Our Mission

The North Star: a Destination and a Crossroads

The Notre Dame Business Honors program sits at the crossroads of excellent business and ethical business. We devote ourselves to sending the next generation of students to lead business enterprises in service of the common good. This is our North Star.

Upon graduation, Honors students carry on the Honors mission by becoming North Stars in both their professional and personal lives.

Excellent Business

It is our calling to provide a distinguished and distinctive business education. We prepare students to lead by educating them in a technically rigorous yet holistic way. Students take a broader view of business, understanding its role in the world and the role of a business career in their lives. By selecting talented and committed students, we are confident that they will lead and work for the good of all.

We have gathered academia’s leading educators, and some of business’s best guest lecturers, to provide an unparalleled educational experience for all Honors students who aspire to lead in any industry. Students are expected to strive in the classroom and in service to be role models for the rest of the Mendoza College of Business and the University of Notre Dame.

Ethical Business

While market trends come and go, we orient ourselves to the eternal. Our Catholic identity informs our approach to structuring a business education and to preparing our students for virtuous careers and lives. We see business for its potential to elevate the common good and contribute to human flourishing across the globe.

As a part of the world’s leading Catholic university, we see it as our responsibility to set the standard for action in the market and in life. We expect students, Catholic and non-Catholic a like, to hold themselves to high standards of conduct in all ways, both during their time at Notre Dame and for the rest of their lives.