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Experienced in Business |
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The Executive MBA Program curriculum is delivered in five consecutive terms with classes conducted on alternate weekends. This dynamic curriculum provides the tools for developing your potential, regardless of your academic background. In addition to the core courses listed below, the weekend sessions will comprise informal instruction and learning exercises that emphasize global themes, such as foreign language instruction or cultural awareness. The weekend experiences will also include invited speakers and other opportunities for you to exchange ideas and engage in learning outside the classroom. Term 1: 12 credit hours MBA 510 Executive MBA Foundations Term 2: 9 credit hours MBA 521 Quantitative Methods and Modeling Term 3: 9 credit hours MBA 531 Global Marketing Strategy Term 4: 9 credit hours MBA 541 Corporate Financial Policy: A Global Perspective Term 5: 9 credit hours MBA 551 Global Capital Markets Executive MBA Foundations (12 credit hours) This part of the program will not consist of conventional survey courses, but rather discrete modules of essential tools and concepts that are necessary to engage the 12 core competencies as described below. Core Competencies (36 credit hours) Quantitative Methods and Modeling This course contains three modules, which respectively focus on regression modeling, constrained optimization and decision analysis. Applications include demand analysis, forecasting, quality assurance, market research, production planning and risk analysis. All modules will include laboratory exercises that utilize model building software. This course prepares executives to participate in strategic decision making, which is based in part on contemporary accounting techniques. Topics include cost behavior, cost-volume profit analysis, costing approaches, uses of standards and analysis of accounting and financial information. Organizational Behavior and Leadership The course examines individual, group, and organizational level influences on workplace behavior and attitudes. Special emphasis will be placed on leadership, distinguishing it from management and exploring theories that address some of the factors that drive effective leadership. This course examines principles and strategies for managing the global demand component of a business enterprise. It examines marketing as an integrative process of defining, maintaining and expanding demand for an organization’s goods and services. This concept is extended to include articulation of strategies that guide the enterprise toward creating sustainable and profitable relationships with customers in an environment characterized by continuous global change. This course emphasizes a disciplined approach to economic reasoning and problem solving. This approach is used to examine the anatomy of economic behavior, production and cost, market structures and dimensions of competition. Particular emphasis is on application of economic reasoning to business strategy and decision making. The course is based on a series of assignments that develop the capacity for managerial problem solving. Law, Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility This course examines potential leadership dilemmas and challenges in creating shareholder value and fulfilling the firm’s obligations to the larger community of stakeholders. It examines legal and ethical parameters of decision making, as well as the broader principles of integrity in corporate governance. Corporate Financial Policy: A Global Perspective This course examines the financing, investment and payout decisions of firms in the global context, with emphasis on the nuances associated with corporations domiciled in North America, the European Union and Asia. Special topics covered in this course include mergers and takeovers, management of exchange rate exposures and compliance with international regulatory standards. Production and Operations Management: A Strategic Approach This course explores strategic issues in global manufacturing. Students will be exposed to concepts in manufacturing strategy, lean manufacturing, global supply chain management, quality control and global outsourcing. Students will be assigned research articles, cases, and asked to perform analyses in the field of manufacturing strategy. This course studies the global forces that determine the employment, prices and economic output of nations. Primary consideration is devoted to effects of government fiscal and monetary policy, exchange rate regimes and trade policies. The course emphasizes the analytical foundations of macroeconomics and the global interdependence of nations’ economic policies. This course studies forces governing the interaction of capital markets around the world. In addition to analyzing the continuous evolution of traditional stock and bond markets, the course reviews developments in derivative markets, investment banking, project finance, international banking and emerging markets. This course examines the special nature of the international environment and its impact on firm strategy and operations, with attention to the financial, cultural, political and economic complexities of foreign environments. Special topics include global opportunity analysis, multinational strategies and structures, foreign direct investment, strategic alliances, outsourcing and other issues that arise in cross-border operations. International Business Seminar This course will consist of three modules:
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