mba brochure

Dear Aspiring MBA,

Explore your business school choices carefully; I think you’ll bevery moved by what you find at Boston University.

Here, we work assiduously to educate and train builders andleaders, not simply managers. Our innovative curricula deliver, asyou would expect, the essential knowledge of business functions—accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behavior, operations,business law, etc.—but in a unique way.

The difference here is that we help shape our students’ capacityto think both functionally and systemically. That is, our gradu-ates know how to deal well with the measurables at hand, butthey also understand the often more important, if less measur-able, effects of business decisions across the organization andon the wider society.

Another critical distinction: teaming at our School is not simply“group work.” It is carefully constructed to give each member ofthe team a meaningful stake in the learning and the perform-ance of every other member. It’s a proven way to developleadership skills and deepen individual learning.

This School is housed in a world-class facility in the heart ofBoston. Our faculty is made up of gifted scholars whose researchimpacts the practice of management. They are dedicatedteachers working to bring every student to his/her full potential.Our diverse student population is high achieving, entrepre-neurial, and spirited. And our graduates have achieved thehighest levels of professional success.

We welcome your interest. Please contact us if we can help youin any way.

Cordially,

Louis E. LataifDean

• Team Learning is the ultimate vehicle alongthe path to leadership. Team Learning enablesstudent teams to take on complex practical problems thatindividuals can’t tackle alone. As teams learn how to solvethe leadership problems associated with these real-worldissues, team members hone their leadership skills byinspiring each other to reach their common goal, and bychallenging themselves to contribute effectively.

Our Team Learning approach promotes collaborative leader-ship skills by giving each member a measurable stake in thesuccess of the other team members. You’ll work with teamsmade up of people with the same diversity you’ll find in theworkplace—different styles, backgrounds, strengths, andweaknesses. You and your teammates will be measured onhow well your team performs, and on how effective you are asa leader and contributor.

The BU Center for Team Learning was founded in 1996 withassistance from the GE Fund. It supports faculty engaged incollaborative learning by developing classroom materials andmethods, conducting research on the effectiveness of collab-orative learning approaches, and offering training and adviceto faculty. For students, it means cutting-edge knowledge inthe classroom and in case studies.

• Your success is directly relatedto your ability to work as aleader and a team player.

If you can see across an enterprise• We teach you to anticipate the impact of a strategic decision across all functions of a busi-

ness. You’ll learn the fundamentals of each management discipline while understandinghow critical it is to have all the decisions within the organization aligned.

The BU MBA in the Graduate School of Management (GSM) is designed to offer bothacademic excellence and a continually updated curriculum that addresses the dynamics oftoday’s global business milieu. We place significant emphasis on conveying contemporarybusiness perspectives and issues, cultivating collaboration and teamwork values, and devel-oping entrepreneurial skills.

• Systemic thinking is a powerful tool to illuminate the big picture, solve problems, avoidcreating new ones, simplify issues, and optimize results.

• Our grads meet the needs of the business world. With an MBA from BU, you’ll be able to makethe best decisions for the overall organization, not just for a single department or project.

you can lead across it.

• Boston University is one of only three businessschools in the Boston area to be ranked in the Top50 by The Wall Street Journal. The exceptionalcaliber of our curriculum, faculty, and students isbringing our School well-deserved recognition asone of the best in the country and the world.

“I chose BU because of its world-class students, outstanding faculty, and innovative curriculum.And its unique MS•MBA program will enable me to graduate with a skill set that will differentiate me in the eyes of employers.”

NAME

John Wynne

HOMETOWN

Arlington, Massachusetts

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston University MS•MBA 2004

University of New HampshireBS Chemical Engineering 1995

MS•

• We’ve put a stake in the ground. BostonUniversity School of Management is the firstbusiness school in the world to offer theMS•MBA—a Masters of Science in InformationSystems and an MBA. You don’t need a tech-nical background to participate in thisextraordinary program—just a desire to have adeep comprehension of the interdependence ofbusiness processes and technology.

The dual degree MS•MBA program equipsyou with a keen understanding of traditionalbusiness management and IT strategies. Ourgoal: to educate a select set of students tobe the next builders and leaders of contem-porary business.

The MS•MBA program is a unique opportunityto develop not only a strong foundation in busi-ness fundamentals, but also extensiveinformation systems knowledge in the sameamount of time it would take to earn a tradi-tional MBA. The mix of business and ITcoursework is designed to show you how tech-nology can be used strategically to solvebusiness problems, positively impact productand service offerings, and increase profitability.

