From the Expert[1]

Jerry Stritzke, CEO of Mast Industries, a $2+ billion division of Limited Brands, attributes successful engagement in the influential profession of business to possessing the following intellectual characteristics:

Rapid and continuous learning

Problem Solving – understanding context, developing solutions

Communication – questions, vision, persuasion.

He also attributes successful engagement to the practice of integrity:

"Ethics applied and the resulting integrity, provide an advantage in the pursuit of personal success and are a critical component of effective leadership."

The Management Program at Hope College strives to develop in students these intellectual characteristics.  In addition to integrating ethics into individual courses, Hope’s management program also attempts to inspire students to serve God and humanity.

One of the ways the Management Program at Hope College attempts to inspire students to continually learn and to serve God and humanity is through experiential learning and other project-related work.  According to Stritzke,  

"We live in a project world. Almost all work is organized into bite-sized packets called projects.  A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand."