TeamMBA Two-Day Teambuilding Advance
The TeamMBA experience begins a few weeks prior to the program coursework with a two-day Teambuilding Retreat. You’ll get acquainted with the other members of your cohort, participate in some exciting teambuilding activities and complete some enlightening self-assessments measuring leadership qualities, personality traits, emotional intelligence and other characteristics.

MGMT 6600—Leadership and Motivation
This course focuses on the traits, motives and characteristics of effective leaders. Various models and theories of leadership and motivation are examined through class discussion and application to contemporary cases. Topics include leadership in small groups and teams, as well as strategic leadership at the organization level. Course content includes the nature of leadership in cross-cultural and diverse environments, and emphasizes the role of ethics and systems of ethical decision making that leaders are faced with in contemporary business environments.

ACCT 6300—Accounting for Decision Making
A study of accounting issues confronted by managers, including pricing and sales decisions, tax implications of business forms and business decisions and financial statement analysis.

MKTG 6705—Marketing Management
Learn to employ strategic decisions marketing managers need to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and to develop goal-specific marketing plans. Course includes study of frameworks for analyzing markets, customers and competitors and strategies for analyzing core competencies and resources to meet marketplace needs and opportunities.

FINC 6400—Financial Management
This course provides the requisite financial theory for all MBA students, allowing you to assume leadership roles in the financial decision-making process within your organizations. The course includes the essential theories of markets, risk, return and valuation and how these theories are applied to financial management decisions.

ECON 6205—Economics and Decision Making
This course uses statistical analysis to enrich the decision making precision, providing you with the knowledge necessary to be an effective, competitive manager. Quantitative economics draws on analysis for such concepts as cost, demand, profit, competition, pricing, entry strategy, and market protection strategy, bridging the gap between analytical problems and the day-to-day decisions managers face. The course gives managers the skills to combine their intuition and personal style of analysis with decision techniques that facilitate a thorough, systematic examination of problems and their feasible alternative solutions.

MGMT 6620—Operations Management with Management Science
This course focuses on design, integration, and improvement of the interrelated work activities that combine to produce an organization’s goods or services. Quantitative models useful for operations analysis and decision-making are included.

BUSA 6900—Strategic Management  in a Global Environment
Business Strategy is a capstone course integrating prior MBA knowledge specifically applied to the growing challenges of globalization. The context of business strategy is portrayed in an environment of intensifying competition, evolving political economy, cultural dynamics, and multinational commerce. The course responds to the need for both small and large businesses to consider globalization as a critical element of their strategic focus. Special course coverage provides the student with international perspectives on such topics as leadership, value chain integration, entrepreneurship and ethics.

MGMT 6610—Information Management
A comprehensive review of information management as it relates to the information-age organization. The major focus is on information systems that guide decision making, support collaboration, and facilitate organizational effectiveness. 

BUSA 6990—Capstone Leadership Experience
This course integrates all the courses in the TeamMBA program. Student teams work with mentors to define and research an organizational or community issue, develop a report, and present the findings to a committee composed of business faculty, business council members and students’ clients during the last 5 weeks of their program. 

Optional International Experience
Expand on your team experience and deepen the relationships you’ve established with the members of your cohort through an optional two to three week group trip abroad. Offered summers beginning 2010.

ACCT 5300 Accounting Concepts (3)    
A study of the underlying theory and application of financial and managerial accounting concepts, including analysis of financial statements for usefulness in decision-making.

MGMT 5600 Intro to Management (3)    
This course is designed to familiarize students with the functions of management. Major emphasis is placed on planning, organizing, controlling, and leading the organization to improve performance.

MKTG 5700 Introduction to Marketing (3)    
The course describes the marketing environment and elements of consumer behavior, and introduces emerging market technologies.

ECON 5205 Survey of Economics (3)    
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of a broad range of macro and micro economic topics including, the theories of supply and demand, the business cycle, GDP, the theory of the firm, and price elasticities, and consumer choice theory.

BUSA 5110 Statistical Analysis (3)    
Coverage of descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, statistical inference, experimental design, regression analysis, and statistical tools for continual improvement.

FINC 5400 Finance Foundations (3)    
A study of financial concepts with emphasis on understanding how the principles of financial management can be used to enhance the value of a firm. Topics include the time value of money, financial statement analysis, financial markets and interest rates.