Skills
Business Professor Skills & Tools
The technical skills, people skills and tools employers look for in business professors, and how to build and show them.
What skills do business professors need?
Business Professors need technical skills such as business strategy, case teaching, and research methods, plus people skills like public speaking and mentoring. They also use tools such as Learning management systems and Case studies.
Technical (hard) skills
- Business strategy
- Case teaching
- Research methods
- Statistics
- Curriculum design
- Academic writing
People (soft) skills
- Public speaking
- Mentoring
- Organization
- Industry networking
Tools, equipment and technology
- Learning management systems
- Case studies
- Business simulations
- Statistical software
- Presentation tools
- Research databases
Skills in action: common tasks
These step-by-step guides show how business professors put their skills to work:
- How to lead a business case discussion
- How to build a class consulting project
- How to publish a business research paper
How to show these skills on a resume
- Lead your skills section with the technical skills from the job posting, for example, “Business strategy” and “Case teaching.”
- Prove soft skills with results: instead of listing “public speaking,” describe a situation where you used it.
- List credentials such as Ph.D. or DBA near the top, with the issuing organization and date.
- Use the employer’s vocabulary. Our business professor glossary covers the terms hiring managers expect.
How to build these skills
Formal training, supervised practice and certification are the most direct routes. Our Business Professor training introduces each of these skills with plain-language lessons, procedures and a final knowledge check: a strong foundation before hands-on training or your first day.