Defining our future: The D'Amore-McKim 2025 plan

While digital convergence is disrupting industries and jobs, higher education in business—through research and teaching—is a critical component in helping people and industries meet the challenges of digital convergence and turn them into chances. We define digital convergence as the integration of physical, digital and human resources resulting in integrated digital and physical ecosystems. This is the future of business and it requires talented people who can lead it successfully.

Embracing this changing world is mandatory.

The D'Amore-McKim School of Business will embrace opportunities arising from this changing world by discovering, designing and delivering the capabilities needed to thrive in this future. We will position ourselves as a bold and impactful business school preparing the world for a future rooted in digital transformation and convergence.

OUR MISSION

• We train leaders and thinkers to be prepared for the future of work in a world shaped by digital convergence.
• We bring usage-inspired thinking to the global business world that enables companies to be prepared for this future.
• We cultivate a culture of inclusive excellence that transforms lives.

OUR VISION

D'Amore-McKim will be widely recognized as a preeminent business school that produces effective knowledge and develops leaders who will shape business in a digitally converged landscape. In this way, we will become the school of choice for elite talent around the world.

Humanities education, combined with experiential learning, will become the “The X Factor” for D'Amore-McKim.

Humanitarian is the integration of human, technological and data literacy. We will be able to foster humanities education in D'Amore-McKim students and alumni by focusing on three interdisciplinary learning literacies:

• Human competencies such as creativity, ethical reasoning, cultural flexibility, collaboration and systems thinking.
• Understanding the ways in which technology operates and impacts global business now and in the future is also critical to success in the digital economy.
• People who can manage its flow datacapture the potential value of data using the right approaches and then develop ideas that are likely to stand out.

Based on the foundations of humanistic and experiential learning, there are three distinct mindsets –global, entrepreneurial and lifelong learning— that strengthen the support structure for the D'Amore-McKim vision. These distinct mindsets play to our strengths. They enrich everything we do.