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ADMN 807 - Multivariate Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Applied multivariate analysis, with examples from business
and economics research. Descriptive methods and classical
inference methods are covered in the context of models and
underlying assumptions. Computer programs are used and their
output explained.
ADMN 812 - Managing Organizational Change
Credits:
3.00
Conceptual and technical tools to manage the challenge of
change, both unpredictable and predictable. Topics include
the process of change; change strategies; change agent
roles--internal and external; bases of resistance to change;
coping with resistance. Prereq: organizational behavior or
equivalent desirable.
ADMN #813 - Management Skills
Credits:
3.00
Focuses on the role of the manager, particularly the
interpersonal competencies required to work effectively
with superiors and subordinates. Participants develop and
critique their behavior in situtations that involve
interviewing, listening, delegation, conflict management,
performance appraisal, and handling problem employees. May
include writing, presentations, field study, and
videotaping.
ADMN 815 - Consulting Practicum
Credits:
3.00
Field consulting experience as a member of M.B.A.
Associates. Development of client relationships, diagnoses,
and analyses of actual problems, written and oral reports to
clients, and administrative participation in M.B.A.
Associates. May be repeated. Credit/Fail.
ADMN 821 - Auditing
Credits:
3.00
The attest function and the responsibility and professional
ethics of the independent auditor in our society. Audit
concepts, procedures, objectives, and reports. Operational
audits, social audits, and management services. Prereq:
financial and managerial accounting;/ or permission.
ADMN 822 - Advanced Cost Accounting
Credits:
3.00
Effective use of cost accounting, cost analysis, and
budgeting in planning and controlling operations. Analysis
of cost behavior, direct and absorption costing,
cost-price-volume relationship, distribution costs, transfer
pricing, and capital budgeting analysis.
ADMN 823 - Topics in Finance
Credits:
3.00
Prereq: financial management.
ADMN 824 - Resource Management
Credits:
3.00
Analysis and development of resource management planning and
control systems. Topics include inventory management,
material requirements planning, and capacity management.
ADMN 825 - Manufacturing Management
Credits:
3.00
Analysis and development of manufacturing management
planning and control systems. Topics include production
planning, master scheduling, distribution, and production
activity control.
ADMN 826 - Decision-Support Systems
Credits:
3.00
Exploration of computer usage in support of the
problem-solving and decision-making process. Topics
include conceptual foundations of decision-support systems,
design of decision-support systems, spreadsheets, databases,
and expert systems. Use of mainframe and microcomputers,
cases, projects; guest speakers.
ADMN #827 - Topics in Accounting
Credits:
3.00
Special topics.
ADMN 829 - Financial Policy
Credits:
3.00
Analyitcal tools and practical skills for recognizing and
solving complex problems of business finance.
Working-capital management; captial budgeting; cost of
capital; capital structure; dividend policy.
ADMN 830 - Investments Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Security analysis, efficient market hypothesis, portfolio
theory, and alternative investments.
ADMN 831 - Derivative Securities and Markets
Credits:
3.00
Derivative assets and markets, and their role in business
decision-making and portfolio management. Emphasis on
practical and theoretical aspects of hedging and speculating
using futures and options for both commodities and
financial assets, including their market mechanics.
ADMN 832 - Exploration in Entrepreneurial Management
Credits:
3.00
Examination of the management of change and innovation
with particular attention to the role of the entrepreneur in
the management of new ventures. Characteristic behavioral,
organizational, financial, and marketing problems of
entrepreneurs and new enterprises.
ADMN 836 - Financial Statement Analysis
Credits:
3.00
The empirical properties of financial statement data and
evidence of its ability to predict such events as security
returns, corporate restructuring, debt ratings, and
financial distress. An empirical research project using
computer data banks is required.
ADMN 837 - Financial Accounting Theory and Applications I
Credits:
3.00
Theory and practice of income measurement and asset
valuation; consolidations, partnerships, leases, pensions,
price-level reporting, foreign currencies, and fund
accounting.
ADMN #839 - Financial Accounting Theory and Applications II
Credits:
3.00
Theory and practice of income measurement and asset
valuation; consolidations, partnerships, leases, pensions,
price-level reporting, foreign currencies, and fund
accounting.
ADMN 840 - International Business
Credits:
3.00
Issues and problems confronting managers in the
international economy. Emphasis on problems of working
across national borders rather than on those encountered
within the framework of different national economies,
cultures, and institutions. for managers working in a
multinational enterprise.
ADMN 841 - International Management
Credits:
3.00
Develops an understanding of international business from the
point of view of management and leadership, human resource
management, and organizational structure and change.
Emphasis on cultural impact on management thinking and
business practice and on skills for managing effectively in
international and multicultural environments.
