Many Babson students intend to lead a business, a functional area, or become an influential consultant or analyst.  Strategic Management teaches how these roles are performed in business.  These careers require an integrated understanding of business, corporate, and global strategy formulation and implementation.  Strategic Management constitutes the processes by which a company, large or small, domestic or international, single or multi-business determines its long-run direction and performance by ensuring careful formulation, effective and efficient implementation, and continuous monitoring of results.

The Strategic Management Concentration is a powerful adjunct to other concentrations by incorporating how managers or consultants lead their teams to the most successful future.  This is important because Strategic Management dominates most established businesses.  As a result, we encourage you to take the Strategic Management Concentration with another concentration such as Marketing, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Economics, or Global Management.  You will need to take two of a selection of courses in Strategic Management and two complementary courses from a choice of approximately twenty-five from across the curriculum.  A net of only three courses qualifies you for the Strategic Management Concnetration if one of the courses you choose double counts with your other concentration.