Healthcare and Life Sciences Consulting

Consulting

Semester-long strategy and technical projects for healthcare and life sciences companies, delivered by interdisciplinary student teams.

Consulting Leadership

Interested in a consulting engagement with VITAL? Contact our consulting leadership.

External President · Consulting Chair

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Director of Projects

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Each team brings students from business, engineering, computer science and the life sciences. Projects fall into two broad areas.

Market sizing, competitive positioning, pricing and go-to-market plans for healthcare and life sciences companies.

Consulting for medtech and health tech companies on problems that call for a computer science background.

Every engagement runs for one semester, from scoping in week 1 to handoff in week 14.

Kickoff and scoping
The team meets the client and agrees on the problem, goals, deliverables and how often to check in. Ends with a signed scope or project charter.

Weeks 1–2
Research and discovery
Industry and market research, client data requests, stakeholder or expert interviews, and a first hypothesis.

Weeks 2–5
Analysis and development
The main work: strategy teams build frameworks, market sizing and competitive analysis. Technical teams build models, prototypes or analyses.

Weeks 5–9
Midpoint review
Preliminary recommendations are shared with the client for feedback, so there is time to adjust.

Weeks 9–10
Refinement
The team incorporates feedback, tests the recommendations and builds the final deliverable.

Weeks 10–12
Final delivery
A final presentation and written deliverable for the client, plus a handoff of files and next steps.

Weeks 12–14

Each engagement is staffed by a team of five consultants led by a project manager. All teams are overseen by VITAL's Director of Projects.

Director of ProjectsOversees every engagement

Project ManagerLeads the team, main client contact

Client names are kept confidential. Here is the kind of work our teams are doing this semester.

We scope new engagements before each semester. Tell us about the problem and we'll set up a call.