Month: December 2019

The California State Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) has approved the offering of the Ph.D. in Business Administration program by Olivet University.

Exceptional graduates from the Bachelor of Arts in Business as well as graduates of the MBA program will be able to apply to the Ph.D. program, preparing them for a career in academia and research positions in business administration.

The Ph.D. in Business Administration at Olivet Business School is intended to be a doctoral program of rigorous study which challenges the students to ponder the most critical issues in business administration and form new insights.

The program is intended to be designed to train students to produce innovative, rigorous, and relevant research and encourage students to become exemplary teachers at top-tier institutions of higher learning.

The Ph.D. candidates at Olivet Business School will investigate a wide range of topics and pursue questions relating to management, markets, finance, and organizations. They will focus on research creating management theory and knowledge that is relevant to business practice.

“The approval of Olivet Business School’s Ph.D. program in Business Administration is a testament to our students’ hard work and the institution’s pursuit of academic excellence. Now our students will have the opportunity to research on some of the greatest intellectual challenges of our time that are emerging in the changing world of business administration, and can equip themselves to serve even more powerfully for the Kingdom of God,” said Olivet Business School Dean Jacob Chatterjee.

The school has begun accepting applications for the new program.

The Manhattan New York Olivet Business School campus will be introducing two courses, MG610 Operations Management and HR650 Human Resource Management, for the Winter 2020 quarter. Operations Management will be taught by Professor Sebastian Keita and Human Resources by Professor Jacob Chatterjee.

The two courses are some of the most specialized in the MBA Program. Operations Management centers around the administration of business practices to achieve the highest efficiency possible within an organization in order to maximize the profit of an organization. Human Resource Management correlates with the development of recognized systems planned for the management of people within an organization so that they become more valuable to the organization.

“The OBS team is planning on how to offer an engaging and exciting new experience while keeping its core values intact. This balance must be always renewed. While offering traditionally inspired courses in the curriculum of the MBA, we as OBS faculty have given ourselves the mission to make our students dynamically implicated in the learning process. This proactive approach blends traditional and modern,” Professor Keita commented.

For this upcoming 2020 academic year, OBS hopes to better serve their students and to make them more complete and proactive partners to the challenges facing them in their spiritual journey, their academic path, their professional aspirations, the greater New York City community as well as their worldview.