Courses

A foundational course for all MBA students. It is designed to ensure all MBA students have the knowledge and skills required to be successful in the MBA program. Students will be required to demonstrate competency in finance, global business, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, human resources, ethics, and law. This course will also help students bridge the scholar-practitioner divide through teaching research and critical thinking skills needed to be successful in the program. (3 Units)

This course investigates the strategic implications and considerations of marketing management decisions. The course covers the formulation and implementation of effective planning for market development. Substantive and procedural aspects of marketing will also be addressed. (3 Units)

This course surveys economic theory, techniques for recognizing and interpreting economic indicators, analyzing industries, price elasticity, and business and economic cycles that affect organizations and industries. (3 Units)

The course focuses on the application and development of management decision making and problem solving skills in the financial area. Specific topics of discussion include financial statement analysis, credit and operational risk, financial planning and budgeting, asset valuation, cash flow analysis and capital budgeting, and firm valuation from a value-based management and corporate governance perspective. (3 Units)

Students will explore the impact of supporting a strategic decision with research and analysis of data. Students will construct goals, and communicate them keeping the beginning and end in mind as it relates to future outcomes in the areas of technology, finance, manufacturing, logistics, and many other facets of the organizational environment. Students will be equipped to disseminate their vision to management and discern the impact of feedback from management. (3 Units)

This course focuses on management perspectives, economics, finance, culture, politics, legal, and organizational issues associated with international business operations. Course materials address business strategies, enterprise management alternatives, political and economic relations, comparative national systems, and the global economy. (3 Units)

This course is designed to develop the skills and analytical tools to build a strategic framework to align with organizational objectives. Quantitative tools, including decision models, game theory, and statistical analysis will be employed, and coupled with qualitative techniques, to examine critical business problems and develop and implement practical solutions. Insights from behavioral economics will offer an innovative approach to the managerial decision-making process and improve business performance. (3 Units)

This course, by its very nature, is an opportunity for students to integrate and apply the summative knowledge and competencies accumulated during their MBA courses. The course is designed to assess cognitive, affective, practical and presentation skills. Students will integrate their master's coursework knowledge by developing an interdisciplinary final project that incorporates functional areas such as strategic management, operations, marketing, business law and regulations, finance, and HR issues. This project will encourage students to understand the internal mechanisms and structures of how firms build and sustain superior competitive positions and achieve long-run profitability. (3 Units)

Businesses are consistently tasked with the external forces of customer buying power, and the internal organizational forces of recruiting, hiring, and managing of the workforce who support those decisions. Therefore, customer and people analytics are essential to the important synergy in marketing your product. Learn to build, through fundamentals of people analytics, those teams necessary to support your marketing functions. The primary focus of the course learning objectives is to describe and support data collection and communicate the outcome of customer decisions in order to underpin strategic marketing decisions for an organization's growth and sustainability. (3 Units)

This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions in operations and logistic analytics. This course focuses on how the data can be used by project and program managers to institute initial supply chains and improve existing supply chains in support of effective and efficient logistic outcomes. In order for businesses to remain competitive and profitable, operations and logistics must respond to changes in the market by customers, policy and risk. This course will challenge the student to analyze data from these three areas quantitatively, produce methods to adapt to these challenges, which include challenges of collecting impactful data, and predict possible outcomes. (3 Units)

In this course, financial and economic data is analyzed in support of financial performance of an organization and forecast future sustainability of the organization. Economic and financial data represent both internal and external sources for businesses to deliver insights into various areas of the organization. This course will explore the many areas in which economic and financial data provides insight into corporate strategy, risk management, optimization, and economic impact. This course has been designed for students to be impactful in their organization's business decisions utilizing a background in financial and economic analytics, and strategy using financial and economic data. (3 Units)

The Business Analytics Capstone Culminating Project provides students with the opportunity to integrate the data-driven decisions tools developed throughout the business analytics concentration. In this course students will utilize tools such as, issue analysis, data collection, and data driven decision strategies. Students will have the opportunity to implement cutting-edge business data to optimize marketing, maximize revenue, make operations efficient, and make hiring and management decisions. Business Analytics Capstone Culminating Project develops the foundation for students to experience the interaction between key financial and non-financial indicators. (3 Units)