Executive MBA (MBAE)

MBAE 6001 (1.5) Ethics I

Focuses upon individual leadership and personal ethics. Students will reflect on how personal values shape their approach to leadership and business decision-making. Students will develop individual decision-making frameworks for use in their careers as they earn increasing responsibility and decision-making authority. Topics covered will include values-driven leadership, stakeholder theory, normative ethics and moral psychology.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.

MBAE 6010 (1.5) The Economics of Pricing, Price Forecasting, and the Macroeconomy

Examines Price Setting, Price Forecasting and Macroeconomics. Learn to identify consumer price-sensitivity, optimal pricing, and variability driven by consumer attributes. Predict direction of prices in competitive markets. Identify timeframe to profitably act upon this information and the impact of market structure and the level of slack in a market. Develop understanding of the economy as a system. Learn predictive tool for forecasting evolution of GDP, exchange rates, interest rates given policy changes or economic shocks.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6021 (1.5) Financial Accounting I

This course introduces the basic concepts and practices of the financial reporting system used by companies to convey the results of their operations to stakeholders. Students will develop fluency in accounting terminology and better understand how the intersection of business activities and accounting principles affect corporate financial statements. By the end of the course, students will have the ability to read and interpret real-world financial statements.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6022 (1.5) Financial Accounting II

This course builds on the foundations from Financial Accounting 1 to explore the complexity of accounting due to the discretion and judgment involved in choosing among alternative methods of accounting. Students will also explore how controls are utilized to mitigate potential risks from misstatements caused by errors, omissions, or fraud. By the end of the course, students will understand how management and accounting decisions affect financial reporting.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.

MBAE 6050 (3) Executive Level Strategy

The fundamental question of strategy is how firms can attain and sustain competitive advantage. In this course, we will analyze in depth the sources of competitive success among firms and develop skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective strategy analyst. You will enhance your strategic thinking skills by learning the concepts and tools of strategic analysis and by applying them to actual competitive situations in case studies and team work.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6051 (3) Operations Management

Addresses the interface between a firm¿s operations and its over-arching strategy, exploring the design and qualities of a reinforcing operating model, considerations in selecting performance measures, building organizational capabilities, and managing uncertainty. Develops an understanding of processes at the system level, generating insights into the factors that limit a system¿s productivity as well as the alignment of processes with the organization¿s goals/strategy.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6065 (3) Business Finance

This class presents foundational concepts of corporate finance and investments; describes equity and debt markets; practices discounting cash flows; measures risks and returns using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and demonstrates the benefit of diversification. Explores how certain biases and behaviors of market participants may lead to inefficiencies in the market. Students gain understanding of modern financial institutions (e.g., venture capital) and modern financial instruments (e.g., ETFs) and their roles in the modern economy.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6081 (1.5) Data and Uncertainty

Explores fundamental techniques for analyzing data found in the business environment, concentrating on practical, hands-on experience using and communicating your findings in a concise manner. Course focuses on inference and regression analysis. We will rely on software to calculate the numerical results, but the interpretation will come from you and your team or partners. These tools prepare you for your work specifically in economics, finance, and marketing, specifically, and in all business aspects, generally.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6091 (1.5) Strategic Marketing I

Marketing is the critical business function of creating value for customers. In this course, you will apply foundational strategic frameworks to develop marketing strategies to achieve organization objectives. Through situation analyses and understanding of consumer behavior and consumer segmentation, organizations position brands to maximize return on marketing investments.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6092 (1.5) Strategic Marketing II

In this course we will focus on designing, evaluating, and refining the value proposition (4 P¿s of product, price, place and promotion) for consumer segments. Our emphasis will include consumer and trade promotion tactics, digital marketing tools, distribution metrics, and pricing strategies to reach, persuade, and satisfy the organization¿s customers.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6100 (3) Entrepreneurship

Examines initial decisions that set a foundation for growth, pros/cons of alternative growth strategies, organizational scaling tactics, and keys to realizing value. Focusing on ¿adolescent¿ firms ¿ which have moved beyond the start-up stage but have yet to evolve into mature businesses ¿ and internal ¿intrapreneurship¿ efforts of established firms, will explore key choices founders and managers face as they scale their businesses, growth-related stumbling blocks and alternative strategies that may be used to overcome these obstacles.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6211 (1.5) Applied Financial Management I

This applied course provides the toolkit for decision-makers to answer the two fundamental questions in financial strategy: How should a project be financed?¿ How much funding is required?¿ The tools include financial statement forecasting, working capital management, optimal capital structure, and the determination of cash retention and payout ratios, among others. These topics are analyzed through case studies involving high-growth environments, share repurchase recapitalizations, financial distress, and intangible assets, among others.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6470 (3) Creating Value Through Innovation

Innovation is a critical growth driver for many organizations. In this course, you will learn how to use innovations to generate value, both for your business and for the customers you serve. This ability to unlock growth and power through innovation will serve managers in all functional areas well, and it applies to all organizations ¿ from entrepreneurial ventures to large multinational corporations. Draws on both your creative capacity, and your logical and analytical skills.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6560 (1.5) Executive Leadership

The purpose of this course is to build MBA students¿ understanding of leadership theories, concepts, processes, and behavior while also helping students identify, develop, and build their own leadership capabilities. The class will enable students to prepare themselves to become leaders of organizations and to embark on paths of personal leadership development.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6565 (1.5) Inclusive Leadership

Focuses on how to lead in an inclusive way. Ethical missteps can ruin companies and careers; learning inclusive leadership skills is an imperative to successful management. Leaders who understand the nature of unconscious bias and the meaning of inclusion are best able to lead today¿s diverse workforce. Examines what it means to lead in a more inclusive way by understanding what inclusion means and how to create it in teams and organizations.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6581 (1.5) Aligning People with Business Strategy I

Focuses on providing a foundational understanding of key human capital management concepts allowing leaders to better appreciate the full potential of the function, set the right expectations, understand the inherent risks, and establish proper accountability. Explores how to align innovative human capital solutions with business strategy resulting in the long-term prosperity of organizations.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade

MBAE 6582 (1.5) Aligning People with Business Strategy II

Focuses on enhancing understanding of key human capital strategy concepts specifically applied to enhance organizational performance resulting in competitive differentiation.

Requisites: Restricted to Executive MBA (EMBA) students.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade