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General Business MBA

Major: General Business
Degree Awarded: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 49.0
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 52.0201
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 11-1021

About the Program

The MBA degree with a concentration in general business equips students with a thorough understanding of theory and practice in the fundamental areas of business, such as accounting, economics, finance, management and marketing. This concentration is intended for business students who wish to gain breadth within their graduate studies. Students will develop the skills and competencies necessary for success across a diverse spectrum of business organizations.

For more information please contact our Graduate Student Services department at lebowgradenroll@drexel.edu.

Admission Requirements

Graduate admission is based on a holistic review process, which takes into consideration prior academic history, demonstration of professional experience and adequate preparation for graduate study. Please review the admission requirements for both domestic and international applicants on our Graduate Application Requirements webpage before submitting your application

Degree Requirements

Required Courses
ACCT 510	Essentials of Financial Reporting	2.0
BLAW 510	Analyzing Legal Options in Decision-Making	2.0
BSAN 601	Business Analytics for Managers	3.0
ECON 601	Managerial Economics	3.0
FIN 601	Corporate Financial Management	3.0
MGMT 520	Strategy Analysis	2.0
MGMT 530	Managing and Leading the Total Enterprise	2.0
MGMT 770	MBA Capstone	2.0
MKTG 510	Marketing Strategy	2.0
ORGB 511	Leading in Dynamic Environments: A Personal, Relational, and Strategic Approach	3.0
POM 510	Operations and Supply Chain Management	2.0
Experiential Requirement (Select one course from the following):		3.0
BUSN 615	Graduate Internship
BUSN T680	Special Topics in BUSN
INDS T680	Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Business
INTB 790	International Business Seminar and Residency
MGMT 680	Leading for Innovation
MGMT 690	Change Management Experiential Capstone
MGMT 715	Business Consulting
MKTG 630	Global Marketing
MIS 652	Business Agility and IT
MIS 653	Design Thinking for Digital Innovations
ORGB 620	Leading Virtual Teams
ORGB 640	Negotiations for Leaders
SMT 621	Leadership in Sport Management
TAX 715	Tax Experiential Learning
General Business Major Requirements:		9.0
General Business Major requires three business courses with distinct subject codes and course number range 500-799. Allowable options for the subject codes are Accounting (ACCT), Statistics (STAT), Economics (ECON), Finance (FIN), General Business (BUSN), Interdisciplinary Business (INDS), International Business (INTB), Legal Studies (BLAW), Management (MGMT), Management Information Systems (MIS), Marketing (MKTG), Operations Research (OPR), Organizational Behavior (ORGB), Production Operations Management (POM), Sport Management (SMT) or Taxation (TAX).
Free Electives		11.0
Total Credits		49.0

Sample Plan of Study

Accelerated 18-Month Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	2.0	BLAW 510	2.0	ECON 601	3.0	Experiential Elective^**	3.0
MGMT 530	2.0	BSAN 601	3.0	MGMT 520	2.0
MKTG 510	2.0	FIN 601	3.0	General Business Major Elective^*	3.0
ORGB 511	3.0	Elective	3.0	Elective	2.0
POM 510	2.0
	11		11		10		3
Second Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits
General Business Major Elective^*	6.0	MGMT 770	2.0
Elective	3.0	Elective	3.0
	9		5
Total Credits 49

*: General Business Major credits require three business courses with distinct subject codes and course number range 500-799. Allowable options for the subject codes are Accounting (ACCT), Statistics (STAT), Economics (ECON), Finance (FIN), General Business (BUSN), Interdisciplinary Business (INDS), International Business (INTB), Legal Studies (BLAW), Management (MGMT), Management Information Systems (MIS), Marketing (MKTG), Operations Research (OPR), Organizational Behavior (ORGB), Production Operations Management (POM), Sport Management (SMT) or Taxation (TAX).
**: First Year Summer is less than the 4.5-credit minimum required (considered half-time status) of graduate programs to be considered financial aid eligible. As a result, aid will not be disbursed to students this term.

Accelerated 15-Month Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	2.0	BLAW 510	2.0	ECON 601	3.0	Elective	3.0
MGMT 530	2.0	BSAN 601	3.0	MGMT 520	2.0	Experiential Elective	3.0
MKTG 510	2.0	FIN 601	3.0	General Business Major Electives^*	6.0
ORGB 511	3.0	Elective	3.0	Elective	2.0
POM 510	2.0
	11		11		13		6
Second Year
Fall	Credits
MGMT 770	2.0
General Business Major Elective^*	3.0
Elective	3.0
	8
Total Credits 49

*: General Business Major credits require three business courses with distinct subject codes and course number range 500-799. Allowable options for the subject codes are Accounting (ACCT), Statistics (STAT), Economics (ECON), Finance (FIN), General Business (BUSN), Interdisciplinary Business (INDS), International Business (INTB), Legal Studies (BLAW), Management (MGMT), Management Information Systems (MIS), Marketing (MKTG), Operations Research (OPR), Organizational Behavior (ORGB), Production Operations Management (POM), Sport Management (SMT) or Taxation (TAX).

