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The Bachelor of Applied Management is designed for those persons who have an associate's degree or the equivalent in a technical specialty, aspire to advance in managerial roles, and have a particular desire to broaden their knowledge of business environments. This program is designed for mature students who have completed 27 hours of vocational, occupational or technical specialization at a junior college or equivalent and wish to receive a baccalaureate degree.
Career Opportunities
Generally, students in applied management are mature students who are already employed. Consequently, their major purpose in pursuing the Bachelor of Applied Management degree is to advance to positions of more responsibility within their own organizations, or to increase their marketability in other organizations. The degree prepares students for a broad variety of career options, including, but not limited to starting a business, managing a family-owned business, working for a large multinational corporation, or preparing for graduate school.
Faculty
A student-faculty ratio of 13 to 1 assures personal attention designed to help students excel in their chosen fields. The faculty of St. Mary's Bill Greehey School of Business is a community of dedicated and innovative teachers and researchers committed to providing excellent, adaptive, and ethically based business and administration programs that prepare students for leadership roles. The faculty is committed to creating a challenging learning experience and encouraging lifelong learning that is empowering and consistent with the Marianist traditions of faith, integrity, community, and service to society.
Program Highlights
One of the most important aspects of the applied management program is that it allows students the opportunity to complete their requirements for the degree program while continuing to work in their respective jobs. Although business internship opportunities are readily available to students in the program, a majority of students opt to continue working with their respective employers while pursuing a their degrees.
Students in the applied management program may participate in international study opportunities available at St. Mary's. The Innsbruck, Austria program is an international experience designed to expose students to the differences that cultural, economic, legal, political, social, and technological environments have on the way business is conducted throughout the world. Studies in either Chile or Brazil allow business majors to examine the languages, history, cultures, political economies and business environments of the Americas.
The Bill Greehey School of Business also offers a variety of student leadership organizations such as the American Marketing Association, Accounting Club, Beta Gamma Sigma, Delta Epsilon Sigma, Delta Sigma Pi, Finance Club, Human Resources Management Club, International Business Club, M.B.A. Association, SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise), and Web-Journal of the Americas.
Post-Graduate Study
St. Mary's Graduate School offers a Master of Business Administration degree. Our graduates have continued advanced studies at St. Mary's in the M.B.A. program or other fields, including the School of Law. Some have become officers in the U.S. military.
Career Opportunities
Generally, students in applied management are mature students who are already employed. Consequently, their major purpose in pursuing the Bachelor of Applied Management degree is to advance to positions of more responsibility within their own organizations, or to increase their marketability in other organizations. The degree prepares students for a broad variety of career options, including, but not limited to starting a business, managing a family-owned business, working for a large multinational corporation, or preparing for graduate school.
Faculty
A student-faculty ratio of 13 to 1 assures personal attention designed to help students excel in their chosen fields. The faculty of St. Mary's Bill Greehey School of Business is a community of dedicated and innovative teachers and researchers committed to providing excellent, adaptive, and ethically based business and administration programs that prepare students for leadership roles. The faculty is committed to creating a challenging learning experience and encouraging lifelong learning that is empowering and consistent with the Marianist traditions of faith, integrity, community, and service to society.
Program Highlights
One of the most important aspects of the applied management program is that it allows students the opportunity to complete their requirements for the degree program while continuing to work in their respective jobs. Although business internship opportunities are readily available to students in the program, a majority of students opt to continue working with their respective employers while pursuing a their degrees.
Students in the applied management program may participate in international study opportunities available at St. Mary's. The Innsbruck, Austria program is an international experience designed to expose students to the differences that cultural, economic, legal, political, social, and technological environments have on the way business is conducted throughout the world. Studies in either Chile or Brazil allow business majors to examine the languages, history, cultures, political economies and business environments of the Americas.
The Bill Greehey School of Business also offers a variety of student leadership organizations such as the American Marketing Association, Accounting Club, Beta Gamma Sigma, Delta Epsilon Sigma, Delta Sigma Pi, Finance Club, Human Resources Management Club, International Business Club, M.B.A. Association, SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise), and Web-Journal of the Americas.
Post-Graduate Study
St. Mary's Graduate School offers a Master of Business Administration degree. Our graduates have continued advanced studies at St. Mary's in the M.B.A. program or other fields, including the School of Law. Some have become officers in the U.S. military.
