Master in Management Academic Experience and Curriculum

The five core courses are cohorted. Each course below is required in order to graduate.

• Business Statistics
• Financial Accounting
• Microeconomics
• Managerial Decision Modeling
• Managerial Psychology

Students who select Analytics as their area of specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.

• Applied Regression Analysis
• Big Data
• Machine Learning
• Advanced Decision Modeling with Python
• Data-Driven Marketing
• Data Science for Marketing Decision Making
• Experimental Marketing
• Revenue Management
• Healthcare Analytics
• Financial Econometrics
• Data Analysis with R and Python
• Data Analysis with Python and SQL

Students who select Entrepreneurship as their area of specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.

• Accounting for Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
• New Venture Strategy
• Building the New Venture
• New Venture Challenge (application based)
• Entrepreneurial Selling
• Impact Investing
• New Social Venture (application based)
• Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Application Development
• Technology Strategy
• Innovation Leadership
• Managing Service Operations
  
  

Students who select Finance as their area of specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.

• Introductory Finance
• Financial Instruments
• Cost Analysis and Internal Controls
• Accounting and Financial Analysis
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Advanced Financial Analysis and Valuation for Global Firms
• Portfolio Management
• Quantitative Portfolio Management
• Fixed Income Asset Pricing
• Cases in Financial Management
• Consumer Finance
• Behavioral and Institutional Finance
• Deal Structuring and Financial Reporting Implications

Students who select Marketing as their area of specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.

• Marketing Strategy
• Consumer Behavior
• Data-Driven Marketing
• Data Science for Marketing Decision Making
• Experimental Marketing
• Marketing Strategy with Sustainability Simulation
• New Products and Services
• Pricing Strategies
• Brand Management in a Digital Age
• Digital Marketing

Students who select Strategic Management as their area of specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.

• Managing the Firm in the Global Economy
• Building the New Venture
• Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Strategy and Structure
• Technology Strategy
• Competitive Strategy
• Game Theory
• Reputation, Regulation, and Communications
• Storytelling and Narratives in Business
• Social Sector Strategy and Structure
• Strategy Simulation
• Strategies and Processes of Negotiations
  
  

Students must complete one elective during the program. The elective requirement is an opportunity to enhance or broaden the knowledge and skills a student gains in the core courses and the courses in their area of specialization.

Examples of possible electives a student could take in the program include courses such as Strategies and Processes of Negotiations, Cost Analysis and Internal Controls, Operations Management, Application Development, and Macroeconomics, among others.

Boothcamp is a required two-week experience in Chicago that begins in mid-August, before the start of the Autumn Quarter. Boothcamp features both academic activities and professional development opportunities. Students participate in hands-on programming to develop their career goals, define their job search strategy, and build essential skills to execute a job search, such as telling one’s story, networking, writing cover letters, and preparing for interviews. In parallel, students work on key interpersonal skills that will be fundamental to their success in business school and as a business professional. Boothcamp also prepares you for your coursework. It includes basic accounting, business, statistics, and economic terms and concepts you need to succeed and hit the classroom running.

Your development as a professional is a critical part of the Master in Management Program. As a complement to foundational coursework in business disciplines, the curriculum includes a co-curricular course titled Succeeding in the Workplace. This is a 10-week course that you take at the beginning of the program, starting in Boothcamp and running into the Autumn Quarter.

This course covers three areas, each of which is essential to launching and managing a successful career: 

• Career exploration
• Job search strategy and skills
• Self-awareness and interpersonal knowledge