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Business Management and Finance

The Business Management career pathway is focused on careers in planning, organizing, directing and evaluating business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations. Finance is focused on planning, services for financial and investment planning, banking, insurance, and business financial management.

For more information on these programs at Mississippi State, please click the links below:

How To Demonstrate 5 Different Management Styles In An Interview

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Beyond this one very specific window of opportunity, though, you’re wondering how else to position yourself as the style of leader you …

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Learning to Run Webinars

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Learning Graphic Design: Cropping Photographs

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Cropping is essential to good design. In this course, senior author John McWade shows members how to transform images that…
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Copyright for Photographers

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Alumni Connections

Kevin McCartney

Alumni
  • Amory, MS
  • President of Amory Division Community Bank of Mississippi
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Eddie Pitts, CPA

Alumni
  • Tyler, TX
  • CPA Hudnall & Pitts, PLLC
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Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden, SHRM-SCP, SPHR

Alumni
  • Charlotte, NC
  • founder, CTK@work CTK@work, a division of Conrad Trosch & Kemmy, P.A.
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Jim Wallis

Alumni
  • Clayton, GA
  • Managing Director Rainwater Advisors, LLC
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Ashlianna Owen Chessor, MBA

Alumni
  • Blytheville, AR
  • People Operations Business Partner Majestic Steel USA
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Justin Perry

Alumni
  • Memphis, TN
  • Private Client Relationship Manager First Horizon Bank
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Fred “Buddy” Hess

Alumni
  • Mississippi, USA
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Mitchell Bentley

Alumni
  • Memphis, TN
  • Retention Specialist Bright Cellars
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Jennifer McPherson

Alumni
  • Starkville, MS
  • Financial Analyst Mississippi State University
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Bryan Sanderson

Alumni
  • Austin, TX
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Vivian Lepoutre

Alumni
  • Chattanooga, TN
  • Sales Enablement Specialist Signature Consultants
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David Clarke

Alumni
  • Greenville, MS
  • Manager Bridgers, Goodman, Baird & Clarke, PLLC
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Career Center Office

300 Montgomery Hall
Mississippi State Campus

Phone: 662.325.3344
Fax: 662.325.7975
Email: career@career.msstate.edu

Mailing Address

Post Office Box P
Mississippi State, MS 39762

Campus Mailstop 9533

Co-op Program Office

335 McCain Hall
Mississippi State Campus

Phone: 662.325.3823
Fax: 662.325.8733
Email: coop@career.msstate.edu

Mailing Address

Post Office Box 6046
Mississippi State, MS 39762

Campus Mailstop 9548

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