Experiencing the Texas McCombs community firsthand is one of the best ways to gain valuable insight into your fit with our MBA culture. Join us at an on-campus event to meet admissions, current students, and our world-class faculty. For the next two years you will enjoy boundless opportunities to explore, grow, and transform. Youll supercharge your career, expand your professional network, and sharpen your skills to be an influential leader. And youll do it all in Austin, Texas, one of the most dynamic and innovative cities in the U.S. When you graduate, you'll have the knowledge to do anything you can dream. The Full-Time MBA experience at the McCombs School of Business allows you to immerse yourself in learning, exploration, and developing meaningful relationships with your classmates. You'll take classes at Rowling Hall on The University of Texas at Austin campus, and the flexible curriculum gives you the option to specialize in one of 20 concentrations, 14 of which are STEM certified.<br>In a competitive business landscape, winners and losers are determined by how well firms strategize and innovate to outmaneuver their competitors. The concentration in Strategy and Innovation focuses on topics that develop a deep understanding of these critical functions of a firm's leaders. The courses required for the concentration will equip students with the knowledge, skills, and perspectives necessary to effectively craft strategies and lead innovation in increasingly dynamic, competitive, and resource-constrained business environments.<br>This concentration is made up of courses designed for those interested in holding leadership positions in, or consulting to, established or entrepreneurial organizations. However, given that strategy andinnovation are critical considerations in many organizational roles, students could consider pairing the concentration in Strategy and Innovation with an interdisciplinary concentration in Entrepreneurship, Global Business, or Social Enterprise, or with a functional concentration in Accounting, Finance, IROM, or Marketing.