Understanding the role of technology is essen-tial to an organization. Too often a decision ismade for today, without considering the impacton the future. The companies that think aboutIT from a strategic point of view are the onesthat are thriving now. In the MS•MBA program,you’ll learn from business and technologythought leaders how to become tomorrow’smost influential executives.

If you don’t understand technology, you don’t understand business.

• MS•MBA Field Project As a student in the MS•MBA program, you’llwork as a team member and consult with one ofseveral well-known companies, working on-siteduring your last two semesters. Your group willanalyze a business challenge and develop a solu-tion—a valuable opportunity to apply academicprinciples to a real-world challenge, as well asmake important industry connections.

“MS•MBA graduates are comfortable straddling the domains of business and technology.”—John Chalykoff, Associate Dean, Academic Programs

WANTED:FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS WITHAMBITION, COMMITMENT, AND VISION.

• Our most successful candidates already have practical experience and want to

build on that by adding strategic value in their current job or perhaps develop

the entrepreneurial skills needed to launch a new endeavor. They demonstrate

high personal motivation, intellectual curiosity, and creativity through a versatile

combination of strong academic preparation, professional accomplishment, and

leadership skills.

“Our applicants must be ready to capitalize on the challenges of a rapidly changing environment.”—Evelyn Tate, Director of Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid

NAME

Angela Noble

HOMETOWN

San Diego, California

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston UniversityMS•MBA 2004

UC San Diego BA Economics 2000

CONCENTRATION

Marketing

While pursuing her MS•MBA program, Angela Noblecontinues to work for AT&T as a financial analyst in thecompany’s web hosting division. Her responsibilities haveincluded expense tracking for 13 data centers and recom-mending cost-cutting measures. She has a virtual office andreports to the division’s main office in San Diego.

• Why did I decide to pursue an MS•MBA? No matter whatbusiness you’re in these days, everyone works with tech-nology. When I first heard about the MS•MBA, it seemedvery high tech, but once I looked into it further, I real-ized it would be an ideal way for a manager of anyfunction to better understand what’s going on throughoutthe organization.

BU’s collaborative environment is so unusual for a busi-ness school—people with particular strengths share theirexpertise with others. And the team building exercises area tremendous asset to helping me become a better leaderand manager. Five students working together on a projectat a business school all want to lead; the team projectsforce us to learn how to work together. At AT&T, it’s clearwho’s previously worked on a team and who hasn’t. I wishthey all had team experiences like I’m having here.

“The MS•MBAis helping me better understand overall business operations.”

NAME

Alex Bonnet

HOMETOWN

Mexico City, Mexico

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston University MBA 2004

Universidad IberoamericanaBS Industrial Engineering 1998

• I’m president of the Entrepreneurship Club and I amdriving the effort to found the BU MBA Mexican AlumniClub. I’m also affiliated with BU GSM’s Latin AmericanMBA Club, and work closely with BU’s EntrepreneurialManagement Institute, a solid supporter of theEntrepreneurship Club. I want to be a conduit for othershoping to become entrepreneurs.

At Univision, I was the only intern accepted into thecompany’s highly prestigious executive training programthis summer.

If you have your own company, you need to be as well-versed in finance and operations as you are in salesand marketing. The relevance of BU’s courses and casestudies helps me to build on my experience and allowsme to navigate the intricacies of general management.Right from the get-go I was putting new ideas and busi-ness management principles into practice at mycompany, Mercadio.

Getting my MBA is a long-term investment that is morepersonal than professional for me. If you are a betterrounded person, you will be a better professional.

Alex Bonnet is already a seasoned busi-ness executive. He’s held positions inmerger integrations with GE MedicalSystems Latin America and Philips LatinAmerica, as well as in marketing manage-ment with Philips North Latin America.He also started his own web services andprocess management technology company.Alex completed a summer internship withUnivision, the leading Spanish-languagemedia company in the U.S.

“At BU I feelthat I can helpdrive change,

which validatesmy decision to

come here.”

HUBOF THE UNIVERSE

• It’s called “the Hub” for many reasons. Boston is a vibrant international center for education, tech-nology, finance, medicine, architecture, commerce, research, and culture. Few cities in the worldpresent you with such a diverse range of postgraduate opportunities.

