Course Descriptions
MBA 5009 Managerial Environment
This course develops important quantitative skills needed for graduate business course work and for success in the practice of management. Critical thinking and analytical skills will be developed. Business cases will be used to develop oral and written communication skills, presentation skills, analytical skills and team building skills. This course should be taken as the student’s first course upon entering the AMBA program.
MBA 5001 Organization Behavior & Communications
This course addresses the issues of motivation, leadership, and communications. Included are negotiation, conflict resolution, and team building.
MBA 6011 Strategic Marketing
This course provides a framework for examining key strategic marketing issues faced by modern organizations and helps students to develop an understanding of the marketing environment, customer and their buying behavior, the marketing research process, new product development, marketing channels, and marketing communication and advertising.
MBA 6010 Managerial Finance
In this course students learn to apply analytical tools to making strategic financial decisions that add value to the shareholder. Students will learn to use financial statement analysis tools, value long-term securities, relate risk and return, perform financial forecasting, evaluate assets and portfolios, determine the firm’s cost of capital and design an optimal financial structure.
LEA 5125 Leadership Ethics, Culture & Politics
This course compares and contrasts the disciplines of leadership and management with an emphasis on fostering organization culture and personal ethics. Topics may include historical and contemporary leadership and management theories, current leadership research and the practice of leadership and management across a wide variety of organizational contexts.
MBA 6012 Operations and Supply Chain Management
This course introduces students to the management activities involved in operating organizations within a global supply chain context. Students will learn how business functions (such as marketing, operations, and finance) interact to support decisions for successful execution of the organization’s strategic plan.
ACC 5005 Financial Accounting and Reporting
This course explores financial accounting (as defined by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or GAAP) and reporting in a variety of decision and industry contexts. Topics may include preparing and reporting a corporation’s balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. Topics may include the regulatory environment surrounding financial accounting, measurement and reporting of balance sheet assets, fundamental revenue and expense recognition principles, and analysis of a firm’s financial statements.
MBA 6501 Strategic Human Resources Management
This course explores human resources from a strategic perspective to help an organization achieve its goals. Topics may include investments in human resources, workforce demographic trends, theories of human resource management, workforce training and development, workforce utilization and assessment, and performance management systems.
MBA 5008 Quantitative Analysis and Decision Making
This course presents students with quantitative tools for effective business analysis and decision-making. In addition to a review of basic inferential statistics, the course includes tools such as ANOVA, chi-squared tests, nonparametric statistics, correlation and multivariate regression analysis, time-series analysis and forecasting, data mining and decision analysis.
MBA 5005 Law and Ethics for Managers
This course provides a framework for managers to understand and assess the ethical and legal responsibilities of managers and the implications of their decisions. The course introduces an ethical framework for managers and explores the constitutional foundation for laws and regulations that affect business, the current legal environment, employment and civil rights law, major regulations, corporate governance, securities and financial transactions and international law.
MBA 6505 Organizational Development and Change Management
This course explores the theoretical grounding and practical approaches necessary to effectively diagnose organizational problems, develop intervention approaches, and implement organizational solutions. Topics may include entering and contracting, organizational diagnostic models, organizational surveys, change impediments, managing the change process, organizational/interpersonal/group interventions, and evaluation approaches.
MBA 6999 Strategic Development and Implementation
This course explores the methods of directing a firm, or a significant division thereof, in an internationally competitive environment. Students will develop an understanding of the way in which general managers formulate and implement business-level strategy and corporate-level strategy in today’s market economy. These techniques will incorporate tools and perspectives for international and cooperative strategy. In this course students will also develop skills and perspectives in corporate leadership, corporate parenting, and corporate entrepreneurship.