What’s in it for you?
OP Team Project hosts are integral members of a two-way educational journey; students gain real-world experiences while hosts gain sophisticated insights, custom-tailored to their unique business challenges. By guiding students, hosts receive access to motivated, hard-working future leaders eager to make their mark on your company and the world.
Each OP Team will deliver an executive summary presentation and briefing to their host organization. This will combine content from the presentation made to their first-year communication class and their fifteen-page paper written for the OP faculty.
What is required of a host?
- Identify a strategic change initiative to analyze
- Provide project sponsorship at the executive level
- Facilitate approximately ten (10) 30-minute interviews
- Select a Point of Contact who is invested in the project and can:
- Meet with the students upfront to describe the initiative
- Facilitate introductions to key internal stakeholders
- Provide relevant data, documents, and information
To accomplish this, the best matches are organizations (or departments) with over twenty (20) employees who can conduct the majority of interviews in English. Students teams will consider any time zone differences.
Anything else?
To streamline the process, below please find
- The standard MIT NDA, for use by host companies that require an NDA. We take your data very seriously, and we carefully train students how to protect your information. Please note that, with over 60-team OP team projects annually, we cannot negotiate individual company NDAs. Instead, we commit to a standard set of compliance protocols for all teams, as summarized in the “MIT NDA.”
- A sample Letter of Agreement that the team will co-craft in collaboration with hosts to ensure that the team understands the host's key questions.