Master of Business Administration
Stratford offers nine different MBA paths
The Master of Business Administration Graduate School program is designed to prepare students for careers in various aspects of business, management and leadership in both the private and public sectors. In their graduate studies, business majors acquire a comprehensive foundation in the fundamentals of business, the global environment in which they will function, and the analytical tools for intelligent decision making. Students gain added functional expertise by selecting specialization courses (or may select the no specialization option). If you’re looking for a university offering a business administration program, request more information about our Master of Business Administration program.
**Students who hold an undergraduate degree in a field other than business administration or a related area will be required to demonstrate competency in the fundamentals of business. Competency can be demonstrated by completing necessary coursework prior to beginning graduate studies at Stratford University by completing appropriate bridge courses offered through the Stratford University residential or online program. Documented work experience may be evaluated to meet some or all competency areas.
Business Focus:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Information Technology and E-Commerce
- International Business
- Investment Management
- Management
- Marketing
- Supply Chain Management
Students of graduate studies also have the opportunity to opt for an open specialization and select courses from multiple areas.
MBA Program Requirements and Online Options
The MBA program is available to students through classroom instruction at our locations in Virginia, online instruction, or a combination of both.
| Credits Required | Number of Classes |
|---|
| Core Component |
36 |
8 |
| Specialization |
18 |
4 |
| Total Required for Graduation |
54 |
12 |
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Click on the core requirements below to view the 8 courses in the core component. You can also view the pool of courses and their descriptions available under each specialization. You are only required to complete 4 courses from the specialization of your choice or you may select no specialization and complete any 4 courses.
Competency
Documented work experience may be evaluated to meet some or all competency areas.
Managerial Accounting
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course covers financial accounting concepts and managerial accounting topics. The course introduces finance and its importance and relevance to business operations. It covers the internal financial environment of a business. Topics include financial statements analysis, cost accounting, job order costing, and process product costing. Prerequisite: BUS122 or equivalent.
BUS340
Managerial Accounting
4.5
Business Law: Business, Government & Soc
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course is an introduction to law and ethics and outlines the ethical responsibilities managers face when conducting business. This course includes vulnerability to lawsuits and litigation. American and international perspective and interpretations of laws and ethical standards are discussed. Prerequisite: BUS 100 or equivalent.
BUS200
Business Law: Business, Government & Soc
4.5
Business Communications
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course prepares the student for communication in the workplace. The student prepares memorandums, letters, proposals, presentations, newsletters, and flyers. Discussions focus on information exchange in and outside of the organization. Student’s presentations are be critiqued on the message intended and message received. Prerequisite: None.
BUS220
Business Communications
4.5
Business Ethics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course analyzes basic principles of business ethics, moral reasoning and the capitalistic market economic system. Topics include a framework for moral reasoning, government regulation, ethics of bribery, price fixing, pollution, resource depletion, product safety, consumer protection as well as rights and duties of employees and corporations. Prerequisite: None.
BUS360
Business Ethics
4.5
Principles of Economics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines supply and demand, market demand and elasticity, cost theory, market structures, pricing theory, and consumer behavior. Regulation, antitrust policy, and income distribution are also discussed. Prerequisite: BUS 100 or equivalent.
BUS250
Principles of Economics
4.5
Financial Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course teaches the concepts and skills of financial planning within a business. Concepts covered include how to use financial statements and how to plan appropriate action. Specific topics are preparing budgets, analyze investment options, and assess risk and return of financing business endeavors. Prerequisite: BUS 122 or equivalent.
BUS300
Financial Management
4.5
Business Forecasting and Simulation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines the application of economic theory and methodology needed by business managers to forecast both technical and non-technical needs. Topics include tools and techniques for analysis, consumer and firm behavior, product demand, evaluation of decisions, technology benefits and challenges and interactions between firms and the marketplace. Prerequisite: BUS300.
BUS440
Business Forecasting and Simulation
4.5
Sales and Marketing
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course introduces the student to effective methods for marketing products and services. Direct mail, print time and other advertising techniques are discussed. Problem solving relative to customer relations is addressed. Consumer profiled, organizational personalities, and demographics are presented as components of market research and analysis. Prerequisite: None.
