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Past Projects

The Cornell Global Business Club graduates members with a wide array of business skills, ranging from data and financial analytics to marketing & strategy consulting. We have provided pro-bono consulting to local start-ups and international companies, and can provide value to your firm too.

Fall 2023

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)

Project Manager: Dil Patel

Synopsis: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a non-profit research and advisory organization led by renowned economist and business professor Michael Porter. Our mission was to support ICIC in the expansion of its 'Succession Ready' initiative, a series of free educational workshops designed to assist small business owners in developing effective succession plans. Our task involved conducting market research, analyzing data from small businesses in Rhode Island, identifying key success factors for scaling, facilitating connections between ICIC and similar organizations, and developing assessment tests for succession frameworks.

Spring 2023

Freight Farms

Project Manager: Declan Little

Synopsis: Freight Farms is a Boston-based AgTech company that manufactures vertical hydroponic farming systems out of freight containers. CGBC worked with Freight Farms to analyze pro-forma financials and develop a go-to-market plan for a Freight Farms installation in Stamford, CT.

Fall 2022

RealBlocks

Project Managers: Giorgi Berndt, Jason Mushabe

Synopsis: RealBlocks is a FinTech company that provides investor portal solutions to its hedge fund clients. Our goal was to research the landscape of the Blockchain and Alternative Investments industries, and to present a PPT recommending an implementation roadmap to RealBlocks executives.

The Yield Lab Asia Pacific

Project Managers: Brenna Tosh, Corrina You

Synopsis: The Yield Lab Asia Pacific (TYLAP) is a regional impact fund founded by Larry Taylor (Cornell '73) that invests in Asian Ag-Tech companies. There were 2 main goals for the project. 1) Work with Mr. Taylor to develop search criterion for an ideal partner 2) Use this criterion to filter online databases and deliver a spreadsheet of actionable leads to TYLAP team.