Graduate MBA Courses
- Foundation Courses
- Required MBA Core Courses
- MGT 600 - Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Law
- ACT 650 - Accounting for Decision Making
- MIS 650 - Information Technology Management
- FIN 650 - Finance for Decision Making
- MGT 650 - Management of Organizational Behavior
- POM 651 - Operations Analysis
- MKT 650 - Marketing Strategy
- MGT 659 - Strategic Management
- Elective MBA Courses
- ACT 670 - Financial Statements Analysis
- ACT 671 - Management Control & Business Improvement
- ACT 672 - Taxes and Business Decisions
- MIS 670 - Managing Information
- MIS 671 - Managing Systems
- MIS 672 - Digital Economy and Commerce
- FIN 670 - Investment Analysis
- FIN 671 - Personal Financial Planning
- FIN 672 - International Financial Management
- MGT 670 - Regulatory and Administrative Law
- MGT 671 - Management of Organizational Change
- MGT 672 - Designing Team-Based Organizations
- POM 675 - International Supply Chain Management
- POM 676 - Business Process Design
- MGT 677 - Leading, Motivating, and Empowering Others
- MKT 670 - Interactive Marketing
- MKT 671 - Marketing Research
- MKT 672 - International Business and Multinational Enterprises
- Common, Variable Courses
Foundation Courses
POM 500 - Statistical Analysis
3 credits
A case study approach involving the following statistical concepts: descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, probability distribution, statistical estimation, chi-square testing, analysis of variance and simple regression-correlation analysis.
FIN 500 - Economic Concepts for Managers
3 credits
Examines the most applicable principles of micro and macro-economics for the application of economic theory for the manager. Topics include optimization techniques applied to consumer choice firm behavior, pricing, and the study of the market structure. Both ethical and international issues are addressed.
ACT 500 - Financial Accounting
3 credits
Stresses both the significance of accounting information and the necessity for its smooth flow through the organization so managers can efficiently make plans and control resources. Topics include: interpretation, use, and analysis of accounting data for internal reporting, planning, and controlling of business activities and managerial decision-making. The course includes the impact of accounting on people in both services and manufacturing operations.
Required MBA Core Courses
MGT 600 - Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Law
3 credits
Critical analysis of the obligations managers have to all stakeholders in a business enterprise. Readings on ethical responsibility and global interconnectivity emphasize how business decisions impact people and the environment
ACT 650 - Accounting for Decision Making
3 credits
Interpretation of corporate financial reporting by external users of financial statements. Students examine the form and content of financial statements and the methods used to account for assets, liabilities, capital, cash flows, and other information reported in conformity with accounting principles. While pure financial accounting focuses on the external interpretation of corporate financial reporting, this course includes internal reporting for managerial decision-making. Management planning and control techniques, basic cost analysis, capital budgeting, and activity-based management are encompassed in the course.
MIS 650 - Information Technology Management
3 credits
Introduction to the information technology used in modern organizations. The course is designed to provide a technical understanding of information technology, practical experience and management perspectives on its utilization in organizations.
FIN 650 - Finance for Decision Making
3 credits
Exposure to financial principles by discussions of the functions of financial management. Various tools available to assist financial managers in making decisions are discussed and applied to case analyses. Specific topics include working capital management, capital budgeting applications, capital structure management, and financial analysis and planning.
MGT 650 - Management of Organizational Behavior
3 credits
Understanding individual and group behavior and their application to problems faced by managers. Extensive use is made of experiential learning and student centered discussion in addressing the topics of leadership, motivation, communication, performance, stress, group dynamics, organizational structure, and organizational change.
POM 651 - Operations Analysis
3 credits
Techniques for the analysis and improvement of the value-adding activities of an organization. Such activities are called by a number of names: processes, operations, production, or just plain "work." Value is added only when the output from a process meets the needs of customers, both internal and external. The course focuses on the efficient and effective management, in both manufacturing and service environments, of processes (a set of tasks or activities that contribute to delivering products and services in order to meet customer’s needs, whereby inputs are transformed into outputs thereby adding value.)
