Career Paths

Our courses are all grounded in contemporary theory and business experience. Each course speaks to the challenges of managing in today's world. While each course is built upon a unique set of perspectives and tools, some key themes link our offerings. Our MBA students find that these themes inform and support their career aspirations.

Developing Personal Effectiveness

Many of our courses are designed to help you become a more effective manager. They specifically focus on improving your ability to work well with others in a wide variety of contexts. Regardless of whether your career unfolds in the service sector or the manufacturing sector, consulting or finance, product management or operations management, sales and trading or human resource management, you will have to work effectively with others. We hope that all of our MBA students will take at least one course in this area.

Organizational Change

E-commerce, increasingly sophisticated information technology, and new forms of knowledge-based work have placed incredible demands on organizations. A number of our courses focus on understanding and leading organizational design and change efforts in this new economy. General managers, internal and external change agents (consultants), and new human resource management professionals will need to know how to lead these efforts. Those going to "Wall Street" will want to know how to value them. In either case, we recommend that our students with these career ambitions take a course or two in this area.

Leveraging Human Capital

The changing nature of organizations, work, and the employment relationship tests managers' abilities to develop and leverage human capital. In particular, we need to know how to motivate and lead a workforce that is comprised of men and women with incredibly diverse backgrounds. Several of our courses examine these challenges and then equip our students with the ability to lead their organizations in these changing times. General managers, consultants and human resource management specialists will find these courses invaluable.

Course Number	Course Name	Developing personal effectiveness	Organizational change	Leveraging human capital
OB512	Negotiating Change: Bargaining and Influence Skills
OB522	Management-Union Relations
OB552 OB501	Human Behavior and Organization	core	core	core
OB562	Reward Systems: Theory and Administration
OB565	International Human Resource Management
OB603	Navigating change: Skills and strategies for consultants and managers
OB605	Workforce Diversity: Organizational Development
OB606	Workforce Diversity: Personal Development
OB610	Women and Change
OB611	Successful Crisis Management
OB615	Managing Professional Relationships
OB617	Developing and Managing High Performing Teams
OB618	Leading a Learning Organization
OB624	Competing by Design: Networks and Social Capital
OB625	Competing by Design: Creating Enterprise Architecture
OB700	Social Psychology or Organizing
OB742	Leveraging Human Capital for Entrepreneurship and Growth