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MBA Management Courses
mbamgt 650 Organizational Analysis and Skills +
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This course focuses on the organization of the future, identifying its characteristics and exploring the strategic design and political and cultural implications for working in and managing such an organization. It examines the impact of the new organization on the roles and careers of individual managers, the functioning of groups, the processes that exist within organizations, the relationships of organizations with their environments, and the learning and change practices needed to enhance global performance. First-semester MBA students are introduced to a variety of skills that they will be called upon to use throughout their MBA experience (case analysis, analytical writing, self-awareness, team-building, oral communication). More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 652 Labor-Management Relations and the Collective Bargaining Process +
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This course familiarizes students with the practice of labor-management relations in the United States. The nature of labor-management conflict, the development of the US labor movement, and a comparison to other Western labor movements provide the theoretical and historical framework needed to assess the effectiveness of current practice and trends in the development of new practices and institutions. The major areas of study are the tactics and strategies of management and union representatives and the legal and economic constraints on their behavior in the organization of unions, contract negotiation, and contract administration and interpretation. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 660 Business and Its Environment +
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This course looks at the relationship of business to the external environment and considers business in relation to legal, social, political, and economic systems, focusing in particular on the impact of governmental regulation on business. The course also addresses the functioning of the US business enterprise in the context of the international business environment. Finally, through an examination of the role of ethics in management decision-making, the course explores how business organizations can operate effectively and responsibly in the context of the external environment. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 664 The Legal Environment of Business +
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This course seeks to help students broaden their understanding of our legal and regulatory system and how it affects them as business managers. Businesses have become increasingly subject to laws and regulations. Legal and regulatory provisions pervade such aspects of business as the sale of securities; marketing practices; product liability; and business relationships with employees, customers, and other interested parties. This course assists students in developing their ability to meet the legal and regulatory demands and responsibilities of contemporary business. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 665 Cross-cultural and comparative management +
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This course provides students with frameworks to understand, analyze critically, and practice cross cultural/international management under globalization. In an economically interconnected world, the historical context of geopolitical and sociocultural relations among nations and people are important to not only conceptualizing management but also to understanding why different nations/people may have fundamentally different notions and practices of management. To this effect, this course allows students to gain an in-depth understanding of an critically analyze the ways in which cross cultural differences in values have consequences for management behaviors in terms of cooperation, ethics and decision making, leadership, negotiation, team work, and human resources. This approach will allow students to gain an understanding of how the broader context of difference and dependence among nations and people materializes into individual and group differences in conceptualizing and practicing cross cultural/international management. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 666 Diversity in the Global Workplace +
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This course will delve into a number of issues related to diversity in the global workforce: how to understand and appreciate the dimensions of diversity in the global workforce (including gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class); how to learn across differences in order to work more effectively together; how to contribute to and manage teams with diverse composition; how to be a leader and change agent on issues regarding diversity and inclusion; how corporations can be on the leading edge of policies to enhance economic opportunity for a diverse workforce; how diversity is understood and approached globally. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 669 Entrepreneurship Internship/Practicum +
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The Entrepreneurship Practicum course is a live experience for students who want to participate in the entrepreneurial start-up business process. The course is designed for those enrolled in the Entrepreneurship Specialization, and it will also accept selected student on a case by case basis with the requisite experience in and commitment to entrepreneurial and high-tech ventures. In addition to lectures, presentations and in-depth interactions between students and the Entrepreneur in residence each student will participate in an internship or be an employee with a start-up company connected to the Venture Development Center or through he University's venture capital backed start-up network, or through the students own efforts. Companies must be notified by the student that they are taking this course based on their internship or employment before enrollment in this program. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 671L Introduction to Environmental Management +
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This course focuses on the critical factors for building competitive and environmental strategies for business in the areas of environmental management and sustainability. It examines the drivers behind the 'green wave', the factors and tools for developing successful environmental initiatives and how to integrate environmental thinking into the business strategy. Key topics covered in the course will include clean energy, green design, product life-cycle assessment, green chemistry, eco-branding, circular business, practices, and sustainability reporting. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 674L Climate and Energy: Law, Policy and Management +
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This course examines legal, public policy and management issues related to Climate Change as well as those related to the siting, development and distribution of renewable energy. It begins with an on international overview of the socio-economic forces shown to influence climate change, the legal and economic mechanisms that have emerged to address such change and the evolving global energy portfolio (particularly efforts to develop renewable energy). More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 675 Managing in the Global Economy +
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This course provides students with the opportunity to acquire an in-depth conceptual and operational understanding of a group of countries, with the purpose of acquiring the technical skills necessary to enter, network, structure, manage, and eventually exit effectively from a foreign environment. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 680 Management of Health Organizations +
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This course explores the roles of the health systems manager as planner, organizer, leader, and integrator of health programs. Particular attention is given to how these roles differ from industry's roles, as well as to the special demands made of the manager in a health systems organization. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 681 The Health System and Public Policy +
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Examines the interface of government, health, and the private sector. This course explores the various roles government plays as promoter, regulator, and buyer of health services. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 683 Leadership Management in 21st Century +
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This course will explore leadership as it is practiced in corporate and public-sector environments. The course will emphasize the role of leaders in guiding organizations through turbulent business climates, in motivating subordinates and teams, and in crafting strategic visions for their organizations. Change management, globalization, and human resource management factor strongly into discussions and readings. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 687L Nonprofit Management +
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Nonprofit organizations aim to improve society while facing similar management challenges to any organization as they provide valued goods and services. This large and growing sector includes colleges and universities, hospitals and social service entities, human rights. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 688L Business and Climate Change +
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Climate change may be the most important challenge facing society over coming decades, causing sea levels rise, more extreme storms, flooding and drought. The widespread causes and impacts of climate change will have broad economic, social and business impacts. Twenty-first century managers and professionals in every field will need to understand these impacts and the implications of policies to address climate change for their organizations. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 689 Strategic Management +
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Considers the diverse situations typically confronted by upper-level management and strategies for managing these situations, using knowledge acquired through study of the MBA Core. These strategies are based on an analysis of the internal conditions of the firm and the constraints and opportunities afforded by the external environment. Students learn to develop strategy implementation plans that provide detailed descriptions of appropriate executive action. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 690 Master's Thesis Option Research Colloquium +
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This is the first part of the Master's Thesis Option (MTO). It covers research and research methods, and is intended to position students to successfully complete a year-long research project of publishable quality. Lectures and discussion will focus on the skills required to develop a research question, how to formulate an appropriate research strategy, and ways to identify necessary analytical tools and locate data sources. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 696 Independent Study +
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Independent study credit is granted only for academic work not normally offered in advanced courses. A student must find a faculty sponsor for his or her independent study project and then file a proposal for the project in the MBA Office. The proposal should be signed by both the student and the faculty sponsor. More Info
Offered in:mbamgt 697 Special Topics +
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This course addresses a specific topic in a particular discipline. Courses under this title are offered as one-time supplements to a given department's curriculum. More Info
Offered in:- TBA
mbamgt 698 Practicum +
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Because education can happen almost anywhere, not only in a classroom, the Practicum is a systematic attempt to introduce management students in a new learning environment. Through this course students can enhance the knowledge acquired in the classroom, try out skills and abilities, gain new perspectives on career goals and academic directions, gain 'real world' work experience and further their personal and professional development. The Practicum may relate to any of the functional areas of Management: Accounting and Finance, Marketing, Operations Management, Management Science, Human Resources or International Management; and may be arranged according to your specialization or may be based more on general management opportunities. More Info
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