Master of Business Administration (MBA)

School of Management

603 Managerial Economics and Decisions of the Firm (3:3:0)Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Provides fundamental understanding of how microeconomics concepts are applied to managerial decision -making. Explores principles of microeconomic theory, includ-ing market supply and demand, production and cost functions, industry structure, and product and resource pricing.

612 Managing Costs and Evaluating Performance (1.5:1.5:0) Prerequisites: admission to MBA program and MBA 613. Examines impact of cost and cost allocation on performance and evaluation.

613 Financial Reporting and Decision Making (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Foundation course focusing on the economics and analysis of business transactions and related financial reporting issues. Topics include introduction to accounting framework used in financial reporting; and analysis of financial statements, economic events and their impact on financial reports, and impact of accounting methods on financial reports.

623 Marketing Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admis-sion to MBA program. Develops ability to make marketing decisions in a wide variety of institutional and competitive situations. Emphasizes technology to aid in analysis, decision making, and communication of decisions to relevant publics. Emphasis on case studies, team work, and projects.

633 Statistics for Business Decision Making (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Use of statistical methods as analytical tools for understanding and -solving business problems and supporting business -decision making. Extensive use of both applied business scenarios to illustrate concepts, and computer software for data -analysis.

638 Managing Operations and Technology for the Digital Enterprise (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Focuses on design, planning, and control activ-ities needed to produce and deliver goods and services in modern organizations. Introduces a wide range of operations management decisions such as operations strategy, process analysis and design, capacity planning, supply chain management, total quality management, and project management. Uses quantitative modeling, case studies, and computer software to analyze and solve oper-ations management problems.

643 Managerial Finance (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Introduces theory and practice of finance within corporations. Topics include -inter temporal choice, valuation, capital budgeting and structure, working capital management, and risk and return analysis.

653 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Emphasizes development of conceptual tools for understanding and analyzing individual and group behavior in organizations and organizational processes. Considerable focus on development of relevant skills for working in groups and teams. Lectures, discussions, case analyses, and in-class exercises.

673 Legal Environment for Management (1.5:1.5:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Introduces contemporary legal and ethical doctrines, and examines how they can be applied to guide and enhance decision-making processes of managers in the global economy. Lectures, class discussions, cases, and projects.

678 Strategy and Organizational Leadership (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Capstone course focuses on strategy develop-ment at business unit and corporate level. Cases, readings, and project format familiarize students with strategic management function and develop analytical, organizational, and formatting skills to -analyze complex business situations. Provides opportunities to integrate knowledge gained in prior course work.

701 Business Analysis and Valuation (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Develops framework for business analysis and valuation using financial statement data. Analyzes management decisions such as equity valuation, creditworthiness, merger valuation, corporate financial structure, and management communication strategy.

702 Corporate Financial Policy (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Applies theories and methods of corporate financial management to a series of complex case situations. Topics include capital projects as real options, cost of capital and capital structure, firm valuation, project finance, and merger and acquisition analysis.

703 Financial Markets (3:3:0)Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Explores relationship between financial markets ranging from global equity markets, to the market for U.S. Treasury securities, to markets for numerous -exchange-traded and over-the-counter financial derivative instruments such as futures, options, swaps, and asset-backed securities.

704 Risk Management and Financial Innovation (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Considers how to identify, measure, and manage financial risk using innovative financial instruments and diversification strategies. Focuses on derivatives as tools in risk-management plans.

705 Venture Capital and Private Finance (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Considers the market microstructure of venture capital and private finance: costs and benefits from employing private financing, interaction between the financiers and entrepreneurs, financial analysis of poten-tial ventures, and investor exit strategies.

706 Investment Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Focuses on analysis of equity securities and debt instruments given the implications of the efficient market hypothesis and modern capital market theory.

708 Taxes and Business (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Provides framework for making managerial decisions in global tax environment. Examines business decisions such as location of facilities, employee compensation, mergers and acquisitions, capital and asset structure, and business form.

711 Entrepreneurship (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Considers fundamental aspects of entrepreneurship and the process of new venture creation. Draws on a broad range of business disciplines including management, marketing, finance, and accounting to develop evaluation and execution skills.