BU is right in the heart of it all—blocks from the leading biotech firms, research hospitals, and finan-cial industry icons; not to mention baseball’s oldest and most fabled stadium—Fenway Park. Minutesfrom the School you’ll find top museums, the freshest seafood, and other great sports traditions likethe Boston Marathon, the Head of the Charles Regatta, and, of course, the legendary Celtics.

Keith Figlioli founded the BU Biotechnology Association, a consortium that brings together management students with students from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, and the Boston University Medical Center. The idea is to network, share ideas, sponsor speakers, and explore entrepreneurial opportunities in the fast-growing biotech field.

THEWELCOME TO

NAME HOMETOWN DEGREE PROGRAMS

Keith Figlioli Detroit, Michigan Boston University MBA 2004

Wheaton College BA Economics 1993

As if everything Boston has to offerwasn’t enough, our progressively outfittedheadquarters in the Rafik B. HaririBuilding helps seal the deal:

• 25 classrooms equipped with multi-media and broadcast capabilities

• 373-seat lecture hall

• 5 computer labs

• Executive Leadership Center dedicatedto executive education programs

• In-house Frederick S. PardeeManagement Library (92,000 volumes)

• Wireless access to the Internet andintranet from anywhere in the building

• BreadWinners sandwich shop andStarbucks café.

“The design of the School building is a terrific metaphor for our teamlearning concept. Wherever you are in the building, you’ll find groups atwork—in the team rooms, in the alcoves, on the landings, in Starbucks…

everywhere you look, you see teams of students collaborating.”

—Professor Don Smith, Associate Professor, Finance and Economics/Faculty Director, MBA Programs Home to the School of Management

• When you enroll here, a partnership is formed. In keeping with the team learning approach, our faculty works intimately withyou—in the classroom, on research projects, in support of internships and field projects—to maximize your potential and guideyou in your pursuit of an optimal career track.

we as faculty provide the expertise, perspec-tives, and knowledge, and students bringtheir unique goals, experience, and energy.The program is designed to facilitate interactive and personalengagement between students and faculty. Our faculty iscommitted to helping each student develop standard analyt-ical business skills and unique, personal competencies.”

—Candida Brush Associate Professor, Strategy and Policy Department

“We view learning as a partnership—

The connections established through our graduatestudent organizations are the heartbeat of theSchool. Through club-organized forums and eventsyou’ll get to know other bright, motivated studentsand renowned faculty members, and you’llnetwork with industry experts.

When Jeff Insero arrived at BU GSM, he foundthat the club he was most interested in—SportsManagement—had fallen by the wayside. So liketypical BU MBA students, he and four of his class-mates rejuvenated the club. They launched anaggressive grassroots campaign to network with allof the local professional sports organizations. Thetenacity paid off when Jeff landed an internshipwith the New England Patriots, managing theteam’s innovative stadium quality control programdesigned to improve the fan experience.

• BU has helped me figure out how I cancombine my passion for sports with themanagement skills I’m mastering here.Participating in the Sports Management Clubhas helped me develop my leadership skills,and given me more confidence in dealing withbusiness executives. I’ve already applied agreat deal of what I learned. I intend topursue a career in sports management—that’swhere my heart is. My father gave me somegood advice: “Don’t get into something justfor the money—get into it because you have apassion for it.”


Jeff Insero Rochester, New York Boston University MBA 2004

Syracuse UniversityBA Public Relations 1998

• In tandem with educating future leaders, we’re also developing new and importantapplications by working closely with business leaders and researchers from prestigiousinstitutions worldwide. Our research centers facilitate innovation through grants, forums,and other initiatives that translate into ongoing relationships with businesses around theglobe and cutting-edge additions to our curriculum.

The Frederick S. Pardee Management Library spans three floors in the School; with morethan 92,000 volumes. Our electronic databases, indexes, and journals are growing steadilyand are accessible to you off-campus at any hour. The library features quiet areas, teamrooms, and carrels on all levels with laptop dataports or wireless access.

As a student in one of the world’s premiere research universities, you can take advan-tage of the resources of fifteen separate Schools and Colleges and hundreds of researchcenters without leaving the BU campus.

RE:SEARCHA prolific researcher, Mark Gaynor earned his Ph.D. inComputer Science at Harvard University. His researchinterests include wireless sensor applications, server-based architecture, and grid computing. In addition toworking on research projects within BU, he is currentlycollaborating with a Boston Medical Center surgeonand a group of Harvard computer scientists to developwireless medical sensors, including a pulse oximeter.

