Master of Business Administration
The campus MBA program in The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management requires students to select one concentration and allows them to select a second concentration or subconcentration. The Department of Management offers a twelve credit concentration in Human Resource Management and a nine credit subconcentration in Leadership and Change Management. We also offer a number of other masters-level courses.
The Human Resource Management (HRM) concentration prepares students for specialist and generalist careers through coursework--on topics including staffing and selection, compensation management, and training and development--that emphasizes both conceptual understanding and applied development.
The Strategic Management (SM) secondary concentration responds to the need for managers to develop a broad view of how businesses survive and succeed in competitive markets. The SM secondary concentration provides students with a strategic orientation that aids them in understanding the contribution of their functional specialization to the overall firm’s competitive advantage in a dynamic global market. Students become familiar with the process of strategy formulation and how individual and organizational factors can bias this process. Finally, students will examine how to lead a change management process in an organizational setting where political, social and financial constraints can impede the successful implementation of new strategic initiatives.
The Leadership and Change Management (LCM) subconcentration responds to demand for courses on the management of people and organizations that focus less on the functional skills of the human resource manager and more on the general skills of the middle- and upper-level executive. Offering LCM as a subconcentration precludes its selection as a primary or singular concentration within the MBA degree.