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Extracted Content: The programme has become so popular among course participants — particularly given the growing desire of business students to make a social impact — that MIT Sloan now promotes the community projects as one of the main benefits of its EMBA curriculum. Other schools are starting to follow suit.
The idea is still relatively new among EMBA programmes, but schools are including projects where students work as consultants in local organisations, helping with everything from improving efficiency and service delivery to revenue generation.