such as marketing, finance, technology, and operations. Each of these individual professionals brings, on average, 15 years of work experience to your project.
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A Program With Real Benefits
 
The UCLA Anderson Executive MBA Field Study Program pairs companies with dynamic teams. These teams work to create investment-quality, strategic recommendations to key business/industry issues with financial projections using state-of-the-art management frameworks and analysis techniques. Companies gain access to the school’s extensive resources, including its network of professionals and its comprehensive business and industry database.
Partner with Diverse Professionals

On average, UCLA Anderson Executive MBA students are 39 years old, fully employed, multi-talented and have an average of 15 years of professional experience.

Develop the Research Plan and Project Scope

Work directly with students to evaluate the current strategic plan, corporate growth strategies and market opportunities to define the depth and scope of the project.

Conduct and Analyze the Research

Each UCLA Anderson Executive MBA field study team will conduct approximately 75 personal interviews with customers, experts, distributors/resellers and consultants. 

Embark on Your New Strategic Plan

Executives return to UCLA to receive a comprehensive business plan and observe the teams’ findings as they are presented to a panel of expert judges.

Global Reach of Our Recent Projects
 
San Francisco • Los Angeles • New York • Washington, D.C. • Bogota • São Paulo • Frankfurt
Tel Aviv • Bengaluru • Bangkok • Singapore • Shanghai • Melbourne

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Typical Project Industries
 

Financial Services
Health Care
Entertainment
Technology
Telecommunications
Food Services
Social Impact
Legal
Past Participating Organizations
 

Field Study Faculty Advisors
 
John Blevins
Program Faculty Director

John Blevins

john.blevins@anderson.ucla.edu

John Blevins is a noted technology strategist who specializes in developing business opportunities to take advantage of emerging technologies and their marketplace application. Working with corporations, governments and academic institutions, he creates digital transformation plans which allow traditional enterprises to compete in our digitized business environment. He works with venture capital portfolio firms to develop digital asset monetization strategies for rapid growth and market expansion. His work experience includes Deloitte Consulting, Microsoft, Oracle, and Shell Oil where he held a variety of technology and management roles. Professor Blevins has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with heavy concentration in Speech Communications from the University of Alabama, as well as a Master of Business Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Ted Russell
Faculty Advisor

Ted Russell

Ted.Russell@Anderson.UCLA.edu

From 2010 to 2018, Ted Russell served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs for Digital, Home Entertainment and Television Distribution at Fox Entertainment Group. In that role, Mr. Russell ran the worldwide teams that developed, negotiated and documented the company's content distribution agreements, strategic partnerships and investments. Mr. Russell served as Senior Vice President of Litigation for Fox Entertainment managing film and television, and sports broadcast and digital rights. He is a former litigator at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, following a judicial clerkship working for the Honorable John Davies in the US District Court for the Central District of California. He teaches courses in negotiation and ethics to law school and business school students at USC and Pepperdine, as well as his faculty advisor role for UCLA Anderson. Mr. Russell has a B.A. in Government from the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University, a J.D. degree from USC Gould School of Law, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Company Commitment
 
Organization Selection Criteria

The Organization:

  • Employs six or more employees (not including board members), has been operating at least one year, and is financially stable
  • Provides at least one dedicated project manager who will work with the team approximately two hours per week or more
  • Designates an alternate liaison in case the primary liaison becomes unavailable during the course of the project
  • Participates in the project launch weekend and attends the final deliverable presentation
  • Provides full access to relevant strategic and financial data, which will be protected under the confidentiality agreement
Our Rates

We apply 75% of your fee directly back into your project’s research.

  • Large Enterprises (Non-U.S. focused project) - $20,000
  • Large Enterprises (U.S.-focused project) - $17,500
  • Small-to-Medium Enterprises - $15,000
  • Non-Profit Organization - $7,500
Program Schedule
 
2021 Dates
Application Deadline

February 1, 2021

Project Launch

February, 2021

Deliverable Date

August 8, 2022

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