BUS120
Sales and Marketing
4.5
Operations Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course addresses the management of operations in manufacturing and service organizations. Diverse activities such as production process, raw materials purchase, scheduling, and quality control are discussed. Prerequisite: BUS 100 or equivalent.
BUS235
Operations Management
4.5
Business Statistics & Econometrics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course will include a review of fundamental statistical methods, regression analysis, and hypothesis testing. Students will then learn how to apply these methods and concepts to business and economic data. Prerequisite: None.
BUS435
Business Statistics & Econometrics
4.5
Core Requirements
Research Methods
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course focuses on methods for the conduct of research and development projects. Specifically, students learn about the scientific method, as well as research/design requirements and objectives. Course work involves qualitative, quantitative, and case studies; performance metrics; design procedures and control; sources of error and bias. In addition, evaluation tools and formal validation methods are discussed. Prerequisite: None.
EBM502
Research Methods
4.5
Information Processing and the Web
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course will include the effective use of the Internet for business applications. Topics will include: Data integration and warehousing, data marts, internet infrastructure and web databases (dB), e-business information portals and common warehouse model. An internet platform consisting of Oracle 8i with Java VM, CORBA support will provide a foundation for data warehousing and e-business intelligence. Prerequisite: None.
EBM510
Information Processing and the Web
4.5
Corporate Finance
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course is an in-depth analysis of financial considerations relating to maximizing the value of a corporation. It examines the setting of financial and corporate goals in terms of maximizing shareholders' equity, optimal financing policy and relationships among dividend policy, debt levels, capital costs, return on investments, and growth. Prerequisite: EBM560 or EBM562.
EBM558
Corporate Finance
4.5
Managerial Accounting
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
In this course, attention is directed towards the core of the managment control and financial reporting systems integrally related to the information systems. The fundamentals of accounting and how they relate to business and an in-depth anaylsis of the tax consequences of forming, operating, and liquidating a corporation and transactions with shareholders will be discussed. Anaylsis of financial records and business sheets will also be addressed. Prerequisite: None.
EBM560
Managerial Accounting
4.5
International Managerial Accounting
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents generally accepted accounting principles which are used by other countries and the United States to report financial information to global users. The course familiarizes the student with the knowledge needed to analyze and interpret consolidated financial statements that are presented by local, multinational, and transnational corporations. The course content includes international accounting regulations and practices, as well as some of the current research on the application of worldwide accounting standards. Prerequisite: None.
EBM562
International Managerial Accounting
4.5
Strategic Business Marketing
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines marketing variables and marketing strategy in developed and developing countries The importance of differences among nations in language, culture and social forces, politics and laws, values, channels or distribution, and buyer behavior is examined. The course also emphasizes the importance of the marketing orientation in the present global competitive environment and the relationships between marketing and business development and strategy in an international setting. Prerequisite: None.
EBM587
Strategic Business Marketing
4.5
Business Transformation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course helps future managers work through organizational chnage by studying strategies for providing positive leadership. This course covers multiple perspectives on managing organizational change, including methodologies for diagnosing management competency, theoretical frameworks for understanding organizational competency, and strategies for changing organizational culture and personal behavior.
EBM635
Business Transformation
4.5
International Business
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines current organizations and practices of domestic and foreign businesses in the international market; problems of trade and foreign government regulation barriers, investment
opportunities and economic arrangements and developments; and the role of the manager in the rapidly changing economic environment. Prerequisite: None.
EBM640
International Business
4.5
Managerial International Business
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course explores the issues which face managers when operating in international environments. The course exposes students to strategic and operational aspects of international business management. Topics include: an overview of global management; cultural, legal, and political influences on international management; international trade and investment; transnational operations and marketing; international human resource management; cross-cultural communication and decision-making; international strategies; and organizing international enterprises. Prerequisite: None.
EBM642
Managerial International Business
4.5
MBA Capstone Course
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This capstone course gives the MBA student the opportunity to pull together and build upon what has been learned in separate business fields and utilizes this knowledge in the analysis of complex business problems. This “capstone course” is designed to aid the student in synthesizing and applying knowledge gained in earlier courses and applies these skills through actual business cases. Prerequisite: This course must be taken in the final quarter of enrollment, but may be taken along with another course which will led to the completion gof the program.
