Santa Clara University

Statement of Purpose

Santa Clara University's Business School develops men and women for competence, conscience, and compassion who can provide leadership in technologically advanced and rapidly changing global environments.

The development of competence is reflected in our commitment to teaching excellence and the scholarly research necessary to animate instruction and foster the creation of knowledge. The development of conscience is enhanced through an emphasis on reflective inquiry that is both professionally rigorous and ethically sound. Compassion is at the intersection of competence and conscience, and is fostered through an appreciation of multiple perspectives and a recognition of the human being as part of every equation.

Program Goals

1. The Creation of Value in Markets

Develop graduates who can make business decisions that lead to the creation of maximum value in the marketplace, who understand how markets change, and how social, political, legal, economic, and technological forces drive and influence such change.

2. Innovation and Technology

Develop graduates who can foster innovation in organizations, respond effectively to new circumstances, and through their actions enable organizations and society to realize the potential of new technologies.

3. Effective Business Management

Develop graduates with rigorous understanding of core business functions and with problem-solving skills reflecting an integration of functional perspectives. Graduates should be prepared to assume positions of leadership and contribute immediately to the improved performance of their organizations.

4. Business Responsibility and Ethics

Develop graduates with knowledge of the social responsibilities of business to its stakeholders, graduates who are able to identify ethical dilemmas and understand frameworks for selecting and defending a right course of action.

5. Management Use of Information

Develop graduates with the capability to organize, describe, and make intelligent inferences from empirical evidence. Graduates should be able to apply sophisticated statistical techniques to data, make informed forecasts of business trends; and formulate, solve, and interpret quantitative business decision models.

6. Human Values and Teamwork

Develop graduates who understand and value individual differences and have collaborative skills for working effectively in functionally and culturally diverse teams.