Programs

MBA+MSDT

MBA+MSDT students earn two degrees: a traditional MBA and a Master of Science in Digital Technology. The program is 84 credits.

As an MBA+MSDT student, you’ll take a one-week intensive course during your first spring session and three additional summer intensive courses immediately following your first spring semester. Please see below for a list of required MSDT courses and MSDT electives.

Curriculum Grid

The curriculum grids, as well as the Full-Time MBA+MSDT checksheets, are useful tools to help map out your degree requirements. Please refer to the curriculum grids below. Additionally, use the Full-Time MBA+MSDT 2022 Checksheet or Full-Time MBA+MSDT 2021 Checksheet, depending on your graduation date.

Required MSDT Courses

• IS717 Systems Architecture in Management and Applications
• IS833 Business Analytics in Practice Assuming Introductory Programming
• IS756 Digital Product Build
• IS889 Data Management
• IS754 Human Centered Design
• IS883 Synthesizing Digital Efforts to Deliver Better Outcomes
• IS890 Digital Transformation Through Experimentation and Scaled Agile: A Practicum

MSDT Elective Courses (3)

Students are required to take 3 courses (9 credits) from the list below. We suggest that you choose your electives in a meaningful way, using the three MSDT Career Pathways – Business Analytics, Digital Product Management, and Internal & External Technical Consulting – as your informal guide.

• HM817 Advances in Digital Health
• IS815 FinTech Revolution: Disruptive Technologies, Blockchain and Future of Finance
• IS827 Platform Strategy and Design
• IS828 Managing Information Security
• IS841 Advanced Analytics For Managers: Data Mining
• IS843 Big Data Analytics for Business
• IS854 Digital Strategy for Emerging Business Leaders
• IS855 Digital Transformation: Immersive Interactions and Insights at Silicon Valley (Spring  Intensive)
• IS860 Analytics Consulting: Data-Driven Business Solutions
• MK842 Machine Learning for Business Analytics
• MK872 Measuring Impact with Causal Methods
• OM840 Managing and Improving Quality: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• OM855 Project Management
• OM865 Idea Lab
• OM880 Product Design and Development
• SI814 Intellectual Property Strategies
• SI839 Design Thinking and Innovation
• SI845 Technology Strategy
• SI859 Strategy Implementation

The following courses can also be used to fulfill the MSDT elective credit requirement for the graduating Class of 2021 only.

• MK841 Customer-Driven Growth Strategies
• MK845 Engaging Consumers in a Digital World
• MK852 Data Driven Marketing Decisions
• MK862 Marketing High-Tech Products
• OM854 Operations Analysis and Innovation
• QM880 Business Analytics: Spreadsheet Optimization and Simulation
• SI871 Strategies for Bringing Technology to Market

Program Contact

Ben Lubin
MBA+MSDT Faculty Director
Information Systems Department
blubin@bu.edu

Sally Jackson
MBA+MSDT Program Liaison
MBA Center
sallyj@bu.edu
617.353.2315

Health Sector Management MBA

The health sector is undergoing transformational growth and change, offering compelling opportunities and challenges for emerging managers and leaders. We prepare students for leadership roles throughout the health industry, including bio-technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, health information technology, health systems management, consulting, and public policy.

The program curriculum is designed to combine a strong education in the core functions of health sector management with the flexibility to obtain an enhanced understanding and skill set with the student’s particular areas of interest.

This curriculum provides a developed approach to:

1. Build on the functional skills of the core MBA curriculum
2. Provide targeted understanding of the nature of the health sector and the application of those basic skills to the sector
3. Provide even greater flexibility to address specialized interests within the sector, whether health service delivery, life science products, consulting, or any other focused area

MBA+MSDT students are eligible to enroll in the Health Sector Management Program, and may complete the required internship following the MSDT summer intensives.

