2016-2017 Graduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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EL 703 - Financial Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Introduces students to financial theories and applications within the corporate context. The course is intended to develop financial analysis skills; provide a strategic orientation toward problem solving; introduce students to the types of decisions faced by financial managers; and provide an understanding of valuation and the linkage between managerial decisions and firm value. (Spring only)
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EL 704 - Information Systems and Technology Management (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Provides a strategic management approach to developing and sustaining competitive advantage using information and information technology in the organization. Topics include alignment of technology with management and organization goals; business value of technology; enterprise resource planning; customer relationship management; social technologies such as LinkedIn and Facebook; electronic commerce; technology innovations; security issues; and ethical and legal issues in technology. Students gain a strong information technology knowledge set and an appreciation for information systems as process enablers, change agents, and strategic facilitators using web-based systems. (Fall only)
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EL 705 - Leading and Managing People (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Develops skills and knowledge for leading and managing people at work for personal efficacy and organizational effectiveness. Themes include adding value, managing people and performance, designing jobs and reward systems, and creating innovative cultures. Topics include values and vision, personality and decision making, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, goals and rewards, power and influence, innovation and adaptation, and ethics. Pedagogical methods include lectures, case studies, group exercises and decisions, and class discussion. (Fall only)
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EL 706 - Accounting for Decision Making (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: EL 699 . Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. In a case-oriented approach, financial and managerial accounting topics are explored to identify and apply concepts for managers. Financial statements are analyzed through ratios and other key computations to maximize information value and evaluate the effects of alternative business strategies. Cash flow statement is covered in detail. Emerging issues in external financial reporting are investigated. Recent developments in accessing financial accounting literature (FASB online codification) and public company interactive reporting are explored. Other advanced financial accounting topics such as consolidations are examined. Alternative cost accounting methods are evaluated with an emphasis on the usefulness of activity-based costing. Cost-volume-profit analysis and profitability reporting are studied and applied in practical case situations. Controllable versus uncontrollable costs are used to develop and apply responsibility reporting tools. Decision-support techniques for make-or-buy, outsourcing, and alternative capital investment decisions are studied. (Fall only)
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EL 707 - Managerial Economics (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: EL 699 . Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. A combination of theory and practice in using economics for making profitable business decisions. The theory includes demand and cost analysis of the firm, as well as competitive market situation analysis. Furthermore, discussion includes how the firm is impacted by the macroeconomic environment, including theories of the business cycle, economic growth, and international trade and finance. In addition to theory, practical application of the tools are discussed. Quantitative techniques for managers are also covered as appropriate and the course provides a basic understanding of how to use economic data in the business environment. (Fall only)
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EL 709 - Strategic Management (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Develops general management insights and exposes students to a variety of perspectives, approaches, and tools for the conduct of strategic management. Through completion of strategic analyses and a strategic audit, students develop their capacities to describe, apply, and draw and defend conclusions from strategic analysis tools; summarize, present, and discuss strategic topics and issues; and identify, understand, analyze, and evaluate the strategies of businesses. (Summer only)
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EL 710 - Globalization and International Management (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Develops a conceptual and practical understanding of the global context and conduct of business. The forces of globalization and its impact on the firm, the environment, the domestic economy, culture, and emerging markets are examined. The theory and practice of international trade, investment, financial flows, and technology and its impact on both cross-border transactions and international business are addressed. Lectures, case studies, and group projects are included. (Spring only)
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EL 711 - Communicating in the Legal Regulatory Environment of Business (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Examines the legal and regulatory controls that define, promote, and limit business activities. A wide range of important legal topics are covered, including legal process and dispute resolution, agency law, corporate governance, securities law, product liability, employment law, and the global implications for each of these areas of law. This course may also consider specialized topics, such as intellectual property and environmental protection. Moreover, this course is designed to develop critical communication skills through written and oral presentation assignments related to the study of the legal environment of business. Students emerge from this course with an understanding of the complicated legal and regulatory environment in which they operate as well as with the skills necessary to consistently plan, create and deliver effective written and oral business communications.
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EL 712 - Special Topics in Advanced Finance (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: EL 703 . Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Addresses issues in a particular field of finance, including investments, portfolio management, derivative securities, international finance, capital markets, corporate finance, and financial institutions. Encompasses critical reviews of selected journal articles, empirical research, guest lectures, and student papers and presentations.
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EL 713 - Domestic Field Study (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Students have the opportunity to explore business models and engage with business leaders through corporate site visits. Emphasis is placed on information systems, technology, leadership, and sustainable value creation. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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EL 714 - Special Topics in Information Technology (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Provides students with the most current readings, discussions, and experiences in the field of information systems management. Group projects, papers, and presentations may be used to share information on the topic. Topics may include human-computer interface, management of the information systems function, total quality management, and IT project management. Topic announced each time the course is offered. (Summer only)
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EL 715 - Applied Business Statistics (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Statistical modeling combined with current computing power has shaped the landscape of modern business. Fields that have taken enormous advantage of this technology and grown exponentially in recent years include information-driven marketing and data mining. This course provides up-to-date coverage of the relevant tools and techniques for intermediate to advanced data analysis. This course stresses a hands-on approach towards understanding and applying these techniques to various business problems. Topics include data summary and presentation, advanced linear regression analysis, modeling discrete dependent variables, and policy evaluation. Time series forecasting is also included. Microsoft Excel and cases are used. Students who have not taken a basic statistics course in recent years need to review some material by taking the online MBA statistics prep offered by the GMAT. Intermediate Excel skills required.
