ETM-7500 Ethics for Managers

Successful business practice is firmly grounded in ethics. This course introduces students to foundational principles in ethics for business and life. Students will explore ethics from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Ethics for Managers provides the opportunity for students to critically analyze and evaluate their own views, as well as those of others, in order to develop solid approaches to challenging dilemmas. Significant debates and methodologies in business will be explored.

Note: This is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) course.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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MKM-7000 Marketing Management

This course is an advanced review of the marketing function within businesses and organizations. Emphasis is placed on understanding how organizations communicate the value proposition of goods and services, differences between marketing environments, the role of competition, and factors associated with marketing success as part of a firm's overall strategy. Specific attention is given to issues related to the marketing process, trends changing the marketing landscape, growth of marketing information, building and managing brands, and marketing strategy and the ongoing role of ethics. Skills are developed to understand the growth of marketing analytics to inform important decisions as it relates to pricing, promotion, branding and value creation.

Note: This is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) course.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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FIN-7100 Financial Management

This course reviews the basic concepts and tools of finance for the purpose of decision making. Topics analyzed include investment decisions, capital budgeting, cost of capital, working capital management, valuation of securities, interest rates, corporate liabilities, and risk and return. The course addresses the formation of capital structure, the optimal capital structure, and its choice on the value of the firm.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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SOP-7200 Strategic Operations Management

This course will examine the creation and implementation of organizational distinctive competitive advantages by exploring new technologies to increase efficiency. It explores incorporating mathematical tools to guide management on what decisions are best for the organization. The course also covers supply chain management, which involves strategic materials sourcing, forecasting, warehousing, inventory control and planning, transportation, purchasing, and financials.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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GSM-7300 Global Strategic Management

This course will explore the challenge of strategically managing in complex organizations within a global environment. It will explain the importance of historical artifacts related to the evolution of strategic management, investigate the driving forces of strategy deployment in highly competitive markets, analyze the impact of business- and corporate-level strategies in organizations quest to compete on the global landscape, and examine the complexities of resource allocation within complex organizations. Students will also be exposed to the practice of assessing, crafting, and employing strategic decisions that allow an organization to realize its long-term goals, while dealing with current challenges.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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ORR-7100 Organizational Research

This course acquaints students with important research concepts so they can develop a sound research study. Students apply the research design process to develop a proposal that incorporates appropriate methods of developing a plan and gathering information. This course is specifically designed to prepare students for their Capstone course, in which the research plan moves to the implementation stage, culminating with a Capstone paper.

Note: This is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) course. This course must be taken one to two terms prior to Capstone. Prior to registering for this course students are required to schedule an academic advising appointment for approval. Instructions on how to schedule an appointment are located on our website.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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MBA-7300 MBA Capstone

This master's-level Capstone course is an opportunity for students to showcase the intellectual and professional skills that they have cultivated during their degree programs. Students will produce a Capstone paper that advances scholarly and professional knowledge in their chosen fields through structured activities including primary and secondary data collection. Throughout the course, students will communicate closely with their mentors and classmates, creating a supportive community of learning professionals. The completed Capstone project provides substantial evidence of students' conceptual, analytical, research, application, writing, and presentation skills; with these abilities, graduates will be empowered to accelerate their careers and pursue unique leadership opportunities in their evolving fields and communities.

Prerequisites: This course requires completion of ORR-7100: Organizational Research. Students may not take ORR-7100 and the Management Capstone during the same term.

Note: This is the last course taken to complete the degree program. Prior to registering for this course students are required to schedule an academic advising appointment for approval. Instructions on how to schedule an appointment are located on our website.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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ENP-7320 Entrepreneurship

This course provides an overview on the principles of entrepreneurship. It is designed to introduce students to the core concepts and tools used to increase the likelihood of organizational success in launching and managing new ventures in the for-profit sector. Students will be required to develop and present a business plan for a new, or existing, venture, including the production of market research, organizational needs, and financial statements to support an investment in the enterprise.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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HRM-7600 Human Resource Management - Talent Management

This course presents a practical framework for managers and business leaders who seek to understand how the strategic management of people improves performance. The course prepares managers to apply talent management principles to maximize the performance of employees and organizations. It begins by examining the current environment in which human resources departments act and then evaluates best practices for managing talent in the areas of planning, analysis, recruitment, selection, compensation, and performance. Managers will be encouraged to find ways to identify and nurture talent in the workplace.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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PJM-7210 Project Management

This course is comprised of intricate contemporary managerial processes of how companies plan to execute their missions and visions using strategic project management ingenuities to accomplish these goals. The course will also cover topics such as international projects, agile project management strategies, modern project management, managing project risks, leadership, and nurturing project teams. The course will illustrate how to effectively select projects, develop project plans, monitor progress, and estimate project durations and costs with real-life cases.

