ECON 302: Microeconomics (Winter "C" 2021)

Economics is the study of choice under conditions of scarcity. The study of Economics should help you to better understand your world – whether it’s major world news that affects everyone or minor choices that you make every day that only affect you. In this course we will focus on the choices of individuals and firms, the allocation of resources in society, and the dynamics of markets.

The course will provide you with an introduction into the economic way of thinking, the cost benefit approach to decisions, and will develop your ability to think analytically about forces at work in the choices of individuals, firms, and society. You will learn both a specific set of analytical tools and important economic theories.

ECON 303: Macroeconomics (Winter "C" 2021)

Economics is the study of choices we make among our many wants and desires, given our limited resources. Resources are the input that society uses to produce output, called goods. These resources and goods are considered scarce because of society’s tendency to demand more resources and goods than are available.

Macroeconomics is the study of the market system on a large scale. Macroeconomics considers the aggregate performance of all markets in the market system and is concerned with the choices made by the household sector, the business sector, and the government sector.

MBA 710: Capstone Project (Winter "C" 2021)

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.

IB 402: Strategic Management in the Multicultural Corporation (Winter "C" 2021)

This course focuses on the theories and practices of international strategic business management in today’s global, interconnected world.  We will explore, through a review of management theory and of global corporate business case studies, how the strategies that a company’s managers pursue can have a major impact on the company’s performance relative to that of its competitors. 

You will learn that a business strategy is a set of related actions that managers take to attain a goal or set of goals that results in a sustainable competitive advantage and superior financial performance.  We will explore strategic theories applied to specific corporate business cases to understand how corporations such as Boeing, Ikea and Netflix have implemented strategies to establish a sustainable competitive advantage and achieve superior financial performance over a long run. 


MBA 681: Markets and Consumers-based Management / MHM 645: Hospitality Marketing Strategy (International Marketing) (Winter "C" 2021)

This course will provide you 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 your 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.

In addition, this hands-on class intends to develop a deep understanding and practical skills to apply Marketing concepts, analyses, and tools to formulate, develop, and implement an International Marketing plans and initiatives in a globalized business environment heavily influenced by digital, interactive, viral, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Social Media, and High Tech-Knowledge-Innovation environments.


MBA 510: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (Winter "C" 2021)

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 are 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.

MBA 702: Operations and Project Management (Winter "C" 2021)

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.