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General Business MBA

Major: General Business
Degree Awarded: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 48.0
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.

Additional Information

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	3.0
BLAW 510	Analyzing Legal Options in Decision-Making	3.0
BUSN 610	Strategic Career Management & Professional Development	3.0
or BUSN 611	Strategic Career Advancement for Professionals
BSAN 601	Business Analytics for Managers	3.0
ECON 601	Managerial Economics	3.0
FIN 601	Corporate Financial Management	3.0
MGMT 529	Strategic Management	3.0
MKTG 601	Marketing Strategy & Planning	3.0
ORGB 511	Leading in Dynamic Environments: A Personal, Relational, and Strategic Approach	3.0
POM 601	Operations and Supply Chain Management	3.0
Experiential Requirement
Select one course from the following:		3.0
BUSN 615	Graduate Internship
INDS T680	Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Business
INTB 790	International Business Seminar and Residency
MGMT 690	Change Management Experiential Capstone
MGMT 715	Business Consulting
MGMT 770	MBA Capstone
MIS 652	Business Agility and IT
MIS 653	Design Thinking for Digital Innovations
MKTG 627	Digital Marketing
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
Select 9.0 credits from the same subject code from the following 500-700 level courses:		9.0
Any ACCT (Accounting)
Any BLAW (Legal Studies)
Any BUSN (General Business)
Any ECON (Economics)
Any FIN (Finance)
Any INDS (Interdisciplinary Business)
Any INTB (International Business)
Any MGMT (Management)
Any MIS (Management Information System)
Any MKTG (Marketing)
Any OPR (Operations Research)
Any ORGB (Organizationl Behavior)
Any POM (Production Operations Management)
Any SMT (Sport Management)
Any STAT (Business Statistics)
Any TAX (Taxation)
Free Electives		6.0
Total Credits		48.0

Sample Plan of Study

18-Month Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	3.0	BLAW 510	3.0	ECON 601	3.0	MGMT 529	3.0
BSAN 601	3.0	FIN 601	3.0	General Business Major Elective^*	3.0	Experiential Elective	3.0
BUSN 610 or 611	3.0	MKTG 601	3.0
ORGB 511	3.0	POM 601	3.0
	12		12		6		6
Second Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits
General Business Major Elective^*	3.0	General Business Major Elective	3.0
Elective	3.0	Elective	3.0
	6		6
Total Credits 48

*: 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).

15-Month Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	3.0	BLAW 510	3.0	ECON 601	3.0	Elective	3.0
BSAN 601	3.0	FIN 601	3.0	MGMT 529	3.0	Experiential Elective	3.0
BUSN 610	3.0	MKTG 601	3.0	General Business Major Electives^*	6.0
ORGB 511	3.0	POM 601	3.0
	12		12		12		6
Second Year
Fall	Credits
General Business Major Elective^*	3.0
Elective	3.0
	6
Total Credits 48

*: 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).

12-Month Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	3.0	BLAW 510	3.0	ECON 601	3.0	Electives	6.0
BSAN 601	3.0	FIN 601	3.0	MGMT 529	3.0	Experiential Elective	3.0
BUSN 610 or 611	3.0	MKTG 601	3.0	General Business Major Electives^*	6.0	General Business Major Elective ^*	3.0
ORGB 511	3.0	POM 601	3.0
	12		12		12		12
Total Credits 48

*: 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).

24-Month Plan of Study

First Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
ACCT 510	3.0	BLAW 510	3.0	BSAN 601	3.0	MGMT 529	3.0
ORGB 511	3.0	FIN 601	3.0	MKTG 601	3.0	Elective	3.0
	6		6		6		6
Second Year
Fall	Credits	Winter	Credits	Spring	Credits	Summer	Credits
BUSN 610 or 611	3.0	POM 601	3.0	ECON 601	3.0	Electives	3.0
General Business Major Elective ^*	3.0	General Business Major Elective ^*	3.0	General Business Major Elective^*	3.0	Experiential Elective	3.0
	6		6		6		6
Total Credits 48

*: 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) Assistant Dean for Social Impact.. Professor. Global marketing, inter-organizational, marketing strategy, marketing.

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.

Stephen B. Bates, CPA, DBA (Wilmington University). Assistant Clinical Professor. Financial reporting, financial analysis and managerial accounting.

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

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

Hsihui Chang, PhD (University of Minnesota) KPMG Professor of Accounting. Performance management, audit quality, and data analytics

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

Albert DeRitis, MBA (St. Joseph’s University). Assistant Clinical Professor. Financial analysis, financial statement interpretation, managerial accounting, supply chain, healthcare industry.

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

Boryana Dimitrova, PhD (Drexel University). Associate Clinical Professor. Global marketing, inter-organizational, marketing strategy, marketing channels, marketing.

Michaela Draganska, PhD (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) Department of Marketing. Associate Professor. Marketing and entrepreneurship, marketing communications, marketing research, marketing strategy, technology and innovation, marketing analytics and big data, marketing.

Lawrence Duke, EdD (Temple University). Clinical Professor. Global Capital Markets, new markets in emerging countries, global marketing, marketing strategy, new media marketing, finance, international business, marketing.

Elea Feit, PhD (University of Michigan) Associate Dean of Research. Associate Professor. Missing Data, advertising/Attribution, product design, Bayesian hierarchical models, advertising incrementality, Bayesian decision theory, data fusion, conjoint analysis, choice modeling.

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

Curtis M. Hall, PhD (University of Arizona) Department Head, Accounting and Tax. Associate Professor. Strategic cost management, human resources, incentive compensation, banking, nonprofits.

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. Impact of health reform on the delivery of medical services, the business of health care, measuring clinical trial performance, assessing clinical trial quality.

Yanliu Huang, PhD (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Department Head. Professor. Consumer n-store decision making, consumer planning, new technology in marketing, consumer welfare.

Daniel Korschun, PhD (Boston University) Department Head and Stephen Cozen Research Scholar in Marketing.. Associate Professor. Brand and corporate reputation management, corporate political activism, corporate social responsibility, internal marketing, marketing strategy, 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). Associate 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 Business & 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). 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 strategy, bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets, pricing and sales promotions, marketing.

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

Jithu (JT) Thazathel, MBA (Drexel University). Assistant Clinical Professor. Managerial accounting, financial reporting, data analytics, data visualization, process automation, artificial intelligence

George Tsetsekos, PhD (University of Tennessee) Dean Emeritus, LeBow College of Business; Francis Professor of Finance. Valuation and corporate restructuring; investment banking; securitization; emerging capital markets; multinational finance.

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, consumer technology.

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

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