603 Managerial Economics and Decisions of the Firm (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA or MSA program. Provides fundamental understanding of applying microeconomics concepts to managerial decision making. Explores principles of microeconomic theory, including 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 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: admission to MBA program. Develops market-based knowledge and skills for effective marketing decision making, strategy design, implementation, and evaluation in wide variety of institutional and competitive situations. Emphasis on case studies, team work, and projects.
633 Statistics for Business Decision Making (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA or MSA program. Uses statistical methods as analytical tools for understanding and solving business problems and supporting business decision making. Extensive use of 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 or MSA program. Focuses on design, planning, and control activities to produce and deliver goods and services in modern organizations. Introduces 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 operations management problems.
643 Managerial Finance (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA or MSA program. Introduces theory and practice of finance within corporations. Topics include intertemporal 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 or MSA program. Emphasizes development of conceptual tools for understanding and analyzing individual and group behavior in organizations and organizational processes. Considerable focus on developing relevant skills for working in groups and teams. Lectures, discussions, case analyses, and class exercises.
673 Legal Environment for Management (1.5:1.5:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Examines fundamental legal concepts and doctrines from a variety of subject areas of the legal environment of business and examines how they can be applied to guide and enhance the decision-making processes of managers in the global economy. The importance of ethical behavior in business is also addressed. Lectures, class discussions, cases, and projects.
678 Strategy and Organizational Leadership (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MBA program. Capstone course focusing on strategy development 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 or MSA 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 series of complex cases. 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 among financial markets including global equity markets, U.S. Treasury securities, and 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 market microstructure of venture capital and private finance: costs and benefits from employing private financing, interaction between the financiers and entrepreneurs, financial analysis of potential ventures, and investor exit strategies.
706 Investment Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Focuses on analyzing equity securities and debt instruments given implications of 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 process of new venture creation. Draws on broad range of business disciplines including management, marketing, finance, and accounting to develop evaluation and execution skills.
712 Project Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Focuses on designing, planning, monitoring, and controlling projects. Involves practical examination of how projects should be managed from start to finish, including specific emphasis on how to avoid common pitfalls.
713 Human Resource Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. This course will approach strategic human resource functions from both a general manager and HR perspective. Students in this course will be acquainted with current talent management matters facing organizations in today’s business environment and will be challenged to generate and debate creative solutions to prevalent issues. Topics include hiring (recruiting/interviewing), firing, rewarding, compensating, managing performance, global HR issues, and security and health.
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 start-up company, and introduces processes and strategies required to become significant player in industry segment. Designed for students interested in understanding opportunities and problems in their own businesses, employment in small or entrepreneurial businesses, or exploring corporate entrepreneurship within large firms.
715 Advanced Project and Program Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Examines advanced topics in project and program management with specific attention to issues and skills that managers needs to effectively manage multiple projects and programs. Topics include project selection, multiple project resource allocation, and organization of project office.
716 International Business Strategy (3:3:0) Prerequisites or corequisites: completion of MBA core requirements. Focuses on the globalization of business activities, the strategic challenges faced by companies in global competition, and how companies strategically respond to these new competitive challenges.
717 International Finance (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Advanced analysis of managing firm’s international financial operations. Topics include currency risk, political risk, returns and funding of international projects, international markets and accounting, and cost of capital. Lecture, discussion, readings, and cases.
718 International Marketing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Addresses marketing process for products and services within major international markets. Topics include marketing mix strategies using standardization, localization, or globalization approaches. Emphasizes the introduction of service innovations and new products in the global market.
719 Entrepreneurship Laboratory (1:0:1) Prerequisites: completion of MBA core requirements and permission of instructor. Permits MBA students to work with 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 marketing research studies. Topics include research design, data collection, statistical analysis, and 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 customer decision making, including demographics, psychographics, attitude formation and change, perception, and learning. Emphasizes applications of product and service strategies, focusing on customer segmentation, satisfaction, and loyalty.
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 sources of brand or company contacts as potential message channels in building relationship with customers. 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.
726 Negotiations (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Completion of MBA core. Focuses on theory, processes, and practice of negotiation within and across organizations, including attention to ethical issues. Explores systematic ways to increase quality of negotiated agreements, including methods of preparation, effective communication, and various strategies to increase power. Format includes negotiation exercises, lecture, and discussion.
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, 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 data communications and telecommunications technologies and application in business, including LANs, WANs, PBXs, voice services, network operating systems, corporate internetworking, and Internet. Analyzes data communications industry, and business applications in manufacturing and service sectors, along with regulatory issues and impact of globalization.
734 Electronic Commerce and E-Business (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Examines how e-commerce and e-business affect digital economy. Discusses, compares business models, strategies for e-commerce.
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 cross-functional business processes. Uses business-simulation software for modeling and analysis. Application areas include E-commerce, online services, and technology management.
737 Information Technology Governance and Policy (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Considers specific objectives of IT governance and policy, frameworks that help chart roadmap for this function, and tools and techniques used in specific areas of IT governance.
738 Business Intelligence and Data Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Examines how data warehouses and data mining are used to help businesses successfully gather, structure, analyze, understand and act on relevant data, both operational and contextual.
741 Information Technology Auditing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MSA or MBA program, or permission of program director. Introduces methodologies to assess security and control issues concerning accounting and other information systems. Key feature of course is applying computer-assisted audit tools and techniques to test effectiveness of application.
742 Corporate Governance and Ethics (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MSA or MBA program, or permission of program director. Focuses on developing understanding of corporate governance issues and ethical decision-making. Topics include examination of internal and external and international governance issues, and ethical analysis in current business environment.
743 Corporate Financial Reporting (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MSA or MBA program, or permission of program director. Addresses contemporary issues in corporate financial reporting. Focuses on role of financial reporting in providing decision-useful information to participants of capital market, and theoretical and empirical assessments of performance.
744 Fraud Deterrence and Detection (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to MSA or MBA program, or permission of program director. Introduces strategies and techniques for fraud prevention and detection. Focuses on financial fraud such as bribery, contract rigging and kickbacks, embezzlement, fraudulent financial reporting, payroll fraud, and misappropriation of inventory and other assets.
746 Real Estate Analysis and Valuation (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Overview of real estate assets, markets, and decisions. Emphasizes development of analytical techniques and information required for implementation. Includes legal, economic, and public policy perspectives.
747 Real Estate Finance (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Examines financing of residential and income-producing real estate from perspectives of both suppliers and users of funds. Focuses on financing alternatives, primary and secondary markets, and decision implications of available arrangements.
748 Real Estate Investment (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of instructor. Develops frameworks for analyzing decisions about investing in real estate assets. Focuses on acquisition and analysis of information required to evaluate potential performance of assets. Applications of theories and techniques through case studies.
796 Directed Studies in Business Administration (1–3:0:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Approval by faculty member and MBA program director required prior to registration. Studies specialized topics in business administration not otherwise available in curriculum. May be repeated for up to 3 credits.
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 (1–3:1–3:0) Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements, or permission of instructor. Sections established as necessary to focus on various topical issues that emerge in practice of business administration.