Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The MBA program at Lakehead University is designed to prepare students for a successful career in the business world. The primary goals of the program are to develop the analytical decision-making and communication skills and to expand students’ knowledge of effective management practice while instilling a professional and responsible attitude toward business.
The program is a general MBA with no specific major - in order to improve the business skill of a wide variety of student backgrounds. It provides exposure to key management concepts and practices in the following business areas:
- Operations Management – logistical efficiencies, quality control, manufacturing and service production, enterprise resource planning, and capacity planning.
- Marketing Management – research analysis, advertising account and sales management, public relations, product development, inventory and distribution control.
- Financial Management – money and banking, capital markets, investments, and financial analysis, public sector finance.
- Human Resource Management – training and development, labor relations, benefits management, policy development.
- Management Information Systems - theory, technology, and application of management information systems to revitalize business processes, conduct electronic commerce/business, improve business decision-making, facilitate collaboration, initiate knowledge management.
- Financial and Management Accounting – financial accounting, auditing, controllership.