Management

Learning about management through exposure to active, problem-based, collaborative,“real-world” learning methods

www.bucknell.edu/Management

Mission

The School of Management at Bucknell University integrates professional and liberal undergraduate education. Our School brings together a highly selective student body and a faculty of engaged teacher- scholars with unique and diverse perspectives. We work collaboratively, as a learning community, to understand organizations, analyze them rigorously, and devise creative and morally responsible solutions to the challenges they face. Having benefited from an innovative curriculum, our graduates possess strong technical skills as well as the judgment, vision, and integrity necessary to serve society and their professions.

Graduate and Professional School

Bucknell’s management alumni who seek graduate and professional degrees consistently enroll in top programs across the country. Recently, students have gone on to:

  • Brooklyn Law School
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell University
  • Harvard Business School
  • Northwestern University
  • Rutgers University
  • University of Heidelberg
  • University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Yale School of Architecture

Student-Managed Investment Fund

The student-managed investment fund course offers selected students an opportunity to manage a real dollar investment portfolio.

Internships

Internships provide management and accounting students with real-world business experience, professional development and networking benefits. Bucknell’s Career Development Center helps students identify and apply for internships. Recently, students have interned with:

  • Ernst & Young
  • Deloitte
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Goldman Sachs Operations
  • Merrill Lynch

Study Abroad

At Bucknell, management and accounting majors often enhance their studies by spending a summer, semester or year abroad through one of Bucknell’s own “in” programs or through one of many approved programs around the world. Recently, management and accounting majors have studied in:

  • Florence
  • Milan
  • Prague
  • Spain
  • Vienna

Resources

  • The Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management -- a joint effort with the College of Engineering -- offers selected management, engineering and liberal arts students an opportunity to participate in a highly intensive summer program after their sophomore year. This six-week on-campus program trains students to become the next generation of managers in the technology age and typically leads to special internship opportunities the following summer.
  • Bucknell student teams compete against each other and other university teams in solving and presenting complex business cases developed by Johnson & Johnson and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  • The Bucknell Business Advisory Board, a group of business professionals, advises and supports the School of Management in its efforts to prepare students for the global business world.
  • The multimedia classrooms, computer labs and computer classrooms are fully networked and have advanced projection capabilities.

Career Paths

Each year, about 140 management and accounting graduates compete successfully in the job market. Over the past three years, 95 percent of Bucknell management and accounting majors were employed full time within eight months after graduation. Recent alumni have secured the following sampling of positions:

  • Analyst, Morgan Stanley
  • Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Portfolio Specialist, BlackRock
  • Auditor, KPMG Consulting LLC
  • Analyst, Accenture
  • Associate, Meritage Properties
  • Business Banker, PNC Bank, N.A.

Chief Bucknell Benefits

  • Students gain important analytical, technical and communication skills.
  • The integration of professional and general education perspectives gives students a broad base for personal and career choices.
  • Students gain leadership skills through a variety of in-class and out-of-class activities.
  • Students are repeatedly challenged to consider the ethical ramifications of business decisions.
  • Professors share a wealth of real-world experience; along with teaching, they are actively engaged in scholarship and/or consulting.
  • Management students learn from professors who are strongly committed to classroom teaching and who take a personal interest in their students.

Program Details

  • Students can choose from two tracks, both leading to the B.S.B.A. degree: management or accounting. Students are admitted to the program as incoming first-year students or through a competitive selection process during the first semester of their sophomore year.
  • Management students learn to think critically and communicate effectively about the economic, social, political and cultural issues they will face throughout their careers and lives, while also gaining technical competence in their field. The University’s strong integration of liberal arts and professional education helps students achieve these goals.
  • Students are repeatedly challenged to consider the ethical ramifications of business decisions.
  • Bucknell’s flexible program enables majors and non-majors to choose additional electives in such areas as marketing, finance, human resources management, operations management and decision and information sciences.
  • Management 101 is a collaborative, experiential course that has been widely recognized as an innovative model for management schools. In this class, students form their own companies, market products and conduct community service projects.
  • All accounting graduates are eligible to take the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam in Pennsylvania or to take the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) exam. With proper planning, students can meet CPA education requirements in other states as well – including those that require 150 hours of higher education for CPA licensing.
  • A five-year, dual degree in Engineering and Management is available for engineers with management career goals.
  • Bucknell ranks first among 213 baccalaureate liberal arts colleges for graduates who have earned Ph.D.s in Business and Management

Faculty

Bucknell’s School of Management faculty members share a wealth of real-world experience; along with teaching, they are actively engaged in scholarship, consulting or both.