MKT 650 - Marketing Strategy
3 credits
Strategy formulation for determining what marketing strategy can realistically accomplish, identifying internal and external factors that must be considered in developing longer term strategies, setting realistic marketing and financial objectives, and organizing for successful implementation of strategies. Students undertake assignments that allow them to examine both successful and unsuccessful strategies.
MGT 659 - Strategic Management
3 credits
Pre- or Co-requisites: Completion of all core courses (650 series) Capstone course for the MBA. The course examines competitive factors impacting firms and the design of a competitive global strategy. Primary emphasis is on managerial skill development focused on enhancing effective organizational operations in today's global competitive environment. The course analyzes components of a strategic plan: formulating, implementing, and controlling its execution, and evaluating its success in a global context.
Elective MBA Courses
These elective classes, as well as others not listed, are offered on a rotating basis. They may be replaced by Special Topics electives.
ACT 670 - Financial Statements Analysis
3 credits
Techniques for the analysis of financial statements, for decision-making purposes by investment analysts, lenders, creditors, professional accountants and other business managers.
ACT 671 - Management Control & Business Improvement
3 credits
The management control system for implementing strategy and gaining competitive advantage. The firm strives to control effectiveness and efficiency by making improvements to organizational structure and business processes. This course examines the means for achieving control while exploring improvement alternatives, such as restructuring, re-engineering, downsizing, and outsourcing. The course focuses on the methods used by management to guide employee actions, gain their commitment, and monitor outcomes.
ACT 672 - Taxes and Business Decisions
3 credits
A study of management decisions in the context of current federal income tax laws. Students will study and research the tax effects of alternative business decisions and actions. The course is appropriate for all graduate business students as a first course in taxation. It is based on tax concepts rather than detailed tax rules; students will be able to recognize tax traps and potential tax savings after taking this course.
MIS 670 - Managing Information
3 credits
Managing information by understanding, designing, and controlling the information processing activities of an organization. The course explores how firms gather, represent, process, and distribute information and knowledge to employees and customers. A sample of the topics covered in the course includes: gathering information or business intelligence; storing information, or information architectures; information/data modeling; processing information, or process modeling; knowledge management; data mining; and distributing information, or e-commerce brokerage and disintermediation.
MIS 671 - Managing Systems
3 credits
Managing in an information-intensive environment through skills and knowledge of business and systems change. This course teaches strategies for aligning a firm's information systems with rapidly changing business environments, taking the perspective of both organizational and technical issues. In addition, this course has a major emphasis on IT leadership and the skills necessary to be a successful leader in information-intensive environments. Case studies, field research, guest speakers, lectures, and discussions are used to explore topics such as reengineering, systems development and implementation, legacy and enterprise information systems, project management, SAP, and other integrated systems. Students undertake projects with local companies that explore the class topics in actual business settings.
MIS 672 - Digital Economy and Commerce
3 credits
Electronic commerce is in its infancy and changing rapidly as new technologies emerge. This course provides a detailed review of the production, marketing, and distribution of digital information products and applies microeconomic analyses to examine some of the radically new business models emerging from web-based businesses.
FIN 670 - Investment Analysis
3 credits
In-depth examination of fixed income and equity securities and an introduction to recent innovations in the field. Emphasis is given to the place of derivatives in the portfolio, the active management of risk, and the management of retirement assets and pension funds.
FIN 671 - Personal Financial Planning
3 credits
Introduction to the financial planning process of setting goals, developing action plans, creating budgets, and measuring results, The student will become familiar with the techniques of financial analyses necessary to make choices when considering housing, insurance, retirement plans, borrowing, and other issues.
FIN 672 - International Financial Management
3 credits
Forces that affect the relative value of currencies in international markets, covering the major problems encountered by the firm in financing international operations.
MGT 670 - Regulatory and Administrative Law
3 credits
The impact of regulations on business. This course concerns the impact on business of the increasingly large role played by governmental regulation in American life. The course takes a close look at due process and the economics of regulations. Cross-benefit analysis is employed to establish whether governmental regulation is justified.