Courses
First-Year Schedule: FallFoundation of Civilization
Foundations of Reflection
Literature
Finite Math
Foundations of Reflection:Nature
Foundations of Reflection: Others
Foundations of Reflection: God
EC2301or EC2303
Degree Plan
Technical Specialty 27 HoursSocial Science 12 Hours
- EC2301 Macro Economics (3) or
- EC2303 Micro Economics (3)
- SMC1313 Others
- SMC1301 Civilization SMC Civic Engagement
- SMC2304 Literature
- EN2000 Level Literature
- SMC1311 Self(3)
- SMC2301 Ethics(3)
- SMC4301 Capstone(3)
Mathematics 3 Hours
- MT1305 Finite Mathematics or MT1306 Calculus for Business(3)
- SMC1312 Nature (3)
- SMC1314 God (3)
- Choose any Junior or Senior Course (3)
Fine Arts 3 Hours
- SMC2303 Fine Arts (3)
- Choose one course (3)
- SE2333 Business and Professional Communication or
- MN3320 Communications for Management
Common Body of Business Knowledge
- AC2310 Introductory Accounting I 3 Hours
- AC2320 Introductory Accounting II 3 Hours
- BA3351 Legal Environment of Business 3 Hours
- FN3310 Corporate Finance 3 Hours
- IB3321 U.S. Business in an Interdependent World 3 Hours
- MK3310 Principles of Marketing 3 Hours
- MN3330 Organizational Behavior 3 Hours
- QM3320 Business Statistics 3 Hours
- QM3330 Management Information Systems 3 Hours
- QM4330 Operations Management 3 Hours
- BA4380 Business Policy and Strategy 3 Hours
Other Business Courses
- BA4334 Business Ethics 3 Hours
- FN3340 Risk Management 3 Hours
- MN3370 Human Resources Management 3 Hours
- MK3340 Promotion* 3 Hours
- IB4358 International Management** 3 Hours
- QM/CSM Elective 3 Hours
*or may take any other Marketing course
**or may take any other International Business course available
Faculty
K. Matthew Gilley, Ph.D.
Professor of ManagementBill Greehey Chair in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Phone: (210) 431-2036
Email: mgilley@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 1997
K. Matthew Gilley, Ph.D., is the Bill Greehey Chair in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Greehey School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to joining the Greehey School, Gilley served on the faculty of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University and on the business faculty at James Madison University.
Gilley's teaching centers on ethics, corporate social responsibility and business strategy. He was awarded the Regents’ Distinguished Teaching Award and the Greiner Teaching Award at OSU and was nominated for other teaching awards multiple times. He has consulted corporations and government agencies on issues of business ethics, social responsibility and strategic management. He is a co-founder of the Greater San Antonio Ethics & Compliance Roundtable.
Professor Gilley became an Invited Academic Fellow of the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, DC in 2008. The ERC Fellows are a select group of corporate, government, non-profit, and academic leaders who engage in meaningful dialog and cutting edge research on critical ethics issues.
His research interests include the relationship between executive compensation and ethical/unethical behavior, corporate governance and outsourcing. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, and others.
K. Matthew Gilley, Ph.D., is the Bill Greehey Chair in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Greehey School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to joining the Greehey School, Gilley served on the faculty of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University and on the business faculty at James Madison University.
Gilley's teaching centers on ethics, corporate social responsibility and business strategy. He was awarded the Regents’ Distinguished Teaching Award and the Greiner Teaching Award at OSU and was nominated for other teaching awards multiple times. He has consulted corporations and government agencies on issues of business ethics, social responsibility and strategic management. He is a co-founder of the Greater San Antonio Ethics & Compliance Roundtable.
Professor Gilley became an Invited Academic Fellow of the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, DC in 2008. The ERC Fellows are a select group of corporate, government, non-profit, and academic leaders who engage in meaningful dialog and cutting edge research on critical ethics issues.
His research interests include the relationship between executive compensation and ethical/unethical behavior, corporate governance and outsourcing. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, and others.
Richard A. Menger, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor of ManagementPhone: (210) 431-2027
Email: rmenger@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1992
During an 18-year banking career, Richard Menger, Ph.D., managed such diverse activities as market research and planning, international services, business development, advertising and public relations. He was also regional manager for strategic business planning for Texas' largest bank holding company and spent two years as a planning liaison with McKinsey & Co. His primary research interests include links between planning process characteristics and firm performance, executive succession and shareholder wealth, international management structure and communications, media ethics and the private equity industry's role in mergers and acquisitions.
Active in a number of academic, professional and community organizations, Menger has served as organizational behavior and strategic management track chair for the Southwest Academy of Management and is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Round Table Group. He also serves as a board member of the Texas Business Hall of Fame and trustee of The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation and a member of the Community Advisory Board for Goodwill Industries.
His publications have appeared in the Journal of Marketing Management, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Southwest Business Review, Journal of Asian Business, Managerial Finance and Texas Banking. He also is a co-editor of International Business Scholarship, a 2001 publication by Quorum Books.
At St. Mary’s, Menger held the Deirdre Harkins Richards Professorship in 1996, was chairperson of the Department of Management from 1996-2002 and served as Director of the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program from 2005-2011.
