Management MBA: Strategic Management Concentration

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Overview
The Strategic Management track under the Management concentration prepares students for careers in leadership and management in all fields of business. This highly focused track prepares you as a business manager and leader recognizing the needs, wants and desires of the corporation in addressing their markets. It trains the student to anticipate needs, changes in the market and the interactions in the global socio-economic climate in which we all work.

Our curriculum gives you real-world skills strategic management through the guidance of seasoned and accomplished faculty. Our faculty members are established leaders in their fields and also bring extensive industry experience to the classroom. Both theory and its real-world application are taught for both domestic and global markets.

The topics addressed include:

  • Strategic Thinking and Portfolio Theory
  • The strategic impact of various domestic, national and international government institutions
  • Formulating strategic responses to external and internal perturbations
  • Short-term vs. Long-term planning
  • Strategic approaches to Human Resource Management
  • Leadership and Strategic Planning/Policy Deployment/Performance Measurement and Strategic Information Management
  • The strategic drivers for excellence
  • The e-Business strategic issues facing the traditional enterprise
These are a few of the topics discussed encompassing many industries. In addition, the faculty will demonstrate real-world methodologies to address the problems encountered.

The Strategic Management track does not address one field, as there are far too many. Rather the faculty will address the theory and by application and case study demonstrate the constructs using real-world examples.

Program and Courses
The Strategic Management track prepares students for careers in the management and leadership of businesses, both domestically and globally. Students, as leaders and managers, learn how to recognize, analyze, respond and strategically plan for such environmental factors as changing laws, accounting, financial and economic challenges, technological changes, organizational, as well as socio- cultural issues, and domestic and international trends. You will learn the formal and systematic management methods of directing and motivating group efforts toward achieving the organization's primary objective, the optimal allocation of resources.

This program prepares students for multi-functional line responsibilities and for staff planning assignments in business firms. Line responsibility requires managerial maturity and experience, which can be enhanced through formal learning. Planning assignments may include preparing environmental and industry analysis studies, investigating business opportunities and making strategic assessments.

Degree Requirements

Preliminary Skill (0)

Foundation Courses (0-19)

Professional Core Courses (15)

Required Specialization Courses (9)
MGT 637 Competitive Business Strategy (3)
MGT 638 Corporate Diversification Strategy (3)
MGT 646 Government Institutions and Business Strategy (3)

Specialization Electives (6) CHOOSE 2
MGT 627 Organization Theory and Organization Change (3)
MGT 630 Seminar in Strategic Management Issues (3)
MGT 650 Negotiation and Bargaining (3)
MGT 675 Corporate Strategic Planning
MGT 678 Business Plan Development (3)
MGT 687 Advanced Topics in Management (3)
MGT 689 Organization Development (3)

Capstone Course (3)

Breadth Electives (6)
Lubin '600' level, not MGT or MBA prefixed

Total Credits: 39-58
 		  
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[Ellen S. Weisbord]
"The diversity, motivation, real world experience, and New York City "edge" of Lubin MBA students make teaching in the Strategic Management program both challenging and rewarding. My students are usually surprised when they learn that I commute from Atlanta, Georgia, but the energy and enthusiasm at Pace are magnetic."
 Ellen S. Weisbord
Associate Professor of Management

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Faculty
The Strategic Management track faculty include accomplished practitioners and academicians who connect theory to real business problems. Our other faculty will aid you in acquiring the knowledge, concepts, and the nuances of the day-to-day realities inherent in working in this field. These highly qualified faculty members, with extensive industry experience, will aid you in learning key issues in addressing the global business market.

Career Opportunities
The Career Opportunities are almost infinite in number. Ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups to the multi-billion dollar mega-corporations, all are in need of well-educated managerial staff.

As business expands in the global marketplace, industry needs new managers who are intimately familiar with the changing technology, expansion into new markets, enhanced communications and the needs and requirements of managing a business effectively. Organizations are eager to identify viable leaders and managers that the growing industry demands. Career opportunities exist world-wide, especially for those who are able to anticipate and plan accordingly. Being aware of the diversity of our world's cultures is also addressed as components of the program.

Career and Industry Links
ManagementJobs.com - The largest source for management jobs in all career fields and industries. Includes free job hunting and resume advice to make finding new jobs easier and faster.
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) - This listing contains internship opportunities from companies that have summer employment positions available for students interested in a career in logistics, career guides, a resume network, and continuing education.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Provides information on Employment Interviewers, Human Resources Specialists and Managers and Management Analysts and Consultants including Nature of the Work, Working Conditions, Employment Training, Other Qualifications and Advancement, Job Outlook, Related Occupations, Sources of Additional Information.
Saludos Web Career Guide - Learn about careers in Management including job titles, working conditions, job outlook, salary and education/training requirements.

Flexible Scheduling
To accommodate the needs of employed students, the program is designed with variable course loads and conveniently scheduled late afternoon and evening classes. The University also offers extended hours for many administrative offices to serve its working students.

Convenient Locations
The MBA in Strategic Management program is offered at the New York City downtown campus, located in the center of the city's financial district, just a few blocks from Wall Street, and the Westchester campus in White Plains, NY, near corporate headquarters.

Admission
A U.S. bachelor's degree or an equivalent degree from a foreign school is the preferred undergraduate degree requirement for admission into the program. In addition to a resume, a personal statement, a GMAT or GRE score report, and two recommendations, applicants must submit official transcripts from all colleges and universities they have attended. A recent TOEFL score, no more than two years old, is required of all applicants whose native language is not English or who did not receive a bachelor's or master's degree from a U.S. institution. Recommended application deadlines are August 1 for the fall entry term and December 1 for the spring entry term. Click for our Application Guidelines and Checklist.

For admission information, please contact:

Office of Graduate Admission
New York City Campus
Phone: (212)346-1531
E-mail: gradnyc@pace.edu		 Office of Graduate Admission
White Plains Graduate Center
Phone: (914)422-4283
E-mail: gradwp@pace.edu

Contact Us
For a graduate catalog and an application for admission, please fill out our online form. Click for information about graduate information sessions, online chats, and graduate recruitment events. Click for information about Campus Tours, or call 212-346-1323 to schedule a tour. To request a brochure, application packet, or other printed materials, please fill out our online form. You may also call 1-800-874-PACE or send your request via e-mail to infoctr@pace.edu.

For additional information about the program, contact the following individuals:

Management Department Program Coordinator
Barbara Powell
212-618-6548
bming@pace.edu

Management Department Graduate Chair
Alan Eisner, PhD
212-618-6607
aeisner@pace.edu