EBM690
MBA Capstone Course
4.5
Accounting Specialization
Accounting Information Systems
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course introduces the student to systems analysis and the application of information systems' concepts to the accounting process and accounting models, both manual and automated.Prerequisite: None.
ACC563
Accounting Information Systems
4.5
Advanced Managerial Accounting
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course Investigates advanced topics in managerial accounting and expands upon topics covered in ACC 560. Topics include cost projections, analysis and interpretation, analysis under uncertainty, capital budgeting, linear programming, and decentralized operations. Prerequisite: EBM 560 or EBM562.
ACC564
Advanced Managerial Accounting
4.5
Advanced Auditing
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course surveys in-depth analysis of current auditing issues, including professional standards and ethics, internal control gathering and documentation of evidences, and statistical sampling. Focuses on detailed analysis of audit programs and EDP as well as concepts concerning the financial condition and operation of commercial enterprises. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Auditing Course or Experience.
ACC565
Advanced Auditing
4.5
Forensic Accounting
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides a framework for an understanding of forensic accounting. Topics covered include various foundation areas of importance to the forensic accountant, the basic forensic accounting tooloriented areas, and practice areas relevant to forensic accounting. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Auditing Course or Experience.
ACC566
Forensic Accounting
4.5
International Taxation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents a foundational overview of the taxation related to the United States of America and several other nations in Asia, European, African, and the Americas. The specifies addressed tax issues for business as well as individuals as it relates to double taxation, transfer taxes and other tax concerns. Also, the course looks at situations from a planning approach that gives the most beneficial tax situation. Prerequisite: None.
ACC568
International Taxation
4.5
Systems Auditing
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents the system and principles of auditing accounting and financial information systems. Current practices of auditing both simple and complex information systems are addressed. Also addressed are the audit program and testing procedures necessary for conducting an information system audit with a focus on documentation of evidence. Prerequisite: None.
ACC569
Systems Auditing
4.5
Advanced Financial Accounting
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course covers accounting for home office and branches, business combinations, and consolidations. It provides a continuation of the preparation for the CPA examination as well as various techniques for solving some of the more complex problems in the business environment. Prerequisite: Intermediate Accounting II or Experience.
ACC571
Advanced Financial Accounting
4.5
Entrepreneurship Specialization
International Economics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines key dimensions of the global economy and global economics, including international business opportunities and risks, trade theory and policy, the balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, exchange rate systems and risks, and international payment systems. The role of multinational corporations and elements of international corporate strategies and direct investment are also covered. Students are required to follow current events in the global economy and discuss how these events impact managerial decision-making. Prerequisite: None.
EBM572
International Economics
4.5
Growth Strategies for Emerging Companies
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course offers practical management tools to help grow and manage high potential new ventures. Topics include internal rapid growth strategies (including product development (high and low technology), vertical expansion, horizontal expansion, etc.), external rapid growth strategies (rollups, exporting, franchising, and acquisition, etc.), and unique growth techniques for technology product based firms. Leadership, human relations, and bootstrapping are important supporting topics. This course is useful for those who intend to start their own companies and those who intend to work in an entrepreneurial company. Future investment bankers, venture capitalists, merger and acquisition professionals, and business brokers will benefit as well. Prerequisite: None.
EBM660
Growth Strategies for Emerging Companies
4.5
Growth Strategies for Emerging Markets
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines how firms conduct an analysis and select new international markets for entry, how fir ms develop strategies for successfully entering these markets, and how firms manage these markets for growth and subsequent expansion. Prerequisite: None.
EBM662
Growth Strategies for Emerging Markets
4.5
New Venture Creation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
An introduction to the entrepreneurial process from conception to birth of a new venture, attributes of successful entrepreneurs, business planning, innovation and creativity, opportunity recognition, venture screening, identification and financing of resources, staffing, feasibility analysis, marketing, and growing a business into a sustainable enterprise. The course includes case studies of successful and unsuccessful ventures. Prerequisite: None.
EBM670
New Venture Creation
4.5
Int'l Competitive Strategy & Innovation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines the innovation process, appropriation of economic value from innovation, competition between technologies, strategies for competing against established firms, and management of innovation. Prerequisite: EBM670.
