Online Master of Business Administration Program

An introduction to the accounting information needs of management. Emphasizes the usefulness of accounting information in evaluating alternative courses of action and controlling operations. Examines the alignment of accounting measures with firm goals. Specific techniques discussed. Include operational and capital budgeting, activity-based costing, cost-volume-profit analysis, and standard costing.

Leadership and management are presented in a theoretical and practical framework. Major leadership theories studied include trait theory, behavioral theory, situational theory, and transformational leadership, as well as the management framework of planning, organizing, and controlling. Topics intertwined with leadership and management include power, motivation, ethics, diversity, and organizational dynamics.

This course presents detailed knowledge of how computers operate, how they support the firm or business, and finally how they are integrated into the processes that run a firm today. Students learn Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

Organizations confront a myriad of problems characterized by uncertainty in the environment. The decision making process requires models, analysis, and solutions that account for this uncertainty, and statistics provides a methodology that assists in the resolution of those issues. Topics include probability, sampling distributions, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, regression/correlation.
Prerequisite 1: DSC 501 DSC 507

This course focuses on the synthesis of strategy and operations in order to improve processes that provide competitive advantage. Methodologies that are examined include Strategy, Total Quality Management, Decision Making, Statistical Process Control, Forecasting, Production Analysis and Facility Design.

The course provides an understanding of negotiation and persuasion theory, processes, and practices at the leadership level.  Students are given the opportunity to enhance their negotiation and persuasion skills under various leadership situations. Students gain practical experience in applying these skills during experiential exercises throughout the course.

An introductory graduate core course in corporate finance covering the following topics: an overview of financial decision making, time value of money, risk and return, bond valuation, stock valuation, cost of capital, and capital budgeting.

Effective Leadership requires the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.  This course provides students with the concepts, principles, and theories for planning, forming, leading, and evaluating high-performing teams. Students explore contemporary theories and critical skill sets for high-performing teams, and how to practically apply these theories and skill sets.

The course synthesizes and integrates the concepts and techniques developed in prior courses to construct a rational basis for developing business objectives and strategic plans. Case analysis and business simulation are used to develop understanding of the concept of strategic management. Cases are selected from a cross section of industries.

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Students will acquire key concepts in applied machine learning and will use software packages and applications that are relevant today such as R and Python. The course applies principles of machine learning to business problems. Topics include linear regression models, classification methods and times series forecasting.

Students will learn to prepare and deliver effective business presentations. Students will create professional visualizations for business analytics solutions using state of the art applications such as Tableau and R package ggplot2.

This course deals with strategies and decisions as they relate to managing the marketing process. Topics include opportunity analysis, segmentation and positioning strategies, marketing strategies and the marketing mix – within the context of social, economic, competitive, and legal environments. Information management is utilized to develop marketing strategies and tactics.

This course familiarizes the student with the concept of quality improvement across the healthcare continuum. This course focuses on the history and evolution of quality, its terms, principles, theories and practices as well as the role and importance of the regulatory agencies responsible for quality oversight.

Emphasis on hospital management. Policy-making by community, boards of trustees, medical staff, government, financial intermediaries, and the use of consumerism in the policy process.

Students will examine the most vital accounting and financial management principles and concepts relevant to health services organizations.  Subjects include estimating costs, pricing decisions and profit analysis, planning and budgeting, resource management, business financing, capital investments, cash flow, risk and variance analysis, and reporting assets and profits.

This course deals with strategies and decisions as they relate to managing the marketing process. Topics include opportunity analysis, segmentation and positioning strategies, marketing strategies and the marketing mix – within the context of social, economic, competitive, and legal environments. Information management is utilized to develop marketing strategies and tactics.

Examine the shareholder value creation process by evaluating competing concepts of equity valuation. Alternative approaches to valuation include dividend discount models, free cash flow valuation, capitalized EPS. Other alternative approaches to valuation may be considered, including valuation based on comparables and asset-based valuation.

Study security analysis and valuation, focusing on equity securities and fixed income securities; principles of risk measurement, concepts of valuation, efficient markets, fundamental and technical analysis, and introduction to derivative securities.

Analyze portfolio objectives and investment policies, measuring portfolio risk and returns, and the concepts of diversification and market efficiency, stock selection philosophies and investment styles, and as active and passive portfolio management techniques. are examined.

Analyze financial problems, opportunities, and questions that confront the management of international firms. Exploring forecasting in the foreign environment, multinational capital budgeting, affiliate financial structures, and managing international funds movements.