Michigan State University Spartans work to advance the common good in uncommon ways. The nation’s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world—on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation—and is home to a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.
Professional Masters Programs
The Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University offers a number of masters degree programs designed for working professionals.
Weekend MBA Program
Master of Science in Business Analytics
Executive Development Programs
The Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University is also a global leader in executive education and professional development programs. Our first-rate faculty specializes in delivering powerful executive education and corporate learning solutions. Our incomparable faculty members and accomplished speakers are recognized as leaders in their fields. Each of these exceptional experts brings significant breadth and depth of experience to our open-enrollment programs.
We specialize in the following critical business areas and subject matters.
Finance & Accounting
Leadership & Strategy
Marketing & Sales
Supply Chain Management
Executive-style Weekend MBA
http://weekendmba.broad.msu.edu/
MSU leads the way with executive-style MBA education. Since 1964, we’ve helped professionals sharpen their business skills and advance their careers without giving up their day job. The program provides business leaders with the core competencies they need to be effective in an ever-changing, global world. Currently ranked 35th in the world by BusinessWeek, we pride ourselves on providing a strong return on investment for our students and the organizations that support them.
The Weekend MBA is a cohort-based integrative management degree that focuses on key business issues and provides hands-on, collaborative learning that can be applied immediately in the workplace. We use a team-approach that maximizes the experiences of the high-caliber professionals in the program. This is consistently cited as a tremendous benefit by both our students and alumni. The program also incorporates a strong international perspective, including an option for students to participate in our weeklong international residency.
Current and aspiring leaders benefit from the conveniences of an Executive MBA, allowing them to maintain their demanding careers while they expand their professional network and gain the knowledge and skills of a top MBA. Our staff manages the administrative details including registration, securing course materials and coordinating meals on class days.
Students begin in late summer each year, and work through a planned curriculum, attending classes one Friday evening and every other Saturday for 19 months. Applications can be submitted (online) each year until April, and we admit highly qualified candidates on a rolling admission basis. Details and upcoming events are available at http://www.weekendmba.broad.msu.edu.
Courses: For course descriptions, click here.
Schedule: For the academic calendar, click here. Each year the program begins with a weeklong residency in early August before beginning the regular schedule of one Friday evening + every other Saturday. Students complete the program in late April, taking classes for 19 months with extended breaks in December both years and in the summer.
Location: Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI or Troy, MI
Cost: $61,500 for out-state tuition - entire program
Apply: To apply online for the Fall Cohort, click here. Applications are due April 15, 2013.
For more information on this program, please contact: 517-355-7603 or go to wmba@bus.msu.edu or http://weekendmba.broad.msu.edu .
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Master of Science in Business Analytics
http://broad.msu.edu/businessanalytics/
In the Master of Science in Business Analytics program, you will:
Take classes with leading Michigan State faculty in business, computer science and mathematics from the Broad College of Business, College of Engineering and College of Natural Science
Experience working on live data analysis projects and real-world problem solving
Expand your business intelligence and link your expertise to a growing industry
The program is designed to be completed in one calendar year (three full-time consecutive semesters) from January to December. Each semester, the highly experiential program offers students the opportunity to work on data sets arranged with corporate and faculty support.
The curriculum includes courses in business strategy, data mining, applied statistics, project management, marketing technologies, communications and ethics taught by leading MSU faculty.
Graduates of the MS in Business Analytics will take their knowledge of business intelligence to careers in business, non-profit, science, engineering management, healthcare, finance and government. If you would like to know more about the MS in Business Analytics, please contact us.
Location:
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Contact:
Lucy Maillette
maillette@bus.msu.edu
517.432.7443
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Healthcare Leadership: Business Strategy for a Changing Landscape
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/9
This program is designed for existing and emerging healthcare leaders to prepare them for advancement in their career. In the rapidly changing healthcare landscape, now is the time to learn how to seize strategic opportunities that can make a significant difference to you and your organization. MSU has created this unique learning experience by combining evidence-based practices from healthcare and business.
In this program, participants will:
Learn a practical leadership approach
Explore best practices for engaging teams more effectively to achieve a better organization, financial advantage and provide better patient care
Be stretched on their strategic mindset and look for unique ways to differentiate their institutions in this changing landscape
Explore the challenges and opportunities facing physician leaders and hospital administrators.
This program is designed for department heads and emerging leaders with responsibility for managing people, processes and systems within healthcare organizations.
