Curriculum & Class Format

GRBA 808

Within a corporation, there’s a top management team tasked with implementing its corporate strategy. In this course, you explore real cases of organizational structures, evaluate how well they support the top management team's strategic implementation, and assess the impact on overall organizational success.

An organization’s corporate structure is one of the primary mechanisms through which the management team implements its corporate strategy. Organizations with thoughtful strategic plans may still fail if management does not fully implement those strategies through an effective organizational structure. In this course, we will discuss live cases of organization structures, evaluating how well those structures support the strategies the management team has devised, and understanding their impact on overall organizational success.

GRBA 809

The purpose of this course is to provide a broad understanding of financial accounting for managers who will be “customers” of financial information.

The course focuses on providing an understanding of accounting from a user’s perspective and gaining insight into how economic events such as financing transactions, company investments, and operating activities are recorded in financial statements.

GRBA 811

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an operational knowledge of corporate finance by combining theory and application.

We cover concepts of risk, return, and time-value-of-money as applied to valuation of securities and capital budgeting. The course will also enable students to develop skills in the areas of financial analysis and planning.

GRBA 812

This course is an economics course for managers. It is about the great ideas of economics and their applications to business.

As Charles Wheelan notes, “Economics should not be accessible only to the experts. The ideas are too important and too interesting.” This course will train students in the areas of economic problem solving and decision making, consumer demand, demand elasticity, supply and demand decisions, international economics and foreign exchange rates, economic bubbles, complex pricing decisions, strategic game theory and bargaining, decisions under uncertainty, auctions, adverse selection and moral hazard. Students will also learn to apply these economic theories in a practical way to numerous business-oriented situations.

GRBA 813

In this course, students will be exposed to the theory and practice of marketing management.

Students will integrate the knowledge from various marketing sub-fields, including consumer behavior, marketing research, and channels of distribution. The course will follow a four-stage learning approach including: 1) comprehensively reviewing and analyzing all aspects of marketing management, 2) learning tools for marketing problem analysis, 3) understanding how to apply core marketing concepts, theories, and frameworks, and 4) developing an original marketing plan for a new product launch.

GRBA 814

In this course, students will develop skills and techniques that promote effective individual and team leadership.

Specifically, students will learn about major organizational frameworks and how they improve managerial decision making and performance. Students will gain awareness of recent developments in positive psychology and mindfulness that can enable more effective leadership as well as learn to recognize and address multiple perception biases related to leadership. Lastly, students will benefit from learning best practices from companies at the cutting edge of innovation in people-related processes.

GRBA 815

This course will enable students to better develop and sustain a company competitive advantage through effective supply chain management.

Students will develop an understanding of operations and information systems that support corporate-level strategies and simultaneously coordinate with other functional areas. Students will learn how to create value for customers through supply chains, operations and information systems, as well as understand the relationships between operations, supply chain management and other parts of the organization.

GRBA 816

Most, if not all managers, would agree that managing people effectively is an important ingredient of organizational effectiveness. This course develops your understanding of how human resource decisions contribute to organizational effectiveness and competitive advantage.

“People are our most important asset.” This phrase can be found, in one form or another, in most annual reports and CEO speeches. Nearly all managers would agree that managing people effectively is an important ingredient of organizational effectiveness. The most important success factor to achieving a long-term, sustainable competitive advantage—acknowledged by the world’s most admired companies—is the effective acquisition and management of human assets. In this course, students develop an understanding of how human resource decisions contribute to organizational effectiveness and a firm’s competitive advantage.

GRBA 851

In this course, students will gain broad understanding and knowledge of important business analytic topics and how they can be used to support decision making.

The course emphasizes the technical procedures that are used to describe, predict and prescribe data into information for enhanced decision making. Students will learn how data exploration results in a sequence of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive processes that result in new information on which better—and more informed—decisions can be made.

GRBA 853

In this course, students will improve their skills in thinking strategically from the perspective of a senior executive.

Students will improve their skills in thinking strategically from the perspective of a senior executive in the way that she/he identifies strategic challenges, analyzes the competitive and firm environment, formulates alternative courses of action, conveys strategic thinking to others, and justifies recommendations in ways that are firmly grounded in strategic theory and supported by strategic logic. Senior managers have daily responsibilities for examining critical assumptions, discerning hidden values, evaluating evidence, accomplishing actions and assessing conclusions. Importantly, students will practice these skills as an essential component of this course.