Curriculum Grids

The curriculum grids, as well as the program checksheets that your advisors use to check graduation requirements, are useful tools to help map out your degree requirements. Please refer to the curriculum grids below. Additionally, find your appropriate checksheet below to keep track of your progress:

• HSM Full-Time MBA 2022 Checksheet
• HSM Full-Time MBA+MSDT 2022 Checksheet
• HSM Full-Time MBA 2021 Checksheet
• HSM Full-Time MBA+MSDT 2021 Checksheet

Required Courses

The following courses are required:

• HM703 Health Sector Issues and Opportunities (fall semester only)
• HM710 Health Service Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution (fall semester only) – OR – HM717 Drugs, Devices, and Diagnostics: New Challenges, Strategies, and Execution (fall semester only)
• HM820 Strategy, Economics, and Policy in the Health Sector (required for those entering fall 2019 only)

Elective Courses (2)

These electives can create an intensive and targeted education within any subset of the health sector. Two courses selected from the following list are required:

• HM710 Health Services Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution*
• HM717 Drugs, Devices, and Diagnostics: New Challenges, Strategies, and Execution*
• HM801 Bench-to-Bedside-Translating Biomedical Innovation from the Laboratory to the Marketplace
• HM817 Advances in Digital Health
• HM820 Strategy, Economics, and Policy in the Health Sector
• HM833 Health Sector Marketing
• HM840 Health Sector Consulting
• HM848 Driving Health Sector Innovation
• OM840 Managing and Improving Quality: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• OM865 Idea Lab**
• SI814 Intellectual Property Strategies
• SI852 Starting New Ventures** (business plan developed must relate to the health sector)
• ENG BE696 Advanced Deployment of Biomedical Innovations

* Course will count as a HSM elective if not taken as an HSM core course.
** For students starting in fall of 2019, these courses will no longer count towards HSM.

The following courses are no longer offered. If previously taken, these courses will count toward HSM program requirements.

• HM856
• OB802

HSM Internship

For full-time students, the program requires a 400 hour Health Sector Internship that students typically complete during the summer between the first and second years of the program.

Students must confirm their internship with the MBA Center. For more information on this process please contact Sally Jackson at 617.353.2315 or sallyj@bu.edu. See the following links for HSM Internship Form (Part I) and HSM Internship Form (Part II).

Additional HSM Internship Documents: Internship Report Presentation Template 2018 and The Site Evaluation Form

Resources

Health Sector Management Program
FCC Health Sector Career Info
Health Policy Institute Department Directory

Program Contact

Ned Rimer
Faculty Director, HSM Program
nedrimer@bu.edu
617.353.3146

Sally Jackson
HSM Program Advisor
MBA Center
sallyj@bu.edu
617.353.2315

Social Impact MBA

The aim of the Social Impact MBA program is to develop responsible leaders (of start-ups, established firms, and both for and non-profit organizations) who create innovative products, services, and business models that help address vital social challenges — such as climate change, food security, global health, poverty, discrimination, etc. — and enable them to grow and sustain their organizations over time.

Whether you aspire to work in sustainable finance and impact investing, responsible business, or nonprofit and public management, Questrom’s Social Impact MBA program gives you the opportunity to gain crucial business skills that allow you to create positive social change. You will learn the full array of business fundamentals like strategy, marketing, accounting, and finance, all while simultaneously specializing in topics like social entrepreneurship, sustainable energy and environment, global health, sustainable finance and impact investing, and philanthropy.

Inside and outside of the classroom, the Social Impact MBA program will connect you with best-in-class nonprofit and for-profit organizations through global field seminars, consulting projects, case competitions, guest speakers, and classroom activities. What’s more, studying in Boston puts you at the center of the action, enabling you to engage directly with academic experts and industry leaders in the social impact sector.

Curriculum Grids

The program combines a rigorous core business curriculum with elective courses in the social impact space, a required summer internship, and an engaged alumni community of graduates resulting in a full and vigorous experience for students. The curriculum grids listed below will help you understand degree requirements and plan your courses.

Additionally, your advisors use program checksheets to track graduation progress. Please find your appropriate program checksheet below:

• Social Impact Full-Time MBA 2022 Checksheet
• Social Impact Full-Time MBA+MSDT 2022 Checksheet
• Social Impact Full-Time MBA 2021 Checksheet
• Social Impact Full-Time MBA+MSDT 2021 Checksheet

Required Courses (1)

• SR801 Social Impact, Business, Society and the Natural Environment Note: For students that started prior to Fall 2019: Fundamentals of Nonprofit Management (SR841; formerly OB841)

Elective Courses (3)
To give students guidance on class selection, electives have been grouped into Career Pathways. Three courses selected from the following list are required:

