MBA specializations and STEM

Specializations

• Brand & Product Management

  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, accelerating revenue acquisition and growth. Discover approaches to direct consumer marketing efforts, coordinate sales, advertising, design, operations, market research, and business analysis to get a product or service to market. 

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits
  

  1. Required specialization course: Marketing Strategy (3 credits)
  2. Additional electives: (9 credits) Satisfy the remaining 9 credits by choosing from electives such as Digital Marketing, Creating & Marketing New Products, and Understanding & Influencing Consumer Behavior.

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  Careers: Associate or director-level brand/product manager or brand/product developer; roles reporting to VP, SVP, or chief marketing/sales officer; roles in upper-level general P&L management
  

  Specialization faculty advisor: Tat Chan | Biography | Email
  

  Club/organization: Olin Marketing Association

• Business Analytics

  Master one of the most sought-after skills in the corporate world. The dynamic field of business analytics equips you to make data-driven decisions using exploratory, explanatory, predictive, and prescriptive analysis.
  
  In addition to required courses, you choose electives based on your career interest in accounting, customer/marketing, fintech, healthcare, supply chain, and talent analytics.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits
  
  

  Analytics for Managers track:

  1. Required specialization courses: (7.5 credits)
     • Database Design & SQL (1.5)
     • Modeling for Effective Decision-Making (3) 
     • Artificial Intelligence for Managers (1.5)
     • Data Visualization for Business Insights (1.5)
  2. Additional electives: (4.5 credits) Satisfy the remaining 4.5 credits by choosing from a catalog of electives. 

  Business Analytics track:

  1. Required specialization courses: (9 credits)
     • Introduction to Python and Data Science (3)
     • Database Design and SQL (1.5)
     • Machine Learning Tools for Prediction of Business Outcomes (3)
     • Prescriptive Analytics (1.5)
  2. Additional electives: (3 credits) Satisfy the remaining 3 credits by choosing from a catalog of electives.
     

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  Careers: Operations researcher, financial analyst, program analyst, computer systems analyst, statistician, data architect, and artificial intelligence

  Specialization faculty advisor: Damon Campbell | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Big Data Association, Center for Analytics and Business Insights

• Consulting

  The MBA in consulting specialization prepares you for various careers in consulting agencies or large firms with internal consultants. Gain in-depth insight into how consultants solve problems. Learn how to look for solutions across a range of functional domains. How to dig deep, learn quickly, and formulate solutions with buy-in from a wide and varied constituency. 

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (9 credits) 
     • Corporate Strategy (1.5)
     • Competitive Industry Analysis (3)
     • CEL Practicum (3)
     • Consulting Business Models and Value Capture (1.5)
  2. Additional Electives: (3 credits) Satisfy the remaining 3 credits by choosing from electives such as Managing the Innovation Process, Advanced Corporate Finance I – Valuation, Marketing Strategy, and Leading Change or Game Theory for Business
     

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  Careers: Associate consultant in consulting firms and internal consulting positions within large organizations

  Specialization faculty advisor: Patrick Moreton | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Strategy and Consulting Association

• Corporate Finance

  Get in deep as a specialist in an institution or firm that acts as a provider of capital or as a user of capital. Learn to make informed strategic decisions about resource allocation, investment opportunities, and managing financial risks.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (6 credits) 
     • Advanced Corporate Finance I (1.5)
     • Advanced Corporate Finance II (1.5)
     • Mergers & Aquisitions (1.5)
     • Business Analysis (1.5)
  2. Additional Electives: (6 credits) Satisfy the remaining 6 credits by choosing from electives such as Advanced Corporate Finance III–Frontiers of Valuation, Financial Markets, and Investment Theory
     

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  Careers: financial management, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, asset management

  Specialization faculty advisor: Tim Solberg | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Finance Club, Wells Fargo Advisors Center for Finance and Accounting Research

• Entrepreneurship

  With more than two dozen entrepreneurship courses and a host of hands-on opportunities, we give you the tools to excel in innovation. You’ll learn to fall in love with a customer’s problem and how to do something about it. You’ll also learn how to leverage our entrepreneurial ecosystem in St. Louis and worldwide.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialized Courses: (9 credits) 
     • Introduction to Entrepreneurship (3)
     • Business Planning for New Enterprises The Hatchery (3)
     • CEL Entrepreneur Consulting Team (3)
  2. Additional Electives: (3 credits) Satisfy the remaining 3 credits by choosing from electives such as Venture Capital–Methods, Managing the Innovation Process, and Creating & Marketing Innovative Products & Services
     

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  Careers: Founder of a company or social impact venture, leadership roles in a startup, an analyst or associate in venture capital and private equity, or a corporate innovation role

  Specialization faculty advisor: Doug Villhard | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Association

• Financial Technology

  FinTech transforms how businesses and individuals manage, invest, and interact with financial services. This specialization combines knowledge of finance methods with emerging technologies that deliver financial services faster, cheaper, and with greater security. Topics include blockchain, artificial intelligence, robo-advising, cybersecurity, privacy law, and regulations.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (6 credits) 
     • FinTech: Methods and Practice (3)
     • Seminar in Financial Technology (3)
  2. Additional Electives: (6 credits) Satisfy the remaining 6 credits by choosing from electives such as Options and Futures, Investment Theory, and Advanced Corporate Finance I – Valuation
     

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  Careers: FinTech product manager, robo-advisor product manager, manager of fintech risk and compliance, digital banking, or mobile payment gateways

  Specialization faculty advisor: Sarkar Sakya | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Finance Club, Quantitative Finance Club

• Health

  Part of Olin’s Business of Health strategic initiative, this specialization connects academic business concepts to the nuanced problems healthcare organizations face. Specific tracks designed for medical practitioners and aspiring healthcare managers build your understanding of the intense complexity of the U.S. healthcare industry’s structure and functions. You learn how to apply management science concepts to identify pragmatic business solutions while promoting the well-being of individuals and societies.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits
  
  

  MD/MBA Student track: 

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (9 credits)
     • Health Economics & Policy (3)
     • Healthcare Management (3) 
       • PLUS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING -
     • Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine (3) OR
     • Research in Healthcare Management (3)
  2. Additional electives: (4.5 credits) Satisfy the remaining 4.5 credits by choosing from a catalog of electives, including Business of Health Insurance and Drugs and Devices. 

