Course Descriptions
General Business
BUS 7005 Continuing Thesis or Project (0 units)
Non-credit course. Applicable to those students who have completed all registration for graduate coursework and who have registered for the maximum number of thesis or project units required by their program. Students must register each semester or term until they have secured faculty approval for their thesis or projects.
Executive Master of Business Administration
BUS 5000 Introduction to the EMBA
An off-site orientation day provides students with an overview of the program, the program structure, and the courses that comprise the program. Includes brief descriptions of each course, helpful strategies for working in an accelerated program structure, research tools, and comprehensive training in technology used for on-line courses. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5100 Executive Management Accounting (3 units)
The interpretation and use of accounting information to solve managerial problems in all functional areas of business. Topics include financial planning and control, cost-volume-profit analysis, performance evaluation, transfer pricing, and relevant costs for decision-making. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5150 Leading Through Technology (3 units)
Course addresses how to direct and manage the major technological and innovative challenges that organizations face. Key areas include effective technological resources, innovation and growth, technological opportunities and threats. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5200 Strategic Finance for Executives (3 units)
Focuses attention on financial management of business enterprises and its relation to other functional areas of management, and to general business policy. Extensive use of case problems and/or simulation exercises provides applications of theory to financial decisions involving cash flow management, capital structure planning, capital costs, capital budgeting, dividend policy, and valuation of enterprises operating for profit. Students will apply analytical methods to cases based on their understanding of finance and financial theory and practice. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5250 Leading and Managing People for Success (3 units)
Advanced study of management skills and interpersonal techniques proven most effective in bringing out the best in subordinates and peers. Emphasis on understanding human motivation and behavior in organizations with the aim of engaging cooperation and commitment to organizational goals and interests. Topics include: interpersonal styles and techniques, motivation and motivational skills, cooperation and conflict in organizations, managing conflict, managing dynamics between groups, and managing change. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5300 Strategic Leadership in Marketing (3 units)
Advanced course in strategic marketing leadership for Executive MBAs. Integrates managerial marketing concepts and strategies used for creating customer value, sustainable competitive advantage, and economic value. Emphasizes a total system of customer-driven strategic marketing planning, implementation, and control elements that are ethical and responsive to the marketing environment. Describes the key areas that managers need to consider when implementing a marketing strategy including marketing research, segmentation, product development and positioning, integrated marketing communications, pricing, and marketing channels in a variety of markets (e.g., domestic, global, e-commerce, profit, and not-for-profit). Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5350 Supply Chain Management (3 units)
Course shows how managers can improve a firm’s competitive position by employing the latest practices and techniques of supply chain management in the global marketplace. It will discuss the main components and concepts of the supply chain and will explain how to manage best the entire supply chain. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5400 Managing for Strategic Advantage in a Global Market (3 units)
Comprehensive course covering international environmental forces and their influence in all functional areas of the international firm - finance, management, marketing, personnel, production, and the multinationals’ ethical responsibility to the host countries. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5450 Best Practices in Leadership (3 units)
Advanced study of leadership and leadership practices that have proven effective both in fostering an ethical and responsible work environment in business organizations, and in helping to ensure the ongoing continuity and success of the organization. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5500 Executive Strategic Leadership Management (3 units)
Course develops a general management perspective to address issues of integration between functional areas and adaptation to a changing global environment for top-level executives. It covers leadership, including analysis, planning, implementation, and formulation of business strategy and solutions to complex business problems and situations. Executives learn how to do industry analysis, market analysis, financial analysis, and competitive analysis. These strategic skills are applied to their strategic planning cases to create a complete deliverable. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
BUS 5960 Individual Project (2 units)
Course focus is on applying EMBA knowledge to actual business problems and solutions. The centerpiece of the final course sequence pairs teams of three/four students with a business opportunity. The team will diagnose, analyze, and resolve a strategic issue in an organization, identifying an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial business opportunity and formulating a solution. Each student will present individually the results through a written graduate project. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the EMBA program.
