| ACC500 Financial Reporting and Analysis (3 credits) |
A study of financial recording for describing the fiduciary status of an organization, including the reporting of assets, liabilities, stockholders' equity, revenue, and expense. The course also includes analysis of financial information as the basis for management decisions. This course is designed for students admitted to the MBA program without recent course work in accounting and is equivalent to two undergraduate courses.
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| ACC601 Strategic Cost Management (3 credits) |
Cost management across the supply chain is integrated with strategic analysis to understand the role of financial and nonfinancial information in operational and strategic decision making. Topics include value-chain analysis, cost-driver analysis, activity-based management, line business evaluation, technology costing, quality cost management, and the balanced scorecard. The importance of ethical conduct also is covered.
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Prerequisites for this course: MKT603.
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| BLA601 Legal Environment of Business (3 credits) |
An in-depth examination of legal issues for business organizations, including constraints and opportunities. Primary attention will be given to an intensive exploration of the law as it affects business contracts, sales, commercial paper, and the formation and operation of a business entity from the perspective of the manager. This course is designed to meet the professional needs of managers who have minimal exposure to the law and to enhance their knowledge of the legal ramifications of business operations.
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| ECO500 Data Analysis for Decision Making (3 credits) |
This course covers the basic concepts of business statistics, data analysis, and management science in a spreadsheet environment. Topics include, probability distribution, hypothesis testing, regression, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. This course gives students hands-on experience in analyzing data for practical decision making. It is designed for students admitted to the MBA program without recent course work in business statistics and is equivalent to two undergraduate courses.
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| ECO501 Business and the Economics Environment (3 credits) |
This course covers macroeconomic and microeconomic principles by discussing their application to modern business problems. It discusses firm supply and demand, cost and pricing, market structure and competition, monetary and fiscal policy, and aggregate demand and supply. It is designed for students admitted to the MBA program without recent course work in economics and is equivalent to two undergraduate courses.
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| ECO610 Applied Econometrics (3 credits) |
Analysis of multivariate models, determination of trends, oscillation, and periodic movements. Topics include remedies for auto-correlation and multicollinearity; dummy variables; distributed lags, forecasting and simulation; and alternative estimation techniques, such as two-stage least squares, three-stage least squares, and maximum likelihood estimators.
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Prerequisites for this course: ECO500 and ECO501.
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| ECO611 International Trade and Finance (3 credits) |
This course is designed to expose students to the international business environment and enable them to increase their business presence abroad whether it is in manufacturing, finance, or other services. Topics include diversity and cultural differences, foreign exchange markets and exchange rate determination, export/import strategies, foreign direct investment, and multinational accounting and finance..
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Prerequisites for this course: ACC601 and FIN601.
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| ECO625 Contemporary Monetary Theory and Financial Institutions (3 credits) |
This course enhances the student's capability to analyze the interrelationships between aggregate economic activity, financial markets, and central banking instruments, objectives, and policy. Topics relate to demand for financial assets.
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Prerequisites for this course: ECO501
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| ECO630 Economics and Public Policy (3 credits) |
The principles and methods of economic analysis are used to evaluate the American economic system. Inflation, recession, and economic growth; problems of public finance and taxation; public policy regarding the concentration of economic power.
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Prerequisites for this course: ECO501
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| ECO647 Managerial Economics (3 credits) |
Development and application of a set of advanced micro-macro economic concepts to serve both as a source of theoretical structure and unification of other business sciences. Emphasis will be given to topics such as risk analysis, linear programming, and capital budgeting.
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Prerequisites for this course: ECO500 and ECO501.
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| ECO690 Special Topics (3 credits) |
A seminar or independent study course on selected economic topics. Includes a research paper or project which treats a contemporary economic issue from an interdisciplinary, policy-level perspective. This course may be taken again for credit
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Prerequisites for this course: ECO500, ECO501 and written permission of program director.
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| FIN500 Principles of Corporate Finance (3 credits) |
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Prerequisites for this course: ACC500 and ECO501
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| FIN601 Financial Management (3 credits) |
This course is designed as an in-depth financial management course to stimulate critical thinking of financial problems of businesses and focus on valuation. The basic aspects of financial management including use of ratios to assess corporate performance, projection of financial statements for both projects and whole companies, estimation of weighted average cost of capital, valuation of assets and companies using discounted cash flow approach are covered. Also special topics, such as working capital management and international aspect of financial management will be covered.
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Prerequisites for this course: MKT603.
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| FIN644 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (3 credits) |
Introduction to investments, including examination of why and how individuals invest. This course provides an overview of the process by which an individual seeks out and synthesizes information about investment opportunities in order to make decisions to add to, maintain, or delete assets from an investment portfolio. Special attention is directed to the risk and return of assets.
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Prerequisites for this course: FIN601.
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| FIN690 Special Topics (3 credits) |
A seminar or independent study course on a selected finance topic. Course includes a research paper or a project that applies financial knowledge to a real world problem.
