Master of

Business Administration

An overview of concepts, applications, and research on group and team processes and performance in an organizational context.

Accounting rules, practices, and applications that characterize the accounting presentations that for-profit organizations provide to the public.

Developing communication skills required for managers and leaders; creating effective individual and group presentations.

Applying statistical concepts to quantify uncertainty and gain insights from data in business settings.

Examining strategic issues in marketing, including analysis, planning, and implementation.

Application of techniques available to aid managers in sound financial decision making.

Analyzing and applying key concepts, tools, and strategies in managing supply chains in global markets.

Introduction to microeconomic and macroeconomic environments of business, pricing determination, market structures, and formulation of competitive strategy.

Overview of human behavior in organizations, and implications for managing and leading individuals, teams, and organizations.

Managing ethical conduct in organizations, including corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and stakeholder analysis.

Integrating multiple functional business areas to resolve global business problems and improve organizational performance.

Understanding, exploring, and applying innovation-related concepts, principles, and practices to corporate environments involved with new venture creation and other contexts.

How digital innovation, technology, and market disruption transforms industries, business practices, and market strategies.

Introduction to U.S. federal income tax, covering the basics of taxation of individuals, corporations, flow-through entities, and property transactions.

Principles of the risk-based approach to the audit of financial statements, with special focus on financial information systems.

Examination of the internal organizational accounting procedures that establish accountability within organizations.

This course explores the legal rules related to the ownership, enforcement and management of information related to additive manufacturing.

Comprehensive study of the fundamentals, process characteristics, economics, and practical applications of various additive manufacturing processes.

Focuses on the state of the art in understanding processing, structure, and property relationships in materials fabricated using additive manufacturing.

Auditing theory pertaining to the regulatory environment, risk assessment, internal controls, materiality, computerization, analytical procedures, sampling, fraud, ethics, and professional responsibilities.

Tax theory pertaining to corporations, partnerships and conduit entities, estates, trusts, ethics, and professional tax responsibilities.

The study of business processes, transactions cycles, and internal control structure with an emphasis on computerized accounting information systems.

Current managerial accounting topics such as activity-based costing, theory of constraints, and performance measures and their use in organizations.

The study of ethical systems and ethical decision-making and their application in accounting.

The exploration of conventional and advanced methods of analyzing financial statements, including earnings quality and financial distress assessment.

Accounting theory and practice for reporting consolidations, foreign currency transactions, and preparing financial statements for governmental and NGOs.

Accounting, reporting, and auditing principles and procedures for public sector agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Development of methods for prescriptive analytics with a focus on business supply side decisions and risk mitigation.

Explores the use of descriptive analytics concepts, tools, and techniques throughout a wide range of business scenarios and problems.

Explores the use of predictive analytics tools and techniques throughout a wide range of business scenarios and problems; includes a subset of methods such as neural networks, machine learning, social media analytics, and more.

Focuses on the development and application of business architecture as a holistic discipline that produces a common understanding of the organization that is used to align strategic objectives and tactical initiatives.

Explores the use and effectiveness of architectural modeling to describe an organization and examines model-based products as tools to support, influence, and enable organization planning and decision-making.

Surveys emerging trends and disruptors in technology and industry that create new markets and influence decision-making, product development, business models, and business practices associated with innovation.

An overview of the economic, social, and environmental drivers of the transformation to sustainable business models and practices; identification of best practices and frameworks for assessing organizational engagement with sustainability; development of a strategic sustainability plan.

Addresses the managerial challenge of strategy implementation, particularly by examining the organizational elements that must be drawn into line to support a strategy, as well as the immense difficulties of changing an organization. Relies on two overarching frameworks: a model of organizational alignment and a model for managing the change process.

Introduction to new business models and sustainable design principles for reinventing products and services to drive business value while reducing environmental and social impact, sourcing raw materials and working effectively with suppliers to safeguard labor and human rights and protect and restore natural resources, and managing total cost and risk. Special focus on circular economy strategies and closed loop supply chains.

Understanding theories, concepts, and frameworks of community and economic development and community decision-making models in application to community development practice and issues.

Understanding the interaction of population characteristics, land use, municipal funds, and taxation in a locality and how they impact the operation and management of government jurisdictions.

This course is an overview of the field of planning. It examines the history of planning and the theories behind it, and the corresponding roles that planners can play in their communities. It establishes the legal framework for planning as a profession, and examines landmark legal cases involving planning and its tools.

Understanding and applying methods and hands-on experience with techniques used in community and economic development.

Understanding connections between communities and surrounding ecosystems; exploration of management techniques for building adaptive, resilient, and sustainable communities and environments.

