Program Experiences
Global Opportunities in Leadership Development (GOLD)
Worldwide business exposure provides a transformative educational experience. As such, the MBA program and the McBride Center for International Business partner to offer a global management experience as part of our updated full-time MBA curriculum.
Our students spend several days abroad engaging with people and organizations across a variety of businesses and industry sectors. In fall 2022, they participated in interactive business projects and site visits. Students also set aside time to complete a service project, planting trees in Costa Rica. The goal of this trip is to enable our students to frame the remainder of their courses of the MBA program against the backdrop of a first-hand global experience. Doing so will better prepare them to be influential and informed business leaders in an increasingly global marketplace.
2022 GOLD Trip | Costa Rica
Focus Firm
It's not enough to have business knowledge, you have to understand how and why to use it. Our Focus Firm class helps students achieve that understanding through an experiential learning project. Baylor MBA has partnered with a wide variety of companies for the Focus Firm class, including Fortune 500 companies such as 7-11, Lockheed Martin and Coca-Cola; non-profits such as One Heart Project and Waco Art Center; and entrepreneurial projects with Durango Midstream and Eljun, LLC.
What does success look like by the end of the Focus Firm class?
For Students:
- The ability to immediately apply knowledge learned in class to a real-world challenge. Students perform quantitative analysis to develop solutions based on data.
- Access to company executives who provide real-time feedback, while being coached by a practicing professional on industry expectations. Students are mentored on how to solve a business problem with time constraints, ambiguity and asymmetric information.
- Development of teamwork and presentation skills to demonstrate effective management. Students learn and practice in teams to accelerate the path from classroom learning to leadership-readiness.
For Partnering Companies:
- Evaluation of MBA talent. Executives interface with students for a short, high-impact project to assess knowledge and skills.
- The opportunity to career opportunities. Executives offer insights into corporate culture and required skills that MBA graduates will need for career success.
- Delivery of actionable solutions. Executives receive an outside perspective of an internal issue that could impact their business today.