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Milestone map
3 milestones
Design Your MBA Curriculum and Secure Practitioner Commitments
2–3 weeks
Design a self-directed MBA curriculum covering four tracks: strategy, finance, operations, and leadership. For each track, identify three to five specific outcomes you will produce (e.g., a three-statement financial model, a competitive analysis memo, a supply chain audit). Before beginning any track, secure written commitments from at least four practitioners — one per track — who agree to review your deliverable and provide substantive written feedback when complete. This upfront commitment secures the real verification layer that makes this outcome credible.
Proof required
Submit: (a) your curriculum document naming four tracks with three to five specific deliverables per track, and (b) written commitments (email confirmations) from at least four practitioners — one per track — confirming they will review and provide feedback on your named deliverable. Each practitioner must state their professional background relevant to the track they are reviewing.
What gets checked
- Curriculum specifies deliverables by name — not 'learn finance' but 'build a three-statement financial model for a named public company'
- Practitioner commitments are from real professionals with relevant experience — not peers or friends without domain background
- Each of the four tracks (strategy, finance, operations, leadership) has a named deliverable and a named reviewer
Common mistakes
- Curriculum lists topics to study rather than artifacts to produce — an MBA outcome requires evidence of applied competency, not reading logs
- Securing commitments from a single practitioner for all four tracks — each track needs an independent domain expert
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What a verifier looks for
- You are a practitioner who agreed to review a specific deliverable for one of this student's four MBA tracks. When the deliverable arrives, provide written feedback that is substantive: identify at least one genuine gap in the analysis, one area of strong reasoning, and one specific improvement to make.
- Your feedback must be at least 150 words and must be signed with your professional title and date. The student needs this as verifiable proof of practitioner review.
- Note: your role is to review one specific deliverable in your domain of expertise. You are not evaluating the whole MBA program — only the artifact in your track.
Complete All Four Tracks with Documented Practitioner Feedback
12–24 weeks
Produce the deliverables for all four tracks (strategy, finance, operations, leadership) and collect written practitioner feedback on each. Feedback must be substantive — at minimum 150 words per reviewer identifying strengths, gaps, and specific improvements. Revise each deliverable in response to feedback before the track is considered complete.
Proof required
Submit all four deliverables with their associated practitioner feedback and revision records. For each track: (a) the original deliverable, (b) the practitioner's written feedback (minimum 150 words, signed with name and title), and (c) a revision log (minimum 100 words per track) documenting what you changed in response. The revision log must show that feedback was acted upon, not just received.
What gets checked
- All four tracks are complete — no track is allowed to remain a draft pending feedback
- Each practitioner's feedback identifies specific strengths and gaps — generic praise does not satisfy the verification requirement
- Revision logs demonstrate that feedback materially changed the deliverable — not just cosmetic edits
Common mistakes
- Treating reading or watching courses as completing a track — each track requires a produced artifact reviewed by a practitioner
- Collecting feedback but not revising — the revision step is what converts feedback into learning
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What a verifier looks for
- At this milestone the student presents all four deliverables with their associated feedback. Your role is to assess whether the revision responses were genuine — did the student actually change their work in response to practitioner challenges?
- Look at one deliverable in depth: read the original, then the feedback, then the revision. Does the revision address what the practitioner identified? If a major gap was flagged and the revision only makes cosmetic changes, the feedback cycle was not completed in good faith.
Integrated MBA Case Analysis with Multidisciplinary Q&A
3–4 weeks
Write an integrated case analysis of a real organisation that applies all four MBA tracks simultaneously — identifying a strategic challenge and analysing it through the lenses of strategy (competitive positioning), finance (financial impact), operations (operational constraints), and leadership (change management). The analysis must be reviewed by at least two practitioners (from different tracks) in a live Q&A session lasting 30–60 minutes.
Proof required
Submit: (a) the integrated case analysis (minimum 2,500 words) naming the organisation and addressing all four tracks, (b) an attendance record for the live Q&A with names and professional backgrounds of both reviewers, and (c) a Q&A log (minimum 500 words) documenting the three most challenging cross-track questions asked and your responses. The Q&A log must show questions that required reasoning across more than one MBA track simultaneously.
What gets checked
- Case analysis integrates all four tracks — the strategy, finance, operations, and leadership dimensions are explicitly connected, not treated as separate sections with no cross-links
- Q&A log shows genuine cross-track questions — 'how does the operational constraint you identified affect the financial projections?' not single-track questions
- At least two practitioners from different backgrounds attended the Q&A — a single reviewer cannot provide multidisciplinary challenge
Common mistakes
- Case analysis is four separate single-track analyses bolted together — integration means explicitly showing how each dimension affects the others
- Q&A session involves only one practitioner who specialises in a single area — the multidisciplinary challenge requires perspectives from different tracks
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What a verifier looks for
- You are attending a live Q&A to review an integrated MBA case analysis. Prepare questions that require the submitter to reason across domains — not just to recall what they wrote in their analysis.
- Your best questions will start with 'given your financial analysis in section 2, how does that change your operational recommendation in section 3?' or 'if the strategic pivot you recommended requires a 40% capex increase, does your leadership analysis still hold?' These are the questions that reveal whether the submitter genuinely integrated the four domains or just described them separately.
- Provide written confirmation of your attendance, professional background, the date, and a brief assessment of the submitter's cross-domain reasoning quality.