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Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Course Descriptions

 

MGNT 5653  Financial Decision Making

Students are introduced to principles of accounting for economic events and the use of basic financial statements. The business finance component presents an overview of financial analysis, budgeting, asset management and financial strategy in business decision-making.

 

MGNT 5773  Managerial Decision Making

Introduces the application of probability and statistics to business decision making; including descriptive statistics, probability, normal distribution, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and simple linear regression.  The production/operations topics include productivity, competitiveness, strategy, product and service design, process selection, capacity planning, facility layout, work system design, and location planning.  This course also introduces the student to the study of human behavior in organizations.  It explores management and organizational behavioral practices which lead to human resource development and organizational effectiveness.

 

MGNT 5873  Strategic Environment of Business

An overview of economic theory with an introduction to the impact of fiscal and monetary policies, and consumer and business decision-making.  The marketing component explores buyer motivation, organizational and individual decision-making, changing buyer behavior, and market positioning and segmentation.  The legal component introduces the fundamental legal and regulatory parameters that define, promote and limit business activities.  Topics include constitutional law, torts, intellectual property, contracts, business organizations, employment law, agency law and antitrust law.

 

MGNT 6000  Managerial Accounting

This course deals with the procedures and concepts of computing and allocating costs for reporting, pricing, planning and control, and internal decisions making.  It will focus mainly on the principles and techniques dealing with merchandise and manufacturing costing, job order and process costing, standard and conventional costing, and make or buy decision-making.

 

MGNT 6001  Management Communications

Effective communication skills are essential for managers in high technology environments.  This course will emphasize skill building in writing, oral presentations, interpersonal communication, and research.

 

MGNT 6002  Corporate Finance

Prerequisite: MGNT 5653

This course includes a review of capital budgeting and ratio analysis, making further extensions in the areas of probability-dependent project analysis, co-varying risks and optimal capital structure.  Other topics include working capital management, insurance, and hedging strategies.

 

MGNT 6004  Service Production Operations Management

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Production and Operations Management

A survey of service and production operations management.  Topics include productivity, forecasting, competitiveness, operations strategy, product & service design, process design selection, capacity planning, facility layout, design of work systems, and location planning.

 

MGNT 6005  Managerial Economics

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in statistics

Managerial economics focuses heavily on applied microeconomics issues.  At its core is a value maximizing objective for the firm.  Included in the course work will be traditional topics associated with microeconomics.  Analysis of demand, production, cost, market structure, pricing and capital budgeting.

 

MGNT 6008  Marketing Management

Prerequisite: MGNT 5873 or an undergraduate course in Marketing Principles

This course will present the logic and common sense associated with sound marketing management principles under changing global conditions.  The student will be able to apply these principles, not only to specific managerial environments, but also to understanding events occurring on a daily basis in today’s dynamic global marketplace.  Through cases and projects students examine strategic and tactical planning and decision making for marketing situations.

 

MGNT 6010  Management of Information Technology

A comprehensive study of the application of information technology within organizations.  Includes focus on data generation, retrieval, analysis, and utilization in managing and decision-making activities.

 

MGNT 6015  Technology and Innovation Management

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior

This course emphasizes innovation and creativity, and evaluation and analysis of new   technology. The objective is to learn how to evaluate new technologies (either hard or soft) in order to be able to determinate the whether or not to make a significant investments in them.

 

MGNT 6020  R&D Management

Prerequisite: MGNT 6015

A systematic examination of product innovations ranging from planning and research to development and commercialization or implementation of new product technology.  Topics include pertinent business policy and strategic management issues, the process of innovation, concepts and interconnections between product and process creativity management, technology transfer, and relevant marketing issues.  Students will analyze cases and do a project.

 

MGNT 6022  Sales Management

Prerequisite: MGNT 5873 or an undergraduate course in Marketing Principles

Sales management will highlight the differences experienced by a sales manager from those of a manager geographically located with his or her subordinates.  The “arms length” supervision requirements of sales management will better equip the student to manage and motivate any group in a business environment.  Emphasis is also placed on hiring skills needed to maintain and expand a sales force.

 

MGNT 6024  Business-to-Business Marketing

Prerequisite: MGNT 5873 or an undergraduate course in Marketing Principles

This course focus on the buying patterns practiced in the industrial marketplace.  This course builds a foundation for the student to better understand the underlying conditions that govern an industrial marketing transaction beyond the immediate product or service that is being sought.  The role of technology and its importance in the development of industrial products is explored along with the critical role of services and their interrelation to the products with which they are connected.

 

MGNT 6025  Managing Professionals

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior

This course examines the working relationship between management and professional employees in high technology organizations.  Using management theory as a foundation, the course emphasizes experiential learning in order to develop effective leadership and team building skills which students can apply immediately.  Learning methods include case studies, team exercises, role playing, individual and group presentation, experiential and group discussions.

