Master of Business Administration | MBA Degree

MGT/526: Managing in a Changing Environment

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3 Credits

This course covers the skills and techniques managers need to provide leadership and direction within a changing organizational environment. Students will examine evolving demographics and emerging technologies related to innovative talent management, including effective leadership responses to organizational challenges.

ORG/535: People and Organizations

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3 Credits

This course provides students with the interpersonal skills needed to motivate people in the workplace and the human resources skills necessary to manage group dynamics and create synergy among group members. The course will help to develop high commitment and productivity from people and groups through awareness of one’s own values, behaviors, and decision‐making tendencies.

LDR/535: Leading Change

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3 Credits

This course applies leadership concepts to create organizational change. Students will create a plan to lead an organizational change in which they have no direct authority over necessary decisions. Other topics include leadership theories, organizational theory, levels of organizational change, and transformation leadership.

ECO/535: The Digital Economy

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3 Credits

This course emphasizes the importance of economic theories in the context of digital transformation. You gain a fundamental understanding of how to approach business problems related to digitalization within the world economy. You apply and discuss economic theories and how they can help to analyze, understand, and solve business problems.

ACC/543: Managerial Accounting & Legal Aspects of Business

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3 Credits

In this course, students examine managerial accounting as part of the business’s accounting information system as well as legal aspects of the business enterprise. Topics include managerial accounting and capital budgeting, cost analysis, management planning and control, negotiable instruments, secured transactions, debtor‐creditor relationships, property and insurance, and legal aspects of employment and environment.

FIN/571: CORPORATE FINANCE

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3 Credits

This course applies corporate finance concepts to make management decisions. Students discuss methods used to evaluate financial alternatives and create financial plans. Other topics include cash flows, business valuation, working capital, capital budgets, and long‐term financing.

DAT/565: Data Analysis and Business Analytics

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3 Credits

This course introduces students to a variety of data analytic solutions. Students will learn how to retrieve real business data and create reports, support business decisions with visual representations of data, manage and improve a business process based on quantitative analysis, analyze long-term trends and patterns in the data, and develop actionable results that drive the business decision-making process.

OPS/574: Creating Value Through Operations

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3 Credits

This course examines the importance of effectiveness and efficiency and evaluates the potential trade-offs between them to create value within an organization. Students will learn to apply process analysis, process improvement, supply chain management, and strategic operations decision-making to solve business challenges. Students will understand the entire value chain and how these decisions integrate for efficient and effective performance across a network of organizations.

MKT/574: Marketing: Social, Mobile, & Analytics

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3 Credits

In this course, you learn to develop marketing strategies, consider how to communicate value to target markets, learn the importance of branding, and look at marketing through digital and social media lenses and the relevance of legacy marketing approaches. You will practice these concepts and apply them by creating your own strategic marketing plan. Your strategic marketing plan is an important preparation for your capstone course, where you will assemble a complete business plan

MGT/576: Opportunity Evaluation & Value Creation

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3 Credits

This course examines the processes of identifying, exploring, and exploiting opportunities for value creation. Students will learn how to create value within a large organization or entrepreneurial venture, a critical skill enabling entrepreneurial thinking. Students will gain exposure to strategic thinking, creation of competitive advantage, monitoring of entrepreneurial opportunities, alliances, acquisitions, and restructurings.

STR/581: STRATEGIC PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION

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3 Credits

This capstone course integrates concepts from all prior courses in the program. Students apply the concepts of strategic planning and implementation to create a sustainable competitive advantage for an organization. Other topics include environmental scanning, strategic analysis, corporate social responsibility, implementation and evaluation, and risk management.