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SHAPING TOMORROWS LEADERS


Morgan’s MBA is focused on building leaders. An active, creative, idea-oriented manager who manifests skill sets of leaders and has an integrated command of the ideas and concepts of organization management.

The following factors describe the Morgan leader capability.
  1. A person with confidence and pride in his/her education supporting the potential for leadership in organization settings.
  2. A person with an understanding of business, the competitive marketplace, current practices and fluency in the language of business.
  3. A person with the poise and strength to maintain high ethical and social responsible standards.
  4. A person with an understanding of the importance of data and analysis in the effectiveness of business decision.
  5. A person that has a grasp of technology and how it is integrated into process, personal effectiveness and organization action.
  6. A person that can work effectively in team settings regardless of changing settings and demanding time pressures to accomplish projects.
  7. A person with the attitude that his/her work at Morgan is the first step in a life-long education.
The following elements are integrated in a way that makes the Morgan student powerful in diagnosing and interpreting business action. Students understand:
  1. The role of capital in the economy and the impact on every company’s strategy.
  2. The centrality of the customer and customer needs and wants as a driver in all organization activities.
  3. The complexity of building a great portfolio of products/services in conjunction with a powerful tactical organization to be a devastating competitor in a highly competitive and changing marketplace.
  4. The critical role of the committed workforce and the notions of knowledge management and intellectual capital in the matrix of the powerful competitive organization.
  5. The centrality of change tools to deal with the dynamics of adaptive and transformative change in the management of organizations.
  6. The practical use of the plethora of performance indicators making up a powerful tactical and strategic information system as a basis for strategy making. The understanding would include easy translation or interpretation of the basic elements of these indicators:
    1. Production operations, supply chain and logistics quality indicators;
    2. Customer satisfaction and market penetration performance indicators;
    3. Supply and demand conditions in marketplace;
    4. Financial indicators such as the income statement and balance sheet.
    5. Macro economic indicators from GNP, Fed and trade details to currency translations.
  7. How technology does and will integrates with process design to produce a responsive/ agile organization and sets the scene for distinctive and core competencies and market advantages.
  8. The additional complexity presented by business cycles and other macro economic issues.
  9. How the interrelationships of these concepts result in a sufficient return on investment that insures continued access to capital and survival.


Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management
The Morgan MBA
McMechen Hall, Suite: 101 Tel:443-885-3396
email: gomba@morgan.edu