During an 18-year banking career, Richard Menger, Ph.D., managed such diverse activities as market research and planning, international services, business development, advertising and public relations. He was also regional manager for strategic business planning for Texas' largest bank holding company and spent two years as a planning liaison with McKinsey & Co. His primary research interests include links between planning process characteristics and firm performance, executive succession and shareholder wealth, international management structure and communications, media ethics and the private equity industry's role in mergers and acquisitions.
Active in a number of academic, professional and community organizations, Menger has served as organizational behavior and strategic management track chair for the Southwest Academy of Management and is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Round Table Group. He also serves as a board member of the Texas Business Hall of Fame and trustee of The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation and a member of the Community Advisory Board for Goodwill Industries.
His publications have appeared in the Journal of Marketing Management, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Southwest Business Review, Journal of Asian Business, Managerial Finance and Texas Banking. He also is a co-editor of International Business Scholarship, a 2001 publication by Quorum Books.
At St. Mary’s, Menger held the Deirdre Harkins Richards Professorship in 1996, was chairperson of the Department of Management from 1996-2002 and served as Director of the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program from 2005-2011.
Ronald D. Merrell, Ph.D.
Professor of ManagementPhone: (210) 431-6889
Email: rmerrell@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1975
Ronald D. Merrell, Ph.D., served as dean of the Graduate School from 1984-2004. Merrell has also served as president and vice president of the Association of Texas Graduate Schools and was previously director of the Master of Business Administration and Systems Management programs for eight years at St. Mary's University.
His teaching experience includes organizational behavior and other management courses involving human resources, organizations, strategy, and labor.
His management consulting experience includes helping clients achieve world class operations and a sustainable competitive advantage, developing a highly committed high performance workforce, providing training in leadership development, project management, and self managed teams. This consulting may include financial analysis, an audit of operations, creating organization culture, developing a marketing strategy, or assisting the organization in aligning human resource practices, policies, and programs with the corporate strategy.
Dr. Merrell's research and publications include topics such as teaching excellence, women entrepreneurs, and creating a highly committed high performance workforce.
Ronald D. Merrell, Ph.D., served as dean of the Graduate School from 1984-2004. Merrell has also served as president and vice president of the Association of Texas Graduate Schools and was previously director of the Master of Business Administration and Systems Management programs for eight years at St. Mary's University.
His teaching experience includes organizational behavior and other management courses involving human resources, organizations, strategy, and labor.
His management consulting experience includes helping clients achieve world class operations and a sustainable competitive advantage, developing a highly committed high performance workforce, providing training in leadership development, project management, and self managed teams. This consulting may include financial analysis, an audit of operations, creating organization culture, developing a marketing strategy, or assisting the organization in aligning human resource practices, policies, and programs with the corporate strategy.
Dr. Merrell's research and publications include topics such as teaching excellence, women entrepreneurs, and creating a highly committed high performance workforce.
Orion J. Welch, Ph.D.
Professor of Information SystemsPhone: (210) 431-2031
Email: owelch@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
B.S., Memphis State University
M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology, 1970
Ph.D., University of Memphis, 1995
Orion J. Welch, Ph.D., joined joined the school in 1995 as an assistant professor of information systems. He holds a doctorate in management information systems from the University of Memphis and a masters in management from the Air Force Institute of Technology. His research publications include a total of 37 academic journal articles, proceedings, and presentations at national and regional academic conferences.
His current research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, computer fraud, and corporate social responsibility. Prior to coming to San Antonio, Welch held a number of positions with the Department of Defense, including Director of Telecommunications and Information Systems at the Defense Logistic Agency in Memphis and staff representative to the National Communications Security Board in Washington.
He was the Dierdre Hawkins Richards Professor of Entrepreneurship for 1999-2000 and received the Distinguished Faculty Award for the Bill Greehey School of Business for 2005-2006. He is an active member of the American Accounting Association and the International Association of Computer Information Systems.
M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology, 1970
Ph.D., University of Memphis, 1995
Orion J. Welch, Ph.D., joined joined the school in 1995 as an assistant professor of information systems. He holds a doctorate in management information systems from the University of Memphis and a masters in management from the Air Force Institute of Technology. His research publications include a total of 37 academic journal articles, proceedings, and presentations at national and regional academic conferences.
His current research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, computer fraud, and corporate social responsibility. Prior to coming to San Antonio, Welch held a number of positions with the Department of Defense, including Director of Telecommunications and Information Systems at the Defense Logistic Agency in Memphis and staff representative to the National Communications Security Board in Washington.
He was the Dierdre Hawkins Richards Professor of Entrepreneurship for 1999-2000 and received the Distinguished Faculty Award for the Bill Greehey School of Business for 2005-2006. He is an active member of the American Accounting Association and the International Association of Computer Information Systems.
