EMBA Course Descriptions
Bus 5133 – Managerial Marketing
Course Description – This course develops the roles of product, pricing, promotion, and distribution in the development of the firm’s integrated marketing program. Upon competition, students should be able to: critically analyze marketing problems occurring in business and to understand and be able to apply marketing strategy in the marketing management process.
ECON 5143 – Economics for Managers
Course Description – This course is designed to provide students useable information regarding the application of economic principles and techniques to solve management problems in the area of demand analysis, sales forecasting, production and cost analyses, pricing policies, capital budgeting and economic controls; use of linear programming techniques.
Bus 5243 – Finance/ Administrative Managerial Finance
Course Description - The purpose of this course is to provide the students with the necessary information to draw a critical analysis of the financial administration of a business. Included are; both short and long range financial planning, cash management, and capital budgeting, social responsibility of financial planning. The techniques covered are those consistent with the primary goal of the firm, which is the maximization of the shareholder return.
Bus 5273 - Human Resource Management
Course Description – Human resource programming, job requirements, sources of labor supply, selection procedures, training programs, job evaluation, salary administration, employee communication, union- management relations.
Bus 5433 –Managerial Accounting
Course Description – Will provide information needed for managerial decision making processes. Included in this application will be; the statement of changes in financial positions, budgets, responsibility accounting and quantitative techniques. At the end of this course students should be able to understand the differences between financial and managerial accounting, the processes useful in decision making, how to account for planning and control, capital budgeting and finally product costing methods.
Bus 5453 - Business Leadership
Course description – The purpose of Leadership at the graduate level is designed to prepare the, mid to senior level managers to understand different leadership theories, maximize their preferred style of leadership and to differentiate leadership applications.
Students will have the opportunity to practice and further develop their leadership styles as well as to identify and form strategies for dealing with conflicting leadership styles.
Bus 5503 – Economic International/Domestic Study Tour- Elective
Course Description - This course is designed to give students a first-hand look at culture and business in a foreign country. Students will spend a week, visiting with business and/or government officials to learn more about doing business in that country. Through this exposure students will broaden their understanding of the distinctive characteristics of global business operations. As a result, each of the functional areas of business (marketing, operations, finance, human resource management, and strategic management) will be emphasized. Background readings, pre-trip information session, and specific course deliverables are required.
Bus 5523 - Management and Organization
Course Description - This course explores the strategies and tools for building a learning organization. Principles of management practice and specific concepts about organizations, including change management, behavior, motivation, group dynamics, teamwork, leadership and ethics will be discussed.
Bus 5663 – Decision Making Tools & Techniques/Managerial Decision Making
Course Description - This course offers professional approaches to problem solving and prevention. The processes covered provide decision making templates to arrive at defensible business decisions. These methods permit students to analyze business situations and reach decisions under conditions of uncertainty.
Bus 5893 – Applied Business Environment
Course Description – The capstone course will focus on executive level decision-making that guides the organization in its interactions with the environment. These organizations may range from small entrepreneurships to the largest global corporations. The perspective of analysis will be comprehensive, similar to that taken by a CEO. Students will be expected to read case studies of selected organizations, analyze their actions, and make recommendations for future strategies, integrating the functional knowledge they’ve gained from classes taken in the EMBA program and their own work experiences. Students will select a company (subject to approval of the instructor), analyze its current condition, and recommend a detailed business plan to position the company effectively in its competitive environment.
Bus 5903 - Coaching and Mentoring
Course Description – This course will provide the student with the tools necessary to identify their own coaching style and recognize the style of others, identify and apply coaching skills within the coaching dialogue model, explain personal paradigm shifts needed for a leader to adopt a coach’s approach, identify the value to their present employer and to create a plan of action to apply the skills learned accordingly.
Bus 5903 – Management of Health Services Organization
Course Description – Introduction to the theories, concepts, techniques, functions, and methods of management as they relate to the health services organizations generally, with specific emphasis on hospitals.
Bus 5903 Project Management
Course Description - The course is organized around the project management life cycle to mirror the way a real-world project would be executed. It provides you with essential project management concepts and ties them into the Project Management Body of Knowledge developed by the Project Management Institute. It includes a discussion of the integration of parent organization's strategies into project selection and management; as well as risk management and assessment in the project management process.
