An MBA in the field of Strategic Management and Public Policy is directed toward understanding and analyzing the principal forces shaping the
global business environmnet: governmental policies and programs, social and cultural change,
and the structure, evolution, and fluctations of the economy. Students in this field take
courses that survey political, economic, social, legal, and ethical environments of business and the
micro- and macro-economic foundations of government policies. Special attention is given to
business response to these policies.
MBA Curriculum
All students in the MBAD program take two non-waivable core courses taught by faculty in the SMPP Department -- MBAD 260, "Business and Public Policy" (taught by Professors Lenn, Englander, Starik, Burke, Griffin, and Carruth) and MBAD 270, "Strategy Formulation and Implementation" (taught by Professors Davis, Thurman, Cook, and Starik).
Students in the field take four more SMPP courses and are allowed to take one additional SMPP course as an elective. All SMPP students are required to take:
SMPP 202 Business-Government Relations
Historical and philosophical foundations of the business-government relationship: regulations, international trade, and corporate political activities. Public Policy issues facing business and the business community's political response. (Lenn, Englander, Becker)
and a choice of three courses from among the following:
SMPP 205 Business Representation and Lobbying
Strategies, tactics, and techniques used by business in representing itself to the legislative and executive branches and regulatory agencies of the federal government. Legal and practical constraints. (distinguished adjunct faculty)
SMPP 206 Applied Microeconomics
Applications of theory to public and private decisions with emphasis on public policy analysis. Focus on market structure and its implications, imperfect information, common property, public goods, and externalities. Economic analysis of government behavior and legal institutions. (Beales)
SMPP 207
Environment, Energy, Technology, & Society
The identification, investigation, and evaluation of how environment,
energy, and technology are inter-related, and how these interactions
influence societal policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation at the
international, regional, national, industrial, and organizational levels.
(Starik)
SMPP 208 Macroeconomic Policy and Business
Determination of national income, employment, inflation, and interest rates. the role of expectations in the economy. Impact of government purchases, tax policy, and deficits. Monetary policy and institutions. The global economy and exchange rates. (distinguished adjunct faculty)
SMPP 209 Seminar: Business Economics and Public Policy
Analysis and discussion of selected issues in the field. Topics change regularly. (Lenn, Englander)
SMPP 210 Strategic Environmental Management
Considers the many relationships among the goals, strategies, and programs of business, government, and non-profit organizations and their natural, cultural, and political-economic environments. Analyzes and evaluates the orientations and actions of organizations, especially business firms and industries, regarding natural environment utilization, exploitation, conservation, and preservation and the related impacts on organizational effectiveness and societal and environmental well being. (Starik)
SMPP 291 Ethics and Business
Concepts and strategies of ethical analysis applied to specific business problems, e.g.. risk management, plant relocation, preferential hiring, political advertising; development of theory of corporate social responsibility. (Lenn)
SMPP 293 American Business History
The history of American business institutions in manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and finance. Particular attention will be given to the period since industrialization, with consideration of business institutions in their economic, legal , governmental, and social contexts. (Becker)
Occasionally SMPP faculty offer a special topics course (SMPP 290) which may be used as a field course when approved by a faculty advisor.
As described elsewhere in the GWU Graduate Program Bulletin, you will be taking five elective courses in addition to your SMPP field and MBAD Core Courses. Your five elective courses may include one from the SMPP field. You may select courses from all other departments in GWSB as well as from other parts of the University outside GWSB (also from Universities in the Washington Consortium). The only requirement is that one of your elective courses have a global focus relation to the SMPP field, e.g. MGT 232; IBUS 260, 261, 263; ECON 283, 284, or POLS 238, 239, SMPP 207.
Course selection should be done with the advice of a department faculty advisor.
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