AC831 Integrated Reporting
FE833 ESG Equity Investing
HM703 Health Sector Issues and Opportunities
IM860 Social Impact Seminar
MK838 Behavior Change Practicum*
MK867 Purpose-Led Marketing
MO830 Leading the Mission-Driven Organization
MO840 Management Consulting Field Project*
MO848 The Leadership Challenge
OM845 Clean Technologies and Supply Chains
OM851 Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains

PL834 Discrimination and Business Law
SI836 Energy and Environmental Sustainability
SI849 Corporate Sustainability Strategy
SI852 Starting New Ventures*
SR837 Resource Development for Non-Profits (formerly PL837)
SR841 Fundamentals of Nonprofit Management (formerly OB841)

SR850 Global Entrepreneurship (formerly SI850)

Note:

• *MK838, SI852, MO840 (OB840) only count towards a degree with a qualifying project.
• Some elective courses may not be offered every year.
• Students wishing to select a Questrom MBA elective not listed above, or wishing for a non-Questrom elective from another BU School or College to apply as a Social Impact elective,  must get approval from the Co-Faculty Directors via the MBA Center’s Graduate Elective Request Form.

Social Impact Internship

Students are required to complete a 300-hour internship in a public, private, or nonprofit organization. Students selecting a private sector enterprise must focus their work on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, cause marketing, social enterprise, social impact, philanthropy or work for a socially responsible company. Students must confirm their internship with the MBA Center by completing the pre- and post-internship forms: Social Impact Internship Form (Part I) and Social Impact Internship Form (Part II).Part-time students may waive the internship requirement with applicable work experience, pending permission of the Social Impact Program faculty director. To apply for this waiver please complete the Internship Waiver Form. You will be asked to provide your resume, along with a brief description of your experience, your professional aspirations, and your reason for requesting an internship waiver.MBA+MSDT students are eligible to enroll in the Social Impact Program, and may complete the required internship following the MSDT summer intensive courses.

Resources

BU Social Impact & Nonprofit Management Club

Program Contact

Co-Faculty Directors of the Social Impact Program:

David Stolow (extra-curricular activities)
dstolow@bu.edu
617-353-2927

https://www.bu.edu/questrom/profile/david-stolow/

Caroline Flammer (curricular activities)
cflammer@bu.edu
617-353-5397
https://www.bu.edu/questrom/profile/caroline-flammer/

MBA Center — Social Impact Program Liaison:

Sally Jackson
sallyj@bu.edu
617-353-2315

PEMBA

Students complete the core curriculum in the evening and can choose to be cohorted or Flex Track.  PEMBA students have a total of eight electives over the course of the program and have the option to concentrate in one or more of the seven concentrations. It takes an average of three to three and a half years to complete the program.

PEMBA Accelerated Core

PEMBA Accelerated Core leverages students’ prior business education with accelerated core that gives students the opportunity to earn their degree in less time, while also taking an extra elective. All Accelerated Core students complete their core curriculum together in one year and take a total of nine electives, which they can take at their own pace. It takes an average of two and a half years to complete the program.  Accelerated Core PEMBA students have the option to concentrate in one or more of the seven concentrations.

PEMBA Accelerated Core students will be pre-registered for all courses from MOD 1 to MOD 5 (Fall to Summer I). After completing MOD 5, Accelerated Core students will be responsible for registering for their 9 elective courses. Students must continually adhere to the Accelerated Core Curriculum map for enrollment during Fall, Spring and Summer of the first year. Any deviation from the curriculum as outlined will result in not being able to continue on the Accelerated Core track. In addition, students would be at risk of losing all of their scholarship and/or federal and private educational loans if there is any change to enrollment.

Curriculum Grids

The MBA core curriculum has been designed with a particular sequence of courses that provide an overview of management, its fundamental tools, and its key function areas. The curriculum grids listed below will help you understand degree requirements and plan your courses.

PEMBA Core Course Prerequisites

PEMBA Core courses are often taken in the order shown on the curriculum grids because the courses build upon each other. However, you are welcome to take the courses in a different order provided you have met the course prerequisites. We also here share with you additional recommended courses, where applicable.

Program Contact

Please contact your Academic Advisor in the MBA Center if you have questions about this program.