MBUS 601 - Business Intelligence and Analytics

This course discusses various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs. This course provides the foundation that will enable students to achieve excellence in business, whether they major in operations management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, human resources, accounting, or virtually any other business discipline. Business Intelligence and Analytics is designed to give students the ability to understand how information technology can be a point of strength for an organization.

Learning Objectives

Storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.

Understanding the activities of decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Understanding knowledge management is an emerging discipline of how to effectively deploy technology, organizational practices, and processes to increase an organization’s return on its knowledge capital.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 619 - Organizational Behavior

This course will discuss the behavioral knowledge and skills essential to becoming an effective manager/leader including behavior and motivation in an environment of complexity and rapid change and ethical implications of actions and their effects on demographically diverse and increasingly international workforce.

Learning Objectives

Developing and enhancing your leadership knowledge and skills.

Developing your understanding of the intellectual foundations of management with a particular focus on topics relevant to managing people at work.

Being able to develop your team leadership and management skills.

Expressing your appreciation for the dynamic nature of the relationship between culture, power and politics in organizations.

Developing your ability to apply relevant management theory and concepts to the resolution of management problems.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 603 - Marketing Management

This course presents a comprehensive approach to marketing and brand management, including: marketing strategy and competitive differentiation, segmentation and targeting; the positing levels of product, price, promotions, and distribution (placement). In addition, the course will focus on consumer marketing and the creation and management of consumer-oriented marketing campaigns. A global market perspective is also introduced and examined.

Learning Objectives

Define, discuss, and recognize important terminology, facts, concepts and principles of marketing including its scope and fundamental concepts.

Recommend reasonable solutions to marketing problems using appropriate concepts, principles, analytical techniques, and theories, which demonstrate comprehension of the various influences on the relationship between markets, marketplaces, and marketers.

Summarize the relevance and application of concepts, principles, and theories used in marketing to contemporary events and global markets and evaluate marketing decisions.

Evaluate the ethical implications and aspects of social responsibility of certain marketing campaigns and strategies.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 625 - Fundamentals of Financial Accounting and Financial Management

This course will introduce students to an accelerated and in-depth study of conceptual foundations and applications of financial accounting and financial management with emphasis on building accounting and finance information bases for external decision making. It is accounting and finance preparation to for the MBA program.

Learning Objectives

Understanding the environment from which accounting rules are developed.

Describing the major steps in the accounting cycle that produces financial reports.

Understanding the basics of preparing journal entries (debit/credit rules).

Describing the four primary financial statements, how they are used, and their limitations.

Understanding the role of auditors with regard to financial reporting and corporate governance.

Understanding debt and equity instruments and strategies/options for raising corporate capital.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 604 - Management of International Business

In an increasingly competitive global business environment, managers must be prepared to manage across national and cultural boundaries. Managers are required to work effectively with people and organizations from various cultural backgrounds, and design and implement procedures, processes and programs that are accepted across the multiple cultural groups within an organization. Among others, managers need to communicate, motivate, lead, and negotiate across cultures.

Learning Objectives

Recognizing the unique challenges of cross-cultural management and develop a personal development plan to prepare for these challenges.

Understanding their role in shaping cross-cultural interactions and identify behavioral mechanisms to facilitate cross-cultural understanding.

Understanding the role of culture on management practice and develop the skills to create and manage culture.

Articulating managerial perspectives that are supportive of corporate goals and are acceptable to multiple cultural groups within the organization.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 627 - Leadership

Focus on self-assessment, tools for developing leadership skills, and concepts of, and practice in, group dynamics. A retreat component and service project emphasize individual growth and team building. In-class activities may require active participation and will include case analyses, mini-lectures, and group work.

Learning Objectives

Assess personal strengths and weaknesses in terms of key leadership and team-building skills such as promoting effective decision-making in groups, managing diversity in teams, motivating others and integrating work and personal life.

Learn valuable tools to further develop leadership and team-building skills including giving effective feedback, establishing authentic professional relationships, and reflecting on past experiences to gain valuable insights for the future.

Understand the impact of various attitudes and behaviors on group commitment; and be able to identify those behaviors that fuel or defuse commitment.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 605 - Managerial Economics

The Managerial Economics course uses the principles of economics to address important issues in the business world today. These economic principles are applied to study cases and selected readings. The cases will be analysed and discussed in the seminars. The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the major economic concepts, combined with an understanding of how to use economics as framework in making decisions.

Learning Objectives

Understanding the fundamentals of supply and demand.

Being able to explain how demand is quantified, and concept of demand elasticity.

Understanding the decision managers face in optimizing/minimizing production costs.

Understanding the structure of markets and the existence of market imperfections.

Understanding the application of Game Theory in business decisions.

Understanding the determinants of monetary policy and interest rates.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 606 - Strategic Management

Students examine the role of senior management in developing and implementing corporate strategy in a global context. They learn to analyze the firm’s external and internal environment to identify and create competitive advantage as well as to formulate, implement and evaluate cross functional decisions that directly affect the ability of an organization to achieve its stated objectives.

Learning Objectives

Analyzing a firm’s internal environment and identify firm’s strengths and weaknesses.

Developing effective business-level strategies.

Describing competitive dynamics in an industry.

Developing effective corporate-level strategies.

Using acquisition and restructuring strategies for a firm’s growth and competitive advantage.

Developing effective international strategies.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 635 - Supply Chain Management

Students acquire the knowledge and basic skills to effectively design a supply chain for an organization. Topics include an introduction to supply chain, the importance of information technology, supply chain slacks, demand management, supply management, inventory management, production management, transportation management, location analysis, sourcing decisions, supply chain strategy, and an overview of special types of supply chains such as green and humanitarian aid supply chains.

Learning Objectives

Explain supply chain management, contrast it from operations management and propose the main performance drivers of supply chain performance.

Assessing the strategic role and impact of IT technologies on supply chain integration.

Expressing the major slacks in supply chains and formulate the approaches to manage them.

Constructing a model to generate forecasts for a company’s products.

Conceptualizing the phenomenon of bull-whip effect in supply chains and propose the methods to mitigate its effect in supply chains.

Analyzing the inventory management methodologies and apply the existing models to propose the optimal order sizes.

Developing an aggregate production plan for a company.

Evaluating modes of transportation; assess the selection criteria and select transportation options.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 617 - Managerial Communication

This course explores the important roles that communication plays in managers/leaders being effective in their tasks as they exchange meaning with supervisees, peers, supervisors, the larger organization, and the community. Both formal and informal communication will be addressed. Additionally, issues such as cross-cultural communication, ethics, conflict resolution, crisis communication, and developing organizational communication competencies will be investigated.

Learning Objectives

Analyze situations using a variety of communication theories and models to determine how to make improvements in the situations.

Determine the most effective match of messages to the unique circumstances in particular situations.

Evaluate personal communication, verbal and non-verbal, formal and informal, to identify specific areas for improvement.

Design organizational communication that effectively uses presentations, reports, and mass communication.

Evaluate ethical issues in all forms of communication within organizations.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 602 - Human Resource Management

This course will provide the student with a comprehensive introduction to Human Resource Management (HRM) by exploring today’s Human Resource (HR) environment including current trends in HRM. The course examines the principles of employee recruitment and selection, job design and job analysis, employment law, employee compensation, training and development, and safety and health.

The goal of this HRM course is to provide current and emergingmanagers with a deeper insight into their crucial role in the management of people and with an understanding of current best practices in the field of human resources.

Learning Objectives

Describe the role that managers as well as HR specialists play in Human Resource Management (HRM) activities.

Evaluate ways that HRM activities can contribute to an organization’s success.

Summarize employment law and compliance with same, including Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO), affirmative action compliance and non-compliance.

Examine safety and health issues in the workplace.

Understand howforecasting techniques are used in HR planningand how these can be applied to significantly influence the recruiting and selection processes.

Distinguish between training and development needs, and how they can be applied to performance analysis and staff development.

Discuss methods used to make performance evaluations more reliable.

Understand the terms: benefits, services and pensions; and how they relate to current compensation and incentive packages in the HR field.

Review the application of HRM course material to the student’s role as a manager.

Pre-Requisites: None

MBUS 621 - E-commerce

This course teaches students how to conduct business online and how to manage the technological issues associated with constructing an electronic-commerce website. Students will study how implementing technology can engage cardholders, merchants, issuers, payment gateways and other parties in electronic transactions.

Learning Objectives

Describe the evolution of e-commerce and the differences in the first and second generation.  Is there a third generation?

Understand the e-commerce business models, marketing concepts and payment systems of the business strategies.

Describe the infrastructure that drives the e-commerce platform and technologies to support the business processes.

Understand and describe security and encryption.

Understand Social Media strategies and implementation.

Identify Internet issues that may present legal challenges.

Identify what constitutes intellectual property and how to protect it.

Pre-Requisites: None

The MBA Capstone Project represents the culmination of an MBA student's academic journey, offering an opportunity to integrate and apply the knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired throughout the program to address real-world business challenges or opportunities.