This course is designed to introduce the student to a number of issues and problems managers must consider when competing in Europe, and to examine strategic choices that enables multinational firms build and sustain their competitive advantage.
IBS-B525 International Trade PolicyThis course focuses on
current issues in international economics including currency determination,
global linkages and crises and international trade
This course is primarily a course in business ethics and thus focused on professional or applied ethics. Special emphasis in this course is given to the analysis of ethical issues that business managers confront. A complementary objective is to focus on the implementation of ethical judgments and to formulate appropriate strategies for addressing barriers to such implementation.
The course studies the practice of management using both classical as well as modern theories of organization.The focus is on the functions of management with respect to the external and/or environmental aspects bearing on management responsibility and ethics; and the development of practical management skills and policy as guides to managerial decision-making and human aspects of management including motivation, workplace equity and demographic diversity.
This course will provide the student with a broad based understanding of the management of information technology in order to prepare the student to manage change as the technology is implemented in the organizational environment. It will also make the student aware of current technological issues and how they will impact his or her ability to manage.
This course is largely an applied course in the
configuration of SAP and uses a case approach. The case is a “bottom up" configuration case that requires students to complete the configuration of the FI, PP, MM, CO, and SD modules for the Quazi Computer Company. This configuration is a “bottoms up” process involving the completion of guided exercises to configure the specific elements of organizational structure and master data for each module in a specified order. At milestones in the configuration, the student will complete a Business Case in which transactions will be processed through the configuration completed to that point that tests the actual configuration.
This course provides an overview of the role of human resource management (HRM) in contributing to organizational effectiveness. By the end of the course, students should think systematically about how environmental forces shape HRM activities and be able to assess how specific approaches to HRM can be used to facilitate a variety of organizational goals.
This course is designed to provide you with a basic understanding of the role of taxes in personal financial and fundamental business decisions and to lay the groundwork to further your study of the fascinating subject of taxation.
This course is designed to
provide you with a basic understanding of the
role of taxes in personal financial and fundamental business decisions
and to lay the groundwork to further your study of the fascinating
subject of
taxation.
Managers make decisions under pressure. Time, money, and information are typically in short supply as strategies get planned and executed. Marketing research aims to improve the odds that decisions made under conditions of uncertainty are good ones. The context for this course is buiness decision-making as it occurs in the conduct of international business.
This course will provide the student with a broad based understanding of the management of information technology in order to prepare the student to manage change as the technology is implemented in the organizational environment. It will also make the student aware of current technological issues and how they will impact his or her ability to manage.
Businesses work in projects. Whether a marketing campaign or an audit, business activities often revolve around projects. Students in this course will learn that projects are the vehicles to introduce change into complex organizational systems and that managing that process requires business, technical and people skills. A growing number of industries are increasingly using project management as a way to manage organizational goals. Topics covered align with selected knowledge areas prescribed by the Project Management Institute to set the foundation for students that might like to pursue further study and certification in the field
The focus of International Marketing Strategy is on the conceptual foundation, practical application, and best practices of contemporary global marketing. Our approach will include analysis and discussion of issues related to globalization, market assessment, market entry and development, global branding, emerging markets, and the global marketing mix elements of product, pricing, distribution, and communications.
This is the full-time MBA course for Operations Management.
This course serves to (1) familiarize you with decision-making tools and models that operational managers use; (2) present business firms’ integrated operational practices in manufacturing, service, and supply-chain sectors; and (3) analyze and examine business operations models from a cross-functional perspective using short problems and case studies.
This is a management skills practicum. It is an attempt to teach a set of skills grounded in both behavioral science theory and the Positive Organizational Scholarship approach which are essential for a successful career in building and managing excellent organizations.
This course is commonly referred to as “Stats II” by many students, but in fact it is not an advanced statistics course. Rather, it emphasizes practical applications of quantitative Decision Science methods (mathematical, statistical, and conceptual) to the solution of specific Operational business problems.
This course serves as an introduction to the tools of Probability and Statistics, with special emphasis on their application to Business problems and decision-making processes.
This course provides an introduction to the fastest-growing area in finance: derivative securities.As such, this course is divided into sections covering forward contracts, futures contracts, swaps, option contracts, exotic option contracts and financial engineering.This course is definitely not geared toward those wanting a casual exposure to derivative securities and financial engineering. Those who will do the best will have strong quantitative skills and who possess a solid background in economics, probability, statistics, and finance theory.
This is the second part of the fulltime MBA International Business course. A Asian focus is emphasized in this course. Hence, during the two week trip to Hong Kong and Beijing, several of the envrionmental forces that affect multinational organizations are going to be assessed withing the Asian region.
An introduction to financial reporting of the results of operations, cash flow and financial position of corporate entities through general-purpose financial statements. An emphasis is placed on the real-world environment of business and the use of financial accounting information for management decision making.
An introduction to financial reporting of the results of operations, cash flow and financial position of corporate entities through general-purpose financial statements. An emphasis is placed on the real-world environment of business and the use of financial accounting information for management decision making.
International Accounting can be defined as follows: The international aspects of accounting, including such matters as accounting principles and reporting practices in different countries and their classification; patterns of accounting development; international and regional harmonization, foreign currency translation; foreign exchange risk; international comparisons of consolidation accounting and inflation accounting; accounting in developing countries; accounting in communist countries; performance evaluation of foreign subsidiaries; transfer pricing across frontiers; capital budgeting in an international context; international financial markets; disclosures by multinational companies; and international taxation. In this course we will study a number of different essential topics that are provide the basic building blocks of understanding financial statements from different countries around the globe.
