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Teams of 4-5 business students enrolled in an elective course on Workplace Diversity will work together on an workplace problem of equity and inclusion while providing culturally and industry-specific solutions. Projects can involve testing for bias in a hiring platform that a company may use for selection, how to communicate with a diverse client base (via social media posts, public service announcements, infographics), training programs for reducing sexual or racial harassment, or strategies to reduce prejudice or bias in the workplace.

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3rd and 4th year undergraduate business students working in 3-5 person teams will conduct research to develop an actionable strategy to solve a leadership development challenge faced by your organization, stakeholders, and/or clients. For example, they can design leadership training programs incorporating the latest virtual and in-person designs and gamification ideas. Example topics are stress management, communication skills, negotiation skills, giving feedback, goal setting, managing teams, leading change.

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3rd and 4th year undergraduate students in a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program will work in 3-5 person teams to research and develop a recommenation for a negotiation or bargaining challenge faced by your organization. Students learn about how to negotiate by participating in weekly role-plays. They learn to negotiate in a variety of contexts (B2B, sales negotiations, contingency contracts, labor-union negotiations, salary & benefits negotiations, cross-cultural negotiations etc.) for 10 weeks. Students will learn to conduct academic and market research on the context of your negotiation/bargaining challenge. They will be able provide recommendations including multiple equivalent offers by combining issues according to your priorities in your negotiation challenge. Sample areas of negotiation/bargaining projects can be in Mergers & Acquisitions, real estate purchases, auto purchases, factory purchases, AI-chat bot negotiations.

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Undergraduates enrolled in a human resource management course as part of their Science, Business and Entrepreneurship minor will work in 4-5 person teams to solve a pressing global environmental challenge -,adapting research in STEM to HR practices. Integrating the latest scientific research with their learning in the course on human resource management, students will create audience specific and culturally relevant ways to communicate the scientific research on the environment relevant to the public, to farmers, to agro business owners, or to other students like themselves. Students can create products or services based on the latest scientific research in Chemistry, Biology or other environmental science research relevant for a particular human community.

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1st year Masters students in accounting and finance in the Masters of Management of Public Accounting (MMPA) at the University of Toronto, Mississauga will work in teams of 6. they will use their course-relevant knowledge to conduct research on an industry and develop recommendations on how and whether to invest in the industry.

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3rd and 4th Year business undergraduates specializing in Human Resources from the University of Toronto will work in teams of 3-4 students to conduct research on your compensation and benefits challenges. Based on the coursework, students will be able to conduct qualitative analyses of your compensation challenges. For example, they can conduct job evaluation, aligning new job descriptions into the existing compensation structure, or recommend additional benefits to your organization. For example, they can conduct quantitative analyses on relevant market pay data for comparative analyses or use the company's internal data to conduct a pay alignment and equity analyses with relevant industry data and/or data provided by your organization.

RBC Future Launch

3rd and 4th year undergraduate students in a bachelor of business administration program will work in 3-5 person teams to research and develop a plan for a negotiation challenge faced by your organization. Students will have learned to negotiate in a variety of contexts (business to business negotiations, sales negotiations, contingency contracts, compensation negotiations etc.). Students will be able to conduct background research on the market. They will be able to recommend multiple equivalent offers combining issues in your negotiation challenge. Sample areas of negotiation can be Real Estate Purchases, Automotive Purchases, factory plant purchases, etc.

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3rd and 4th year undergraduate human resource management specialists working in 3-5 person teams will conduct academic research to develop an actionable strategy (with specific recommendations) to solve a labor relations/employee relations challenge faced by your organization, stakeholders, and/or clients. They can use scientific information to recommend strategies on how to manage employee mental health & stress, train your stakeholders on advocacy skills, train your clients on collective bargaining skills or enable your employees to prepare for arbitration.

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

3rd and 4th year undergraduate business students working in 3-5 person teams will conduct research to develop a plan for a negotiation challenge faced by your organization, stakeholders, and/or clients. They can conduct background research on the market and propose multiple equivalent simultaneous offers based on the issues to be discussed during your negotiation. Sample areas can be Real Estate Purchases, Automotive Purchases, factory plant purchases, etc,

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

3rd and 4th Year business undergraduates specializing in Human Resources from the University of Toronto will work in teams of 3-4 students to make virtual synchronous team presentations. Students will conduct qualitative (e.g., job evaluation, benefits, aligning new job descriptions into the existing compensation structure) and/or quantitative analyses (e.g., statistical analyses on pay data for market pay analyses or company's internal equity analyses) using industry data along with data provided by your organization.