Hallmarks
Management as a Liberal Art
We believe management is a discipline as well as a practice, one of the liberal arts that all educated persons should learn. Management is broad, including both the analytical tasks such as finance and the soft sciences such as interpersonal communication. Our MBA is bigger than mastering business functions - it is a transdisciplinary program designed to develop ethical and well-rounded leaders.
Designed for Experienced Leaders
Join a selective MBA program where your peers are senior-level managers with five or more years of executive responsibility. Our seminar-style classes capitalize on the maturity of our students by encouraging the exchange of ideas and experiences.
Ethical Leadership
Enron, Arthur Anderson, and Worldcom have made ethical leadership a headline topic in recent years.The subject of ethics is not new for us. Drawing from our faith heritage, George Fox has always emphasized an ethical approach to management. We provide students with tools for ethical decision making and conflict resolution.
Network Power
George Fox MBA students and alumni are employed by many of the top corporations in the United States, including:
Nike, Intel, Hewlett-Packard,Wells Fargo, HSBC, Xerox, State Farm, Liberty Mutual, RadiSys, Louisiana-Pacific, Pfizer, Symantec, IBM, Farmers Insurance,Tektronix, Bank Of America, Verizon, Mentor Graphics, Medical Teams International, State of Oregon.
International Trip
A cornerstone of George Fox is our commitment to global awareness and cultural understanding. Making a difference requires that we look outside national boundaries. George Fox students have the opportunity to learn about business, culture, and government in a global context with a study week abroad. Incoming cohorts are slated to travel to China. Program tuition subsidizes the cost of an integrated internal study week for Executive Track students.The week abroad is scheduled well in advance to allow for planning.
Assessment Tests
Assessment tests are an essential component of this program.These tests may include Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation Behavior (FIRO-B), Meyers- Briggs Type Indicator Step II, Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI), and Conflict Dynamics Profile (CDP). Assessments are completed over the first nine months of the program and cover key areas for determining a person's management, leadership, and interpersonal style.
Personal Coaching
In his article, "The Myth of the Well-Educated Manager," educator Sterling Livingstone states that to be an effective leader each person must discover his or her personal style of managing. George Fox is dedicated to developing executives who are self-aware. To facilitate this, the Executive Track offers four personal coaching sessions throughout the 24-month program. Selection of a coach is based on personal preference. The School of Management has a list of coaches for students to review in order to find the right match.
Faculty Mentoring
Each student is assigned a faculty mentor. This individual helps build and refine the students' management expertise by helping them solve problems in their own positions and organizations. Each cohort will enroll between 12 and 18 students. At the completion of each course, participants submit a report that describes how their organization could use the ideas presented in readings, lectures, and discussions. Between seminars, students engage in one-on-one tutoring and mentoring sessions with their faculty mentor and often the course instructor. This element helps to ensure that the focus of the program is not on teaching, but on learning.
Service Projects
To further develop students who serve their businesses and communities with integrity, justice and grace, our programs include a community service project. This project emphasizes the value of social responsibility and identifies leadership as an act of humility. This project helps senior leaders learn how to work on NGO and nonprofit boards as directors.
