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Student Profiles
Our students join MMM from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds eager to become a whole-brain innovation by learning business skills and design innovation.
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Cross-Functional Nexus
The Kellogg MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) at Northwestern University is designed as a dual degree program to develop cross-functional leaders who excel at creating products, processes, and organizations.
MMM equips students to seamlessly integrate human-centered design thinking with empathetic, AI-enabled product building – while mastering the ability to communicate, influence, and align diverse stakeholders. Graduates emerge with the capacity to translate complex ideas into clear action and lead effectively at the cross-functional nexus of modern organizations.
MMM Pillars
| Business Strategy & Execution | Human-Centered Design | AI & Technology Foundations | Communication & Influence |
How MMM Graduates Lead
- Frame the right problem before resources are committed
- Translate across disciplines, aligning business, design, and engineering around a shared direction
- Apply technology with judgment, focusing on what is appropriate in context
- Deliver, turning insight into solutions that organizations can implement, scale, and sustain
Where MMM Graduates Excel
MMM graduates excel in roles that do not sit neatly within a single function. These roles demand multiple forms of fluency - across business, technology, and human experience - and are defined less by narrow technical credentials and more by the integration of critical and creative thinking, applied with sound judgment.
- Product management and platform leadership
- Innovation, venture building, and startup roles
- Strategy roles that extend into execution and business design
- Consulting roles centered on complex, cross functional problem solving
- Design strategy and customer experience leadership
- Transformation, product operations, and system level leadership roles
MBA + MSDI = Cross-Functional Leaders
Uniting Kellogg MBA with MS in Design Innovation
The MMM Program adapts to the rapidly evolving business landscape by integrating an MS in Design Innovation with the Kellogg MBA. This unique program focuses on design thinking, innovation, analytics, and product management skills, aligning with the changing skill requirements driven by emerging technologies.
Curriculum
Get ready to drive impact
The MMM Program maintains an enhanced design innovation and business curriculum and prepares graduates to tackle the complex challenges of the 21st century. You'll learn best-in-class methodologies for driving innovation, using design thinking tools such as user-centered research methods, creative ideation, rapid prototyping, and operational implementation. You'll master how to identify, research, and solve problems throughout the entire business ecosystem. Upon graduation, you'll be ready to drive impact by working with designers, engineers, and senior strategists to design and manage end-to-end solutions.
Careers and Internships
Build a career using what you've learned
Our graduates are in high demand because of their unique skill sets and real-world experiences. Learn about the career resources and internship opportunities offered to MMM students.
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The MMM program seeks applicants who hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited institution and who can demonstrate technical aptitude and the capacity for analytical and creative thinking. Learn more about the diversity of student perspectives and interests within the MMM program:
CoMMMunity
Our students are part of a vibrant, dynamic community that enjoys all aspects of academic, professional, and student life across both the Kellogg School of Management and the Segal Design Institute at McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Diversity
MMM students come from a variety of backgrounds and industries including consulting, product management, mechanical engineering, advertising, operations, and interior design. This diversity across the program provides a rich learning environment and enables students to understand and leverage a variety of viewpoints and perspectives when solving business challenges.
Collaboration
Starting when MMM students arrive for the program in the summer before the rest of their Kellogg peers, they build a highly collaborative environment together. At the MMM studio and lounge, in classrooms, and beyond campus, our students foster strong bonds with one another. MMM students often cite this coMMMunity within the larger Kellogg School as a highlight of their experience.Student Life in the MMM Program
Faculty
Innovate at the Nexus
MMM leverages the expertise of faculty from both the McCormick School of Engineering and the Kellogg School of Management. Our faculty members maintain a dynamic relationship with the innovation industry through research, consulting, and advisory board service with companies from many sectors, including technology, design, entrepreneurship, consumer products and services, finance, marketing, and manufacturing.
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