Accelerated 12-Month Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	2.0	BLAW 510	2.0	ECON 601	3.0	MGMT 770	2.0
MGMT 530	2.0	BSAN 601	3.0	MGMT 520	2.0	Electives	6.0
MKTG 510	2.0	FIN 601	3.0	Elective	2.0	Experiential Elective	3.0
ORGB 511	3.0	Elective	3.0	General Business Major Electives^*	6.0
POM 510	2.0	General Business Major Elective ^*	3.0
	11		14		13		11
Total Credits 49

*: General Business Major credits require three business courses with distinct subject codes and course number range 500-799. Allowable options for the subject codes are Accounting (ACCT), Statistics (STAT), Economics (ECON), Finance (FIN), General Business (BUSN), Interdisciplinary Business (INDS), International Business (INTB), Legal Studies (BLAW), Management (MGMT), Management Information Systems (MIS), Marketing (MKTG), Operations Research (OPR), Organizational Behavior (ORGB), Production Operations Management (POM), Sport Management (SMT) or Taxation (TAX).

Part-Time MBA Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	2.0	BLAW 510	2.0	BSAN 601	3.0	MGMT 520	2.0
MGMT 530	2.0	FIN 601	3.0	MKTG 510	2.0	Elective	2.0
ORGB 511	3.0					Experiential Elective	3.0
	7		5		5		7
Second Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
POM 510	2.0	ECON 601	3.0	General Business Major Electives^*	6.0	MGMT 770	2.0
Elective	3.0	General Business Major Elective ^*	3.0			Electives	6.0
	5		6		6		8
Total Credits 49

*: General Business Major credits require three business courses with distinct subject codes and course number range 500-799. Allowable options for the subject codes are Accounting (ACCT), Statistics (STAT), Economics (ECON), Finance (FIN), General Business (BUSN), Interdisciplinary Business (INDS), International Business (INTB), Legal Studies (BLAW), Management (MGMT), Management Information Systems (MIS), Marketing (MKTG), Operations Research (OPR), Organizational Behavior (ORGB), Production Operations Management (POM), Sport Management (SMT) or Taxation (TAX).

MBA Program Faculty

Marco Airaudo, PhD (University of Pennsylvania ). Professor. Computational economics, international economics, macroeconomics and monetary economics.

Daniel Albert, PhD (University of St. Gallen). Assistant Professor. Strategic Management; Strategic Change; Architectural Innovation; Organizational Design.

Murugan Anandarajan, PhD (Drexel University) Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Faculty Affairs, Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Cybercrime, strategic management of information technology, unstructured data mining, individual internet usage behavior (specifically abuse and addiction), application of artificial intelligence techniques in forensic accounting and ophthalmology.

Trina larsen Andras, PhD (University of Texas at Austin) Head of the Department of Marketing; Academic Director, Center for Corporate Research Management. Professor. International marketing, marketing channels management, cross-cultural communication.

Orakwue B. Arinze, PhD (London School of Economics) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Client/Server computing, Enterprise Application Software (EAS)/Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ERP), knowledge-based and decision support applications in operations management.

Jie Cai, PhD (University of Iowa). Associate Professor. Investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance.

Suresh Chandran, PhD (Vanderbilt University). Clinical Professor. Corporate entrepreneurship; corporate social responsibility; global management; intellectual property and employee rights; Sustainability; Technological Innovation.

Maneesh Chhabria, PhD, CFA (Drexel University). Assistant Clinical Professor. Investments, portfolio management and performance measurement

Lawrence Cohen, JD (Temple University). Associate Clinical Professor. Sports and antitrust law; tickets & sales data analytics; sport sponsorship.

Lauren D'Innocenzo, PhD (University of Connecticut). Associate Professor. Team effectiveness, contextual influences, emergent team dynamics, shared leadership, multi-level modeling, and groups/teams.

Qizhi Dai, PhD (University of Minnesota) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Associate Professor. Business value of information technology, eCommerce, economics of information technology, information system management.

Naveen Daniel, PhD (Arizona State University). Associate Professor. Corporate governance, mutual funds, hedge funds.

Pia DiGirolamo, PhD (Purdue University). Associate Clinical Professor. Forensic economics, distance learning.

Boryana Dimitrova, PhD (Drexel University). Assistant Clinical Professor. Global marketing, inter-organizational, marketing channels, retailing and retail management.

Michaela Draganska, PhD (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) Department of Marketing. Associate Professor. Advertising strategy, product assortment decisions, new product positioning, distribution channels. Marketing analytics and big data, marketing communications, marketing research, marketing strategy, technology and innovation.

Lawrence Duke, EdD (Temple University). Clinical Professor. International marketing and strategy, new product development, business-to-business marketing, marketing of financial services.

Elea Feit, PhD (University of Michigan) Department of Marketing. Associate Professor. Bayesian hierarchical models, interactive eCommerce, marketing research, missing data.

