Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Shorelight Group - St. Bonaventure University, USA

Effective managers are strong organizers, planners, problem-solvers and motivators who can help a business or organization compete and succeed.

They are corporate generalist with a working knowledge of all areas of business: accounting, business information systems, finance, marketing and economics.

As a management major at St. Bonaventure, you pursue a curriculum that emphasizes courses in these core areas including such topics as decision making and team work. You also have an array of outstanding real world engagement opportunities from which to choose, each designed to teach you how to manage projects and lead people.

Bachelor of Business Administration in management

The management major provides students the opportunity to develop either a behavioral or quantitative emphasis in the areas of general management. Those desiring the quantitative emphasis are also provided the opportunity to minor in quantitative analysis for business.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the management program at St. Bonaventure University, graduates will:

• Describe how people plan, organize, lead and exercise control in business;
• Articulate the foundations of group behavior;
• Understand the concepts of product design and process design;
• Describe the elements of inventories and formulate different approaches to inventory planning and control;
• Become more cognizant of the impact of globalization and worldwide economic developments about international management;
• Better understand the role of culture and the problems that can develop in the international venue as a result of the difference in culture;
• Understand the basics of decision-making and the barriers to good decision-making;
• Understand the basics of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics;
• Describe and understand the Porter 5 Forces Model;
• Understand the distinction of core competencies, and competitive and comparative advantage;
• Understand and define system theory, system components, system analysis and design, of new information technologies; Understand the role of privacy and security in technology;
• Gain an understanding of how managers use business analytics to formulate and solve business problems and to support managerial decision making;
• Have a basic working knowledge of predictive and prescriptive analytics.