Bus 5903 Strategic Information Systems –
Course Description - Transformation is the key to survival in today's highly competitive markets. This course will focus on how organizations can successfully use IT to transform themselves and achieve the competitive advantage in the new digital economy from a global perspective. This course focuses on innovative uses of information systems and technology relevant to business functions. Its real-world orientation, solid theoretical backing, and global perspective provide comprehensive coverage of the information systems field. Case studies and group activities help reinforce concepts in e-commerce, knowledge management, business process reengineering and network computing.
Bus 5923 – Global Business
Course Description – This course will focus on similarities and differences in business practices and management styles as practiced by global firms across a variety of industries. By reviewing strategies employed to gain competitive advantage in international markets student will gain valuable knowledge and insight into the inner workings of NAFTA. History, culture and current political environment topics will be brought into this course to ensure timely and useable information.
Bus 5933 - Corporate Ethics & Legal Environment/Business Ethics & Law
Course Description – The purpose of this course is to provide a critical examination/evaluation and discussion of the ethics alternatives with respect to decision- making and action in the area of business ethics and managerial practice. Methodology will include contemporary cases involving personal, social and legal institutions issues, as well as theoretical and empirical foundations in the classical system of ethics.
Bus 5963 – Management of Operations
Course Description – This course will provide the student with useful information for process and project management as well as developing functional strategies to create value for an employer and their consumers. Student will learn management tools and approaches for analyzing operations and be capable of applying such information to a wide variety of managerial decision making applications.
Students learn about the cause-and-effect mechanisms that affect process performance, how to develop and implement counter-measures and how to confirm the results of improvement.
HCA 5003 – Management of Health Services Organizations
Introduction to the theories, concepts, techniques, function, and methods of management as they relate to health services organizations generally, with specific emphasis on hospitals.
HCA 5033 – Health Services Human Resources Management
Techniques for effective management of human resources in health services organizations. The theories of organizational behavior are explored in relation to the functions and principles of human resource management including: planning, staffing, appraising, compensating, and developing employees. Relevant employment and labor relations law relating to health care organizations is examined. Prerequisites: HCA 5003 or permission of instructor.
HCA 5043 – Legal Foundations of Health Care Administration
Introduction to law as it affects the health delivery system with emphasis on both theoretical and practical determinants of legal decision making. An examination of the American legal system, its principles and processes, as well as how the law regulates issues related to control of costs through regulation and antitrust laws, and respect for “personhood” in the context of the professional-patient and organization-professional relationship are also addressed. The dynamics between law and ethics are explored. Prerequisite: HCA 5003 or permission of instructor.
HCA 5053 – Quantitative Methods in Health Care Administration
Fundamental principles of probability theory, statistical inference, linear regression, and management science applied to the analysis of management problems in health care administration. Applications include forecasting methods, deterministic and stochastic approaches to modeling systems behavior, and simulation methods.
HCA 5063 – Financial Management for Health Care Administration
Examination of the theory and practice of health care and financial management and decision making methods. Emphasis is placed on the role of the finance function in measuring, evaluating, and controlling an organization’s performance. Topics include financial statement analysis; cash and working capital management; corporate planning, budgeting and control systems; third party reimbursement systems; discounted cash flow analysis; and capital investment decision analysis. Prerequisites: HCA 5053, BUS 5433.
HCA 5183 – Health Resources and Policy Analysis
Determinants of U.S. health policy and resource allocation. Assessment of the impact of health policy on the medical marketplace, ideological, social, and professional bases affecting health personnel, regulation, and forecasting health service needs
HCA 5263 – Advanced Financial Management for Health Care Administration
Examination of the foundations of the health care financial management decisions through a combination of case analysis and readings from the literature of health care finance. Emphasis is placed on understanding the role of risk in the financial decision making process and on integrating the theory of financial decisions with practical problems in health care finance. Topics include: capital markets and the risk-return relation, estimating the cost of capital, valuation models, capital structure, decisions, and agency relationships. Prerequisites: HCA 5053, HCA 5063, HCA 5183.
HCA 5903 – Special Topics – Analysis and Management of Health in Populations
Group study of selected topics in Health Care Administration. Prerequisite: Completion of all required/core courses.
HCA 5933 – Capstone Seminar in Health Care Administration
An integrative course which emphasizes application of skills and knowledge acquired in the HCA curriculum. Health care management problems are solved using case studies, role playing, and simulation. Prerequisite: Completion of all required HCA courses.