 

MGNT 6028  Marketing Research

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Managerial Statistics

Marketing Research enables the student to conduct an opinion research project to better understand the underpinnings of a successful marketplace query.  “Hand-on” experience in questionnaire design, data gathering and analysis.  Student teams prepare both a written and oral presentation of the results to experience the relationship between researcher and management in the gathering and communication of research information.  The statistics prerequisite enables the students to effectively utilize SPSS for Windows to manipulate the gathered data and stet it to support meaningful decisions.

 

MGNT 6032  System Analysis and Design

Prerequisite: MGNT 6010

This course provides an understanding of the system development and modification process.  It enables students to evaluate and choose a system development methodology.  It emphasizes the factors for effective communication and integration with users and user systems.  It encourages interpersonal skill development with clients, users, team members, and others associated with development, operation and maintenance of the system.  Topics will include object oriented analysis, design, and use of data modeling tools.

 

MGNT 6034  Database Analysis, Design, and Implementation

Prerequisite: MGNT 6032

This course covers information systems design and implementation within a database management system environment.  Students will demonstrate their mastery of the design process acquired in earlier courses by designing and constructing a physical system using database software to implement the logical design.

 

MGNT 6036  Advance Database Analysis, Design, and Implementation

Prerequisite: MGNT 6032

This course covers physical design, programming, testing and implementation of the system.  Implementations of object-oriented, client-server designs using a programming environment.

 

MGNT 6040  Current Readings  in Management of Technology

This course will examine how technology affects public issues.  The content of the course will be based on the issues currently of concern and will range from ecology to health care to telecommunications.

 

MGNT 6046  Quantitative Analysis

Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Production and Operations Management, MGNT 6004

This course is a continuation of OPSM 6005.  Topics include aggregate planning, inventory management, quality assurance, materials requirement planning, shop floor management, scheduling, performance measurement, just-in-time, synchronous operations, and global enterprise operations.

 

MGNT 6048  Purchasing Management

Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Production and Operations Management, MGNT 5873 or an undergraduate course in Legal Environment

Study of the activities, responsibilities, relationships and system involved in the purchase of materials, services and capital equipment.  Topics include identifying requirements; evaluating en selecting “best value” vendors; techniques for planning and executing the purchasing function, including fundamentals of negotiating, ethical and legal aspects of purchasing; interactions with the engineering, quality, manufacturing, materials management, transportation and legal functions and with suppliers; and international aspects of purchasing.  Purchasing responsibility for quality, delivery, inventory, price and contribution to profit also are covered.

 

MGNT 6050  Project Management

Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior MGNT 5873 or an undergraduate course in Statistics

A study of the project planning, organizing, control concepts and techniques.  Coverage will include projects and specifications.  Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) the Critical Path Method (CPM), the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Gantt charting, and time/resource management. 

 

MGNT 6055  Total Quality Management

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior

The concepts of TQM will develop leadership and interpersonal skills along with an understanding of planning and customer, satisfaction, in addition to process analysis.  The discussion will focus on quality and how to use project teams, such as selecting a project and choosing team members.  Topics will be covered concerning setting up meetings and guidelines for productive meetings.  Team aspects and team building and activities will also be discussed.

 

MGNT 6060  Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior, MGNT 5653 or an undergraduate course in Basic Business Finance, MGNT 5873 or an undergraduate course in Marketing, and MGNT 6005

This course addresses the management challenges associated with starting and successfully running a new venture.  It provides students with an opportunity to apply the theories and tools that they have learned elsewhere in the curriculum to the venture creation process.

 

MGNT 6065  Issues in International Management

Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior, MGNT 5653 or an undergraduate course in Basic Business Finance, MGNT 5873 or an undergraduate course in Marketing

This course deals with cultural, institutional, economic, and financial environments characteristic of international markets.  It will focus on strategic and operational plans that managers must undertake in formulating international business activities.

 

MGNT 6070  Issues in Human Resource Management

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior

This course will cover employment practices and employment law in unionized and non-unionized settings.  The focus will be on decision making and administrative issues for managers.

 

MGNT 6090  Strategic Management

Prerequisite: MGNT Common Body Knowledge (CBK); MGNT 6001

Exposes the student to the process of strategic decision-making. Emphasis is placed on the use of SWOT analyses in development of the strategic plan and the determination of the long-term character of the enterprise. Cases will be analyzed, and classroom presentations will be made by distinguished industrial executives and leaders.

 

MGNT 6091-6903  Special Topics

 

MGNT 7501-7503  Independent Research

Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior

Course covers special topics of interest to the students.  Course credit and topic are arranged between instructor and student.

 

 

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