EXECUTIVE MBA (EMBA)

BA 6322   Financial Accounting – The primary focus of this course is on American accounting in the private, for-profit sector. A key issue throughout the course will be how American practice impacts the global corporation. Contrasts will be made of American practice with international standards and those in Europe and in Japan.

 

BA 6325   Organizational Behavior – This course provides an overview of the various perspectives from which individual, group, and organizational behavior can be studied. The course emphasizes the development of concepts, insights, and skills needed to effectively manage diverse individuals through a variety of situations in organizations. Readings, cases, and simulation are included to illustrate the conceptual and applied aspects of individual, group, and organizational behavior.

 

BA 6326   Statistics – This course provides an overview of statistical methodologies including descriptive statistics, regression analysis, sampling and quality control, forecasting for long and short run periods, decision-making under uncertainty, and the use of linear programming. The course is taught using lectures, cases, and statistical computer packages. 

 

BA 6303   Managerial Accounting – This course demonstrates techniques for maximizing shareholder value by correctly assessing the financial outcomes of commonly recurring types of operating decisions. Techniques for identifying alternatives, assessing relevant costs, and choosing a course of action are illustrated with case studies involving decisions on pricing (including special order and private label pricing), production alternatives (including make or buy), and allocation of care resources. Topics include cost behavior, cost-volume-profit relations, cost system design and interpretation (including the use of actual costs and standard costs), and identifying the costs and revenues relevant to decisions. The case will probably have a case orientation.

 

 

 

 

BA 6323 Business Finance – This course examines topics in finance and investments. The primary focus will be on corporate investment and financing decisions. There will be an examination of corporate investment criteria and cash flow estimation, cost of capital and project risk, and capital structure decisions.

 

BA 6030 Operations Management – This course provides a broad instruction to the fields of operations management and information technology, and covers fundamental concepts and techniques necessary for obtaining world-class performance in these areas. The course begins with a review of operations management topics and then introduces students to the way information technology is being used to reengineer and dramatically improve business process. The course also analyzes the strategic use of information technology, reviewing such related topics as electronic commerce and knowledge.

 

BA 6015 Executive Leadership – The class purpose is to study the topic of leadership in such a way as to promote both an academic and practical understanding of the subject. It will explore the similarities and differences between effective management and leadership. Students will explore and work to improve the basic interpersonal skills related to leadership effectiveness. The class will thoroughly investigate leadership effectiveness from at least three angles: personal leadership, interpersonal leadership, and organizational leadership. There will be a detailed feedback into how others view the student’s leadership skills. The class will promote the insight required to effectively write a meaningful personal leadership development plan and help develop a personal leadership “point of view.”

 

BA 6050 Decision Modeling – This course will introduce you to some of the decision modeling techniques available for analyzing business problems. We will cover various modeling techniques, including nonlinear programming (optimization), linear programming, integer programming, and simulation. We will build models for some of the following topics: monitoring mutual fund managers, portfolio management, benchmarking organizations, redesigning distribution networks, credit scoring, purchasing subassemblies, stocking retail inventory, and check processing.

 

BA 6077 Legal Environment – The primary goal of this course is to introduce participants to a number of legal issues common to all businesses and hopefully, how to mitigate the risk of such disputes – or at least prepare for them. We will not delve into specialized areas such as securities regulations, environmental laws, etc. which may not be relevant to all industries. A secondary goal of the course is to hone the participants’ analytical and critical thinking skills.

 

BA 6331 Business Strategy – This course will focus on problems of strategic management in the modern corporation. Primary emphasis will be placed on cases of success and failure in developing and executing single and multi-business strategies. Related readings will be used to underline common dimensions of the cases and highlight current theoretical concepts, methods and frameworks.

 

BA 6352 Marketing Strategy – This is a comprehensive course on marketing strategy that provides tools and applications for developing market oriented strategy. Market orientation is the ability to gather intelligence from the marketplace, circulate that intelligence within the firm, and to act on the intelligence by creating and implementing strategies based on understanding markets. This course is unique in that it emphasizes the external or market-based dimensions of strategy formulation over internal factors (e.g., core competencies) that are covered in other classes. 

 

BA 6375 Case Studies in Financial Management­ – This course is designed to be a practical, overview course in corporate finance. The objective is to draw together the various topics in managerial finance and present a unified, integrated view of the overall subject area. The course builds upon and reinforces the theoretical and institutional framework learned in introductory business and finance courses, and primarily through the vehicle of case analyses, seeks to apply these concepts to real or simulated business situations. The topics covered include financial analysis, capital budgeting analysis, value maximization and corporate governance, capital structure, corporate restructuring, or any other current topic, at the discretion of the instructor.

 

BA 6005  Strategic Human Resources – The techniques, policies, processes, strategies and practices used by companies and managers to effectively and efficiently use human resources. Shows how the various “core” areas of human resource management (HRM), including staffing,performance management, work and job design, training, compensation and labor relations,are aligned to accomplish business objectives. Explains how the business strategy, legal environment and design of work affect human resource management. Additionally, because HRM is becoming less of a functional responsibility and more of a manager’s responsibility, shows how these theories and techniques are applicable for many positions in a wide variety of organizations. 

BA 6310  Global Business Environments – Focuses on two field experiences abroad and gives students the opportunity to meet with local business and government leaders, visit manufacturing

facilities and come to understand the dynamics of global business including the impact of cultural social customs. Helps students gain a perspective on the opportunities and challenges of conducting business in the global economy.

 

BA 6336  Entrepreneurship – This course will teach students the skills required to prepare and to present a professional business plan for an entrepreneurial venture and to enhance the analytical skills needed to identify and properly evaluate a new business opportunity. The course will cover topics including: exploration of financing options for the entrepreneurial company and development of a financing plan; overview of the venture capital process; interviews with and lectures from practicing entrepreneurs who have sought venture capital; and preparation and presentation of a professional business plan.