Current Title: Newell Brands Innovation technology and new product development.
Current Responsibilities:
Create the technical roadmap for immerging technologies
Implementing changes to organization
Leading the PLM
MID Emphasis:
Innovation Management
Product Development
(As of publishing in August 2024)
Mark's Plan of Study
Cr/Hr
ECON 709 - Urban Economics
3
FA 710 -Seminar in Creativity & Innovation
3
ENTRE 705 - Technology Entreprenurship
3
ENTRE 706 - Seminar in New Product Dev
3
ID 752 - Product Prototyping
3
FIN 850 - Managerial Finance
3
ID 500 - Design Thinking & Innovation*
3
ENTRE 620 - Growing & Managing Entre Firm
3
ID 753 - Intent vs Impact*
3
ID 841 - Project*
3
Total Hours
30
*Required MID Course as of 2019
The diversity and inclusion that this program has is unlike any other Masters program.
Grouping the insights from different undergraduate studies and career backgrounds
make this program truly unique.
— Mark Elliott
Describe how the skills you gained from the Masters of Innovation Design program have
contributed to your success. The broad understanding of how diverging ideas and processes can create a strong foundation
and structure for converging product solutions has greatly helped me throughout my
career.
What was the most valuable lesson or experience you took away from the program? The ability to work cross functionally and understand ideas and constraints from other
contributors.
What tips would you offer to current or prospective students of the MID program to
help them fully leverage their education and achieve success after graduation? The way that you solve problems will forever change and your ability to collect and
navigate ideas will be greatly improved.