STEM and concentrations

Our concentrations: A closer look

• Consulting
  Gain in-depth insight into how consultants solve problems. Learn how to look for solutions across a range of functional areas. How to dig deep, learn quickly and formulate solutions with buy-in from a wide and varied constituency. The MBA in consulting platform prepares you for a range of careers in consulting and management.
  
  Specific concentrations within the MBA consulting platform include:
  

  • General Management and Internal Consulting
  • Business of Healthcare
  • International Management
  • Strategy Consulting
  • Human Capital Consulting

  Platform director: Patricia Gorman, Professor of Practice, Organization & Strategy
  Club/organization: Olin Strategy and Consulting Association (OSCA)
  Credit requirements: 15.5 credits - 8 foundation credits (3 of those are experiential learning credits) and 7.5 concentration credits.

  Read more about consulting concentrations (PDF).

• Entrepreneurship

  WashU Olin’s top-ranked entrepreneurship program works because students are challenged to do more. By enrolling in our MBA entrepreneurship platform, you learn to fall in love with a customer’s problem, how to do something about it, and how to leverage our entrepreneurial ecosystem in St. Louis and around the world.

  With more than two dozen courses dedicated to teaching the entrepreneurial spirit, and a host of hands-on opportunities, we give you the tools to solve vexing business problems.

   

  Platform director: Doug Villhard, Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of Entrepreneurship
  Club/organization: Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Association (EVCA)
  MBA platform requirements: 15.5 credits - 9.5 foundation credits (3 of those are experiential learning credits) and 6 concentration credits.

  Read more about the entrepreneurship concentrations (PDF).

• Finance

  This is where imagination meets the spreadsheet. Want to know how to move the wheels of capitalism? Stop right here. Get in deep as a specialist in an institution or firm that acts as a provider of capital or as a user of capital. Discover the options the MBA finance platform offers, and learn how money moves markets and the world.

  Concentrations within the Corporate Finance and Investments platform include:

  • Financial Management
  • Investment Banking – Corporate Finance
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Investment Banking – Capital Markets and Trading
  • Asset Management

  The foundational MBA finance courses prepare you for careers in any one of the above areas. Other, more focused courses delve deeper into each concentration. Enhance your career development by taking several recommended electives outside of finance.

  Platform director: Timothy Solberg, Professor of Practice in Finance
  Club/organization: Olin Finance Club
  Credit requirements: 15.5 credits - 11 foundation credits (3 of those are experiential learning credits) and 4.5 concentration credits.
  

  Read more about finance concentrations (PDF).

• Marketing

  Here’s where you discover it’s all about the brand—and why it’s important.

  Learn how to craft programs that make consumers want to buy. You learn how to direct consumer marketing efforts; and how to coordinate sales, advertising, design, operations, market research; and business analysis to get your product or service to market. You’ll discover the true meaning of the term “brand advocate” as you develop your skills in all areas of marketing.

  Choose MBA marketing concentrations based on your interests:

  • Brand Management
  • Product Management
  • Customer Analytics

  Platform director: Michael Wall, Professor of Practice in Marketing
  Club/organization: Olin Marketing Association
  Credit requirements: 15.5 credits - 8 foundation credits, (3 of those are experiential learning credits) and 7.5 concentration credits.

  Read more about marketing concentrations (PDF).

• Operations and Supply Chain Management

  Managing the supply chain from sourcing to delivery is complex, sophisticated and demanding. It’s a global, multi-dimensional challenge to meet rapidly changing consumer demand in a world changing even faster.

  The MBA supply chain management platform gives you the knowledge, understanding and analytical skills required to address modern challenges. And take advantage of opportunities. Your increased knowledge, in areas like information technology and risk management, puts you in a position to be a modern innovator. To develop new strategies to help employers remain competitive in the global marketplace.

  Concentrations within this platform include:

  • Operations/Supply Chain Management
  • Supply Chain Consulting

  Upon completion of this platform, you’ll be prepared for careers in consulting and strategy, as well as for positions such as product/process/project manager, consulting/engagement manager or COO.

  Platform director: Sergio Chayet, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Manufacturing Management
  Club/organization: Olin Supply Chain and Operations Association
  Credit requirements: 15.5 credits - 8 or 9.5 foundation credits (3 of those are experiential learning credits) and 6 concentration credits.

  Read more about operations and supply chain concentrations (PDF).