Mission and Strategy

Learning Goal 1: Ingenuity

FSB students are curious lifelong learners who creatively adapt to dynamic business environments by generating novel ideas, developing new skills, and growing from and persisting through new developments, challenges, and setbacks.

• Adaptability: Engage in reflection to support lifelong learning by identifying personal strengths, areas for growth, and strategies for adapting to new technological and societal developments and challenges.
• Resilience: Students respond constructively to critical feedback to improve the quality of their work.

Learning Goal 2: Professionalism

FSB students are responsible and reliable contributors who strive to understand and work well with others, appreciate and respect different backgrounds, perspectives, and views and are committed to integrity.

• Integrity: FSB students demonstrate academic integrity in all academic work completed at Miami University.
• Respect: FSB students communicate views in a manner that is respectful of other people who have varying backgrounds, perspectives, and views.
• Responsibility: FSB students reliably attend class prepared to engage in classroom discussions, activities, and group work.

Learning Goal 3: Integrated Business Knowledge and Specialized Expertise

FSB students possess a holistic, integrated knowledge of business and specialized expertise that enables them to effectively and ethically address complex business problems under uncertainty.

• Integrated Business Knowledge: FSB students apply foundational principles across functional areas of business to analyze problems and identify solutions under uncertainty.
• Specialized Business Expertise: FSB students apply advanced disciplinary knowledge to analyze problems and identify solutions under uncertainty (parallel to the one above).
• Ethics: Students recognize ethical issues in business problems including potential uses of technology and data, and leverage ethical frameworks in their analysis.

Learning Goal 4: Technology and Data Agility

FSB students adapt to and leverage new technologies and data methods to ethically and responsibly gain insights that inform decisions, improve performance, and equip them to pursue opportunities.

• Applied Data and Technology: FSB students identify, select, and apply appropriate technologies and methods to ethically acquire and analyze data, identify opportunities, and address organizational challenges.

Learning Goal 5: Strategic Communication and Collaboration

FSB students are strategic communicators who adapt to changing purposes, contexts and audiences, work well in teams, and use multiple media to communicate in digital, global networks.

• Strategic, Multimodal Communication: FSB students leverage qualitative and quantitative data to craft and deliver clear, persuasive messages/stories tailored to specific audiences, purposes, and contexts across written, oral, and digital platforms.
• Diversity and Collaboration: FSB students work effectively in diverse teams, navigating both opportunities and challenges such as conflict and differing perspectives, and technology-enabled interaction.

Learning Goal 6: Problem-Solving and Innovation

FSB students apply critical and creative thinking skills, and engage with technology to identify and solve complex problems, improve organizational performance, and generate innovative opportunities for value creation.

• Critical Thinking: Use data and theory to reach well-supported conclusions for decision-making.
• Creative Thinking: Demonstrate creative problem-solving by generating and refining innovative ideas that lead to solutions and new opportunities.

Learning Goal 7: Leadership and Societal Impact

FSB graduates are ethical leaders who leverage their attributes, broad knowledge base and skillsets to identify opportunities, achieve organizational goals, effect positive societal change, and consider the broad long-term impacts of strategic choices.

• Strategic Decision-making: Students will be able to analyze organizational goals in relation to internal factors and external market forces and formulate ethical, mission-aligned decisions that balance long-term objectives with the interests of diverse stakeholders.
• Leadership and Societal Impact: Students will be able to assess the ethical and societal implications of business strategies, including their impact on sustainability, and articulate leadership approaches that create organizational value while fostering positive societal outcomes.

Cultivate a high-touch, high-quality learning environment that integrates experiential learning and industry engagement to drive student success

• Drive curricular and pedagogical innovation in business education
• Expand experiential learning across campus and beyond
• Strengthen integration of student-led organizations and alumni/employer partnerships

Prepare students for success in the ever-changing business landscape

• Infuse career preparation and exposure throughout the entire student experience
• Enhance quantitative and analytical capabilities and confidence in students
• Prepare students to thrive at the intersection of business and other high-demand fields

Future-proof a Farmer School education through faculty research, scholarship, and the integration of theory and practice

• Foster impactful research and scholarship addressing the ever-evolving business landscape
• Forge stronger connections between teaching, research, and practice
  
  

Act as a convenor of students, faculty, staff, alumni, employers, and other professionals to tackle
existing and emerging business opportunities and challenges.