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EL 717 - Emerging Leaders Sustainability Colloquium (1.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Over the course of the academic year, students devote nine full Fridays to engaging in active learning around the ELMBA program's central question: How do competent, credible, confident emerging leaders contribute to sustainable value creation for all stakeholders? Academic topics include sustainability, leadership, and critical thinking. Activities include networking opportunities, panel discussions, and site visits to local businesses. May be repeated twice for credit. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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EL 718 - Closing Residency (1.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Participants spend the final full day of the ELMBA program reflecting on its central question: How do competent, credible, confident emerging leaders contribute to sustainable value creation for all stakeholders? Students actively engage in activities that provide closure to their experience and imagine, in concrete terms, life after the ELMBA program. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (Summer only)
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EL 719 - Internship (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Graduate-level internships provide opportunities for students to engage in career exploration by gaining exposure to a field to determine the extent of their interest in it, and to put classroom knowledge and skills to use in responding to the specific needs and interests of a particular firm. Internships may include the option of a team-based field study or consulting project. Classroom and on-site experiences combine to provide learning and feedback for career development. (Summer only)
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EL 720 - Special Topics for Emerging Leaders (1-3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Provides students with readings, lectures, discussions, and experiences in critical emerging topics related to leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, advanced IT, corporate social responsibility, and more. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
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EL 775 - International Field Study (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. Provides participants with an experientially-based international field study. By design, this course overlaps and extends the thinking and perspectives taken in previous courses in the program, while providing students with a conceptual framework that can be expanded and modified in future courses. Students learn to make better management decisions in a competitive global environment. Topics range from the application of the constraints and opportunities arising from diverse and changing international environmental factors (such as cultural distance, political risk, economic stability, legal complexities, and foreign exchange exposure) to managerial issues arising in conducting business overseas. Pass/Fail
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XM 600 - Residency in Executive Leadership (1.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Participants spend the first week of their program engaged in program orientation and team building activities. Teams are established and individual expertise is shared. Students learn concepts of accounting and statistics, as well as the conceptual understanding of the numerous facets of strategic management through role-playing, case studies, and simulations. Topics include team building, leadership, and communications.
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XM 650 - Strategic Planning and Analysis (1.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Focuses on the fundamentals of strategic analysis and planning. Students learn internal analysis of the firm and external analysis of the firm's environment, i.e., industry and market structure, existing and emerging competitors, customers and macroenvironmental forces. Large and small organizations in the profit and nonprofit sectors are compared and contrasted with regard to their approaches to strategic planning.
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XM 660 - Statistics and Quantitative Methods (2.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Introduces the basic concepts of statistics with emphasis on management applications. Students gain competence in applied statistics and in applying a statistical computer package to business analysis. Presents probability concepts and distributions; procedures for estimating measures of location and dispersion; establishing confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; statistical process control; and multivariate analysis, including contingency analysis and regression.
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XM 662 - Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (2.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Addresses the human side of the enterprise and how managing relationships becomes more important than performing tasks as managers acquire responsibility for leadership. Students learn why some groups perform well while others do not, what constitutes truly outstanding leadership, and how a firm can transform itself. Topics include the determinants of group culture; management of individuals as formal authority is eroding; establishment of productive relationships with peers and seniors over whom the manager has no formal authority; decision making under uncertainty; and the key characteristics of a learning organization, including the identification and transfer of best practices and the use of reflection and metaphorical thinking.
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XM 663 - Accounting for Executive Decision Making (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. By combining case studies, readings, lectures, and class discussion, this course empowers students to integrate accounting information into organizational planning and control processes. Topics include understanding the accounting cycle; the strategic approach to analyzing financial statements including balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow; costing systems; cost-volume-profit analysis; budgeting and control systems; relevant cost and decision making; performance evaluation; and strategic cost management. Practical application of both financial and managerial accounting is emphasized.
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XM 664 - Global Macroeconomics (2.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Develops models and frameworks for analyzing opportunities and risks inherent to the global business environment. Students become adept at interpreting economic data and employing standard tools for the analysis of global economies and markets. Students learn some basic models and apply them to analyze historical and current economic events. Topics include determinants of long-run economic growth, short-run business cycles, fiscal and monetary policies, interest rate determination, and the balance of payments.
