How are the MBA and MM different?
The MBA and MM approaches and content are dramatically different. The MBA builds a foundation for students thinking, analytical, and decision-making skills. Students learn classic management and business knowledge areas such as control, finance, operations, accounting, strategy, oral and written communication, quantitative methods. Though the MBA prepares students for future general manager positions, we recognize that students may choose specializations in their first job out of the MBA. The program therefore offers finance, marketing, and entrepreneurshiptracks or majors. By contrast the MM assumes that students already have foundational management skills, having gone through more years of managerial experience. Note that the MM is not a shorter MBA; it focuses instead on developing students’ higher-level adaptive, transformational, and inspirational leadership skills. The MM program faculty members work in close, mentoring collaboration with students as they learn self-mastery and h