EBM672
Int'l Competitive Strategy & Innovation
4.5
Business Plan for the New Venture
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
In this course each student must produce a business plan that will be accepted for the annual program business plan competition. It is expected that several business plans will be of sufficient quality that they will attract financing. Topics include a deep review of business plan construction and its derivative short forms (1 page summary, 3 pages summary, and executive summary). Prerequisite: None.
EBM675
Business Plan for the New Venture
4.5
Finance Specialization
Investments
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course will discuss the treatment of equity, debt, speculative markets and formulation of capital. Emphasis will be placed on Investment strategies for e-businesses. Particular attention will be given to raising capital for business from various sources. Partnerships and other techniques for corporate development will be discussed. Some discussion of securities markets will be undertaken with an emphasis portfolio management. Prerequisite: EBM558 of EBM610.
EBM600
Investments
4.5
Financial Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides an overview of financial management, with an emphasis on analysis of financial decisions pertinent to management of a business firm. The course identifies the responsibilities of financial managers, financial problems facing firms, and the various approaches to financial decision making. Specific topics covered include capital acquisition, working capital management, capital budgeting, valuation theories, and dividend and long-term financial policies. Prerequisite: EBM560 or EBM562.
EBM610
Financial Management
4.5
Financial Statement Analysis
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines financial accounting rules and helps students develop skills in interpreting and analyzing external financial reports. Both traditional and recently advocated methods of financial statement analysis will be studies, taking the perspectives of investors and creditors. Among the topics to be investigated are: 1) the mechanics of financial statement analysis; 2) manager’s incentives in making accounting choices; 3) the usefulness of accounting numbers in an effective market; and, 4) international comparisons of financial statements. Prerequisite: None.
EBM611
Financial Statement Analysis
4.5
Capital Formation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
Determinants of saving and investment and resultant funds flow are evaluated. Special emphasis on the level and risk structure and term structure of interest rates. The role and management of financial institutions is stressed. Prerequisite: EBM558 or EBM610
EBM615
Capital Formation
4.5
Financial Decision Making
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course will discuss theory and practice of business finance, emphasizing the impacts of long- and short-term uses and sources of funds on the firm’s value. Prerequisite: EBM558 or EBM610.
EBM620
Financial Decision Making
4.5
Advanced Financial Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
In this course we examine advanced case studies in financial management: working capital policy, capital budgeting, financing with debt and equity, project finance, dividend policy, valuation, and investment banking in the contexts of private equity, venture capital, initial public offering, leveraged buyout, and management buyout. Prerequisite: EBM558 or EBM610.
EBM625
Advanced Financial Management
4.5
International Business Specialization
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise I
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course focuses on an integrative approach to organizational concepts, management principles, and the effects of leadership styles and human resource policies and practices on organizational performance in a global and competitive work environment. Prerequisite: None.
EBM505
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise I
4.5
International Economics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines key dimensions of the global economy and global economics, including international business opportunities and risks, trade theory and policy, the balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, exchange rate systems and risks, and international payment systems. The role of multinational corporations and elements of international corporate strategies and direct investment are also covered. Students are required to follow current events in the global economy and discuss how these events impact managerial decision-making. Prerequisite: None.
EBM572
International Economics
4.5
Global Economy
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course discusses key dimensions of the global economy, including international business opportunities and risks. Trade theory and policy, the balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, exchange rate systems and risks, and international payment systems are also discussed. Additional topics such as foreign direct investments might also be discussed in addition to the changing role of multinational corporations and elements of international corporate strategies. Prerequisite: None.
EBM575
Global Economy
4.5
Int'l Money, Banking, & Financial Market
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course explores the role that international finance markets play in the business environment. Students study principles and applications of international financial markets and their impact on the world economy. The course also addresses currency exchange mechanisms in theory and practice, including international monetary systems; offshore financial markets and currency risk management, including interest rate and currency futures, options, and swaps. Prerequisite: None.
EBM590
Int'l Money, Banking, & Financial Market
4.5
Geopolitics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines the complex and turbulent international environment. A manager requires both a basic conceptual framework that can inform and order political and economic events, and an understanding of how the international political economy actually affects strategy. Geopolitics explores the structure and evolution of the inter national political-economic system, and then looks at several critical issues areas, such as economic and currency unions, technological advances, strategic alliances, and national competitiveness. Current events and issues are introduced as appropriate. The emphasis of the course is on implications for domestic and global strategy. Prerequisite: None.
