Training Managers for 21st Century Fisheries
Overview of Current Training Programs and Courses for Fisheries Managers
(last updated 1/29/02)

Training  programs in other management related disciplines 
These are programs focusing on management skills, but which are not primarily natural resource management

Index

• Business Management programs - this is included to help with comparison of training in business management with fisheries management.
  • with some environmental management training capacity  
  • with focus on leadership and other skills possibly relevant to fisheries  management 
• Other Public Administration/Policy programs
• Decision science
• Leadership Programs

Significant programs

• Wageningen University and Research Center -  the only agricultural university in a country which is a world leader in the export of agricultural products - unique MBA and MSc programs which are primarily agriculture, but may be good models for fisheries management for industry.

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Top Business Management Academic Programs w/ environmental management option/capacity 

• East Carolina University - MBA program can be tailored toward environmental planning and development. (note: ECU also has a new PhD program in Coastal Management)
• George Washington University School of Business and Public Management - MBA has concentration in Environmental Policy and Management and Strategic management and public policy
• Loyola Chicago 
  • BS in Environmental Science combined with an MBA.
• Stanford - MBA with focus on Public Management - For more than 20 years, the Stanford Business School has demonstrated its commitment to leadership in the public and nonprofit sectors through the Public Management Program, a set of courses and activities that are part of the MBA Program. You may earn an academic Certificate in Public Management in one of four theoretical tracks: General Public Management; Nonprofit Management; Social Entrepreneurship; or Public Policy (choosing one area of study among education, environment, or healthcare).
• University of California - Corporate Environmental Management (Donald Bren School):
  • University of California Davis Graduate School of Management - MBA program: 
    • concentration in Environmental and Natural Resource Management
    • MBA/Master in Agricultural and Resource Economics  - also see the Ag. Res. Econ. version of this info. : With a total 82 units of course work, students combine the program cores for the M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics and the M.B.A., with additional units selected from offerings in Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Graduate School of Management, and elective upper division or graduate courses.
  • University of California Berkley - Haas MBA students have the option to earn certificates in one of five areas of study: corporate environmental management, global management, entrepreneurship, management of technology, and health management. These certificates are granted upon the completion of a designated number of courses and special projects. They supplement the MBA degree and do not require a separate application. see Corporate Environmental Management (Bren School): Special focus on corporate environmental strategy, environmental science and management, environmental law and policy, risk management.( see notes from other resource management programs list)
  • University of California Santa Barbara - home of Donald Bren School - ( see notes from other resource management programs list)
  • University of California Irvine - MBAs can specialize in Corporate Environmental Management thru Donald Bren School 
  • University of California Los Angles, The Anderson School - 
    •  MBA program can take advantage of Bren School; there are also a series of "functional areas"  such as  policy or decision sciences.  (good list of objectives for the MBA program)
    • PhD focusing on management and policy is also possible - see areas of specializtion
• *University of Michigan - MBA  
  • * Joint degree program - MBA/MS - joint degree with natural resources and environment  :  "The University of Michigan is one of the world's great centers of research and teaching. As such, it offers breadth and quality matched by very few institutions in the world--with prestigious and top-ranked schools of law, medicine, engineering, music, and more and academic departments from economics to psychology that are regarded as among the best in the country. The Business School draws on those University strengths in many ways, ranging from special classes and seminars within the School, cross-registration options for MBAs, integrated programs (in manufacturing and corporate environmental management) and joint degrees. Michigan offers perhaps the largest number and broadest quality in joint degrees of any business school in the world. Most joint degrees are completed in three years, and lead to both an MBA and a master's degree in another area. Students may enroll in joint degree programs after being accepted to both the Business School and the other school or college in which they are interested."
  • *Corporate Environmental Management Program
• Vanderbilt - Center for Environmental Management Studies
  • MBA with emphasis on Environmental Management (<--CEMS listing) with Owen Graduate School of Management (<---Owen listing for this degree): Students may add an Environmental Management Emphasis by taking 8 hours of courses related to environmental management issues. At least 6 of the 8 hours must be Owen School courses. Students are encouraged to take additional environmental electives to gain expertise in environmental issues. REQUIRED One of the following - Mgt 455 Management of Environmental Issues; Mgt 551Global Environmental Issues; An additional course from the list above, or Mgt 457 Environmental Issues in Operations; Mgt 556 Project in Environmental Strategy; Mgt 567 Environmental Issues in Marketing
  • Other degrees offered via Interdisciplinary Sciences program at Vanderbilt
    • Masters Degree in Environmental Management (Interdisciplinary Sciences)
    • Ph.D. in Environmental Management (Interdisciplinary Sciences)
• *Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • has program in international studies and managment; advanced international studies MBA/MA; 
  • New Environmental Management Program: In late 1998, the Wharton School established a new Environmental Management Program to coordinate the MBA major in Environmental and Risk Management (<-----see program description) and undergraduate concentrations in the area, as well as a newly approved university minor in Organizations and Environmental Management which is available to Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Wharton undergraduate students. Wharton's Environmental Management Program also cooperates with the Institute of Environmental Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences;  Also see Risk Processes and Environmental Management center; Wharton is committed to maintaining a well-balanced, interdisciplinary program for students who wish to combine tough-minded skills in finance, management, and marketing with courses in cost-benefit and risk analysis, insurance, law and public policy. The focus is on the real world of business and the serious tools needed to navigate the increasingly turbulent shoals of environmental problems.
•  Yale School of Management MBA 
  • concentration in Nonprofit management - In nonprofit organizations, managers confront the challenge of pursuing a social mission while operating within the constraints of highly competitive markets. To manage well under these circumstances requires both rigorous analytical tools and a sophisticated understanding of how to balance the demands of oft-times conflicting constituencies. The nonprofit program at Yale, using a mix of theory and case studies, builds on the core courses to develop the rich set of tools required to manage in this environment. The nonprofit concentration explicitly interacts with the broader Yale community, requiring the student to take courses outside of Yale SOM within his or her interest area (i.e., health care, the arts, environment).
  • joint degree possible with Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Business Management Programs - other top programs with focus on  skills/concepts relevant to fisheries management 

