Global Management (Creative Industries and Design Thinking), MGM
Design Management, Global, Management, creative, design, global management, industry
Are you seeking a leadership role in a global organization? This concentration offers applied learning opportunities and internships in settings around the world. You'll gain hands-on experience and learn from the diverse perspectives of a global cohort of classmates.
In the creative industries and design thinking concentration within the Master of Global Management program, offered in collaboration with the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, students acquire critical skills with an interdisciplinary focus to meet a current need in the globally expanding field of creative industries. Additionally, students gain an entrepreneurial skill set that strengthens their ability to connect interdisciplinary knowledge of the cultural industries with design thinking methodology, building on management skills and the ability to apply entrepreneurial vision to the globally interconnected sector of art and design.
Students are exposed to design-thinking pedagogy as they increase their capacity for interpersonal communication, public communication, opportunity recognition, network and systems thinking, problem recognition and creativity. They also gain skills in cultural leadership as well as knowledge about the creative industries, distribution of creative products, the creative process, and management of innovation in the creative industries.
This concentration empowers students to advance innovation in the cultural sector, support creative work and careers, harness social capital, and design public and private enterprises that will strengthen arts and design in the future. The program prepares graduates to understand the complex economic, legal, political and social contexts that surround any innovation or enterprise.
About Thunderbird
Thunderbird School of Global Management has produced world-class leaders for more than 75 years. The ideal Thunderbird student is curious, globally minded, and eager to develop and advance their career in leadership and management within the global and digital landscape. After completing this degree, graduates join a thriving global alumni network nearly 50,000 strong, managing some of the world's largest institutions, companies, nonprofits and NGOs.
- College/school:
Thunderbird School of Global Management
- Location: Downtown Phoenix
- STEM-OPT extension eligible: No
Acceptance to the graduate program requires a separate application. Students typically receive approval to pursue the accelerated master’s during the junior year of their bachelor's degree program. Interested students can learn about eligibility requirements and how to apply.
49 credit hours, a foreign language exam, including the required capstone course (TGM 597)
Required Core (3 credit hours)
TAM 582 Communicating and Negotiating in a Dynamic Global World (3) or
TGM 506 Communicating and Negotiating Across Cultures (3)
Concentration (6 credit hours)
HDA 513 Applied Creative Research and Evaluation Methods (3)
HDA 521 Counting Arts and Culture: Reasoning with Empirical Evidence (3)
Restricted Electives (6 credit hours)
GRA 501 Creative Environment and Collaborative Leadership (3)
HDA 522 Media Literacy and Distribution (3)
creative enterprise development elective (3)
leadership elective (3)
Open Electives (12 credit hours)
Other Requirements (21 credit hours)
foreign language
TGM 515 Navigating Global and Regional Business Environments (3)
TGM 517 Global Accounting and Financial Management (3)
TGM 545 Global Leadership and Strategy (3)
TGM 557 Global Marketing and Data Analytics (3)
TGM 586 Global Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business (3)
TGM 596 Thunderbird Experiential Practicum (6)
Culminating Experience (1 credit hour)
TGM 597 Thunderbird Personal Leadership Development (1)
Additional Curriculum Information
For restricted electives, students choose two of the following, for a total of six credit hours: HDA 522, GRA 501, a creative enterprise development elective, a leadership elective.
Open electives are approved by the academic unit.
Except for TGM 596 and the foreign language requirement, courses from the Other Requirements list may be substituted with approval of the academic unit.
Proficiency in a second language is required for graduation from the MGM degree program. Students whose native language is not English who meet the admission requirements for the MGM program satisfy the language requirement.
Students whose native language is English must satisfy the graduation requirement for language proficiency either through an oral proficiency interview administered by a third-party vendor or by successfully completing six credit hours of 400-level or higher foreign language coursework as part of the program electives.
Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Applicants must have earned a bachelor's or master's degree in any subject from a regionally accredited institution.
Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program or a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.
Applicants are required to submit:
- graduate admission application and application fee
- official transcripts
- resume
- essay response to application question
- one professional or academic reference
- interview
- proof of English proficiency
Additional Application Information
An applicant whose native language is not English must provide proof of English proficiency regardless of their current residency.
The resume should demonstrate the applicant's professional and academic history.
An interview is required. Final applicants may be asked to attend an additional interview.
Students in Thunderbird's MGM program have distinct opportunities to apply and hone their learning in international settings. Experiential learning exposes Thunderbird students to actual problems faced by leaders of multinational businesses and governmental or nonprofit organizations that operate on an international level.
Working with Thunderbird professors, their fellow students, alumni and corporate partners, students master and apply global management principles and concepts to meet real business challenges through special courses, labs and projects. Thunderbird offers a wide variety of experiential learning engagements, enabling students to solve practical challenges by collaborating with the school's corporate partners around the world. Two options are described below.
Thunderbird Global Challenge Lab
This is a client-facing, project-based course built on a six- to seven-week immersion assignment in a key emerging or advanced market. Projects take students to destinations all over the world. They are tailored to the client's business needs and challenge students to provide sophisticated data and market analysis, strategy recommendations and plans for sustained growth that are practical and effective.
Global Field Seminar
This one- or two-week seminar exposes students to the dynamics and nuances of doing business in a focused region of the world. Teams of students go on company site visits and attend high-level meetings and presentations with business, government and cultural leaders as well as Thunderbird alumni. Students gain invaluable hands-on experience while expanding their global business skills, enabling them to become major assets to any organization they join after graduating.
Career examples include these positions:
- intelligence analyst
- instructional designer or technologist
- management analyst
- marketing manager
- market research analyst or marketing specialist
- sales manager
- social or community services manager
Thunderbird School of Global Management
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3 year programs
These programs allow students to fast-track their studies after admission and earn a bachelor's degree in three years or fewer while participating in the same high-quality educational experience of a 4-year option. Students should talk to their academic advisor to get started.
Accelerated master's
These programs allow students to accelerate their studies to earn a bachelor's plus a master's degree in as few as five years (for some programs).
Each program has requirements students must meet to be eligible for consideration. Acceptance to the graduate program requires a separate application. Students typically receive approval to pursue the accelerated master’s during the junior year of their bachelor's degree program. Interested students can learn about eligibility requirements and how to apply.
