Master of Business Administration – Full Time Program, MBA

This is a continuation of BUSI-8020. This course further examines the use and interpretation of accounting information within the context of business and business decision-making. It will explore some of the ways in which accounting information may be utilized for business planning and to solve common business management problems. Core concepts of managerial accounting such as financial statement analysis, tax considerations, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, cost allocation, job order and process costing will be covered. As with BUSI-8020, the impact of ethical, regulatory, and environmental aspects on the interpretation and application of accounting information will be considered.

This course examines the firm’s long-term financial decisions. It focuses on the sources and the mechanics of obtaining long-term financing, together with a discussion of strategic decisions involving capital structure and dividends. The module includes a broader study of financial markets and instruments, including options, with applications in financial management.

This course examines entrepreneurship as an economic and a business phenomenon with special emphasis on the process of new venture creation. Through a mix of seminars, case studies, and field research, students explore the topics of finding new venture ideas, developing business ideas and business concepts, conducting feasibility studies, developing business plans, preparing deal structures, and financing strategies, launching new ventures, and initial entrepreneurial management beyond the start-up phase. Students are expected to undertake a new venture creation project culminating with a detailed business plan.

Students will examine approaches to project management and apply project management principles to projects with industry partners. Project planning strategies for project implementation will be discussed relative to industry sectors. Problem solving, market research, critical thinking skills based on scientific inquiry in business will provide students with an understanding of project management competencies. Students will develop project management skills in their project teams with industry partners.

Students will learn how to envision, design and evaluate computer-based solutions to typical business problems. The emphasis will be on the contemporary and emerging hardware/software tools, the managing of information, and information technology.

Students will critically examine existing structures, organizations, society, and perhaps, most importantly, themselves to see if these represent a means to freedom or domination, liberation or oppression, or some combination of both. Students will study the connection between our dominant paradigm of wealth maximization, social inequality, and environmental degradation. Through the use of experiential learning the course provides an opportunity for students to plan and implement informed and responsible action to improve current global systems within which business is conducted.

Highlights the role of effective negotiation for resolving conflict and sharing resources and power in complex organizations. Students will be exposed to various styles of negotiating, problem solving and bargaining strategies as well as communication approaches aimed at enhancing organizational performance.

The course provides students with experience solving project management issues for industry partners in real time. Students complete project management tasks for projects focused on the mature stages of the industry/product life cycle, such as management of legacy products and services. The team will construct detailed project plans, including a critical appraisal of relevant literature on the issues which arise in the industry projects. The students will construct viable solutions to address issues arising in the project plan. The students will present their findings to the industry partner and the class.

This capstone course integrates the knowledge gained in prior courses and focuses it on the functions of top management of an organization. Working in teams and individually, at the conclusion of the course students will have synthesized comprehensive analyses of relevant information including ethical considerations regarding strategic issues; applied the rational decision-making model to develop, recommend solutions to strategic issues; and communicated orally and in writing, feasible recommendations to resolve issues. (Prerequisites: candidate-year standing and all other required courses.)

This course introduces business analytics concepts, methods, and models that develop a student’s ability to interpret, explain and analyze data. Students are provided with the background in quantitative techniques and probability theory that is necessary to understand and use analytics to solve business problems and make effective business decisions. Theoretical understanding is reinforced using practical business analytic tools such as Excel to construct effective data visualizations and to conduct descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

Students complete a consulting project for an organization. Project deliverables and scope must be approved by the Odette MBA Program Director or directing faculty member prior to student enrollment. Students may be required to complete a portion and/or all their work on-site at the Mandate Partner location. Students will be evaluated through regular course deliverables including a final presentation of their work plus Mandate Partner feedback. (Cross-listed courses taken on International Exchange and BUSI-8960. Major Research Paper)( 6.0 credit course.)