Course Descriptions 

PMBA 8000	Managing the Global Economy	3.0
	This cornerstone core course is aimed at providing an introduction of fundamental business concepts from a global managerial perspective. Students will gain fundamental insights into key business activities during different stages of a firm's lifecycle through lectures, case analysis team exercises and critical evaluation exercises. The course is based on an integrative framework that especially emphasizes the relationships, connections and dependencies among functional areas in different life cycle situations.
PMBA 8015	Strategic Business Communications	3.0
	Prerequisite: Consent of director of PMBA program This course presents written and oral business communication as a management strategy critical to success in the workplace by introducing a communication model useful to identify objectives, analyze audiences, choose information, and create the most effective arrangement and channel for written and oral messages. Students will practice drafting and editing clear, precise and readable written business documents, including communications to executive-level readers. Students also will develop skills in the effective design and delivery of unwelcome information, technical information to non-technical audiences and group communication.
PMBA 8025	Financial Statement Analysis	3.0
	Prerequisite: None CSP: 1, 2 ,4, 6, 7 This course takes a user-oriented approach to the study of financial statements. Students study the role of the financial statements and the annual report in the financial reporting process. Using ratio analysis, students analyze past firm performance and make forecasts of future performance. Students also study the effects of differing accounting methods on financial statement analysis.
PMBA 8030	Legal Environment: Ethics and Corp Governance	3.0
	Prerequisite:  None Companies that ignore their legal and ethical obligations to owners, customers and consumers open the door to parties who seek legal recourse that can limit their gain or even threaten their existence. Law and ethics, when incorporated properly into managerial decision making, provide strategic tools to facilitate growth, creativity, competitive advantage and legal certainty, and to reduce legal risk and liability. By examining the application of law and ethics to a variety of business and corporate governance issues, this course offers the master's student an understanding of how businesses can comply with the law and use an ethical culture as a positive strategy for making successful business decisions.
PMBA 8040	Competing on Analytics and Organizational Knowledge	3.0
	Businesses are becoming increasingly "knowledge intensive."  Analytics can help organizations develop a comprehensive approach to their knowledge assets to make better decisions and create distinctive competitive capabilities. High performing organizations compete on knowledge-based capabilities with their internal business processes as well as their external business processes. Data lies at the heart of this knowledge. Increasingly, decision makers rely on intelligent systems to analyze these data systematically and assist them in their decision making. In many cases, automating the decision making process is necessary because of the speed with which new data are generated. This course connects real-world data to decision making through cases from finance, marketing and operations.

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PMBA 8115	Managerial Control and Costing Systems	3.0
	Prerequisites: PMBA 8000, PMBA 8025 Corequisites: PMBA 8015, PMBA 8030 CPS: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 This course examines a wide range of fundamental managerial techniques used by companies in their internal planning and control functions. In particular, it focuses on (a) techniques useful in analyzing and managing costs and profits; (b) control systems (e.g., performance evaluation) that cater to large and decentralized business enterprises. In addition to building a basic knowledge base of managerial control and costing systems, students are expected to develop analytical skills necessary for making cost-related decisions and evaluating alternative design of control systems.
PMBA 8125	Information Technology Management	3.0
	Prerequisites: PMBA 8000, PMBA 8025 Corequisites: MBA 8015, MBA 8030 CSP: 1, 6 This course addresses using information technology to position company operations to be effective, efficient and adaptable in the rapidly changing global economy, while appropriately handing the challenges, ethical concerns and risks. Issues and various approaches involved in defining, developing or acquiring, and deploying information systems are studied within both strategic and support roles. Students will examine how information technology can be used as an enabler for business process improvement and service innovation, how to recognize business processes and assess their information related needs, and how to develop organizational agility through business process innovations enabled by information technology.
PMBA 8135	Corporate Finance	3.0
	Prerequisites: PMBA 8000, PMBA 8025 Corequisites: PMBA 8015, PMBA 8030 CSP: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 This course focuses on the financial management of both publicly held and private corporations. Students are presented with a conceptual framework for understanding and addressing problems commonly faced by corporate decision makers and provided opportunities to apply these concepts to contemporary business situations. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: the valuation and role of debt and equity, capital acquisition and the organization of domestic and international financial markets, the relationship between risk and return including the capital asset pricing model, capital budgeting/project evaluation techniques, cost of capital, cash flow estimation, project risk analysis, real options, company valuation and capital structure decisions.
PMBA 8145	Marketing Management	3.0
	Prerequisites: PMBA 8000, PMBA 8025 Corequisites: PMBA 8015, PMBA 8030 CSP: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 This course is a study of the managerial aspects of marketing.  Emphasis is placed on the quantitative and qualitative criteria used in evaluating marketing alternatives and in choosing among these alternatives. The course includes topics related to market segmentation, marketing research, product/service development, branding, promotion, pricing, channels of distribution, marketing strategy and global marketing.
PMBA 8155	Operations Management	3.0
	Prerequisites: PMBA 8000, PMBA 8025 Corequisites: PMBA 8015, PMBA 8030 CSP: 1, 2, 6, 7 This course focuses on the basic concepts, principles and techniques for efficient and effective operations. Special emphasis is placed on process improvement and supply chain management. Topics such as operations strategy, product and service design, process analysis, lean production, materials and inventory management, quality management, six sigma, project management, and supply chain management will be covered in the context of domestic and international marketplaces.
PMBA 8165	Organizational Behavior	3.0
	Prerequisites: PMBA 8000, PMBA 8025 Corequisites: PMBA 8015, PMBA 8030 CSP:  1, 6, 7 What do managers need to know about organizations and people within organizations? This class will develop an understanding of the key issues managers need to master in order to manage the interface between people and organizations. The course begins with a focus on the individual within the organization, including topics of attitudes, motives and personality. The course then progresses to a broader focus on the organization as a whole, including topics of power and political concerns, group and organizational leadership, and organizational culture.

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PMBA 8820	Global Competitive Strategy	3.0
	Prerequisite: Consent of director of PMBA program This course explores methods of directing an entire organization or a significant division in an internationally competitive environment. The perspective is that of the general manager who must integrate many business functions to successfully lead a multinational organization. Topics include the identification of organizational competence in light of external environmental and international conditions, the development of business/corporate strategy that addresses the international marketplace, and the internal processes required for successful implementation of that strategy.
PMBA 8830	Strategic Leadership	3.0
	Prerequisites: PMBA 8000, PMBA 8420 CSP: 1, 7 This course focuses on one of the more important areas in strategic management and one of the biggest challenges in leadership: the role of CEOs and other top managers as the leader of strategy implementation. The basic objective of this course is to develop a student's ability to understand the role and effect of the leader on the company's strategy, performance and vitality. Students will increase their capabilities in strategic leadership when evaluating situations, identifying alternative plans of action, making strategic choices and implementing these choices with effectiveness.
PMBA 8840	Negotiations	3.0
	Prerequisite: None CSP: 1, 6, 7 This course is designed to help students become better negotiators by understanding and practicing the negotiation strategies and tactics appropriate for different situations. The course focuses primarily on negotiation planning, dividing value in negotiation and creating value in negotiation. The course is a general treatment of negotiation and dealmaking that is useful to students from a broad range of professions and industries.

 

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