First Semester
Business 701: Financial Accounting
This course introduces the basic concepts of financial accounting necessary to generate financial statements and reports. It examines strategies used to master the economic subtleties of business, and provides the managerial skills needed to analyze and interpret financial statements for internal and external use.
Business 703: Quantitative Methods I
This course focuses on data analysis and how managers use statistical analyses to make better decisions. Topics covered include basic probability, decision analysis, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance and Chi Square tests.
Business 706: Managerial Economics I
This introductory applied economics class examines the basic concepts and applications of demand and supply analysis. The course also explores topics of production and pricing in both domestic and international markets.
Business 707: Marketing Management I
This course focuses on the problems of building an integrated marketing program in light of external forces, such as the consumer, the trade, the competition and the regulatory environment. Specific emphasis is placed on the marketing concept, the marketing mix, market definition and dynamics, segmentation and positioning, and product/market evolution.
Business 709: Organizational Behavior
This course focuses on taking action in today’s changing organizations. It also explores those basic processes that achieve organization and identifies their current direction of change. And, it addresses the opportunities and challenges associated with taking action in flatter, more flexible, team-based and global organizations.
Second Semester
Business 704: Quantitative Methods II
Continuing deeper into the role of statistical analysis in business, Quantitative Methods II explores advanced statistical methods. Participants learn about the potential uses for regression analysis, as well as linear programming as used in operations research.
Business 708: Marketing Management II
The second in the series of three marketing modules, the marketing mix and its role in a comprehensive marketing effort is explored in depth. Special emphasis is placed on distribution, communication and pricing decisions.
Business 711: Managerial Accounting
This course continues the accounting series with cost accounting, activities analysis, profit planning and budgetary systems, cost allocations, transfer pricing and performance evaluation.
Business 712: Managerial Economics and Public Policy
Furthering the understanding of different market structures, this course focuses on the causes and consequences of market failures, the application of game theory to corporate decision-making, and the impact of technological change, international competition and government regulation.
Third Semester
Business 702: Financial Reporting & Analysis
Continuing on the basic topics learned in the Financial Accounting course, Financial Reporting & Analysis focuses on how managers use financial statements. Management’s role in the creation and maintenance of financial control systems is a main focus of the course.
Business 705: Global Environment of Business
This course focuses on how domestic and international product and financial markets operate. Students will develop expertise in applying models to generate qualitative forecasts of economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates and inflation. Through the analysis of case studies, the students will develop an understanding of policy decisions at the Federal Reserve and the effect that these policies have in the money and exchange rate markets.
Business 714: Financial Management
Financial management is one of the primary functions of upper-level management, ensuring support for marketing, production, and all other functions of a company. This course introduces the fundamentals of valuation, financial forecasting, risk and return analysis, cost of capital, debt policy and project evaluation.
Business 715: Management of Operations Systems
To achieve competitive advantage, managers must understand how to design and control products and services, as well as the systems for their delivery. To reach that understanding, Management of Operations Systems focuses on issues of planning and control of complex products and services, managing quality and continuous improvement, and control of the supply chain.
Business 716: Organizational Behavior & Managing Change in Organizations
Building on the concepts from Organizational Behavior, this course examines the leader’s role in diagnosing, anticipating, planning, implementing, and evaluating change within organizations. Case studies and group projects focus on organizational analysis, barriers to change, overcoming resistance to change, change intervention strategies and methods, and change evaluation.
Fourth Semester
Business 713: Strategic Market Planning
This last module in the marketing series focuses on the formulation of marketing strategy, including balancing market opportunities and threats with available resources and alternative responses, as well as analysis of markets, product and pricing strategies.
Business 717: Corporate Financial Policy
Building on the topics discussed in Financial Management, Corporate Financial Policy addresses advanced topics in financial markets and corporate financial management.
Business 718: Operations Planning
Focusing on the service aspect of operations management, this course will emphasize service process management, service quality, productivity improvement, yield management, theory of constraints, waiting line management and service technologies.
Business 719: Business Policy
Strategic business decisions make up the foundations of any enterprise. Business Policy I analyzes industry and policy decision making at the top level of the firm. Substantial attention is devoted to broad industry trends, their evolution, and consequences for intended enterprise strategy.
Business 721: Management of Information Systems
This course addresses managing the operations and the strategy of organizations with information systems and technology. The course is divided into two distinct parts. The first part focuses on how managers use information, particularly to support decision making. The second part considers the management of the information resources of the organization, including hardware, software, people, policies and procedures. In both parts of the course, examples are drawn from business, government and private, not-for-profit organizations to illustrate the commonality of information issues in the various settings and the differences among them.
Fifth Semester
Business 720: Global Strategy Management
The second of two Business Policy courses offers an overview of turning a collection of country-businesses into one worldwide business that has an integrated global strategy. Because of its difficulties, being able to develop and implement an effective global strategy is the acid test of a well-managed company. In addition to an extensive discussion of the environmental drivers, the class develops an understanding of national cultural dimensions and their influence on the firm's strategy and marketing implementation.
Business 724, 725 and 726: Advanced Business Electives I, II and III
Students take three elective courses, depending on class interest, which may include: Electronic Commerce, Law and the Legal Environment, Financial Markets, Entrepreneurship, Negotiations, Communicating in a Corporate Setting, International Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions.