Vanderbilt University Business Management Certification Program

Presented by the Owen Graduate School of Management, the Vanderbilt Business Management Certificate is a comprehensive certificate designed especially for working professionals.

Each course contains experiential learning elements:

• Leadership – Listening Exercise, Analyzing your current brand personality, Creating Your Desired Brand Personality, Creating your elevator pitch, Creating your personal brand pitch, Case study evaluation, Creating a course project, Writing and delivering a buy in speech, quizzes, discussion board questions, live office hours with faculty
• Finance & Accounting – Evaluate the performance of a company, Evaluate the viability of selling a new product, quizzes, discussion board questions, live office hours with faculty
• Strategy & Operations – Michael Porter’s Five Forces analysis, Creating a work breakdown structure, Creating a Gannt chart, case studies, quizzes, discussion board questions, live office hours with faculty
• Innovation – Diagnostic surveys on Individual Constraints, Group Constraints, Organizational Constraints, Industry Constraints, Societal Constraints, Technological Constraints, quizzes, discussion board questions, live office hours with faculty