Program Details

• Why Choose Our Online BA in Business Administration with Concentration in Management?

  • 100% online to fit into your busy schedule
  • Multiple term starts each year so you can start sooner
  • Four-credit, seven-week courses so you can finish sooner
  • Taught by subject matter experts working in the field
  • Highly interactive format with frequent communication among faculty and students
  • Streamlined admission process—only submit your application and transcript(s); no ACT/SAT score is needed
  • Financial aid and generous transfer credits policy

• Career Opportunities

  • Marketing Manager
  • Healthcare Administrator
  • Assistant Business Manager

Faculty

• Dr. Carrie Colbert

  

  Associate Professor, Business Administration
  Phone: 603.428.2438
  Email: ccolbert@nec.edu

  Expertise and Achievements
  • Holds five marketing certifications
  • Member of American Marketing Association, Network of Executive Women, and National Association of Professional Women
  • Guest speaker on a variety of business and marketing topics

  Educational Background
  Doctor of Management, University of Maryland Global Campus
  MBA, California State University, Los Angeles
  BS in Marketing Management, California State University, Los Angeles

  Bio
  Dr. Carrie Colbert, Dr. C to her students, manages the marketing side of the Management Division. She teaches the majority of the marketing courses, including Advertising and Brand Promotions, Digital Media Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Personal Selling and Customer Relationships.

  By trade, Dr. Colbert is a marketing management professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic marketing, promotion development, data analysis, and marketing management. She has held senior-level positions with Valassis Communications, Dole Food Company, Symphony IRI, and The Nielsen Company. She has also worked with many CPG manufacturers such as Nestle USA, Kraft, Mission Tortillas, and Nissin Foods, along with various grocery and drug retailers (e.g., Ahold USA, Delhaize, Winn Dixie, Rite Aid, etc.).

  Dr. Colbert owns and operates Doctor Colbert Consulting, a marketing management consulting company where she helps small businesses build their customer base and increase exposure.

• Cynthia Burns Martin

  

  Professor, Business Administration; Associate Dean for Institutional Effectiveness
  Phone: 603.428.2214
  Email: cmartin@nec.edu

  Expertise and Recent Press

  Expertise:
  Cynthia’s recent writing and public presentations are place-based non-fiction—prompted by oral tradition or published town histories; informed by extensive primary document research; focused on decisions made by individuals; and understood within the context of broad national and regional changes in the economy, technology, political environment, and society during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  Recent Press:

  • New England College, Arcadia Publishing, 2016
  • Vinalhaven Island’s Maritime Industries, Arcadia Publishing, 2015
  • “Bodwell Granite Company Store and the Community of Vinalhaven, Maine, 1859–1919,” Maine History, 2012

   

  Educational Background
  MBA, Boston University
  AB in English Literature, Smith College

  Bio
  Cynthia Burns Martin, Associate Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, is responsible for accreditation and assessment of New England College. She is a tenured Professor of Business Administration, with more than 30 years of fulltime teaching experience, primarily in undergraduate marketing and management, at NEC. In the past, she served as Assistant Dean of the Management Division, Chair of the Management Collegium, Chair of the Social Sciences Division, and Assistant Dean for Special Projects. She is an elected member of the Scholar Practitioner Committee of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, which publishes the Transnational Journal of Business.

• Dr. Erin Wilkinson Hartung

  Dean of Management; Associate Professor, Business Administration
  Office: John Lyons Center
  Phone: 603.428.2301
  Email: ewilkinsonhartung@nec.edu

  Educational Background

  • DBA with specialization in International Business—Marketing, Alliant International University
  • MIBA, U.S. International University
  • BA in International Relations, Second Major in Business Economics, University of San Diego

   

  Research Interests

  • Social venture business models
  • Livelihood development and sustainable entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

   

  Bio
  Erin Wilkinson Hartung is a marketing, academic, and business consultant with over 15 years of experience in higher education, global development, and small business advising. Her specialties include competitive analysis, international marketing, consumer behavior, and sustainable entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has held international teaching positions

  Wilkinson Hartung has consulted with numerous small business agencies—such as the SBDC, CWE, and MBDA—assisting small businesses with market planning and training, often times bringing client projects into the classroom. She also has experience in global development championing women’s empowerment as she has worked on several NGO-sponsored international livelihood development projects.

  Wilkinson Hartung is a Fulbright Scholar and spent 2012 teaching, doing research, and working on social venture marketing and sustainable entrepreneurship in Tanzania. She continues traveling to Tanzania and is active in her follow up on these entrepreneurship projects. Outside of her professional interests, Wilkinson Hartung travels widely, cooks, bikes, and kayaks. A transplant from southern California, she enjoys living in New England with her family and dogs.