Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Course Objectives:

• Assess the results of linear programming analysis, distribution and network models, project scheduling PERT/CPM, inventory models, waiting line models and decision analysis models, etc.
• Building proper quantitative analytical models to inform and make better business decisions.

Course Objectives:

• Determine how organizational structures and strategies can influence one another.
• Formulate and justify effective business processes.
• Assess the impact of domestic and global forces utilizing a strategic process.
• Incorporate cost analysis into decision making and evaluations.
• Evaluate ethical issues and how they impact strategic decision-making.
• Assess the role of business managers and leaders in strategic planning and implementation processes.

Course Objectives:

• Assess the relative importance of the basic managerial functions: Planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
• Evaluate ways a manager can develop and maintain strategic competitive advantage in a learning organization.
• Explain how managers organize and motivate people, manage projects, and control processes.
• Describe the leadership skills needed to be an effective manager, including motivating employees, managing communication, and mitigating resistance.
• Evaluate how environmental factors, diversity, ethics, corporate social responsibility, and the global environment affect management.
• Assess the relationship of managers and stakeholder advocacy.
• Explain corporate social responsibility, business ethics, diversity, change, innovation, and globalization in terms of 21st century management challenges and opportunities.

Course Objectives:

• Analyze the differences between leadership and management in the dynamics of leadership.
• Evaluate the components of a bureaucracy, including the threats.
• Assess why planned change efforts often fail.
• Develop a method for effectively implementing planned change.
• Analyze the various roles that a change maker can play within an organization.
• Dissect the relationship between technology and change.

Course Objectives:

• Explain the evolution of e-commerce from its early years to today.
• Identify the factors that will define the next five years of e-commerce.
• Identify the key components of e-commerce business models.
• Describe business models in other emerging areas of e-commerce.
• Discuss the basic concepts of consumer behavior and purchasing decisions.
• Describe the basic marketing concepts needed to understand Internet marketing.
• Identify the major forms of online marketing communications.
• Discuss the ways in which a Web site can be used as a marketing communications tool.
• Identify the main ethical, social, and political issues raised by e-commerce.
• Explain the various forms of intellectual property and the challenges involved in protecting it.
• Identify major public safety and welfare issues raised by e-commerce.
• Identify the challenges faced by the different types of online retailers.
• Describe the major trends in the online travel services industry today.
• Describe the different types of social networks and online communities and their business models.
• Describe the major types of auctions, their benefits and costs, and how they operate.