Management
The Poole College of Management offers a Master’s degree in Management (MM) that comprises programs that help students build core business skills. The curriculum is designed to give students with a range of backgrounds a strong exposure to core business management skills in a variety of industries. The programs help students develop critical skills in specialized areas, such as marketing analytics and risk and analytics. It is designed specifically for students who are looking to create a personal competitive advantage.
Master of Management Degree Requirements
The Master of Management degree requires a total of 30 credit hours, and students must complete all degree requirements within six years.
Marketing Analytics Concentration
The Master of Management (MM), Marketing Analytics concentration is currently offered online as a part-time program and is geared towards students of all backgrounds. Our innovative curriculum focuses on business analytics, marketing and business skills and practical experience – all in a hands-on learning environment. Students will benefit from our faculty’s real-world experience, world-class research and industry partnerships to build successful careers in data analytics.
Risk and Analytics Concentration
The Master of Management (MM), Risk and Analytics concentration will be entirely online, and can be completed within 18 - 30 months, part-time. This concentration is targeted to professionals seeking to acquire expected core competencies in risk management and analytical decision-making to be positioned for leadership positions across multiple functions of an organization. The growth in data analytics across all businesses and industries is creating greater demands for individuals with analytic and risk management skills.
Other Relevant Information
Students can apply to start in either the Fall or the Spring semester. Credits in the MM program can be used toward the MBA. The Working Professional MBA is a 40 hour degree program; 12 MM hours may be counted toward the MBA, subject to approval by an academic advisor. Applicants must understand that completion of the MM program does not guarantee admission to the MBA.
Admission Requirements
Applicants are required to complete the standard NC State Graduate School application process. Admission decisions are based on past academic performance and potential, essays, recommendations, relevant work experience and an interview. Applicants are not required to submit GMAT or GRE scores but may choose to do so. International applicants must complete the TOEFL or IELTS. Students can choose to apply for admission in either the Fall or the Spring semester.
Applicant Information
- Delivery Method: On-Campus, Online, Hybrid
- Entrance Exam: None
- Interview Required: None
Application Deadlines
- Fall: April 1
- Spring: October 1
Faculty
Professors
- Mark S. Beasley, Director, Enterprise Risk Management Initiative
- Jonathan Bohlmann, Marketing and Innovation
- Bruce C. Branson, Accounting, Associate Director of Enterprise Risk Management Initiative
- Ramkumar Janakiraman, Professor of Marketing Analytics
- Donald Pagach, Accounting, Director of Research for Enterprise Risk Management Initiative
- Mike Stanko, Marketing
- Stacy Wood, Marketing
- Bill Rand, Marketing, Executive Director of Business Analytics Initiative
Associate Professors
- Julie Earp, Associate Professor, Information Technology
- Rishika Rishika, Associate Professor and Director, Master of Management, Marketing Analytics
- Stefanie Robinson, Associate Professor, Markteing
- Jeffrey Stonebraker, Associate Professor, Operations and Supply Chain Management
Assistant Professor
- Fangfei Guo, Marketing Analytics
Professors of the Practice
- Lisa Chang
- Ericka Kranitz, Director, Master of Management, Risk, and Analytics
- Leigh Shamblin, Director of Leadership
Teaching Assistant Professor
- Basiru Usman, Marketing
Lecturers
- Scott A. Bolin
- Thomas C. Dow, Accounting
- Donnie Hale, Business Analytics
Courses
Accounting
This course provides an opportunity to learn and apply various data analytics techniques to a business case to support management's decision making. This course utilizes analytics tools and technology in an advisory context. Specifically, you will be learning and using Excel, Access and PowerBI tools, as well as Word to summarize your analysis. Soft skills are essential in today's environment. This course also helps to strengthen these skills including written communication (formal and informal), critical thinking and data analytics.
R: MAC or MBA Program
Typically offered in Fall and Summer
A study of how business strategies use information technology (IT) as an efficient enabler of redesigned core business processes. Students will focus on how the use of IT affects risk management by eliminating certain risks and introducing others. Students will examine IT control solutions used to address IT risks and will address issues affecting assurance engagements related to IT systems.
Prerequisite: MAC Program
Typically offered in Fall only
Business Administration
Structure for critically analyzing and evaluating an issue, claim, text, or speech from a management perspective. Systematic analysis and evaluation of information, concepts, and ideas in order to identify underlying assumptions, purposes, and questions. Synthesis of this knowledge to logically form conclusions and recognize implications. Communication of arguments and beliefs and recognition of common language barriers in the written and spoken word. For online sections, must be enrolled in MBA program.
Typically offered in Fall and Spring
Applied approach to managing the risks that can prevent an organization from achieving its objectives, both financial and nonfinancial, by working in teams to address real problems in real organizations.
Prerequisite: MBA 518
Typically offered in Spring only
The B Corp Clinic Sustainability Practicum provides students with the knowledge and tools to become purpose-driven business leaders. The course explores different business models and strategies that companies can use to drive social and environmental change, and explains why purpose-driven businesses are particularly well positioned to tackle the world's biggest problems. Throughout the course, students work in teams on real-world practicum projects with local and global companies to strengthen their sustainable business models and improve their social and environmental impact.
Typically offered in Fall and Spring
Presentation of material not normally available in regular courses offerings or offering of new courses on a trial basis.
Business Management
Economics
The course covers (i) structure and operation of derivative markets, (ii) valuation of derivatives, (iii) hedging of derivatives, and (iv) applications of derivatives in areas of risk management and financial engineering. Models and pricing techniques include Black-Scholes model, binomial trees, Monte-Carlo simulation. Specific topics include simple no-arbitrage pricing relations for futures/forward contracts; put-call parity relationship; delta, gamma, and vega hedging; implied volatility and statistical properties; dynamic hedging strategies; interest-rate risk, pricing of fixed-income product; credit risk, pricing of defaultable securities.
Typically offered in Fall only