The Elon MBA helps you excel in today's creative economy
- a competitive environment led by those who generate new
ideas and find innovative solutions to problems. The
dynamic MBA curriculum has been revised to help you
develop the skills you need to engage your creativity and
prepare for leadership in the global business world.
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The Elon MBA offers a customized approach to learning,
where you decide what is best for your career and your
lifestyle. Your first course, MBA 501, will focus on
assessing your skills and setting personal career goals.
You proceed through the curriculum at your own pace, taking
one or two classes per semester. In addition to core
courses, the MBA curriculum offers a number of electives
that allow you to focus on subjects that are most relevant
to your industry and interests. Near the end of the
program, you’ll assess the progress you’ve made
and refine your career objectives.
As part of your MBA studies, you’ll take two
management practice workshops that give you the opportunity
to apply your business knowledge and utilize the leadership
skills you are developing. Working with clients to help
them solve real problems at their firms will give you
valuable hands-on learning experience. If you want to take
applied learning a step further, you can take an elective
called Topics in Applied Management. This course gives you
and your classmates the opportunity to explore areas of
interest — you can even work with a team to tackle a
problem at your own workplace.
Throughout the MBA program, you will be asked
to look at issues from different perspectives, not just in
the context of a single class. For example, students from
economics classes collaborate on group projects with
management students. This experience stimulates creative
thinking as you work with people with different viewpoints,
just like you would on the job. In addition, each new
cohort of MBA students looks at issues from the perspective
of a specific industry. Professors assign readings and case
studies related to this industry throughout the program.
Relating their disciplines back to a common theme helps
professors integrate course material so you can apply what
you’ve learned to your own field.
Whether you are starting your own business,
setting your sights on a promotion or taking on a
leadership role in your community, Elon’s MBA program
will prepare you for this challenge. Developing responsible
business leaders is a major focus of the Martha and Spencer
Love School of Business. You will hear from speakers
brought to campus to discuss ethical leadership. For
example, former executive Walt Pavlo spoke about the events
and corporate culture that led to wire fraud and money
laundering at MCI, and a panel featuring the president of
the American Bar Association and the chairman of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
discussed individual responsibility in today’s
complex business environment. MBA students take active
roles in bringing these business leaders to campus and take
the lead in organizing service activities such as a
beautification project for a local children’s home.
In today’s business world, it is critical
to look at issues from a global perspective. Elon’s
MBA program approaches globalization in a number of ways.
All students take an international business course, and
global issues are addressed in core courses throughout the
program. You can also study abroad through the MBA program,
visiting U.S.- and foreign-owned firms in locations such as
China, Europe or South America.