• Case Western  
  • Mandel Center for Non-profit organizations - Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) degree is the most comprehensive nonprofit leadership and management education program in the United States. As the Mandel Center’s flagship graduate program, the MNO is a rigorous professional degree designed to prepare men and women for leadership across the full spectrum of nonprofits including health and human services, fine and performing arts, cultural, educational, religious, community development, and environmental organizations.
  • THE EXECUTIVE DOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT (EDM) PROGRAM -The Mandel Center, in partnership with the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, offers the nation’s first practice-oriented, cross-sector, doctoral-level program for nonprofit leaders.
  • also look at Weatherhead school of management
• Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management - "All top business schools today are looking for leaders. This is so important to us at Cornell's Johnson School that we now offer two-year, full-tuition MBA fellowships for up to thirty people who have outstanding potential." This is called the...
  • Park Leadership Fellowship  - Leadership Development Program curriculum  
    • capstone is The Service Leadership Project -- Park fellows are expected to initiate, manage, and complete projects that will contribute to a meaningful, permanent change in the Johnson School, Cornell, or Ithaca communities. Participants may receive academic credit for these projects. The projects serve as a capstone for the Johnson School experience by providing Fellows with an opportunity to practice leadership skills, integrate the lessons learned across diverse disciplines, and develop and enduring sense of personal contribution to the world. (the curriculum might be a good example for an international leadership program for fisheries managers...ie. learning to be leaders through experience.)
• Harvard MBA - Social Enterprises curriculum  
  • Effective Leadership of Social Enterprises (ELSE) is a seminar which engages students in exploring the key determinants of superior performance and sustainability in established social enterprises through cases, lectures, and class visitors. The sessions are organized into four modules: Mission, Strategy and Structure; Leadership and Management of Human Resources; Governance, Financial Management and Performance Measurement; Leading Change in Social Enterprise Institutions. The seminar is designed to build skills in leading and reinventing institutions, which should be helpful to future CEOs and other senior managers, consultants, board leaders, and funders of social enterprises. - 
  • Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowships: Since 1983, the program has provided supplemental fellowships to students taking summer positions in the nonprofit sector.  The fellowships allow students to pursue their interests in social enterprise and broaden the nonprofit experience available in class discussion.  Salaries from the employing organizations are supplemented by the School through funds established by HBS alumni.  During recent years, MBA students have chosen to work for a wide range of organizations outside the private sector, with positions at organizations such as The Boston Children’s Museum, the International Rescue Committee, The Nature Conservancy, Ford Foundation West Africa, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, and The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. 
  • loan-forgiveness program that aims to lower the financial barriers to employment for graduates who want to join the nonprofit sector.
• MIT - Sloan School of Management   
  • Special Executive program which is basically continuing ed. for executives. The MBA program allows for focus on areas such as New Product and Venture development
  • System Dynamics Group - also see Road Maps - a Guide to learning system dynamics this is an extensive online curriculum, you need to purchase certain texts seperately)
• Northwestern University - Kellogg Graduate School of Management  
  • Managerial Economics Major - develops students' capacity to analyze the economic environment in which an organization operates, to understand the constraints this environment places on the organization's pursuit of its goals, to predict how these constraints may change with time, and to apply economic reasoning to an organization's internal decision making. All courses have a managerial emphasis that traditional economics courses lack. Typical problems covered within the managerial economics curriculum are pricing within an oligopolistic industry, forecasting product demand over the business cycle, predicting and evaluating the effects that government regulatory intervention will have on an industry, and setting optimal transfer prices among divisions within a corporation.
  • Public/Nonprofit major which includes an introductory nonprofit leadership course
• Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology  
  • Management of Science and Technology - Our courses, certificate and master's degree programs focus on managing people and processes and on building effective and competitive organizations in the specific contexts of technology and science. Managing change and competing in the global marketplace are prominent themes in the MST program. 
• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School - 
  • MBA - concentration focused on sustainable enterprise development that will equip MBA students to manage those issues in the business world - see courses
• University of Pittsburg, Katz Graduate School of Business - has one of the few doctoral majors in the country in Business Environment, Ethics, and Public Policy; however, the focus is primarily on study of how business firms interact with the rest of society, and the ethical and political issues related to this interaction.
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources
  • *Wood Science & Forest Products - see FOREST PRODUCTS MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT - The role of marketing within the forest products community is becoming increasingly important. Over the past 20 years, government agencies and forest products companies (both large and small) have recognized the importance of marketing to the success of their operations. The problem faced by many of these companies is that skilled marketing-oriented employees who understand wood products are often not available. M.S., M.F. and Ph.D. degrees. Masters graduates often find employment with forest products companies and trade associations.
  • also has Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences - offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs. The comprehensive curriculum covers fisheries and wildlife biology and ecology, habitat analysis, and human dimensions of natural resource science and management. (this is cross listed on the Academic fish.html page)
• Texas A&M, Mays MBA Program - see information on "Integrated Curriculum" which discusses core competancies: 
  • Teamwork
    Communication
    Strategic Decision Analysis
    Global Awareness
    Problem Solving
    Financial Acumen
    Self Management
    
