For Small Businesses

Work With Us and Empower Your Business

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The Small Business Corps (SBC) is here to help your business thrive! We offer on-site, customized pro-bono consulting services provided by a dedicated team of experienced students at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

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How We Can Help

Tailored Solutions: Our team works closely with you to define your needs and project goals, ensuring a clear plan of action.
Expert Student Consultants: Leverage a wide range of functional expertise in marketing, finance, operations, and more.
Guidance from Georgetown faculty and senior advisors: Gain deep business expertise from the coaches and advisors of student teams.
Coaching from Boston Consulting Group professionals: We have a dedicated team of consultants from Boston Consulting Group who conduct two training workshops and also provide weekly calls to coach student consultants throughout their consulting projects.
Dedicated Project Management: We recruit, manage, and support the student consultants throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Eligibility criteria for availing SBC’s services

Your business must operate within the Washington D.C., Maryland, or Virginia area.
Your business must qualify as a small business, as defined by the Small Business Administration.
Your business must be located in, serving, and/or employing people from urban or rural under-resourced areas of the DMV.
Your business must have passed the start-up phase, to a point where the business has customers, more than one employee, and preferably over $300k in annual revenue.

How SBC Works

Connecting with SBC: Talk with our team about how SBC could help your business grow and thrive.
Project scoping: If there’s a good fit, our team will meet with your team to define project objectives, deliverables, timeline, and resource requirements to ensure a clear plan of action.
Team matching: We will then assign a diverse team of students with relevant skills and expertise to match the client’s needs and project specifications.
Project delivery: The project will then be executed by conducting research, analyzing data, and implementing solutions while maintaining communication and flexibility.
Results measurement: Even after the project ends, we continue to evaluate key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge the impact of the consulting engagement and provide actionable insights for ongoing improvement.

Ready to Get Started?

Submit an SBC Interest Form: Let us know you’re interested and share some details about your business.
Connect with Us: After you submit the form, you will be contacted by our team to discuss your business goals and how SBC can help you achieve them.
Partner Onboarding: Businesses that are selected for the program will complete a smooth onboarding process to become an SBC partner.
Define Your Needs: Collaborate with our team to define a problem statement and create a project scope tailored to your specific business challenges.
Meet Your Team: Once the project scope is finalized, the SBC will select a team of student consultants with the perfect blend of skills to match your requirements.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What do businesses gain from working with the SBC?

Clients get free access to on-site, customized consulting services and a network of vetted, passionate professionals to tackle your business’ toughest challenges, in areas including marketing and sales, finance and accounting, operations, HR and management, and strategy.

What does the SBC expect from the small business partners during the course of the project?

Our success relies on partnerships and collaboration for long-term impact. The project outcomes depend on the involvement, commitment, and enthusiasm of our clients.

The following are expectations from our small business partners:

Work with the SBC team to create a scope of work for the consulting project

Commit at least two hours per week to meet and work with the SBC team throughout the duration of the project, including visits by the team to your business.

Provide the SBC team with information about the business that is relevant to the project

Provide timely feedback to the SBC team on their work

Complete a post-engagement survey provided by Georgetown

Are there any fees/costs involved in the program?

We work on a pro-bono basis and do not charge our clients any fees for our services.

What is the typical profile of the student consultants?

The consultant team usually consists of two students. Our consultants include McDonough MBA students with approximately five years of work experience, and McDonough undergraduate students majoring in business with relevant internship experience in corporate or development sectors. Our consultants are dedicated to supporting small businesses and equipped with critical thinking and teamwork skills.

We employ a rigorous vetting process for consultants, and consultants are assigned to projects with careful consideration of each small business client’s specific requirements.