EBM645
Geopolitics
4.5
Information Technology & e-Commerce Specialization
Business Applications over the Internet
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The purpose of this course is to analyze how computer communications, data storage, and data analysis technologies have caused strategic shifts in company operating practices. Students learn that information technology is a tool that can facilitate valuable changes in business processes. This course reviews software that is available for customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management, enterprise application integration (EAI), business intelligence (BI), data warehousing, and decision support. The course consists of case studies of successful and unsuccessful e-business process improvement projects. Prerequisite: None.
EBM500
Business Applications over the Internet
4.5
E-Commerce: Business Models & Strategies
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents the state-of-the-art in electronic commerce. Its focus is on the current and future impact of e-commerce on the student’s organization, industry, and professional activities. Specific topics include creating new business opportunities; identifying new customers and additional value in existing customers; realigning the organization for the new environment, addressing contemporary uncertainties, for example, government regulation, taxation, security, privacy, and intellectual property rights; creating a market presence; measuring success, return on investment, and profitability; and sustaining the pace of change through appropriate staffing, hiring, outsourcing, and partnering. Students examine recent successes and failures in e-commerce through case studies and other readings and will develop an e-commerce business plan for their organization. Prerequisite: None.
EBM515
E-Commerce: Business Models & Strategies
4.5
IT & Corporate Transformation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines how organizations are dependent on information technology not only for management of operations, but more also as a key enabler of competitive advantage. Also examined is the growth in corporate spending on IT components such as hardware, software, telecommunications, and for information systems (IS) personnel. Specific topics to be discussed include strategic planning for IT activities and projects, project-level planning and management, the role of the IT leader or chief information officer, and achieving the balance between insourcing and outsourcing of various IS functions. Prerequisite: None.
EBM535
IT & Corporate Transformation
4.5
E-Commerce WEB Site Development I
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The emphasis of this course will be on the development of websites. The fundamentals of website development using HTML and other tools will be addressed. Topics will include: web hosting, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Oracle and PeopleSoft databases and software, XML, style sheets. The participant will develop a website as part of the course. Prerequisite: None.
EBM540
E-Commerce WEB Site Development I
4.5
E-Commerce WEB Site Development II
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The emphasis of this course will be the advanced development of websites for business development. In this course, specific business websites will be studied for content, advertising, structure and usefulness. The participant will develop a number of business related websites and analyze them for effectiveness. Data warehousing and retrieval techniques will be addressed. In addition, future website development tools will be studied. Prerequisite: EBM540.
EBM545
E-Commerce WEB Site Development II
4.5
Project Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course focuses on the effective organization of projects, tracking of costs and time expenditures, management of quality and risks, evaluation of human resources requirements, and the overcoming of potential obstacles. Prerequisite: None.
EBM680
Project Management
4.5
Data Structures and Algorithms
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course introduces the definitions, implementations, and applications of the most commonly used data structures used in Computer Science, including the concept of abstract data types. The course also introduces the basic formalism and concepts used in the analysis of algorithms and in algorithm design. The relative efficiency of the algorithms studied is estimated by the informal application of these ideas. The algorithms and data structures discussed include those for sorting, searching, graph problems, dynamic programming, combinatorial search and others. Prerequisite: None.
SOF510
Data Structures and Algorithms
4.5
Relational Database Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course aims at explaining the basic concepts of database architecture, data storage, and the relational database model. The students will be able to express queries in relational algebra, SQL, and ordinary English, and be able to embed SQL queries in a PL/SQL program. Students design a relational database. Students also understand and apply the concepts and techniques of concurrency control and database recovery. Prerequisite: None
SOF515
Relational Database Management
4.5
Investment Management Specialization
Risk Analysis
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course focuses on the application of investment theory to the management of portfolio risk and is
supplemented by a review of practical risk issues. Major topics include equity risk models, alternative
measures of risk (VAR), credit risk and operational risk. Time series modeling and advanced analysis of
financial information are also included. Prerequisite: None.
EBM531
Risk Analysis
4.5
Investment Banking
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course will discuss the treatment of equity, debt, speculative markets and formulation of capital. Emphasis will be placed on Investment strategies for e-Businesses. Particular attention will be given to raising capital for business from various sources. Partnerships and other techniques for corporate development will be discussed. Some discussion of securities markets will be undertaken with an emphasis portfolio management. Prerequisite: None.
