For Small Businesses
Work With Us and Empower Your Business
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.
Submit an Interest Form Today!
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 $250k 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.