Note: This is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) course.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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MKR-7000 Market Research

This course examines the essential analysis skills required for making quality marketing decisions. Developing a market research design demands necessary quantitative and qualitative abilities to identify and define market opportunities and issues; generate, improve, and assess marketing performance; and monitor marketing performance as well as advance understanding of marketing as a process. Students are required to select a contemporary marketing problem or opportunity, frame the issue into a research question, review the relative literature, develop measures and collect pertinent data, statistically analyze data results, and provide an industry-standard final report of findings and limitations.

Credits: 3

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SOM-7020 Social Media Marketing

Social media is much more than a form of entertainment or tool for communicating with friends and family. With its continued growth, social media has become an indispensable form of communication that organizations need to understand and leverage when interacting with their customers. Businesses need marketing professionals with the 'know-how' to maximize social interactions to drive loyalty and profitability. To address these new realities, this course examines how social media impacts marketing strategy, brand development, and internal and external engagement, along with legal concerns, customer service, and reputation management. By the end of the course, students will develop an appreciation for the type of content that successfully engages customers, learn how to leverage analytics and insights that proliferate from available social media data, successfully manage the round-the-clock nature of social media, and implement a business-level social media marketing strategy.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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INV-7110 Investments

The course will cover investment setting, asset allocation, global investments, functioning of securities markets, portfolio management, asset pricing model, and models of risk and return. It analyzes financial statements, company, industry, and macroeconomic valuation of stocks and bonds. It also examines derivative securities and contracts such as forward, futures, and options. It further provides a conceptual base for investment managers, individual investors, and corporate financial managers.

Credits: 3

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FSA-7120 Financial Statement Analysis

This course provides a broad framework of knowledge and tools for evaluating a firm's business operations and predicting its future condition. The course is designed to develop a critical, user's perspective to analyze and interpret financial statements to gain further insights into firms' performance. The course describes the details of financial statements and their use by investors, creditors, analysts, auditors, and other interested parties. Main topics include, but are not limited to, financial ratio and profitability analysis, pro forma forecasting, earnings analysis, risk analysis, quality of financial reporting, and evaluating firm's financial health. The course is targeted to a wide range of students, including those preparing for careers in general management as well as in investment banking, financial analysis, and consulting.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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NEG-7310 Negotiations

Negotiation is a critical skill for leadership and management as well as for daily life. This course will examine the major concepts and theories of bargaining and negotiation as well as the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution. The course will explore the nature of negotiation and the importance of strategizing and planning for negotiation in the context of both distributive bargaining and integrative negotiation. Additionally the course will cover negotiation subprocesses including communication, perception, biases, social contexts, multiparty negotiations, individual differences, global negotiation, and identifying or creating leverage. Finally, the course will examine the key concepts of outcomes, dispute resolution, and remedies. Students will participate in a group negotiation project, and each student will complete a personal "Best Practices Manual for Negotiation" as a final project for the course. This manual will provide a practical framework for approaching business and personal negotiation.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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SUS-7000 Designing a Business Case for Sustainability

This course introduces students to the topic of sustainability with a focus on how they can build a business case for sustainability within their organization. The course provides background into the social, economic, and environmental challenges facing organizations today as they strive for more sustainable operations, explaining both the trade-offs and the potential payoffs from striving for a zero-waste supply chain. Students will learn why it is imperative that all businesses work toward developing a regenerative business model rather than one that is exploitative. This course discusses ways an organization can revise its operations to accommodate the triple bottom line of profit, people, and planet. Students will learn about the global issues challenging today's business managers from the key leaders and the important literature in the sustainability field. Students will also develop their capacity to think critically about the role the organizations they are connected with have played or can play in building a more sustainable world.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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MCO-7400 Management Communications

This course sharpens written, oral, and listening skills to meet the demands of a successful managerial communicator. Emphasis is placed on strategically evaluating and creating articulate communications relative to managerial situations along with effectively and efficiently developing procedures for solving communication problems. Topics include structuring message content and argument; communication style, tone, and strategy; presentation graphics; ethics; and technologically mediated, intercultural, and crisis communications.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

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