MS x: Strategic Technology Leadership

• Who is an ideal candidate for this program? Applicants typically have ten or more years of work experience after earning an undergraduate degree. Most have experience using technology to further business goals, a strong record of professional achievement, and leadership potential. 
• Where do I apply? Start your application here.
• Interview required? No.
• GMAT/GRE required? Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business is currently test-optional and does not require applicants to submit GRE or GMAT scores. For more information watch this video, or review our admissions policies.
• English language proficiency: English proficiency, both written and verbal, is necessary for success in D'Amore-McKim classrooms. For more information, review our admissions policies.

MS x: Strategic Technology Leadership

Tuition

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Offers three executive seminars in which students build “chapters” that comprise their Integrated and Applied Technology Leadership (IATL) project. Primarily examines the technical and managerial challenges of implementing complex technology-based products—from system modeling, integration of modules, requirements verification, and formal specifications to the definition and overall coordination of the development team's efforts. Covers multiple product environments. Pairs students with mentors based on initial project proposal. Regular meetings with mentors offer students opportunities to refine the project and reinforce the business needs. May be repeated once.

INNO 6250 | 3 Hours

Examines how organizations invest in new technologies to gain a competitive edge. Exposes students to different methods used to improve core business performance through strategic planning, technology road mapping, and market analysis. Offers students an opportunity for hands-on experience with formulating and implementing strategic plans.

INNO 6240 | 1 Hour

Emphasizes the importance of how to market and sell new products or services, both for internal and external applications. Offers students an opportunity to acquire a comprehensive understanding of how to design strategic revenue strategies that focus on how value is determined and revenues are matched against expense investments. Guides students to explore the challenges and solutions to implementing new innovation processes that leverage digital technologies and collaborative cultures. Includes a mix of research topics, cases, and hands-on learning.

INNO 6241 | 1 Hour

Explores the policies and procedures germane to the internal operation of a technology-driven organization. Emphasizes the principles of risk management and quality control, training and documentation requirements, standards design, and IT support systems. Focuses on choosing, developing, and using operational metrics and analytics to govern a technology-driven operation and mining business intelligence from internal and external sources for use in running that operation.

INNO 6242 | 1 Hour

Introduces how to measure, analyze, and evaluate the profit impact of marketing actions (MAP) by bringing together marketing, strategy, and finance. Your organization is going to spend millions on a new marketing or strategic initiative, but how will you know if it is working? Marketing performance measurement and feedback systems enable managers to take smarter risks by assessing experimental projects and forecasting the profit potential of bigger, bolder initiatives. Offers students an opportunity to explore systems that summarize marketing productivity and suggest steps for performance improvement in marketing strategy and tactics.

MKTG 6230 | 3 Hours

Examines data mining perspectives and methods in a business context. Introduces the theoretical foundations for major data mining methods and studies how to select and use the appropriate data mining method and the major advantages for each. Students use contemporary data mining software applications and practice basic programming skills. Focuses on solving real-world problems, which require data cleaning, data transformation, and data modeling.

MISM 6212 | 3 Hours

Reviews the key theories and tools needed to understand how technological change creates new markets and prompts new business models, how technology-based firms can outcompete rivals in fast-growing markets characterized by high uncertainty, and how the evolution of technology in an industry affects the type of firm capabilities needed to succeed over time.

ENTR 6222 | 3 Hours

Seeks to help students build the cross-cultural skills necessary to comfortably and effectively work in different cultures and with people from different cultures. Discusses the alignment between the firm's business strategy and the leader's responses in a multicultural environment along with the methods for leadership effectiveness in multicultural teams and virtual environments. Using online, experiential, and discussion-based methods, offers students an opportunity to gain the self-awareness needed to generate a plan for their own global leadership development.

INTB 6226 | 3 Hours

Trains managers to understand the competitive implications of global economic policies, the business effects of technological change, and the commercial imperatives of alternative political systems at a macro level. At a micro level, it creates a framework for industry analysis in a global setting that combines economic analysis, competitive analysis, and business decision-making skills.

MECN 6200 | 3 Hours

In consultation with your advisor, complete 9 graduate-level semester courses for which prerequisites have been met.

You may also take elective courses in the following areas of study: Accounting, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Entrepreneurship Technological, Finance & Insurance, Human Resources Management, International Business, Managerial Economics, Marketing, Management, Supply Chain Management, Strategy. View the University's Course Catalog for up-to-date listings.