Master of Business Administration - MBA

MBA 501 Navigating Your Professional Journey 0 Credits

This course is about preparing our students for their next steps after graduate school.

Offered: every fall & spring.

MBA 502 Career Compass 0 Credits

Students will go over skills needed to obtain a job.

Prerequisite: MBA 501.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 505 Financial Accounting 3 Credits

Reporting the financial results of operations and financial position to investors, creditors, and managers; examination of problems that arise in the preparation, analysis and use of accounting data, with emphasis on the use of financial reports.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 601 Business Analytics 3 Credits

This course covers statistical concepts and techniques emphasizing problem solving and interpretation: descriptive statistics, probability distributions, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis, including model specification and variable transformations.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 602 Economics for Managers 3 Credits

This course introduces students to fundamental concepts and analytical tools of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Included are demonstrations of how economics can be used as a practical tool for problem solving. Emphasis in the course is placed on the application of theory to both managerial and public policy decision making. The following principles are emphasized: optimization subject to constraints, opportunity cost, specialization and exchange, markets and equilibrium, marginal decision making, short-run versus long-run outcomes and the importance of real economic variables.

Offered: occasionally.

MBA 603 Legal Environment & Ethics 3 Credits

This course is designed to be an introduction to the basic rules of law and the ethical responsibilities of business decision makers. This course is not intended to make you lawyers or to give legal advice. Almost every chapter/subject covered is a semester or longer in law school. We will address important legal aspects of relating to business transactions and business entities.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 604 Marketing Management 3 Credits

This course provides a survey of the various factors that affect marketing strategy decisions as well as the variety of strategic marketing decisions themselves. An emphasis is placed on coverage of a range of the most important concepts used in the practice of Marketing Management.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 605 People Management 3 Credits

This course focuses on the strategic management of people in complex organizations from behavioral, economic, and other academic perspectives. It takes conceptual, theoretical, and applied approaches to topics such as employment law, staffing organizations, job analysis & job design, training & development, performance management, pay and benefits, and employment and labor relations.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 607 Operations Management & Sustainability 3 Credits

Operations management involves the planning, coordinating and executing of all activities that create goods and services while taking into account the Triple Bottom Line. This course will examine the economic, environmental, and social impacts of decision-making in the following areas: operations strategy, process strategy, quality management, facilities layout, inventory management, lean systems, and demand and capacity planning.

Prerequisite: MBA 601 or ECO 503.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 608 Corporate Finance 3 Credits

This course provides the basic tools of Financial Management. It introduces you to the goal of Financial Management, analysis of financial statements, the concepts of cash flow, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, the principles of valuation, the concepts of return and risk, the use of financial leverage, the cost of capital, dividend policy and working capital management.

Prerequisite: MBA 505 or ACC 505 & MBA 601 or ECO 503.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.

MBA 610 Managerial Accounting 3 Credits

Preparation and analysis of data used by management in planning, budgeting, decision making, product costing, inventory valuation and performance evaluation.

Prerequisite: MBA 505 OR ACC 505.

Offered: fall & spring

MBA 611 Strategic Management and Leadership 3 Credits

Strategic Management can be characterized as a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long run performance of a corporation. It includes environmental scanning (external and internal to the corporation), strategy formulation, strategy implementation and evaluation and control. Using cases drawn from actual business situations, the course develops skills in (1) diagnosing the overall condition of a company or organization, with emphasis on its financial situation; (2) perceiving and analyzing evolving environmental trends, seeking new opportunities for the organization and new threats against it; (3) understanding those specific company skills that give it advantages over the competition and weaknesses that hinder its competitive position; (4) identifying and evaluating the strategic alternatives that are feasible for a given situation; (5) matching skills with opportunities, and relating them to one or more strategic alternatives in determining strategy and setting objectives; and (6) developing detailed policies and plans, and implementing them. The study of strategic management, therefore, emphasizes the monitoring and evaluating the external opportunities and threats in light of a corporation’s strengths and weaknesses. We will build on insights developed in other courses, such as Understanding General Management, Managerial Economics, Managing Organizational Behavior, Finance and Marketing Strategy. We will explore and apply tools developed by world-renowned scholars that are taught at business schools all over the world, and add our own unique Jesuit perspective, to arrive at insights that are both applicable in the business world and deeply rooted in a thorough academic understanding. Hence, this is an integrative course in that the tools and skills learned in other required courses are needed to develop practical company-wide general management decisions. Since few students become general managers immediately upon graduation, Strategic Management includes a series of cases, simulations, and/or consulting projects on the role of the new functional, business and corporate/global managers in formulating and implementing strategies.

Prerequisite: BUS 602 or MBA 502, MKT 604 or MBA 604, MGT 607 or MBA 607, FIN 608 or MBA 608.

Offered: every fall, spring, & summer.