Student Consulting:

Week 3 - The Stategic and Resource Challenge in these Businesses

About The Consulting Course

The Consulting Course serves as a structured roadmap for student consultants as they progress through every stage of the UPBI consulting process. Across 13 weeks, this resource hub provides weekly modules that blend theory, real-world practice, and client engagement strategies. Each week builds on the last—helping students understand entrepreneurship, develop business models, refine operations, and strengthen their client relationships.

These interactive sections include downloadable materials, presentations, and videos designed to guide you step by step through business planning, financial modeling, marketing strategy, and mentoring fundamentals.

Explore each week’s page to access tailored resources, learn core consulting principles, and apply them directly to your client projects.

Essential Consulting Resources

Bootstrapping Techniques

Discover hands-on techniques for building a business with limited resources through innovation and efficient management.

Exercise – Helping Yolanda
Break Out

A hands-on case exercise focused on problem-solving and strategic decision-making under constraints.

Commodity Trap: How to Escape

Understand how businesses fall into price-based competition and discover methods to differentiate and sustain value.

Poverty – Chapter Eleven: Strategic Thinking

Introduces strategic thinking tools tailored for poverty-alleviation and micro-enterprise contexts.

Thirteen Examples of Leveraging Strategies

Practical examples of how entrepreneurs can creatively leverage limited resources.

Resourcing When Poor Bootstrap & Guerrilla Approaches

Using resourcefulness, creativity, and low-cost strategies to drive entrepreneurial success.

Visual Learning Hub