Online MBA Program

24 Credits

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethical Leadership

This course will develop highly effective transformational leaders in their respective professions who formulate sustainable, ethically sound solutions to practical management problems encountered in a complex global environment. Students will learn how to set direction and work with multiple constituencies with divergent needs through an ethical lens that includes social responsibility and the intersections of diversity, culture, and environment.

Strategic Talent Management in a Complex World

The interdisciplinary Leadership and Talent Management course will enable students to acquire the skills necessary to strategically lead decisively across all functions in organizations, including recruitment and selection of employees, training and development, performance appraisals, health and safety, labor relations, and change management. Students will be introduced to leadership and talent management within and across disciplines and apply strategies to the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. This course will integrate legal, management, and social science research with an action learning-based approach to executive-level leadership education.

Data Driven Decision Making

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to research methods and is designed to provide students with an introduction to statistical theory and practice. Students will learn how to research a current issue and interpret statistics for the fields of criminal justice, business, and public administration, assuming leadership roles in their discipline. As you progress through the course you will explore the lens through which professionals from other disciplines utilize data to make decisions. Students will learn how to make decisions and promote those decisions, based on data and statistical research.

Technology and Project Management

This course explores the business need for effective project management and uses for information technology and the attendant opportunities, risks, and ethics. Presents contemporary major systems implementation methods and uses. Examines security challenges and mitigation from a business perspective. Provides information technology planning and governance models and principles.

Finance

Find out how organizations finance investments and manage day-to-day financial activities. This course teaches you how to apply financial theory to real-life situations and make decisions as a financial manager with an incomplete data set. Learn how to work with financial statements and analyze common ratios to develop long- and short-term financial policies. Instruction also covers: the effect of interest rates on managerial decisions, the time value of money, discounted cash flow valuation, bonds and equity financing, stock valuation, present value, capital budgeting and investment, forecasting and cash flow projection, and project risk.

Marketing

Deepen your understanding of marketing management, strategy, and tactics in practice. Through case studies, you examine ethical, legal, social, and environmental issues that impact marketing decision making in realistic business scenarios. For your final project, you work on a team to create a strategic marketing plan for a fictional national product or service. Learn how to segment markets, set marketing metrics, create branding and integrated marketing communication strategies, track competitor market positions, select marketing channels, and use digital marketing tactics to promote products and services.

Global Operations and Supply Chain Management

Get hands-on experience analyzing a business case, forecasting operational volume and planning process improvement. This course introduces manufacturing, distribution, and service operations, and their role in the organization and international business environments. Study process flow analysis; inventory management for products of steady, perishable, or frequent demand; capacity planning; logistics resource scheduling; supply chain management; quality management; prioritization; and project management.

Strategy and Policy MBA Capstone

In the MBA capstone, you acquire and demonstrate advanced knowledge of how to develop and implement effective business strategies. Gain experience evaluating complex business situations and making strategic decisions under conditions of uncertainty. You’ll explore topics including internal and external environments, business ethics and social responsibility, quantitative analysis, accounting and finance, business models, competitive rivalry, international expansion, cooperative strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate structure, change management, leadership, and policy. For your final assignment, you create an integrated business portfolio that showcases your area of expertise.

9 Credits

Finance and Accounting

Master accounting principles and tools and learn how to prepare and evaluate financial statements and reports for corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Coursework covers financial statement analysis, corporate disclosure, and nonprofit accounting. This concentration prepares you to sit for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examinations.

• Accounting for Managers
• Corporate Financial Reporting and Disclosure
• Financial Statement Analysis

Cannabis Control

The growing cannabis industry is going to impact all aspects of our current societal process. The regulation of cannabis spans from growing, transportation, public health, and city services to new businesses, financing, and supply chains that cross jurisdictional lines. The concentration in Cannabis Control will give you a solid foundation in compliance, risk assessment and cannabis as commerce.

• Policy and Compliance
• Commerce
• Risk Assessment

General Business

The General Business concentration allows students to develop a personalized concentration area that spans multiple business concentrations. Students can tailor their concentration to their specific life and career goals, providing them with flexibility in developing their knowledge and skills. Choose three business electives that connect to your career goals.

Health Care Management

Gain the skills to manage a diverse workforce providing health care for an increasingly heterogeneous population. This concentration also prepares you to analyze and interpret health care funding and delivery trends to provide recommendations for organizational action.

• Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations
• Communication Strategy for the Health Care Leader
• Approved health care management elective

Human Resource Management

Gain the knowledge and skills required of human resource managers. Learn how to analyze legal requirements and apply resource management principles to support organizational objectives in staffing, employee development, labor relations, conflict resolution, compensation, and benefits practices.

Choose one course from each category below:

Staffing and Development

• Employee Staffing and Development
• Training and Career Development
• Change Management

Total Rewards

• Compensation and Benefits
• International Human Resources
• Employment Law

Maintaining High Performance

• Labor Relations and Conflict Resolution
• Principles and Practices of Performance Improvement
• Conflict Management and Alternative Dispute Resolutions

Leadership

Develop your skill at managing organizational changes and applying leadership strategies to manage conflicts in the workplace. This concentration prepares you to design creative solutions and impactful courses of action that support the organization’s employees and mission.

• Leading Teams
• Contingency Planning
• Leadership Elective

Marketing

This concentration allows students to learn and apply advanced constructs in digital marketing with a focus on brand development, launch and management. The concentration traverses the private and public sector industries in the application of business-to-business and business-to-consumer centric marketing methods.

• Social Media Marketing
• Strategic Brand Marketing
• Marketing Elective

• Apply interdisciplinary leadership practices based on evidence that promotes ethical, and collaborative sustainable change in business. Interdisciplinary outcome (IACBE KLO: Management & Leadership)
• Evaluate interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving and opportunities to lead a diverse, global workforce. Interdisciplinary outcome (IACBE KLO: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving)
• Communicate professionally to diverse audiences and within team environments
• Apply business analysis techniques, technologies, and tools to solve problems and support decision making. (IACBE KLO: Analysis & Technology Utilization)
• Formulate business strategies and solutions based on business knowledge and assess their ethical, legal, economic, and global impact. (IACBE KLOs: Business Knowledge & Business Environment)
• Apply strategic management techniques to build an inclusive team environment that supports members in accomplishing strategic goals and innovation. (IACBE KLO: Teamwork)