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MBA 6110

Business Communication and Ethics

To win in business, you need two qualities: candor and integrity. These qualities are tested in how you communicate and operate in the workplace. In this course, you will learn how to inform, inspire, persuade, and engage people in person and in writing with candor. Through real-world examples, you will also understand how to discern the bright line between ethical and unethical conduct and to act with integrity. Combine the two, and you have a formula for lasting success. Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites: None.

MBA 6120

Leading the 21^st Century

Leadership is different from management. Managers get predictable things done predictably. Leaders inspire action and adaptability in an unpredictable world. This course delves into the concepts, tools, and skills leaders need today. It combines theory and practice to examine such topics as strengthening emotional intelligence, motivating people to achieve strong results, managing conflict, leading change, aligning teams, and eliciting support from colleagues and bosses. Additionally, the course lays out Jack Welch’s time-tested techniques for high performance, and addresses head-on the challenges facing every leader.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites: None.

MBA 6210

Strategy

Strategy is nothing more than a customized playbook to help your business beat the competition. In this course you will learn the core concepts, as well as Jack Welch’s simple yet effective approach to setting and implementing an organization’s strategy. You’ll analyze the sources of growth and competitive advantage and how to capitalize on them; learn the stages in the strategic planning process and how they combine to form strategic options; see how to play the game of strategy; know when to use mergers and acquisitions strategically; and finally, understand how to put plans into action. Course Prerequisites/Co-requisites: None.

MBA 6220

People Management

Early on in your career, professional success depends on your innate talents, how you develop those talents, and your initial career decisions. But once you become a manager, your ability to select, develop, promote, and manage the right people becomes the most important determinant of success. In this course, you’ll explore two general areas of people management: hiring and positioning the right players for your organizational needs; and managing people once the players are in place. Specific topics include sourcing and integrating new talent, managing your strategic talent inventory, working with HR and organized labor, performance evaluations, and reward systems that produce results.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites:None.

MBA 6510

Marketing in a Global Environment

Marketing is the process of turning wants and needs into decisions and actions. It involves a range of activities designed to convey a persuasive message to a target audience. The course covers marketing plans, qualitative and quantitative research, consumer psychology, product positioning and strategy, pricing, packaging, brand equity, advertising, the marketing mix, customer value, and business-to-business and global marketing. Through it all, you will learn what makes customers buy what you’re selling.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites:None.

MBA 6320

Managerial Economics

At its simplest, managerial economics is about making decisions at the individual, firm, economy, and market levels in the face of constraints, be they scarce resources, pricing pressures, or global competition. In this course, you’ll explore powerful concepts like supply and demand, profit optimization, price sensitivity, demand estimation, productivity, cost analysis, market structures, marginal analysis, the government’s role in markets, forms of competition, risk analysis, and pricing practices. In the end, you’ll be able to analyze and master competitive forces at both a quantitative and practical level.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites:None.

MBA 6511

Operations Management

Whether you’re running a restaurant or a bank, business comes down to the efficient delivery of high-quality goods and services to the customer. To get things done, you need a laser-like focus on operations. This course explores quality design and management, the supply chain, project management, scheduling and capacity decisions, Six Sigma and lean manufacturing techniques, organizational design, and talent management. The customer lies at the center of each of these operational activities.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites: None.

MBA 6420

Financial Management I

Effective financial decisions are the lifeblood of any company. This course will expose you to the basic analytical principles of corporate finance, as well as the techniques of financial analysis and decision-making, cash-flow analysis, risk management, and capital budgeting. You will also learn the function and value of equity and capital markets and the roles of financial institutions today. By the last lecture, you’ll be on your way to reading business by the numbers.
Course Pre-requisites /Co-requisites: None.

MBA 6411

Organizational Change and Culture

From the rapid advance of technology to the steady march of globalization, powerful forces of change are shaping today’s business landscape. As leaders grapple with these forces, they also face enormous resistance to change. In this course, you’ll learn a powerful framework for understanding change from management expert John Kotter. You’ll also hear real stories and concrete strategies from the trenches at major organizations like GE—including Work-Out, Rapid Results, and Six Sigma—and learn when to use each tool. Ultimately, you will understand the importance of a leader’s ability to drive change through persuasive communication, simplifying structures, performance management, and cultural alignment.
Course Prerequisites/Co-requisites:None.

MBA 6610

Financial Management II

We continue our exploration of corporate finance with a focus on the advanced financial management skills required to evaluate assets and manage risk in a global market. You’ll learn such analytical approaches as capital budgeting and the weighted average cost of capital, and then apply them to resource decisions involving domestic and international projects. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding about the movements of exchange rates, interest rates, and other factors that influence capital markets.
Course Prerequisite: MBA 635 or MBA 6420 (Financial Management.

MBA 6310

New Business Ventures and Entrepreneurship

Anyone can display an entrepreneurial streak, but not everyone can be an entrepreneur. In this course, you’ll learn what makes an entrepreneur tick, and then walk through the stages of planning, financing, and launching a new business. The course covers business plan development, market analysis, competitive positioning, business models, funding sources, company formation, intellectual property, sales, marketing, and hiring. The insights gained will give you a powerful leg up in launching new businesses and new ventures within existing businesses.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites:None

MBA 6620

Capstone

In this course, we tie together everything you’ve learned so far. You’ll see how key management concepts integrate with Jack Welch’s principles and practices about organizational effectiveness. A management simulation brings concepts to life in real-world situations. Successfully completing this final project will demonstrate your ability to analyze, interpret, synthesize, and communicate the key business principles and practices learned throughout the Jack Welch MBA program.
Course Prerequisite:30 graduate hours earned.

