Emerging Leaders MBA
TABS Bentley MBA
The Emerging Leaders MBA
The Emerging Leaders MBA is two-year, full-time program, designed for students with relatively little or no work experience, ranging from recent college graduates to those with perhaps four years of professional employment. The program provides a solid disciplinary foundation upon which students can build, taking advanced courses and concentrations, in preparation for future organizational leadership.
First Year: Foundations
Five Business Fundamental courses are among the eleven courses that make up the first year of the program. All students take a course in IT, analytical skills, and business processes to ensure understanding of how all aspects of a business organization fit together. The team effectiveness course prepares groups of five or six students to complete projects for corporate clients in the Business Process course.
First-year courses meet once a week Monday through Friday. Activities outside the classroom include team meetings, attending executive guest lectures, skill-building workshops, fieldwork and other company visits, career development workshops and conducting the summer job or internship search.
Students acquire a valuable understanding of working in an international economy through the Global Business Experience. This required course, between the fall and spring semesters of the first year, comprises a ten day trip to an international country where students visit with a series of companies and meet with business and government officials to further their global mindset and cultural awareness.
Second Year: Applications
Four required courses provide a firm grounding in business, ethics and leadership. Three courses (Leading Responsibly, Global Strategy and Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility) prepare students for the Corporate Immersion Project course. In this course, faculty-supervised teams build upon what they have learned and apply consulting skills to define, analyze and recommend solutions for a clients’ strategic management problem.
Dual Degree Options
Students in the Emerging Leaders MBA Program can combine their degree with one of the six Master of Science offerings from the McCallum Graduate School. By integrating the general business skills acquired through the Emerging Leaders MBA with the focused expertise of an MS degree, students bring a unique set of qualifications to their job search. Credits from four courses apply to both degrees, enabling students to earn a valuable extra credential by completing just six additional courses. Master of Science courses are not included in the tuition for the Emerging Leaders MBA program and are charged at the regular per course rate.
A hallmark of the Emerging Leaders MBA is field-based learning. The experience in a professional setting readies students to make an immediate impact for their employer upon graduation. The Emerging Leaders MBA is only one of a few in the nation that requires students to work in a consulting capacity in two different ways; Business Process Management and a second Field Project course. Working in teams with a faculty adviser, students identify and address relevant issues, offering recommendations to support managerial decisions.
Business Process Management
Successful organizations rely on cross-divisional collaboration to reach their objectives. To prepare students for such interaction, the Emerging Leaders MBA focuses on business process management and examines how all aspects of an organization – operations, marketing, accounting and finance – fit together. Students learn the tools and how-to of process mapping and measurement, benchmarking, problem identification and process improvement; all reflect Six Sigma standards used at leading companies worldwide.
Corporate Connections Field Project
This course builds on the skills that students have gained throughout the program; the focus is on delivering a strategic plan for an executive client. Students study management issues in implementing plans and and activities and examine how a specific project relates to an organizations’ overall strategy and the resources that are required. Executive representatives of the client organization will attend the class on a regular basis and the entire class works on the same project in competitive teams.
Students in the Emerging Leaders MBA program choose five electives from more than 100 courses offered at the McCallum Graduate School. Most students select a concentration of four courses to focus their experience in a way that best suits their career goals, and then choose another course from a different academic discipline. The Emerging Leaders MBA offers an expanded menu of discipline-based concentrations, which emphasize a specific business field, or theme-based concentrations, which examine topics and trends that cut across industries. Select from the list below: