Master of Business Administration Online Curriculum

At its core, marketing deals with understanding the needs and wants of a firm’s customers and providing value to them through meaningful exchange. The overarching goal of this course is to provide students with frameworks, techniques and strategies that will help in evaluating marketing within organizations. In this course we will examine the role of marketers in creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers. Students will acquire an understanding of the needs of different customers and address issues involving product positioning, development, pricing, distribution, and promotion.

This course is an extensive examination of the major ethical issues and challenges facing today’s global manager. With an overview of international trade law and an examination of the basic principles of business ethics, the student evaluates the legal and social responsibility issues that are encountered in the international marketplace. Specifically, the course includes the areas of contracts, intellectual property rights, product liability, employment issues, environmental concerns and unfair/predatory business practices.

This course introduces the economics of the firm, including price theory, consumer behavior, concepts of elasticity, equilibrium under different market conditions, demand and supply factors of production, introduction to welfare economics and its effects on modern organizations, game theory for decision-making, forecasting technique analysis, production and cost analysis, pricing decisions, economics of capital budgeting, simulation in managerial decision making and applied agency theory in organizations.

This course will examine various theories, including the concept of present value, the opportunity cost of capital, discounted cash flow analysis, valuation techniques, short & long-term financial management, risk and return, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), capital budgeting, corporate capital structure and financing decisions, dividend policy, and corporate governance. Students will utilize the theoretical framework to develop the analytical and problem-solving skills for making financial decisions and risk analysis.

The course provides students with knowledge and application of business technologies in support of operational management areas such as planning and execution. Learners are exposed to key technologies such as ERP (SAP) and latest tools/techniques for achieving increased process integration, flexibility, agility. The course utilizes management case studies along with hands-on, team-oriented exercises to enable learners to improve operational effectiveness by using emerging technologies.

This capstone course is the culminating course in the MBA program. It focuses on the strategic management process. Students gain an understanding of strategies suitable for conducting business in both developing and developed economies by integrating earlier coursework within the framework of theories and issues in strategic management.

(Students in Healthcare Finance concentration can substitute this course for BA530 from the core.)

This course focuses on human resources management (HRM) strategies, approaches, and practices utilized to enhance organizational value through human capital. The course examines HRM trends and policies within both global and domestic work environments. Topics include: human resource strategic planning; recruitment/selection; training/development; employee relations; performance management; compensation/benefits; expatriates; cultural diversity; and workplace equality. The course addresses best practices for integrating justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) through HRM practices to create sustainable, high performing organizations.

This course will introduce the concept of financial management in U.S. healthcare organizations. Learners will examine and discuss concepts involving health insurance, third-party and prospective payments, and managed care organizations. Fundamental concepts of insurance risk management and various types of managed care organizations are discussed in relation to the consumer, provider, and insurer.

This course provides a detailed understanding of healthcare reimbursement systems, methodologies and payment processes across various sectors of the industry. Learners will examine and discuss the complexities of third-party payments, including claims management, documentation, compliance and revenue cycle processes, with an emphasis on managerial decision-making in healthcare organizations (HCOs).

This course will highlight alternative payment models based on economics, policies, and past/present healthcare trends.

The purpose of this course is to provide an integrated perspective of population health covering both health care systems and broader public health policies. The course will familiarize students with the health care system in the U.S. and provide comparisons to health care systems internationally. Relevant understandings will include population health outcomes, spending on health, and determinants of health and disparities within and across countries as well as stimulate critical thinking about how systems can meet the challenges of cost, quality and access. This course will equally highlight the vital role of public health policies in addressing population health, including the concept of health in all policies. Students will be challenged to develop and evaluate public health policy using the PEEEL framework, which focuses on understandings of politics, economics, ethics, epidemiology/health research, and law/government.

This course is designed to help the student understand the role of managerial accounting in creating value for the organization. It shows how the internally generated accounting information is used as a basis for managerial decision making. Topics covered include the balanced scorecard, activity-based costing system, performance evaluation and cost-volume-profit analysis. The course also emphasizes how management planning and control can have behavioral (social) and ethical implications on the organization and the individuals involved.

This course provides a comprehensive study of portfolio management techniques and a detailed comparison of security valuation techniques. It further analyzes the historical growth patterns and valuation models utilized in both domestic and global securities markets.

This class studies the main issues of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The course takes a general management perspective. The course discusses historical and theoretical developments, focusing on recent events and taking a strategic view of business combinations. Students explore the managerial aspects encountered during an acquisition process and develop the skills to successfully integrate the process.

This course examines the regulation of conduct of the corporate finance function of investment banks by looking at the structure of investment banking firms and their relationship with banks and financial holding companies. The course examines the role and regulations of investment bankers in private offerings, public offerings, international offerings and mergers, acquisitions and other restructurings and the impact of securities laws on the corporate finance function of investment banks and finance principles used by investment bankers in the corporate finance process. The course considers the role and regulation of investment bankers in the Euromarkets, Japan, emerging markets and China’s Security markets.

This course focuses on human resources management (HRM) strategies, approaches, and practices utilized to enhance organizational value through human capital. The course examines HRM trends and policies within both global and domestic work environments. Topics include: human resource strategic planning; recruitment/selection; training/development; employee relations; performance management; compensation/benefits; expatriates; cultural diversity; and workplace equality. The course addresses best practices for integrating justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) through HRM practices to create sustainable, high performing organizations.

This course studies the role that leadership plays in organizational success, with a focus on the importance of emotional intelligence in inspiring and motivating others. It explores neuroscience research on the role of emotions in leadership behavior and examines different organizational structures and frameworks with a focus on how leadership adapts to be successful in different organizations. There is a significant focus on individual leadership where students identify their own leadership aspirations, behaviors, and styles

This course focuses on how leaders are able to use power and politics in influencing others to complete work requirements within the global and domestic corporate environments. It focuses on the skills required to influence within the organizational ranks. It explores the power and politics of ongoing interactions and negotiations and the challenges faced by leaders within domestic and multinational corporations.

This course is an extensive examination of contemporary thinking about effective leadership and the issues facing today’s global leader. The course includes both theoretical and evidence-based understanding of the relational nature of leadership, use of individual strengths, “positive” leadership, seeing and understanding organizational systems, effective virtual and face-to-face teams, successfully leading across cultures, and the creation of desired futures.

This course, through the application of practical readings and applications, is designed to demonstrate how modern organizations use systems and processes thinking to successfully implement change. The course studies organizational development challenges in the domestic and international context and examines managing approach strategies for establishing a competitive position in an international market. Students assess, evaluate and analyze organizational culture, structure and dynamics to better adapt and appraise change management strategy to implement and prescribe structure in the global environment.