MBA in Management
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The management concentration prepares you to lead teams, guide organizational change and handle the challenges of today’s global business world. You’ll gain versatile skills in leadership, negotiation, international business and cross-cultural management that apply across many industries.
Through courses in change management, negotiation, international business and global management issues, you’ll gain the knowledge to solve problems, spot opportunities and help organizations achieve long-term success. Whether you want to become a general manager, project leader, operations director or international business consultant, this concentration provides the expertise to excel in leadership roles around the world.
Management Electives
Students utilize their interdisciplinary business knowledge and creativity to evaluate an entrepreneurial opportunity, whether a new product/service/business or a new application of an existing product or service. In developing a comprehensive business plan, student teams use their knowledge of the market and the competitive landscape, engage in research, develop financial models/forecasts, and gauge the project's financial feasibility, taking into consideration inherent business risk and the likelihood of being able to raise venture capital.
This course discusses the concept of sustainability within a business setting. It will analyze the complex relationship between business and the environment and aress the importance of environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it aims to discuss how the talents of business might be used to solve world's environment and social problems.
This course examines strategies and techniques for successfully introducing and managing change in organizations. Explores power, influence, leadership, motivation, and communication in the change process, as well as organization development, organizational learning, and innovation management. Student teams develop a framework for recognizing factors that influence change and a process map to manage change effectively.
Negotiation is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more interdependent parties. Hence, the purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of the psychological and strategic dynamics of negotiation. The course is grounded in the major concepts and theories of bargaining, negotiation, and mediation and is designed to use a combination of simulations and analysis to build one's own personal experience in the classroom and in the real world.
This course describes the scope of international business and studies multinational enterprises in light of cultural, historical, political, and economic factors. Trade theories are examined in the context of international economics and finance. The focus then turns to the management of global operations, from initial entry into international markets to strategy development for the multinational enterprise.