Executive MBA Academics

BUAD 5105 | 2.5 credits

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. This course focuses on data analysis and how managers use data to make better business decisions. We will examine the role and application of statistics in the analysis of business problems, including estimation, statistical measures, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression models.

BUAD 5735 | 1.5 credits

This course provides students with advanced skills in the computer technologies of the modern workplace - namely spreadsheets and visualization tools. When applied creatively, these technologies enable more efficient execution, enhance decision-making, and support the design of more effective business processes, all of which are essential for success in an increasingly competitive business environment.

BUAD 5405 | 2.5 credits

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.

BUAD 5505 | 2.5 credits

This course is designed to improve your effectiveness as an executive by deepening your understanding of how organizations work and achieve their individual characters. To succeed in the business world, you must analyze organization events and process and design and implement actions to increase organizational effectiveness—and do this in an environment characterized by enormous upheaval and change. The course begins with an intensive focus on how effective leaders design systems and shape behaviors necessary for adaptability. As the semester continues, we delve deeper to explore how power relations, culture, approaches to teams, and to decision making processes enable or constrain the behavior of individual organizational members. The course culminates in a project that provides the opportunity to analyze a business issue in your current organization and distill key leadership lessons from executives you admire.

BUAD 5525 | 1 credit

In this course, Executive MBA students will put into practice leadership and communication tools, strategies, and behaviors needed to advance to the next level in their careers. Students will develop personalized action plans and goals that they will advance with the help of an executive coach.

BUAD 5115 | 2.5 credits

This course continues the accounting series with cost accounting, activities analysis, profit planning and budgetary systems, cost allocations, transfer pricing, and performance evaluation.

BUAD 5715 | 2.5 credits

This course is designed to introduce students to basic modeling, analysis, and simulation techniques. Emphasis will be placed on problem identification and formulation, sensitivity analysis, and model construction. Spreadsheet tools will be used to solve business problems across various business functional areas.

BUAD 5725 | 2.5 credits

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. 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.

BUAD 5015 | 1.5 credits

This course is designed specifically for the communication needs of executives. Building on skills and knowledge essential for successful communication, the course will focus on the value of effective managerial communication, provide an understanding of strategic organizational communication, and enhance speaking, writing, and other communication abilities.

BUAD 5945 | 2.5 credits

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.

BUAD 5425 | 2.5 credits

This course 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.

BUAD 5305 | 2.5 credits

This course is structured on the concepts and tools of valuation. It covers financial and project analysis, financial forecasting, risk and return, cost of capital, mergers and acquisitions, and valuation.

BUAD 5605 | 2.5 credits

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, this course focuses on issues of planning and control of complex products and services, managing quality and continuous improvement, and control of the supply chain.

BUAD 5535 | 0 credits

In this course, Executive MBA students will put into practice leadership and communication tools, strategies and behaviors needed to advance to the next level in their careers. Students will develop personalized action plans and goals that they will advance with the help of an executive coach.

BUAD 5515 | 2.5 credits

Building on the concepts from Leadership in an Uncertain Era, 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.

BUAD 5325 | 2.5 credits

Building on the topics in Financial Management, Corporate Financial Policy covers advanced topics in financial markets and strategy, including debt and equity management policy, financing, derivatives and risk management, and international finance.

BUAD 5215 | 2.5 credits

The course focuses upon strategic influence of informational technology (IT) within organizations. Designed primarily for non-IT executives, the course will prepare for understanding of technological vocabulary, emerging technologies, and how they enhance core business functions, and demonstrating the business value of IT investment. Practice-based exercises will augment the learning experience through modeling IT choices and information utilization.

BUAD 5905 | 2.5 credits

This course is the study of the management of organizations with special focus on the roles and tasks of individual managers. The course deals with analyzing external and internal environmental forces; formulating organizational objectives; understanding the often conflicting needs and expectations of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders; defining and appraising alternative courses of action; formulating and executing action plans; and establishing systems for monitoring and measuring results.

BUAD 5855 | 2.5 credits

In a world of increased global trade and commerce, this course focuses on understanding and managing the differing standards for everything from earnings to ethics. The course serves to help us better understand values, our accountabilities, understanding, issues of business ethics, business strategy, and emerging technologies, and managing conflicting interests in a global economy will be discussed.

BUAD 5545 | 3 credits

In this course, the Executive MBA student will study and practice audience analysis and audience transformation; executive presentation strategy and delivery; developing and delivering the big idea; the story/visual/delivery model of leadership communication; storytelling & leadership; building empathy and creating emotional appeal all while learning and experiencing the latest and most effective communication tools (video, podcasts, social media, etc.) needed to influence and inform important audiences.