22 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 710Managing Communication and Info3
Persuasive business written and oral communications are essential skills that are required for career advancement in nearly every management profession. In this class, you will learn how to communicate clearly and persuasively and to connect with their audience, in a way that inspires action.
Students will develop the analytical skills needed to analyze corporate financial statements for use in financial analysis, and to interpret how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. You will gain an understanding of financial accounting fundamentals for prospective consumers of corporate financial information, such as managers, stockholders, financial analysts, creditors and other corporate stakeholders.
This course addresses how to design and implement the best combination of marketing efforts to carry out a firm’s strategy. You will gain an understanding of how the firm can benefit by creating and delivering value to its customers. An emphasis will be placed on stakeholders and skills in applying the analytical concepts and tools of marketing (segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion).
This course uses the global business context to present to you important legal, ethical and cultural challenges you will face as business leaders. Cases and materials will address how business leaders, constrained by law and motivated to act responsibly in a global context, should analyze relevant variables to make wise decisions.
This course emphasizes the value and process of business analytics and strategic management. You will develop fundamental knowledge and skills for applying statistical and management science models to business decision making. Topics to be explored are an organization’s vision, mission, and an examination of the principles, techniques and models of organizational and environmental analysis.
In this course you will be provided with a theoretical and practical understanding of core data mining concepts and techniques and hands-on experience in applying these techniques to practical real-word business problems. Less emphasis will be placed on the inner workings of each method and more on when and how to use each technique and how to interpret the results.
In this course you will be provided with a theoretical and practical understanding of core data mining concepts and techniques and hands-on experience in applying these techniques to practical real-word business problems. Less emphasis will be placed on the inner workings of each method and more on when and how to use each technique and how to interpret the results.
Firms face operational and financial risks every day. In this course you will study the various methods of handling these risks, including loss prevention, risk retention, self-insurance, corporate insurance programs, and capital markets.
Human Capital Management will expose students to practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Topics covered will be best practices in the design of recruiting, performance- evaluation, and compensation systems; how to develop people, manage workforce reductions, have difficult conversations; and how to manage corporate culture and change. You will also learn how to develop as a professional, navigate career transitions, and evaluate choices strategically.
Teams are a critical part of conducting business, helping to address challenging issues that require a diverse set of skills. Strong teams require capable leadership, attention to process, innovative ideas, excellent communication, and an appreciation for diversity. While much is known about what makes some teams more successful than others, few people are trained in how to effectively create, build, and manage teams. This course focuses on learnings and best practices in team formation, working on a team, leading teams, and managing multiple teams.
You will come to recognize the importance of negotiation and conflict resolution in a business. You will acquire a new catalog of negotiating and conflict resolution skills and develop a systematic and positive approach to negotiating with colleagues, bosses, clients, and other stakeholders.
Many businesses are global enterprises, operating beyond national boundaries and are subject to the forces of globalization. This course challenges the traditional approaches to management and organizational behavior by focusing on the international dimensions of leadership. To be successful, one must successfully lead in the global economy and appreciate the wide array of differences in cultures and social institutions. This course explores how cultures vary, how to recognize those variances and how to manage effectively within those environments.
You will learn to observe and analyze an organization from a systems- or process-perspective. From this lens, you will learn to design, operate, and improve the systems that deliver goods and services through operations management tools such as process flow diagrams, lean management, and decision trees. This course aims to familiarize you with the major operational issues that confront managers, and provide you with the language, concepts, insights, and analytical tools to deal with these issues.
In this course you will explore the foundations of population health informatics, including information architecture, data standards and confidentiality as they pertain to population health management. You will also examine key concepts related to registries, electronic health records, epidemiological databases, bio surveillance, health promotion, and quality reporting in population health management.
Patient-reported outcome measures include measures of health status, quality of life, and satisfaction with healthcare. This course provides an overview of the PRO measurement and research field, and discusses how to develop and evaluate a PROM with qualitative and quantitative methods. You will also explore the importance of understanding a patient’s genetic profile, the patient’s understanding of his or her illness, the patient’s culture’s values, beliefs, and norms to be considered toward illness and treatment, and the patient’s own goal for treatment and its outcome help form the basis for a team - based decision regarding the patient’s care.
In this course you will explore health policy and the essential tools and techniques of healthcare financial management, including healthcare accounting and financial statements, managing cash flow, billings and collections, making major capital investments, determining cost and using cost information in decision-making in a healthcare environment. You will also study health policy, i.e., the various ways in which the government plays a role in health and in the provision of health care. Also visited will be the accessibility, cost, quality of health care; the right to make decisions about our health; which are vitally tied to health policies
In this course you will explore environmental management form the perspectives of the government regulators, private corporations and nonprofit organizations. Environmental policy, proactive corporate environmental strategies, designing sound strategy will also be discussed. The tools developed in this course will aid those interested in competitive strategy, corporate social responsibility and the design of public policy.
This course provides a set of tools and skills to identify, evaluate, and improve the sustainability of manufacturing and supply chain operations. It enables students to understand core concepts of industrial and commercial activities, in this way they will be able to design sustainable manufacturing, service and supply chain operations.
Leading for Sustainable Innovation and Design. In today’s increasingly globalized, competitive, and rapidly evolving business environment, an organization’s people can be a valuable source of innovation and sustained competitive advantage. The overarching purpose of this course is to help students develop leadership skills to realize these ends in the contexts of early-stage entrepreneurial “startups” and intrapreneurial enterprises embedded within established organizational contexts and cultures. Emphasis is placed on skills needed to create sustainable value, and visionary leadership practices that harness purpose-driven missions to disrupt business as usual by creating solutions to world challenges that are sustainable.
MBA 791 develops managerial AI literacy for students who will evaluate, sponsor, communicate, and govern AI-enabled work rather than build models themselves. The course teaches students how to distinguish common forms of AI, screen use cases before they become unfocused projects, use generative AI responsibly, evaluate vendor and pilot claims, prioritize where an organization should begin, and recommend bounded initiatives with credible measures and guardrails. The course is intentionally practical: each major assignment asks for a leadership artifact that could plausibly support a workplace decision.
MBA 792Applied Generatrive AI & AI-Enabled Business Processes3
MBA 792 is a hands-on, managerial course that applies generative AI to real business processes. Students will learn how to redesign workflows, specify human-in-the-loop controls, and orchestrate toolchains (e.g., chat assistants, embedded copilots, retrieval-grounded systems, and light automation) to produce measurable value. The emphasis is on disciplined scoping, verification, governance, and change management so initiatives are credible, bounded, and decision-ready for leadership approval.
MBA 793Responsible AI: Governance, Risk, and Policy3
MBA 793 equips managers to design, evaluate, and oversee responsible AI initiatives. Students will apply governance frameworks, risk registers, policy controls, and assurance methods to real AI use cases. The course emphasizes accountability design (roles, ownership, and decision rights), privacy and security posture, fairness and impact assessment, transparency and disclosure, and compliance with emerging internal policies and external regulation. Assignments generate decision-ready artifacts that organizations can put to work: governance charters, impact/risk assessments, control catalogs, model cards, and review cadences.
