Mission Statement

Boston University School of Management, through its faculty’s research, develops new ideas and insights for business scholars and practitioners. The School also prepares undergraduate and graduate students to become innovative, ethical leaders in a globalized world. By fusing the art, science, and technology of business, the School creates leaders with deep competencies in traditional business disciplines and in the application of new technologies for strategic and operating advantage. Trained in advanced teaming skills, our graduates think holistically about business and understand both the strengths and the limitations of management systems.

Vision Statement

• Boston University’s School of Management is preeminent for producing broadly educated leaders with inquiring minds oriented toward building and adding value.
• Our graduates possess essential knowledge of the functions of business and management information technologies combined with a unique understanding of the interdependencies within organizations.
• Our faculty’s scholarly output is characterized by creative research and insights that benefit management practitioners and scholars.
• Our dedication to the highest standards of ethical behavior, customer focus, innovation, and a management-systems perspective drives continuous improvement in all that we do.

Core Values

• People, our faculty, support staff, and students, are the lifeblood of the School.  We seek to create and sustain a supportive, enabling environment that deeply values human capital and allows all of the School’s people to prosper and grow educationally and professionally. Integrity and ethics are both valued and stressed.
• Learning is both our reason for being and our passion—the learning we strive to impart to each of our students and the continuous learning we pursue ourselves.
• Teaching excellence is not to be compromised. Clear, rigorous, and effective classroom teaching is essential, as is the continuous development of courses, new teaching materials, and constant improvements in pedagogy.
• Research is at the heart of the scholastic life of our school and is essential to the professional growth and development of our faculty. Scholarly research has the potential to advance knowledge, affect the practice of management, impact our courses and curricula, and bring additional recognition to our faculty and School.
• Collaboration/Teaming in teaching, learning, and research is a special strength.  Teaming enables us to leverage multiple minds applied to issues, expands and deepens individual learning, creates an enriching work environment, and represents a unique competency.
• Creative Application of Technology is critical to the enrichment of the content, the context, the depth, and the quality of the educational experience we deliver.  Technology also helps us access additional knowledge and expertise, to reach new or expanded audiences, and to more efficiently produce and communicate the findings of our research.
• Service to our many constituencies—students, parents, alumni, research publications, organizations that employ our graduates, the wider academic community, foundations, other benefactors, and each other—is a key focus of the School. We seek, in everything we do, to model the kind of customer-focused organizations about which we teach.
• Global Diversity of our student body and our faculty is a special asset in delivering the unique management perspectives characteristic of our programs.
• Continuous Improvement striving for ever-improving performance in all critical areas of our work and employing key data by which to measure that performance is essential in our drive for excellence.