BUSINESS LEADERSHIP CENTER (BLC)

The Edwin L. Cox Business Leadership Center (BLC) develops effective leadership skills and practical applications that are fundamental in the world of business. Today’s competitive marketplace requires managers to not only exhibit technical and individual success, but also a high degree of personal and professional leadership. Through program offerings, Cox graduate students learn important fundamentals among seven areas of emphasis: communication skills, customer innovation, interpersonal relations, managerial leadership, personal development, productive leadership and team dynamics are skills that complement the curriculum at the SMU Cox School of Business.

While management education traditionally focuses on classroom teachings, textbooks, and case studies, the Business Leadership Center is designed to meet today’s challenges by offering exceptional leadership development programs for Cox graduate students. While difficult to measure in traditional academic terms, students learn and practice fundamental applied skills through the BLC that are invaluable to their personal and professional future success.

Programs offered through the Business Leadership Center are developed and taught by leading industry professionals. They represent highly advanced expertise from companies such as:

Accenture
Archon Group, LP, a division of Goldman Sachs
Brinker International
Capital Alliance
EDS
imc2
Grant Thornton
Levenson and Brinker, PR
Nortel Networks
Perot Systems
Personnel Decisions
RBC Wealth Management
Sirius Radio
Texas Instruments
The Richards Group
The Walt Disney Company
Verizon

For many students, the BLC is a deciding factor in choosing the SMU Cox School of Business over other top schools since the BLC is unique among MBA and graduate programs. Nearly 100% of Cox Graduate Business students actively participate in the BLC elective programs.