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MBA+: A PROGRAM OF LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION
The School of Business Administration (SBA) at Portland State University is now offering a radically different enhancement to its MBA program.
Starting this fall, the School of Business Administration at Portland State University is launching MBA+, an integrated graduate program that injects courses, faculty, and coaches focused on the development of leadership and innovation into its existing technical core curriculum. Students will not only master foundation skills and a dozen management competencies, but also take on real-world experiences demanding these combined skills. It is the region’s first fully integrated graduate business degree program that merges technical and management proficiencies.
In addition, the MBA+ program at Oregon’s largest university will fuse these progressive and value-added subjects in the context of the regional economy. Overall, it is a progressive and inventive curriculum that embodies the pioneering, innovative values of the Pacific Northwest.
PSU is committing to a graduate level MBA experience aimed at producing forward-thinking leaders that can fully contribute to the regional economy.
MBA programs have traditionally employed the study of theories, crunching numbers, a dash of real-time experience and an array of accessory or optional course work or workshops in management topics related to leadership or research. Students can graduate without a set of managerial competencies or real-world leadership experience. As a result, many graduating business school students have neither the depth nor the breadth of knowledge and experience to meet today’s business world needs and thinking.
MBA+ responds to this outlook with a holistic curriculum and increased set of expectations that will not only enhance value to the MBA degree, but introduce effective and responsible graduates into the community and the regional economy. MBA+ students will learn to take risks, think outside the box, and act upon instinct and knowledge with the technical and personal skills needed to be future business and management leaders.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rodney Rogers, Associate
Dean, Academic Affairs, 503-725-8308
Carolyn McKnight, Director, MBA Programs, 503-725-8080
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