712 Project and Cost Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Focuses on project scheduling, time-cost trade-offs, budgeting, cost control, and project monitoring. Special emphasis on cost-management aspects of projects in technology in intensive industries. Use of software and case studies.

713 Human Resource Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite:completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Provides understanding of role of and techniques available to management for effectively utilizing organi-zationÕs human resources.

714 Managing Growth of Small Businesses (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core, MBA 711 recommended. Focuses on unique challenges faced by small and entrepreneurial firms that seek long-term growth. Builds on concepts and knowledge of creating a start-up company, and introduces processes and strategies required to become a significant player in an industry segment. Designed for students interested in understanding opportunities and problems in their own businesses; employment in small or entrepreneurial businesses; and exploring corporate entrepreneurship within large firms.

717 International Finance (3:3:0) Prerequisite:completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Advanced analysis of management of the firmÕs international financial operations. Topics include currency risk, political risk, returns and funding of international projects, international markets and accounting, and the cost of capital. Lecture, discussion, readings, and cases.

719 Entrepreneurship Laboratory (1:0:1) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, and permission of instructor. Permits MBA students to work with the entrepreneurial community to gain first-hand knowledge of process of soliciting second-stage funding for new businesses, evaluating applications for second-stage funding, consulting for entities seeking funding, and negotiations for obtaining second-stage funding. May be repeated three times in different semesters.

721 Marketing Decision Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Develops skills to plan and implement effective market research study. Topics include research design, statistical analysis, data mining and modeling, and the use of database systems. Offers perspective on how managers can use market data to develop successful product or service strategies.

722 Consumer Behavior (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Examines behavioral science concepts to understand and predict marketplace behavior. Emphasizes applications of product and service strategies, with a focus on how information age affects the way consumption occurs.

723 Supply Chain Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Examines logistics of supply chain systems, including inventory management, distribution channels, and information systems. Emphasizes strategic alliances and international issues.

724 Marketing Communications (3:3:0)Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Examines all forms of communication and all sources of brand or company contacts as potential message channels in building a relationship with the customer. Focuses on integrated planning process for all communication elements, including consumer and trade advertising, public relations, direct and database marketing, promotions, and sales presentations to achieve synergy in communicating with various constituencies.

725 Leadership (3:3:0)Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Overview of major conceptualizations of leadership and motivation in organizations. Integrates theory, research, and applications. Students apply principles of leadership and motivation to their own work situations and case evaluation.

731 Business Systems Development (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Studies methods and tools for analyzing and designing business information systems with emphasis on business processes. Topics include data modeling, process modeling, interaction analysis, and user interface.

732 Knowledge Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Examines firms that use knowledge management principles and approaches: intellectual capital, human capital, customer capital, tacit and explicit knowledge, the new role of chief knowledge officer, leveraging of knowledge management.

733 Business Data Communications (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Introduces datacommunications and telecommunications technologies and their application in business, including LANs, WANs, PBXs, voice services, network operating systems, corporate internetworking, the Internet. Analyzes datacommunications industry, and business applications of datacommunications in manufacturing and service sectors, along with regulatory issues and impact of globalization.

734 Electronic Commerce (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Applies skills and knowledge in designing and building business-to-business or business-to-consumer web commerce site. Emphasizes products, strategies, and web site design.

735 Systems Thinking and Business Simulation (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Systems approach to design, analysis, and improvement of crossfunctional business processes. Uses business-simulation software for modeling and analysis. Application areas include E-commerce, online services, and technology management.

736 Managing Digital Business (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Develops strategic understanding of the new electronic marketplace. Emphasizes technical, legislative, and social issues influencing digital business. Studies changes in business processes and organizations enabled by electronic commerce technologies and applications.

737 Corporate Information Systems Policy (3:3:0) Prerequisite:completion of MBA core or permission of instructor. Studies role of CIO in private and public sector. Considers procurement and outsourcing strategies for IT investments. Explores enterprise information systems development, and management and security as major concerns of the CIO.

798 Global Business Perspectives (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Applies MBA core courses to global business enterprise through site visits to facilities located outside the United States.

799 Special Topics in Business (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Sections established as necessary to focus on various topical issues that emerge in the practice of business administration.