A Business School to Keep an Eye on in 2023: D'Amore-McKim at Northeastern University
David De Cremer is Appointed New Dean
David De Cremer, the creator and head of National University of Singapore’s Center on AI Technology for Humankind, will take over D'Amore McKim School of Business as dean. He was previously a scholar at St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, and the KPMG funded professor of management studies at Cambridge Judge Business School in the United Kingdom.
In addition to his academic work, De Cremer is a best-selling author, frequent keynote speaker, and business consultant, as well as a global thought leader in management by Thinkers50. He has also worked as an associate editor for prestigious publications like the Academy of Management Annals and Social Justice Research, and he is a founding editor of the magazine AI and Ethics.
A New Online MBA Program for the Future
D'Amore-mcKim School of Business started one of the first online MBA programs in 2006, and it has stayed popular since then. Emery Trahan, acting dean of the D'Amore-McKim Business School, explains in a 2022 interview with P&Q that it was time to reimagine a new MBA program for the future - not just update or refresh this existing one.
PRICE WILL ROUGHLY BE HALF OF THE LEGACY PROGRAM
“The production of the program is different. The way the courses are delivered is different. We are building on our long history of experiential education and really leveraging something very significant into an online, scalable program and the price point is very different.” Trahan means cutting the price roughly in half to $45,000 when compared to D'Amore-McKim's legacy program.
COMMITTED RESOURCES secured
Technically, the school's primary expertise is online learning, computer tools, classroom methods, and ongoing support. D'Amore-McKim, however, is now adding something fresh to the table. According to Kate Klepper, assistant director of graduate programs at the D'Amore-McKim Business School, they have committed resources, including a large number of business partners and alumni who are willing to help.
The ability to take live or taped classes
The ability to take live or taped classes is an example of flexibility in this new online MBA educational platform. D'Amore-McKim offers both of these choices, but they prefer to think of it as personalization rather than flexibility. Students can select one of three concentrations in the brand-new online MBA program: business analytics, finance, or innovation and entrepreneurship, and they must finish four electives to become highly knowledgeable in a particular area. In fact, student-selected electives make up 29 of the program's 50 credits. Furthermore, students can finish the coursework in 18-36 months while receiving the same intensive career services assistance and access to professors as their on-campus peers.
program DESIGNED FOR students with a fair amount of business experience
This new online MBA program began in October last year, and a new cohort will begin in April 2023. According to Mark Dockser, a D'Amore-mcKim professor who helped create the program, the online MBA appeals to a specific student profile. "Students who have a fair amount of business experience already, that are making a commitment to come back in and saying, "I want these skills. I want to be able to move to those levels.”
MBAx Specializations
However, the two-year full-time MBA curriculum involves paid corporate residencies ranging in length from three to twelve months. Students are now able to pursue MBAx specializations at the same time. Students can combine a standard business field concentration, such as Entrepreneurship or International Business, with a topic outside the business school after finishing basic classes. Experience Design, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Visualization, Game Design, and Media Creativity are among them.
Collaboration with Mayo Clinic to Offer a Master’s in Management Degree
Last year, the university announced a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic College of Science and Medicine to offer an online Master's in Management degree in Digital Healthcare Transformation. A year-long initiative in which faculty from D'Amore-McKim and Bouve College of Health Sciences collaborate with Mayo Clinic faculty to co-teach a number of courses. Throughout the process, students learn about healthcare finance, service innovation, and supply chain management.
At every stage, D'Amore-McKim is looking to the future. Whether online or in-person, the school has carved out a distinct stance - and created programming around it - to prepare students for it. As history has shown, they are not scared of challenging what works in order to create results that matter.