September 10, 2009 The Lubin School of Business at Pace University Inaugurates a Major Redesign of its MBA Program Beginning with the graduate classes entering this September, the Lubin School of Business will offer a totally revamped MBA program, which has taken two years in planning and design. The new program, offered to both full-time and part-time MBA students, builds upon Lubin's strong foundation and reputation for problem based, practical management education and will position its MBA program among the most compelling and competitive in today's dynamic graduate education environment. Lubin's graduate curriculum committee spent the better part of two years in a comprehensive review of the market demands for MBA education and in the ultimate design of its new program. Among its outcomes, the new MBA promises to significantly enhance students' understanding of the complex theories of the firm and their competitive global dimensions as well as provide MBA students with a practical perspective on the challenges of fostering long term value-added strategies. The new MBA program includes a foundation core examining such functional areas as accounting, finance, marketing, economics, quantitative decision-making, and operations management from a multidisciplinary approach rather than solely focusing on individual disciplines. Students who can demonstrate appropriate undergraduate competencies in these fields may have up to 13 credits out of a total 58 required for the MBA waived, allowing total program completion in 16 rather than 24 months. The major innovations in the new MBA center on the program's professional core, which comprises a number of newly designed courses covering the following broad themes: managerial economics and decision making; managerial finance and decision making; globalization, the new economy and ethics; organizational behavior and leadership in a global environment; managing complex business operations; managing innovation; and value creation for competitive advantage in a global market. These courses are designed as interdisciplinary explorations in the identification and resolution of critical issues impacting business strategies. MBA students are required to take no less than 15 credits (5 courses) in the professional core. In addition to the foundation and professional core courses, MBA students will be able to choose up to 15 credits in a specific discipline of their choice, 6 credits in breadth electives, and a mandatory capstone course. The Lubin School of Business, one of the largest four-year private undergraduate and graduate business programs in the nation, has earned dual accreditation from AACSB for both its business studies and accounting studies. Contact: Dr. Daniel Baugher, Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Programs, at dbaugher@pace.edu.