BUSA 509: Global Business Perspectives
Cultural and environmental contexts for global business. Developing perspectives, personal competencies, and organizational capabilities for business success across borders and cultures. On-campus course followed by an international experience prior to graduation. (3)
BUSA 509: Global Business Perspectives: International experience.
Pass/Fail. (0)
BUSA 510: Legal, Ethical and Social Responsibilities of Business
Explores legal, ethical, and social implications of business decision-making. Provides a framework of the legal environment in which business decisions are made. Explores implications of business decisions that incorporate concern for natural and social environments as well as the economic environment. (3)
BUSA 511: Accounting for Decision Making
An examination of financial and managerial accounting topics. Including financial reporting, budgeting, and cost behavior. The focus is on using accounting to support ethical business decision-making. (3)
BUSA 513: Marketing Management
A practical approach to understanding and applying customer-directed marketing strategies for achieving organizational goals. Students will examine theoretical concepts and apply contemporary approaches to the marketing of services, products and ideas in business, public, and non-profit organizations. (3)
BUSA 515: Organizations and Leadership
The leader’s role in creating organizational designs, processes and cultures that effectively engage rapidly shifting external realities, promote collaboration and problem solving, and enable organizations to continuously experiment, improve, and increase capabilities. Competencies for developing and managing people to meet performance requirements and organization cultural fit. (3)
BUSA 517: Understanding and Managing Financial Resources
Advanced
treatment of corporate finance topics including cash flow forecasting,
planning, budgeting, valuation models, cost of capital, leverage, and
risk and return. Additional topics include ratio analysis, computer
simulation, financial feasibility assessment, balance sheet analysis,
determinants of interest rates, and the impact of business cycle
fluctuations on shareholder value. (3)
BUSA 519: Information Systems and Knowledge Management
Examines
the strategic role of information systems in enabling decision-making
and organizational effectiveness. Examines the applications of
information systems to knowledge creation, sharing, and integration.
Discusses a broad range of technologies including collaboration,
content management, database, enterprise, and decision support tools.
Prerequisites: BUSA 509, 511. (3)
BUSA 521: Supply Chain and Operations Management
Manufacturing
and service operations, and technologies within the enterprise and
across the extended value chains. Topics include operations and quality
management, value chain strategy, project management, integrating
extended operations, international operations, current issues and the
synergistic role of systems. Prerequisites: BUSA 509, 511. (3)
BUSA 522: The Global, Social and Political Environment of the Firm
Examination
of the context within which individual firm decisions must be made.
Topics include globalization, diversity within and among nations, the
regulatory environment of the firm, the social, political and economic
aspects of trade, the flow of capital, determinants of inflation and
interest rates, business cycles, and related issues.Employs statistical
and case analysis of how aggregate events have firm specific impacts.
(3)
BUSA 523: Managing Innovation
Multidisciplinary
approach to theories and practices of managing innovation and change
for sustainable competitive advantage. Focus is on the planning and
implementation of innovations, technologies, processes, or systems that
pose significant uncertainty and the necessity for fundamental change
in the organization's design, culture, and industry structure. Prerequisites: ECON 520 or BUSA 522, BUSA 509, 510, 513, 515, 517. (3)
BUSA 535: Financial Investments
In depth evaluation of fundamental principles governing the
valuation of individual investments and portfolios. Topics include
valuation models, business cycles, real estate, commodity prices,
determinants of interest rates and earnings, behavioral finance, risk
and return, investment strategy, global markets, pension funds, and
demographic influences on markets. Prerequisites: ECON 520 or BUSA 522, BUSA 517. (3)
BUSA 538: Advanced Managerial Accounting
Focus
on the strategic and supporting roles of management accounting for
decision-making, managerial planning, and operational control.
Familiarity with Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet software is
required. Prerequisite: BUSA 511. (3)
BUSA 540: Effective Business Negotiations
Approaches negotiating complex business transactions from an
organizational viewpoint in a global context rather than solely a
buy-sell approach. The focus is to demonstrate the strategic nature of
thinking like a negotiator. Prerequisite: BUSA 515. (3)
BUSA 542: Leading Organization Change
Leader
competencies and practices for analyzing needs for organizational
change, creating a shared vision, crafting implementation plans for
multiple interventions, developing enabling structures and processes,
enlisting political support and involving people, and for evaluating
and institutionalizing changes. Prerequisite: BUSA 515. (3)
BUSA 549: Strategic Management of Human Capital
Issues and practices in the strategic management of human capital.
Human resource strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation in
terms of return on investment and other impacts on firm performance.
