A Master of Business Administration is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounting, applied statistics, human resources, business communication, business ethics, business law, strategic management, business strategy, finance, managerial economics, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, supply-chain management, and operations management in a manner most relevant to management analysis and strategy. It originated in the United States in the early 20th century when the country industrialized and companies sought scientific management.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. It is the world's oldest collegiate business school, having been established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton.
Senior management, executive management, or upper management is an occupation at the highest level of management of an organization, performed by individuals who have the day-to-day tasks of managing the organization, sometimes a company or a corporation.
INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires", is a non-profit graduate business school that maintains campuses in France, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Its degree programs are postgraduate-only, taught in English and include a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA), an Executive MBA (EMBA), Master in Management, Doctor of Business Administration and executive education programs.
London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees. LBS is consistently ranked amongst the world's best business schools. Its motto is "To have a profound impact on the way the world does business".
Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the school.
The Penn State Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University offers undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs to more than 6,000 students. Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Smeal, is home to more than 150 faculty members who teach and conduct academic research on a range of business topics. The college also features a network of industry-supported research centers.
Rajendra K. Srivastava is Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation at the Indian School of Business. He has been a tenured professor and an academic administrator and has worked in the United States, Singapore, and India. He has been listed in the Forbes's Tycoons of Tomorrow 2018. He is also a member of the board of directors of Happiest Minds, a publicly listed company in India.
Richard A. D'Aveni is an American academic, thought leader, business consultant, bestselling author and the Bakala Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is best known for creating a new paradigm in business strategy and coining the term “hypercompetition” which led Fortune to liken him to a modern version of Sun Tzu.
Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. He has served on the Boards of ACC Limited, Ambuja Cements, Bata India, BP Ergo, Defaqto, Tata Capital, Tata Chemicals, Tata Industries, Tata Limited (UK), Tata Unistore, Ultratech, and Zensar Technologies. He received the 2021 Mahajan Award for Lifetime Contributions to Marketing Strategy by the Marketing Strategy SIG of the American Marketing Association (AMA).
A chief strategy officer (CSO) is an executive that usually reports to the CEO and has primary responsibility for strategy formulation and management, including developing the corporate vision and strategy, overseeing strategic planning, and leading strategic initiatives, including M&A, transformation, partnerships, and cost reduction. Some companies give the title of Chief Strategist or Chief Business Officer to its senior executives who are holding the top strategy role.
James D. Westphal conducts research and teaches in the areas of strategic management and organizational theory at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Westphal’s research examines symbolic management and impression management processes in relations between corporate leaders and firm constituents, as well as social psychological processes in corporate governance and the corporate elite.
Shawn M. Clark is an American organizational theorist, a senior lecturer at the College of Information Sciences and Technology of Pennsylvania State University, executive director of the defunct Institute for Global Prescience and a consultant. He is known for his work on strategic sensemaking in organizations.
Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management and faculty director of the Tuck Executive Program (TEP) at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is also the faculty director of the Center for Leadership at Tuck. His specialty is business leadership and strategy.
ZS Associates is a management consulting and professional services firm focusing on consulting, software, and technology, headquartered in Evanston, Illinois that provides services for clients in healthcare, private equity, and technology. The firm was founded in 1983 by two professors at Northwestern University who developed sales force alignment models using the world’s first personal-computer-aided territory mapping system. ZS continues to offer sales force alignment service to this day, in addition to a range of professional services, many of which are supported by advanced analytics.
Wayne DeSarbo is the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University at University Park and executive director the Center for Sports Business and Research. He is known for his work on multidimensional scaling, and multivariate statistics in relation to marketing research. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Roy D. Shapiro is an American academic. He is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He has taught MBA students and corporate executives. He is the co-author or co-editor of five books.
Externally oriented planning is the third out of four discrete phases of the planning process, according to Gluck, Kaufman and Walleck's article published by Harvard Business Review in July 1980. A company may have previously worked through the "financial" and "forecast-based" planning phases before entering the "externally oriented" phase. Their model then has a fourth "strategic management" phase.
Brad Mitchell is an American businessman and was the founding President and CEO of ChainDrugStore.net from 2000 to 2005. He prepared the company for a management-led buyout with a private investor in early 2006. His public service includes serving on the White House Staff of President George H.W. Bush (41) and as a policy adviser in President Bush's 1988 Presidential campaign. Additionally, he led the presidential transition teams for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation. Mitchell is Founder and board chairman of the National Athletic and Professional Success Academy (NAPSA); President of Pinnacle Summit Services and The Mitchell Group, a consulting and executive leadership coaching firm; and a certified executive leadership coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF) specializing in coaching successful leaders and executive teams to elevate their performance. Mitchell previoulsy served as President of S4 Consulting, Chief Commercial Officer of AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, and Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of DrugEmporium.com. He holds degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and Harvard University. Mitchell is a retired Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve.
Allen Amason is an American professor, researcher, management consultant, and author. He is Dean & Professor of Management at the Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University.