MGT 671 - Management of Organizational Change
3 credits
Knowledge, understanding, and skills to actively contribute, whether as a manager, leader, or change agent, to essential renewal and transformation processes within organizations. Change leadership is a core competency in successful twenty-first century organizations. The course examines how change occurs in large-scale organizations, the role of leadership in the change process, the use of vision, symbols, and metaphor to stimulate change, and the use of change forums to help employees maintain momentum during the process. Further, the course examines the organizational development perspective on planned change, how to design, implement, and institutionalize planned change in the human or technical systems of an organization, and roles in the change process. The course will benefit managers who recognize the need for change in their organization and who want to develop change leadership skills.
MGT 672 - Designing Team-Based Organizations
3 credits
A step-by-step program for redesigning an organization so that teams, rather than individuals, are the primary performance units. The course examines the documented benefits that teams provide, discusses the conditions under which teams are appropriate, provides key design principles, considers how other systems (cultural and technical) must change to accommodate teams, considers how to prepare employees and managers for the change and implementation strategies.
POM 675 - International Supply Chain Management
3 credits
Management of the flow of materials into, through, and out of operations, in an international context. The course investigates how to manage such complexities as long distances, currency fluctuations, variable infrastructures, diverse cultures, political instability, and dissimilar legal systems. The value-adding activities of procurement, manufacturing/operations, and logistics/distribution are conceptualized as one integrated supply chain. By understanding various facets of the supply chain, this course will provide sufficient insight to analyze the challenges of configuration and coordination in a global environment.
POM 676 - Business Process Design
3 credits
Business processes through which "value-adding activities" to customers are accomplished, such as order fulfillment, product development, and customer service. The course provides fundamental ideas underlying total quality management, time-based competition, and business process reengineering. Specific topics include capacity management, integrated work, the impact of variability on process performance, tools for business process design, lean and agile management systems, dynamic flow management, time compression, performance measurement systems, and inter-firm coordination.
MGT 677 - Leading, Motivating, and Empowering Others
3 credits
Fundamentals of collaborative work as they occur in traditional, hierarchical, and empowered workplaces. More than ever before, contemporary workplaces require joint effort whether between multiple individuals, groups, organizations, or nations. The course reviews selected theories of leadership, motivation, empowerment, communication, and learning. Further, the course explores their application to today's workplace, and considers differences in these actions upward, downward, and laterally. The course provides a highly interactive setting in which participants can assess and develop interpersonal skills necessary to influence others.
MKT 670 - Interactive Marketing
3 credits
Impact of interactive communication technologies on the world of marketing and marketing communications, today and projected for the future. The course emphasizes developing practical strategies for the new interactive media and putting those strategies to work in profitable marketing programs. Internet strategies will be emphasized in terms of both the collection and dissemination of information. Students will design and implement an interactive marketing project for a company of interest.
MKT 671 - Marketing Research
3 credits
Successful marketing by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information. This course offers an understanding of the different marketing information needs of the organization. The conception, planning, and performance of marketing research projects are discussed as an objective basis for marketing strategies. Topics include definition of research objectives, data sources, research design, interpretation of data, and evaluation of research proposals and results. The course focuses on applying marketing research concepts to solving real-world problems through written and video cases, applied research exercises, and experiential research development projects.
MKT 672 - International Business and Multinational Enterprises
3 credits
Skills needed to operate or work in international businesses. The course will familiarize students with recent developments in the international marketplace, acquaint them with how international business is conducted in a changing world economy, and examine the differing cultural, economic, financial, legal, political, and social environments found in the international marketplace. Topics addressed include the nature and scope of international business, the framework for international transactions, assessing national environments, and managing the multinational enterprise.
Common, Variable Courses
ACT/BIS/FIN/MGT/MKT 690 - Special Topics
3 credits
Topics will vary and course may be repeated with change of content.
ACT/BIS/FIN/MGT/MKT 695 - Independent Study
Variable credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; permission of instructor, graduate director, and college dean.
An opportunity for a student to propose a course and study with a particular professor who agrees to participate in it as an elective for the student. This course series is a particularly useful way to engage a student in a thesis. Follow procedures in the graduate catalog in order to obtain time approval for this course.
ACT/BIS/FIN/MGT/MKT 696 - Directed Study
3 credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; permission of instructor, graduate director, and college dean.
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Follow procedures in the graduate catalog in order to obtain time approval for this course.
