School of Business: Goals & Objectives
The business education envisioned by Anatolia American University is unique for its comprehensive view of management and explicit focus on fostering entrepreneurial approaches to management in the region. Graduates will have acquired an appreciation of the interactions among all elements of an organization and be ideally equipped to lead entrepreneurial activity throughout Southeast Europe over the next decades. The foremost goal of the business curriculum is to develop and strengthen students’ coherent and logical thinking processes in order to make and implement sustainable, ethically responsible business decisions throughout their careers
Our Vision
To provide the highest quality business education to a diverse student body which reflects the realities of the business world.
Our Mission
Our undergraduate programs prepare our students for successful careers and life-long learning in a rapidly changing world. We guide our students in the development of their intellectual experience.
Our Stakeholders
We recognize the following stakeholders as significant partners in our success:
- Current and potential students
- Employers
- The business and professional community
- Our alumni
- The academic community
- The wider Anatolia organization
- Greek public policy makers and non-profit and community organizations
Our Educational Philosophy
To prepare our students for the roles we have described we must assure their mastery of:
- Thinking Skills: logical, critical and integrated analysis, the capacity to exercise good judgment; creative and non-traditional problem solving; and proficiency in ethical reasoning.
- Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Competencies: e.g., information technology and quantitative skills appropriate to ethical and sustainable problem solving in real work settings.
- Communications Skills: proficiency in oral, written, presentation, distance communication, and effective listening skills.
- Change Management: understanding and shaping the forces of change, including globalization, technology advancement and climate change and using this understanding to formulate, evaluate, and select from alternative strategies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage for themselves and for their companies and organizations.
- Self-Development: the capacity to engage in the effective self-management of lifelong learning to achieve continuous professional and personal growth.
Our Core Strategies
To realize our vision, to implement our mission and to act according to our educational philosophy we must:
- Creatively intervene in the student recruitment, selection and advising process
- Forge numerous collaborations and affiliations with leading educational institutions and organizations
- Promote mutually beneficial partnerships and strategic alliances with our stakeholders
- Review, reconsider and implement faculty staffing and development strategies
- Continuously develop and enhance our curriculum
Indicative List of Strategic Alliances
- Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
- California State University, Fresno
- Ohio State University
- University of Michigan
- Johnson & Wales University
- International Finance Corporation
- World Bank
- Greek Institute of Banking
- Karamanlis Institute
- Papastratou Institute
- American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
- Koc University
- American University in Bulgaria
- ADMINE
- Deloitte
- Mamaras & Associates
- Sani/Ikos Group
Experiential Learning
"Tell me and I will forget,
Show me and I might remember,
Involve me and I will understand."
Following this rubric, business students are given multiple opportunities to be involved through: company visits, internship opportunities, participation in student clubs and participation in the prestigious John Pappajohn Annual Business Plan Competition which offers both undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to test their entrepreneurial skills and earn project seed money doing so.
