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MBA Course Descriptions

 

Accounting for Decision Makers

An introduction to accounting concepts and the use of accounting information by decision makers. Topics include financial statements; measurement of assets, liabilities, equities, and income; financial statement analysis, cost behavior and measurement; profitability analysis; relevant costs for special decisions; budgeting; and responsibility accounting. Consideration is given to the role of information technology in the development and use of accounting.

Organizational Behavior and Leadership
This course examines why people behave as they do in organizations and what managers can do to improve organizational performance by influencing people’s behavior. Students will be exposed to the impact of organization on leaders, individuals, groups and cultures and to different frameworks for diagnosing and dealing with problems in organizational settings. Topics include leadership, motivation, team building, conflict resolution, organizational change, and managing organizational cultures, creativity and ethical leadership.

Statistical Analysis for Decision Making
This is a course in applied statistics emphasizing inference (estimation and testing). Topics to be covered include: review of descriptive statistics, normal distribution, sampling distributions, estimation, test of hypothesis for single and two populations, linear, multiple regression and model building methods.

Marketing Concepts
A graduate level introduction to the marketing function, its roles in assessing customer satisfaction, its relationship to finance and manufacturing, and its utilization of quantitative and qualitative management tools. Focus is on the strengths and limitations of using the marketing concept in understanding and resolving end-user concerns in profit and nonprofit environments. The course is structured around the managerially controllable elements of product, price, promotion and distribution, as well as the interrelationships of these elements.

Economics for Managers
The course focuses on the fundamental economic theories most useful for the management of a firm in a global environment. Microeconomic theories and current events are used to explain the performance of the market system and help managers formulate effective pricing and business decisions. Macroeconomic theories and current events are used to explain the direction of the domestic and global economy to help managers understand the implications, including foreign direct investment, for their companies. Students will learn to explain and predict changes in economic growth, inflation, interest rates, international trade and foreign exchange rates. This is an applications-oriented course including the use of a computerized microeconomic simulation to enhance decision-making skills and a team project assessing the gains for foreign direct investment in a specific foreign country.

Financial Analysis for Managers
An examination of basic financial theories, techniques, and practices. Topics include time value of money, valuation, capital asset pricing, risk and diversification, cost of capital, capital budgeting techniques.

Strategic Managment of Technological Innovation
The course integrates three themes: management of innovation and technology, global business, and ethics. A major focus is strategic management of technological innovation including the role of technology in creating global competitive advantage. Significant other topics include business social responsibility and contemporary issues in global business. An integrative technology, business ethics, global business experience summarizes and reinforces the major themes from the course.

Operations and Supply Chain Management
Study of the management of operations and supply chain management. Encompasses both manufacturing and services. Topics include operations and supply chain strategy, ethical behavior, forecasting; work systems, inventory management, capacity and materials planning, lean operation, supply chain design and closed-loop supply chains, global operations, quality management, quality control, and quality improvement, project management; and current issues.

Competitive Strategy
Strategic management involves defining a vision for the firm, laying out a strategy to pursue that vision, and guiding the firm through that strategy. Incorporating cross-functional thinking, this course provides the techniques and tools to help a firm create a sustainable competitive advantage. Topics include analysis of the external environment, the roles of ethics and innovation in strategy-making, analysis of the global business environment , firm-level analysis, internal resources and capabilities, and business-level and corporate level strategies.

Finance Concentration

Financial Management II
This advanced course in corporate finance focuses on financing policies, financial planning/control, and other advanced corporate topics. Specific topics include the financing process, alternative financing instruments, restructuring, cost of capital, corporate applications involving options, working capital management and the use of financial budgets/forecasts.

Securities & Investments
Study of securities and other investment media and their markets. Analysis of investment values based on fundamental analytic procedures, technical analytic procedures, and the impact that modern portfolio theory has on the value of financial assets. Topics include return, growth, risk, accounting procedures, tax considerations and the impact of various institutional arrangements on value determination.

Seminar: Islamic Finance

Finance in a Global Environment
Discusses problems posed by the international financial environment in which corporations operate. In particular, students learn to quantify and manage risks arising from shifting exchange rates. Other topics include exchange rate systems, international trade finance, international capital budgeting, country risk analysis and long-term international financing.

Macroeconomics
Fundamental macroeconomic theories will be learned to explain and predict changes in economic growth, employment, inflation, consumer spending, business investment, and foreign trade. Financial markets, domestic and foreign, will be examined to understand changes in interest rates and exchange rates. The likely affects of government spending, taxes, and Federal Reserve Bank policies on the economy and business will be evaluated.

Quality Control & Improvement

Quality Control & Improvement

Study of total quality management (TQM), including Deming's philosophy, quality planning, quality cost principles, problem solving methods and tools, the use of statistical methods for quality control and improvement, supplier relations, reliability concepts, and recent developments in quality. The course focus is on the management and continuous improvement of quality and productivity in manufacturing and service organizations.

Managing Organizational Change

This course examines various theories and approaches currently used to assist organizations in achieving planned change. The features of successful change in organizations will be discussed, with an emphasis on the structural, motivational, interpersonal, and social aspect of organizational change. Topics include the processes of envisioning and implementing change, as well as, the roles and perspectives of change agents and change recipients.

Project Management

This is a course in the methods and techniques of managing a software development project. Topics include defining project goals, work breakdown structure, defining tasks, project plans, estimation and scheduling techniques, work monitoring and measurements.

Benchmarking & Continuous Process Improvement
This course examines the benchmarking process as a means of achieving continuous service improvement. Among the topics discussed are proactive management, measuring performance, out-of-the-box thinking, internal, competitive, industry, and best-in-class benchmarking. The critical success factors at each stage of benchmarking in service industries are investigated.