Business Administration, M.B.A., Strategic Leadership Concentration

Master of Business Administration Requirements

Director:  Darell Singleterry, M.B.A.

The AACSB accredited M.B.A. program at the University of New Haven is designed to transform current and future business leaders by providing in-depth expertise in the discipline of business administration and management, while concurrently exposing students to high impact learning practices and a global business perspective.  Such perspectives are essential to operating in today's increasingly complex, collaborative, and multi-national business context.  The program ensures that students build their functional knowledge base and hone leadership skills to become a strategic, collaborative, and corporate thinker, ready to navigate the business challenges professionals are faced with today.

The M.B.A. program is designed to be flexible and serve the needs of a diverse student population.  It is offered in part- and full-time formats with day and night courses, delivered in a mixture of traditional, hybrid, and online formats.  It is designed for both seasoned professionals and those with little or no experience in business.

The program is built on a series of foundational courses in the core business areas of accounting, finance, and economics.  This foundation is followed by a set of advanced program core courses that are essential to managerial success in areas such as analytical decision-making, value creation, and leadership.

Each of the program's nine concentrations are designed to provide students with competencies in areas of modern business challenges for career success.

1. General
2. Business Analytics
3. Human Resource Management
4. Management Finance
5. Strategic Leadership
6. Data Analytics (STEM)
7. Financial Analysis (STEM)
8. Global Supply Chain Management (STEM)
9. Marketing and Digital Marketing (STEM)

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

By the end of the program, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate facility with the functional areas of business to analyze a business problem.
2. Provide innovative and viable solutions while considering the integrative nature of business.
3. Explain the various trade agreements and economic circumstances that impact business decision-making in a global environment.
4. Analyze the unique conditions of business practice within other countries and regions of the world. 
5. Analyze the ethical and social ramifications of business decisions.
6. Demonstrate capabilities that allow them to effectively lead and follow within team environments.
7. Demonstrate capabilities that allow them to effectively lead change in complex and multicultural environments.
8. Produce written reports that are well-crafted, effective and that use appropriate tools of analysis in reaching conclusions and recommendations.
9. Make oral reports that are understandable, defendable, concise and that use appropriate tools of analysis in reaching conclusions and recommendations.
10. (Data Analytics, STEM): Analyze data to answer a research question.
11. (Data Analytics, STEM): Communicate the results of a data analytics inquiry in technical terms.
12. (Financial Analysis, STEM): Model financial processes using appropriate mathematical, financial, and/or economic paradigms, suggested at the level required to pass the CFA Level I exam.
13. (Financial Analysis, STEM): Formulate the test models of capital market pricing, consistent with the most current theory.
14. (Global Supply Chain Management, STEM): Evaluate global supply chain decisions for opportunities related to process, efficiency, and / or effectiveness improvement.
15. (Global Supply Chain Management, STEM): Apply data-based optimization tools to inform a recommendation related to a global supply chain decision.
16. (Marketing & Digital Marketing, STEM): Analyze real-world marketing data in order to provide recommendations.
17. (Business Analytics): Analyze data to answer a research question using Economic forecasting tools.
18. (Business Analytics): Communicate the results of a data analytics inquiry in non-technical terms.
19. (Human Resource Management): Explain key theories and concepts related to rewarding & motivating employees.
20. (Human Resource Management): Design effective HR strategies for organizational improvement by applying HR theories to a situation. 
21. (Management Finance): Evaluate the riskiness of a company using appropriate accounting tools for analysis.
22. (Management Finance): Evaluate corporate risk management alternatives using appropriate financial decision-making tools.
23. (Strategic Leadership): Evaluate the strategic alternatives facing an organization in a crisis-management situation.

Foundation Core:  4.5 credits (credits may be waived)
Program Core:  25 credits
Flexible or concentration electives:  9-15 credits
 

Strategic Leadership Concentration (Minimum 9 credits)

Courses that advance knowledge of the process of formulating an organization's vision and mission and of the assessment of the various environmental factors to implement cross-functional decisions in order to achieve comprehensive business objectives.  Courses include a focus upon leading an organization's strategy and change management initiatives.

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  Select nine credits of the following:

• BANL 6500 - Global Supply Chain Management
• FINC 6625 - Advanced Capital Market Issues
• MGMT 6628 - Building a Consulting Business
• MGMT 6650 - Entrepreneurship
• MGMT 6656 - Integrating the Enterprise
• MGMT 6657 - Risk Management
• MGMT 6662 - Organization Theory
• MGMT 6664 - Organizational Effectiveness
• MGMT 6686 - Global Business Simulation
• MKTG 6631 - Digital Marketing Strategy
• MKTG 6638 - Competitive Marketing Strategy
• MKTG 6651 - International Marketing
• SMGT 6610 - Strategic Sport Management
• SMGT 6620 - Professional Sport Management
• Up to three credits of graduate internship may be used as an elective for this concentration.

Additional Requirements

Outside of the MBA core requirements, all students must satisfy the following requirements as part of their concentration coursework:

• High Impact Practice Experience (3 credits) concurrent, no additional credit hours 

At least ONE course taken to complete the degree program must be designated as High Impact Practice, which should include significant elements of service learning (S), faculty-led research, faculty-supervised internship, study abroad, and/or Shared Live Client Experience (SLiCE).

• Global Study Experience (3 credits) concurrent, no additional credit hours

Complete at least ONE course designated as a global experience (GL) course.  These can include a global content-focused course, faculty-led short-term study abroad, international internship abroad, or equivalent independent study as approved by the program coordinator.