Graziadio School of Business and Management

Graziadio School of Business and Management

Motto	Freely ye received, freely give
Type	Private
Established	1969
Affiliation	Churches of Christ
Dean	David M. Smith, PhD
Academic staff	140
Postgraduates	1,844
Location	Malibu, CA, US
Campus	Suburban, 830 acres (3.4 km^2)
Website	www.bschool.pepperdine.edu

The Graziadio School of Business and Management, or more commonly, the Graziadio School, is the graduate business program at Pepperdine University. It is one of the largest graduate business schools in Southern California, and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).^[1] The Graziadio School is recognized as a top business school by Forbes, Businessweek, Princeton Review, and U.S. News & World Report.^[2] It was named in honor of George L. Graziadio, Jr. after he donated US$15 million in 1996.^[3]

Campuses

The Graziadio School of Business and Management is headquartered in West Los Angeles at the Howard Hughes Center next to Interstate 405. Other graduate campuses are in Encino, Irvine, Santa Clara, Malibu and Westlake Village. Full-Time programs are headquartered in Malibu, CA. International programs during abroad trimesters take place in various international universities. An Executive MBA program in the Dallas, Texas area is planning to launch beginning in 2016.^[4][5]

Academics

Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management has nine different MBA programs. Pepperdine's classroom sizes are limited to no more than 30 students.

Full-time MBA

One-year and two-year MBAs are offered. A 12-month MBA degree is offered for those who have at least three years of full-time business work experience and an undergraduate degree in business; a 15-month MBA is for those who have at least three years experience in business, but do not hold an undergraduate degree in business; a traditional two-year MBA is offered for those who have at least one year of professional full-time work experience.

• International MBA - MBA with an emphasis on international business.
• JD/MBA - Joint Juris Doctor/MBA program, offered in conjunction with Pepperdine School of Law.
• MBA/MMP - MBA/Master of Public Policy program in conjunction with Pepperdine School of Public Policy.

Part-time and Executive MBA

• Fully Employed MBA - Campuses are located in West Los Angeles, Irvine, Encino and Westlake Village.
• Part-time Executive MBA - Program for experienced business managers. Offered in Northern and Southern California.
• Presidential and Key Executive MBA - Offered for executives and "C-level" business leaders.

Programs and Certificates

• Socially, Environmentally, and Ethically Responsible (SEER) - Certificate program in "Environmental Entrepreneurship Development", a program that instructs students on sustainable business practices with optional international study.^[6]
• Dispute Resolution - Students participating in Pepperdine's Fully Employed MBA or Residential MBA program can elect to choose Straus' dispute resolution program as part of their MBA emphasis or concentration. This opportunity to combine an MBA degree with a top-rated dispute resolution education is unique to Pepperdine.^[7]
• Education to Business (E2B) - A consulting program for students and corporate clients, students work to solve business problems facing participating companies. Companies that have participated include Fortune 500 companies (including Coca-Cola and Cisco), as well as small and mid-sized local businesses.^[8][9]

Rankings

• U.S. News & World Report ranked the Fully Employed MBA #36 (up 15 places from #51 the previous year) among the nation’s 295 part-time MBA programs. The Full-Time MBA program also moved ahead to the #75 spot nationally among the 398 business schools surveyed, up seven places. Highlights of the rankings was published in the Best Graduate Schools 2012 edition book, available April 5, 2011.^[10] The Graziado School's Online MBA program ranked #15 in the U.S. News & World Report's 2016 Best Online MBA Programs list.^[11] Its Part-Time MBA program was ranked #48 from U.S. News and World Report in its 2017 edition of the Best Grad Schools.^[12]
• The Financial Times listed the Full-Time MBA as 45th for U.S. schools and 92nd worldwide.^[13]
• Forbes' ranked the Graziadio School as 56th of U.S. schools in their 2009 "Best Business Schools" survey.^[14]
• The Aspen Institute's "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" ranking placed the Graziadio School at 61st in their "Global 100" survey of business schools worldwide.^[15]
• The Graziadio School ranks #17 for business schools in leadership development in Warren Bennis' Leadership Excellence magazine.^[16]
• In 2006 the Wall Street Journal placed the Graziadio School at 45th nationally in their "Top Business Schools: Recruiters' Top Picks" survey.^[17]
• The Princeton Review ranked the Graziadio School #3 in its list for Greatest Opportunity for Women.^[18] This was based on "the percentage of faculty who are female, and also assessment of resources for female students, whether the school offers course work for women entrepreneurs, and whether case study materials for classes proportionately reflect women in business."^[19]

Graziadio Center for Applied Research

Current Studies ^[20]

• Private Capital Markets Project - Advancing ongoing research to understand the true cost of private capital across market types and the investment expectations of privately held business owners.^[21]
• Move Past Quarterly Earnings to Real Sustainability - Focus on optimizing sustainable effectiveness, driving financial, social and environmental outcomes.^[22]
• Small vs. Large Privately Held Businesses Differ on a Strong Dollar - In advance of Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke’s testimony on monetary policy to Congress, small, privately held business respondents say a stronger U.S. dollar is more beneficial to the economy, while large privately held business owners prefer a weaker U.S. dollar.^[23]
• Reducing China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Research offering two approaches that seek to reduce energy use and CO2 emission for China's entire ammonia industry.^[24]

See also

• List of business schools in the United States
• Pepperdine University

References

1. "Accreditation", Graziadio School, retrieved March 18, 2011
2. "Reputation". Pepperdine University.
3. "George L. Graziadio Jr., 82; Noted Philanthropist Co-Founded Southland-Based Imperial Bancorp". The Los Angeles Times. June 9, 2002. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
4. http://find-mba.com/news/2015/09/pepperdine-to-launch-an-executive-mba-program-in-texas
5. http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2015/09/08/pepperdine-launches-new-executive-mba-program-in.html
6. http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/programs/full-time-mba/seer/globalstudy.htm
7. http://law.pepperdine.edu/straus
8. "10 College Courses that Will Pay Off at Work". US News and World Report. 2010-04-26.
9. "E2B". Graziadio School of Business and Management. 2011-03-18.
10. "Best Business Schools 2012", U.S. News & World Report, retrieved April 10, 2011
11. "Rankings | Online MBA | Pepperdine". mbaonline.pepperdine.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
12. "Best Business Schools 2017", U.S. News & World Report, retrieved March 17, 2016
13. "Global MBA Rankings 2011", Financial Times, retrieved March 10, 2011
14. Best Business Schools, Forbes, August 5, 2009, retrieved March 24, 2011
15. "Rankings: The Global 100". The Aspen Institute. May 2010. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
16. "2010 - 2011 Top Leadership Development Programs: Education/Universities/Schools of Management and Business". Leadership Excellence magazine. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
17. "Recruiters' Scorecard" (PDF). Wall Street Journal. September 20, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
18. "Greatest Oppourtinty for Women". Retrieved March 12, 2016.
19. "UCLA Anderson, Pepperdine's Graziadio School land spots on Princeton Review's rankings". October 12, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
20. "Graziadio Center for Applied Research". Graziadio Center for Applied Research. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
21. "Graziadio Center for Applied Research: Private Capital Markets Project". Dr. John Paglia. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
22. "Worley: Move Past Quarterly Earnings to Real Sustainability". Chris Worley. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
23. "Small vs. Large Privately-Held Businesses Differ on a Strong Dollar". Graziadio Center for Applied Research. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
24. "Reducing China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions". Dr. Charla Griffy-Brown. Retrieved 2011-03-11.

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