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XM 670 - Foundations of Economic and Business Analysis I (1.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Creates and applies microeconomic analysis tools to the solution of business problems and the formulation of business strategy. Students learn standard production, cost, and distribution theories of market exchange. Topics include the firm's pricing decisions in various market structures, the architecture of the firm, incentive systems, horizontal and vertical integration logic for optimizing supply chains, and related internal pricing problems. Course content delivered in two parts. (Fall/Spring)
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XM 671 - Foundations of Economic and Business Analysis II (1.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: XM 670 . Restricted to EMBA students. A continuation of XM 670 . Creates and applies microeconomic analysis tools to the solution of business problems and the formulation of business strategy. Students learn standard production, cost, and distribution theories of market exchange. Topics include the firm's pricing decisions in various market structures, the architecture of the firm, incentive systems, horizontal and vertical integration logic for optimizing supply chains, and related internal pricing problems. Course content delivered in two parts. (Fall/Spring)
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XM 674 - Financial Management I (2.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Focuses on the theory and practice of finance from a corporate perspective. Emphasis is placed on understanding the role of financial decisions in determining value. Students learn the basic techniques of financial management, skills in analyzing risks and financial returns in specific situations, and financial issues faced by general management. Topics include valuation theory, financial markets, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and international finance. Course content delivered in three parts.
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XM 719 - Independent Study (1-3.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Provides students with the opportunity to do a research or business development project under the supervision of a professor. Written or electronic permission of the program director.
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XM 722 - Marketing Strategy I (1.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Covers topical issues in marketing. The specific focus of the course is determined by current economic, global, and societal circumstances and trends. Marketing's role in and response to contemporary issues are at the forefront of the topics covered. Course content delivered in two parts. (Fall/Spring)
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XM 724 - Marketing Strategy II (1.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: XM 722 . Restricted to EMBA students. A continuation of XM 722 . Covers topical issues in marketing. The specific focus of the course is determined by current economic, global, and societal circumstances and trends. Marketing's role in and response to contemporary issues are at the forefront of the topics covered. Course content delivered in two parts. (Fall/Spring)
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XM 762 - Financial Management II (1.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: XM 674 . Restricted to EMBA students. A continuation of XM 674 . Focuses on student analysis and presentation of solutions to several different types of financial problems using the case method. Develops skills in problem identification, analysis, and decision making. Students learn to discuss alternative views of these situations from the perspective of senior management of the organization. Topics include valuation theory, financial markets, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and international finance. Course content delievered in three parts. (Fall/Spring)
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XM 763 - Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility I (1.25 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Examines alternative perspectives on the social responsibility of business. Students consider the responsibility of an organization's leaders to set a corporate culture that fosters ethical decision making. Course content delivered in two parts.
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XM 764 - Marketing Management (2.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Provides a broad background on the nature and scope of marketing management. Students develop an understanding of core marketing concepts. The focus is on the marketing mix-specifically, the controllable variables of product, promotion, distribution, and pricing-and how marketing managers use these elements to deliver value to their target audiences to gain competitive advantage in a global economy. Topics include consumer and industrial goods and services in the marketplace, as well as marketing tools for developing actionable plans.
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XM 765 - Financial Management III (1.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: XM 762 . Restricted to EMBA students. A continuation of XM 762 . Focuses on student analysis and presentation of solutions to several different types of financial problems using the case method. Develops skills in problem identification, analysis, and decision making. Students learn to discuss alternative views of these situations from the perspective of senior management of the organization. Topics include valuation theory, financial markets, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and international finance. Course content delivered in three parts. (Spring only)
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XM 766 - Government and Legal Environment of Business (2.50 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Presents the interactive aspects of business with government agencies, policies, and legislation. Students learn to evaluate the impact of legal and regulatory constraints on business strategies. Topics include management of dispute resolution, litigating and alternate dispute resolution (ADR); managing a firm's legal matters; agency relationships; corporate governance; legal responsibilities to employees and investors; and the legal bases for business efforts to interact with government at all levels to influence the development of the legal environment. Attention is paid to global aspects.
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XM 767 - Entrepreneurship (1-1.25 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Designed to amplify individual talents and abilities through an organized and systematic mix of seminars, clinical sessions, and expert advice available from a distinguished cadre of mentors. Guides students in their business plan creation, new product development, turnaround, and business growth concerns. In the classroom, a peer network of students provides valuable feedback and advice in solving problems. Course content is appropriate for "entrepreneurs" in large and small organizations.
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XM 768 - Operations Management (2.50 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Develops strategic and managerial understanding of production processes for goods and services in all types of organizations. Students use seminar-style active-learning and discussion methods to connect the strategy of the encompassing enterprise to the strategic perspective in operations and to relate operations to marketing, finance, and other functional areas of the enterprise. Topics include production process improvement methods; services and goods development strategies; total quality management; global project management; cross-functional teams; global communication and electronic commerce; supply chain management; and world class operations.
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XM 769 - Project Management (1.50 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. This course complements XM 768 by developing and presenting additional tools aimed at successfully designing, implementing, and completing projects in modern, often global, organizations. Students examine decision science tools, software, and global communications technologies related to episodic, time-constrained, complex, cross-functional, and enterprise-critical endeavors in areas such as the design of services and goods, major production process redesign, facility construction, and research. Topics include project alignment with regular operations; organizational structure options for projects; characteristics of good project leaders; team formation and management; control and delegation; CPM/PERT methods and latest software implementations; time-cost models; milestones; handling change orders and replanning; managing resources; communication with superiors; use of simulation and prototypes in design projects and case studies.
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XM 770 - Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility II (1.25 cr.)
