Online Master's in Business Administration (Competency-Based MBA)

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.

This course provides students with the interpersonal skills and self-awareness needed to motivate people in the workplace and to manage group dynamics to create synergy among group members. The course will focus on the development of the skill sets necessary to elicit high commitment and productivity from people and groups through awareness of one's own values, behaviors, and decision-making tendencies.

This course applies leadership concepts to create organizational change that increases value for stakeholders. Topics include leadership theories, organizational development approaches, servant leadership, and transformation leadership.

This course emphasizes the importance of economic theories in the context of digital transformation. Students will determine how to address contemporary global business issues. Students will apply economic theories to analyze, understand, and solve business problems.

This course examines the potential trade‐offs between efficiency and effectiveness. Topics include process analysis and improvement, supply chain management, and strategic operations decision‐making to solve business challenges. Students will examine supply chain workflows focusing on performance improvement across organizations.

In this course, students examine managerial accounting as part of the business's accounting information system and 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.

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.

In this course, you learn to develop marketing strategies, consider how to communicate value to target markets, assess the importance of branding, and look at marketing practices through digital and social media lenses. Students will be able to apply industry knowledge to navigate digital marketing topics and evaluate impact.

This course introduces students to a variety of data analytic solutions. Students will examine how to retrieve real business data and create reports, create visual representations of data, manage and improve a business process, analyze long‐term trends and patterns in the data, and develop actionable results that drive the business decision‐making process.

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

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