Entrepreneurship in the Community, empirically and conceptually examines the relationship between entrepreneurs, small businesses, and local economic development. The course examines the multiple definitions of "entrepreneurship," and how these individuals affect — and are affected by — the social and economic dynamics of their community. The course develops a rich understanding of the entrepreneurship process from a community-based view rather than a traditional firm-based view, illustrating the many ways that entrepreneurs and their local society interact. The course begins by examining the role of the firm in society, and the ways that local life enhances and contains opportunity and opportunistic action. Students will also learn ways to measure small business dynamics locally, and develop an understanding of how different community development approaches may affect different types of entrepreneurship

Launching ideas from socially and environmentally conscious for-profit businesses, to nonprofits, to spin-offs of existing models.

Provides a strong foundation in theories and concepts of international development that inform practice. Addresses issues of how economic growth and disparity are spatially distributed, differentiated, and what causes these patterns to occur.

Focuses on the process of launching a new venture, in a corporate setting or as a new start-up, including identifying a problem or market opportunity, developing business models, forming a team, financing, analyzing markets, assessing the competitive environment, and planning to acquire leadership talent.

Surveys emerging trends and disruptors in technology and industry that create new markets and influence decision-making, product development, business models, and business practices associated with innovation.

Explores the methods used to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in a corporate setting, with a special emphasis on how organizations foster creativity, innovation, and new venture creation.

Legal environment of information technology, constitutional/political issues, intellectual property, management, e-commerce, privacy, access, computer contracting, cyberspace regulation.

Contemporary security issues; security management processes, architecture, and models; risk analysis and management; security planning, analysis, and safeguards; security policies development and administration; contingency planning, incidence handling, and response; and security standards and certification processes.

This course provides an overview of techniques to assess and ensure the security of web applications and services that drive modern e-commerce transactions.

This course provides students with the principles of project management and knowledge of the project management skills and processes needed to select, initiate, and plan a project.

Introduce visual analytic techniques for security informatics and intelligence. Survey technical approaches for data analysis, threats and vulnerability, communicating risk.

Emphasizes how leading across differences and diversity is a core leadership competency in organizations today.

This course starts with the reality that the United States is less influential in global trade, finance, economics, and business than it was in previous decades.

Designed around a visit to another economic region. Students visit both local and multinational businesses to understand how a business gets established and run in another country; students also meet with industry and government officials to get their perspectives on the economic policies of the country.

Addresses the managerial challenge of strategy implementation, particularly by examining the organizational elements that must be drawn into line to support a strategy, as well as the immense difficulties of changing an organization. Relies on two overarching frameworks: a model of organizational alignment and a model for managing the change process.

Covers the essential concepts and skills needed to make effective contributions on projects, on time and within budget.

Explores cultural differences and impact on business practices and team dynamics working on virtual project teams with global partner universities.

Develop competencies for leading new product/process development or participating in corporate spinouts using entrepreneurial skills within a corporation.

The course is designed to expand the student's knowledge of the broad field of financial and investment analysis.

Analysis of the international aspects of managerial finance. Emphasis on the environmental and institutional factors influencing capital acquisition and allocation.

Analysis of factors affecting price determination in financial markets.

Introduces the student to the major derivative securities that are the tools in the management of financial risk: futures, forwards, swaps, and options. The course will expose students to potential critiques of traditional financial theory based on recent empirical results, including the global financial crisis of 2007­–2009.

Aims to develop the basic econometric estimation and hypothesis testing tools necessary to analyze and interpret the empirical relevance of financial and other economic data; focuses on the theoretical foundations of econometric analysis and strategies for applying these basic econometric methods in empirical finance research.

Focuses primarily on developing spreadsheet applications and using the case method to apply decision-making procedures to real-world problems in finance areas; exposes students to topics such as financial ratio analysis, financial forecast, regression analysis, portfolio management, asset valuation, risk management, and more.

Introduction to health systems, health services organization, and health care delivery focused on trends, problems, and issues.

Survey of the application of economics to the roles of markets and government in health care.

The financial environment of health institutions; financial aspects of management decision-making; emphasis on revenue sources, budgeting, and cost control.

Fundamentals of Homeland Security provides foundational knowledge about homeland security policy, strategy, organization, and legal issues in the U.S. context.

Examination of the roles of the public and private sectors and the military in preparing, mitigating, and responding to disasters.

The homeland security framework depends on strategic planning and organization. This course examines the key issues associated with these.

Analyzes, evaluates, and critiques homeland security plans in practice.

Address the central tenets of diplomacy and international relations and theories and concepts that underpin the study of international relations.

Examine how governments gather intelligence, how intelligence is analyzed, and what impact it has on policymakers.

Explore how nuclear weapons revolutionized thinking about war and peace among major powers and how they can become a primary focus of international diplomacy.

Continuing seminars that consist of series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers. Introduces students to quantitative methods applicable to various issue areas, including international relations, economics, business, law, education, health, and environment.

