Program Experiences
Baylor’s MBA program values experiential learning and provides students with a customized and innovative curriculum that integrates a variety of learning experiences. From international trips to learning opportunities in our own backyard, we firmly believe that your MBA should be an experience that goes well beyond the classroom.
Global Opportunities in Leadership Development (GOLD)
Worldwide business exposure provides a transformative educational experience. As such, the MBA program and the McBride Center for International Business partner to offer a global management experience as part of our updated full-time MBA curriculum.
Our students spend several days abroad engaging with people and organizations across a variety of businesses and industry sectors. In fall 2023, they participated in interactive business projects and site visits in Barcelona, Spain. The goal of this trip is to enable our students to frame the remainder of their courses in the MBA program against the backdrop of a first-person global experience. Doing so will better prepare them to be influential and informed business leaders in an increasingly global marketplace.
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Focus Firm
It's not enough to have business knowledge, you have to understand how and why to use it. Our Focus Firm class helps students achieve that understanding through an experiential learning project. Baylor MBA has partnered with a wide variety of companies for the Focus Firm class, including Fortune 500 companies such as 7-11, Lockheed Martin and Coca-Cola; non-profits such as One Heart Project and Waco Art Center; and entrepreneurial projects with Durango Midstream and Eljun, LLC.
What does success look like by the end of the Focus Firm class?
For Students:
- The ability to immediately apply knowledge learned in class to a real-world challenge. Students perform quantitative analysis to develop solutions based on data.
- Access to company executives who provide real-time feedback, while being coached by a practicing professional on industry expectations. Students are mentored on how to solve a business problem with time constraints, ambiguity and asymmetric information.
- Development of teamwork and presentation skills to demonstrate effective management. Students learn and practice in teams to accelerate the path from classroom learning to leadership readiness.
For Partnering Companies:
- Evaluation of MBA talent. Executives interface with students for a short, high-impact project to assess knowledge and skills.
- The opportunity to career opportunities. Executives offer insights into corporate culture and the required skills that MBA graduates will need for career success.
- Delivery of actionable solutions. Executives receive an outside perspective of an internal issue that could impact their business today.
Leadership Summit - New York City
The MBA Leadership Summit is an annual career discovery trip held in New York City for core MBA students. The trip is designed to transition our MBAs from academic theory to the real-world corporate environment. Faculty and staff from various disciplines travel with the students and challenge them to make the most out of the experience. Previous trips have included visits to companies like Deloitte, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Capital One, Twitter, and LinkedIn, where students participate in case studies, consulting projects, and other career-related tasks. Students also visit the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and NYSE to gain insight into how financial markets work. The itinerary is built to enhance the MBA experience and to invest in students' future careers. The Leadership Summit also includes networking events and opportunities to build professional relationships, which strengthens the Baylor MBA journey.
Case Study
Students spend a day working in small groups with a specific company to work on a case study. The companies identify specific issues they are facing and ask the students to analyze the situation and provide ideas on how to resolve the issue. Previous partnering companies included Adecco, Capitol One, CITI Bank, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and Goldman Sachs.
Portfolio Management Practicum
MBA students enrolled in the Practicum in Portfolio Management class manage an investment portfolio valued at $10.5 million. The class meets in the Southwest Securities Financial Markets Center to learn the tools and techniques used by investment professionals to analyze and select individual stocks.
