To make effective marketing decisions, managers need a thorough understanding of the environment in which decisions are made, how their decisions might affect the behavior of customers and competitors, and how this translates to a corporation's bottom line. In Olin's team-based, experiential learning programs, intensive faculty involvement ensures a rigorous approach to projects. These projects culminate with teams defending their analyses in presentations to high-level corporate representatives. This test of teamwork and communication skills is dramatic, but not as threatening as it would be in the workplace because a mistake isn't going to cost you your job. In fact, the outcome is always positive because the learning experience gained will provide lifelong benefits.
Most students enter business school with a specific career field or discipline in mind.
Unless you are able to communicate well and understand your motivations and the motivations of others, it is very difficult to exploit your technical knowledge in finance, marketing, or operations. PhD, University of Kentucky Olin's mini-term format enables us to offer diverse finance courses. We teach specialized courses in risk management, fixed-income securities, mergers and acquisitions, and computational finance, as well as the usual courses in financial institutions and markets, international finance, investments, investment banking, and corporate finance case studies. Olin is unusual in that finance students are expected to study options and futures early in their program. Options play a central role in modern finance, and subsequent courses rely on the common expertise students acquire in this class.