Prerequisite: XM 763 . Restricted to EMBA students. A continuation of XM 763 . Examines alternative perspectives on the social responsibility of business. Students consider the responsibility of an organization's leaders to set a corporate culture that fosters ethical decision making. Course Content delivered in two parts. (Fall/Spring)
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XM 771 - Leading Change (1.25 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Focuses on the art and skill of leading change in a time of continuous change. Underlying premises are that organizational change, whether planned or unplanned, is inevitable and should be welcomed; organizational change can be effectively managed and led; leading change is a key skill every manager needs to survive and prosper in these turbulent times; and creative thinking will allow continual, sustained competitive advantage. Students improve their effectiveness as change agents through broadening their theoretical knowledge of the change process and expanding their repertoire of practical change skills.
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XM 772 - Information Technology as a Strategic Partner (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Examines strategic issues around developing and sustaining competitive advantage from information and information technology in the enterprise. Focuses on management information systems (IS), and the impact of information technology on strategy, knowledge management, organizational forms, and emerging technologies such as big data, analytics, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), Internet of Things (IoT), social media, and customer relationship management. Students gain the skills needed to utilize information technologies as process enablers, change agents, and strategic facilitators.
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XM 773 - Strategic Integration and Implementation (3.75 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Presents strategic integration as a questioning, challenging, unconventional, and innovative process. Students prepare to think and act like general managers-individuals carrying titles such as chief executive officer, plant manager, general manager, executive director, president, owner, and managing director. Also imparts the skills of a general manager and is almost wholly devoted to hands-on applications. Topics include instilling a critical, analytical, flexible, and creative mindset; challenging the organizational, industrial, and national paradigms and problem solving recipes; proficiency in meeting the general management responsibility in strategy formulation and implementation; and evaluation, design, development, and implementation of various functional plans for an organization using cases and/or simulations.
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XM 774 - International and Global Business (2.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Helps students adopt a general management/strategic viewpoint in the framework of the global environment. It is directed to the management opportunities and problems associated with the movement of goods, human resources, technology, ownership, and control across national and cultural boundaries. Students learn the additional information and wider perspective that result from international activities. The central theories of management, economics, and other business areas are studied and expanded. Topics include different cultural, political, economic, and legal environments which highlight the importance of attention to strategic as well as social and ethical constraints upon the multinational entity. From its position in the curriculum and its subject matter, the course helps to theoretically prepare the student for the international residency.
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XM 775 - International Field Study (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Provides participants with an experientially-based international field study. By design, this course overlaps and extends the thinking and perspective taken in the courses during the first two years, while providing students with a conceptual framework that can be expanded and modified by work in the third year. Students learn to make better management decisions in a competitive global environment with a particular emphasis on emerging markets. Topics include the application of the constraints and opportunities arising from diverse and changing international environmental factors (such as cultural distance, political risk, economic stability, legal complexities, and foreign exchange exposure) to actual managerial issues arising in conducting business overseas.
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XM 777 - Putting Values into Action (1.00 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. The final component of the program, wherein students examine profiles of leadership (personally and professionally). Participants reflect on their values, their ability to meet the professional challenges of the twenty-first century, and their personal vision for the future.
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XM 799 - Special Topics (1.25 cr.)
Restricted to EMBA students. Students explore a selected business topic from a leadership perspective through the most current readings, discussions, and experiences in the field. Group projects, papers, and presentations may be used to share information on the topic. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
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FI 703 - Financial Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 (may be taken concurrently). Introduces students to financial theories and applications within the corporate context. The course is intended to develop financial analysis skills; provide a strategic orientation toward problem solving; introduce students to the types of decisions faced by financial managers; and provide an understanding of valuation and the linkage between managerial decisions and firm value.
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FI 720 - Advanced Corporate Finance (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 703 . Builds upon students' knowledge from FI 703 and includes advanced issues in corporate finance. Topics include capital structure policy, dividend policy, long-term and short-term financing decisions, mergers and acquisitions, leasing, international dimensions, and corporate risk management.
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FI 721 - Advanced Financial Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 703 . Focuses on the assessment of financial performance and health of companies from the point of view of equity and credit analysts. Students learn to apply financial statement analysis, prepare pro-forma financial statements, and determine the intrinsic value of a firm. Topics include analyzing financial statements, generally accepted accounting principles, forecasting financial statements, and business valuation.
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FI 722 - Investment Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 703 . Provides students with an introduction to the organization and functionality of securities markets with an emphasis on fundamental analysis. Topics include bonds, equities, risk definition and measurement, return analysis, and models of valuation. Students are also introduced to the primary types of derivative securities such as options and futures.
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FI 723 - Portfolio Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 722 . Focuses on modern portfolio theory and how it applies to the pragmatic world by managing a portfolio under live market conditions. Students use the Internet and financial data platforms to access investment information. Students learn the theoretical concepts and pragmatic aspects of portfolio management, including international aspects, ethics, and social responsibility. Topics include portfolio construction, analysis, and evaluation; capital market theory; arbitrage pricing theory; security valuation; market efficiency; derivatives; valuation and strategy; international investing; and other investment alternatives such as real estate and collectibles. Closed to students who have taken FI828 and FI829.
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FI 724 - Financial Markets and Institutions (3.00 cr.)
