MBA Essentials

About the Program

Discover MBA Essentials, a week-long, comprehensive program, which delves into vital concepts and skills essential for navigating today’s complex business environment. The course is structured to provide a holistic overview of key functional disciplines, critical to broadening your organizational perspective. Engaging faculty create a dynamic learning environment, enriched by interactive discussions, case studies, and hands-on exercises. 
 

Experience & Results

Learn from and network with peers from diverse functions and industries. Explore the key terms, fundamentals, and challenges throughout an enterprise, which will enable you to better communicate and collaborate with your cross-functional partners. You will return to work with practical and actionable tools and frameworks that you can apply to enhance your impact and decision-making ability.

MBA Essentials Topics:

• Strategy: Explore Porter’s Five Forces model that identifies and analyzes the competitive forces determining an industry's weaknesses and strengths
• Building and Leading Teams: Discover resources, methodologies, and frameworks that address the multifaceted aspects of team dynamics and leadership
• IT Disruptions and Business Implications: Delve into disruptive innovation, where new technologies and business models emerge to challenge and ultimately replace existing market leaders
• International Business: Probe key perceptual and cultural challenges of working internationally and discuss specific issues pertaining to global team management
• Supply Chain and Operations: Explore good process design, which includes attention to how strategy is embedded in key processes for internal or external customers
• Talent Management: Discuss best practices for acquiring, developing, coaching, and retaining employees
• Financial Accounting: Explore how financial accounting serves as the foundation for making sound financial and strategic decisions
• Marketing: Discover the key perspectives and approaches that successful marketers adopt
• Finance Essentials: Discover the fundamental concepts of financial analysis, and how they can be used to better understand investment decisions
• Strategy Execution: Explore the critical elements of successful strategy execution, including resource allocation, organizational alignment, effective communication, and adaptability in the face of unforeseen circumstances

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Tuition Reimbursement

Attendees who apply for and are accepted into a Carlson MBA program within one year of completing the MBA Essentials course will be eligible to apply up to 50% of the MBA Essentials course fee toward their MBA tuition.