Academics

Curriculum Structure

In your first year, the intensive, flexible core curriculum gives you the foundation of broad management skills to succeed in any industry. In your second year, you select from a wide range of majors and electives that help you develop one or more areas of expertise.

Offered as quarter- or semester-long courses, the core curriculum covers traditional management disciplines with an emphasis on analytical rigor – accounting, finance, marketing, management, marketing operations, statistics, and strategy – as well as the leadership, ethics, and communication skills necessary for leadership.

First Year Structure

Students can choose from at least two options to satisfy requirements in the majority of core courses while delving into one of six distinct content areas:

  • Finance and the Global Economy
  • Ethical and Legal Responsibility
  • Managing the Global Enterprise
  • Understanding and Serving Customers
  • Corporate Reporting and Control
  • Management of Operations, Innovation, Information, and Decisions Under Uncertainty

Sample First Year Structure

Foundation Learning
Pre-Term Courses
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Core Business Fundamentals
  • Strategy
  • Finance
  • Operations
  • Marketing
Analytical Fundamentals
  • Managerial Economics
  • Statistical Analysis for Management
Leadership Essentials
  • Management Communications
  • Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership
  • Additional Management Core
  • Legal Studies Core
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSES

Sample Second Year Structure

REMAINING CORE REQUIREMENTS
18 MAJORS: NEARLY 200 ELECTIVES
Elective examples
  • Advanced Corporate Finance
  • Advanced Real Estate Investment and Analysis
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Entrepreneurship and Venture Initiation
  • Fixed Income Securities
  • Health Care Field Application Project
  • Information: Industry Structure and Competitive Strategy
  • Innovation, Change, and Entrepreneurship
  • International Development Strategy
  • Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
  • The Political Economy of the Public Sector
  • Political Environment of the Multinational Firm
  • Private Equity in Emerging Markets
  • Privatization: International Perspective
  • Probability Modeling in Marketing
  • Seminar in Leadership: Power, Influence, and Transformational Leadership
  • Speculative Markets
  • Urban Fiscal Policy
  • Urban Real Estate Economics
  • Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance