BUS 01600 - Special Topics in Business Administration (3 credits)

• Students will study advanced level topics in specific disciplines as identified through participation in in-depth seminars on topics to be determined by faculty in consultation with the Graduate Committee of the College of Business. Students will complete research or projects on specialized topics in various disciplines in Business Administration. Students may take each topic only once. This course may not be offered annually.

ENT 06505 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)

• This course provides a broad framework for understanding the nature of entrepreneurship in multiple organizational settings. The course introduces students to the innovation and idea generation process and helps students apply an alternative way of "thinking" to assist in solving difficult issues for government, business, and the nonprofit sector.

ENT 06506 - Corporate Entrepreneurship (3 credits)

• This course provides an overview of the potential for innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities or new ventures within a corporate environment. The course covers various aspects of corporate entrepreneurship. Major topics include understanding the corporate entrepreneurial revolution, learning about the nature of entrepreneurship within established organizations (intrapreneurship), understanding the requirements for setting up an environment conducive to being intrapreneurial within a corporate setting, and learning about the entrepreneurial direction of firms as they grow and evolve. Among the issues discussed are the role of creativity within corporate entrepreneurship, the relation to product innovation and technology, the importance of corporate strategy within an entrepreneurial framework, and what it takes to create an entrepreneurial culture in a corporate setting.

HRM 06605 - Strategic Human Resource Management (3 credits)

• Strategic Human Resource Management consists of planned organizational activities designed to increase organizational effectiveness and equity. This course outlines the transformation of HRM from a clerical function to an important strategic partner of top management. It focuses on the ability of HRM to provide a source of competitive advantage to forward-thinking organizations.

MGT 06501 - Advanced Operations Management and Strategy (3 credits)

• This course is designed to familiarize students with the complexities of operating a manufacturing company or service organization. The focus is primarily on gaining a competitive edge by improving functions of operations management. Concepts and tools pertaining to business forecasting, operations decision-making, resources allocation, location and capacity planning, inventory control and management, facility layouts, scheduling, project management, and quality control and management will be covered. Case studies and team projects will also be used to provide practical applications in a realistic business context.

MGT 06503 - Organization Development (3 credits)

• Students study the application of behavioral science in the management of planned organizational change and development. In addition to the analysis of issues facing the change agent, students also develop skills in implementing and intervening in the effort to improve organizational effectiveness. This course may not be offered annually.

MGT 06520 - Global Leadership and Organization Culture (3 credits)

• This course is designed for graduate business students. Course content will cover the theories of business leadership, and the focus of this course will be on leadership from a variety of perspectives—organizational leadership in the external environment, as well as leadership at the top, middle, and lower levels inside organizations. Students will focus on the theory and implementation of various business leadership tasks and responsibilities including working with other leaders in a multinational world and supervising workers with diverse backgrounds. These business skills will include establishing workplace goals, organizing work units for productivity, conducting interviews, giving feedback to subordinate employees, designing and implementing employee motivation programs, changing an organization’s culture, the capacity to lead globally, leading work teams, and managing workforce diversity. By the end of the course, students will be able to effectively diagnose the complex dynamics of leadership in business environments and take action as leaders to improve individual and organizational performance.

MGT 06599 - Special Topics in Management (3 credits)

• Students will study advanced level topics in management. The exact topics to be covered will change over time. Contact the MBA office or Management and MIS Department for details.

MGT 06601 - Strategic Planning for Operating Managers (3 credits)

• This course prepares the operating manager for the responsibilities of strategic planning. The course will identify what goes into and how strategic planning is performed. Strategy formation and evaluation will be assisted by computer decision models and management games. The interrelationships of organizational units and proactive management posture with respect to environmental forces will be stressed. This course may not be offered annually.

MGT 06603 - Process Analytics (3 credits)

• This course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Process analytics introduces a different domain of quantitative analytics in understanding, improving, and creating processes, and it is critical for managers and business professionals to use the knowledge and tools to create competitive advantage. This course covers fundamental and applied knowledge on process analytics – including process data acquisition, analysis, matching and models in modern process analytics.

MGT 07510 - Quality Analytics (3 credits)

• This course builds a thorough understanding of how our processes and products can be continually improved through organization-wide quality management. The course will cover customers, outputs, processes, inputs, stake and stock holders, and decision-making functions as they relate to enhancing the vitality of organizations to make them customer focused. The focus is on developing and implementing "soft" and "hard" tools to deliver the "best net value" to customers. In this course, students will investigate the aspects of forming organizational alliances and consensus thinking; deriving functional synergies; using quality analytics such as Six Sigma, Design of Experiment, Control Charts, etc.; developing customer orientation, facilitating teamwork, and getting a real-world perspective.

MGT 07600 - Predictive Analytics (3 credits)

• This course is designed to acquaint the graduate student with the advanced statistical forecasting techniques. Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to identify a forecasting problem, gather data and use computerized statistical packages to obtain solutions, analyze results, determine the validity and reliability of the model, and if necessary, recommend alternative methods to solve the model. This course may not be offered annually.