Business Leadership Graduate Certificate - Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies

Graduate Certificate in Business:
Critical Success Factors in Business Leadership

Building a strategic management system is crucial if companies want to stay competitive and enjoy financial success. Recognizing the needs of area organizations and their management teams, Penn State Great Valley has created a graduate certificate in business and management: Critical Success Factors for Business Leadership. This program helps managers achieve success in four key performance areas valued by top organizations:

long and short-term financial performance
learning and growth of the organization's human assets
customer knowledge
internal business practices

This series of courses is based on key performance areas and addresses the problems companies have linking long-term strategy with short-term action. This program helps managers clarify strategic objectives, identify critical drivers, and create a framework for managing an organization's various change programs, thus building a strategic management system.

In this 15-credit certificate program, participants can gain state-of-the-art knowledge, skills, and abilities in our technologically advanced learning center. Small classes offer students individualized attention through innovative, challenging, and intellectually stimulating learning experiences in highly interactive classes. Penn State Great Valley's management faculty has established national and international reputations as scholars, consultants, practitioners, and researchers. They combine top academic credentials with a firm grasp of real-world issues, helping students sharpen a variety of business skills critical to career success.

This certificate program was created for

business professionals who wish to update their knowledge, skills, and abilities
managers in science, technology, or engineering who seek a business background
individuals making a transition into a managerial position
individuals returning to the workforce, or considering a career change
those who do not have an undergraduate degree in business and are considering an MBA

Great Valley's MBA Course Prerequisites: click here.

To access the Schedule of Courses, click here.

Ready to register?
Contact the Management Division at 610-648-3229 to request a "Drop/Add" form.

"It's a rare pleasure to enroll in a course that turns out to be as meaningful and enlightening as this one was - a course in which the real world and the theoretical world collided...and, on a daily basis, yielded a higher understanding of both."

Robert Beideman
Lockheed Martin Corp. Management & Data Systems

Pre-Program Requirements
Course #	Course Name	Schedule	Schedule
B A 517	Communication Skills for Management
BUSAD 501	Statistical Analysis for Managerial Decision Making		Fall 2013
Certificate Program Courses
Performance area	Course Name and Description	Schedule	Schedule
Financial Performance - 3 credits	ACCTG 511 - Financial & Managerial Accounting	Summer 2013	Fall 2013
Learning and Growth - 3 credits	MGMT 501 - Behavioral Science in Business	Summer 2013	Fall 2013
Customer Knowledge - 6 credits	BUSAD 523 - Prices and Markets MKTG 500 - Marketing Management	Summer 2013 Summer 2013	Fall 2013 Fall 2013
Internal Business Practices - 3 credits	OPMGT 510 - Operations Management or BUSAD 537 - Management Information Systems	Summer 2013 or Summer 2013	Fall 2013 Fall 2013

Graduate Certificate in Business: Critical Success Factors in Business Leadership

Graduate Certificate in Business:
Critical Success Factors in Business Leadership