Richard P. Freedman, JD, LLM (Temple University). Associate Professor. Taxation, corporate and business matters, real estate, estate planning, estate administration and elder law.

Christopher Gaffney, PhD (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Associate Clinical Professor. Applied probability, decision theory, risk analysis

Cuneyt Gozu, PhD (University of Albany). Associate Clinical Professor. Attitudes; Groups/Teams; Leadership; Motivation; Power and Influence

Teresa Harrison, PhD (University of Texas Austin) Academic Director of the Center for Nonprofit Governance. Professor. Economics of nonprofits, empirical industrial organization, applied microeconometrics.

Michael Howley, PhD (Arizona State University). Clinical Professor. Investments in dissatisfied customers, service recovery, health-care marketing, marketing of service organizations, financial consequences of marketing actions.

Yanliu Huang, PhD (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania). Associate Professor. Consumer n-store decision making, consumer planning, health marketing, memory and learning.

Daniel Korschun, PhD (Boston University). Associate Professor. Brand and corporate reputation management, corporate social responsibility, internal marketing, marketing strategy, relationship marketing.

David Kurz, EdD (University of Pennsylvania). Associate Clinical Professor. Business Education; Groups/Teams; Leadership; Supply Chain Leadership.

Jeongsik Lee, PhD (University of California Los Angeles). Associate Professor. Economics of Innovation; Social networks; Technology management

Johnny Lee, PhD (University of Utah). Associate Clinical Professor. Accounting information systems; e-business; managerial accounting; supply chain management

Benjamin Lev, PhD (Case Western Reserve University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Inventory theory, scheduling, queueing theory, optimization.

Jeffrey Levine, JD, PhD (Tulane University, University of Louisville). Assistant Clinical Professor. Esports, Sport law, sport development and policy; non-profits in sport.

Merrill W. Liechty, PhD (Duke University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Clinical Professor. Bayesian statistics, portfolio selection, higher moment estimation, higher moment estimation, Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Yu-Chieh Lo, PhD (University of Southern California). Associate Professor. Categorization in markets; Organization theory; Technology innovation.

Dali Ma, PhD (University of Chicago). Associate Professor. Social hierarchy; Social networks; Sociology of entrepreneurship; Sociology of transitional China

Mary Mawritz, PhD (University of Central Florida). Associate Professor. Abusive supervision; deviant behavior; leadership.

Joel Maxcy, PhD (Washington State University) Department Head Sport Management & General Business. Professor. Economics of sport; labor economics & policy; economics of antitrust & regulation.

Rajiv Nag, PhD (Pennsylvania State University). Clinical Professor. Organizational Knowledge and Identity; Organizational learning and change; Strategic Leadership; Strategic Performativity

V. K. Narayanan, PhD (University of Pittsburgh). Delloitte Touche Jones Stubbs Professor. Cognition and Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organization design

Gordian Ndubizu, PhD (Temple University). Professor. Financial accounting.

Edward Nelling, PhD, CFA (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Department Head and Professor of Finance. Investments; corporate finance; real estate finance.

Gregory Nini, PhD (University of Pennsylvania). Associate Professor. Capital structure; corporate finance; risk management; financial institution management

Fariborz Y. Partovi, PhD (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Manufacturing technology development, quality implementation, quality management, service management, Six-Sigma

Natalie Pedersen, JD (Harvard University) Department Head Legal Studies. Associate Professor. Employment law; employment discrimination; implicit bias.

Christian Resick, PhD (Wayne State University). Associate Professor. Groups/Teams; Leadership; Organizational Culture and Fit; Personality.

Patricia Robak, PhD (Lehigh University). Clinical Professor. Investments, money and banking, international finance.

Konstantinos Serfes, PhD (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana). Professor. Industrial organization; microeconomics; game theory

Samir Shah, DPS (Pace University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Clinical Professor. Outsourcing, business value of information technology, information system design, management, and leadership.

Srinivasan Swaminathan, PhD (University of Texas-Austin). Professor. Marketing research and strategy, pricing and promotions, loyalty and satisfaction.

Samuel H. Szewczyk, PhD (Pennsylvania State University). Associate Professor. Corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, financial engineering, investment banking, financial institutions.

George Tsetsekos, PhD (University of Tennessee) Dean Emeritus, LeBow College of Business; Francis Professor of Finance. Valuation and corporate restructuring, treasury and risk/hedging operations, investment banking, securitization, emerging capital markets, multinational finance, bank asset-liability management.

Daniel Tzabbar, PhD (University of Toronto). Professor. Accessing and managing knowledge; Alliances; Human capital; Organizational learning and change; Social Capital; Technology Entrepreneurship; Technology Innovation

Chen Wang, PhD (University of British Columbia). Associate Professor. Consumer curiosity, self-regulation and goals, sensory perception.

Jonathan C. Ziegert, PhD (University of Maryland) Management Department. Professor. Attitudes; Diversity; Groups/Teams; Leadership; Organizational Culture and Fit.

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