Course Descriptions

Summer Quarter

ACCTG 502 Financial Accounting
4 credits
This course focuses on the rules by which firms (and individuals) report the results of their operations to outsiders such as stockholders, potential investors, creditors, suppliers, and regulatory agencies. Students will learn to create balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements from the underlying transactions. Students will learn accounting vocabulary and some of the limitations of the basic accounting model. By examining the political process by which accounting standards evolve, students will gain insights into why these limitations exist and why they are likely to persist.

MKTG 501 Marketing Strategy
4 credits
This course focuses on marketing strategy from a decision-making perspective by linking marketing decisions and strategy to business performance. In the course, students will learn about specific marketing strategies including developing and launching innovative products and building customer loyalty as well as critical marketing tools and processes.

TMMBA 501 Microeconomics
2 credits
This course has a dual purpose. First, it teaches students the fundamental principles of microeconomics, the theory of individual markets and individual agents. Second, it shows students how these principles can be applied to managerial decisions and firm optimization.

QMETH 500 Statistical Analysis of Data
4 credits
This course reviews the uses of statistical tools to present, analyze, and interpret business data. We emphasize applications of statistical tools and their uses for organizational decision-making, not the theoretical bases of statistical tools. Students will develop data and analysis skills to apply in other courses, work experiences, and life experiences. Activities include representing data through tables, graphs, and numerical summaries; examining the role of probability in statistics; estimating populations and testing hypotheses about populations using sample data; conducting correlation, regression, and time-series analyses; and analyzing contingency tables.

TMMBA 500 Teamwork and Managerial Effectiveness
1 credit
This course introduces concepts and principles fundamental to building and maintaining effective work teams and cohort cohesion. It will address how to (1) develop strong, shared commitment to a compelling purpose, (2) bring about collective buy-in to concrete performance objectives, (3) ensure adherence to a set of suitable work rules, and (4) build the interpersonal trust crucial to mutual team member support and, ultimately, exemplary student performance.

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Autumn Quarter

FIN 502 Corporate Finance
4 credits
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to corporate financial management emphasizing relevant modern theory and practical applications. Topics include financial statement analysis, financial planning, financial markets, principles of valuations, capital budgeting, capital structure, the cost of capital, dividend policy, merger analysis and issues of financial policy.

MGMT 504 Ethical Leadership
2 credits
This course examines business ethics through case studies and short readings in ethical theory. Class discussions rely heavily on student contributions supplemented by brief lectures. Emphasis is placed on the development of a framework that helps managers make ethical decisions in a business environment.

MGMT 502 Global Competitive Strategy
4 credits
This course is intended to help students develop a better understanding of the global environment in which US businesses compete. The US economy is increasingly linked to the rest of the world and many industries are global; therefore, international markets and competitors cannot be ignored. Organizations are affected by international developments, and international business is critical to many. In a global economy, this means that managers need to develop a broad vision and an organization that can operate and compete effectively worldwide. This requires an appreciation of the importance of international markets. It means being willing to really think about the similarities and differences that exist among national markets and national business practices.

EMBA 590 Global Immersion
2 credits
Students travel outside the country for a weeklong International Immersion, gaining an in-person understanding of conducting business globally. Students prepare by learning about the selected country’s economic, social, political, and business environments. While in-country, students visit and interact with leaders representing a wide variety of important industries and types of organizations. The program fee covers most on-the-ground expenses of the International Immersion including hotel accommodations and several meals; the program fee does not include flight or personal incidentals.

EMBA 533 Operations Management
4 credits
This course is concerned with the system of delivery in any enterprise, manufacturing, or service, public or private, profit or non-profit. The basic mission is to foster an understanding of how to continuously deliver superior value for customers in a manner that is profitable for the firm. This understanding is important both for those who manage operations and those whose career plans lie in other areas. For example, the commitment of product delivery dates is typically viewed as a marketing issue, yet products are built by manufacturing. Knowing how and why inventories accumulate permits more effective financial controls. Facility justification is typically a financial concern, but the capacity additions can have a dramatic effect on operational performance, especially at peak times in service organizations. Traditional accounting practices may inadvertently provide disincentives toward productive behavior.

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Winter Quarter

MKTG 579 Applied Strategy
4 credits
This course exists to facilitate successful completion of a mutually agreed-upon project for a client organization, while offering a practical “learning by doing” experience in which students apply concepts, tools, and theories from the MBA curriculum to complex real‐world challenges and opportunities. Each year, the consulting project organizations and focus area vary depending on current trends and issues facing the business environment.

MGMT 510 Leadership Development
2 credits
The focus of this class is to expose the GEMBA students on different leadership styles and strategies and how organizations deal with current and future challenges. Students explore roles, responsibilities, challenges and obligations of effective leadership. They then apply the comprehensive leadership model to a “real life” scenario that is either observed or engaged in. By the end of the course, students will be able to articulate their personal Leadership Philosophy.

BECON 501 Macroeconomic Analysis
3 credits
This course builds a framework for understanding movements in economy-wide magnitudes such as price level, gross domestic product, unemployment rate, interest rate and exchange rate that affect business decisions. The framework is used to analyze contemporary economic issues that impact business, including the recent conduct of monetary and fiscal policy, growth, competitiveness, and trade.

Elective 1
4 credits

Elective 2
4 credits

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Spring Quarter

QMETH 501 Decision Support Models
2 credits
This course incorporates a focus on AI and illustrates the use of techniques (such as simulation, heuristics, queuing, decision analysis and linear programming) that have been developed to help managers deal with complicated choice problems in manufacturing, service operations, marketing, and other areas.

MGMT 501 Leading Teams and Organizations
4 credits
This course introduces concepts and principles fundamental to creating and leading effective organizations. Major topics include perception and decision-making, employee motivation, group and team processes, human resource management practices, strategic organizational design, power and politics, corporate culture, and organizational change and transformation. The instructional approach includes readings, discussions, lectures, case analyses, video presentations, experiential exercises, and analyses of “living cases.” A central goal of this course is to provide a foundation for a lifetime of leadership practice through the development of analytic skills to understand and influence your own and others’ behavior at work.

ACCTG 501 Managerial Accounting
4 credits
This course deals with the preparation and use of accounting information by managers for decision-making purposes. Topics include cost concepts, cost behavior, overhead allocation (including activity-based costing), budgeting, responsibility accounting, short-term decisions, and capital budgeting. Cases based on actual management decisions are used to enhance understanding of concepts and techniques.

Elective 1
4 credits

Elective 2
4 credits

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Electives

Elective offerings vary by year and are subject to availability. While students have access to a broad range of courses, enrollment is based on scheduling and capacity, and not all electives may be available to every student.