A hands-on behavioral simulation run in teams, this course highlights the interpersonal dynamics that occur between people as they address strategic and operating issues -- issues that often involve departmental interdependencies, power relationships, and judgment. Working in teams, MBA 600 students assume different roles in the organization. Each role contains extensive information on past business decisions and correspondence on current issues, problem symptoms, and decision situations.

This course examines the fundamental principles underlying attitudes, motivation, and decision-making in the workplace.

MBA 620 – Statistical Methods

This course introduces the student to the general concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics. It covers basic probability theory, including its application to random variables. It is designed to acquaint the student with the fundamental theoretical background and the basic concepts required for mastery of subsequent topics in statistics.

Operations Management is the systematic direction and control of the processes that transform inputs into finished goods and services. These goods and services have characteristics that distinguish them in the marketplace, such as high quality, low cost, or rapid delivery. This course introduces the concepts and analytical methods that are useful in understanding management issues in manufacturing and service industries. Topics covered include manufacturing and service operations, supply chain management, total quality management, and forecasting.

Prerequisite: MBA 620

This course develops the basic tools of microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, with emphasis on business decision-making and the impact of economic policy on organizational performance and global competitiveness.

The course deals with the structure and information content of the three principal financial statements of profit-directed companies: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. It develops skills in the use of accounting information to analyze the performance and financial condition of a company and to facilitate decision-making, planning and budgeting, and performance appraisal in a managerial context. Students with no prior background in accounting complete a programmed instruction in the mechanics of double entry accounting at the start of the course.

MBA 650 – Value-Based Financial Management

This course introduces the basic principles of corporate finance. The main focus of the course is on fundamental principles such as time value of money, asset valuation, and risk and return trade-off. Topics covered also include cost of capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure.

Prerequisite: MBA 630 and MBA 640

MBA 660 – Marketing: The Challenge of Managing Value

Marketing is changing -- constantly driven by dramatic technology developments, globalization, and evolving consumption values, practices, and lifestyles. This course covers marketing themes, theories, and trends that are critical for superior business performance in the 21st century. In this course, we examine current marketing theory as it is being shaped by forward-thinking academics and new developments in business practices. This course provides students with a strong foundation in the marketing principles and practices required for upper level elective courses.

This course focuses on exploiting information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) for a competitive advantage. It explores the impact of IS and IT on the internal and external environments of organizations. It examines decisions needed for effective deployment of IS and IT, such as selection of IT infrastructure, valuation of IT business models, and analysis of the operational benefits and risks. The course also introduces students to the opportunities and challenges of managing technology activities to meet the needs of business executives, IT executives, users, and IT partners.

Prerequisite: MBA 620 and MBA 625

This course applies multidisciplinary analytical techniques and case analysis as strategic management tools to assist executives in successfully navigating an increasingly complex, evolving, and highly competitive business environment in which ethical, legal, economic, and regulatory forces are continuously reshaping the global marketplace and creating or limiting competitive opportunities.

This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of the global business environment and the cross-cultural factors that affect management practice in this environment. Topics covered include economic environment, free trade and regional integration, foreign direct investment, exchange rate determination and relevant government policies, the decision to go international, and the multinational firm and its business functions.

In this course, students develop a multifunctional general management perspective, integrating and applying knowledge and techniques learned in the core courses of the MBA program. Students also learn about the principal concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management; develop the capacity for strategic thinking; and examine the organizational and environmental contexts in which strategic management unfolds. Students achieve these course objectives through a variety of learning activities, such as case studies, computer simulations, examinations, project reports, and experiential exercises.

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