Our business graduates are taught:
An entrepreneurial perspective: Students will identify, assess, and shape entrepreneurial opportunities in a variety of contexts.
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Recognize entrepreneurial opportunities for new business ventures and evaluate their potential for business success.
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Understand the implementation issues including financial, legal, operational and administrative procedures involved in starting new business ventures
Professional communication and behavioral skills: Students will demonstrate effective communication and professional behavioral skills in business settings.
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Communicate effectively and professionally in business situations through physical or virtual presence, writing, speaking, listening, and electronic media.
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Demonstrate the ability to lead by using team building skills and facilitating collaborative behaviors in the accomplishment of group goals and objectives.
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Demonstrate good work habits, time management and self-discipline.
An ethical and social responsibility perspective: Students will understand business ethics and issues of social responsibility.
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Recognize basic concepts and theories related to business ethics and social responsibility.
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Demonstrate knowledge of the ethical behavior appropriate to specific business situations.
Analytical and problem solving skills: Students will demonstrate problem solving skills supported by appropriate analytical and quantitative techniques.
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Identify and analyze business problems and opportunities and formulate recommendations for courses of action.
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Use quantitative and qualitative tools and methodologies to support organizational decision making.
A broad knowledge of the functional areas of business and an understanding of the diverse contexts of business.
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Demonstrate awareness of the global economic, environmental, political, ethical, legal, and regulatory contexts of business practice.
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Assess how organizations create value in their global supply chains through the integrated production and distribution of goods, services and information.
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Describe the concept of competitive advantage and how it may be achieved through strategic and tactical methods.
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Analyze the information content of organizational processes.
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Define markets and apply marketing concepts and principles using a customer focus to effectively sell products and services.
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Recognize and appropriately respond to ethical, legal and strategic concerns relating to human resource and organizational management.
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Apply accounting concepts and methods to interpret financial statements for evaluating the financial position and performance of organizations.
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Interpret and analyze accounting information for internal control, planning, performance evaluation, and coordination to continuously improve business processes.
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Make basic investment and financing decisions for a business using financial management concepts, and methods.