Corequisite: FI 703 . Surveys money and capital markets in order to determine their functions and interrelations in the national economy. This course examines the interaction of key institutions and monetary and fiscal policies in the financial markets. Students obtain an understanding of the global financial system, including financial markets, financial institutions, the role of central banks, the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy, and regulation. The role of interest rates in the financial system, including the term structure and risk structure of rates, is also covered.
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FI 726 - International Finance (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 703 . Focuses on the theory of the firm as applied in a global decision framework with emphasis on a detailed examination of foreign exchange markets. Students learn to apply financial analysis and decision-making techniques in an international setting. Topics include direct foreign investment; foreign exchange risk; country risk analysis; multinational debt and equity markets; reporting results to investors and tax authorities; international aspects of investment portfolios; and the ethical considerations of trans-cultural commerce.
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FI 727 - Investment Banking (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 703 , FI 724 . Focuses on the role of the investment bank in raising capital. Topics include the process of raising capital, initial public offerings, seasoned offerings, convertible financing, debt financing, venture capital, share repurchases, and investment research. Emphasis is also placed on the changing environment of the investment banking industry. Closed to students who have taken this course as a topic under FI 825 or GB 825 .
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FI 822 - Fixed Income Securities (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 722 . Focuses on the analysis of specific types of fixed income securities including Treasury and municipal bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage securities, and closely related instruments. Students learn how to value the various types of fixed income securities, measure and manage interest rate risk, analyze credit risk, and construct bond portfolios.
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FI 823 - Derivatives and Risk Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 722 . Examines derivative securities such as options, futures, forwards, and swaps. Students learn trading strategies, hedging strategies, and how to value derivative securities. Topics typically include derivatives markets, pricing models, interest rate derivatives, stock options, binomial option pricing, numerical procedures, and exotic options.
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FI 825 - Special Topics in Finance (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Addresses issues in a particular field of finance, including investments, portfolio management, derivative securities, international finance, capital markets, corporate finance, and financial institutions. Encompasses critical reviews of selected journal articles, empirical research, guest lectures, student papers and presentations. May be repeated twice for credit with different topics.
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FI 827 - Valuation (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 722 . Teaches students to value equity securities, starting with the top-down approach and industry analysis/forecasting. This course examines valuation theory, models, and applications under various circumstances such as initial publics offering, corporate restructurings, leverage buyouts, venture capital situations, and closely-held firms. Topics include the discounted cash flow techniques, and valuation using alternative valuation techniques such as market-based multiples. Students learn to apply appropriate financial analysis techniques to valuation problems. Emphasis is placed on obtaining the required information necessary for valuation models from financial statements and other sources. Typically taken within the last nine credits of the MSF program.
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FI 828 - Sellinger Applied Portfolio Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: FI 722 . Provides students with actual portfolio management experience. Students serve as portfolio and investment managers charged with managing the Sellinger Applied Portfolio Fund in a manner consistent with the core goals and philosophy of the Loyola University Maryland Endowment. Students make use of financial data platforms, the Internet, and other sources of information to create, manage, and monitor this portfolio. Students apply the theoretical concepts and pragmatic aspects of portfolio management, including international aspects, ethics, and social responsibility. Topics include asset valuation, constrained setting asset allocation, asset selection, risk management, and performance evaluation.
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GB 600 - Statistical Applications in Business (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 500 or equivalent. Introduces students to a systematic approach to problem solving through the application of quantitative models and statistical methods for decision making. The intent is to create a synthesis in which students gain an appreciation for applications of formal models and statistics in a variety of decision-making environments. Excel and cases are used. Intermediate Excel skills required.
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GB 611 - Global Economic Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 500 or equivalent. Provides a basic understanding of the concepts of economic reasoning and the tools of economic analysis. Economics pervades our everyday life, with personal decisions being made daily based upon economic logic of cost and benefit. Any time a choice is necessary, it implies that there are alternatives which cannot both be chosen. Thus, economics is the "science" of scarcity.
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GB 612 - The Legal and Regulatory Environment (2.00 cr.)
Examines the legal and regulatory controls that define, promote, and limit business activities. A wide range of legal topics are covered, including sources of law; legal process and dispute resolution; agency; corporations; corporate governance; securities law; business torts; product liability; equal employment opportunity; and the global implications for each of these areas of law. Intellectual property, environmental protection, and antitrust law may also be covered.
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GB 615 - Managerial Accounting: Analysis for Decision Making (2.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 613 . Focuses on the use of accounting information by management in making strategic management decisions. Topics include costing systems; cost-volume-profit analysis; budgeting and control systems; relevant cost and decision making; performance evaluation; and strategic cost management. The practical application of managerial accounting techniques in planning and control activities is emphasized.
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GB 617 - Globalization and International Business (2.00 cr.)
Develops a conceptual and practical understanding of the global context and conduct of business. The forces of globalization and its impact on the firm, the environment, the domestic economy, culture, and emerging markets are examined. The theory and practice of international trade, investment, financial flows, and technology and its impact on cross-border transactions and international business are addressed. Lectures, case studies, and group projects are included.
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GB 661 - Financial Accounting Problems I (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 613 and GB 619 . Focuses on the interpretation and preparation of financial statements. Topics include detailed review of accounting cycle; the measurement and reporting problems of various assets, liability, and equity accounts; revenues and expense; and interpretation and preparation of financial statements. Students learn to prepare, understand, and interpret financial statements. Reference made to pronouncements of the AICPA, FASB, SEC, and other authoritative sources.
