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The Owen Strategy concentration is designed to equip you with the core concepts, frameworks and techniques of strategic management—the art and science of managing the enterprise to achieve superior performance. Students learn how to identify the sources of profit available to the business enterprise and to formulate and implement strategies that exploit these sources of profit. Courses in the concentration are analytical and focus on senior management decisions that enhance profit maximization while taking into account the competitive response to those decisions. To prepare for a career in Consulting, most students choose a primary concentration in Finance, Operations, Marketing or HOP , and a secondary concentration in Strategy.
Discover Your Career
Career Opportunities—Explore the consulting industry on the Owen Consulting Club's website.
Selected Companies that Recruit from Owen—Consulting
Accenture
Capgemini
CRA International
Deloitte Consulting
ECG Management Consultants
Ernst & Young
Kurt Salmon Associates
North Highland Co.
PRTM
PricewaterhouseCooper
ScottMadden
Schlumberger Business Consulting
Tata Consulting
Wipro Technologies
Photo: Owen Alumni from Deloitte Consulting
Companies that Recruit at Owen
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Create Your Curriculum
MBA Curriculum Options
A primary concentration in Finance, Operations, Marketing, and HOP is usually paired with a Strategy Concentration.
Finance Concentration
Hours Required: 12
The most flexible option, with two required finance courses and a variety of electives, allowing you to customize your curriculum to your unique needs.
Operations Concentration
Hours Required: 12
With only one required course, this is one of the most flexible concentrations at Owen. Choose your remaining 10 hours from a long list of operation courses.
Marketing Concentration
Hours Required: 12
The most flexible option, with two required marketing courses and a variety of electives, allowing you to customize your curriculum to your unique needs.
HOP Concentration
Hours Required: 12
A very flexible concentration with only two required HOP courses which allows you to customize your curriculum to your unique needs.
Strategy Concentration
Hours Required: 12
The Owen strategy Concentration is designed to equip students of management with the core concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management.
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Build Your Resume
Owen Consulting Club
The goal of the Owen Consulting Club is to help you pursue a career in the intensely competitive consulting industry, whether you want to work for a consulting firm, in an internal consulting role or in an MBA leadership development program. The OCC offers a variety of resources, including peer coaching, career workshops, “Crack the Case” workshops, case practice sessions with alumni and networking with industry leaders.
Net Impact
Net Impact is an international organization whose mission is to improve the world by growing a network of leaders who use the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental and economic impact. Thanks to the hard work of the Owen chapter of Net Impact, Owen was selected as the host of the 2007 Net Impact Conference, the world's largest annual gathering for MBA students and young professionals focused on corporate social responsibility.
More Resume-Building Activities
Case Interview Workshops
Meet Your Faculty
Bradford, Jim, Dean and Ralph Owen Professor for the Practice of Management
Cho, Myeong, Senior Lecturer in Strategy
Daane, J. Dewey, The Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, Emeritus Senior Advisor, Financial Markets Research Center
Fitzgerald, Edmund, Adjunct Faculty; Strategy and Business Economics Managing Director, Woodmont Associates
Froeb, Luke, William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise (Associate Professor); Former Director, Bureau of Economics, FTC
Furse, David, Adjunct Professor of Management
Loungani, Prakash, Adjunct Professor of Management
March, Salvatore, David K. Wilson Professor of Management (Full Professor)
Parsley, David, Professor of Management (Full Professor)
Scudder, Gary, Associate Dean; Professor of Management (Full Professor)
Shor, Mikhael, Assistant Professor of Management
Van Horn, R. Lawrence, Associate Professor of Management; Faculty Director Healthcare MBA Program
Alumni & Students
Owen World Shapers
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Owen Bloggers
Get up close and personal with current Owen students at this student-run “unedited, uncensored view of life” at Owen.
Industry Insights
OwenIntelligence
Explore a wealth of current insight from Owen’s world-class faculty with this online publication.
Navigating Global Antitrust Regulations (Spring 2008)
Social Responsibility as a Corporate Strategy (Winter/Spring 2007)
The Poverty Paradox (Spring 2008)
Podcasts and Videos
Listen to or watch Owen faculty or speakers discussing topical issues.
