Curriculum

ACC 502

Financial Performance Reporting

Financial accounting concepts and procedures for external reporting.

ACC 503

Managerial Accounting

Managerial accounting concepts and procedures for internal reporting.

CIS 591

Business Intelligence

This course takes a managerial perspective to information technology, focusing on the new hallmarks of IT in organizations: innovation, data driven decision making and collaboration as we explore their impact and importance for organizations.

WPC 501

Decision Statistics 

Fundamentals of quantitative analysis to aid managerial decision making under uncertainty.

ECN 502

Managerial Economics

Application of microeconomic analysis to managerial decision-making at the firm-level in areas of supply and demand, production, cost, and pricing. Evaluation of competitive strategies.

FIN 502

Managerial Finance

Theory and practice of financial decision-making, including risk analysis, valuation, capital, budgeting, cost of capital, and working capital management.

FIN 540

Advanced Finance

Case oriented course in applications of finance theory to management issues: acquisitions, allocation, and management of funds within business enterprise, capital budgeting and valuation strategies.

LES 582

Ethical Issues for Managers

This course is about developing a higher level of ethical functioning as a current and future organizational decision maker, manager, and leader. One set of course objectives is about developing as an individual ethical actor. The other related set is about developing as a manager and leader of ethics in the organizational context.

MGT 502

Organizational Theory and Behavior

Concepts and applications of management including motivation, leadership, group dynamics, organization design, decision-making, communication and organization change.

MGT 520

Leadership I

Learn to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity, to use power and persuasion, to use different decision styles in different circumstances, and to lead organizational transitions through changing environmental circumstances..

MGT 540

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship (from small to medium-sized businesses to scalable enterprises) has been shown to be the true growth engine in the economy for a number of years. Coursework will focus on identifying, evaluating, valuing and developing opportunities from the specific perspective of the entrepreneur. The course will revolve around a series of cases, readings and class discussions designed to build a comfort level with understanding and solving problems faced by entrepreneurs at various phases of the venture development, from concept to harvest. You will be challenged to bring to bear your collective experience and learning to date to evaluate these opportunities and chart a course of action as if you were the entrepreneur. You will take the skill sets you have developed to date and apply them in an entrepreneurial framework, while building your individual entrepreneurial perspective.

MGT 565

Business and Public Policy

Public policy decisions affect threats and opportunities for businesses. This course examines how public policy decisions are made and how businesses can participate in the public policy process. This is an off campus course. The EMBA program will pay for the ground portion expenses (lodging – based on single occupancy, local transportation, entry fees, and most meals) for this course. Learn more about Business and Public Policy.

MGT 580

International Practicum

In this on-campus and overseas course, students will examine cases and discuss management questions focused on salient international issues by examining problems faced by multinational firms as well as strategic issues faced by local firms in competing in the global business environment as well as how cultural and social processes influence economics, trade, commercial activities and competitive dynamics among these firms. The overseas practicum is designed to provide direct insight into the international business environment and to practice the concepts learned during pre-sessions. Each day besides visiting businesses and industries of interest and having live case examples and discussions with local professors or live case examples to be analyzed individually, in small groups and as a class. As such, this will be a rigorous class with written and oral components expected as outcomes. Students are responsible for paying their flight expenses. The MBA program will pay for the ground portion expenses (lodging – based on double occupancy, local transportation, entry fees, and most meals) for this course.

MGT 589

Strategic Management

Learn the tools of strategy and policy formulation, emphasizing the integration of decisions in the functional areas to help your organization gain and sustain competitive advantage.

Continued in Quarter Seven and Quarter Eight.

MGT 591

Leadership II

This course goes beyond a basic understanding of effective leadership and builds upon the concepts and approaches learned in Leadership I including direct application.

MGT 530

Negotiations

This course is designed to improve students’ understanding of and skills in the art of negotiation. The goal is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of what it takes to be an effective negotiator, as well as several experiences to draw upon in future negotiation situations.

MKT 502

Marketing Management

Managing the marketing function; market and environmental analysis; marketing planning, strategy, and control concepts. Development and management of marketing programs.

SCM 502

Operations and Supply Management

Conceptual foundations of operational and logistic functions for all types of organizations. Application of analytical methods to production problems.