Dates:
September 25-27, 2013 & October 29-30, 2013
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$3,795.00 – full tuition (includes materials, meals, assessments and graduation plaque)
$3,495.00 – early bird registration
Contact:
Kristin St. Marie
stmarie@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71005 or 800.356.5705
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Thinking Strategically to Build a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/26
Businesses need clear strategies in order to survive and succeed. As a manager, you need to be able to think strategically and contribute to strategic decisions – whatever the size of your organization. This program is designed to improve your ability to conduct a strategic analysis of both the internal and external environment of your firm, to diagnose the strength of the competitive position of your firm. This program will provide you with tools, frameworks and ideas to help you play a more effective role in contributing to strategic thinking. You will learn about the structure of competitive environments, the blind spots that managers often miss when examining their strategic position, and the fundamental elements of an effective strategy. In this interactive program, you will undertake in-depth case analyses, participate in group exercises to gain expertise in the craft of strategy, and participate in discussion sessions following the cases and exercises to reinforce and extend your understanding of these strategic tools.
After attending this program, participants will be better equipped to:
Assess the firm or business unit’s internal and external strategic environment
Diagnose the organization’s strategic strengths, relative to competitors, to secure sustainable advantage
Help identify common blind spots in the process
Learn what fundamentals make a strategy competitively successful
This program is designed for senior managers and executives with current or future responsibility for strategy development, review and implementation; experienced executive level people who wish to take a fresh look at how strategy impacts competitive success; and middle managers identified as “high potentials” who need exposure to strategic analysis and competitive thinking.
Dates:
TBD
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$995.00 – full tuition (includes materials, meals and certificate of completion)
$875.00 – early bird registration
Contact:
Kristin St. Marie
stmarie@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71005 or 800.356.5705
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Executive Leadership for Women: Strategies to Enhance Success
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/10
The most successful women have vision, fortitude, and the ability to work in competitive environments without compromising their unique traits and skill sets. Research shows that companies with a higher percentage of women in top management also experience a higher Return on Equity and Return on Sales. This program provides critical information and leadership insights designed to help high-potential women improve performance and productivity within their unique business environments. Based on both proven research and the personal experiences of senior executives, the program develops individualized action plans and engages organizational superiors to help support implementation. This program will also create a unique network of colleagues with similar experiences to help support future growth and development.
After attending this program, participants will be better equipped to:
Apply the skills of exceptional leadership up, down, and across your organization
Find your executive voice while gaining an understanding of real and perceived gender differences in workplace communication
Create a personal brand and message and apply it to relationships inside and outside of your organization
Build a personal and professional network to help ensure career success
Effectively negotiate deals that create lasting value for yourself and your organization
This program is designed for high-potential female business professionals with generally 8-18 years’ experience.
Dates:
October 9-10, 2013 & November 12-13, 2013
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$2,995.00 – full tuition (includes materials, assessments, meals and graduation plaque)
Contact:
Kristin St. Marie
stmarie@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71005 or 800.356.5705
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Process Mapping
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/47
An organization, any organization, is a collection of processes. These processes are the natural business activities you perform that produce value, serve customers and generate income. Managing these processes is the key to the success of your organization. Unfortunately, most organizations —probably yours— are not set up to manage processes. Instead they manage tasks. Think about it. Isn’t your company organized around functions (the manufacturing department, the x-ray department, the sales department, the customer service department)? As a result, people tend to focus on “local” concerns instead of the “global” needs of process customers. Sub-processes evolve within departments without consideration of other functional areas. Layers of communication and management are created to ensure desired outcomes, thereby adding to costs and lengthening cycle and customer response times. Inefficiency and waste become part of the system. They rob your organization of profits, productivity and its competitive advantage. But, there is a way out. Process mapping is a simple yet powerful method of looking beyond functional activities and rediscovering your core processes. Process maps enable you to peel away the complexity of your organizational structure (and internal politics) and focus on the processes that are truly the heart of your business. Properly used, process maps can change your entire approach to process improvement and business management. . .and greatly reduce the cost of your operations by eliminating as many as 50% of the steps in most processes as well as the root causes of systemic quality problems.
Dates:
TBD
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$995.00 – full tuition
Contact:
Sally Vescolani
vescolani@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71002 or 800.356.5705
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Adaptive Leadership: Enhancing Individual and Team Performance
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/17
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/45
Research shows that there are seven critical roles that must be filled in all team contexts in order for the team to have long-term, sustained effectiveness. These roles include the:
Composer (selects the team members)
Designer (develops work procedures)
Motivator (energizes team members)
Decision-Maker (assesses the future and team’s direction)
Peacemaker (manages conflict among team members)
Teacher (helps the group learn from their experiences)
Developer (promotes interpersonal relationships among team members)
No one leader can fulfill all these roles but it is the leader’s responsibility to recognize his or her strengths and weaknesses in performing all the roles. Moreover, if there are roles that the leader cannot fulfill, it is his or her responsibility to either (a) personally adapt and develop the ability to perform the role or (b) make sure that the role is covered by some other member of the team. The skills learned in this seminar will help the attendee expand his or her leadership style beyond his or her current niche, providing long-term career survival and advancement.
