DeVos Outcomes & The DeVos Difference
Within each of us is the ability to discover.
Northwood University's DeVos Graduate School is a specialized business school focused on developing the future leaders of a global, free-enterprise society. We provide a dynamic learning experience aimed at strategically expanding your managerial and leadership skill sets, equipping you with the necessary tools to lead and drive change in your career and life. You will find yourself in the unique position of having choices in your career and entrepreneurial endeavors that you had not previously thought possible.
Our MBA programs work with the demands of today's competitive marketplace, and most importantly work with you! The DeVos Graduate School's Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs were created with the understanding you are unique. You demand specific professional and personal elements that will enable greater satisfaction in your career, higher earning potential, and a more fulfilled life. The journey from discovery to transformation begins here. This is the difference.
DeVos Outcomes
Successful degree completion will provide students with:
- The management skills to find and fix problems and identify and capitalize on opportunities, working effectively with others to take action using an integrated knowledge of a range of business functions and processes.
- The leadership skills to create a vision and influence others to follow, and to raise the performance of all members of the organization.
Specifically, graduates will achieve the following outcomes:
Business Acumen
- Assess the impact of the economic, social and political environment from a global perspective.
- Understand and influence the drivers of shareholder value.
- Think and act in terms of satisfying customer needs.
- Design, analyze and improve process flow.
- Understand the drivers of human behavior individually as well as in groups.
- Integrate activities across business functions, including strategic, tactical and operational actions to improve organizational processes and structures.
Critical Thinking
- Raise vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely
gather and assess relevant information. - Come to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria utilizing an effective problem solving process.
- Think open-mindedly, recognizing and assessing assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.
- Communicate effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems.
Personal Effectiveness
- Self-assess and modify own behavior.
- Have a bias for action.
- Openly explore new ideas including multi-ethnic and multi-cultural perspectives.
- Demonstrate commitment to the success of others.
- Confidently influence and lead others.
- Be comfortable with ambiguity.
- Show empathy for others.
- Manage impulses.
- Exhibit a willingness to take responsibility.