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Curriculum - Concentrations
Augmenting our time-honored general management program, the Executive MBA Program offers concentrations. Students opting to take a concentration can focus more specifically on one key area of business - specifically Finance, Strategic Management, Marketing Management or Entrepreneurship.
A concentration will help you develop additional frameworks that enhance or complement your experience. It will be useful for students who are interested in taking their careers in a new direction. Earning a concentration also signals your in-depth knowledge to employers and colleagues.
- Finance - The management of financial assets is important in all businesses. Finance describes how businesses raise the capital they need to start and sustain themselves, decide which projects make financial sense, and manage risks; how people invest in companies; and how financial markets work - how an economy allocates money to where it will have the most value.
In Chicago Booth's legendary finance curriculum, covering both corporate finance and investments, you will learn to evaluate risk and reward through an empirical lens. Our corporate finance offerings will prepare you at the business level: Should a company buy or build? Should they borrow money or issue stock? How should they compensate executives? Should they hedge costs, and if so, how? Investments courses prepare you to make decisions in financial markets: What determines stock and bond prices? How do you evaluate a fund manager? What financial risks carry big rewards, and how should an investor allocate his or her portfolio to take advantage of them? Through our culture of questioning and debate, you'll acquire a healthy skepticism that prompts you to look at each solution and probe for better explanations.
- Strategic Management - The strategic problems managers face are typically ambiguous and do not lend themselves readily to solutions using formulae or models. Strategic management helps understand the practical realities behind organizational decision-making. Strategic management solutions are required to answer questions such as: What products should you make? Which markets should you enter? What type of organization should you build? How should you respond to competitors’ behavior? Which operations should you outsource?
Chicago Booth emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach involving psychology, sociology, and economics to develop analytical frameworks that examine the strategic issues managers face. This three-pronged approach provides an understanding of how managers employ the formal and informal relationships that exist between firms in an industry, and devise solutions to the externally focused questions facing a company. The Strategic Management concentration builds the skills needed to formulate and implement an organization’s key strategies, the results of which will shape the structure and functioning of your firm.
- Marketing Management - Marketing is crucial to any business. It involves understanding customers and competitors, setting strategy, developing products, delivering value to customers, and managing relationships. It focuses on discovering and exploiting new opportunities and aspires to create loyal customers and strong brands.
Chicago Booth is at the forefront of preparing students to succeed and lead in the changing marketing environment. Future marketers must be strategic, analytical and decisive, able to lead teams across the organization, measure the profitability of marketing actions, and sell their ideas - all in the face of rapid change and global competition. The Chicago Approach to disciplined thinking equips you with skills that stand the test of time. We teach not only the latest innovations in marketing, but also provide solid grounding in fundamental disciplines like psychology, economics, statistics, so you are prepared to face new challenges that emerge.
- Entrepreneurship - Whether you are starting a company from scratch, launching a new division in an established organization, or seeking to invest in new ventures, entrepreneurial skills are crucial to identifying and evaluating the factors that will make your undertaking a success. As organizations become leaner, more global, and more resource constrained, the need to be flexible and adapt quickly to change is increasingly important across all business segments.
Chicago Booth's leading-edge entrepreneurship curriculum integrates all business areas including marketing, finance, operations, and strategy. Students get the practical tools needed to start, finance, and manage their own business, or to embark into a career in private equity. No matter what your career path, you will benefit from entrepreneurial skills such as prioritizing resources, critical evaluation of new business or growth opportunities, building and motivating a team, understanding the customer, accessing capital, and assuring profitable growth.
Requirements
To earn a concentration in finance, strategic management, marketing management or entrepreneurship, students must take four courses in their selected area. Two of these courses are part of the core curriculum. Two half courses from Electives Week and two other half courses taken during the optional week of programming in March, which we refer to as "Concentrations Week," complete the requirement.
Opting to earn a concentration will require an additional week of classes and additional tuition.
For more information, please contact your admissions office.
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