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Daniel Chicchon
Long-Term Planning & Financial Scenarios
Long-Term Planning & Financial Scenarios
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Daniel Chicchon

Project Summary

Client

Columbia University School of Professional Studies

Services

Sectors

Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies sought to explore its direction for the next five years.

Specifically, they wanted to understand how the school’s plans for growth could align with strategic goals, how the school compared to its peer institutions, and how they could contribute to the higher education field overall.

Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies sought to explore its direction for the next five years.

Specifically, they wanted to understand how the school’s plans for growth could align with strategic goals, how the school compared to its peer institutions, and how they could contribute to the higher education field overall.

Our Strategy

Public Works conducted analysis of current financials and previous long-term planning efforts.

We created a dynamic financial modeling tool to explore three different strategic scenarios that balanced increases in enrollment with long-term investments in infrastructure. We contextualized our quantitative analysis by meeting with the school’s team to gather qualitative information on the professional studies landscape at Columbia as well as researched peer institution programming to further inform projections.

Chenyu Guan

Impact
and Outcome

We provided Columbia University with three strategic scenarios, which considered enrollment, expenses, and revenue to visualize opportunities in the years to come.

The base model we used was also constructed so that Columbia’s own financial team could continue to run additional scenarios on their own.

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