MBA Courses
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Cr. 3. (3-0). This course focuses on how managers formulate strategic decisions and manage the strategy implementation process. Using integrative analysis (from other core course, such as accounting, finance and marketing) and case studies this course will explore the process of developing and managing business strategies. Topics will include development of corporate goals and objectives, competitive analysis, business and corporate level strategies, and organizational systems design for plan implementation.
<p style=”color:red”>Prerequisite: Last semester of study or approval of graduate director.</p>
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course covers the tools and techniques required for project management. Topics include project selection, project planning, budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, project control, project crashing, and project termination and tools such as work breakdown structures, network diagrams, and performance measurement. Students will also acquire soft skills to become effective project managers and apply both soft and technical skills in real projects.
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Cr. 3. (3-0). This course provides an in-depth study of capital budgeting, financing, dividends, and related issues in the context of risk, return, and creation of value in a corporation and other business organizations.
<p style=”color:red”>Prerequisite: MBA 5312 or concurrent enrollment, or approval of graduate director.</p>
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Prerequisite: MBA 5319.
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Cr. 3. (3-0). The course presents statistical techniques that extend the ideas of prediction-based statistical tools. These extensions include finding relationships among variables and methods for building regression models from large collections of predictors. Time series analysis, forecasting models and data mining will also be introduced with real life business examples and case studies. The course focuses on the practical use of modern methodologies associated with data analysis and decision making.
Prerequisite: MBA 5313 or approval of graduate director.
Prerequisite: MBA 5312.
Cr. 3. (3-0). This course will examine systems, methods, and tools used to monitor, control and improve quality in organizations. The course will focus on topics such as the historical development of quality management, costs and consequences related to quality, quality certifications, TQM, Six Sigma, and basic problem-solving tools for quality. Emphasis will also be given to inspections, statistical process control, and process capability.
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Cr. 3. (3-0). In this course students will examine activities involved in the global transfer of goods and services. Students will examine logistic services, logistic network design, reverse logistics, transportation modes, multimodal transport, optimization of transportation processes, and transport infrastructure. Emphasis will be placed on international and ethical considerations of moving goods and services through an organization’s input, transformation, and output processes to the end customer.
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Prerequisites: Completion of the first semester and MBA coordinator approval.