Business School

Corporate Design Foundation works with business schools to encourage greater emphasis on design within business education. The Foundation has established relationships with deans, faculty and departments at more than 50 business schools worldwide, collaborating with these schools to influence their curricula and course offerings towards increased presence of design in graduate business school education.

The Foundation works with business schools in a number of ways to expand business students' exposure to design. CDF collaborates with faculty to include a design-related class in business school courses in areas such as Operations, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, and Strategy. The Foundation also partners with business schools to establish courses devoted to a design-in-business topic. For example, a course at Babson College (Wellesley, MA), "The Effective Workplace," offered students exposure to the role of workplace design in achieving business objectives.

Corporate Design Foundation supports these efforts by making its resources available to interested faculty and deans. The Foundation Chairman and many individual members have worked with professors to plan a class/course and deliver in-class presentations.

The Foundation also maintains a collection of teaching materials to aid faculty who want to include design in their courses. This includes our collection of case studies, articles in our journal @issue as well as other design-in-business success stories from our library.

Faculty interested in collaborating on a class/course should contact Corporate Design Foundation directly at 617.566.7676 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The following are business school courses that include design, listed by school.

Babson College
Product Design & Development (MOB7575)
The Effective Workplace (MOB7571)

Boston University
Product Design & Development (CD880)

University of California at Berkeley
Managing the New Product Development Process (BA290A, E290A)
Design as a Strategic Management Issue (BA290K)

Carnegie Mellon University
Integrated Product Development

Columbia University
Design and Marketing of Luxury Products

Harvard Business School
Managing Product Development

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Product Design and Development (15.783J)

University of North Carolina
New Product Design & Development (BA 265A)

Northwestern University
Product Development and Design (0162-D64)

University of Pennsylvania
Product Design and Development (OPIM654-001)

Stanford University
Integrated Design for Marketability and Manufacturing I & II
Design & Launch of New Products (M342)

University of Texas at Austin
Managing Product Development