Master of Business Administration

This course includes both quantitative methods and operations management principles to assist managers in evaluating business processes.

This course provides students with policies, procedures, and research in managing human resources. Topics include recruitment, selection, and maintenance of a qualified, motivated, and productive workforce. Students research and analyze case studies in human resources in the health care environment. Additional emphasis is given to employee development, coaching, and retention in the health care setting.

This advanced course explores the strategic applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various business domains. Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of AI technologies and their impact on business models, processes, and decision-making. The course focuses on developing analytical skills to evaluate AI solutions, as well as understanding the organizational and managerial implications of AI adoption.

This course provides an overview of analytical methods commonly used within business environments. The focus is on the applied use of analytical methods to make better business decisions and improve customer and shareholder value. The course provides fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics, and applies basic methods in descriptive, inferential, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to provide insights into business problems and decisions. Foundational statistical and data analysis methods used to enhance business decision-making are examined. This course also examines the use of spreadsheets for data manipulation, descriptive visualization and summarization, statistical analyses, and decision modeling.

This course emphasizes the application of strategic marketing planning and development issues such as product development, integrated promotion, pricing, and distribution/supply chain management for maintaining a complete product life cycle and creating customer value in a dynamic global environment.

This course begins with a quick review of basic financial concepts and terms, and then begins an examination of the major types of financial decisions made by corporations today. Examples of the issues we discuss include capital budgeting principles, capital structure, cost of capital, corporate financing, market efficiency, short term asset management, and asset valuation. This course also introduces complicating factors, such as agency costs, corporate governance, and ethical issues into our analysis. 

This course prepares students to understand the role of economics in decision making within a business community. Topics include supply and demand as it relates to business decision making, cost and market structures as it relates to business decision making and consumer choice theory as it relates to business decision making. 

This course examines the uses of various financial and managerial accounting reports and techniques employed by business managers to control the operations of a company. Special emphasis will be placed on the interpretation and limitations of financial reports and their uses in evaluating the performance of the manufacturing and service organizations. 

This course examines the organizational context affecting individual behavior and organizational performance contributions. Topics include organizational structure, culture, function, organizational development, team dynamics, and role set interactions. Individual and organizational changes will be explored for implementing the use of change agents and action research.

A seminar course that discusses the development of business strategies through long and short-term plans to maximize business goals. Simulations that improve analytical skills are used with the emphasis placed on evaluating national and international business environments for processes and improvements for strategic advantage. Prerequisites: MBA 511, MBA 540, MBA 545, MBA 550, MBA 565, MBA 570, & MBA 575.

This course provides an introductory level overview of the United States Health Care system, including a basic understanding of pertinent historical, current, political, organizational, human resources, financial, and quality issues. The course will explore basic principles and tools of management, including the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling functions of healthcare organizations. The course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of current healthcare institutional structures and delivery systems, as well as the evolving health needs of U.S. citizens. Students research organizational structure and theory appropriate for healthcare administration. Emphasis is placed on the basic concepts and issues that are associated with the management and regulation of health care providers and the delivery of services. Evolving alternative delivery systems are reviewed, as are changes occurring in the field of healthcare management.

Current Issues in Healthcare Administration is an integrative course focused on the current trends, topics, and issues affecting the U.S. healthcare system. This course will address the issues that lead to health policy formulation and the complexities of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. Current publications and periodicals will be reviewed to facilitate a real-time understanding of evolving healthcare issues. Developing and future trends are researched as they relate to the healthcare environment at local, state, and federal levels.

This course examines the key aspects of quality management and performance improvement in healthcare. Attention is given to quality management principles, such as quality assessment, risk management, utilization management, outcomes assessment, and benchmarking to improve healthcare services and patient safety. The principles and techniques of quality improvement will be presented and applied to patient care and management of services in healthcare organizations.

This course introduces key information and concepts for managers on the legal basis and application of law in the health care industry. This course examines ethical problems and issues facing health care managers. Notable laws relating to healthcare administration, security, and privacy within the field of medicine, will be researched in order to ensure that students are well educated on the processes involved in dealing with sensitive information and materials.

Leadership qualities, management styles, and planning tools will be addressed. Policies and problems of organization and administration of athletic programs and colleges. This course will discuss current issues and events in college athletics

Evaluation of sport and marketing, including applications of mainstream marketing which include a historical overview of sport marketing, collegiate and professional sporting events, commercial and public organizations, sporting goods, and the sport enterprise.

