This course is divided into three major components: micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational behavior, and human resource management. Micro-organizational behavior focuses on individual and group-level problems. The section on macro organizational behavior focuses on organizational-level problems as they relate to improving organizational performance. HR management focuses on recruiting, selecting, evaluating, and disciplining employees. This course introduces some of the central topics in management theory, research, and practice and provides the basis for understanding and evaluating organizations and their management.

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the process of marketing strategy development and implementing marketing strategy. Through the use of strategy-related readings, cases, applied exercises and a course project, students develop and refine strategic marketing planning and problem-solving skills.

This course helps students develop an understanding of the concepts of business accounting information for planning and control of enterprise activities. This includes concepts of cost measurement and analysis, cost behavior, profit planning, standard costing, operational budgeting and capital budgeting, decentralization, and decision support. The course focuses on decision makers’ analysis of accounting information and formulation of effective action plans based upon that analysis.

This course covers corporate topics of interest to MBA students. It includes treatment of some theoretical issues in finance as well as practical application of those topics. Topics include ethics, global issues in finance, time value of money, cost of capital, financial forecasting, firm valuation, capital budgeting, risk analysis, capital structure, and dividend and firm reinvestment issues.

This course focuses on strategic management, which is a study of the process of developing an integrative plan for a company to progress toward achieving goals and objectives. The interactive board of directors roles and senior managers roles are emphasized. Techniques are used to integrate middle-level managers and supervisors into the strategic planning process. Strategic management requires the implementation of a macroenvironmental analysis and the use of accounting, finance, marketing, management, and quantitative and statistical tools. This is the capstone course in the MBA program and requires a research project and report.

This course focuses on improving communication skills for managers. This includes written communication skills and oral communication skills to both internal and external audiences. Through analyses and practice of communication strategies adopted by successful business professionals, students learn to write clearly and concisely, improve interpersonal and team competencies, deliver compelling oral presentations, construct effective arguments, and communicate effectively across various cultures.

This course examines corporate culture, corporate governance, stakeholder responsibility, social responsibility in business, legal rules and the importance of business ethics in a global economy. Students become acquainted with the theoretical basis of business ethics: stakeholder-theory, theories of responsibility and normative ethical theory and intercultural ethics. They learn the characteristics of ethical issues in business and acquire the ability to solve an ethical problem using the decision-making process. The course will result in the ability to create and defend a corporate ethics program.

This course provides a managerial perspective of information technology within an organization. Students will explore how information systems in business can support tactical, operational and strategic business objectives. They will learn how business functional areas may be integrated through information technology. In addition, they will study the social, legal, ethical and economic impact of information technology on organizations.

This course helps managers understand, create and apply business statistics and research methods to solve business problems. This course surveys research methods and the underlying concept of validity with the understanding that statistics based on invalid data are not useful for making decisions. The course examines an array of statistical methods that include measures of association, measures of difference, multivariate analysis and non-parametric statistics with an appreciation for probability as a basis for understanding the message of these statistics, an eye toward knowing when each particular test is appropriate, and an understanding of the components of the calculations and how their values affect statistical results.

This course explores the use of various Operations Research/Management Science techniques to model and solve various business model problems. Spreadsheet software (specifically Microsoft Excel) is used extensively in the modeling and solution of these problems. Some topics covered are linear programming, integer programming, decision analysis, queuing models, and simulation.