Human resource best practices for developing and sustaining a
high-involvement workforce to achieve competitive advantage.Prerequisite: BUSA 515. (3)
BUSA 550: Leading Family and Closely-Held Enterprises
Explores
issues unique to managing, working within, or advising closely held
businesses. Role of closely held firms in global economy; control,
fairness, and equity issues; succession; unique aspects of family firms
including family dynamics inside and outside of the business. Prerequisites: BUSA 509, 510. (3)
BUSA 553: Transnational Management
Examination
of ways in which traditional approaches to globalization –
multinational adaptation, worldwide technology transfer, and global
standardization – may be synthesized into transnational strategy.
Changes required in organizational configurations, capabilities and
practices for successful operation of the transnational firm. Prerequisite: BUSA 515. (3)
BUSA 555: Knowledge Management
Provides a global and holistic perspective for leveraging knowledge
through the integration of organizational theory, people, business
processes and technology. Provides an integrated approach in managing
an enterprise’s intellectual capital. Examines the implementation of
knowledge management in business and non-profit organizations. Prerequisite: BUSA 519. (3)
BUSA 558: New Venture Management
Examines the entrepreneurial skills and conditions needed for
effective business start-ups whether independent or within larger
organizations. Prerequisite: BUSA 509, 511. (3)
BUSA 560: Managing Health Care Enterprises
Surveys
policy and operational issues facing managers in the rapidly changing
health care environment. Explores challenges of managing in health care
settings, including hospitals, medical practice organizations,
long-term care facilities and clinics. Discusses health care related
organizations such as health insurance companies, consulting firms,
managed care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and other
organizations that support the health care industry. Prerequisite: BUSA 515. (3)
BUSA 562: Health Care Regulation, Law and Ethics
Survey
of the legal, regulatory and ethical dilemmas confronting health care
managers and the implications of these issues from the perspectives of
administration and governance, external stakeholders, and
patients.Topics include labor relations and the impact of state and
federal employment laws; the public health regulatory environment and
the organizations and systems that impact business decisions; and
strategies for managing third party payments. (3)
BUSA 563: Health Care Marketing
Marketing
principles applied in for-profit businesses are also essential to the
success of public and non-profit organizations. This course is designed
to provide knowledge and skills for effective marketing of public and
non-profit health services organizations, including hospitals, medical
clinics, and professional services. (3)
BUSA
564: Managing Services Marketing
Services now constitute more than 75% of domestic U.S. GDP and
employment, and comparably in other developed economies globally.
Developing economies, such as India, are moving in the same direction.
Services include marketing, operations and human resources contexts.
This course addresses service characteristics and qualities, the demand
for services and service excellence, listening and responding to the
service customer, attention to the service deliverer, providing
services by telecommunications and the Internet, and challenges and
strategies to improve service quality. Prerequisite: BUSA 513. (3)
BUSA 570: Technology Management
Examines
the critical role that technology plays in achieving organizational
effectiveness and competitive advantages. Topics include planning,
developing, sourcing, and controls of technology and systems,
technology transfer and commercialization, technology road mapping,
technology integration, marketing of technology, science and technology
policy, and global issues in technology management. Prerequisite: BUSA 519. (3)
BUSA
575: Electronic Business and Commerce
The course discusses the managerial, technical, and
organizational challenges of designing and implementing electronic
business and commerce as a critical transaction and delivery systems
for products and services throughout the entire value creation network. Prerequisite: BUSA 519. (3)
BUSA 577: Project Management
Study of project management principles and techniques including
planning, network building, project control, reporting and closing to
address the unique conditions and challenges associated with designing
and managing major non-repetitive undertakings. Prerequisite: BUSA 515. (3)
BUSA 578: Database Applications in Business
Analysis,
design, and implementation of database systems for business
applications. Topics include data models and database systems, database
design concepts, data warehouse and data mining, databases
administration, and database marketing. The emphasis is on how database
applications support management decisions, business operations, and
customer services. Prerequisite: BUSA 519. (3)
BUSA 587: Special Topics
Selected advanced topics. (1–4)
BUSA 588: Special Topics
Selected advanced topics. (1–4)
BUSA 589: Special Topics
Selected advanced topics (1-4)
BUSA 590: Strategic Management in a Global Context
An integrated study of business strategy formulation and implementation
under conditions of continuing economic, technological, and competitive
change in the global marketplace. Explores industry, competitive, and
company analysis. Emphasis on path-finding to identify strategic
choices that create sustainable advantage. Prerequisites: ECON 520 or BUSA 509, 510, 511, 513, 515, 517, 519, 521, 522 (3)
BUSA 591: Independent StudyIndividualized reading and studies. Minimum supervision after initial planning of student’s work. Rarely granted and requires prior approval of MBA director and consent of instructor. (1-4)
BUSA 595: Internship
Application of business knowledge in field setting. Credit granted determined by hours spent in working environment and depth of project associated with course of study. Pass/fail. (1-4)
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