Matthew J. Earley of Perkasie is among the Robert L. McKeage Business Leadership Honors Program students who are gaining real world experience through a consulting project for Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation and reentry program in the world.
The group of business students at Scranton have adopted a comprehensive set of projects involving branding, new revenue opportunities, and program replication for Homeboy as part of their Business Leadership Consulting Theory and Practice course taught by Douglas Boyle, professor and chair of the accounting department.
Students Emma Boyle and Earley along with Boyle and Ashley Stampone, assistant professor of accounting, visited Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles in September to begin the project. The students and faculty members met with Homeboy’s founder Rev. Gregory Boyle, CEO Tom Vozzo and other key leaders at the nonprofit organization.
Initially looking at the website for Homeboy, the in-person visit and review and additional meetings with Homeboy leaders has broadened the scope of the project.
Robert McKeage, Ph.D., associate professor of management, marketing and entrepreneurship and longtime director of the Business Leadership Honors Program that bears his name, expects the project will take about two years to complete and envisions will involve of members of the Business Leadership Honors Program for the classes of 2023 and 2024.
The students who visited Homeboy have already been impacted by the organization and the project.
“I am really grateful for this opportunity. It will provide real experience consulting with a major company, said Earley, a senior finance major, member of the McKeage Business Leadership Honors Program and Presidential Scholarship recipient. “I’ve gotten a hands-on look at the process of consulting and a look at the skills that are needed in that field. It was also an eye-opening experience to hear so many tremendous stories of how people turned their lives around that I now have a new perspective in that regard.”
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