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Prerequisites for this course: FIN601 and written permission of program director.
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| MGT501 Managerial Principles and Communication (3 credits) |
This course provides an overview of the major principles of management and a framework for the analysis of managerial problems with special emphasis on managerial communication in organizations. This course will utilize a multidisciplinary approach to the field utilizing relevant material from psychology, sociology, economics and political science to address the practice of communication and negotiation in organizational settings. This course will examine cognitive, social, behavioral and political factors that affect managers' ability to manage and communicate and provide framework to enhance students' ability to manage more effectively in organizational settings.
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| MGT604 Operations and Supply Chain Management (3 credits) |
This course utilizes interactive learning methodologies to promote awareness of the operations and supply chain management techniques available for improving the organizational structures which create and deliver value to customers. Through the case approach, students will learn how an operation strategy that is cross-functional and global creates competitive advantage for both manufacturing and service companies. Topics covered include project management, product design, process analysis, electronic commerce, and enterprise resource planning systems. In particular, because of its emerging role in today’s corporation, supply chain management will be emphasized.
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Prerequisites for this course: MKT603 or written permission of program director.
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| MGT611 Managing and Leading Organizations (3 credits) |
An examination of management theory and its relationship to human resource functions. This course traces the development of management and organization principles and theories, with an emphasis on applying them to human resource issues. This course examines the relationship between the individual and the organization, and topics such as leadership and motivation, attitudes, selection, performance appraisal, and individual and group decision making will be explored.
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| MGT613 Business and Society (3 credits) |
The context and environment in which business organizations operate with specific attention to the social, ethical, political, and legal dimensions of an organization's external environment. Value assumptions, means-ends relationships, and policy ramifications of the constraints and opportunities inherent in the environment will be examined in depth. A managerial perspective will be developed to build a framework for macro-level trade-offs among and between competing economic, social, ethical, political, and legal forces and goals.
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| MGT614 Environments of Business (3 credits) |
This course provides an overview of how major trends in the world economy, social issues, political, legal and ethical systems affect business. The student will enhance his/her ability to understand the implications of major social, economic, political, legal and ethical trends in the U.S. and the world; critically examine his/her own position on these issues; critically analyze popular writings on these issues; and appreciate the perspective of others whose circumstances differ from those of the student.
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| MGT621 Organizational Development (3 credits) |
Interpersonal relations, intra- and intergroup relations, and the leadership role and function in the management of organizational development, change, conflict, and productivity. Primary focus will be on organizational development as an intervention strategy aimed at changing and improving organizational climate and performance. Organizations will be viewed as sociotechnical systems interacting with both internal and environmental forces.
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Prerequisites for this course: MGT611.
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| MGT631 Human Resources Management (3 credits) |
The managerial implications of the human resources management and personnel administration functions. Topics include forecasting and planning of staffing requirements, recruitment, selection, allocation, evaluation, and development of the human resources of an organization. Lectures, class discussions, and case materials will be used.
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| MGT652 Managing an Enterprise (3 credits) |
This course attempts to provide students with some knowledge, tools, and methods necessary for planning, establishing, expanding, and operating an enterprise. Theories and techniques learned in this class and previous courses in the business curriculum will be used to develop an individual, comprehensive project, and it will be treated as the primary mode of learning. Depending on experiences and individual background, electronic communication and outside classroom interactions may be required in addition to normal classroom meetings.
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Prerequisites for this course: ACC601, FIN601, MKT501 and TEC601 or MIS601
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| MGT661 Globalization and Management (3 credits) |
Examination of the problems of management, marketing, and finance when developing and engaging in international business. Attention to the formulation of alternative strategies for developing international business enterprises, the impact and consequences of implementing various alternative strategies for traditional business functions, problems of the multinational firm, and the special challenges of doing business with or in underdeveloped countries.
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Prerequisites for this course: MGT614 and MKT501.
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| MGT687 Special Topics in Management (3 credits) |
A seminar or independent study course providing exposure to current literature and discourse on selected issues in management. This course may be taken again for credit.
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Prerequisites for this course: Permission of program director.
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| MGT699 Strategic Management (3 credits) |
An in-depth examination of the processes by which business strategies are conceived, formulated, executed, and changed. Specific topics include strategic planning, endogenous and exogenous influences affecting strategic feasibility, analyses, and choices. Comprehensive strategy-oriented cases from a variety of business contexts are used.
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Prerequisites for this course: Completion of all M.B.A. core courses.
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| MIS601 Business Information Systems (3 credits) |
A blending of theory, case studies, and personal computer applications to the solution of business information problems. Students will gain insight into functional and strategic implications of information resources, technology, and systems.
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| MKT 500 Principles of Marketing (3 credits) |
An introduction to marketing. Selection of target markets, developing marketing mixes, decision making, planning, implementation, and monitoring of marketing programs. Intended for students with no previous course work in marketing.
