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Course Descriptions  MBA Programs
GMGT 570 – Managerial Applications of Information Technology
This course is a survey of information technology and its applications. Topics include an overview of information systems, hardware, software, file organization, database concepts, data communications and system software. The College's computing facilities will be used extensively to engage students in hands-on work. Students will learn applications of spreadsheets (MS Excel) including functions, graphing, list processing and pivot tables, one and two variable data tables, Solver, macros, and application development. The course will introduce the concept of a database and database management systems software (MS Access) and use it to design databases, store and retrieve information, use forms to display data and produce reports in various business information processing applications. The Internet and some of its resources will be covered. Students will learn how to design and implement web pages using HTML and integrate information in a web page.
GMGT 573 - Financial Accounting Fundamentals
The course presents the concepts, principles, and procedures of financial accounting and reporting. Its specific student learning objectives are: 1) Develop a managerial perspective and understanding of financial accounting and reporting; 2) Recognize ethical dilemmas and range of judgments associated with accounting choices; 3) Appreciate the role of accounting in a business enterprise and its importance to managers, investors, and creditors. The course will be delivered on-line except for exams and exam-review sessions.
GMGT 576 - Statistics for Managers
This course is an in-depth introduction into basic statistical concepts and tools needed for making informed decisions in the modern-day business environment, as well as excelling in other MBA courses. Topics covered in the class descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimations and hypothesis testing, regression and correlation. Emphasis is made on the application of statistical techniques to managerial decision making utilizing, when necessary, appropriate statistical packages such as Excel and SPSS. Particular areas of application may include finance (for example, portfolio construction), operations (for example quality control), marketing (for example, promotion and advertising response), human resource management, and others.
GMGT 579 - Organization Structure and Process
This course covers the basic concepts and theories on the structure and processes of organizations. Organizational processes include work motivation, power and influence, conflict management, working in teams, and inter-group negotiation. Structural aspects of organizations include design of jobs and self-managing teams, environmental and technological influences on structure, and organizational design. The students are encouraged to relate concepts and theories to their own observations of organizational phenomena. This is accomplished through class discussion, cases, role-playing exercises, and theory-experience papers written by students.
GMGT 580 - Economic Foundations and Practice
This course provides a basic understanding and application of those economic principles that are relevant to contemporary business decision-making in a local sense, in addition to providing a systematic treatment of the functioning of the U.S. economy, both domestically and in a worldwide economic arena. An overview of representative topics includes coverage of the essential models of both microeconomic and macroeconomic theory. Microeconomic areas considered are the theory of consumer demand, production theory of the firm, the nature and behavior of costs, and the typology of market organizations such as perfect competition and monopoly. Macroeconomic coverage includes the Keynesian model and an analysis of aggregate output and growth, income, employment, inflation, along with financial institutions, monetary theory and policy, and international trade and finance.
GMGT 585 - Managerial Finance
To provide within the boundary of firm’s value maximization, a framework for understanding the concepts, issues, and techniques as they relate to financial managers’ activities and decisions. Topics include: analysis of financial statements, financial planning and forecasting, financial environment, risk and return, discounted cash flow analysis, bond and stock valuation, and capital budgeting analysis.
GMGT 588 - Marketing Concepts and Strategy
Marketing is often charged with translating the firm’s expertise into products and services, and using these outputs to build long term, value-creating, trust-building relationships with customers. While most firms aspire to become customer focused, customer friendly, competitive, and market driven – only a select few succeed in actualizing these intents. Successful firms and successful managers view marketing as a strategic function of the organization. This course is designed to introduce you to marketing concepts, and create opportunities for you to develop a strategic way of thinking about this important organizational function.
GMGT 590 - Operations Management
The course focuses on the problem facing managers in the areas of producing goods and services. Topics include total quality, productivity and competitiveness; product and technology (process) design and selection; planning and controlling of production and service systems; capacity planning, facility location and layouts; inventory and supply chain management; and project and service scheduling. Students will be introduced to the use of quantitative and qualitative techniques as decision making and problem-solving tools for operations managers. The course requires applied team project.
