As the year winds down, the IMD MBA Class of 2025 is ramping up. Seventeen teams. Seventeen companies. One shared goal: to turn months of learning into real-world impact.
Through IMD’s International Consulting Projects, our MBAs are applying their skills to solve challenges across industries – from AI and sustainability to healthcare, fashion, and post-conflict reconstruction. With companies expecting results. Here, each team shares a quick glimpse into their projects and goals.
A global snapshot of innovation
Here’s a glimpse into the diversity and depth of this year’s projects:
- AI meets infrastructure: Team 1 is exploring agentic AI to automate systems within a global network leader’s IT department.
- Marketing in motion: Team 2 is helping a Mexican manufacturer sharpen its marketing strategy for greater value realization.
- Fashion meets tech: Team 3 is advising a leading European fashion retailer on mobile app strategy, market entry opportunities in new geographies, and private label growth.
- Sustainable dining: Team 4 is helping a restaurant chain make eating out greener than eating at home.
- Post-merger integration: Team 5 is building a customer segmentation model to align three business units and unlock new growth.
- Innovation culture: Team 6 is helping a global non-profit scale local initiatives into a structured, inclusive innovation system across the organization.
Tackling complexity with purpose
Some teams are diving into deeply complex and high-impact challenges:
- Energy optimization: Team 7 is designing performance management systems for an oil and gas client to shift from consumption to optimization.
- Post-conflict reconstruction: Team 8 is developing solutions to help a country rebuild with hope and resilience.
- AI for IT efficiency: Team 9 is designing a strategy to implement agentic AI within the IT department of a global telecommunications leader to boost efficiency.
- AI in healthcare: Team 10 is helping a global healthcare company use AI to solve go-to-market challenges.
- Smart cities: Team 11 is assessing a tech-driven urban development project to recommend strategies that support the project’s continued development.
- Regulated innovation: Team 12 is exploring scalable AI applications in healthcare, balancing strategy, technology, and compliance.
“For me, this project is a unique opportunity to apply what I have learned in my MBA to a complex industry, while working closely with a diverse team and faculty advisor. It strengthens my ability to combine strategy, technology, and collaboration to deliver impact in a real-world setting. Most importantly, this is not a school project; it is a real consulting engagement where companies invest and expect high-quality, state-of-the-art results.”
Impact, inclusion, and innovation
Other teams are focused on social entrepreneurship, digital transformation, and strategic partnerships:
- Circular economy: Team 13 is working with a Colombian social enterprise to empower recyclers and scale inclusive impact.
- Enterprise AI: Team 14 is designing a global AI acceleration strategy for a major consumer goods company.
- IoT and analytics: Team 15 is using connectivity and data to boost convenience and profitability in a professional service industry.
- Shared value partnerships: Team 16 is helping a non-profit organization to build strategic corporate partnerships that go beyond philanthropy.
- Sports innovation: Team 17 is guiding an international sports organization to leverage disruptive trends from outside the industry with a standardized, technology-supported process.
Each team is collaborating across cultures to deliver solutions that matter. As each challenge is real – and so are the results – we don’t disclose the names of our partner companies to respect confidentiality and impact. We wish all of our MBA students the best of luck with their ambitious goals.