Research and discussion of critical questions in physical education and sport management; topics to be studied will vary according to the concern of seminar students. Guest speakers and sport industry professionals will lecture in many of the classes.

This course explores the linkages between sport and society. Through case studies, ethnographic research, and analytical essays, students examine major topics and issues in the field of sport. Topics include biases and barriers, social bonds, political economy, normative rules, deviance, and globalization in sports.

This course examines the formulation, implementation, and execution of digital marketing strategy. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the digital marketing techniques relevant to the success of digital media campaigns within the 21st century. Special emphasis will be placed on the importance of integrated marketing communications for the purpose of promoting a continuous branding experience across digital channels and platforms.

This course covers the implications of the evolution of social media and mobile technologies on marketing strategy in the new landscape where traditional and digital media coexist and interact. It will provide a comprehensive understanding of key aspects of social media marketing, hyperlocal marketing, and mobile marketing concepts, techniques, and tools.

This course deals with the emerging field of electronic commerce. While the focus will be on management issues, the course will attempt to strike a balance between technology and strategy. We plan to cover the economic and technological foundations, the infrastructure, and the main technologies employed, as well as the various business strategies being used for electronic commerce (both business-to-consumer and business-to-business). 

This course explores the use of data, statistics, and technology for the purpose of driving marketing decision-making and problem-solving. Students will examine the processes involved with tracking, measuring, and analyzing data within the marketing and sales context to improve pricing, product development, segmentation, targeting, advertising, sales, customer relationship management, and client lifetime value.

This course examines the managerial process of project management. Topics include project life cycles, selection, screening, financial models and budgets, project portfolios, acquiring resources, resolving conflict, negotiations, risk management, scheduling, evaluation, and closeout. Through case study analysis and use of spreadsheet tools, students develop skills to manage projects in production and service environments. Additional focus is given to research on risk management and project controls.

To ensure their organizations remain competitive and successful now and in the future, managers must develop the resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain competitive advantage in traditional and emerging markets. This course introduces the concept of strategic management through simulation and rigorous case analyses. Topics covered include direction and goals of an organization, the environment (social, political, technological, economic, and global factors), industry and market structure, organizational strengths and weaknesses, corporate governance, ethics, and corporate responsibility. The emphasis is on the development and successful implementation of strategy in different types of firms across industries.

Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings occur globally to help companies gain competitive advantage and market share. This course provides a holistic view of the organizational processes associated with mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, including identifying targets, execution of of strategy, and post restructuring managerial methods. Additionally, students will become familiar with the responsibilities of primary managerial participants, as well as the associated legal, accounting and reporting and reporting, and regulatory and tax provision aspects.

This course addresses the special characteristics of managing and leading technology dependent organizations. Information includes technology's impact on organizational structure and the policy process, strategic technological planning, futures studies, leadership, global aspects of technology management, performance assessment, financing, and some of the major ethical implications of managing technology dependent organizations.

This course addresses the special characteristics of managing and leading technology dependent organizations. Information includes technology's impact on organizational structure and the policy process, strategic technological planning, futures studies, leadership, global aspects of technology management, performance assessment, financing, and some of the major ethical implications of managing technology dependent organizations.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of statistical thinking and statistical problem-solving. Topics include using current statistical software to analyze data sets, interpreting the outputs, and applying the information in the data for decision-making.

This course applies business intelligence technologies to the vast amount of data in business systems for more effective and efficient decision-making. Topics include data acquisition, visualization, reporting with dashboards, scorecards, graphical methodologies, and developing reports.

This course examines alternative approaches to decision modeling and statistical analyses for business applications. Topics include the role of business analytics to gain value from data, data acquisition, interpretation of data, foundational elements of database management, and managing big data in an organizational setting. In this course, structured query language (SQL) is used to express decision making and analytical needs, explore datasets, sort, and process information from raw data to generate analytical results for key business insights. The course also discusses the impact of big data on organizational data-based systems and processes.

This course is designed to introduce business students to the use of quantitative tools and methods for structured decision making and more effective problem solving.  This course is dually focused on business problem formulation and quantitative decision analysis tools and methods. The course provides an overview of problem-solving tools and techniques and develops skills necessary to formulate, evaluate, and communicate solutions based on evidence and data.  Secondly, it presents core methods and techniques for data-driven decision analysis. Students will apply predictive, prescriptive, and experimental analytical methods and techniques to improve managerial decisions. During this course, students will learn to develop and implement a data acquisition and analysis plan appropriate to the problem(s).