| MBA
610 Financial Services and The New Financial World |
Prerequisites: GBA 510, 511
Offered every semester
A survey of investments, real estate finance,
international finance, new corporate financing techniques
and their relation to global macroeconomic activity and
financial markets. Techniques of investment, speculation,
arbitrage and financial leverage are examined. Consistent
with the mission and the objective of offering a broad-based
introduction to the financial world, this course examines
a major part of the global business environment. Three credits.
MBA
611 Global Economic Environment of Business
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Prerequisites: GBA 510, 511
Offered every semester
An analysis of the global economy in which
business operates today. Attention, therefore, centers on
the key policy issues and major economic that affect business
activity and on the tools necessary to evaluate these issues
and forces. The former include unemployment, inflation,
fiscal policy and the true nature of budget deficits, monetary
policy and the changing financial environment, the roles
of the U.S. dollar, productivity, and international trade.
The tools of analysis include the portfolio approach, post-Keynesian
and modern monetarist approaches, rational expectations
and state-of-the-art analysis of saving and investment.
The course also explores the role played by U.S. and world
financial markets in influencing the domestic and global
economic environment. Three credits.
| MBA
612 Marketing Strategy |
Prerequisite: GBA 513
Offered every semester
A focus on marketing planning processes,
concepts, methods and strategies with global orientation
at the product level as well as the corporate level. It
emphasizes the relationship between marketing and other
functions and draws upon perspectives from industrial economics,
corporate finance and strategic management literature. Marketing
strategies and practices of contemporary firms are discussed
as they relate to industrial and consumer products and services.
The overall objective of the course is to help students
incorporate and apply the skills, methods and insights they
have acquired in prior marketing and other business courses
in the design and implementation of marketing strategies.
Three credits.
| MBA
613 Organizational Behavior |
(Formerly MBA 603)
Prerequisite: GBA 512
Offered every semester
An analysis of both the formal and
informal aspects of the administration 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.
Three credits.
| MBA
614 Operations Management |
(Formerly MBA 604)
Prerequisites: GBA 512,516
Offered every year
An analysis and synthesis of important
problems encountered in the management operations of a business
organization. Analytical methods employed in solving problems
such as inventory, queuing, network models, linear programming
and PERT are explored. Emphasis is on problem-solving and
decision-making in such areas as investment in operations,
productions planning, scheduling and control, reliability
and maintenance. Three credits .
| MBA
615 Management in a Global Society |
(Formerly MBA 605)
Prerequisite: GBA 512
Offered every semester
An exploration of the environment
in which business is conducted, with emphasis on legal,
social anti political dimensions. The demands for ethical
responsibility in business are also explored anti evaluated.
Three credits.
| MBA
726 Legal and Regulatory Environment in Human Resource
Management |
Offered on occasion
An examination, discussion and exploration
of laws, regulations, and judicial decisions affecting the
Human Resources manager are read, discussed and explained.
Case studies are used to develop an awareness of the legal
problems facing the modern manager. Emphasis is on the federal
agencies and laws, but areas of regulation reserved to the
States are also discussed. Three credits.
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