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MBA

12 courses with the subject MBA, 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.

MBA 510Effective Organizational Leadership 3 CH

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 511Applied Statistics (3.0 CH) A course for students whose educational or career path requires a

statistical background beyond the elementary level. Topics include ANOVA, multiple regression, statistical modeling, forecasting, process control, and decision analysis. (P: MATH 211)

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 521Managerial Economics (3.0 CH) Managerial Economics utilizes the tolls of economic theory (primarily

Microeconomics) to express, analyze, and inform business decisions. Major topics include: Theory of the consumer (demand theory), theory of the firm (supply theory), market structures, market failures, profit maximization. 139

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 533Adv Financial Reporting & Manag. Acct. (3.0 CH) Accounting is the language of business and is

essential for the efficient operation of our market-based economy. This course will cover two primary areas: financial reporting, which focuses on the needs of external users of the financial statements and managerial accounting, which focuses on the needs of management and other internal users of financial information. Financial reporting topics include the regulatory environment of financial reporting, understanding financial statements and related disclosures, financial statement analysis, and ethical considerations underlying the financial statements and potential incentives for management to manipulate financial results. Managerial accounting topics include product- costing systems, cost-volume-profit analysis, determining and applying relevant costs for decision-making, and budgeting including master, flexible, and capital budgeting.

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 542Talent Optimization (3.0 CH) The study of individual and group motivation theories as applied to

organizations with the intention of extracting optimum performance. Topics include strategic human resource management, recruitment, selection, employee testing, performance appraisal, and the design of appropriate reward systems. The course emphasizes the application of the concepts and perspectives presented during the class. Therefore, active participation in each class is crucial.

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 544Finance (3.0 CH) This course builds on the undergraduate level Business Finance course by extending

our understanding of financial management of the firm; specific topics will include financing options, stock valuation, risk analysis, budgeting, and corporate governance and content.

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 554Foundations of Marketing (3.0 CH) Emphasis is placed on providing a solid grounding in basic

marketing terms and concepts. It is designed to give students a clear understanding of the marketing function, introduce student to the elements of the marketing mix (4P’s) and demonstrate how today’s managers employ these tools to gain a competitive edge in the global economy. The course also begins to develop a general management viewpoint in the analysis development and evaluation of marketing decisions.

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 555Internship 3 CH

TOTAL: 36 CH 134

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 564Ethics, Corp Soc Resp & Sustainability (3.0 CH) To learn and understand the duties and

responsibilities that the Officers, Shareholders, and Directors of a corporation have to each other and the community; and to develop the tools needed to analyze the Ethical Codes of several Fortune 500 companies and their advertised goals for ethics and social responsibility. What are the companies claiming is their goal for an improved world and are they working toward that goal?

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 574Strategic Management (3.0 CH) With emphasis on problems of executive management, decision

making, and administrative action, participants will develop strategic thinking capabilities through an examination of the design, implementation and evaluation of business strategy and policy. An applied learning experience in which participants utilize knowledge and capabilities gained throughout the MBA program to engage in collaborative consultation with a nonprofit business. The focus is on the development of strategic recommendations that will assist the client organization with addressing existing and emerging challenges.

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 580Data Analytics (3.0 CH) This graduate level MBA course introduces the student to contemporary

applications of data science and information technology in the business realm. Course topics include applications of information technology for increasing competitive advantage use of data analytics to assess business practices and opportunities and the ethical ramification of information technology in business environments. Significant focus is placed on developing student understanding of basic data analysis and interpretation in R. Case studies are used to emphasize how course topics are relevant to the modern business climate. 140

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

MBA 590Foundations of Management (3.0 CH) This course introduces the fundamentals of management

drawn from behavioral sciences to help you understand the nature of the rapidly changing workplace and the underlying forces contributing to this change. This course will provide an overview of the knowledge, skills and ability required to manage organizations and people successfully and help you to become better managers of the businesses you own, organizations that you work for, teams that you work in, the people you work with and your own professional development. 141

Subject: MBA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: www.thiel.edu

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