MBA Essentials

Discover MBA Essentials, a 4-day, comprehensive program, which delves into vital concepts and skills essential for navigating today’s complex business environment. 

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Program Details

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Location: In Person: Minneapolis, MN
Cost: $5,200

About the Program

Discover MBA Essentials, a 4-day, 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

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.

Learn how you can customize this program for your organization.


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.

Program Contacts

Carmen Eide
Carol Roecklein

Who Should Take This Course & Why

  • Leaders and professionals who seek to broaden their business acumen and leadership skills
  • Leaders who have been (or aspire to be) promoted into roles requiring a more holistic understanding of their organizations

Enhance your ability to:

  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners
  • Strengthen cross-enterprise linkages and initiatives
  • Make strategic, well-rounded decisions
  • Identify enterprise-level impacts from functional actions
  • Assess the strength of your organization’s strategy
  • Successfully build and lead productive teams
  • Build customer-centric processes
  • Read and interpret financial statements
  • Develop strategic, comprehensive plans and initiatives
Executive Education Participants

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PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVE

In this video, a participant of the MBA Essentials program shares how the course reshaped her understanding of strategy, competition, and innovation. 

"I was pushed to higher levels of understanding core business concepts until I reached those "a-ha!" moments that I can instantly implement in my own firm to achieve better success."

Chase Swope, Operations Lead
TEN Logistics, Inc.

Schedule

DAY 1 MORNING

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  • Business Strategy 
DAY 1 AFTERNOON

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  • Building and Leading Teams
DAY 2 MORNING

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  • AI & Analytics
DAY 2 AFTERNOON

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  • Supply Chain & Operations
DAY 3 MORNING

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  • Financial Accounting
DAY 3 AFTERNOON

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  • Financial Decisions & Capital Markets
DAY 4 MORNING

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  • Marketing Management
DAY 4 AFTERNOON

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  • Strategy Execution
DAY 1 MORNING

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  • Business Strategy 
DAY 1 AFTERNOON

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  • Building and Leading Teams
DAY 2 MORNING

Session Overview

  • AI & Analytics
DAY 2 AFTERNOON

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  • Supply Chain & Operations
DAY 3 MORNING

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  • Financial Accounting
DAY 3 AFTERNOON

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  • Financial Decisions & Capital Markets
DAY 4 MORNING

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  • Marketing Management
DAY 4 AFTERNOON

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  • Strategy Execution

Register Today!

Dates:
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Cost: $5,200
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