Our MBA program is comprised of a unique combination of case studies, collaborative team projects, lectures, live case discussions, interactions with industry leaders, and hands-on lab classes, all of which work together to provide you with world-class business skills and real-world experience as preparation for an exciting future.
A highly focused one-week session before the start of classes, Orientation gives students a running start on the experience.
Through a variety of challenging group exercises, students are introduced to the unsettling truth that business problems don’t come in tidy packages, but spill out chaotically across disciplines and departments. Orientation helps students grasp at a gut level that a crucial part of leadership is the ability to define such complex problems, and bring diverse skills and people together to get things done.
Orientation is also designed to help students chart their own unique path to success. Because we know that students who get the most from their experience are those who begin with the clearest personal and professional goals, Orientation includes exercises that help students pinpoint what they hope to gain from their two years at .
And with activities from picnics and Red Sox games to community service projects and citywide scavenger hunts, Orientation includes plenty of relaxed opportunities for students to get to know each other and learn their way around the city.
Curriculum
MBA curriculum grew out of our conviction that, in education as in business, leadership belongs to those who reject the comfort of the status quo. Therefore, the curriculum is one that encourages freedom of choice and experimentation. After the powerful, shared experience of the first-semester core, students are free to construct a highly personalized course of study. In addition to the analytic rigor you would expect from , we offer a sharp focus on the demands of actual business problems, and an array of new opportunities to practice skills of leadership and to connect with the world of business practice.
While we offer a wide variety of courses, each one exemplifies our com ment to balancing innovative ideas and theories with real-world application.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track (E&I)
The Entrepreneurship faculty offers the E&I track for incoming MBA students who are already com ted to a future entrepreneurial life. The classes and related activities focus on launching and developing new companies, especially those that are based upon the emerging technologies for which is famed. E&I students immerse themselves in an intense curriculum led by a distinguished faculty of academic thought leaders and successful practitioners of entrepreneurship. Multiple required and elective courses provide depth of information and experiences, together with an opportunity to build a strong cohort of like–minded entrepreneurial classmates. E&I students receive a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in addition to the MBA certificate.
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Finance Track
Within the School’s Program, the Finance Group offers the Finance Track, which consists of required courses, electives, and extra-curricular activities designed to prepare MBA students for careers in the finance industry. Any MBA candidate may elect to participate in the Finance Track and, upon completion of the track requirements, will receive a Certificate in Finance in addition to their MBA certificate.
Sustainability Certificate
Building upon distinguished accomplishments in technology, science, and social science, its tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ideal of “mens et manus” (blending “mind and hands”), the Certificate in Sustainability views sustainability as a function of the interdependent dynamics of economic, societal, and environmental systems, where success overall is influenced by success across all areas and not upon a single factor. The required core and elective courses in the Certificate Program explicitly leverage strengths in process improvement, organizational learning and adaptation, entrepreneurship and commercialization, the dynamics of organizational and social change, and the interactions of markets, firms and organizations, and links to strengths in science and technology through implementation.
