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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.
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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
The Program
How to Apply
Applicants should submit the following to Penn State Great Valley's Admissions Office, 30 E. Swedesford Road, Malvern, PA 19355:
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- Two official transcripts from undergraduate institution (more Info )
- A current résumé (more info )
- Statement of intent or career objective (more Info)
- One letter of recommendation (more info ) (for the recommendation form, click here).
This program allows participants to begin graduate coursework on a short-term basis without committing to a full master’s degree, and then build upon their skills and knowledge at a later date with an MBA. Students who complete the Critical Success Factors for Business Leadership Certificate and decide to pursue an MBA at Penn State Great Valley may formally apply to the program by submitting the following:
- Online application and $45 fee
- An additional letter of recommendation (click here)
- GMAT score (more Info )
If accepted into the MBA program, up to 15 credits in the certificate may be applied to the degree.
About Penn State Great Valley
Located just off Route 202 in the Great Valley Corporate Center, Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies was the first campus in the nation located in a corporate park. Designed exclusively to meet the needs of busy adults, the School of Graduate Professional Studies has been offering graduate education in southeastern Pennsylvania for forty years.
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“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
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