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GB 700 - Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (3.00 cr.)
This course has two primary objectives: to provide a practical, action-oriented approach to business ethics that helps individuals who work in corporations and organizations decide what to do when they are faced with an ethical dilemma, and to explore modern corporate social responsibility-an approach to management that guides organizations beyond creating an ethical environment in the workplace. While pursuing these objectives, students study alternative perspectives on a wide range of contemporary business issues through readings and case studies. Ultimately, students see the extent to which ethics and moral and social responsibilities are intertwined.
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GB 701 - Operations and Supply Chain Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 , GB 611 or GB 707 . Focuses on how operations can be used for competitive advantage in today's world by improving the use of an organization's resources. Frameworks are provided by linking business processes, metrics, best practices, and technologies to add value for the ultimate customer of the firm. Topics cover enterprise decisions related to both product and service companies such as process mapping, value stream mapping, quality management, lean philosophy, continuous process improvement, inventory control, waiting line management, and capacity management. Pedagogical methods include lectures, simulations, cases, and projects. Students develop competencies in process analysis, value stream mapping, inventory control, and queuing management.
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GB 702 - Marketing Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 , GB 611 or GB 707 . Explores marketing's role in creating value for the firm and its stakeholders in a global environment. Using analytical tools for decision making, students evaluate and formulate a marketing strategy across the product life cycle and in various levels of competitive intensity. Key topics include environmental analysis, marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and distribution strategy), segmentation, targeting, and positioning.
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GB 703 - Financial Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 ; GB 611 or GB 707 ; GB 613 and GB 615 , or GB 706 . Introduces students to financial theories and applications within the corporate context. The course is intended to develop financial analysis skills; provide a strategic orientation toward problem solving; introduce students to the types of decisions faced by financial managers; and provide an understanding of valuation and the linkage between managerial decisions and firm value.
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GB 704 - Information Technology and Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 , GB 611 or GB 707 . Provides a strategic management approach to developing and sustaining competitive advantage using information and information technology in the organization. Topics include alignment of technology with management and organization goals; business value of technology; enterprise resource planning; customer relationship management; social technologies such as LinkedIn and Facebook; electronic commerce; technology innovations; distributed co-creation, mobile technologies, the growing "Internet of Things", "Big Data"; e-government and public good, cyber security issues; and ethical and legal issues in technology. Students gain a strong information technology knowledge set and an appreciation for information systems as process enablers, change agents, and strategic facilitators using web-based systems.
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GB 705 - Leading and Managing People (3.00 cr.)
Develops skills and knowledge for leading and managing people at work for personal efficacy and organizational effectiveness. Themes include adding value, managing people and performance, designing jobs and reward systems, and creating innovative cultures. Topics include values and vision, personality and decision making, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, goals and rewards, power and influence, innovation and adaptation, and ethics. Pedagogical methods include lectures, case studies, group exercises and decisions, and class discussion.
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GB 706 - Accounting for Decision Making (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 , GB 611 or GB 707 . Focuses on the use of accounting information by management in making strategic managerial decisions. Topics include costing systems; cost-volume-profit analysis; budgeting and control systems; relevant cost and decision making; performance evaluation; and strategic cost management. The practical application of managerial accounting techniques in planning and control activities is emphasized.
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GB 707 - Managerial Economics (3.00 cr.)
Combines theory and practice in using economics for making profitable business decisions. Theory includes demand and cost analysis of the firm, as well as competitive market situation analysis. This course also incorporates topics surrounding how the firm is impacted by the macroeconomic environment, including theories of the business cycle, economic growth, and international trade and finance. In addition to theory, there is practical application of the tools discussed. Quantitative techniques for managers are also covered as appropriate, and the course provides a basic understanding of how to use economic data in the business environment.
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GB 709 - Strategic Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 ; GB 611 or GB 707 ; GB 612 or GB 711 ; GB 613 and GB 615 , or GB 706 ; GB 617 or GB 716 ; GB 700 ; GB 701 ; GB 703 ; GB 704 . Develops general management insights and exposes students to a variety of perspectives, approaches, and tools for the conduct of strategic management. Through completion of strategic analyses and a strategic audit, students develop their capacities to describe, apply, and draw and defend conclusions from strategic analysis tools; summarize, present, and discuss strategic topics and issues; and identify, understand, analyze, and evaluate the strategies of businesses. Typically taken in last semester. Must be taken within last six credits of program.
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GB 710 - Capstone Workshop: Reflection -Putting Values into Action (0.00 cr.)
Corequisite: GB 709 . This workshop provides closure to a student's Loyola MBA program experience. Reflection is an integral part of the course as students work individually and in groups sharing their previously formulated, integrated set of lessons learned developed across the whole program as well as those concerning personal growth and development. Using this knowledge and ensuing discussion as a foundation, students reflect on their values and their ability to be ethical, component, and reflective leaders in a changing and diverse world. Students also have the opportunity to develop their personal vision for the future. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. Last semester offered, Summer 2016.
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GB 711 - Communicating in the Legal Regulatory Environment of Business (3.00 cr.)
