MBA in Executive Leadership

AC 601: Financial Accounting for Decision Making

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to accounting concepts and procedures for organizational decision-making.

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AC 650: Managerial Cost Accounting

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

A study of accounting concepts as applied in manufacturing and merchandising firms emphasizing analysis of financial statements and managerial use of cost data for decision-making.

Course objectives:

• Use deductive/inductive reasoning to solve business problems (CVP Analysis, Differential Analysis)
• Identify, measure, summarize, and analyze financial and tax data (identify and trace cost flows using a job order cost accounting system; break mixed costs into their fixed and variable components for control and planning purposes, variance analysis)

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

This course has three purposes: 1) understanding and managing individual and group behavior in organizations; 2) stress-management and well-being; and 3) recognition and management of ethical responsibilities of business.

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

This course integrates learning from the earlier functional course areas as well as MG 698 through a series of simulation-based exercises. Students will sharpen their decision-making by analyzing, formulating, and testing their strategies in a competitive environment. Prerequisite: MG 698

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

The study of microeconomic analysis and models relevant to a broad cross section of decisions within the business firm. This course is designed to enhance the knowledge of Microeconomic Theory to make sound management decisions using both traditional and behavioral economic concepts.

FI 630: Financial Management

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

Introduction for managers and entrepreneurs to the fundamentals of the economy, the financial markets, and financial management, including security valuation, The capital budgeting process, capital structure, and working capital management.

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FI 635: Financial Analysis & Decision-Making

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

A case study course that prepares entrepreneurs and managers with innovating financial management techniques and skills, with emphasis on data analysis and financial decision-making. Spreadsheet skills are recommended.

Course objectives:

• Build stronger analytical and communication skills to analyze how real business decisions affect the value of the firm
• Learn to make informed corporate investment and financial decisions
• Calculate financial ratios and make business forecasts
• Study capital budgeting decisions and resource allocation
• Manage dividends and repurchases
• Learn about the management of the corporate capital structure

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

This course aims to provide a framework to gain a competitive advantage in a global environment. Topics covered include industry analysis, resource-based view of the firm, business strategy, innovation, diversification, and multinational strategies.

MK 610: Marketing Management

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

Introduction for managers and entrepreneurs to the fundamentals of marketing including product, pricing, promotion, distribution/logistics, segmentation and marketing research with special emphasis on global marketing and ethics

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MK 615: Marketing Strategy

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

Through case analysis and simulation technology, graduate students learn to analyze opportunities and challenges associated with the development, execution, evaluation, and redirection of marketing efforts in a wide range of organizations. Culminates in a real-world service-learning project. Prerequisite MK 610

Course objectives:

• To analyze problems associated with the development, execution, evaluation and redirection of marketing programs, plans and strategies in a wide range of organizations. This analysis will utilize the growing importance and usage of Internet marketing. The main objective of the course is the completion of a marketing plan as a term project
• The development of the marketing plan requires the student to have a firm grasp of all the components of the marketing system specifically and the problem-solving process in general

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

This course will examine fundamental questions about the role of creativity and innovation in leadership and organization development. The course links creativity and innovation to the organization development practices and human resource programs including recruiting, staffing, benefits, compensation, and organization development interventions. Students discuss the importance of creativity and innovation for individuals, teams/groups, and organizations as a whole. The course will also examine the connection of creativity and innovation to problem solving, diversity, and organizational effectiveness.

Course objectives:

• Students will be able to discuss the role of creativity and innovation at the individual, group and organizational level
• Students will be able to identify ways that creativity and innovation can be used in problem solving, human resources, teams, diversity, and organizational effectiveness
• Students will be able to identify and apply appropriate terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques and theories from the innovation and creativity course

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on conflict management programs in the workplace. It emphasizes the design and development of conflict management systems for organizations. This course applies Organizational Development theory and action research to a systems approach for handling workplace conflict. Attentions is paid to how conflict is handled in the workplace, in order to design conflict management systems that employees participate in to manage conflict at work.

Course objectives:

• Understand the principal theories of conflict and effects on organizations
• Understand the organizational dynamics occurring on a systemic level and be able to develop concrete interventions that address these
• Be able to integrate principals of conflict management systems and leadership into real organizations
• Be able to gather and analyze evidence of conflict in organizations and identify dispute resolution options
• Be able to evaluate organizational dynamics and develop concrete interventions
• Be able to develop implementation plans for conflict management systems for organizations

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

This is a course about leadership theory specifically in the context of management and organizations. In this course, you will survey the broad spectrum of leadership theories and the research that led toward the theoretical conclusions. You will learn to appreciate the strength of the theories but understand the limitations so that as practitioners you can apply your own set of principles based on what we do know about leadership.

Course objectives:

• Develop knowledge of the models for analyzing leadership behavior and leadership effectiveness
• Be able to integrate theoretical foundations of leadership to real leadership situations
• Be able to synthesize various theories into guiding leadership principles that are applicable in modern organizations

EC 604: Statistical Analysis

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3

An introduction to basic statistical techniques which involve methods of collecting and analyzing data with an emphasis on inferential statistical techniques used for hypothesis testing and decision making.

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BA 600 Foundation of Business Analytics

Duration: 8 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course provides students with a solid foundation in the concepts, tools, and techniques of business analytics. The course covers the entire data analytics pipeline from data acquisition and management to visualization and statistical analysis. Topics include data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, regression analysis, hypothesis testing, and data visualization. Students will also learn how to use tools such as Python, R, and Excel for data analysis.