ADMN #842 - Time Series Analysis
Credits:
3.00
The role of time series analysis in operational forecasting
is examined. Modern time series models and studied, with
particular emphasis on Box-Jenkins methods. Computer
programs are used and their output examined. Prereq:
introduction to statistics. (Also offered as ECON 828.)
ADMN #843 - Regressions Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Regression analysis is studied as an applied statistical
methodology, with a blend of underlying theory. Emphasis
is on inference, diagnostic checking of assumptions, and
remedial measures.
ADMN 844 - Simulation for Business Decision Making
Credits:
3.00
Provides the student hands-on experience with simulation
model development and use in a decision making context. Both
Monte-Carlo simulatino and discrete-event simulation will be
covered using commercial software packages. Emphasis will be
on the foundations of simulation, design and development of
the model, verification and validation, use of the model in
decision making, and communication of the key insights. A
student-defined project is an integral part of the course.
ADMN 846 - International Financial Management
Credits:
3.00
Financial management problems facing multinational firms.
Focus on effects of currency denominations on financial
decisions.
ADMN 847 - Business Taxation
Credits:
3.00
Taxation factors relevant to business decisions. Emphasis on
federal income taxation from the viewpoint of the firm.
Prereq: financial and managerial accounting.
ADMN 848 - Law: Use and Application in Business
Credits:
3.00
Use and understanding of law as it applies to business
judgement and policy decision making; basic legal rules and
their application. Contracts, corporations, agencies,
partnerships, administrative agencies, commissions, and
other related business matters. Case-method teaching with
outside research.
ADMN 851 - Advertising and Promotion
Credits:
3.00
Advertising, personal selling, and other promotional tools
to help solve marketing problems; advertising as a medium of
communication and as a social-cultural force in the Western
world.
ADMN 852 - Marketing Research
Credits:
3.00
Identification, collection, and analysis of data for the
marketing process. Strengths, limitations, environment, and
evaluation of research in the marketing process.
ADMN #854 - Seminar in Accounting and Finance
Credits:
3.00
Seminar discussions of advanced readings in accounting and
finance. For second-year M.B.A. students.
ADMN 855 - Marketing of Services
Credits:
3.00
Managerial aspects of the design, development, positioning,
and implementation of intangible offerings (services).
Theory and application to private, public, nonprofit, and
commerical enterprises with local, national, and
international perspectives. Discusses service quality
attainment and maintenance both internally and
competitively. Round-table discussions, student
presentations, and service marketing project. Text,
cases, speakers.
ADMN #858 - Strategic Management of Operations
Credits:
3.00
Review and application of operations management techniques
and methodologies for the development of operations
strategies. Team projects with client firms including
operations analyses leading to recommendation for
developing the firm's strategic operations posture. Prereq:
ADMN 940.
ADMN 859 - Managing Technological Innovations
Credits:
3.00
This course explores the formulation of technological
innovation strategy by using case-based examples and
technological frameworks to identify industry- and
firm-level patterns of innovation and organizational
characteristics that promote innovativeness.
ADMN #860 - Strategic Marketing
Credits:
3.00
Examines marketing management and decision making in
practical settings. Students are expected to draw upon
various marketing and other business concepts and apply
them to actual situations. Students are assigned one or two
cases per week which they must prepare for class discussion.
Emphasis on various aspects of marketing decisions in
strategic marketing, evaluating market opportunity,
developing integrated marketing programs, and developing
components of the marketing mix.
ADMN 861 - Sales Management
Credits:
3.00
Principles and methods of successful personal selling and
management of the sales function. Exposure to selling
experience in field of student interest; case studies; sales
presentations; oral and written analyses of sales management
issues.
ADMN #862 - Marketing Workshop
Credits:
3.00
Integrative study of a real marketing situation in a
business, nonprofit institution, or government agency.
Student teams identify problem, research or collect data,
suggest alternative solutions, and submit a recommended
course of action.
ADMN 863 - International Marketing
Credits:
3.00
Environmental factors affecting international trade: culture
and business customs, political and legal factors and
constraints, economic and technological development, and
the international monetary system. Integration of these with
the marketing management functions of market research and
segmentation; product, promotion, distribution, and pricing
decisions.
ADMN 865 - Total Quality Management
Credits:
3.00
Integration of management aspects of quality improvement
with methodologies and tools for problem-solving and
implementation. Experiential team projects and hands-on
in-class exercises are used to supplement and enhance
extensive written and video cases, facility tours, and guest
speakers. Prereq: ADMN 940 and 912.
ADMN 867 - Art and Science of Decision Making
Credits:
3.00
Explores the way individuals make decisions in
organizational environments. Topics include traditional
models of decision making, traps into which decision making
falls, role of creativity in the generation of alternative
choices, and negotiation--decision making with difficult
opponents. Emphasis on the way in which the individual can
become a better decision maker. The influence of national
culture is examined. Course format involves several texts,
readings, and the requirement that students maintain a daily
decision journal.
