Although skills in finance, accounting, marketing, operations, and strategy are crucial for organizational success, the ability to manage an organization, its groups, and its individuals is equally important. In your careers, you will depend on people to accomplish tasks, goals, and projects; you will need to work for other
people, work with other people, and supervise other people. An understanding of the human side of management is an essential complement to the technical skills you are learning in other core business courses. Although we will focus on business organizations, you will find that the course concepts have valuable applications to other types of organizations, including non-profits, athletic teams, social clubs, and
religious and political groups. This course is an introduction to the basic concepts and topics in organizational behavior (OB) and management. The course focuses on OB at three levels: individual, interpersonal, and collective. We will start at the individual level, covering decision-making, motivation, and personality. We will then turn to the interpersonal level, covering power, influence, and negotiations. Finally, we will move up to the collective level, covering leadership and organizational context.
- Teacher: Sorin Cruceru
Management Information Systems: Information systems have become the enabling technology for business. Businesses and organizations that are not exposed, aware, or do not use the latest applications, solutions, and IT infrastructure are compromising their current and future competitive position. This course balances theory with applications through case studies and projects that emphasize the effectiveness of organizational information systems in achieving the objectives for which the systems are designed.
Factors such as the organizational structure and information requirements are studied within the context of ethical, economic, and socio-technical factors that affect the design of systems and the processes of converting data to information, information to knowledge, and knowledge to intelligence.
- Teacher: Alex Lima
The Capstone Field Project provides students with the opportunity to complete their academic curriculum through the real life business application of best practices learned through courses taken in the program. The main objective of the Capstone Field Project is to strengthen the students’ capacities to explore, conceptualize, analyze, explicate, interpret, and provide suggested solutions to companies and Organizations facing critical business challenges. In addition, the Capstone Field Project requires from students to write a detailed set of recommendations addressing the business challenges cited above where students demonstrate their knowledge and competencies gained through their course of study in specific areas such as: finance, accounting, marketing, strategic management, and operations. The organizations benefited from the Capstone Field Project are selected by the students with a final approval of the Graduate Academic Director.
- Teacher: Chee Piong
Management Information Systems: Information systems have become the enabling technology for business. Businesses and organizations that are not exposed, aware, or do not use the latest applications, solutions, and IT infrastructure are compromising their current and future competitive position. This course balances theory with applications through case studies and projects that emphasize the effectiveness of organizational
information systems in achieving the objectives for which the systems are designed.
Factors such as the organizational structure and information requirements are studied within the context of ethical, economic, and socio-technical factors that affect the design of systems and the processes of converting data to information, information to knowledge, and knowledge to intelligence.
- Teacher: Theo Owusu
This course provides the student with a survey of the concepts, tools and applications in the field of operations management. The Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Operations and Project Management prepares individuals to face the advanced management and administrative challenges encountered in the current large scale and/or complex high-tech global organizations. In particular, this concentration provides technically and operationally- oriented professionals with the skills necessary to effectively and efficiently manage large-scale projects and continuously improve related organizational processes and procedures. Complementing classes on project and operations management, the courses in the program are designed to provide the student with superior skills in online communications, financial management and business law that are needed to compete in the rapidly developing, highly competitive field of global business management.
- Teacher: Chee Piong
This course will provide graduate students with a framework to understand the structure and dynamics of International Marketing in relations to Business Growth, Performance, and Results.
This graduate course will extend students experience in:
- Identifying and evaluating opportunities worldwide,
- Developing and adapting market strategies in relation to specific national market needs or constraints,
- Executing/coordinating International Marketing programs.
- Teacher: Mia Merritt