Master of Business Administration

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 provides you 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 focuses 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.

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 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.

3 Credits

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.

3 Credits

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

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

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.

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

This course examines the processes of identifying, exploring, and exploiting opportunities for value creation - economic, social and/or environmental value. 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.

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.