Concentrations

Entrepreneurship

Finance

International Management

Marketing

Strategy & Business Analysis

Overview

Currently, the MBA Program offers five concentrations: Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Management, Marketing, and Strategy & Business Analysis.  Concentrations are open to students in the MBA, Health Care Management, Public and Nonprofit Management, and MS·MBA programs.  Students are encouraged to apply for concentrations during their second semester to take full advantage of the many activities sponsored by the respective departments and institutes.  Applying for a concentration does not obligate a student to complete the requirements nor will it appear on their transcripts.  Students who successfully complete the requirements for one or more concentrations receive a Certificate of Concentration upon graduation.

Entrepreneurship Concentration

Directed by the Entrepreneurial Management Institute, the Entrepreneurship Concentration promotes the effective use of the knowledge and skills gained from an MBA in creating value in an entrepreneurial venture. The objective is to provide a set of tools that will significantly increase the chance of success.

The Concentration in Entrepreneurship may be combined with either the Health Care Management or MS·MBA programs.  The option for a dual concentration provides an opportunity for students to develop entrepreneurial skills in specialized areas of expertise.

Finance Concentration

The finance concentration is intended to teach students how the world financial system works both as a whole and from the perspective of different participants. These participants include private financial institutions, non-financial firms, individuals, governments (as borrowers), and governmental financial institutions (most notably central banks).

International Management Concentration

This concentration brings a global perspective to your business education, helping to prepare you to work effectively in an increasingly borderless economy.  International Management concentrators, through their required international field experience, gain first-hand knowledge of how foreign government agencies and/or private companies are run.

Please note that the IM concentration is different from the IMP China/Japan program.

Marketing Concentration

The Marketing concentration is designed to provide MBA students the opportunity to focus their course of study in an area of interest, interact with other like-minded students and marketing faculty, and convey their interest in marketing to prospective employers.

Strategy and Business Analysis Concentration

The Concentration in Strategy and Business Analysis has three streams of courses addressing different parts of the strategic management problem – to develop and execute strategies that cope with change, with financial, technological and human resource limits, and yield a competitive advantage in the organization’s chosen markets.  Part of the management problem is economic; part is political – inside and outside the organization.  The lists of required electives and the fully elective courses of the concentration will continue to be developed to allow students to specialize or range across these three streams of action and knowledge to match their career interests.