Harrisburg University of Science and Technology · Courses
BUAD
41 courses with the subject BUAD, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
None Description: This course covers topics in Management, Entrepreneurship, and Business Administration. Due to the nature of evolving topics, this course may not be eligible for repeat. Offered as needed.
BUAD 106Entrepreneurship Immersion Camp: The Shark Tank1
None Description: The student is provided with analytical tools to understand and synthesize the most current applications of theories and concepts in business management and is exposed to the debate on the dynamic of business environment, evolving business models, economic systems, and scale of domestic and global competition in the market place. Offered Spring semester, annually.
BUAD 110 Description: The student is introduced to the basic concepts and standards underlying managerial accounting systems. The student learns how to produce income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. The student also learns how these documents describe the state of the firm in terms of revenue recognition, inventory, long-lived assets, present value, and long-term liabilities. The emphasis of this course is for the student to understand the internal operations of a firm and how those operations are reflected in documentation. Offered Fall semester, annually.
None Description: This course will provide the student with the skills and knowledge needed to employ research methodologies in a business setting. Traditional experimental and quasi-experimental approaches will be covered. The student will learn to use the scientific method to develop assessment tools, for market testing and product development, and to engage in targeted marketing. Offered Fall semester, annually.
BUAD 250Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship3
BUAD 220 Description: This course provides the student with general and applied decision theory. Decision making processes and biases are discussed within individual, group, and organizational levels. The student learns how decision biases can be leveraged to predict and “nudge” behavior and to improve impressions. Ethical considerations are also discussed. Offered Spring semester, annually.
BUAD 250 Description: This course introduces the student to the tools and mindset required to be an innovator and an entrepreneur. Through innovation, design thinking, and entrepreneurship, this course leads the student through the processes used for finding problems worth solving and mobilizing the resources to solve them. Offered Fall semester, annually.
None Description: This course introduces the business, operational, and management aspects of healthcare. Through case studies and examples, the student is introduced to a wide range of healthcare topics such as healthcare business processes, healthcare clinical systems and services (patient care, physician support systems, healthcare networks), hospital systems, healthcare management, and government regulations. Offered Fall semester, even-numbered years.
MATH 280 or BS Nursing Major Description: This course applies statistical knowledge to business. The student explores the ability to define problems, form questions, collect data, analyze the data using inferential tools, and how to formulate and test hypotheses. The student is expected to master probability concepts within the realm of decision making. Offered Spring semester annually, or as needed.
BUAD 380Special Topics in Management Entrepreneurship, and Business Administration
BUAD 110 and permission of the instructor Description: This course covers emerging topics in business, entrepreneurship, management, and technology. The topics change as the field evolves but will span strategy, business models, and societal trends. Due to the nature of evolving topics, this course may not be eligible for repeat. Offered as needed.
BUAD 360 and permission of instructor Description: This course covers emerging topics in Digital Health. The topics will change as the field evolves but will span digital healthcare management, security and privacy issues, the role of public policies and regulations in healthcare IT, electronic health records (EHR), and the growing role of information and communication technologies in global health. Offered Spring semester, even-numbered years.
BUAD 250 Description: This course examines the elements of entrepreneurial finance, focusing on technology-based start-up ventures and the early stages of company development. This course addresses key questions which challenge all entrepreneurs: how much money can and should be raised; when it should be raised and from whom; what is a reasonable valuation of a company; and how funding, employment contracts, and exit decisions should be structured. This course aims to prepare the student for these decisions, both as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Offered Spring semester, annually.
BUAD 230 Description: This course provides the student with the critical information needed to develop a product and brand strategy that generates both quick wins and long-term value. By completing this course, the student is in a position to create an activity plan to bring their brand strategy to life - both externally towards consumers and internally to employees. Offered Spring semester, annually.
BUAD 225 and BUAD 312 Description: To capture the high level of complexity under which strategic management takes place, this course predominantly uses the case method to examine how general managers create and maintain a competitive advantage for their organizations. The student examines critical strategic issues confronted by top executives of organizations, as well as take a general management and a multi-functional approach to these strategic issues by using all the core business functions. Offered Fall semester, annually.
BUAD 310 Description: Modern digital enterprises are characterized by increased automation, mobile services, extended B2B operations with global business partners, and on-demand business services. The main concern in such enterprises is to architect and integrate a very wide range of services quickly and effectively. This course highlights the role of information and communication technologies, enterprise models, and emerging service oriented architectures (SOA) standards in developing flexible and integrated business architectures. Offered Spring semester, even-numbered years.
BUAD 482Quantitative Methods in Managerial Decision-Making3
MATH 280 Description: This course introduces the student to researching the needs and wants of customers. The student performs statistical analysis on multiple factors involved in developing marketing campaigns, such as pricing, digital marketing, multiple marketing channels, segmentation, and others. Offered Spring semester annually, or as needed.