Curriculum

This course introduces the field of business analytics by covering statistical and quantitative methodology for data analysis and managerial decision-making. Some of the topics include regression, forecasting, risk analysis, simulation, linear programming, data mining, and decision analysis. The course will emphasize on conducting analysis in a spreadsheet environment including XLMiner and Tableau.

Using a framework of managerial roles and competencies, this course explores what management involves, how it affects people within an organization, why it is critical to the effective functioning of an organization, and how the accomplishment of management functions may vary in different cultural contexts. The course surveys competencies and knowledge necessary for successfully facing current challenges in the rapidly changing global business environment.

Sustainable organizational practices require managers to pay attention to the economic, environmental and social impact of organizational strategies and actions. This course focuses on ethical and legal issues that organizations and individual managers face in achieving triple bottomline sustainability. Ethical decision-making frameworks provide principles for dealing with challenges posed by technology, globalization, and societal changes and for fulfilling personal as well as corporate social responsibility. Legal topics survey business regulation and processes, forms of business organizations, intellectual property, and commercial transactions.

Many firms worldwide demonstrate that operations and supply chains can be effective weapons for building and sustaining an organization's competitive advantage. This course addresses the key operations and supply chain issues with strategic and tactical implications. The course will cover manufacturing, service, business, nonprofit, and government organizations in this course. It will focus on five major decision areas: process, quality, capacity, inventory, and supply chain

Leaders and managers at all levels in organizations must influence others to enable achievement of the organization's objectives. Leading and influencing with integrity requires understanding of one's self, other people, the situational and cultural context, as well as both current and future impacts of actions taken. Through course learning experiences students develop individual and organizational strategies to influence others, shape culture, manage change, negotiate, and facilitate employee engagement and performance so that their organizations can contribute to society in ways that are effective, responsible, and sustainable.

This course covers the essential elements and model areas of Artificial Intelligence and the application of AI in business.

This introductory course provides a holistic view on the security aspects of the cyber space ecosystem. The course introduces students to cybersecurity foundations and cybersecurity first principles. Topics include CIA (confidentiality, integrity and availability) and AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) framework, threats and adversaries, vulnerabilities and risk management, security life-cycle, data security, access control and security models, privacy, legal and ethical issues.

This is the capstone course of the MBA program. Through the action-learning consulting project, cases, readings, and experiential exercises, students hone their management skills and make presentations to business practitioners, non-profit executives, and faculty. Seminar topics cover corporate strategy, leadership, and sustainability. Students prepare a personal and professional self-development plan.
Prerequisite: Take WGB-650

This course serves as the international capstone experience for the MBA program. Working in teams, students partner with an organization operating outside of the U.S. to address a real-world strategic challenge. Throughout the course, students apply management frameworks, international business knowledge, and case-based learning to deepen their leadership skills and deliver integrative, high-impact recommendations. The experience culminates in a one-week international trip, where students present their final project to the client's executive team on site. **Students can choose between this course and WBG691 to satisfy the capstone requirement of the MBA program. **

Students are directly involved in various dimensions of business. Emphasis is on applying business principles and skills to a specific industry or organization. An on-site business professional supervises students.