Bertolon School of Business

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Linda Nowak, Interim Dean

Bertolon School of Business Mission

The Bertolon School of Business mission is to deliver high quality business education that empowers individuals to responsibly and successfully engage in the global economy and advance the region’s economic development.

VISION

To become a renowned business school focused on teaching excellence, practical research, and lifelong student success.

VALUES

Student Focused: Student success is our first priority.
Excellence and accountability: We strive for continuous improvement in all that we do and measure our performance against goals.
Respect: We treat everyone with dignity and respect in order to foster a superior learning environment that encourages diversity of thought.
Integrity: We promote an environment of trust through openness and transparency.
Innovation: We creatively overcome challenges and explore opportunities.
Community engagement: We engage with the community to enrich the community, enhance student learning and to provide students with a sense of community.
Personal growth: We provide students, faculty and staff with opportunities for personal growth.

LEARNING OUTCOMES BY DEGREE PROGRAM

BSBA:

Ethical responsibilities: Our graduates will be able to recognize ethical issues and dilemmas and be able to make ethically based decisions and recommendations.
Globalization and multicultural understanding: Our graduates will have a working knowledge of the global economy and business cultures.
Communication and professional skills: Our graduates will be effective communicators and will have professional interpersonal skills.
Analytical thinking and reasoning skills: Our graduates will be able to use analytical thinking and reasoning skills to solve problems and make decisions and recommendations.
Content knowledge: Our graduates will learn the business core and respective concentration content knowledge and will be able to apply that knowledge in their respective concentrations.

MBA:

Effective decision-making: Graduates will be able to recognize, analyze, and evaluate business problems.
Global and multicultural perspective: Graduates will be able to analyze and evaluate global perspectives and diversity issues and adapt the same to business situations.
Communication: Graduates will be able to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Analytical reasoning: Graduates will be able to apply appropriate techniques to solve business problems.
Leadership: Graduates will be able to influence individuals and teams to achieve common goals.

The Departments

The Bertolon School is organized into three departments: Accounting and Finance, Management and Marketing and Decision Sciences. The Bertolon School offers the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA), the Bachelor of Science in Fire Science Administration (through the Management Department), and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program. Subject concentrations in the BSBA degree program are available in Accounting, Corporate Finance/Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Hospitality Management, Human Resources Management, International Business, Management, Management Information Systems (MIS), Marketing, and Operations Management. Graduates of the Bertolon School are successful entrepreneurs as well as successfully employed in public and private management, marketing, manufacturing, services and accounting firms, and in federal and state government agencies.

The Center for Entrepreneurial Activities

The Center for Entrepreneurial Activity (CEA) comprises a group of faculty, students, and administrators who believe that the economic future of our local community rests firmly on the small businesses that abound in this area and on the new ventures that Salem State students and others will establish here. Our mission is to support those business ventures through educational, research, and consulting efforts in order to sustain and encourage entrepreneurial activity throughout the community.

Our goals include creating an undergraduate entrepreneurial mindset and support that mindset through exposure to entrepreneurship as part of the liberal arts core curriculum; developing networking opportunities for students, alumni, entrepreneurs, and small business managers; and promoting creativity in a wide range of fields. We excite students about the possibility of turning their personal passions into their life-work.

The Center for International Business and Economic Studies

The Center for International Business and Economic Studies (CIBES) is structured to “serve as a resource center for business organizations and the community at large,” to assist the Bertolon School of Business and Salem State to “prepare students for careers in a global economy,” and to provide “an environment sensitive to a diverse population.” CIBES has a two-fold mission: first, it develops international business and economics programs and curricula, and second, it assists small to midsize businesses in the region to export their products and services to other countries and/or import what they need.

The Small Business Development Center

The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Northeast Regional Office at Salem State provides counseling, educational programs, technical assistance and information to the small business community. The Center is a partnership of U.S. Small Business Administration and the Executive Office of Economic Affairs through the University of Massachusetts at Amherst under a cooperative agreement, and is a resource of the SBA’s Business Development Service network. The Center is committed to outreach programs within its geographic area. The Center’s staff provides counseling on a pre-scheduled basis in many communities and continually seeks to expand the program to additional cities and towns North of Boston. More information about the Center may be obtained by visiting its website at salemstate.edu/academics/schools/2172.php.