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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 situations that involve
interviewing, listening, delegation, conflict management,
performance appraisal, and handling problem employees. May
include writing, presentations, field study, and
videotaping.
ADMN 820 - Tax Planning for Business
Credits:
3.00
Provides coverage of advanced topics from a strategic
viewpoint and an understanding of the history and
development of taxation, the role taxes play in financial
and managerial decisions, and how taxes motivate people and
institutions. The major tax issues inherent in business and
financial transactions and their consequences are also
explored.
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
Analytical tools and practical skills for recognizing and
solving complex problems of business finance.
Working-capital management; capital 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 834 - Private Equity/Venture Capital
Credits:
3.00
Covers the financial aspects of new venture creation.
Early stage private equity market and mechanisms available
for financing the entrepreneurial venture, from seed and
startup financing to initial public offering. Includes
financing stages from both entrepreneur's and the investor's
perspective. Focuses primarily on U.S. market, but also
covers Europe and Asia.
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. Not available to M.S. in Accounting students.
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. Not available to M.S. in Accounting students.
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 simulation 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
judgment 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
commercial 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 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
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
Special topics; may be repeated. Prereq: consent of adviser
and instructor.
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. Cr/F. (Executive M.B.A. program only.) Program fee.
ADMN 902 - Integrative Management Seminar
Credits:
Provides an intensive orientation and introduction to the
practical and academic aspects of the full-time MBA program
during a four week residency period. Analytical problem
solving, effective communication skills, team dynamics, and
exposure to various aspects of business and MBA education.
Cr/F.
ADMN 905 - Integrated Team Projects I
Credits:
3.00
Designed to enhance student's field and research experience.
Students work with faculty and Corporate Roundtable members
on projects that apply and integrate concepts learned in
class.
ADMN 906 - Integrated Team Projects II
Credits:
3.00
Designed to enhance student's field and research experience.
Students work with faculty and Corporate Roundtable members
on projects that apply and integrate concepts learned in
class.
ADMN 907 - Basic Managerial and Statistical 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 - Advanced Managerial Concepts
Credits:
3.00
Provides an introduction to the topics of information
systems, business ethics, and leadership and crisis
management.
ADMN 909 - Information Systems Across the Enterprise
Credits:
2.00 to 3.00
Provides an introduction to international management and
information systems across the enterprise.
ADMN 910 - Business Forum
Credits:
1.00
A forum to discuss current business topics presented by
guest lecturers, faculty, and student groups. First and
second year MBA students discuss internships,
specializations/electives, group projects and employment.
Whittemore School faculty members of the Corporate
Roundtable are active participants in these monthly events.
May be repeated.
ADMN 912 - Organizational Behavior
Credits:
3.00
Develops an understanding of individual and work group
dynamics in relation to personal and group effectiveness in
diverse organizations. Includes: individual and group
differences; work groups and teams; interpersonal
communications; motivation and rewards; influence and
empowerment; conflict resolution; management models; and
leadership. Taught experientially. Special fee.
ADMN 914 - Integrated Field Project I
Credits:
3.00
In-depth industry field project carried out in the fall
semester with a member company of the Corporate Roundtable.
The project is of sufficient scope to provide the students
the opportunity to demonstrate a mastery of the
competencies required in the program.
ADMN 915 - Integrated Field Project II
Credits:
3.00
In-depth industry field project carried out in the winter
semester with a member company of the Corporate Roundtable.
The project will be of sufficient scope to provide
students with the opportunity to demonstrate a mastery of
the competencies required in the program.
ADMN 920 - Financial Accounting
Credits:
3.00
Introduces students to the accounting discipline and
develops financial statement literacy grounded in
contemporary business issues. Develops an understanding of
how and why economic events are recorded, communicated and
evaluated. Consideration is also given to the roles of tax
and compensation strategies in the business environment.
ADMN 921 - Managerial Accounting
Credits:
3.00
Builds on material covered in Financial Accounting. Enhances
students' ability to acquire, analyze, and interpret
decision, control, and financial performance information
within a managerial, strategic, and systems framework in the
context of rapid global change.
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 to 3.00
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
Focuses on financial decision making to maximize shareholder
value. Course concepts are integrated into the standard
theories of risk and return, valuation of assets and market
efficiency.
ADMN 940 - Technology and Operations Management
Credits:
3.00
Provides a foundation for dealing with managerial decisions
about technology and operations issues. Based on the premise
that technology and operations can be a significant source
of competitive advantage for a firm. Prepares students to
identify and implement operating improvements that directly
affect firm performance.
ADMN 950 - Managerial Statistics
Credits:
2.00 or 3.00
Examines the role of statistics in the decision-making
environment. Application of statistical procedures to
practical problems, increasing ability to make and implement
better managerial and business decisions. Probability;
discrete, continuous distributions; sampling distributions;
interval estimation; linear regression; quality control;
hypothesis testing.
ADMN 955 - Quantitative Business Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Examines the role of quantitative models in the
decision-making environment. Topics include general modeling
and analysis principles; correlation and regression;
forecasting, simulation, optimization. Emphasis on "art and
science" of model building and analysis and application to
business decision-making. Role of decision tools in
information systems architecture.
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
A study of economic principles useful to business managers.
Microeconomic topics include market behavior, economic
costs, and economic decision-making. Macroeconomic topics
include macroeconomic performance, financial markets,
international trade and finance, and monetary and fiscal
policy.
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 985 - Organizational Structure and Environments
Credits:
3.00
Examines organizations as open systems whose effectiveness
depends on the design of internal structures and culture to
fit external demands, opportunities, and threats. Develops
students' analytic and diagnostic skills as designers of
ethical and socially responsible organizations. Topics
include organizational environments; organizational
structure-authority, control, specialization, coordination;
creating and changing organizational culture;
business-government influences, corporate governance, and
ethics; managing organizational technology, and innovation;
managing organizational life cycles and transformation.
ADMN 992 - Special Projects and Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
Projects, research, and reading programs in areas required
for concentration. Sixty 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.