• The concentration emphasizes the important roles of marketing functions and how marketing professionals can add value to the organization and a broader society. The orientation of the concentration is managerial, where learning of practical and analytical decision-making skills is the focus. The courses in the concentration deploy class discussion, lecture, team project, and simulation game as the primary means of pedagogy.
  • Past placement data indicate that about 25 percent of the Babson students chose marketing-related jobs right after their graduation. Because a marketing career can be very diverse from advertising, sales, marketing research, brand management, to merchandising, the Marketing Concentration first provides the students with a needed flexibility in choosing a set of marketing sub-field courses out of many depending on their specific interests.
  • In addition, it ensures the integration of a variety of marketing sub-fields and general management in the required capstone course, contributing to the development of a whole manager with a strength in marketing, rather than producing a marketing specialist in a narrow sense.