The Department of Strategic Management and Organization offers interdisciplinary programs that draw together scholars with interests ranging from competitive strategy, new business creation, and inter-firm networks to ethics, team dynamics, and international management. We prepare students and managers to think constructively about the strategic focus and direction of an organization.
The department plays a major role within all MBA programs offered at the Carlson School, both in the US and overseas, offering core courses in strategy, ethics, and the environment of international business, as well as elective courses in strategic leadership, entrepreneurship, managing people in organizations, groups, negotiations, industry, and competitive analysis and international strategy, among others.
The department has a long tradition of training doctoral students who have gone on to become endowed chairs and deans in major research universities. Doctoral education is proved in strategy and in organization studies with specialization possible in several subfields or combinations of subfields such as ethics, entrepreneurship, and international business.
The department gives future professionals the communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills they need to successfully develop and manage businesses worldwide. Undergraduate students majoring in entrepreneurial studies, international business, and the new non-profit major take many courses in our department. In addition to learning how to construct effective business plans and make sound decisions within unstructured environments, students gain experience applying core functional business knowledge to management problems.