Examines the legal and regulatory controls that define, promote, and limit business activities. A wide range of important legal topics are covered, including legal process and dispute resolution; agency law; corporate governance; securities law; product liability; employment law; and the global implications for each of these areas of law. The course may also cover specialized topics, such as intellectual property and environmental protection. Moreover, this course is designed to develop critical communication skills through written and oral presentation assignments related to the study of the legal environment of business. Students emerge from this course with an understanding of the complicated legal and regulatory environment in which they operate, as well as with the skills necessary to consistently plan, create, and deliver effective written and oral business communications.
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GB 715 - Applied Business Statistics (3.00 cr.)
Provides an up-to-date coverage of the relevant tools and techniques for intermediate to advanced data analysis. Statistical modeling combined with current computing power has shaped the landscape of modern business. Fields that have taken enormous advantage of this technology and grown exponentially in recent years include information driven marketing and data mining. This course stresses a hands-on approach towards understanding and applying these techniques to various business problems. Topics include data summary and presentation, advanced linear regression analysis, modeling discrete dependent variables and policy evaluation. Time series forecasting is also included. Excel and cases are used. Intermediate Excel skills required.
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GB 716 - Globalization and International Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 , GB 611 or GB 707 .
Provides an in-depth analysis of the external political, cultural, financial, and other environmental influences regarding the practice of management in multinational enterprises. This course also examines global strategies and associated implementation and control processes. National and organizational units of analysis of international strategic frameworks develop an understanding of distinct strategic initiatives, foreign entry modes and international expansion decisions; strategic marketing initiatives; the linkages among global strategy, organization structure, and control systems; and strategic implications of cross-border negotiations and international human resource initiatives.
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GB 718 - Entrepreneurship (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 705 . Develops the strategies, techniques, and attitudes for creating innovative products, processes, plans, and organizational solutions. Topics include business plan development, intrapreneurship, managing rapid and innovative organizational growth, small business management, and skills and methods unique to new and growing ventures. Deliverables may include business plan formulation.
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GB 719 - Independent Study (1-3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: All core courses. Under the supervision of a faculty sponsor, students have an opportunity to pursue independent research projects based on a topic of mutual interest to their sponsor and themselves. Independent study is an exception and must be agreed upon by a faculty sponsor, the department chair, and the Sellinger School Dean. Written or electronic permission of the instructor and the department chair. A research paper is required.
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GB 720 - Advanced Corporate Finance (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 703 . Builds upon students' knowledge from GB 703 and includes advanced issues in corporate finance. Topics include capital structure policy, dividend policy, long-term and short-term financing decisions, mergers and acquisitions, leasing, international dimensions, and corporate risk management.
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GB 721 - Advanced Financial Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 703 . Focuses on the assessment of financial performance and health of companies from the point of view of equity and credit analysts. Students learn to apply financial statement analysis, prepare pro forma financial statements, and determine the intrinsic value of a firm. Topics include analyzing financial statements, generally accepted accounting principles, forecasting financial statements, and business valuation.
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GB 722 - Investment Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 703 . Provides students with an introduction to the organization and functioning of securities markets. Fundamental analysis is emphasized. Topics include bonds, equities, risk definition and measurement, return analysis, and models of valuation. Students are also introduced to the primary types of derivative securities such as options and futures.
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GB 723 - Portfolio Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 722 . Focuses on modern portfolio theory and how it applies to the pragmatic world by managing a portfolio under live market conditions. Students use the Internet and financial data platforms to access investment information. Students learn the theoretical concepts and pragmatic aspects of portfolio management, including international aspects, ethics, and social responsibility. Topics include portfolio construction, analysis, and evaluation; capital market theory; arbitrage pricing theory; security valuation; market efficiency; derivatives; valuation and strategy; international investing; and other investment alternatives such as real estate and collectibles. Closed to students who have taken GB 828.
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GB 724 - Financial Markets and Institutions (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 703 . Surveys money and capital markets to determine their functions and interrelations in the national economy. Examines the interaction of key institutions and monetary and fiscal policies in the financial markets. Students obtain an understanding of the global financial system including financial markets, financial institutions, the role of central banks, the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy, and regulation. The role of interest rates in the financial system, including the term structure and risk structure of rates, is also covered.
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GB 726 - International Finance (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 703 . Focuses on the theory of the firm as applied in a global decision framework with emphasis on a detailed examination of foreign exchange markets. Students learn to apply financial analysis and decision-making techniques in an international setting. Topics include direct foreign investment; foreign exchange risk; country risk analysis; multinational debt and equity markets; reporting results to investors and tax authorities; international aspects of investment portfolios; and the ethical considerations of transcultural commerce.
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GB 727 - Investment Banking (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 703 . Focuses on the role of the investment bank in raising capital. Topics include the process of raising capital, initial public offerings, seasoned offerings, convertible financing, debt financing, venture capital, share repurchases, and investment research. Emphasis also is placed on the changing environment of the investment banking industry. Closed to students who have taken course as a GB 825 topic.
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GB 730 - Business Analytics and Strategic Decision Making (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 704 . Emphasizes strategic decision making using a data-driven approach to facilitate business decisions. Students learn to effectively identify, design, and implement integrated analytics solutions to business problems. Major topics include the scope of decision analysis technologies and their usefulness for improving strategic business decisions; the formulation of objectives; the development of alternatives; multi-objective value analysis; and simulation. Technologies considered include cloud computing, web, intranet, extranet, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and data visualization.
