The MBA curriculum has a unique structure, offering rigor and flexibility. The intensive, cross-functional core curriculum provides business fundamentals and the leadership, communication, and analytical skills that are critical to your success. You develop one or more areas of expertise by selecting a major and complementary electives.
The specific course you choose might depend on your current level of expertise, your career goals, and your preferred learning style.
Here are some steps you can take:
FIXED CORE COURSES
The fixed core courses within the Wharton MBA program consist of the fundamentals and analytical courses that set the stage for your education. These are classes typical of what you would take in business school, and help prepare you for your future, whether you come to Wharton with a background in business, liberal arts, engineering, or more.
Leadership: Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership
Develop your future personal leadership style and capabilities. You will begin with the Teamwork and Leadership Simulation—a team-based, highly interactive simulation that is custom-designed for this course.
Marketing: Marketing Management
Develop skills to apply analytical concepts and marketing tools to decisions like segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion.
Microeconomics: Microeconomics for Managers
Master the basic theory of microeconomics: supply, demand, consumer behavior, market price and output, production, cost, simple competitive market equilibrium, simple monopoly pricing and output determination, price discrimination, and bundling.
Microeconomics: Advanced Microeconomics for Managers
Apply microeconomic theory to firm management and learn how to use microeconomics to enhance decision-making. Topics include sophisticated pricing policies, transfer pricing, strategies for dealing with competitor firms, cooperation strategies, managing under uncertainty, and more.
Statistics: Regression Analysis for Managers
Become familiar with two key statistical methodologies for working with data: regression analysis and experimentation. Learn techniques such as least-squares estimation, tests and confidence intervals, correlation and autocorrelation, collinearity, and randomization.
Management Communication: Speaking and Writing
Speaking: Strengthen your skills in persuasion, speaking confidently, and handling Q&A during the Fall speaking course. You’ll have a choice of advanced topics during the Spring speaking courses.
Writing: Students will improve their ability to organize and develop the kinds of persuasive arguments they’ll need to lead teams and effect change.