Buttermaker wrote:
What quantitative courses would you take during the MBA program? Are they intended to prepare you for a PhD or is it going to be little more than modeling in Excel? Do you have any details on the course outline, readings etc? What research opportunities would be available to you during the MBA? Would these still be available if you were not an enrolled student?
EDIT: Also, which schools are you targeting for your eventual PhD applications? Which branch of marketing? What are your research interests?
The course outline for the MBA program is:
Fall 1:
•Financial and Managerial Accounting
•Quantitative and Research Methods
•Managerial Economics
•Organizational Behavior and Theory
•Business Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, & Ethics
•Negotiations & Communications
Spring:
•Applied Financial Management
•Marketing Management
•Innovation and Entrepreneurial Management
•Decision Sciences and Systems Analysis
Summer:
Students will participate in Experiential Learning Projects administered from the campus. Students will have access to COB facilities to perform analysis and develop recommendations, although it is expected that the students will spend substantial amounts of time on site at the sponsoring clients' facilities.
Fall 2:
•Capstone Strategy Course with sustainability overtones
•9 credit hours of graduate-level electives in- or outside the College of Business
I am currently researching the opportunity to secure money to fund a GA position(which is not present in the MBA program) through the Academic Affairs Office here at the University. I could then take my GA through Academic Affairs and use that position to assist oany professor i wish, provided they are interested in having a "free" GA assist in their research. This opporutnity does require that I am a full time student.
As far as schools and research opportunities for the phd, I conducted independent undergraduate research on the use of microexpressions in marketing, but I would be most intersted in pursuing research in the areas of sustainable business practices and how they are effectively marketed to consumers and /or business and public policy as they relate to sustainable business practices. I don't have defined targets yet, but would prefer the California/Washington/Oregon schools because I think that they generally have faculty who are more inclined to pursue research in sustainable business practices, and I am kind of a midwest/west coast girl.
My University is accredited AACSB too, in case that makes a difference.