Prerequisite GMGT 580
GMGT 600 - Business Management and Globalization
This course covers a diverse but interrelated selection of topics with relevance to today’s global business environment. These topics include foreign exchange markets, the regulatory role of governments and international institutions, regional cooperative arrangements, managerial differences, values, etc., to name a few. The course also utilizes a business negotiation simulation exercise to further enhance the students’ appreciation of the “big picture.” This exercise calls for an intensive amount of teamwork, mostly outside of class hours, typically researching an industry and a host country.
GMGT 603 - Management Critical Communication Skills
This course attempts to develop communication skills that lead to increased effectiveness for practicing managers. Besides delivering oral presentations, students will facilitate a business meeting, participate in meetings, conduct employment interviews and performance reviews. Besides communication skills, this course focuses on human resource management and organizational-behavior concepts.
GMGT 606 – Managing Information Technology in Business Environment
The rapid evolution and diffusion of information technology (IT) is transforming the way that many organizations conduct their business, produce and deliver products/services, and compete in the global market place. To be successful in the "information age," organizations need people with the knowledge and skills to apply information technology to a wide variety of business problems.
This course is designed to help students increase their knowledge about the opportunities and the pitfalls associated with IT. The lectures, readings, and case studies will introduce students to a number of key concepts and timely issues related to IT applications in organizations. Specific topics to be addressed include strategic role of IT and competitiveness; business process reengineering and IT; network computing; Internet and electronic commerce; data and knowledge management; IT planning; IT economics and outsourcing decision; legal, ethical, social and political impact of IT; systems development process, control, and security. Issues in the integration of information technology in the social climate of business organizations are addressed from domestic and international perspectives.
Pre-requisite: GMGT 570 or permission of the instructor.
GMGT 659 - Managing Innovation and Change
Translating intents and plans for innovation into organization-wide actions, and achieving results in complex, fast changing environments challenges most firms. Highly effective managers seem better able to adapt to and gain mastery over changing environments, develop new ways of thinking, galvanize resources and gain the creativity and energies of people within and outside of the organization, and achieve results that are unequivocally regarded as those that are worth achieving by others. This course examines some of the important thinking that has occurred in the area of managing innovation and organizations, and provides you opportunities for developing integrated insights into improving your effectiveness as a manager of change and innovation.
GMGT 682 - Integrated Advanced Financial & Accounting Analysis
This course provides students with an opportunity to develop an understanding of financial and accounting issues that confront managers. Topics to be addressed include accounting and financial reporting (Sarbanes/Oxley), financial analysis, financial modeling (and valuation), global financial and accounting systems, accounting and financial manipulation and risk management, bankruptcy, financial planning and tax implications. Accounting standards relating to these topics are reviewed, discussed and analyzed.
The case method will be relied on throughout this course. While the basic skill and tools of financial accounting management are relied upon, the real cases offer an exposure to advanced and complex problems that challenge managers in the corporate world.
GMGT 685 - The Leadership Experience
What is to be realized from The Leadership Experience cannot be acquired through classroom teaching. Learners will be challenged to conceptualize, implement, and evaluate their “personal best leadership experience” in real time and in the real world. Along the way, you will have the assistance of cutting edge thinkers whose intellectual contributions define the academic and professional literature, distinguished practitioners whose skills and abilities reflect the art and science of leadership, and online mentors staked in facilitating your personal development as a leader. The classroom will become the forum for critical thinking integrating theory and application. The goal of the course is to enhance your capacity to demonstrate exemplary leadership.
GMGT 688 - Customer Focus and Marketing Strategy
Customer identification, acquisition and retention are the driving forces propelling organizations into the 21st century. High performance businesses are obsessive about continually winning the battle for the customer. This battle is not focused on short-term results, but is instead a collection of business practices designed to enhance the most important long-term asset of the organization: loyal customer relationships. Both (1) understanding customer needs and wants and (2) structuring business processes to capture this information in a meaningful way are at the core of business success. This course examines the effective ways in which business practitioners can more successfully understand the customer and create profitable company-customer relationships.
GMGT 694 - Capstone-Project Experience
GMGT 694 is a field experience where students demonstrate competencies required by the business world. Every semester a set of managerial problems from local enterprises are gathered by the course supervisor. Each are formulated similar to a consulting project and then solved by student teams for the client. The experience is designed to accommodate the specific aspects of each project. With its encompassing nature, GMGT 694 is a capstone course that entails crafting a well-conceived diagnostics, and solutions to real-life problems.
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