Accreditation/Certification

MBA PowerPak™ Presented by Global Resources

Global Resources is pleased to have entered into an alliance with Northeastern University's College of Business Administration for MBA PowerPak^™ Participants may receive NU-CBA Certification for their MBA PowerPak^™ experience.

During your participation in MBA PowerPak^™ you will study key issues within the following business topics:

• Managing in the New Millennium
• Ethics
• Business Strategy and Planning
• Marketing Principles
• Marketing in a Global Economy
• Financial Analysis
• Technology and Information
• Organizational Behavior and Leadership
• Managerial Effectiveness and Communication
• Global Business Management

In order to earn Northeastern University/MBA PowerPak^™ Certification, you are required to research a business issue or challenge, to write a paper on this topic, and to present your findings to one of the Northeastern University/MBA PowerPak^™ professors. The paper and presentation must include the following elements:

• A knowledge of skills learned in the MBA PowerPak^™ course
• A research topic related to your current job responsibility
• The application of model(s), in your MBA PowerPak^™ Program Materials binder, from any of the following MBA PowerPak^™ course components:

Some possible suggestions are:

1. Managing in the New Millennium: Develop a Globalization model/plan for your firm/unit. 
2. Ethics: Develop a mission statement or code of ethics.
3. Business Strategy and Planning: Develop a plan for a new organizational goal or new product. Apply business planning models to your company or organization.
4. Marketing: Possible topics might include new product introduction, the marketing decision process, indicators of marketing potential, factors influencing buyer decisions, and diffusion of innovation where the product meets the market. Be sure to utilize the marketing models.
5. Finance: Apply financial ratios to your Strategic Business Unit/firm. Show your analysis and determine the qualitative issues generated by your quantitative analysis.
6. Technology and Information: Assess your Strategic Business Unit/firm in terms of the Third Wave Economy. What changes would you implement and why? Assess the value of information technology in terms of its specific contribution to creating strategic competitive advantage in your firm. Apply the six factors in the IT model to an analysis of how your firm is creating a knowledge base.
7. Organizational Behavior and Managerial Effectiveness: Possible topics include your organization's changing requirements for managers, as understood through the Organizational Model, analyses for improving your Strategic Business Unit's managerial effectiveness by applying concepts from Keirsey profile differences, determinants of managerial influence, problem-solving or communication.

If you prefer, you may develop a project different from the ideas presented above, provided that it addresses the three main elements stated previously. If you choose to develop your own project, be sure to discuss it with your Northeastern University/MBA PowerPak™ Certification Project Advisor prior to beginning your work.
The Certification Project Advisor will be a MBA PowerPak^™ Program Instructor as well as a resident professor at Northeastern University's College of Business Administration. The Certification Project Advisor will serve as your point-of-contact throughout the research and preparation of your research project.

Once your Northeastern University/MBA PowerPak^™ Certification Project Advisor has been determined, you will have four weeks to research, prepare, and submit a draft copy of your paper. Your paper must be 20 - 25 pages in length and utilize standard research paper formats (e.g. footnotes, references, charts/tables as needed, etc.). During your four week research period, we encourage you to communicate with your Advisor and to utilize your Advisor as a project resource. Once the draft research paper has been submitted to your Advisor and you receive comments, you will be provided a date, location, and/or time to attend a Northeastern University/MBA PowerPak^™ Certification Session to present your findings. Your final Northeastern University/MBA PowerPak^™ Certification Project paper is due at the time of your presentation. Your Certification Advisor will then provide comments on both your presentation and the related paper within two weeks of your presentation.

You may obtain further information regarding Northeastern University/MBA PowerPak^™ Certification during the MBA PowerPak^™ session you attend.