Douglas E. Allen
marketing
B.S.B.A., M.S. Bucknell; Ph.D. Penn State

Matthew D. Bailey
decision sciences
B.S. Purdue; M.S., Ph.D. Michigan- Ann Arbor

Mihai M. Banciu
operations and decision science
B.S. Romanian-American University; M.S. James Madison; Ph.D. Pittsburgh

Mark S. Bettner
accounting and financial management
B.S. Oregon State; M.S. Virginia Tech; Ph.D. Texas Tech

Stephen Brady
Operations Research
B.S. University of Tennessee; M.S. University of Tennessee & Stanford University; Ph.D. Stanford University

Paul W. Brann
business law
B.S. Mansfield; M.S. Bucknell; M.A. Illinois; J.D. Dickinson

Manmohan Chaubey
Strategy
B.A., Indian Institute of Technology, M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, Ph.D., University of Iowa

Jordi R. Comas
social networks and knowledge/learning, organizational change
B.A. Carleton; M.A. Virginia; Ph.D. IESE/Universidad de Navarra

William R. Gruver
investments, strategy, international relations, leadership
A.B. Dartmouth; M.B.A. Columbia

Cynthia Guthrie
accounting and financial Management
B.A. West Florida; M.B.A. Richmond; Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth, CPA

Jamie R. Hendry
strategy and business ethics
B.S. George Mason; M.B.A. Virginia; Ph.D. Virginia Tech

Tammy Bunn Hiller
organizational management
B.S.B.A., Ph.D. North Carolina at Chapel Hill

David E. Jensen
accounting and financial management
B.S. Bloomsburg; M.S., Ph.D. Penn State, CPA

Michael E. Johnson-Cramer
Director, School of Management
business ethics
A.B. Harvard; M.B.A. Ecole de Commerce Solvay, Université Libre de Bruxelles; D.B.A. Boston

Richard Kedzior
Marketing
M.Sc. (Economics) Warsaw School of Economics; Ph.D. Hanken School of Economics

Mary F. Leshinskie
business law
B.S., M.E. Bloomsburg; J.D. Duquesne

Eric Martin
organizational management
B.S. Vermont; M.P.A. Indiana; Ph.D. SUNY Albany

Stacy Mastrolia
accounting and financial management
B.A. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; M.B.A. Georgia State; Ph.D. University of Tennessee, CPA

Dianne McDonald
Business Law
A.B. University of Georgia; M.Ed. University of Maryland, J.D. Loyola University

Elton “Skip” G. McGoun
accounting and financial management
B.S. Illinois Institute of Technology; M.B.A. Alaska; Ph.D. Indiana

Robert A. Needham
accounting and financial management
B.A. Duquesne; M.B.A. Youngstown, CPA

Curtis Nicholls
accounting and financial management
B.S. Brigham Young University, Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder

Seth Osborn
marketing
B.S., University at Buffalo: M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon

Eric L. Santanen
management information systems
B.S., M.S. New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Arizona

Kristy Schenck
Accounting
B.S., M.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. Penn State University

Alia Stanciu
decision sciences
B.S.B.A. Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, M.B.A. James Madison, PhD Pittsburgh

Timothy Sweeney
Marketing
B.S.B.A., M.B.A., University of Scranton, Ph.D., Penn State University

Janice M. Traflet
business history and marketing
B.A., M.B.A. Seton Hall; Ph.D. Columbia

Stephen Willits
accounting and financial management
B.S. John Brown; M.S. Arkansas; Ph.D. Texas Tech, CPA

Courses

General Management

Introduction to Organization and Management
Business, Government and Society in France
Leadership in Management and Technology
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Business, Government and Society
Special Topics in Management
Management Theory and Practice
Management Strategy and Policy
Internship in Management and Technology
Environment of International Business
Strategic Thinking

Management and Law

Business Law I and II

Organization and Human Resources Management

Human Resources Management
Seminar in Organization Studies
Organizational Behavior
Organization Theory

Decision and Information Sciences

Introduction to Information Systems
Managerial Statistics
Operations Management
Special Topics in Information Systems
Decision Sciences
Special Topics in Decision Sciences

Accounting

Foundations of Accounting and Financial Management I and II
Intermediate Accounting and Financial
Management I and II
Advanced Accounting
Tax Accounting I and II
Auditing
Advanced Seminar in Accounting
Cost Accounting 

Finance

Corporate Finance
Cases in Accounting and Financial Management
International Finance
Student Managed Investment Fund I and II
Investments
Investment Banking

Marketing

Principles of Marketing
Marketing Research
Consumer Behavior
Special Topics in Marketing
Marketing Management

Foundation Seminars

Six Degrees of Separation

Capstones

Strategic Thinking
Images of International Business
Women in the Workplace
Leadership: History, Theory and Practice
Living in the Information Age
Organizing for Justice and Social Change
International Relations
American Highways
American Global Strategy
Managing with Passion

Facilities

  • A Collaborative Learning Lab is equipped with team workstations and Groupware, which includes various brainstorming, voting and project management applications.
  • The Moriarty Investment Center provides electronic access to a variety of online research reports, business and financial news services, real-time stock, options and futures market data, along with various analytical and graphics tools including Bloomberg, CompuStat, Ibbotson, Value Line, QUODD, NetAdvantage and Barra.

Related Student Organizations

Bucknell Accounting Club

Bucknell Business Leaders

Delta Mu Delta (business administration honor society)

Microfinance Initiative at Bucknell (MIB)

Phi Beta Lambda (PBL)

Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF)