Participation in The Smeal Executive MBA program has the potential for enormous payoff for the sponsoring company. Practical insights from company-focused projects, teaming with a top research university to address critical business challenges, and aiding succession planning are a few top-of-mind benefits. Here are more…
Project courses address your company’s strategic challenges
- Strategic assessment of the firm: a year-long project in first year critically assesses the sponsoring firm’s strategies, with critiques from faculty and fellow students.
- Team consulting projects in second year address key strategic issues in sponsoring firms and find solutions to problems.
- Classes are structured to give students the opportunity to address problems and challenges your firm faces daily.
Win the talent war
- Retain talent: education and training through an Executive MBA program is one sure way to show your best and brightest that you believe in their abilities to succeed.
- Succession planning: identify and train future leaders of the firm from within and save time and money spent on recruiting, hiring, and training.
- Employees continue working while obtaining their MBA. Skills learned will be immediately applicable on the job, so you get a better employee in real-time.
- Special seminars for sponsoring firms and supervisors will provide information on how to use a better-trained employee to create value quickly.
Curriculum and program focus create a more confident, motivated leader
- Broad based, general managerial competencies addressed.
- Working effectively in teams is a key feature of the entire program.
- Program customized to interests and backgrounds of participants.
- Award winning Communications course enhances oral and written presentation skills
- Skill sets: breadth and depth in communications, managing and leading people, value creation and capture, allocating resources, and business strategy.
- Global Immersion will expose employees to best practices of international companies.
Open windows of opportunity through networking
- Employees attend class with other high-achieving employees and nurture potential business opportunities.
- Executive Seminar series on class weekends brings distinguished executives to speak.
- All classes are taught by Penn State’s Smeal College faculty, nationally ranked and influential thought leaders in their fields.
- The Penn State Alumni Association is the largest in the world.
Free lifetime membership in Smeal Research Centers
- Students and their mentors are enrolled in the Smeal Research Center Network-communities of leading researchers, faculty, and practitioners from around the world and across a broad variety of business practice areas. Our center network includes: The Center for Supply Chain Research, The Penn State eBusiness Research Center, and the Institute for the Study of Business Markets.
Learn more at www.smealemba.com.