1. What is a business major?
Being a part of the business program encourages and demands that students perform at their best. Our expectations are similar to those that future professionals will encounter in their careers: We want our students to achieve to their highest abilities. Faculty expect students to be prepared for class and to participate actively.
The business curriculum focuses on how to work in group/team environments and provides opportunities for individual performance and growth.
Undergraduate majors:
Accounting
Business Economics and Public Policy
Computer Information Systems
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Finance-Insurance
Finance-Real Estate
International Studies
Legal Studies
Management
Manufacturing Systems
Marketing
Not-for-Profit Management
Operations Management
Purchasing/Materials Management
Supervision Management.

2. Completing your education
Supervision Supervision Management. Operations Management, Management
Customer Relations Entrepreneurship, Marketing
Inventory Operations Management, Purchasing/Materials Management,
Accounting
Merchandising Operations Management, Purchasing/Materials Management
Payroll/expenses Operations Management, Purchasing/Materials Management
Supervision Management, Accounting
Employment law Legal Studies
Training Operations Management, Marketing, Supervision Management
Neighborhood involvement Marketing
Gross/net profit max Finance, Accounting, Operations Management, Marketing

3. Training Section A: Providing Customer Service
The Walgreens Training Program, Excel, consists of organized workbook programs designed to provide technical knowledge and when combined with on-the-job experience produces top level retail managers. Excel recognizes that individuals progress at different speeds -- the program is self-directed. Assistants complete modular lessons at their own rate. Initially, assistant managers learn day-to-day store operations and graduate to higher order managerial tasks. Promotion is therefore not dictated by seniority. It is the motivation, talent and drive of each individual which most directly impacts promotion.
Section A: Providing Customer Service
Processing Refunds
Issuing Rain checks
Treating Job Applicants Well
Supervising Liquor/Tobacco Sales
Resolving Customer Complaints/Problems
Preventing Shoplifting
Section D: Managing Inventory
Receiving Vendor Merchandise
Preparing Your Store for an Ad
Calculating Gross Profit Percentage
Doing Inter-store Transfers
Planning and Building Displays for Profit
Preventing Employee Theft
Section B: Managing Store Funds
Processing Pay-outs
Processing Voids
Processing Pay outs
Conducting Cash Counts
Processing Pickups
Counting and Correcting the Safe Working Fund
Section E: Managing the Store Facility
Opening Your Store
Closing Your Store
Determining Where to get Maintenance Assistance
Assessing the Condition of Your Store
Section C: Leading the Store Team
ABC’s of Prioritizing
Keeping Employees on Track
Getting Employees Back on Track
Preventing Discrimination
Preventing Sexual Harassment
Maintaining a Positive Store Environment
Section F: Preventing and Handling Accidents
Preventing Accidents in Your Store
Responding to an Employee Accident
Filling out an Accident Report on an Employee
Responding to a Customer Accident
Filing Out an Accident Report on a Customer
Advanced Assistant Manager Training Program
Controlling Store Expenses
Competing through Customer Service
Completing the Buy Card
Managing Training
Delegating Tasks
Conducting Inspections
Communicating Effectively
Troubleshooting Equipment/Merchandise Problems
Store Manager Development
Managing Camera/Electronics Department
Managing Cosmetics for Profit
Reducing Store Expenses
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Customers and Employees
Assessing the Financial Conditional of your Store
Assisting in Your Pharmacy
Doing the Right Thing - Ethics at Walgreens

4. Career path

5. Compensation
Assistant managers: scheduled for a minimum of 44 hours per week. An entry level assistant manager is paid hourly with time and half provided for overtime (in excess of 40 hours). This plan ensures that individuals are paid at a premium for additional time spent working and minimizes the occurrence of excessive overtime. (Typical annual compensation: mid to upper 20’s)
Executive Assistant Manager: salary plus bonus compensation plan replaces the hourly plan. As an Executive Assistant, an individual begins to direct decisions that affect the overall profitability of the store. (Typical annual compensation: upper 20’s, lower 30’s)
Manager: combines a base salary plus yearly bonus. This bonus is based on store productivity, profitability and improvement. As a store manager’s performance and productivity increase, she or he will move to larger volume stores. The yearly bonus will reflect this increase in responsibility. (Typical annual compensation ranges from the 40’s to 70’s)

6. Chain Drug Store Industry
Health Care Hybrid
Occupy a special niche in retail
Industry growing, but consolidating
Walgreens, Eckerd’s, Rite-Aid, American Drug Stores, CVS
Pressure from 3rd Party Providers cut into Rx profit margin

7. Size matters
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Target
Target
Target
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart

8. Size matters
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Target
Target
Target
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart

9. Smaller Individual Profit Centers
Easier in/out
Convenient
Specialized Service
Health Care Hybrid
Micro-marketing
More autonomy
Greater responsibility
Direct supervision
No place to hide
Quicker career path to manager

10. What do you value? Respect for Individuality Responsibility
Rewards/Recognition
Self Reliance
Equity
Want to feel invested in
Want to be listened to