Course Descriptions

Provides concepts and best practices for leading individuals and groups toward working more effectively. Central issues include dealing with different personalities, motivating others, using people's best abilities, and building social influenceand personal power. Examines impact of management culture and organizational structure on success of individuals and teams. Attention given to strategic and political dimensions of leadership in organizations.

Along with MBA 602, this course provides perspectives and tools to enhance managerial problem solving. Focuses on understanding the economic context in which organizations function and economic decision tools for bettering firm performance. Consequently, the course uses macroeconomic variables (such as national income and productivity, money and banking, and the economic role of government) to inform microeconomic choices organizations must make to enhance their own success (such as cost determination, pricing, risk analysis).

long with MBA 601, this course provides perspectives and tools to enhance managerial problem solving. Focuses on understanding the social and operational variables pertinent to making effective choices. Topics include social responsibility, organizational misbehavior, applications of moral philosophies, framing, improving creativity, hypothesis testing, utility analysis, and other quantitative and qualitative decision methods.

Examines using accounting data to make management decisions. Students learn how accounting information is used to plan and control operations. Volume cost-profit analysis, cost estimation, short and long-term financial decisions are studied from a managerial perspective.

Covers basic principles of financial valuation and analysis. Topics include financial statement analysis, working capital management, longterm financing decisions, and capital structure and dividend policy.

Employs a case study approach for applying marketing principles to marketing management and strategy. Quantitative and qualitative approaches involve situation analysis, market analysis and targeting, strategic applications and marketing planning. Includes computer simulation of marketing decisions.

The Operations Management course provides students with management skills for planning, coordinating, and controlling the people and technology used to provide goods and services. It studies the production of goods and provision of services by an organization to meet the needs of its customers. We examine operations strategy, quality management, scheduling, supply chain management, project management,and facilities design in a wide variety of industries.

Employs a case study approach for applying marketing principles to marketing management and strategy. Quantitative and qualitative approaches involve situation analysis, market analysis and targeting, strategic applications and marketing planning. Includes computer simulation of marketing decisions.

Looks at the challenges of establishing, owning, and managing a small business. Students learn methods of identifying new business opportunities; planning for and organizing a business; marketing its goods and/or services; financial planning and control.

Provides an overview of strategic decisions facing international firms and relevant variables in their decision-making. Particular attention paid to management and environmental settings of multinational enterprises, including organizational,political, social, and cultural dynamics affecting business function.

Provides concepts and skills needed to lead change and development efforts at individual, team, and systems levels. Focus given to diagnosis of organizational events and creation of interventions to improve them. Emphasis on using consulting models and applying behavioral science knowledge and techniques to improve performance of people and organizations. Includes structural process and humanresource interventions.

This capstone course gives students an opportunity to experience the many demands and managerial complexities placed on top managers. Helps students integrate and apply what they have learned in functional business courses, as well as gain experience in using the techniques, tools and skills of strategic analysis.
Student teams engage a “live” organization in their field project and bring real world challenges they face back into the classroom. Prerequisite: This course should be taken in the final term and after completing all core courses.

In partial fulfillment of course requirements, the students under this module have to do an academic research with a topic of their own choice and write a thesis in English with no less than 10,000 words to demonstrate that they have attained the required standards for graduation. Guidelines on the rationale, aims, scope, selection of topic, learning outcomes, research planning, tutoring arrangement, assessment approach, and grading system are provided in the English version of this document.