Course

Course Description

MBA 6110

Business Communication and Ethics

This course examines two areas crucial to success in business: communication and ethics. The foundation of the course is a study of techniques to improve the students’ oral and written communication skills. It also examines various issues related to communication in business, especially the importance of candor and transparency to the Jack Welch approach to management. The second thrust of the course is to emphasize the need for ethical business practices by examining various ethical dilemmas a business leader faces. Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites: None.

MBA 6120

Leading the 21^st Century

The course focuses on the concepts, tools and skills required to lead individuals and teams in the 21st century. The course will bridge theory with practice in examining such topics as motivating and inspiring people to achieve strong results, aligning teams, handling organizational conflict, and eliciting support from colleagues and bosses. Additionally, the course explores Jack Welch’s ideas and techniques for enhancing performance, and addressing challenges facing leaders in the 21st century business environment.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites: MBA 6110 or concurrent.

MBA 6210

Strategy

This course focuses on the skills needed by leaders and managers to develop business strategy. A primary emphasis of the course is Jack Welch's approach to developing and evaluating business strategy. It describes the various stages in the strategic planning process, including an analysis of the external environment and internal organizational capabilities. The course explores criteria for, and impact of, mergers andacquisitions and analyzes organic growth strategies to achieve a competitive advantage. The overriding goal of the course is to enable students to effectively use strategy to develop an overall plan of action designed to achieve the higher-level goals of an organization.
Course Prerequisites/Co-requisites:MBA 6120 or concurrent

MBA 6220

People Management

This course examines the techniques, practices, and policies necessary to effectively manage the human resources within an organization. The broad spectrum of content areas in people management are addressed from a managerial perspective which makes the topics meaningful to students in any area of business. The initial focus of the course is on present and emerging strategic human resource challenges which organizations typically face. Some of the subsequent topics include equal opportunity and the legal environment, managing diversity, organizational staffing, appraising and managing performance, reward systems, working with organized labor, and international HR management challenges. A variety of instructional methods, including lecture, group discussion and case analysis, are used to enhance students’ understanding of course topics and the development and assessment of their critical thinking, project development, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites: MBA 6210 or concurrent.

MBA 6510

Marketing in the Global Environment

This course focuses on strategic marketing decision making in a global environment. It reviews concepts of marketing theory, select analytic tools, and the dynamics of the marketing mix. The primary focus is on developing skills to design and implement an effective marketing mix and to resolve marketing issues in a given situation. Course objectives are accomplished through case analysis and discussions reflecting a global perspective and assessed through the development and presentation of a marketing plan in a group setting.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites:MBA 6220 or concurrent.

MBA 6320

Managerial Economics

This course examines how managers can utilize economic tools and techniques in solving and making business decisions. Managerial Economics analyzes supply and demand, profit optimization, cost minimization and pricing practices. It also examines the impact of economic indicators on business performance. This course teaches managers how to analyze risk and apply the analysis in making prudent business decisions. Primary emphasis will be on understanding and applying concepts, and the implications of analysis on managerial decision making.
Course Prerequisites/Co-requisites: MBA 6510 or concurrent.

MBA 6511

Operations Management

Operations Management is concerned with the design, planning, and control of productive systems. This course seeks to improve the students understanding of operations management by focusing on those business processes, procedures, and strategies used to transform various inputs into finished goods and services, which customers want and are willing to pay to acquire. The level of instruction varies from a strategic framework to daily control of business processes.
Course Pre-requisites /Co-requisites: MBA 6320 or concurrent.

MBA 6420

Financial Management

This course examines the role of finance in sustaining the operations of a firm and cultivates an understanding of how financial decisions create value for the firm and all stakeholders. Topics covered include basic analytical principles of corporate finance; techniques of analysis and decision making, cash flow analysis, risk management analysis, and capital budgeting; function and value of equity and capital markets; function and value of modern financial institutions.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites:MBA 6511 or concurrent.

MBA 6411

Organizational Change and Culture

This course proceeds from the premise that the success of any contemporary organization depends on its ability to foster a change culture, and to manage change while simultaneously preserving or creating value for its stakeholders. Managing change requires leaders to have keen insight of the behavioral sciences and managerial theories that are integrated in maximizing desired outcomes. In this course, students will incorporate the principles and strategies outlined in Winning by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch, as well as other strategies that are essential in fostering a continuous change culture. Students will analyze the important of managing technology, market competitiveness,organizational innovation, and the development of sustainable competitive advantages in an environment of uncertainty.
Course Prerequisites /Co-requisites: MBA 6411.

MBA 6620

Capstone

This course integrates strategic management concepts with Jack Welch principles and practices on organizational effectiveness. The ultimate instructional goals are the crafting and implementation of effective business strategies and the monitoring and revision of those strategies to achieve competitive advantage. Cases are assigned to illustrate and evaluate the critical thinking component of strategic management. Knowledge acquired from previous graduate courses will be applied to practical business situations through lecture, group discussion, and a variety of case studies which focus on the art and science of crafting and executing strategy. The course culminates in the preparation of a detailed strategic analysis of an actual business enterprise. Successful completion of this final project demonstrates the students’ ability to analyze, interpret, synthesize, and communicate key business principles and practices learned in this course and in the graduate business program as a whole.
Course Prerequisite: MBA 6411.