ADMN #885 - Career Management
Credits:
3.00
Develops individual career management skills. Topics include
concepts of career development and issues pertaining to
career management in organizations. Helpful for students
interested in human resource management.
ADMN 898 - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
Special topics; may be repeated. Prereq: consent of adviser
and instructor.
ADMN 898A - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898B - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898C - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898D - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898E - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898I - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898J - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898K - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 898M - Topics in Administration
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
ADMN 900 - Integrative Management Seminar
Credits:
Extends throughout first year of the Executive M.B.A.
Program. Material and topics not offered in regular courses
are offered here, as are distinguished speakers from
business and government, field trips, issues of immediate
concern. Credit/Fail. (Executive M.B.A. program only.)
ADMN 907 - Basic Managerial Concepts
Credits:
3.00
Provides an orientation to the practical and academic
aspects of the part-time MBA program during a four week
period. Analytical problem solving, effective communication
skills, team dynamics, and exposure to various aspects of
business and MBA education.
ADMN 908 - Intermediate Managerial Concepts
Credits:
3.00
Provides an introduction to the topics of information
systems, business ethics, and leadership and crisis
management.
ADMN 909 - Advanced Managerial Concepts
Credits:
3.00
Provides an introduction to international management and
information systems across the enterprise.
ADMN 912 - Organizational Behavior
Credits:
3.00
Application of behavioral and social science concepts to
contemporary organizational life. Covers theories and modes
related to individual, interpersonal, and group behavior as
well as to total organizational issues such as goals,
structure, and design of management systems. In addition
to reading material, the course methods include experiential
learning and the use of case studies for application.
ADMN 920 - Financial Accounting
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to the accounting methods employed in
organizations to determine and communicate their financial
positions to interested parties outside the organizations.
ADMN 921 - Managerial Accounting
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to various methods employed by organizations
in the financial planning and control processes.
ADMN 925 - Advanced Organizational Theory
Credits:
3.00
Examines organizations as complex social systems, focusing
on organizational structures as they relate to various
functions, including rewards, controls, and decision making.
Emphasis placed on the design of organizations for the
future with special attention to rapid changes in technology
and environmental factors.
ADMN 926 - Management Information Systems
Credits:
3.00
Provides students with the background to understand,
develop, and use computer-based information systems in
organizations. Five major topics are covered including: the
information system framework; information technology;
application software for managers; applications development;
and management of information systems resources. The
application software component covers the use of
spreadsheets and relational database systems. Students
participate in groups and are required to make several
presentations during the semester. Prereq: M.B.A. student.
ADMN 927 - Introduction to Information Systems
Credits:
1.00
Introduces students to the role of information systems in
management. Topics include: information technology and
competitive advantage; information systems and organization;
information economics; database management systems; and data
communications and network management.
ADMN 930 - Financial Management
Credits:
3.00
Concepts and techniques for determining the need for, the
acquisition of, and the management of, financial resources
of the business.
ADMN 940 - Operations Management
Credits:
3.00
Analysis of operational problems in the product and services
sectors, focusing on production system design and
development; emphasis on standards, capacity, inventory,
scheduling, and control.
ADMN 950 - Managerial Statistics
Credits:
3.00
Basic mathematical and statistical concepts applied to
managerial decision making. Probability, statistics,
decision trees, and mathematical models.
ADMN 955 - Quantitative Methods
Credits:
3.00
Examines the role of quantitative models in the
decision-making environment. Topics include forecasting,
deterministic optimization, and stochastic models. Major
emphasis on mathematical model formulation and the
application to business decision making.
ADMN 960 - Marketing Management
Credits:
3.00
Identification, development, and retention of markets for
the goods and services offered by the firm. Attention is
given to the dynamics of demand and to the blending of the
marketing mix.
ADMN 970 - Economics
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to micro- and macroeconomic principles and
their applications to business. Topics include consumer
theory, production and cost, market structures, gross
national product, monetary and fiscal policy, and
international trade and finance.
ADMN 981 - Business, Government, and Society
Credits:
3.00
Analysis of contemporary forms in relation to changing
external environments.
ADMN 982 - Strategic Management: Decision Making
Credits:
3.00
A "capstone" course, focused on industries, companies, and
other organizations in operation, and studied through the
role of the strategic manager and case examples, with
emphasis on integration of materials covered in prior
courses.
ADMN 992 - Special Projects and Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
Projects, research, and reading programs in areas required
for concentration. Sixy days advance approval of the
student's plan of study by adviser and by proposed
instructor required. Maximum of 6 credit, except by
special permission. Variable credit.