MBA Courses and Degree Requirements

Program Outcomes 

1. Strategy: Students will graduate with an ethically sound foundation from which to contribute and lead a 21st century enterprise. 
2. Entrepreneurship: Students will graduate with a spirit of, eye for, and understanding of the benefits of innovation and creativity and how to contribute, organize and help sustain business excellence into the future. 
3. Global: Students will graduate with an appreciation for and a working knowledge of the global marketplace and how to further contribute toward expanding the scope of an enterprise in today’s global marketplace. 
4. Management: Students will graduate with the ability to move immediately into a general management manager role with the requisite competencies to lead people, manage operations, analyze financial statements, prepare budgets, comply with the law, and properly advise executives on courses of action that will improve enterprise results. 

Student Learning Goals 

1. Students will be able to discern the positive and negative effects of leaders’ actions and decisions on the business, its people, its multiple stakeholders, and the community at-large. 
2. Students will be practiced at considered business decisions against a filter of the Catholic faith, the Rule of St. Benedict, and a variety of other personal moral and ethical filters. 
3. Students will be able to think through and anticipate the interdependent financial, economic, market, cultural, consumer, and competitive variables of a complex business/marketplace strategy and achieve desired results. 
4. Students will be able to engage other professionals in a trusting, productively conflicting, accountable environment where individual differences are embraced and results are optimized. 
5. Students will be able to identify an unmet need and articulate a plan to meet and capitalize on meeting that need in a competitive environment. 
6. Students will be able to create and lead in an environment where innovation and creativity thrive. 
7. Students will be able to analyze and identify unmet needs within the global community on which their enterprise can capitalize for future expansion. 
8. Students will be able to identify and analyze key financial, cultural, and resource variables that can affect the success of a global venture. 
9. Students will be able to map and understand the complex competitive global marketplace, anticipating the external factors that will play into their enterprise’s strategy for the next three to five years. 
10. Students will be more comfortable in an unfamiliar culture and global business environment, ready to listen and learn from others before finalizing their business strategy. 
11. Students will be able to observe, analyze, understand, and make recommendations for specific and enterprise-wide process improvement. 
12. Students will be able to analyze actual expense and budget data to improve operations. 
13. Students will be able to make employment decisions including hiring and performance management, to improve firm performance. 
14. Students will be able to convince executives of strategic course changes and the expected results.