After attending this program, participants will have learned how to:
Choose the right people
Re-engineer team tasks
Motivate different types of people
Make effective group decisions
Manage conflict
Promote team learning
Weather and exploit change
Create a trusting group climate
This program is designed for mid-level to senior-level management such as a vice presidents, general managers, division or department heads, project team leaders, directors, and others in leadership positions for minimum of 3-5 years.
Dates:
May 1-2, 2013
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$1,995.00 – full tuition (includes materials, meals, assessments and certificate of completion)
$1,695.00 – early bird registration
Contact:
Kristin St. Marie
stmarie@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71005 or 800.356.5705
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Financial Management for Executives: Driving Value
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/44
This two-day program is designed to provide participants a rich understanding of how corporate strategies are linked to the firm's financial value. Through the use of lectures and case analysis, we will address issues on how to determine the key drivers of value to an enterprise. We will also investigate the valuation implications of forecasting, risk management, financing choices and growth strategies. Valuation and performance measurements will be extensively covered.
After attending this program, participants will have learned how to:
Appreciate why managing for value matters
Manage financial expectations
Recognize how to manage value
Understand value-based strategies
Identify and manage key value drivers
Make financial decisions that drive value straight to your organization's bottom line
Determine the best capital investment opportunities for your organization
Establish sustainable growth strategies for your organization
This program is designed for executives involved in or responsible for strategic decisions for their firm and the financial impact of those decisions. CEOs, CFOs, COOs, division and business unit heads, and executives responsible for the areas of finance, strategy and business development are encouraged to attend.
Dates:
March 21-22, 2013
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$1,995.00 – full tuition (includes materials, meals and certificate of completion)
$1,695.00 – early bird registration
Contact:
Kristin St. Marie
stmarie@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71005 or 800.356.5705
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Power, Influence and Negotiation
https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/19
This highly interactive two-day program is designed to improve your understanding and ability to master the skill of negotiation and enhance the competitive position of your organization by drawing on the latest research in negotiation, influence and decision-making. You will gain expertise in diagnosing negotiation situations, knowing what strategies to apply in that given situation, maximizing power position, creating opportunities for joint gains, and developing trade-offs that lead to mutually beneficial agreements. The feedback and discussion sessions following each case will reinforce our newly acquired skills.
After attending this program, participants will be better equipped to:
Negotiate more effectively with business partners, customers, and employees
Build stronger relationships and ability to influence through skillful negotiation
Make better decisions during the negotiation process that result in competitive advantage for your organization
Achieve optimal decision-making through planning and diagnosing the negotiation strategy
Ability to negotiate in complex or multiple party situations
Understand common negotiation barriers and how to avert them
This program is designed to provide managers with effective negotiation strategies and influence tactics for all kinds of business situations. All functional areas within organizations and all industry sectors can benefit from this program.
Dates:
June 11-12, 2013
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$1,995.00 – full tuition (includes materials, meals, assessments and certificate of completion)
$1,695.00 – early bird registration
Contact:
Kristin St. Marie
stmarie@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71005 or 800.356.5705
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https://edp.broad.msu.edu/events/55
The Broad Executive Program is an intense five-day experience providing strategic thinking to develop cross-functional knowledge with the latest practices and strategies for high-impact leadership. This program delivers an action-learning and integrative approach with a focus on maximizing shareholder value for the organization. The collaboration with other high-caliber participants via classroom exercises, activities and a team-based project offers outstanding value and the opportunity for life-long peer relationships across a broad spectrum of industries and organizations. The Broad Executive Program provides an immersion development training experience that will fulfill the leadership development needs of today’s rising stars.
After attending this program, participants will demonstrate:
Increased personal effectiveness and leadership capacity
Strengthened ability to manage business challenges with an integrative mindset
Improved decision-making and team collaboration skills
Enhanced understanding of shareholder value and financial metrics
Accelerated creativity and entrepreneurial drive
This program is designed specifically for high-potential managers with 7-10 years of experience with some management responsibility, who have taken on, or are preparing to take on, broader responsibilities. Also, managers and executives that have recently or will soon transition from function/operational manager to strategic leader within their organization are ideally positioned to attend this program.
Dates:
October 13-18, 2013
Location:
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, Lansing, Michigan
Cost:
$5,900.00 – full tuition (includes materials and meals - travel and lodging not included)
$5,400.00 – early bird registration
Contact:
Kristin St. Marie
stmarie@bus.msu.edu
517.353.9711 x71005 or 800.356.5705
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