  FT MBA Student track:

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (9 credits)
     
     • Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine (3)
     • Health Economics & Policy (3)
     • Healthcare Management (3)
  2. Additional electives: (3 credits) Satisfy the remaining 3 credits by choosing from electives in your field of health interest, such as Business of Health Insurance and Drugs and Devices. 
     

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  Careers: Healthcare consulting, healthcare operations, purchasing analyst, pharmaceutical and medical device sales, healthcare investment analyst, healthcare entrepreneur, clinical leader

  Specialization faculty advisor: Patrick R. Aguilar, MD, MBA | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Healthcare and Life Sciences Club

• Leadership & Human Capital Management

  By pairing leadership with human capital management, you learn to lead generally and manage complex people issues within organizations. This specialization equips you with critical skills and an area of career focus relevant to HR roles or strategy consulting work with a people bent. 

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (7.5 credits) 
     • Power and Politics in Organization (3)
     • Leading Across Differences (3)
       • PLUS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING -
     • Talent Analytics (1.5) OR
     • People Metrics (1.5)
  2. Additional Electives: (4.5 credits) Satisfy the remaining 4.5 credits by choosing from electives such as Power & Politics and Negotiation
     

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  Careers: HR roles or strategy consulting work with a people bent

  Specialization faculty advisor: Stuart Bunderson | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Strategy and Consulting Association

• Marketing Analytics

  Marketing analytics is key to revenue management. This specialization includes courses that teach foundational analytic techniques for researching markets and developing business opportunities based on data-driven market assessments. 

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (3 credits) 
     • Marketing Strategy (3)
  2. Additional Electives: (9 credits) Satisfy the remaining 9 credits by choosing from electives such as Analytics-Driven Brand Management, Data Analysis for Brand Management, and Digital Marketing
     

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  Careers: Brand analyst, digital marketing analyst, social investment analyst, associate or director-level analytics manager or performance marketing

  Specialization faculty advisor: Seethu Seetharaman | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Marketing Association

• Operations & Supply Chain Management

  Managing the supply chain from sourcing to delivery is complex, sophisticated, and demanding. The MBA supply chain management specialization gives you the right mix of analytical skills, information technology understanding, and risk management savvy that puts you in a position to be a modern innovator, helping employers remain competitive in the global marketplace.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (6 credits) 
     • Foundations of Supply Chain Management (1.5)
     • Project Management (3)
     • Supply Chain Risk Management (1.5)
  2. Additional Electives: (6 credits) Satisfy the remaining 6 credits by choosing from electives such as Boeing Center Supply Chain Practicum, Advanced Operation Strategy, and Operations Analytics
     

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  Careers: Consulting and strategy; product, process or consulting engagement manager.

  Specialization faculty advisor: Sergio Chayet | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Supply Chain and Operations Association, Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation

• Private Capital & Strategic Ownership

  Private business requires a skill set that centers around what to own, how to own and manage it, when to buy, and when to exit. Over time, it might even involve questions of how to align the right model of ownership (e.g., ESOP, family, purpose trust, minority or majority investor) with the goals of the enterprise.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (6 credits) 
     • Ownership Insights (1.5)
     • Acquisition Entrepreneurship (1.5)
       
       • PLUS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING -
     • Investment track: Advanced Corporate Finance I – Valuation (1.5) and Private Equity (1.5)
     • Operations track: Operations in the Service Industry (1.5) and Leading Change (1.5)
  2. Additional Electives: (6 credits) Satisfy the remaining 6 credits by choosing from electives such as Ownership Insights and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
     

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  Careers: Owner, operator, and investor in private enterprise

  Specialization faculty advisor: Peter Boumgarden | Biography | Email

  Club/organization:  Olin Family Business Program, Koch Center for Family Enterprise

• Wealth & Asset Management

  Develop a holistic view of financial health, which is invaluable for clients, high-net-worth individuals, and corporations. Wealth management goes beyond investing, encompassing all aspects of an individual’s or institution’s financial life, including financial markets, portfolio construction, tax strategies, financial scenario modeling, and mastery of financial plans.

  Criteria for fulfillment - 12 credits

  1. Required Specialization Courses: (6 credits) 
     • Investment Theory (1.5)
     • Options and Futures (1.5)
     • Wealth Management Practice (1.5)
     • Advanced Corporate Finance I – Valuation (1.5)
  2. Additional Electives: (6 credits) Satisfy the remaining 6 credits by choosing from electives such as Mergers & Acquisitions, Data Analysis for Investments and Endowments, Foundations & Philanthropy
     

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  Careers: Wealth manager/private banker, portfolio/fund manager, family office executive, financial advisor or financial consultant

  Specialization faculty advisor: Tim Solberg | Biography | Email

  Club/organization: Olin Finance Club, Wells Fargo Advisors Center for Finance and Accounting Research