Goizueta Gets New Management Practice Associate Dean
The management practice program is an important part of all the MBA offerings at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Recently, Lynne Segall was named the new Associate Dean for Management Practice Initiatives.
Management Practice, or “MP”, is a sequence of core classes that try and ready students for the real-world problems they will face at their future jobs. Their goal is to allow student to face the ambiguity of realistic problems.
Segall joins Goizueta after spending 15 years with Accenture, where she served as Director of Talent and Organization Offering Development. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an MBA from Goizueta in 1999.
“Lynne has many years consulting experience developing corporate and academic professional learning programs that bridge theory and practice,” said Rob Kazanjian Vice Dean of Programs. “I looking forward to the leadership and business perspective that she will provide to our MP faculty and students.”
The MP program is essential to the MBA coursework at Goizueta. Their website describes the program overview in more detail.
“MP prepares students for Day One Readiness in the real world of their internships and permanent positions. Students are given complex problems – first in the classroom, and then in the field using projects with actual clients – and asked to “figure it out.” Through the MP programs, students develop the confidence to address the ambiguity of the real world and learn the process tools to navigate messy, unstructured problems. They also acquire the people skills to organize and deploy effective project teams, and strengthen the communication skills to develop and sell high-quality, action-oriented solutions.”
