Course Descriptions

700 Managerial Communication
Focuses on strategic aspects of communication goals for managers and practice in skills needed to carry out writing and speaking objectives. P: Grad st.

755 Financial Policy. 3 cr. Financial policy decisions such as working capital management, dividend policy, capital structure and cost. Case studies emphasized. P: Finance 725 & cons inst.

700 Marketing Management. 3 cr. Provides a framework for evaluating marketing problems and developing a marketing strategy. Customer, company, competitive, and collaborator factors are emphasized as foundations for marketing decision making. The key aspects of product, pricing, distribution, and promotion strategy are also examined. P: Grad st.

705 Data Analysis and Decision Making. 3 cr. Students will advance their analytical and decision making skills by developing practical spreadsheet models to evaluate business situations. Fundamental topics in probability, statistics, and constrained optimization will be introduced and used as modeling tools via active learning exercises.

732 Economics for Managers. 3 cr. This course develops and applies economic principles to examine the affect of firm, industry, domestic and global market conditions on both day-to-day managerial decision making and long-term strategic planning. P: 1st yr MBA stdt.

726 Valuation and Corporate Investment Decisions. 3 cr. Theory and practice of financial valuation for investment decisions: present value, modeling cash flows, hurdle rates, financial multiples, valuing private firms, real options. P: Finance 700, Gen Bus 706.

727 Corporate Finance Decisions. 3 cr. Theory and practice of corporation finance: financial security contracts; security issuance; capital structure; dividend policy; cost of capital; financial risk management; mergers, acquisitions, and financial restructuring. P: Finance 700, Gen Bus 706.

710 Ethics, Integrity and Society. 1 cr. This class is designed to prepare students for dealing with ethical challenges in the world outside academia. Focus is on the role of personal values in all types of decision making, from personal to professional. P: 2nd yr MBA degree candidate.

721 Investment Theory and Application. 3 cr. Theory and practice of finance investment: financial market structure, arbitrage, theory of risk and return, behavior of financial prices, option contracts, futures and forward contracts, valuation of derivatives, interest rates, fixed-income securities, common stock and portfolio theory. P: Finance 700, Gen Bus 706.

700 Operations Management. 3 cr. Management of the operations function in manufacturing and service organizations. Emphasizes the coordination of resources to improve cost, quality, and customer service. Topics include materials, capacity, and project management, operations strategy, forecasting, and process design. P: Gen Bus 303 or equiv.

704 Managing Behavior in Organizations. 3 cr. Examines the effective management of behavior in organizations. Focuses on the application of theories of leadership and work motivation. Includes critical conceptual and analytical assessment of these theories. Emphasizes the management of work performance, managerial skill building, and enabling followers. MBA degree stdts or permission.

723 Business Strategy. 3 cr. Integrative approach to strategic management, including strategy formulation/implementation at business unit, corporate levels. Cases, discussion, lecture, simulation are used to communicate concepts. Emphasizes development of unique tools for analysis of companies and industries, application of knowledge to business problems. P: Grad st.

850 Applied Corporate Finance I. 4 cr. Advanced corporate finance course that provides graduate students practical experience by working on consulting projects. Students work on applied projects in the areas of capital budgeting, capital structure and cash distribution policies. Emphasis on application of theoretical corporate finance concepts. P: cons inst.

750 The Market for Corporate Control. 3 cr. Study of the market for corporate control including mergers and tender offers. Motives for business combinations; impacts on security holders, managers, labor, economic efficiency; federal and state laws; offensive and defensive strategies. Term paper involving comprehensive analysis of issues. P: Finance 720 & 725.

851 Applied Corporate Finance II. 5 cr. Students apply advanced corporate finance training in the areas of real options, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring and reorganization to problems provided by corporate sponsors. Development of analytical, written and oral presentation skills through presentations to the corporate sponsors. P: Finance 850 & cons inst.