HARVARD | BUSINESS | SCHOOL 2009
What's the best way to classify the functional areas of a general management program? We need 4-8 mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive "top level" areas, and a relatively clear way to incorporate more focused topics as subcategories. Here's my proposal:
- Managerial economics
- Entrepreneurship/New business ventures
- Strategy
- General management
- Entrepreneurship/New business ventures
- Finance
- Analytics/Quantitative methods
- Managerial accounting
- Corporate finance
- Operations Management
- IT/Management information systems
- Supply chain management
- Marketing
- Brand management
- Consumer behaviour
- Brand management
- Leadership & Organisational culture
- Interpersonal/intercultural skills
- Negotiation
- Human Resources
- Business and government
- Law
- Regulation
- Macroeconomics
Prior to writing up the above, I had a look at how other organisations go about classification. In my experience I haven't seen any business school that does it in a logically robust way. Here are some (unsatisfactory) examples:
Harvard Business School Publishing
Accounting & Control
Business & Government
Competitive Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Finance
General Management
HR Management
MIS
Marketing
Negotiations
Operations Management
OB & Leadership
Service Management
Social Enterprise & Ethics
Business & Government
Competitive Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Finance
General Management
HR Management
MIS
Marketing
Negotiations
Operations Management
OB & Leadership
Service Management
Social Enterprise & Ethics
Finance & Investment
Leadership & Change
Leadership & Change
Executive Education
Marketing
Insurance & Pensions
Health Economics
Strategic Management
Real Estate
Law and Public Policy
Human Resources
Business Ethics
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Operations Management
Managing Technology
Marketing
Insurance & Pensions
Health Economics
Strategic Management
Real Estate
Law and Public Policy
Human Resources
Business Ethics
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Operations Management
Managing Technology
London Business School Open Enrollment
Finance
General Management
Human Resources
Leadership
Marketing
Strategy
Venture capital and entrepreneurship
General Management
Human Resources
Leadership
Marketing
Strategy
Venture capital and entrepreneurship
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