Bold Outcomes in Business Begin With Human-Centered Design
What makes our curriculum different?
View the skills set you'll gain and the classes that will give them to you.
Harness your team's creativity to design what's next
In order to prepare our graduates to lead design and innovation teams, we have designed our curriculum to focus on the following skill sets:
Learn to develop customer insights, personas, and journey maps through ethnographic research. Lead with empathy for customers and users, and gaining a deep understanding of customer needs.
Apply principles of innovation to ideas, products, business models, and always “thinking big”.
Grow your ability to fostering communication among engineers and designers.
Capture imaginations
Storytelling is critical to getting buy-in and peak interest in stakeholders and customers alike. Learn to present your ideas and solutions – and the data that motivates them – in a manner that is engaging, clear, and memorable. You will learn to communicate to the whole brain by turning verbal messages to salient visuals, expressing abstract numbers as sensorimotor objects, leveraging existing association networks, and telling immersive stories.
Know how it's built
The new reality is that every company is a software company.
Know your products inside and out, and communicate more credibly with the developers on your team by
Lead with confidence
Hone your leadership skills, strategic thinking, and business acumen with a foundation of conventional MBA classes, including classes in:
Know your business from every possible angle
Compliment traditional business skills with analytics expertise that will enable you to make the most informed decisions.
Delve even deeper into business management than the traditional MBA skills with advanced analytics to drive data-driven decisions for your organization.
Differentiate Yourself with MMM
Don't take our word for it. Check out a few of the courses that our alumni feel made the difference in their careers.
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In this hands-on studio course, first-year students work together to approach problem-solving with a design thinking mindset, developing innovative solutions to a client challenge. Previously, students redesigned the departure experience for United Airlines or reimagined the future of eSports for Under Armour.
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Designed by a Cognitive Science professor, this course teaches students effective visual and verbal communication techniques to present data-driven arguments. Students learn to use Tableau, a data visualization tool, to communicate more compelling stories to the ‘whole brain’.
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In this capstone course, second-year student teams collaborate with leading global organizations to solve real-world business innovation challenges at the intersection of human-centered design, technology, and business.
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This course provides students with the foundation that product managers need to mindfully discover, design, and scale products, services, and experiences that meet the needs of humans. It incorporates aspects from mindfulness, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile.
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In this introductory programming course, students learn how software works and how software is created. Students witness the development process firsthand by building their own functional prototypes using the Ruby on Rails web application.
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Students explore the nexus of innovation strategy and emerging platforms for market place analytics. Innovation policy is explored through the lenses of the intellectual property regimes and the associated portfolio of assets held by partner firms.
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Try out new skills through hands-on experiences and field work
In addition to classroom education spanning business, design innovation and technology, the program also offers a robust variety of co-curricular, hands-on learning opportunities and field work. Students learn how to identify, research, and solve problems throughout the entire ecosystem of a business including product development, operations management, product management and growth strategy.