EBM601
Investment Banking
4.5
Financial Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides an overview of financial management, with an emphasis on analysis of financial decisions pertinent to management of a business firm. The course identifies the responsibilities of financial managers, financial problems facing firms, and the various approaches to financial decision making. Specific topics covered include capital acquisition, working capital management, capital budgeting, valuation theories, and dividend and long-term financial policies. Prerequisite: EBM560 or EBM562.
EBM610
Financial Management
4.5
Financial Statement Analysis
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines financial accounting rules and helps students develop skills in interpreting and analyzing external financial reports. Both traditional and recently advocated methods of financial statement analysis will be studies, taking the perspectives of investors and creditors. Among the topics to be investigated are: 1) the mechanics of financial statement analysis; 2) manager’s incentives in making accounting choices; 3) the usefulness of accounting numbers in an effective market; and, 4) international comparisons of financial statements. Prerequisite: None.
EBM611
Financial Statement Analysis
4.5
Equity Analysis
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course explores equity valuation through the use of fundamental analysis, including industry analysis and intrinsic value modeling. Fundamental analysis includes developing a thorough understanding of an industry, including how companies make money as well as how stocks are valued within the industry. Students are assigned to a sector, select their own small-cap industry and develop detailed industry and stock reports. Prerequisite: None.
EBM612
Equity Analysis
4.5
Portfolio Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This is a case course focusing on the use of stocks, bonds and derivatives for the creation and management of investment products. The cases are designed and reviewed by practitioners. They include developing a 401(k) plan, an investment strategy for a high net worth individual and investment policy for a defined benefit plan. The course also explores the behavior of various asset classes, asset allocation, effective investment process design, performance attribution and portfolio management. Prerequisite: EBM613 and EBM621.
EBM666
Portfolio Management
4.5
Management Specialization
Organizational Behavior
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course analyzes both the formal and informal aspects of the management process. Topics include: human behavior in an organizational environment, individual behavior patterns, superior/subordinate relationships, group dynamics, communication, motivation and decision-making, and the impact of innovation and change on the organization. Prerequisite: None.
EBM504
Organizational Behavior
4.5
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise I
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course focuses on an integrative approach to organizational concepts, management principles, and the effects of leadership styles and human resource policies and practices on organizational performance in a global and competitive work environment. Prerequisite: None.
EBM505
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise I
4.5
Entrepreneurship and Venture Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents the knowledge and skills needed to create and manage a new venture. It also examines the various dynamics associated with the various forms of entrepreneurial activity. In this course students are required to interview an entrepreneur, develop recommendations for a company and address challenges, and analyze a sector to uncover entrepreneurial opportunities and develop your own business concepts. Prerequisite: None.
EBM506
Entrepreneurship and Venture Management
4.5
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise II
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course is a continuation of EBM505. This course will discuss case studies in leadership and addresses problems that organizations go through because of the leadership flaws. Prerequisite: EBM505.
EBM525
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise II
4.5
Business and Public Policy
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course discusses political, legal, economic, and ethical forces acting on business as well as the interaction of the market system and public policy process in the development of law and regulation. Prerequisite: None.
EBM555
Business and Public Policy
4.5
Marketing Specialization
E-Commerce: Business Models & Strategies
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents the state-of-the-art in electronic commerce. Its focus is on the current and future impact of e-commerce on the student’s organization, industry, and professional activities. Specific topics include creating new business opportunities; identifying new customers and additional value in existing customers; realigning the organization for the new environment, addressing contemporary uncertainties, for example, government regulation, taxation, security, privacy, and intellectual property rights; creating a market presence; measuring success, return on investment, and profitability; and sustaining the pace of change through appropriate staffing, hiring, outsourcing, and partnering. Students examine recent successes and failures in e-commerce through case studies and other readings and will develop an e-commerce business plan for their organization. Prerequisite: None.
EBM515
E-Commerce: Business Models & Strategies
4.5
Internet Marketing Strategies
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course introduces the student to concepts, tools, and techniques as they apply in business-toconsumer (B2C) and business- to-business (B2B) electronic marketing. Specific topics include: branding and recognition; consumer and organizational behavior in an e-market place; channels and relationship marketing; tools and techniques in the B2B market; and assessment of e-market opportunities. Prerequisite: EBM515.
