The Accelerate Leadership Center (ALC) at the Tepper School of Business prepares you to lead in The Intelligent Future℠. Coaching is at the heart of the experience. From your first day, you work with a full-time leadership coach who gets to know you and your goals. Together, you create a personalized plan for growth that is supported by immersive training, workshops, and practical experiences.

You have consistent access to coaches who are on campus every day and dedicated to your success. Each one brings years of industry and consulting experience, and they spend their time helping you strengthen the skills that matter most.

Through this experience, you will learn to:

• Guide teams toward shared goals in a competitive global environment.
   
• Model leadership by setting clear objectives and driving progress.
   
• Communicate with confidence to achieve individual and group success.
   
• Lead with empathy and critical thinking so diverse teams thrive.
   
• Act with integrity and accountability in changing business environments.
   
• Influence others to create positive outcomes for your organization and community.

You also benefit from peer communication coaching. Each year, select MBA and Ph.D. students are trained as Communication Coaches to support you one-on-one with interviews, networking practice, presentations, and case competitions. Communication coaches work closely with the Masters Career Center so their guidance matches the same standards, templates, and protocols you will use in your job search. At the same time, they offer the added perspective of a fellow student who understands the Tepper School experience firsthand.

Business Strategy examines business models in relation to changing economic and market conditions. Research and study at the Tepper School includes corporate strategy, organizational decision-making, modeling for new technologies, and sector-specific innovation and management.

The field of Organizational Behavior and Theory addresses questions of why people behave the way they do in organizations and how to make individuals, groups, and organizations more effective. Research within the interdisciplinary field of OBT builds on its academic foundations of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, highlighting how individuals are embedded within groups, groups are embedded within organizations, and organizations are embedded in and actively shape our society.

Operations Research is the study of mathematical models and algorithms for optimal decision making. It is a core discipline of data analytics, which is the process of turning raw data into knowledge, insights, and better decisions. The Operations Research group at the Tepper School studies theory, methodology, algorithms, and applications related to the entire pipeline from data to decisions.

Award-Winning Faculty

Our faculty members have won prestigious awards, including National Science Foundation CAREER awards, National Academy of Engineering membership, the Lanchester Prize, the Fulkerson Prize, the Dantzig Prize, the Von Neumann Prize, the Khachiyan Prize, the Franz Edelman Award, the George E. Kimball Medal, the INFORMS Computing Society Prize, the INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize, and numerous best paper awards.

Operations management is concerned with planning, organizing and supervising the design, development, and delivery of products and services. It provides conceptual frameworks and analytical tools to optimize key decisions in designing and managing operational processes.

At the Tepper School, Operations Management research and teaching include supply chain management, revenue management, sustainability, operations strategy, energy, health care, innovation, and the interaction of operations within areas such as marketing, accounting, finance, information systems, computer science, and engineering.

Marketing decisions span areas of consumer behavior, strategy, product/service innovation, pricing, branding and communications. Faculty research and study at the Tepper School address key issues in all of those areas and additionally covers consumer preference modeling, big data, game theory and behavioral decision-making.

Finance focuses on how corporations, governments and individuals raise funds and allocate resources over time, under conditions of risk or uncertainty. Financial markets and financial asset prices play a critical role in determining optimal funding and resource allocation decisions and are a central focus of research and teaching in finance at the Tepper School. Specific study includes savings and investment strategies, financial market regulation, international finance, tax effects and the banking system.

Ethics analyzes concepts of right and wrong behavior for individuals and organizations. Although an ancient field, ethics is an active research discipline today. Research and study at the Tepper School include business and professional ethics, cross-cultural ethics, corporate social responsibility, ethics and leadership, and behavioral ethics in organizations.

Our entrepreneurship offerings include both academic and experiential learning. The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship is a campus-wide interdisciplinary center bringing together the elements of business, technology and design to foster company creation. We offer paths to high-growth company creation and entrepreneurship through acquisition. We provide numerous networking and mentoring opportunities via clubs, Silicon Valley treks, alumni panels, investor showcases, and outreach related to early-stage ventures, funding, commercialization, legal and financial planning.