pdf filesGraduate Programs : EMBA : Course Requirements
The Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) Program consists of foundation courses, functional courses, specialized courses, and a research project. This following is a sample of course offerings. The actual courses to be offered are subject to change and will depend on faculty availability.
Foundation Courses
Economics and Quantitative Analysis for Managers
Topics include mathematics of finance, and elementary calculus with business applications. Description and analysis of the macroeconomics and microeconomics environments within which businesses operate. Applications of intermediate level economic theory to business operations and management decisions on a local, national, and multinational basis.
Financial and Managerial Accounting
Financial and managerial accounting survey, including relevant standards and concepts. Financial statement preparation; use of accounting information in planning, control, and decision making. Measurement and reporting of financial position and income.
The Political, Social, and Legal Environment of Business
The role and effect of business in society. Contemporary social, political, and legal issues that demonstrate the mutual effect of economic and non-economic institutions both here and abroad.
Statistics and Operations Analysis
Probability and statistics topics include elementary probability theory, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, and correlation. Production management and control topics include production and distribution planning, inventory control, and demand forecasting. Quantitative analysis and computer applications.
Functional Courses
Organizational Behavior, Design and Change
Introduction to management, organization theory, and modern behavioral analysis applied to various management problems. The study of complex organizations and organizational change through analyzing interrelationships among structure, strategy, systems, people, and management style.
Advanced Computing Applications and Information Systems for Management
Introductory topics include information technology for knowledge workers, telecommunications systems, types of information systems, business computer applications, and end-user computer application development tools. In depth treatment of three topics: specification of management information requirements, analysis and laboratory use of commercial computerized management systems, and application of analytical software packages.
Financial Analysis and Management
Conceptual, analytical, and institutional aspects of financial decision-making using valuation as a theme. Topics include cash flow analysis, working capital management, financial statement analysis, time value of money, security valuation, survey of security markets, capital budgeting, capital structure, and dividend policy. Both domestic and international aspects of corporate financial policy are considered.
Strategic Marketing Management
Introduction to both domestic and international marketing concepts, theories, techniques, and marketing environmental parameters, a case, issues-oriented seminar integrating corporate mission with development of strategic marketing plans for product markets. Selecting marketing planning units, situational analysis, target market strategies, and positioning statements to reflect global short/ long-range environment.
Specialized Courses
Seminar in Strategic Management
Managerial policy and strategy formulation, communication and decision-making within the uncertainties and constraints of behavioral, social, and economic environment.
Seminar in International Business
Introductory seminar in international business examining themes of culture and environments; the multinational enterprise and forms of international structure and strategy; rationalization of value chains, location decisions and FDI; foreign exchange; global and regional economic integration.
Seminar in Leadership Patterns and Opportunities
Analysis of leadership patterns and opportunities in increasingly complex organizational environments. You will develop your own personal leadership philosophy.
International Business Negotiating
This course concentrates on developing effective business negotiation skills in an international context. It explores practical ways to apply contemporary theories of negotiation to domestic and international business. Upon successful completion of this course, students will understand conceptual frameworks for effective negotiations, will know how to prepare successfully for negotiating, will have enhanced their ability to conduct actual negotiations, and will have a broad awareness of the global environment of business from the standpoint of its impact on effective negotiating.
