Academic Areas
Our educational and research excellence spans more than a dozen innovative and collaborative academic areas.
Accounting
Accounting is the examination, processing, and reporting of an organization or economic entity’s financial information. Research and study at the Tepper School includes financial accounting, managerial accounting, corporate financial reporting, information economics, and microeconomic theory.
Business Law
Business Law focuses on how the political, social, and legal environment affects a firm and its managers. This can include legal and regulatory matters impacting trade, acquisitions, and mergers; rights and responsibilities of business parties; securities regulation; bankruptcy, insurance, agency, and partnership; incorporation and corporate governance; intellectual property; attorney-client relationships; social implications of business policies; environmental protection; and corporate social responsibility.
Business Management Communication
Business Communication focuses on how information is conveyed within an organization and the skills required of business leaders to be effective. Research and study at the Tepper School includes management communication, consulting, team collaboration, corporate strategies, and the development of problem-solving skills, writing, and presentation strategies.
Business Technologies
Business Technologies explores how organizations build, deploy, and use information systems, networks, and other digital technologies. Areas of research and study at the Tepper School include big data, novel applications of software technology, IT management, e-business, and the economics of information systems.
Economics
Economics examines the behavior of markets, economies and their specific components. Research and study at the Tepper School includes macroeconomic theory, banking and financial markets, fiscal and monetary policy, public finance, corporate governance, business cycles, labor market dynamics, microeconomic theory, contract theory, and commerce.
Entrepreneurship
Our entrepreneurship offerings include both academic and experiential learning. The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship is a campus-wide interdisciplinary center bringing together the elements of business, technology, and design to foster company creation. We offer paths to high-growth company creation and entrepreneurship through acquisition. We provide numerous networking and mentoring opportunities via clubs, Silicon Valley treks, alumni panels, investor showcases and outreach related to early-stage ventures, funding, commercialization, legal, and financial planning.
Ethics
Ethics analyzes concepts of right and wrong behavior for individuals and organizations. Although an ancient field, ethics is an active research discipline today. Research and study at the Tepper School include business and professional ethics, cross-cultural ethics, corporate social responsibility, ethics and leadership, and behavioral ethics in organizations.
Finance
Finance focuses on how corporations, governments, and individuals raise funds and allocate resources over time, under conditions of risk or uncertainty. Financial markets and financial asset prices play a critical role in determining optimal funding and resource allocation decisions and are a central focus of research and teaching in finance at the Tepper School. Specific study includes savings and investment strategies, financial market regulation, international finance, tax effects, and the banking system.
General Management
General Management explores the foundational issues of managing a successful business — from the development of new markets for products and services, to understanding the interrelated functional areas of a firm, to the ideas and principles behind becoming a successful business leader.
Marketing
Marketing decisions span areas of consumer behavior, strategy, product/service innovation, pricing, branding, and communications. Faculty research and study at the Tepper School address key issues in all of those areas and additionally covers consumer preference modeling, big data, game theory, and behavioral decision-making.
Operations Management
Operations Management examines the design of systems for production and provision of goods and services. Research and study at the Tepper School include supply chain management, revenue management, sustainability, operations strategy, energy, health care, innovation, and the interaction of operations within areas such as marketing, accounting, finance, information systems, computer science, and engineering.
Operations Research
Operations Research is the study of mathematical models and algorithms for optimal decision making. It is a core discipline of data analytics, which is the process of turning raw data into knowledge, insights, and better decisions. The Operations Research group at the Tepper School studies theory, methodology, algorithms, and applications related to the entire pipeline from data to decisions.
Organizational Behavior and Theory
The field of Organizational Behavior and Theory addresses questions of why people behave the way they do in organizations and how to make individuals, groups, and organizations more effective. Research within the interdisciplinary field of OBT builds on its academic foundations of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, highlighting how individuals are embedded within groups, groups are embedded within organizations, and organizations are embedded in and actively shape our society.
Strategy
Business Strategy examines business models in relation to changing economic and market conditions. Research and study at the Tepper School includes corporate strategy, organizational decision-making, modeling for new technologies, and sector-specific innovation and management.