EBM552
Internet Marketing Strategies
4.5
Managerial Marketing & Market Research
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides an overview of marketing, with special focus on market research as a means of determining or validating strategy. The course is aimed at the manager, who is the ultimate user of the research and who is responsible for determining the major scope and direction of marketing activities. Techniques of data collection, evaluation of alternative sources of information, methods of evaluating data, and methods of presenting the results are covered. The course also addresses: how to define information needs; how to test marketing procedures; forms of analysis applicable to market research information, and the role of models in decision making. Prerequisite: None.
EBM580
Managerial Marketing & Market Research
4.5
International Marketing Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course examines international market segmentation, product attributes, cultural differences, economic differences, differences in product and technical standards, global advertising, and international pricing in transnational business operations. It stresses application of marketing concepts, principles and procedures for planning, development, implementation and control of marketing programs. Course emphasis is on the matching of organization resources and strengths with global marketing opportunities, and strategies to overcome environmental threats. Central to the course is a team project involving the development of a marketing plan for a product or service to be marketed in at least two countries. Prerequisite: EBM587.
EBM650
International Marketing Management
4.5
Business Plan for the New Venture
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
In this course each student must produce a business plan that will be accepted for the annual program business plan competition. It is expected that several business plans will be of sufficient quality that they will attract financing. Topics include a deep review of business plan construction and its derivative short forms (1 page summary, 3 pages summary, and executive summary). Prerequisite: None.
EBM675
Business Plan for the New Venture
4.5
Supply Chain Management Specialization
Financial Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides an overview of financial management, with an emphasis on analysis of financial decisions pertinent to management of a business firm. The course identifies the responsibilities of financial managers, financial problems facing firms, and the various approaches to financial decision making. Specific topics covered include capital acquisition, working capital management, capital budgeting, valuation theories, and dividend and long-term financial policies. Prerequisite: EBM560 or EBM562.
EBM610
Financial Management
4.5
Financial Decision Making
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course will discuss theory and practice of business finance, emphasizing the impacts of long- and short-term uses and sources of funds on the firm’s value. Prerequisite: EBM558 or EBM610.
EBM620
Financial Decision Making
4.5
Int'l Managerial Financial Decision Mkng
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course discusses the theory and practice of international managerial finance decision-making,
emphasizing the impacts of long- and short term uses and sources of funds on the firm’s value. Students learn to evaluate international business opportunities, compare financial alternatives, and identify and solve problems related to the use of funds. Prerequisite: EBM558 or EBM610.
EBM622
Int'l Managerial Financial Decision Mkng
4.5
Supply Chain Management Operations
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course introduces investment theory and security valuation. This course also examines survey techniques for stock and bond valuation, including dividend discount models, capital asset pricing models, multiple-stage growth, and term structure models. Prerequisite: None.
EBM655
Supply Chain Management Operations
4.5
Supply Chain Business Process Design
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course will introduce students to hedge funds and hedge fund managers and the evolution of those issues amidst hedge funds has changing role in the capital markets. Among other things, the course will cover the exclusions from Investment Company Act registration requirements on which hedge funds rely; private placement considerations; organizational and structural alternatives and challenges; the intricacies of and tax considerations relating to hedge fund manager compensation; and conflicts of interest; and the convergence of, and differences between hedge funds and private equity funds. Prerequisite: EBM655.
EBM656
Supply Chain Business Process Design
4.5
Supply Chain Inventory Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course examines supply chain management including sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, technologies, and quantitative models used in managing the supply chain. It exposes students to the buyer-supplier relationship as well as topics related to design and management of supply chains, from incoming raw materials to final product delivery. Course topics will include supply chain network design, facility planning, capacity planning, globalization and outsourcing, transportation and key logistical concepts, information technology, and global issues in supply chain management. Prerequisite: None.
EBM657
Supply Chain Inventory Management
4.5
Project Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course focuses on the effective organization of projects, tracking of costs and time expenditures, management of quality and risks, evaluation of human resources requirements, and the overcoming of potential obstacles. Prerequisite: None.
EBM680
Project Management
4.5