Master of Business Administration

Students receive a thorough introduction to core economic concepts relevant to managers. Throughout this course, students will apply the course material to analyze two companies/industries, describe and graph basic economic concepts, apply topics in economics to business management, and solve economic problems using graphs, math, verbal explanations, and Excel. ECON 6000

The analysis, development, interpretation, and use of accounting information by managers in directing the operations of organizations. Students develop an appreciation of how accounting works, and assists management in making decisions and exercising control in situations requiring the utilization of scarce resources.

Enhance and extend your understanding of the principles of corporate finance. Financial decision-making processes are addressed with an emphasis on value.

Discuss statistics, economics, and psychology concepts fundamental to the analysis of judgment and decision-making. The focus will be on the development of skills that contribute to a better understanding of judgment under uncertainty, riskless decision-making, and risky decision-making. Some of the topics discussed in this course are probability theory, Bayesian analysis, statistical fallacies, psychological biases associated with quantitative reasoning, basics of microeconomic theory, basics of game theory, behavioral economics, and signaling

Strategic marketing issues and opportunities impact the marketing process and program. Decisions will consider environmental variables as well as internal elements of an organization.

Students approach the field of organizational leadership as an attempt to describe, predict, explain, and influence behavior in the workplace. The interest of the course will include behavior at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis by relying on research from various social science disciplines to guide our descriptions, predictions, explanations, and attempts to influence behavior. The ultimate goal of the course is to improve individual, group, and organizational functioning.

A general overview of how information technology can be used within the firm. Emphasizes information flows within an organization and examines IT Infrastructure, IT Policies, IT Procedures, and general management issues surrounding and supporting MIS. Integrative case studies are used to provide examples of IT solutions and challenge students to examine alternatives and fully understand and apply crucial concepts associated with IT in a networked environment.

As a graduate capstone course, this course integrates and synthesizes content across disciplines. The course's primary focus is to identify, analyze, and apply strategic management concepts to understand how organizations can develop and maintain a competitive advantage. Lectures and textbook content will help clarify and define the tools, frameworks, and strategies leveraged by firms, and the simulation will offer students the opportunity to implement these strategies in a simulated competitive environment. These concepts and tools can be used to guide strategic decision-making at the individual, business, and corporate levels.

An introduction to expert systems, decision support systems, and executive information systems as they are employed in business organizations.

Introduces students to the concepts of telecommunications, wide and local area networks, and other state-of-the-art communications technologies.

Introduces students to the concepts, terminology, tools, and techniques comprising the general area of data resources management.

The objective of this course is to provide students with a solid foundation and best practices for policy, governance, risk management and compliance with respect to an organization’s information technology and resources.

This course is an interactive seminar designed to study and discuss critical issues facing the financial services industry. Topics include the economic, regulatory, competitive environment and the wide range of services provided by today’s banking institutions. The course will address economic policy, globalization, investment and commercial banking, insurance, pension plans, risk management, and technology. Financial analysis and leadership issues will also be addressed in course lectures, online discussions, and within the context of the competitive and interactive Stanford Bank Simulation.

This course will focus on service organizations and services marketing issues to make students aware of the unique challenges involved in marketing and managing organizations in sectors such as finance, health care, entertainment, hospitality, professional services, retailing, education and transportation. Specific topics will include learning and developing strategies for real life business cases to close potential service gaps such as customer, knowledge, service development/design, performance, and communication gaps that have negative impact on service performance and quality perceptions of customers about the service offering.

A case course concentrating on the salient issues and management decisions covering entrepreneurship, the formation and management of new business ventures, and the complex managerial process of small business ownership.

A faculty-led, short-term travel-study experience designed to develop knowledge and understanding of international business. Course includes a limited number of pre- and - post-trip class meetings. Topics covered may include host-country cultural differences; economic, political, and legal environment; and international business operations and strategies including marketing, finance, and service methods. Student must be enrolled in the MBA program. Course may be taken for credit only one time.

Prerequisite: Permission from Instructor and Graduate Director. An advanced course covering advanced topics in accounting.  Graduate credit will require meeting all of the criteria for the corresponding cross-listed 4000-level course, plus additional requirements established by the instructor.

A case course dealing with current topics in business.

The objective of this course is to facilitate your understanding of the traditional issues in health economics. This course will improve and broaden your knowledge of healthcare systems economics by exploring historical and current economic principles that guide the healthcare system.

This course is intended to expose students to the field of health informatics and to give them an understanding in the history, processes, and application of this field in the healthcare delivery system in the United States. Since health informatics is interdisciplinary, students must have already completed introductory courses in statistics, public health (or related subject), computer programming, and economics. Upon completion of this course, students will have a better understanding of healthcare delivery, the specific areas within health informatics, the application of computer technology in healthcare delivery, and the techniques, methodologies, and tools used in health informatics.

This course will provide an introduction to the principles and practice of decision modeling for financial and operational evaluation in the healthcare industry. Basic business spreadsheet techniques will be used to create models for strong decision support to assist in optimizing business decisions. It will introduce the use of statistical analysis and model development to health administration, healthcare program develop and evaluation, healthcare information management, emphasizing the use of computer technology (specifically MS Excel) across these areas.

The focus of the course is to provide healthcare administrators with a basic understanding of the pathophysiological principles, as well as drug classes used, in the treatment of common medical diagnoses requiring admission to healthcare facilities.

The focus of this course is to explore the history and impact of public health initiatives in the United States and globally. Students will become familiar with public and private organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and increase the quality of life among diverse populations. Students will learn to assess and monitor the overall health of populations and use data to contribute to public health policy.