NAME

Mark GaynorAssistant Professor, Information Systems

• Our extraordinary faculty is comprisedof entrepreneurs, investment marketexperts, applied researchers, inven-tors, and authors of bestsellingbusiness books and textbooks. Theyare frequently quoted in nationalbusiness periodicals and work withbusiness leaders around the world.Scholars and professionals are drawnto BU because they are encouraged topursue entrepreneurial endeavors thatinfuse their cases and courseworkwith immediate relevance.

they bring their research into the curriculum, which results in our students beingbetter prepared for real-world scenarios.”

—Professor Don Smith, Associate Professor, Finance and Economics/Faculty Director, MBA Programs

“It’s been said—and I agree—that we havethe best teaching faculty in Boston;

NAME

Zvi BodieProfessor, Finance and Economics Department

Zvi Bodie is a Professor of Finance and Economics and a world-renowned investment consultant. He holds a Ph.D. from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on thefinance faculties at the Harvard Business School and MIT’s SloanSchool of Management. He’s the co-author of several books andtextbooks, including his latest “Worry-Free Investing: A SafeApproach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial Goals” (co-authorMichael Clowes) and the nation’s best-selling college textbook oninvesting: “Investments” (co-authors Alex Kane and Alan Marcus).

• There is hardly a subject that’s more interesting than howto invest money. I teach advanced topics in investing,where I show students how to build quantitative modelsfor things such as personal asset allocation and pensionfunds. My students are a focused, experienced group—lots of them are already working in the field. One of themshares responsibility for investing the endowment fundand the pension fund at Partners Healthcare.

I try to get across that investing is really about trading offrisk and return. Despite conventional wisdom there is nofree lunch. The basic idea is that investing is an appliedscience, not seat-of-the-pants-anything-goes. It’s really a scientific discipline and I try to teach the basics—decision theory, how to estimate and model stockreturns, and how to create structural products throughdynamic investments such as derivatives.

As a leading authority on the link between business and IT strategies incontemporary business, Venkat is one of the most highly-cited researchers inthe world. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Katz GraduateSchool of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He has received many honors,including the London Business School Innovation in Teaching Award and the2003 IBM Faculty Award.

• More than other business schools, BU has grasped the importance of technology. BU has embarked on a bold vision:to educate a select set of students to be the builders and leaders for the network era. These managers will not betechnologists uncomfortable in other business domains. They will also not be business managers who shy away fromtechnology, because it might be seen as specialized and tangential to how organizations improve their bottom lines.They will be cross-domain experts who examine business implications and alternative avenues of value creation.

Future leaders will be differentiated by their ability to master and apply technology creatively for business success.

Can you anticipate where the puck is going to be? The future is not an extrapolation of the past. Managers need toposition their stakes for the future, and this future is digital and networked. They may be better served by WayneGretsky’s view on hockey: “I don’t skate to where the puck is. I skate to where the puck is going to be.” The ques-tion is: can we anticipate where the puck is going to be?

NAME

N. Venkat VenkatramanDavid J. McGrath Jr. Professor of ManagementChairman, IS Department

BOLD VISION.”“BU has embarked on a

31,000

“In terms of the race to the top,

our alumni are winning hands-down.”

• Our alumni community is one of the strengths of the BU MBAprogram, with its incredible roster of successful graduates repre-senting a diverse span of functions, geography, and industry. It’s acommanding group—GSM grads have risen to the highest levelsof corporate success at Fortune 500 companies.

Our alumni number 31,000 graduates around the world, andwhat goes around, comes around. Our alumni community isactively committed to helping students network—through eventsand a new web interface that makes it easier to connect witheach other.

Our major alumni markets are Boston, New York, Washington, D.C.,Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, with more than 5,000School of Management graduates in Boston and New York alone.

NAME

Jennifer LawrenceAssistant Dean, Feld Career Center

Merline Cherian has the distinction of being a member of the first MS•MBA graduating class. She currentlyworks in the Technology Group at Fidelity Brokerage Company. Her goal is to analyze business objectivesand provide technology solutions to Fidelity businesses in support of both enterprise-wide requirements andindividual business unit needs.

• In our group, we look at technology from a 10,000-foot view to understand the long term impact ofimplementing one technology over another. I came from an engineering background—I was a hard-core programmer. The MS•MBA program helped me understand the impact a small decision canhave on an entire group or customer base. Because of this degree, I have unusual credibility withinthe organization. If you don’t understand technology you won’t understand what engineers arerecommending. If you are only technical, you can’t communicate with senior management.

