Rensselaer Hartford - Weekend M.B.A. Curriculum

The diagram at the right illustrates the highly interactive and engaging WEMBA curriculum, which integrates innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership into coursework aimed at instructing students in the art of managing a successful enterprise.

Enterprise Management is the hub around which the Weekend M.B.A. curriculum revolves. This course examines the importance of integrating all aspects of the enterprise, its strategic management systems, and corporate product delivery systems. The course also coveres value networks, strategic partners, and constituencies across the business environment.

The Finance curriculum exposes students to the theoretical and practical techniques of accounting and finance that will enable them to operate a sustainable enterprise at optimal economic efficiency.

Courses in the area of Analysis teach powerful quantitative and qualitative methods for understanding the business environment and discovering opportunities. They involve assessing systems, technologies, products, and processes, so that improvements can be made on the basis of facts and knowledge.

Leadership courses are designed to help students achieve outstanding short-term and long-term results. In order to achieve success in a global business environment, leaders must integrate the value networks of customers, partners, allies, stakeholders, and government agencies into a holistic system.

The Markets/Business courses explore how customers, stakeholders, and society expect and demand superior products, services; operations that produce less waste; reduced impacts on health, safety and the environment; and improved corporate responsibility.

The WEMBA courses on Strategy teach students how to gain an overall perspective on business operations and the importance of integrating the management system, its processes, and inter-related activities so that all initiatives and development programs flow seamlessly across the organization.

The Systems courses address one of the most profound developments in management theory in recent years. They encourage students to investigate how the management system provides the means and mechanisms for translating strategies into realities.

The WEMBA courses on Innovation help students think outside the box as a means of achieving strategic objectives and obtaining competitive advantages. Due to the intensity of competition and the dynamics of technological change, the priorities of strategic management are shifting from focusing the product delivery system and selling products and services to leading change through creativity and innovation.