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| MKT501 Marketing Management (3 credits) |
An analytical approach to the study of marketing, focusing on the total environment in which marketing decisions are made. Emphasis is on planning the marketing effort and integrating it into the total operation of an organization; i.e., managing the marketing function. It is designed for students admitted to the MBA program without recent course work in marketing and is equivalent to one undergraduate course.
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Prerequisites for this course: ACC500 and ECO501
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| MKT603 Business Research and Analysis (3 credits) |
The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the quantitative and research requirements found within the graduate business program. The course reinforces essential business math knowledge while introducing advanced quantitative analysis used in different business disciplines. Additionally, the material covered allows students to conduct, analyze and interpret business research.
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Prerequisites for this course: Taken in first semester. Requires completion of foundation-level requirements or permission of program director
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| MKT605 Marketing Strategy and Customer Value (3 credits) |
This course examines the strategic issues facing organizations as they strive to satisfy customer needs and create customer value. Additional emphasis is placed on identifying and explaining technology's contribution to this process. Coverage includes the processes and strategies for developing and maintaining customer value, techniques and technologies used to gather and analyze market information, innovative approaches to managing customer relationships, and other contemporary issues affecting today's marketing decision makers. Topics are investigated using a number of methods including case study, analytical and hands-on exercises, and real-world discussion.
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Prerequisites for this course: MKT603
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| MKT690 Special Topics in Marketing (3 credits) |
A seminar or independent study course on selected marketing topics. Includes research papers or project, which examines one or more contemporary marketing issues not available in the existing curriculum. This course may be taken again for credit.
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Prerequisites for this course: MKT501 and permission of program director.
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| MKT699 Business Simulation (1 credit) |
This is a required course for all MBA students that utilizes a computer simulation as its primary learning approach. The course is designed as a mechanism for students to demonstrate how to apply the tools and knowledge they have gained from previous coursework and their own business experience to manage a corporation selling products across multiple markets. Course meetings may occur in a compressed format including meeting on weekends.
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Prerequisites for this course: MGT699 or permission of program director
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| TEC601 Technology and E-Business (3 credits) |
This course introduces students to the basics of technology and how it impacts today's business environment. The course offers a firm foundation for understanding what technology means to the economy, the company, and the people within the company by merging classroom discussion of current issues, theories, and trends. Different technologies are explored, with a focus on information technologies important for establishing an electronic business environment.
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| TEC602 Technology, Innovation and the Organization (3 credits) |
This course is designed to help students in both technology-based and non-technology-based organizations understand how technology can affect the company. The core concept delineated here is that technology, and the closely related idea of innovation, can be organized into a managed, a multi-disciplinary process. Further, all members of the organization including technical, administrative, marketing, operations and financial must understand this process. Consequently, technology's impact on all functional areas is discussed.
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Prerequisites for this course: MGT611
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| TEC603 Marketing and Technology (3 credits) |
This course focuses on identifying and explaining new technologies and examining how they fit within the competitive marketing strategy of the organization. Where possible a hands-on approach will be used to better acquaint the student with specific technologies. Additional emphasis is placed in two important areas. First, considerable time is spent discussing the role the Internet now serves for marketers. Second, marketing of high-technology products and services is often viewed as being different from marketing of other types of products and services. Thus time is dedicated to this topic.
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Prerequisites for this course: TEC601 or MIS601, and MKT501
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| TEC605 Value Chain and Business Process (3 credits) |
This course focuses on technology's role in the creation and maintenance of an organization's value chain - the entities and activities that create and deliver value to customers - and examines necessary business processes. It shows how an organizations value chain makes it possible to change the way organizations conduct business, including how it manufactures, markets, transacts, and manages its product and services; communicates with and manages its employees; and deals with stakeholders. This course will strive for balance between technical knowledge and strategic understanding.
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Prerequisites for this course: TEC601 or MIS601
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| TEC610 Issues in Technology and Business (3 credits) |
The purpose of this course is to provide a forum to examine issues not covered in other courses. Since the scope of material may be wide, this course is offered on a open-ended basis, and its format may vary depending on its course content. For example, one course may use a seminar format while another may use a computer laboratory-based format, allowing for flexibility in covering the dynamic nature of technological change.
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Prerequisites for this course: TEC601 or MIS601
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| TEC690 Special Topics in Technology and E-Commerce (3 credits) |
A seminar or independent study course on selected TEC topics. Includes research papers or projects, which examine contemporary TEC issues not available in the existing curriculum. This course may be taken again for credit.
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Prerequisites for this course: Permission of program director.
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| TEC600 Technology and Business Planning & Analysis (3 credits) |
This capstone course is divided into two major learning areas: the first draws on the student's previous course work by integrating both functional and specialty courses to show how each is related, primarily through casework. The second area requires students to take the integrated knowledge and apply it to a real world business or strategic plan specifically from a general or upper management perspective for a technology-based company or a company facing important decisions in which technology will play an important role.
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Prerequisites for this course: TEC601, TEC602 and TEC605
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