I chose BU because it was one of the only programs where I could leverage my existing technicalcapabilities while making a foray into, for me, an unknown business environment. I liked the ideathat I would be learning how to manage information systems in conjunction with the core businessfundamentals such as accounting, finance, and economics. Being the very first MS•MBA class, wewere pioneers, and the faculty and administration encouraged us to provide feedback on thecurriculum to help them refine the program for future students. This School really takes contin-uous improvement very seriously.

NAME

Merline Cherian

TITLE

Systems Associate

COMPANY

Fidelity Brokerage Company

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston UniversityMS•MBA 2003

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, IndiaBachelor of Engineering in Electronics 1995

Harvey Boshart is an associate in the Private Client Services group at Lehman Brothers inBoston and has earned Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of a team ofadvisors that provides financial counsel to family offices, foundations, and ultra high net worthclients throughout the country, including six of the wealthiest Americans on the Forbes 400 list.Prior to pursuing his MBA at BU, he was an officer in the U.S. Army.

NAME

Harvey Boshart, CFA

TITLE

Associate, Private Client Services

COMPANY

Lehman Brothers

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston UniversityMBA 2000

Clarkson UniversityBS Civil Engineering 1995

•I’m a problem solver. Clients trust me to develop highly customizedsolutions to all aspects of their financial issues—whether it’shedging interest rate risk or concentrated equity positions, newinvestment opportunities, risk management, or asset allocation—it’s a different solution for each client.

I chose BU in part because several of the school’s professors hadbeen teaching at Harvard and MIT, but were attracted to BU. AtBU, professors are free to work on other projects while they areteaching. Their real-world experience is constantly being updated,so I knew I would be learning the most relevant concepts.

The School’s diverse culture was incredibly conducive tonetworking, and my classmates were entrepreneurial, but notproprietary—I attribute that to the team learning approach. Itfosters a spirit of collaboration and develops your ability to worksuccessfully in the real world with all types of people.

BU took a person with an engineering degree and turned outsomeone with a deep understanding of finance and capitalmarkets. I’m grateful for that.

“If I had gone to another business school,

I don’t think I would have gottenthis opportunity.”

Selected Companies Recruiting Boston University MBAs

Novartis • Bristol-Myers Squibb JPMorgan • Johnson & JohnsonRevlon • Univision • Gillette • GEIBM • Hasbro • Citigroup • FleetFidelity Investments • GenzymeMicrosoft • Bose • UBS • AT&TAnalog Devices • KPMG • eBayGoldman Sachs • Marriot • EMCStaples • Deloitte • State StreetUnilever • Pfizer • Merrill Lynch

NAME

Justin Sowers

TITLE

Director, Global Business Technology

COMPANY

Pfizer Inc.

Business Technology at Pfizer is a unique area, where business meets traditionalIT. Business Technology, as a business unit, is integrally responsible for all of the busi-ness’ processes, data, and technology tools that are the foundation of a multi-nationalmarket leader. When recruiting, Justin’s group seeks out MBAs with internalconsulting capabilities, those who can analyze a business problem and determine theappropriate technology solution to address it.

• BU’s MS•MBA program is aligned with the kind of expertise our client businessunits need: MBAs who have a deep understanding of the link between businessand technology strategy. There’s no magic formula for identifying the idealcandidate, but we have aptitude indicators that help us recognize people withstrategic technical depth and true business process understanding. Individualswith such a skillset are probably going to succeed here. In our experience, BUMS•MBA students epitomize this profile—they are entrepreneurial in mindset,independent thinkers, down to earth, and business-minded, with a comfortableconfidence in technology-related matters.

“We specifically began recruiting at BU because of the innovative MS•MBA program.”

NAME

Jay Hughes

TITLE

Vice President and Controller

COMPANY

Unilever Bestfoods North America

• When recruiting an MBA class, we’re not onlylooking for the future leaders of finance, butalso potential general managers for Unilever.It’s important that students can demonstratestrong analytical abilities, interpersonal andleadership skills, as well as determination anddrive. I’ve certainly found that at BU.

I’ve been recruiting at the School ofManagement for four years. I’m impressedwith the quality and spirit of the MBAprogram, its students and faculty, and thecareer services team. The program attractsvery good students who are well prepared,focused, and enthusiastic about the prospectof working at Unilever. Their experience isvery relevant to what I’m looking for.

The Career Center staff helps differentiate BUfrom other business schools. They’re proactivein working with us as a recruiting employer,and their commitment to helping studentsplot their career path is obvious.