Provides an understanding of key issues, concepts, and methodologies associated with business transformation and management consulting; helps students identify and define organization problems, highlight pain points, map workflows, explore business models, investigate strategic alignment, develop recommendations, present business cases, and deliver prototype solutions.

Explores the methods and tools commonly used in the practice of management consulting and is intended for students interested in working in this field or working in organizations that hire management consultants.

Delivers an overview of the difference between traditional (distributive) bargaining and interest-based (or integrative) negotiations; learn to identify their own and others' interests, to create and claim value, and to craft constructive agreements for all parties.

Aims to provide students with a toolkit that will allow them to diagnose individual and organizational source of power and influence as well as an array of tactics by which power and influence are wielded.

Introduces the theory and practice of negotiation in a variety of settings, with specific emphasis on multiparty context; the course will allow students to develop these skills experientially and to understand negotiation in useful analytical frameworks.

Introduction to data analytics for evaluating digital marketing communication, including assessment of mobile, website, and online shopper experiences; evaluation of digital campaigns, social media monitoring, and media mix modeling.

Examination of data analytics to strategically drive targeting, acquiring, developing relationships with, and retaining customers.

Use of marketing data and analytics to drive brand, product, and customer experience performance.

A problem-based, interdisciplinary course in project management skills and techniques needed to manage projects in a modern business environment.

A problem-based course that emphasizes project cost control and teaches students to apply techniques to control projects in business.

A problem-based course that addresses techniques for planning the project development process, including securing resources and resource management.

Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.

Nature, function, and technique of governmental budgeting viewed as mechanism for allocating resources among alternative public uses.

Introduction to the analysis of public policy within its organizational and political contexts, including an emphasis on an economic perspective.

Development of basic concepts and issues in public administration; administrative theory and public policy processes.

Provides an overview of real estate evaluation and risk analysis, property rights and regulations, and financial real estate evaluation.

Covers principles, strategies, and techniques of negotiation with multiple parties involved in commercial real estate transactions, along with how to create financially viable agreements.

Explores economic theories of valuation applied to real estate as a guide to business decisions. Also covers understanding of real estate value, how to measure it, and its application to the real estate marketplace.

Analyzes contemporary law applicable to various types of ownership interests and rights, methods of transferring ownership, and use of real property. 

Presents a senior executive perspective on the key opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders; includes discussions on the changing context for setting strategy and leading organizations in an evolving business environment.

Emphasizes identity issues that are critical to understanding individual and collective processes in organizational life.

Addresses the managerial challenge of strategy implementation, particularly by examining the organizational elements that must be drawn into line to support a strategy, as well as the immense difficulties of changing an organization. Relies on two overarching frameworks: a model of organizational alignment and a model for managing the change process.

Performance metrics used in supply chain management, both within the enterprise and across the extended enterprise.

Selecting, evaluating, and determining the nature of relationships with suppliers from the buyer's perspective within the context of industry and market knowledge. Additionally, understanding ethical conduct in business organizations.

Best principles and practices for production management as well as tools and models for demand forecasting and inventory management, particularly as it relates to the fulfillment of demand for finished goods.

Studies foundations of cybersecurity and the threats it aims to prevent.

This course examines the fundamental elements of crisis, disaster, risk, and emergency management.

IST 803 should be taken prior to IST 564.

Explores how to identify, assess, and implement strategies and tactics for managing supply chain risk by building and maintaining resiliency in the supply chain.

Provides students with a conceptual understanding of careers/career design making through an examination/discussion of the literature in career management.

This course develops students’ process modeling, data analytics, and decision-making skills regarding the management of people in an organization. Analytics includes data collection, organization, storage, analysis, and all the tools and techniques used to describe current processes, assess and address challenges, and plan for changes.

Analysis and application of models, theories, and strategies for managing an increasingly diverse workforce and customer base.

Exploration of positive organizational behavior and wellbeing concepts for developing the "human sustainability" factor in organizations.

The primary purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of current theory and practice in organizational change and development.

Investigate how managers might identify, engage in, and evaluate effective human resources practices; roles and practices of the HR professional will be examined.

Introduction to U.S. federal income tax, covering the basics of taxation of individuals, corporations, flow-through entities, and property transactions.

Focuses on the tax law treatment of corporate formations, operations, distributions, mergers, and acquisitions, as well as accounting for income taxes.

Provides a survey of the law defining the taxation of pass-through entities including partnerships, S-corporations, limited liability companies, and trusts.

Explores the U.S. federal income tax system as applicable to international taxation and its effects on individual and organizational decision-making; students gain the knowledge to evaluate legal jurisdiction, residency, and income sourcing, along with planning to optimize transfer pricing and income deferral.

Provides students with an understanding of state and local taxation, including personal and corporate income tax, sales and use tax, and legal limitations to taxation.