All faculty teaching in the program lead their fields as researchers and teachers. We seek to train managers to make decisions that define the state-of-the-art in business, not simply chase it. Students learn the "first principals" in each area and equally importantly, how to apply them to develop innovative and valuable solutions to the problems they face. We do not teach "off-the-shelf," fad-based solutions because we think that mangers cannot lead by following. The emphasis throughout the program is on what we believe are the three foundations of management success:

• Strategy
• Leadership
• Effective Organization

"The experience sharing among the classmates has been the most meaningful part of the program for me. Its small team structure is organized around each teammate's professional background. Coming from the sales and marketing field, I find it very refreshing to hear the perspectives of other functional executives to broaden my scope of strategic thinking. If I have only one word to describe the student profile of this program it would be 'glocal', which is a mix of the words global and local. The program has the right mix of global and local directors to learn from each other." Keith Choy, MBA' 07 General Manager Mobile Technology

Integrated and Comprehensive Curriculum

Our faculty work as an integrated team and have taught together for many years in both Shanghai and St. Louis. The careful design of each course ensures that it builds on previous courses without needlessly covering topics already discussed. Yet, the close collaboration between our faculty members ensures that each is able to elaborate on many concepts and examples used in earlier courses in the sequence to help students gain the comprehensive perspective necessary to make strategic decisions. For Strategy and Organizational Design & Change, we teach the two courses together in a week-long session to help students better understand how to design organizations to achieve specific strategic objectives. For Leadership and Managing Power & Influence in Organizations, the two courses are again taught over a one-week period to give students a 360º perspective on management.

Plan and execute



Work together



Successful result