Unilever Bestfoods North America is a leadingmanufacturer of food products in the United Statesand Canada. The company’s brands include Liptontea, Ragu pasta sauces, Hellmann’s mayonnaise,and Skippy peanut butter. Jay Hughes is respon-sible for the company’s financial planning andanalysis, performance reporting, accounting opera-tions, and corporate risk management activities.

“BU MBAs have experience thatis very relevant to what I’m looking for.”

• Your MBA can open many doors. Determining whichdoor represents the best opportunity for you can be achallenging process. Our Feld Career Center providesvaluable guidance on every phase of your career search.It starts with Career Course, a one-of-a-kind, full-semester, required career prep course taught by industryprofessionals. In anticipation of your summer internship,Career Course helps you bridge the gap betweenacademia and real-world application. In your final year,you’ll find that BU’s MBA program attracts recruitersfrom market leaders in multiple industries.

The Career Center gives you access to everything youneed to fine-tune your career goals and make you asmarketable as possible—public speaking and interviewtraining workshops, recruiting and networking events,alumni mentors, an E-recruiting website to keep youabreast of all local and national opportunities withinyour profession—and a dedicated staff who will partnerwith you in executing your career game plan.

“The Feld CareerCenter has been veryhelpful in the mostimportant marketingproject of all…marketing myself.”


Anthony Smith Randolph, Massachusetts Boston University MBA 2004

University of Massachusetts, AmherstBA Economics 1999

Internships facilitated by the Feld Career Center enable you to connect what you’re doing academically

to what you may be doing in your future career. They’re also terrific networking opportuni-

ties—you and the employer get to take each other for a test drive.

Anthony Smith, whose work experience includes a stint as SpecialAssistant to the Mayor of Boston, interned at John Hancock over thesummer. “At John Hancock, I worked closely with Hazel Kim, a BU MBAgraduate of 2002. Using the Career Center network, we were able toconnect and forge a great personal and professional relationship.”

NAME

Jason Fowler

HOMETOWN

Kingston, Massachusetts

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston University Health Care Management MBA 2004

Northeastern UniversityBS Business Administration and Finance 1997

• My internship at Medtronic confirmed that I want to pursue a career combining finance andmedical devices—a unique industry with limited players, so making this connection duringmy studies was important. I was able to directly apply the financial skills and organizationalbehavior concepts I had learned in my courses. In turn, my work experience put it alltogether for me and motivated me to learn more so I could apply that when I’m in the work-force next year. I’ve already received an offer to return to Medtronic.

The quality and diversity of students at BU has made this entire experience—in and out ofthe classroom—special for me. GSM’s academics are incredibly solid and we have talentedprofessors who are making the learning experience that much more unique.

Jason Fowler completed an internship in the finance neuro-logical division of Minneapolis-based Medtronic, Inc., theworld leader in medical technology for people with chronicdisease, as well as a corporate sponsor of Jason’s marathonracing endeavors. He was tasked with analyzing the neuro-logical division’s sales incentive and compensation programs,consulting on European revenue projections for thecompany’s drug pumps, and contributing to the company’sstrategic planning process.

“BU is

NAME

Taj Alavi

HOMETOWN

Redwood Shores, California

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston UniversityMBA 2004

University of California, DavisBA Psychology 1998

•This was my dream opportunity, in that it not only allowed me to confirm my consumer brand management career interests, but also allowed me to market prod-ucts I was passionate about. My days were packed. Meetings, day-to-day assignments, training, and my summer project made the hours fly by. The fact thateverything I worked on made an impact on my team’s decisions and our category’s business was thrilling.

My classroom experiences, from OB and Accounting to Product and Brand Management, were vital to my success this past summer. BU is the only business schoolwith a large marketing project that requires learning about AC Nielsen analytics and, as it turned out, there wasn’t anything I did without using AC Nielsen atRevlon. To top it off, at BU we are required to work in pre-assigned teams. This practice enabled me to refine my team skills and blend right in as part of one ofthe busiest Revlon teams—something that really made a difference in my performance and enabled me to create strong professional relationships.

where aggressive, proactive self-starters succeed.”

Taj Alavi was a brand management intern at Revlon in New York and part of the company’s MBA Summer Intern Class of 2003. She helped develop a marketing strategyfor a $170M category opportunity, co-led a multimillion dollar national promotion, and researched and recommended pricing strategies for her product category.

