60 seconds with... Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore on why Northeastern's MBA program is newly focused on supply chain management.

By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 1/1/2006

We have chosen supply chain management for repositioning our MBA program for a number of reasons.

We believe that SCM has had a transformative effect on many industries in the last few decades and will continue to play an important role in creating value for companies such as Bose, Raytheon and Tyco. These companies and others such as UPS, Federal Express and Maersk have recruited our students and sent executives to visit our classes.

Under professor Bob Lieb's leadership, Northeastern has been offering a logistics/supply chain management undergraduate program for 35 years and a graduate certificate for more than a decade. Although our SCM programs have been small, demand for our co-op students and our graduates has always been strong. We expect now that it will only be stronger.

The new MBA program defines the companies that hire our graduates as the "customer" and our students as "partners" in the educational process. We believe that by working with corporate partners, we can create graduates who make an immediate contribution in the supply chain realm.

SCM is a natural career path for Northeastern; we have a strong faculty who understand the industry and who are frequent contributors to both academic and industry journals. Northeast-ern University's 100-year history in cooperative education has provided us with a natural affinity for working with corporations to solve business challenges.