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Department of Marketing, Management and Supply Chain
Study business at the center of U.S.–Mexico trade—where customers, organizations, supply networks, and international markets meet.
Department overview
From the Paso del Norte region, MMSC brings together international business, supply chain, marketing, and management. Programs examine how organizations compete across borders, understand customers, develop people, and move goods and ideas through connected markets.
From the department chair
International business, marketing, management, and supply chain are connected by a common challenge: understanding people and coordinating action. Students build that perspective through research-informed courses, industry partnerships, and the cross-border context of the Paso del Norte region.
Academic programs
Five undergraduate programs, the MBA, and two doctoral concentrations support careers and scholarship across customers, organizations, supply chains, and international business.
Build a flexible foundation across the major functions of business and prepare to contribute wherever organizations need adaptable problem-solvers.
Study how organizations compete across borders, with particular attention to U.S.–Mexico trade, commerce, and the realities of a binational region.
Study customer behavior, research, analytics, brand strategy, and the decisions that connect organizations with markets.
Develop the organizational and leadership skills needed to guide people, teams, and entrepreneurial activity.
Learn to design, analyze, and improve the systems that move products, information, and resources across organizations and borders.
MMSC contributes faculty expertise to the MBA and supports doctoral concentrations in Marketing and Management.
Develop broad leadership expertise across business functions, drawing on MMSC perspectives in strategy, people, markets, and operations.
Explore MBA formatsBuild advanced expertise in marketing theory and research methods while developing original scholarship with faculty mentorship.
Explore the Marketing Ph.D.Study organizations, leadership, and work through rigorous theory, research methods, and original dissertation research.
Explore the Management Ph.D.Signature strengths
International business provides the regional and global context. Supply chain, marketing, and management show how goods move, markets develop, and organizations lead.
Cross-border strategy, global markets, and binational partnerships prepare students to understand commerce within one of the world’s most active trade regions.
Logistics, sourcing, process design, and enterprise systems come alive in a region shaped by manufacturing, trade, and binational movement.
Customer insight, analytics, and strategy help students understand demand, communicate value, and build stronger market relationships.
Leadership, human capital, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior center the people who turn strategy into action.
Research and doctoral study
Faculty research spans consumer decisions, organizational life, and global operations, with growing attention to analytics, AI, sustainability, and cross-border business.
View faculty researchResearch into cross-border strategy, commerce, global markets, responsible business, and technology-enabled trade.
Research on sourcing, logistics, resilience, process improvement, and the coordination of complex operating networks.
Research into customer judgment, branding, communication, market relationships, and data-informed strategy.
Scholarship on work, human capital, entrepreneurship, teams, culture, and the systems that shape employee experience.
The Ph.D. in Business Administration offers concentrations in Marketing and Management, pairing rigorous theory and methods with faculty mentorship and original dissertation research.
Applied learning
Corporate academies, employer projects, and cross-border experiences connect classroom frameworks to the real coordination challenges organizations face.
Industry visits help students trace how facilities, technology, people, and decisions come together inside a high-volume supply network.
Build enterprise systems fluency through applied coursework, industry context, and preparation for technology-enabled operations.
Explore ERP AcademyConnect HR strategy, analytics and workforce systems through a profession-facing academy experience.
Explore HCM AcademyUse the U.S.–Mexico region as context for trade, market, operations, and partnership questions with international relevance.
Develop leadership and professional relationships through organizations tied to marketing, HR, entrepreneurship, and supply chain.
Hunt Insights
Faculty research, doctoral achievement, and industry-facing student experiences from across the department.
Hunt College is accredited by AACSB International, a supporting marker of quality across its business programs.