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GB 732 - Data Management and Governance (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 704 . Theoretical and practical foundations of data management and data governance that include review of issues and policies surrounding design, analysis, implementation, and use. Privacy, ethical and global issues are discussed. Topics include data valuation, information life cycle management, e-discovery, data storage, data deduplication, and disaster recovery. Case studies are used throughout the course.
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GB 733 - Enterprise Systems (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 701 . Theoretical and practical foundations of enterprise systems that include review of issues surrounding design, analysis, implementation, and use. Comparison of Hadoop with data warehouse technologies is discussed. Lecture material is combined with hands-on projects utilizing SAP. The course concludes with a real case study involving data from multiple sources using different formats and containing data quality problems.
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GB 734 - Managing Global Supply Chains (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 701 , GB 704 , GB 705 . Explores issues in setting up and managing global supply chains for both products and service companies. This course is broadly divided into three topic areas: structure and design; sourcing management; and logistics management. Topics include structure and design of global supply chains; sourcing strategy development; supplier evaluation, selection, and management; transportation management; and warehouse management.
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GB 735 - Project Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 704 or GB 705 . Develops principles and techniques for the successful completion of projects. Students investigate the planning and execution of large, cross-functional change. New methods, programs, products, and systems are implemented with substantial human costs and scheduling and business disruption challenges. This course presents and evaluates planning, scheduling, and costing methods, examples, cases, and project success techniques to increase effectiveness. Data analytics project management is emphasized.
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GB 736 - Data Visualization for Decision Making (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 704 . Investigates the human processing of information and appropriate representation of data in a visual form. Data resides in many different databases and comes in a variety of forms such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Making data understandable to nontechnical users requires knowledge of the best techniques for presenting data and information. This course is focused on presentation of the data and the use of data visualization techniques such as Tableau and SAS Visual Analytics.
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GB 741 - Consumer Behavior (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 702 . The primary goal of marketing is to satisfy customer needs. This issue is approached with a focus on the end consumer (i.e., business-to-consumer) by digging deep to understand consumer behaviors, perspectives, preferences, choices, and more. By meaningfully examining consumers, business is better able to craft strategies to serve them. Taking a social science-primarily psychology-based-approach to comprehending consumers, the course covers recent and groundbreaking work in consumer research to apply it to insights for business practice. A select but broad range of topics is covered.
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GB 743 - Services Marketing and Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 702 . Examines current approaches to services marketing and management. A central tenet of this course is that industries like finance, hospitality, and healthcare pose unique challenges and require distinctive marketing and management strategies. While traditional marketing management concepts and models are applicable, they must be adapted for the services sector. This course discusses how thinking around the traditional four P's of marketing (product, place, price, and promotion) needs to be modified for services. Services require that close attention be paid to operational and human resources management. Thus, three additional P's of process, people, and physical environment will be discussed as well as service quality, customer satisfaction/loyalty, and the use of culture for competitive advantage. Serves as an elective for both Management and Marketing specializations.
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GB 744 - New Product Development and Management (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 702 . Studies the theoretical underpinnings of new product development in a variety of industries. Students learn to describe the new product development process; identify the components of a new product development strategy; and structure their organizations to encourage creativity and innovation. Students use multivariate statistical techniques like factor analysis, cluster analysis, and conjoint analysis to evaluate the marketplace attractiveness of proposed new products. Topics include managing new product failure, technology-based product development, and accelerating new product development.
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GB 746 - Strategies for Marketing Communication (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 702 . Examines the components of marketing communications. Students learn to put an integrated marketing program into practice to address the diverse marketplace with a customer orientation. Topics include planning the communications program; capturing imagination in creative execution; measuring consumer response; overcoming barriers; and analyzing case histories.
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GB 747 - Special Topics in Marketing (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 702 . Provides an opportunity for the student to conduct intensive study and/or research in a selected industry or of a contemporary marketing topic. Readings, discussions, projects, and presentations are core components. Topics may include marketing research, marketing and social media, sales management, and customer experience management. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
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GB 748 - International Marketing (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 702 . Focuses on the application of marketing concepts and principles to international markets. Students learn to evaluate the international marketing environment, and to identify adaptations in data collection/analysis, product, price, promotion, and distribution. Also offered as a study tour course.
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GB 750 - Security Controls and Prevention Strategies (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 751 . Introduces the principle of security which holds that access can be granted only to those who are who they claim to be. Covers the implementation of authentication over a network of distributed servers, workstations, and databases. Topics include authentication, distributed authentication, access and availability, applications, and systems development. Students are given hands-on experience with penetration testing (i.e., attempts to circumvent authentication). (Fall only)
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GB 751 - Strategic Security Planning (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: GB 754 . Introduces the building blocks of low-level protection against compromise of confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and availability. Covers the tasks that a senior C-level executive would ultimately delegate to subordinates. Topics include physical security, operational security, telecommunications security, network security, and web application security. Students are given hands-on experience with distributed denial of service attacks and preventive/palliative techniques. (Summer only)
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