Prerequisite: MBA 510. Graduates only. This course examines the concepts, applications, and uses of managerial accounting in managerial decision-making for managers and other internal users.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Graduates only. Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Letter graded. Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.
Graduates only. This course informs students how IT transforms organizations. Focus is on the analysis, modeling, and technologies that managers can use to analyze and utilize data to derive business value.
Graduates only. Provides an understanding of the law of business transactions as part of the decision-making process. Topics will include the law of agency, contracts, bankruptcy (debtor/creditor relationships), formation of business entities, secured transactions, negotiable instruments, and the regulation of the accounting profession. The course will utilize topical analysis and a case study approach focusing on analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of complex legal problems.
Prerequisite: MBA 550. Graduates only. Examines application of microeconomic analysis used in managerial decision-making. Topics include demand analysis, cost and production functions, and behavior of competitive and non-competitive markets with applications to various business decisions.
Graduates only. Examines organizational behavior topics such as motivation, team dynamics, perception, power, politics, conflict, and culture, as well as an in-depth view of leadership.
Prerequisites: MBA 632, MBA 650, MBA 654, MBA 660 and MBA 670. Graduates only. This course provides a capstone experience through techniques and tools needed for effective strategy. Students integrate concepts, theories, and tools to develop comprehensive strategies in a variety of business environments.
Graduates only. This seminar course involves the analysis of the marketing concepts, functions and principles involved in planning, implementing and evaluating the total marketing programs of various organizations. Elements of the marketing process, including environmental impacts, building and managing brands and analyzing marketing strategies in delivering the best customer value will be the focus in this course.
Prerequisite: MBA 565. Graduates only. Acquaints the business student with techniques to analyze business and economic data and develop models for forecasting, and variable screening. Topics include linear models, regression, time series analysis, multivariate and univariate ANOVA and Non-parametric analysis. Focus will be on applying these techniques to interesting business and policy questions.
Prerequisites: BAFN 370 or MBA 570. Graduates only. Course topics include time value of money, risk and return, capital budgeting, financial analysis and modeling, capital structure, working capital management, and international corporate finance. Advanced topics make use of case studies and/or simulation.
Prerequisites: MBA 610 and MBA 654. Graduates only. This course provides a broad overview for understanding national health reform policy, management issues and current topics.
Prerequisites: MBA 610 and MBA 654. Graduates only. This course will provide students with an overview of the various healthcare delivery services across the full continuum of care as explained by operational executives from each of these services.
Prerequisites: MBA 610 and MBA 654. Graduates only. This course will provide students with the ability to apply performance improvement techniques and tools in order to improve patient care quality, safety, efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Prerequisites: MBA 610 and MBA 654. Graduates only. The goal of this course is to provide non-financial healthcare managers with the practical knowledge of healthcare finance, budgeting and reimbursement models and how to utilize this information in executive decision-making.
Prerequisites: MBA 632 and MBA 654. Graduates only. Focuses on the creation of a competitive advantage through strategic human resources planning and staffing. Topics include job analysis, recruiting, assessment, succession planning, and retention. Also covers laws and regulations relative to the recruiting process.
Prerequisites: MBA 632 and MBA 654. Graduates only. Examines key principles of an effective training and development strategy. Topics include the role of training, adult learning theory, needs assessment, training methodologies, and effective evaluation methods for training.
Prerequisites: MBA 632 and MBA 654. Graduates only. Focuses on the effective design of an organization's compensation, total rewards, and performance management systems. Topics include total compensation systems that attract and retain talent, employee benefits and performance management.
Prerequisites: MBA 632 and MBA 654. Graduates only. Introduces students to the major approaches used for managing both planned and unplanned organizational change. Reviews diagnostic techniques for identifying organizational problems and examines how strategic organizational change can achieve increased quality, productivity, and employee engagement.
Prerequisites: MBA 632 and MBA 654. Graduates only. This course focuses on the strategic human resource practices that help organizations achieve a competitive advantage using their human capital effectively. The topics covered include: the strategic impact of employee turnover, employee engagement, performance management, and the successful use of HR metrics.
Prerequisites: SRM 600 and instructor consent. Graduates only. The thesis must be approved by the supervising committee and meet all requirements of the Graduate School. S/U graded. Repeatable, no limitations.