execMBA Academics

First 8-weeks

Business Analytics (3): Approaches statistical thinking methods to address real-world business data and problems. Addresses communication of results in a managerial format for strategic decision making.

Organizational Behavior (3): Examines team dynamics, performance management, crisis management and l leadership. Includes study of current business leaders and challenges they face.

Second 8-weeks

Accounting for Managers (3): Analyzes accounting information in the context of making informed decisions in high-level business settings. Focuses on the real-world application of accounting concepts and procedures.

Advanced Managerial Marketing (3): Develops knowledge and skills to manage marketing activities by applying relevant concepts in strategy development, marketing planning and implementation of marketing mix decisions.

First 8-weeks

Economics for Managers (3): Examines how consumer behavior and the managerial decision making process affect supply, demand and prices of goods and services in the market.

Business Policy and Regulation (3): Understand first-hand how public policies can create opportunities or threats for organizations, and how they can develop and organize their resources to participate effec-tively in the public policy process.

Second 8-weeks

Managerial Finance (3): Builds on financial management concepts like time value of money and capital budgeting. Covers executive-level ideas including the risk-return tradeoff, corporate payout policies and mergers and acquisitions.

Professional Advancement Series (1): Executive development and leadership.

International Study Abroad

BUS AD 8730 International Business and Global Experience (6): This global academic residency is an 8-9 day international experience, split between two global locations, that provides an understanding of issues related to international business practices. Focuses on the importance of contextual intelligence in a business world where perspectives are challenged by differing cultural, institutional and enterprise arrangements. Develops a rich understanding of the multiple influences on businesses around the world. This international experience includes company visits and meetings with local executives. A majority of the cost of the international residency of program is in included in tuition.

Past locations have included Santiago, Chile; Munich, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Vienna, Austria; and Budapest, Hungary. In June 2019 the class traveled to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

First 8-weeks

Operations and Supply Chain Management (3): Examines the main facets of opera-tions management. Covers both the business processes and production processes neces-sary to deliver either a service or a product.

Leadership Topics (3): Focuses on developing and refining leadership competencies, styles and actions to influence performance outcomes within teams, departments, organizations and ad hoc situations.

Second 8-weeks

Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship (3): Focuses on the competencies managers need to become successful innovators in entrepreneurial ventures and in existing firms. Covers entrepreneurial finance, risk, creativity and trend analysis.

Professional Advancement Series (1): Executive development and leadership.

First 8-weeks

Portfolio Theory and Financial Statements (3): Introduces financial markets and investment alternatives, such as equity, fixed income, and derivatives. Covers equity valuation, the concept of diversification and portfolio management. Competitive Marketing Strategy and

Brand Management (3): Develops analytical skills to formulate and implement analytics-based marketing strategies in a competitive environment. Introduces the importance of brands, brand equity and brand strategy.

Second 8-weeks

Business Environment & Strategy (3): Investigates the link between strategy and value creation, appropriation and preservation, including assessment of a firm’s internal resources and its external environment. Analyzes the differences in strategy for single line-of-business firms and diversified firms with a focus on assessing and analyzing strategies in context and relative to competitors. Utilizes cases and current events.

Professional Advancement Series (1): Executive development and leadership.