Master of Management

3 Credits

This course covers the skills and techniques managers need to provide leadership and direction within a changing organizational environment. Students will examine fast-paced changes including evolving demographics and emerging technologies and how they relate to innovative talent management, leadership, and managerial responses to addressing future organizational challenges.

3 Credits

This course begins an introductory sequence to ensure students are successful in a graduate program. The topics include a broad overview of the business environment, including the concepts of management and operations, organizational behavior, human resources, information systems, ethics and the legal environment.

3 Credits

This course examines the functions and issues that business managers need to address in order to compete in an increasingly global market. Topics include an overview of the global environment of business, doing business ethically, quantitative research, business strategy, and marketing.

3 Credits

This course provides students with the basic theories, concepts, terminology, and uses of economics, accounting, and business finance. Students learn practical applications for economics, accounting, and business finance in their professional lives through the integration of fundamental concepts and the analysis of actual business events.

3 Credits

This course is an introduction to entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset. The course will provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities of an entrepreneurship, an intrapraneurship, and a social entrepreneurship. Students will learn the process of initiating an entrepreneurial venture through the creative pursuit of ideas.

3 Credits

This course prepares graduate students to apply written and oral communication principles to the roles they play as managers. Students will learn how to persuade a variety of stakeholders to commit to a proposal. Other topics include the role of perception in communication techniques, aligning communication to an audience, business justifications, presenting data, and ethics in organizational communications.

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.

3 Credits

This course will introduce students to data discovery, data analytics, and data visualization with contemporary business tools. Students will learn to differentiate data analytics from statistical analysis and use the power of informatics in shaping decision-making in the modern business context. The course will address analytics as a tool for business process-improvement and present data acquisition and formatting, metric creation, data discovery, and data visualization with real-world examples and exercises for students to work through in class.

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

3 Credits

3 Credits

Value is the seminal construct of a business proposition, yet it remains difficult to define and is subject to constant repositioning by industry and society. This course will examine the essence of changes in business value propositions and how technology plays an important role in today's business environment. The course will explore how innovation and the business cycle are linked by technology developments and how successful businesses across industry segments have been able to use innovation as a means to differentiate themselves while lowering costs.

3 Credits

This course focuses on the development of a financial plan. Students will develop a revenue forecast, draft a budget, and create a profit and loss statement. Students will identify sources of funding, understand the importance of a break-even analysis, and calculate and interpret performance measures for business decision-making and sustainability.

3 Credits

This course provides a learning environment that reinforces creativity and innovation. Students will examine the core concepts related to innovation and analyze effective strategies for managing start-ups or organizations. Topics will include leading innovation, scaling excellence from innovation, financing innovation, creative problem-solving, and design thinking.