Program Overview

Naveen Jindal School of Management

The Naveen Jindal School of Management offers a Bachelor of Science in Global Business and Supply Chain Management (Double Major) degree program. This program is designed to prepare students to address supply chain issues in global markets, emphasizing key skills and competencies of global supply chain professionals.

Program Description

The Bachelor of Science in Global Business (BS GB) and Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management (BS SCM) double major is a minimum 128 semester credit hours degree program. The program focuses on building key skills and competencies of global supply chain professionals, such as cross-cultural communication, global value chain, and foreign laws and regulations. Students also gain analytical decision-making and problem-solving skills through real-life consulting and global supply chain projects, and internships.

Degree Requirements

• A minimum of 9 semester credit hours must be earned during a semester of study abroad.
• Any 9 semester credit hours from the degree plan may be chosen, however, students should be aware that study abroad courses are subject to a pre-approval process to ensure transferability.

Faculty

The faculty members for this program include:

Professors

• Ashiq Ali
• Alain Bensoussan
• Gary Bolton
• Met璯 ドkanyildirim
• Huseyin Cavusoglu
• Jianqing Chen
• William M. Cready
• Milind Dawande
• Gregory G. Dess
• Umit G. Gurun
• Kyle Hyndman
• Varghese S. Jacob
• Sanjay Jain
• Ganesh Janakiraman
• Elena Katok
• Dmitri Kuksov
• Nanda Kumar
• Seung-Hyun Lee
• Stanley Liebowitz
• Zhiang (John) Lin
• Sumit K. Majumdar
• Stanimir Markov
• Amit Mehra
• Syam Menon
• Vijay S. Mookerjee
• B. P. S. Murthi
• Vikram Nanda
• 畤alp 畤er
• Mike W. Peng
• Hasan Pirkul
• Cuili Qian
• Suresh Radhakrishnan
• Srinivasan Raghunathan
• Ram C. Rao
• Brian Ratchford
• Michael J. Rebello
• Gil Sadka
• Sumit Sarkar
• Suresh P. Sethi
• Kathryn E. Stecke
• Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang
• Jun Xia
• Ying Xie
• Harold Zhang
• Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng

Associate Professors

• Mehmet Ayvaci
• Nina Baranchuk
• Norris Bruce
• Zhonglan Dai
• Rebecca Files
• Doroth嶪 Honhon
• Bin Hu
• Surya N. Janakiraman
• Robert L. Kieschnick Jr.
• Atanu Lahiri
• Jun Li
• Ningzhong Li
• Maria Loumioti
• L癉ia Mark鏂zy
• Toyah Miller
• Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan
• Naim Bugra Ozel
• H. Dennis Park
• Anyan Qi
• Young U. Ryu
• Harpreet Singh
• David J. Springate
• Upender Subramanian
• Shaojie Tang
• Shouqiang Wang
• Kelsey D. Wei
• Han (Victor) Xia
• Yexiao Xu
• Alejandro Zentner
• Jieying Zhang
• Yuan Zhang
• Feng Zhao
• Yibin Zhou

Assistant Professors

• Khai Chiong
• Emily Choi
• Andrew Frazelle
• Ying Huang
• Joonhwi Joo
• Sora Jun
• Sheen Levine
• Meng Li
• Jean-Marie Meier
• Radha Mookerjee
• Alejandro Rivera Mesias
• Alessio Saretto
• Simon Siegenthaler
• Serdar Simsek
• Xiaoxiao Tang
• Shervin Tehrani
• Ashwin Venkataraman
• Christian Von-Drathen
• Guihua Wang
• Junfeng Wu
• Steven Xiao
• Yingjie Zhang
• Zhe (James) Zhang
• Xiaofei Zhao

Core Curriculum Requirements

The core curriculum requirements for this program include:

• Communication: 6 semester credit hours
• Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
• Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
• Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
• Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
• American History: 6 semester credit hours
• Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
• Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours

Major Requirements

The major requirements for this program include:

• Major Preparatory Courses: 15-18 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
• Major Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours
• Major Related Courses: 33 semester credit hours

Elective Requirements

The elective requirements for this program include:

• A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required
• A community engagement experience is required
• Choose from the following to fulfill remaining Guided Elective semester credit hours:
  • OPRE 3311 Introduction to Programming
  • OPRE 3312 Object-Oriented Programming
  • OPRE 4320 Integrated SCM Information Systems
  • OPRE 4337 Marketing Analytics
  • OPRE 4345 Retail Operations
  • OPRE 4350 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
  • OPRE 4353 Business Analytics
  • OPRE 4362 Supply Chain Strategy
  • IMS 4310 Export Market Development
  • ENTP 4311 Entrepreneurial Strategy and Business Models
  • FIN 3350 Financial Markets and Institutions
  • OBHR 4310 Business Ethics
  • OBHR 4352 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
  • GEOG 3370 The Global Economy
  • ECON 4360 International Trade
  • Any Faculty-Led International Study Trip course: IMS 3091, IMS 3092, IMS 3093, IMS 3094, IMS 3095, IMS 3096, IMS 3V91, IMS 3V92, IMS 3V93, IMS 3V94, IMS 3V95, IMS 3V96

Additional Requirements

• Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course.
• Students with non-academic obligations who cannot study abroad for an entire semester may request a waiver to substitute 2 faculty-led international study trip courses.
• An international internship may also be substituted for the semester of study abroad.
• Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from institutions of higher education.
• Certain courses listed are prerequisites for major core, major concentration, or major related courses. Choose accordingly.