• Stockholm University - International Graduate Programme
  • Multidisciplinary Graduate Courses in the Social Sciences - The International Graduate Programme (IGP) at Stockholm University offers master's and doctoral students a unique opportunity to study social science at a large, prestigious European university. Students choose among a select number of cross-disciplinary courses at the graduate level that focus on theoretical and empirical issues high on the international academic agenda.(no tuition fee) Academic programs for Fall include: 
    • Markets and Modernities
    • New Economies, New States, New Societies
    • Institutions and Organisations - see this one!
    • International Social Science Seminar: Autumn Theme - Development Studies
  (while this is not a business program, it relates to the business side of management and the courses are in some way similiar to the type of courses offered in some business programs...this is also cross listed under multinational list)
• **Wageningen University and Research Center - Agriculture is almost invariably associated with policy, economics, marketing and management and has clear links with environmental sciences, developing countries and consumer behaviour.
  The Netherlands, and especially Wageningen University, has long been aware of this. As the only agricultural university in a country which is a world leader in the export of agricultural products, Wageningen University has developed much expertise in agricultural and environmental economics, marketing and consumer behaviour and development economics.
  • **Wageningen School of Management for the Food Industry and Agribusiness - offers an MBA; post management grad. courses, and customized course; 
  • **MSc in Agricultural Economics and Management - also see program guide (this program is an ag. economics program and does not appear to be linked to fisheries, however, specializations include: 
    • Facility Management - the management of all aspects of the secondary production process. It is interdisciplinary in character. This means that the process is analysed from several disciplines. The specialisation therefore comprises subjects from sociology and natural science, as well as the Economics of Professional Care, and Management Studies and Marketing. The goal is to analyse facility processes in order to improve them. Students will acquire sufficient knowledge to be able to function as intermediaries between graduates of different disciplines. Graduates will be excellently equipped to take up positions as facility managers in large private companies.
    • Marketing and Consumer Behaviour - intended to develop analytical skills to solve agricultural, marketing and management problems; making decisions about marketing food and agricultural products. Consumer orientation is essential in agricultural marketing, and therefore the food consumer will be analysed in depth. Making marketing decisions about product, price, promotion and distribution will be treated in relation to the food consumer and to other elements of the marketing environment, such as competition. The marketing channel of agricultural and food products will also be high-lighted. This specialisation is a good preparation for a career in agribusiness and public administration concerned with agricultural marketing.

Other Notable Public Administration/Policy programs

• Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government -  Master in Public Policy - Capstone: Policy Analysis Exercise
  In the second year, all students engage in the Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE), in which they examine an existing public or nonprofit sector problem presented by a client organization and develop a recommendation that the client can implement. The PAE, which can be carried out individually or in small groups, culminates in a 40-page paper. Many MPP graduates point to the PAE as one of the true highlights of their Kennedy School education. They work with a real-world client but under the close supervision of faculty advisors with expertise in the topic area. Students frequently experience the satisfaction of seeing their recommendations implemented by the client organization. Visit the PAE Home page.

• H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

  • Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM)

    The MSPPM program prepares students to advance the public interest by developing exceptional analytic, quantitative and technical skills. With concentrations in policy analysis, financial management and analysis, urban and regional economic development, management, and information systems, the program provides market-oriented training that is applicable to any policy field in the public, non-profit and private sectors.

  • Ph.D. program

    The Ph.D. program trains the next generation of scholars to pursue research questions with sophisticated skills and insights through an intensive, methodologically-based curriculum. Understanding and solving problems of public policy, management and IT demands a program that integrates disciplinary perspectives, advances theoretical models, and improves the quality of methodological and computer-based tools.

• Look at top programs list and add select examples not yet included on other lists?