MBA Online Summer Courses

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.

This course will focus on the innovation lifecycle and the use of data as part of the innovation process. Today, corporations view innovation as a never-ending process in all aspects of their businesses as we transform to a digital society. Case studies related to actual innovations will be utilized and students will then apply the principles to their own project.

Provides an introduction to three key areas in finance-financial markets, financial management, and valuation-focusing on how capital is effectively raised and invested in a value-based management framework. Topics include: analysis of firm performance using financial ratios and other measures, techniques to assess new opportunities including new product lines, projects or corporate investments, an introduction to global capital markets, the relationship between risk and return, determinants of a firm's cost of raising capital, and the basic factors impacting the value of financial securities.

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 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