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  • Course Description:  The course is designed for the perspective of the general manager attempting to leverage the human resources of the organization in ways that create not only revenues, profits, and growth, but also create a unique place to work, create unique products and services, and create employees and customers who are apostles of the enterprise. 
    Course Objectives: 
    • About the ways to achieve high performance by way of organizational effectiveness through people. 
    • About how people are motivated, and how assumptions drive the kind of processes, structures and strategies they create. 
    • How to create high expectations of self and others not only within the class but also within the organizations 
    • Specific skills required for a general manager to operate those levers to achieve the desired results. 
  • Course Description:  This course examines the principles, techniques, and uses of accounting in the planning and control of business organizations from a management perspective. Identified are the budgetary process and related performance evaluation techniques, cost-volume-profit relationship, product costing methods, Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing, and Activity Based Costing (ABC). Related theory and application will also be reviewed. 
    Course Objectives:  
    • How managers use and analyze managerial accounting information to make decisions  
    • How to prepare an operating budget and understand where and how to acquire the necessary information 
    • Time value of money analysis using discounted cash flow technique  
    • Interpret and explain the difference between net present value, internal rate of return and payback
    • Analyze a capital budget request  
  • Course Description:  In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult managerial decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders. The course teaches students about management and governance systems leaders can use to promote responsible conduct by companies and their employees, and shows how personal values can play a critical role in effective leadership. 
    Course Objectives: 
    • Understand role-related responsibilities  
    • Learn how to incorporate these responsibilities into the decision making process 
    • Learn how to build organizations that can make good on these responsibilities 
    • Develop the personal strength and resources needed to recognize and carry out these responsibilities in ambiguous, stressful, and fast-changing situations
  • Course Description:  This course offers an overview of various aspects of global economy within the field of economic geography and its linkages to related issues of resources, development, international business and trade. It investigates the phenomenon of globalization and seeks to provide understanding of today’s increasingly interdependent world. Geographers are interested in examining the difference location makes to how economic activity is organized as globalization makes small differences among places increasingly important. This course recognizes that economy cannot be treated separately from other domains of social studies so such topics as political economic theories and models, historical context, consumption trends, role of telecommunications, and others will be discussed. 
    Course Objectives:   
    • Fundamentals regarding the dynamics of the global economy and a basic understanding of the evolution of spatial organization theory 
    • Characteristics of capitalist economies; examine economic causes of population change and new trends in urban sprawl, human modification of environment and impact of mass consumption, role play location decisions of firms and reveal geographic organization of corporations 
    • The effects of agricultural practices on the land, recent global shifts in manufacturing, growth of service sector, innovations in transport and communications
  • Course Description: This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps students to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as the creation and delivery of services. Topics encompass:
    • Process analysis
    • Cross-functional and cross-firm integration
    • Product development
    • Information technology
    • Technology and operations strategy
    Course Objectives:
    • Explain the strategic role of operations management and its competitive advantage for organizational survival
    • Explain the relationships between the operations function and other functional areas of a business such as marketing, finance, and information systems, and how they can work together to achieve the business strategy
    • Explain approaches to designing and improving processes
    • Use relevant electronic spreadsheet tools (e.g. solver) to solve operations management problems
    • Apply/analyze relevant quantitative models to solve real-world problems
    • Appraise real-life business situation and suggest solution alternatives as related to operations management tools/techniques
  • Course Description:  This course provides an understanding of how values shape individual ethical behaviors, and how these behaviors influence leadership and decision-making. It will provide practical knowledge and tools needed to effectively manage the everyday ethical conduct of employees. The course also discusses how legal, philosophical, and corporate practices influence ethical behavior for individuals and companies. Students examine how social, environmental, and stakeholder responsibilities, as well as different values impact ethical behavior in companies. 
    Course Objectives: 
    • Develop a usable framework for accurately identifying, considering, and acting in situations of ethical importance 
    • Understand why an individual’s basic beliefs about life necessarily drive one’s view of ethics 
    • Know the roles that culture and society play in determining ethical standards 
    • Understand the primary approaches to ethics, including self-interest, altruism, social contracts, virtue ethics, and natural law 
    • Practice applying ethical frameworks to classic and contemporary business issues 
    • Understand  the debate about who should control businesses, including the purpose of business and the role of stakeholders 
  • Course Description:  This course introduces students to the steps necessary to analyze a problem in information technology and identify and define the computing requirements appropriate to its solution, with a focus on how to design, implement, and evaluate a computer-based system, process, component, or program to meet desired needs. Students learn to analyze the local and global impact of computing on individuals, organizations, and society. This course leads students to recognize the need for continuing professional development and imparts an understanding of professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues, and responsibilities in information technology.  
    Course Objectives: 
    • The fundamental connections linking core business strategy, technology, and innovation 
    • How these functions intertwine to play a central role in process layout, systems, structural design, and product development, as well as supporting an organization's overall success 
    • About the latest trends and research 
    • About assessment methods for organization and management processes
    • About special tools and techniques for managing and organizing Technology and Innovation 
  • Course Description: This course covers a broad spectrum of issues in both the traditional functional areas such as finance, marketing, strategy and human resource management, logistics and transportation, and information technology, as well as cross-functional projects investigating, for example, the impact of leading edge information technology on business processes and client relationships in electronic commerce and supply chain management. 
    Course Objectives:  
    • understand the basic principles of project consulting 
    • learn about Professional Standards and Best Practices in project consulting 
    • work on strategic consulting projects that feature global marketing challenges (e.g., market entry decisions, consumer research, distribution channel analysis and other marketing strategy issues)  
  • Course Description:  This course is designed to demonstrate the role of marketing in the company; to explore the relationship of marketing to other functions; and to show how effective marketing builds on a thorough understanding of buyer behavior to create value for customers. 
    Course Objectives: 
    • Make marketing decisions in the context of general management
    • Control the elements of the marketing mix—product policy, channels of distribution, communication, and pricing—to satisfy customer needs profitably
    • Use this knowledge in a brand management simulation  
  • Course Description: This course is designed to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:  
    • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.  
    • How to generate superior value for customers by designing the optimum configuration of the product mix and functional activities.  
    • How to balance the opportunities and risks associated with dynamic and uncertain changes in industry attractiveness and competitive position.  
    • Particular attention is paid to competitive positioning; understanding comparative costs; and addressing issues such as cannibalization, network externalities, and globalization.   
    Course Objectives: 
    • Develop a mastery of a body of analytical tools and the ability to take an integrative point of view.  
    • Use these tools to perform in-depth analyses of industries and competitors, predict competitive behavior, and analyze how firms develop and sustain competitive advantage over time.  

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