1. GLOBAL
IMPACT
MBA
Lower Costs, Multiple
Products, Enhanced
Scalability

2. The Global Impact MBA
This reThink proposal offers an approach that will significantly improve the quality of the
full-time MBA program. This improvement in quality will be achieved by:
Determining and designing in a set of learning outcomes (competencies) from the outset.
Integrating disciplines throughout each module.
Combining theoretical and applied content and experiences.
In addition to the improvement in quality, this proposed approach to the full-time MBA:
Reduces the direct costs by decreasing the FTE committed to delivery.
Offers two complementary and integrated ‘products’: MBA degree and Certificate.
Creates a platform for scalability based on the modular structure.
The next three pages illustrate the last three points: Lower Cost of Delivery, Integrated
Products and Scalability.

3. Lower Cost of Delivery Assumption: 20 SCH/AY = 1.0 Instruction FTE; 4/SCH = 0.2 FTE
Current Full-Time MBA Curriculum Structure
4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH
4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH 4 SCH
The proposed
Global Impact MBA 2 SCH 2 SCH
4 SCH
1 SCH
6 SCH
will utilize 2.0 FTE, 2 SCH 2 SCH 1 SCH
compared to 3.8 1 SCH
1 SCH
2 SCH
FTE. This approach Instructional FTE per Term
frees up 0.6 FTE 0.65 FTE 0.65 FTE 0.2 FTE 0.6 FTE 0.55 FTE 0.55 FTE
instructional Total Instructional FTE
resources for other
activities = 3.8 FTE
(instruction,
scholarship, service) Proposed Global Impact MBA (Full-Time)
Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 Module 5
Instructional FTE per Term
0.4 FTE 0.4 FTE 0.4 FTE 0.4 FTE 0.4 FTE
Total Instructional FTE
= 2.0 FTE

4. Multiple Products
Global Impact MBA + Social Innovation Certificate
Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 Module 5
Certificate: On-line Portions of Modules 1, 2 and 3 The proposed
Global Impact MBA: Face-to-Face and Online Portions of Modules 1 - 5
Global Impact MBA
will embeds a Social
Innovation
Module 1 Module 2 Module 3
Certificate into the
MBA and MBA and MBA and Degree uses
MBA: MBA: MBA: MBA: MBA: MBA:
Certificate:
Face-to- Synchronous Face-to-
Certificate:
Face-to- Synchronous Face-to-
Certificate:
Face-to- Synchronous Face-to- synchronous and
Face Face Face Face Face Face
and and and asynchronous
Asynchronous Asynchronous Asynchronous
online learning. This
approach permits
two distinct
Social Innovation Certificate: Subset of each
Module delivered online (both synch and asynch)
audiences to be
for Certificate students; MBA degree students reached.
participate in this portion of course with
Certificate students.

5. Scalability
The modular structure of the curriculum facilitates the
eventual scaling of the entire program. This approach
overcomes many of the constraints of the current MBA,
including classroom availability, faculty teaching schedules
and discrete course sequencing.