Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Student who earn the M.B.A. will achieve the following learning goals and outcomes:
- Foundational Business Knowledge
Understand the process of management decision making.
- SLO 1.1: Identify the information required to answer management questions.
- SLO 1.2: Define sources of sustainable competitive advantage for an organization.
- SLO 1.3: Quantify the impact on enterprise value of a business decision.
- SLO 1.4: Link business decisions to measurements of performance.
2. Analytical Intelligence
Manage the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data necessary to lead an organization.
- SLO 2.1: Determine the data and analytical methods needed to solve a business problem.
- SLO 2.2: Identify how new technology enhances efficiency and decision-making.
- SLO 2.3: Use analytics to describe data, detect patterns, and assess the likelihood of different outcomes.
- SLO 2.4: Interpret and communicate conclusions from quantitative analysis.
3. Strategic and Entrepreneurial Effectiveness
Identify new market opportunities and build business models to capture value.
- SLO 3.1: Envision and recognize new products, processes, and services that create value.
- SLO 3.2: Define opportunities and threats faced by new ventures.
- SLO 3.3: Understand methods to generate and execute a competitive strategy.
- SLO 3.4: Allocate resources to efficiently implement and sustain a business strategy.
- SLO 3.5: Demonstrate response to market uncertainty, industry innovation, and technological change.
4. Ethical Decision Making
Evaluate business challenges and opportunities using legal and ethical frameworks.
- SLO 4.1: Understand the ethical and legal issues germane to a business problem.
- SLO 4.2: Identify the legal boundaries of a business problem and advocate legally valid solutions.
- SLO 4.3: Evaluate the impacts of management decisions on internal and external stakeholders.
- SLO 4.4: Select and defend logically consistent solutions to ethical dilemmas.
5. Global Intelligence
Seek market opportunities and address management challenges across countries and cultures.
- SLO 5.1: Link cultural, political, institutional, and regulatory differences to business strategy and performance.
- SLO 5.2: Leverage social, intellectual, and geographic diversity to maximize organizational effectiveness.
- SLO 5.3: Adapt business models to institutional voids and changing global economic environments
- SLO 5.4: Appraise political and macroeconomic drivers of opportunity and risk in global markets.
6. Professional Presence
Communicate, persuade, and act to achieve desired organizational outcomes.
- SLO 6.1: Demonstrate emotional intelligence in management situations.
- SLO 6.2: Understand the interests and sensitivities of organizational stakeholders.
- SLO 6.3: Lead and collaborate with high performance teams to achieve organizational objectives.
- SLO 6.4: Make, communicate, and justify decisions within the context of organizational strategy.
- SLO 6.5: Exhibit managerial perseverance in the face of uncertainty and obstacles to success.
7. Career Insight
Define and implement a personal plan for career and professional advancement.
- SLO 7.1: Develop and communicate a personal brand.
- SLO 7.2: Comprehend career tradeoffs and link personal aptitude, traits, and experiences to chosen career trajectories.
- SLO 7.3: Identify skills required to be an effective executive leader and decision maker.
