
STARTS ON
TBD
DURATION
12 weeks, online, excluding orientation
4-6 hours per week
TBD
12 weeks, online, excluding orientation
4-6 hours per week
Looking to improve your management skills to better lead teams, improve outcomes, and secure a brighter professional future? The MBA Essentials online program from Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois provides you with the chance to gain skills in strategic leadership and innovation, process improvement, marketing management, and managerial accounting. The flexibility of the program is ideal for working professionals looking to make the leap into a more successful future.
The MBA Essentials online program is a 12-week learning journey that tackles the fundamentals of business – core management concepts, effectively communicating across an organization, providing key information to facilitate business decisions, operations strategy, and leadership development.
Building skills in team leadership and organization design with an innovation focus
Connecting marketing elements to other functions to deliver value to consumers
Learning how to implement organization-wide initiatives such as Six Sigma
Exploring managers’ use of accounting information to make business decisions
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Download BrochureAssociate Professor of Business Administration
In addition to serving as a prolific professor, Love is the academic director of the Management Major. He teaches or has taught courses on organizational behavior, managing innovation, organizational change, leadership, and entrepreneurial management....
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Noel has been repeatedly recognized for his teaching. He was on the List of Professors Ranked as Excellent from 2007 – 2018. In addition, he earned the Executive MBA Program Professor of the Year in the EMBA Program (2016), the MBA Professor of the Year for Service to Students (2016), and the PMBA Teaching Excellence Award for the Illinois MBA (2017)....
Read MoreAssociate Professor of Business Administration
Anand is more than a professor; he is also the academic director of Operations Management at the university. Widely published, Anand serves as co-editor in the Strategy and Organization Department of the Journal of Operations Management, senior editor and reviewer of Production and Operations Management Society Journal, and associate editor and reviewer of Decision Science Journal....
Read MoreAssociate Professor of Accountancy and Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow
Hecht holds a number of titles in his role at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, including academic director of the iMSA Program in the Department of Accountancy. In his role at the school, he has taught accounting courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs....
Read MoreUpon finishing the program, participants will receive a certificate of completion from Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois.
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