During the first year, full-time MBA and MS•MBA students take the same core courses and also havean elective. In June following the second semester, MS•MBA students take Summer Intensives—threecourses in three weeks—followed by an online Object-Oriented Programming course.

For second year MS•MBA students, the emphasis is on courses related to Information Systems, as wella Field Project that spans both semesters, and electives in a chosen concentration, such as marketing.MBA students focus on the electives associated with their chosen concentration.

The MBA and MS•MBA curricula are complementary. Companies need functional special-ists in finance, marketing, and operations. They alsoneed managers who understand how a company’s ITstrategy affects business operations.

MBA Curriculum64 credits

First Year Second Year

Managing Individuals and Organizations

Fall


Spring

Internship

Summer

Competition, Innovation, and Strategy

Fall

Elective

Marketing Management IT Strategies for a Networked Economy

Data Analysis for Managerial Decision-Making

Creating Value throughOperations and Technology

Financial Reportingand Control

Economics andManagement Decisions

Financial Management Elective Elective

Elective Elective

Elective Elective

Spring

MS•MBA Curriculum84 credits

First Year Second Year


Fall


Spring

Summer Intensives*Systems Architecture

Telecommunications

Issues in ManagingNetworked Systems

*Summer Intensives end inthe first week of June

InternshipJune-August

Object-OrientedProgramming

(on-line)June-August

Summer

Competition, Innovation, and Strategy

Mastering IT Strategy,Governance, and Infrastructure

E-Business Architecture and Web Design

Fall

Elective

Field Project

Marketing Management IT Strategies for a Networked Economy

Data Analysis for Managerial Decision-Making

Creating Value throughOperations and Technology

Financial Reportingand Control

Economics andManagement Decisions

Financial Management Elective Elective

Database Management

Elective

Systems Design forBusiness Networks

Field Project

Elective

Spring

• Our dual degree programs, offered in conjunction with other Schoolswithin Boston University, meet the needs of students who seekmanagement careers in specialized areas or specific industries.

MBA/MS in Television Management

The joint MBA/MS program is a five-semester, dual degreeprogram administered jointly by the College of Communicationand the Graduate School of Management. TheCommunications componentconsists of required courses inthe Television Managementprogram and electives fromelsewhere in the College ofCommunication. You also must fulfill the Graduate School of Management’s MBA requirements.

MBA/MS in International Relations

This dual degree program isoffered to meet the needs ofstudents seeking careers inadministrative management,international affairs, consulting,international banking. or finance.

Admission into this dual degreeprogram requires separateadmissions decisions by theDepartment of InternationalRelations and the GraduateSchool of Management. (Thesedecisions are based on onecomplete application to theGraduate School of Management.)

MBA/MS in Manufacturing Engineering and Management

The Department of ManufacturingEngineering and the School ofManagement offer a coordinatedMaster of Science/Master ofBusiness Administration program,which prepares recent graduates,or practicing professionals whoare committed to careers inindustry for positions as manu-facturing managers. Individualstaking courses on a full-timebasis complete the program intwo calendar years and receivetwo degrees.

MBA/MA in Economics

Training in the related fields ofmanagement and economics isprofessionally desirable in anincreasing number of areas.Boston University meets thisneed by providing a coordinatedprogram leading to a degreecombining a Master of BusinessAdministration with a Master ofArts in Economics.

Accelerate your career

For complete admissions requirements, please refer to http://management.bu.edu/

JD/MBA in Law and Management

Recognizing that the worlds of lawand business have becomeincreasingly interdependent andcomplex, the School of Law andthe School of Management offer adual degree program in law andmanagement. More than everbefore, attaining successfulmanagement results with limitedresources is essential. Managersmust be willing to set goals andstandards, choose the best courseof action from many alternatives,and assume responsibility fortheir decisions.

MBA/MA in Medical Sciences

The Master of Arts in MedicalSciences Degree Program of theDivision of Graduate MedicalSciences of Boston UniversitySchool of Medicine responds tothe recognized need for generalistgraduate study in the medicalsciences to provide students withthe background essential for thepursuit of a variety of careers inthe health professions.

MBA/MPH in Management and Public Health

The MBA/MPH dual degreeprogram is offered by the HealthServices Department of theSchool of Public Health and theHealth Care ManagementProgram in the School ofManagement. The goal of thisrigorous program is to providestudents with a solid foundationin both management and publichealth in an integrated, struc-tured curriculum that focuses onthe U.S. health care system.Students are provided a perspec-tive with a larger public healthcare systems approach andreceive knowledge and skills tomake them more effective andefficient managers.

