Management & Entrepreneurship
Lead with Confidence
As the largest department in the business school, we offer core courses for all undergraduate business majors, MBA, and masters programs. From learning to manage individual human resource issues to designing the organizational structure of a global company, the breadth of our program allows you to lead at any level.
About Our Program
Our undergraduate management majors take a rigorous foundation of courses to foster innovative ideas and efficiently work in a variety of organizational structures. We emphasize management as a deliberate practice wherein graduates are theoretically informed, technically skilled, and imbued with a sense of responsibility and care for all stakeholders and the public good. And there is no better place than Silicon Valley to learn about Entrepreneurship and Leading Innovative Organizations through our MBA concentrations.
As a management student, you will gain a broad perspective of the challenges faced by business today, and develop the skills and abilities needed to become a leader in successful organizations, large or small.
International Business Minor
The minor in international business is designed to educate students in a broad range of management and business skills in a global context. The program includes coursework in language, social science, and international business and is open to all undergraduate students.
Entrepreneurship Minor
Declare an entrepreneurship minor if you're interested in either developing a business or working in a startup with the chance to explore entrepreneurship as a career option and acquire the skills that can help you be successful.
If you have any questions regarding Management department programs and events, please contact the following individuals:
Undergraduate Program Admission Inquiries
Jo-Anne Shibles
Email: jshibles@scu.edu
All Other Inquiries
Email: management@scu.edu
MGMT Faculty
CHAIR, PROFESSOR, MANAGEMENT
Barry Posner
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MGMT
Esther Sackett
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MGMT
Shaohua Lu
PROFESSOR, MANAGEMENT
Tammy Madesen
Beyond the Classroom
Get involved outside of the classroom!
Join one of our student networks to participate in SCU's management community and to meet others interested in management and entrepreneurship. Check out our Beyond the classroom page.
As a part of Santa Clara University's larger Thriving Neighbors Initiative, the Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative (NPI) connects you and the knowledge you gain in the classroom with a community in need.
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News and Events
Assistant Professor of Management, Esther Sackett, recognized for her "innovative and student-centered teaching style" in Poets&Quants annual international list. Prior to academia, Sackett spent six years working in the healthcare industry, doing program development and evaluation in hospitals and nonprofits. Her research investigates the interpersonal dynamics of collaboration and motivation at multiple levels of analysis.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Management, Hooria Jazaieri, Ph.D. who has been named as one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets&Quants. The honor, from Poets&Quants' fourth annual list, came in the form of nominations from 1000+ students, alumni, colleagues, and school deans and is based on a weighted consideration of research (30%) and teaching (70%).
Michael Santoro along with colleagues Haibing Lu (Information Systems & Analytics), Michele Samorini (Information Systems & Analytics), as well as Shannon Harris from VCU, and Linda Goler Blount from the Black Women Health Imperative recently won the prestigious 2021 INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) award for their work on racial disparity in health care.
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