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 and Analytics (Double Major) degree program. This program is designed to prepare students to address supply chain issues in global markets, emphasizing key skills and competencies such as cross-cultural communication, global value chain, and foreign laws and regulations.

Program Description

The Bachelor of Science in Global Business (BS GB) and Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management and Analytics (BS SCM) double major is a minimum 128 semester credit hours degree program. Students gain analytical decision-making and problem-solving skills through real-life consulting and global supply chain projects, and internships. An international experience is required for all Global Business majors, and students are encouraged to complete up to 6 hours in a foreign language.

Faculty

The faculty members for this program include:

• Professors: Ashiq Ali, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, William M. Cready, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Dorothée Honhon, 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, Özalp Özer, 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, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Bin Hu, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Maria Loumioti, Lívia Markóczy, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, H. Dennis Park, Anyan Qi, Young U. Ryu, Serdar Simsek, Harpreet Singh, Upender Subramanian, Shaojie Tang, Shouqiang Wang, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
• Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong, Andrew Frazelle, Ying Huang, Joonhwi Joo, Sora Jun, Jason Kautz, Sheen Levine, Meng Li, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Simon Siegenthaler, Xiaoxiao Tang, Shervin Tehrani, Ashwin Venkataraman, Christian Von-Drathen, Guihua Wang, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Yingjie Zhang
• Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk
• Clinical Professors: John Barden, Abhijit Biswas, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Howard Dover, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, William Hefley, Marilyn Kaplan, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, Diane S. McNulty, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, Mark Thouin, McClain Watson, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu
• Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Dawn Owens, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Ramesh Subramoniam, Aysegul Toptal, David Widdifield
• Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei, Moran Blueshtein, Jerome Gafford, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Nassim Sohaee
• Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour, Mary Beth Goodrich, Chris Linsteadt, Matt Polze, Luell (Lou) Thompson
• Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury, Monica E. Brussolo, Amal El-Ashmawi, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Sarah Moore, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Hubert Zydorek
• Assistant Professors of Instruction: Negin Enayaty Ahangar, Jennifer G. Johnson, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Rasoul Ramezani, Gaurav Shekhar
• Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz, Ranavir Bose, Alexander Edsel, Rajiv Shah
• Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen, Jackie Kimzey, David Parks, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Kathy Zolton
• Assistant Professors of Practice: Khatereh Ahadi, Abu Naser Islam, Timothy Stephens, Guido Tirone, Robert Wright
• Senior Lecturers: Juliann Chapman, Madison Pedigo

Program Requirements

Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours

• Communication: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from Communication Core courses
• Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
  • MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I
  • Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses
• Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences Core courses
• Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture Core courses
• Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts Core courses
• American History: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History Core courses
• Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
  • GOVT 2305 American National Government
  • GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
  • Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Government/Political Science Core courses
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
  • Choose one of the following: BA 1310, BA 1320, ECON 2301, ECON 2302
  • Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses
• Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
  • Choose two of the following: MATH 1326, BA 1310, BA 1320, ECON 2301, ECON 2302
  • Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses

Major Requirements: 78-81 semester credit hours

• Major Preparatory Courses: 15-18 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
  • ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting
  • ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting
  • BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law
  • MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I
  • OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis
  • OPRE 3340 Advanced Business Quantitative Methods
  • OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • Choose two of the following: BA 1310, BA 1320, ECON 2301, ECON 2302
• Major Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours
  • BCOM 1300 Professional Communication
  • BCOM 4300 Advanced Professional Communication
  • FIN 3320 Business Finance
  • IMS 3310 International Business
  • ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
  • MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
  • OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
  • OPRE 3310 Supply Chain and Operations Management
• Major Related Courses: 39 semester credit hours
  • BLAW 4301 International Law
  • FIN 3380 International Financial Management
  • IMS 4320 International Marketing
  • IMS 4330 Global Human Resource Management
  • IMS 4350 Global Market Entry Strategies
  • IMS 4373 Global Strategy
  • OPRE 3320 Integrated Supply Chain Management
  • OPRE 3330 Project Management
  • OPRE 4310 Lean and Six Sigma Processes
  • OPRE 4330 Global Logistics and Inventory Management
  • OPRE 4340 Purchasing and Sourcing Management
  • OPRE 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Supply Chain Management
  • Choose one from the following: Any 3 semester credit hour JSOM faculty-led international trip course, IMS 4310 Export Market Development, IMS 4340 Leading and Managing Globally, IMS 4V94 Seminar Series in International Management

Elective Requirements: 5-8 semester credit hours

• The courses listed below can satisfy elective requirements in prior BS GLBS/SCMT double major catalogs if not used elsewhere on the degree plan.
• A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required, with registration in one of the courses below.
• A community engagement experience is required, with registration in one of the courses below.
• Choose from the following to fulfill the remaining Elective semester credit hours:
  • Any Faculty-Led International Study Trip course
  • ENTP 4311 Entrepreneurial Strategy and Business Models
  • FIN 3350 Financial Markets and Institutions
  • IMS 4310 Export Market Development
  • OBHR 4310 Business Ethics
  • OBHR 4352 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
  • OPRE 3311 Introduction to Programming
  • OPRE 3312 Object-Oriented Programming
  • OPRE 3370 Managing Sustainable Operations
  • 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

The plan must include sufficient upper-division courses to total 45 upper-division semester credit hours.