This course introduces the basic concepts and rules of federal income taxation of business entities (proprietorships, partnerships, S corporations and C corporations) and their owners (proprietors, partners, and shareholders).
This course covers estate planning. Estate planning is an essential part of financial planning. Financial planning helps people plan for and meet their needs and wants during their lives. Education planning helps them educate their children. Insurance planning helps provide security against events such as disabilities or accidents. Retirement planning helps create a secure and pleasant retirement. Estate planning’s focus is the time and situations surrounding the end of life.
This is the part-time MBA course in Production and Operations Management.
This course serves to (1) familiarize you with decision-making tools and models that operational managers use; (2) present business firms’ integrated operational practices in manufacturing, service, and supply-chain sectors; and (3) analyze and examine business operations models from a cross-functional perspective using short problems and case studies
The Course objectives are to gain a basic understanding of the concepts and techniques of financial management, and the uses and functions of financial markets, instruments and institutions. This course will provide you with an overview of the three functional areas into which the field of finance is broadly divided: managerial finance, investments and financial institutions.Emphasis will be placed on the concepts and techniques most directly associated with managerial finance but which have varying degrees of applicability to investments and institutions.
The objective of this course is to help students develop the analytical skills for properly valuing fixed income securities and managing interest rate risk.A good understanding of fixed income securities, their markets, and analytical tools and principles that apply to various types of fixed income securities is essential in both the financial industry and the corporate sector.
Geopolitics For Global Business is designed to provide you with framework to analyze the interactions of geographical location with prevailing political systems and to examine the effects of such interactions on the global business environment within which multinational firms operate.
This course of Global Strategy provides you with the CEO mentality of looking at organizational stratgies that corporations plan and execute in order to achieve competitive advantage in a hyperly-competitive global arena.
Businesses work in projects. Whether a marketing campaign or an audit, business activities often revolve around projects. Students in this course will learn that projects are the vehicles to introduce change into complex organizational systems and that managing that process requires business, technical and people skills. A growing number of industries are increasingly using project management as a way to manage organizational goals. Topics covered align with selected knowledge areas prescribed by the Project Management Institute to set the foundation for students that might like to pursue further study and certification in the field.
Welcome to Managerial Accounting. This course is designed to provide you with a systematic understanding of the role of management accounting systems and strategic cost management in today’s manufacturing and service organizations. Although the use of traditional costing models continues to be widespread, the practice of management accounting has evolved in response to changes in the competitive economic environment in both the manufacturing and service sectors. Accordingly, while this course will cover (and highlight the limitations of) traditional, functional-based cost accounting models, it will also include coverage of such contemporary management accounting topics as activity-based costing, quality costs, and target costing. The understanding that comes from such an integrated exposure to the practice of management accounting will allow students (i.e., future managers) to determine when it is appropriate to use the different approaches and to bring about change when it is warranted.
The over arching goal of this course is to encourage students to consider modern organizations from multiple perspectives, combining critical theory with current applied/professional writings in an effort to better appreciate both the complexity of organizations and the complexities those organizations must face. While the result of such study will not be the development of simple or neat models for managing businesses and other organizations, it is hoped that it will lead to a more robust approach to analyzing the situations that students will face in their management lives within organizations. The perspective of the course will primarily be to look at organizations as a whole (as opposed to focusing primarily on their component parts) although it is impossible to neatly divide the "macro" from the "micro"
Project leadership and management is about setting targets, splitting up large tasks into smaller tasks, identifying critical paths, allocating resources, monitoring actual performance against targets, making dynamic mid-course corrections and creating incentives for human talent to perform. Course content deals with planning, scheduling, organizing, and managing projects and focuses on developing problem analysis/solution development skills. Topics selected align with educational requirements for the Certified Associate in Project Management curriculum (CAPM) as prescribed by the Project Management Institute to set the foundation for students the might like to pursue this certification.
MISB 410 is an introduction to the analysis and design of information technology systems in organizations to service a specific stakeholder need. Analysis is concerned with understanding some part of the "real world" (called the problem domain) sufficiently well to permit writing a program or building hardware to solve some problem within that domain. Design is concerned with the expression of the analysis results in an implementable form (either software or hardware).
In this course, students will explore the various concepts, deliverable reports, and principles in the systems development life cycle (planning, analysis, design, and implementation) to gain an understanding of the scope of systems analysis and design in a business organization context. Students will learn about the roles and coordination efforts involved in systems development and the different methods, reports, tools, and techniques used in systems analysis and design. Topics addressed may include feasibility study, analysis of information needs, specification of system requirements, design and development documentation, data modeling, process modeling, alternative analysis, prototyping, implementation, and evaluation of a project. Typically, students work in small teams to apply the theoretical concepts to a real life project and produce analysis and design deliverables.
The goals of the course will be to assist safety professionals in the development of tools and techniques to improve their ability to support their companies in the area of product safety.
This site is the base site for professional development program seminars and workshops. It provides students with access to program materials and links to relevant information and web sites.
This an introductory supply chain management (SCM) course. In addition to SCM the course brings into focus the need for measurment, customer service, and strategy.
The Advanced Supply Chain Management certificate program uses an applied integrated approach to SCM. Project management, inventory, strategic procurment and relationship management, warehousing and transportation, and lean awareness are integral elements of the program. A capstone team project is a cornerstome of the program.
This is a non-academic credit certificate program. It provides those managers and professionals that manage and participate in the global economy with state-of-the-art practices for managing the supply chain in the glaobal economy.