MD/MBA

The combined MD/MBA programis conducted under the jointauspices of the School ofMedicine and the GraduateSchool of Management. Thisfive-year program is designedspecifically for students inter-ested in both medicine and thebusiness aspects of medicine.Students will complete the firstthree years of the medicalschool curriculum and thenspend their fourth year fullyintegrated into the MBA programat the School of Management.

path with dual degrees.

Keep your day job.• We offer two options for

part-time study: the Self-Paced and ProfessionalEvening MBA programs.Both enable you to expe-rience a world-classMBA, while you keepyour day job. With thesame faculty, curriculum,and electives as full-timestudents, you worktoward your degree with a schedule thataccommodates yourprofessional and personal commitments.

How quickly you complete your MBAdepends on how many courses youtake per semester. Most studentschoose to take two courses at a timeduring at least part of the program.Every part-time student is assignedan academic advisor who can helpyou choose your classes so that yourschoolwork fits into your real lifeschedule. In PE-MBA, you benefitfrom being part of a cohort of 50-55students who form a micro-commu-nity and support network during thecore curriculum (in which you taketwo courses at a time). When the twocourses are coordinated, you canwork as part of the same team inmore than one course, taking advan-tage of the relationship that you’vealready established.

Self-Paced and PE-MBA studentscan take full advantage of theSchool’s state-of-the-art facilities:

• Extended library and computer lab hours

• MBA program advisors who areavailable to help you with prag-matic and administrative issues

• Evening and weekend parking at adiscounted fee in the School ofManagement’s garage

• A Starbucks in the building that’sopen late during the week

The part-time programs will enableyou to build on your managementskills, and attain a new level ofleadership, professionalism, andpersonal growth.

speci• Carve out your own path.

Do you have a specific career track in mind? Our specialized mastersprograms will prepare you to lead and manage with the financial, opera-tional, leadership, and entrepreneurialskills tailored to your interest.

Our specialty programs include:

• MBA degrees in Health CareManagement, Public and NonprofitManagement, InternationalManagement, and an Executive MBA

• MS degree in InvestmentManagement

Nonprofit organizations and government agencies are expected to run as efficiently, if notmore so, as private-sector companies. At the same time, there are significant distinctions.This program combines the critical thinking and managerial skills necessary to solve prob-lems in the public and nonprofit sectors, where efficiency and effectiveness are particularlyessential. You’ll also learn to navigate the complex political and social waters that canheavily impact nonprofit organizations (while you study alongside more business-orientedstudents, with whose businesses nonprofits must often interact).

•Public and Nonprofit MBA: for the social entrepreneur.

The health care industry is undergoing a challenging, but exciting transformation. It repre-sents tremendous opportunity if you want to develop advanced skills in this area within abusiness context. There’s no better place to pursue an executive position in the industry—Boston is recognized as the nation’s center of health care innovation.

Our nationally acclaimed Health Care Management MBA emphasizes the importance of inte-grating access, quality, and cost-containment objectives in health care decision-making, aswell as mastering an understanding of the social, economic, and political contexts in whichdecisions are made.

•Health Care Management MBA: at the very heart of the matter.

I chose Boston University’s MBA program because itis superior in all ways. The Public and Nonprofitprogram has the perfect mix of specific coreconcentration classes combined with general MBAclasses. I also chose BU because my mother gradu-ated from the MBA Health Care program in 1983.BU has a very special role in my family. I feel as ifattending BU has significantly impacted my life,and I hope to use my degree to continue to make adifference in the lives of others.

NAME

Arden Reamer

HOMETOWN

Brookline, Massachusetts

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Boston University Public and Nonprofit Management MBA 2004

Seattle UniversityMA Education 1998

Syracuse UniversityBA English and Textual Studies 1993

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• Our MBA elective concentrations enable you to create a personalized portfolioof business knowledge and skills in your second year. You’ll hone your abilityto analyze and communicate while building expertise in your chosen discipline.

You have the flexibility to select from a wide range of electives in the areas ofentrepreneurship, marketing, finance, strategy and policy, internationalmanagement, information systems, and organizational behavior.

We also offer a wide range of cross-disciplinary electives enabling you toconstruct a custom concentration that incorporates the best practices ofmultiple industry sectors and markets.

Admissions

For information on application deadlines, tuitionand fees, and financial assistance, pleaseconsult the Application. To apply online ordownload a paper form, visit our website athttp://management.bu.edu/afo/

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