Executive MBA Courses

Quantitative Decision Methods (EMBA 800):
This class introduces methods of statistical inference, emphasizing applications to administrative and management decision problems. Includes classical estimation and hypothesis testing, regression, correlation, analysis of variance, and non-parametric methods.

Human Behavior and the Management of Organizations (EMBA 801):
This class examines leadership styles, power, authority, motivations, communications, and their impact on human behavior. Includes organizational learning, team building, participative management, transformational leadership, managing diversity, conflict management, network organizations, organizational change, and re-engineering.

Marketing for Executive Management (EMBA 802):
This class focuses on the analysis, planning, and implementation of marketing strategies from middle- and upper-management perspectives. Introduces key concepts and methods for the development of integrated marketing programs.

Economic Analysis (EMBA 803):
This class focuses on the elements of economics that are most useful for middle- and upper-level managers. It covers the internal operations of the firm (cost structures and internal organization), the micro environment of the firm (market structures, pricing policies, antitrust, and other government regulations), and the macro environment (sources and predictions of economic statistics, government macroeconomic policies, and international economics).

Operation Management (EMBA 804):
This class focuses on the processes by which goods and services are supplied, produced, and distributed in organizations. Emphasizes systems for analyzing design and operational problems in the production/operations function.

Global Business and Competitiveness (EMBA 805):
This class focuses on applications of economic analysis to international business decisions, international and macroeconomic components, understanding the implications of macro polices and developments for the firm’s business environment. It also explores the firm’s expansion into foreign markets, foreign investment and the relevance of global changes in technology and labor productivity. The balance of payments, foreign exchanges, and trade policy issues are also covered.

Financial Statement Analysis (EMBA 806):
This class focuses on the nature and purpose of accounting, principal accounting instruments, and valuation problems.

Corporate Finance (EMBA 807):
This class focuses on the strategic decision that an organization makes leading to capital spending. Also includes the risk element in financial decision making and the financial instruments that have evolved to reallocate risk in the economy.

Managerial Accounting (EMBA 808):
This class focuses on the use of financial information in management decision making. Includes internal reporting systems, cost management systems, planning and budgeting, performance measurement issues, and activity-based management.

Information Technology (EMBA 809):
This class focuses on information as a resource and the links between business strategy and information technology, the organizational implications of technology, and how to successfully incorporate information technology into organizations to support management decision making and control.

Organizational Investment Strategies (EMBA 810):
This class focuses on investment management, asset pricing models, factor models, performance assessment, option pricing, and other derivative securities.

Competitive Strategy (EMBA 811):
This class integrates the other courses in the program by addressing the strategic management of an organization. This class focuses on developing a strategic plan that maximizes shareholder value and generates commitment and effective action from others in the organization. It also focuses on developing a strategy consistent with the organization’s resources while increasing shareholder value by satisfying customers better than competitors do.

Essential Negotiation Skills (EMBA 890C):

This class provides the executive student a fundamental understanding of the negotiations process as it relates to collective bargaining in a unionized setting and includes dispute resolution for conflicts that arise within the organization. This class will also hone the student's individual bargaining skills for personal and business situations to realize successful outcomes.

Corporate Entrepreneurship (EMBA 890E):

This class provides a basic understanding of corporate entrepreneurship. Topics include the business opportunity identification process, the screening process, and opportunity exploitation process. Also explores the creation of the entrepreneurial organization through human resource management, organizational structure and strategy, development of entrepreneurial culture and reward systems, and organizational leadership.

Ethics for Business Leaders (EMBA 890F):

How can integrity and an ethical culture be instilled in the organization? To which constituents are ethical duties owed? This course will provide an overview of conventional ethical philopsophies, but the focus will be on stimulating analytical thinking about the practical challenges facing business leaders today through the use of case studies and hypothetical situations.

Law for Business Leaders (EMBA 890G):

This class provides essential principles about areas of law with the broadest application to business such as contracts, torts, intellectual property, product liability, negligence, and property law. Additionally, students will learn about the nature of the American legal system, including the relationship of federal and state law, court structure, court procedures, and other issues of importance to litigation and dispute resolution.

Macroeconomic Analysis (EMBA 890H):

This course is designed for EMBA students who need to interpret macroeconomics information and makebusinessdecisions amid changing domestic and global economic and financial environments. Topics include economic indicators, financial rates, theories of income and price, macroeconomic adjustments to external shocks, monetarypolicy, and fiscalstimuli.