Required Courses

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
The course is designed to help students understand the uses and limitations of financial accounting information prepared and presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.  It focuses on how operating, investing and financing decisions affect and are affected by economic resources and obligations as well as how the transactions resulting impact the financial statements that investors and creditors will use when evaluating performance.

FINANCIAL MARKETS AND CORPORATE FINANCE
In the Financial Markets and Corporate Finance courses, students will take the perspective of a high-level executive and focus extensively on a specific scarce resource which economists call capital. We know cash is scarce - after all we would all like to have more cash/capital. Since there is not enough capital to go around - how it is and should be allocated is the central issue underlying this course. This capital allocation takes place at two levels - first by capital markets across the wider economy and second through capital allocations to different projects within a corporation.  Therefore, the courses focus on how managers are face the challenge of gaining access to capital and later how to invest this capital for maximum growth. 

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The course equips students with decision making tools for managing the firm's international business, and it educates them in the economic and political environment in which international business is conducted.  The major topic areas of the course are as follows:  1) International Business Decisions -- international trade theory and policy, international investment theory and practice and exchange rates and balance of payments, and 2) Macroeconomic and Political Environment -- macroeconomic and macropolitical environment and macroeconomic policy.

LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS I
This course focuses on how to manage the ethical and social performance of organizations.  Specifically, students will examine how to identify and defend the responsibilities and values crucial to business ethics and good leadership, how to understand, clarify and examine ethical issues underlying various areas of business, how to define guiding principles by which one should address and resolve these issues, and how to examine the moral psychology of organizational life.

LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS II
This course focuses on how to lead organizations effectively and ethically. Specifically, students will explore the interplay among the economic, ethical and social aspects of business, will understand the critical decisions leaders must make and the key criteria to consider, and will complete PLP (develop personal vision, values, mission statement, revise roadmap for success with feedback from peer evaluations).

MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
Effective oral and written communication skills contribute to success in many areas of business as men and women are called on to brief someone or to sell an idea, a product, or a service. This course helps students capitalize on these opportunities by becoming more effective writers and speakers. The course will provide experience with planned and impromptu presentations, emphasize the importance of audience analysis, and consider the use of visual aids within presentations.  Students will learn to use evidence from a variety of sources in order to articulate a position in speech and writing.

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Management Science (MS) is a quantitative approach to managerial decision making.  It is a body of principles, techniques and methods concerned with providing solutions to managerial problems.  Management Science is not statistics, however, it may employ statistics to obtain model inputs, analysis and outputs.  In our approach, we will draw from topics that immediately link to and have an interface with your courses in the program. In particular, our Management Science course is designed to offer a well integrated sequence of quantitative topics in support of select concepts encountered in your Operations Management, Finance and Marketing courses. This approach is consistent with our objective of teaching an integrated course where the topics covered serve to support, reinforce and assimilate the conceptual teachings of your first year core courses. The material covered include: Break-even Analysis; Inventory Models; Statistical Process Control; Decision Analysis; Black & Scholes and Binomial Option Pricing Models; Linear Optimization; Non-Linear Optimization - portfolio risk minimization (time permitting).

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
This course deals with cost and managerial accounting issues and the use of accounting data in management functions including planning, control, and design of costing systems. It provides an introduction to the basic principles of management accounting.

MARKETING
This course will study the managerial processes involved in marketing - processes that are heavily influenced by the accelerated movements of capital, technology, people, products, logistics and distribution, services, and ideas. As a business discipline, marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individuals and organizational objectives. This course views marketing as both a general management responsibility and an orientation of an organization. This course will use a mix of cases, lecture/discussion, and outside speakers.

MICROECONOMICS
The course provides tools to make economically sound business decisions, and ultimately to identify or create sources of competitive advantage. The course begins with essential microeconomic concepts, including economic costs, market demand and profit maximization. It then builds on these concepts to examine how different types of industry structures provide better or worse profit-making opportunities for industry participants; how firms optimally set price and output levels; whether firms should enter or exit industries and under what circumstances; and how firms respond to their competitors.

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
This course is designed to introduce students to concepts, tools and techniques for managing this function. Moreover, since this is a new field for many students, the course offers a new perspective to look at organizations. If the course is successful, many students after this course will change the way they look at a restaurant, a hospital, a bank, a factory, a repair shop, a daily newspaper, an airline, a warehouse, a government agency, an airport, or even a consulting company.  We believe this course will give students a better appreciation of the real drivers behind success or failure of many of these organizations.  Students will learn about the strategic importance of the firm's supply chain and production systems.

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
This course is intended to help students develop as global business leaders. In particular, this course focuses on mastering key leadership skills, such as power and influence, working effectively in teams, making decisions with abundant yet imperfect information, dealing effectively with cross-cultural diversity, managing conflict, fostering creativity, motivating others, managing performance, and shaping an organization's culture.

STATISTICS
This course provides a perspective on quantitative methods used in business decision making.  It draws from the theoretical concepts and applied techniques in statistics and operations research.  Topics include 1) Statistical Inference: Estimation and Testing Hypotheses and 2) Applied Regression Analysis.  Statistical Inference is the art of making statements about the general (the Population) based on the specific (the Sample). Regression analysis is a quantitative tool for modeling the relationship between a set of explanatory or independent variables and a dependent variable.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Strategic management is concerned with managing the competitive position and long-term development of the business enterprise in order to ensure its survival and success.  Every firm must create and sustain a competitive advantage if it is to survive and prosper over the long-term. This course provides a framework and introduces up-to-date tools and concepts to help students analyze and understand the creation of competitive advantage.