Business Administration Courses

The course introduces logic to provide a foundation for reasoning well. The course
will also address persuasion, through defining and explaining what rhetoric is, while giving students the opportunity to create and present original arguments. The types of communication styles, active listening, interpersonal relationships, and difficult conversations will be addressed. The course will teach students how to communicate effectively in business situations.

• Gupta Core Course. Required for All Graduate Business Programs.

An intensive exploration of the intellectual and moral virtues in the context of cultivating leadership characterized by magnanimity and humility and built on the cardinal virtues (i.e., prudence, justice, self-control, and courage). Students develop an advanced capacity for self-awareness and managing oneself. Connections between ethical, authentic, servant, and transformational leadership styles and virtues are examined and applied to personal leadership style and ethical decision making.

• Gupta Core Course. Required for All Graduate Business Programs.

An examination of business as a creation of man and collective contributor to society according to its responsibilities articulated by the tenets of Catholic social teaching including the common good, solidarity, subsidiarity, the dignity of the human person, worker, and work, and a preference for the poor. Emphasis is placed on how managers and their organizations effect change for a more sustainable planet and just society.  

• Gupta Core Course. Required for All Graduate Business Programs.

This course provides the four cornerstones necessary to establish the foundation for effective study of business at the masters level.

• Cornerstone 1: Ability to research and write for graduate course work with citation that respects the intellectual property of the original author and demonstrates an evidence-based perspective on management.
• Cornerstone 2: Knowledge of the primary questions and approaches for each of the functional areas of a business enterprise.
• Cornerstone 3: Basic skills underlying an analytic approach to management and decision making.
• Cornerstone 4: Understanding the business environment and its effect on policies, practices and decision making.

*Required for International Students

The course establishes the foundation for the graduate study of business with an emphasis on virtues, ethics, and Catholic Social Teaching (CST). Students will engage in self-assessment and deep immersion in cultivating their intellectual and moral virtues culminating in a personal development plan, describe fundamentals of business vocabulary and functions, develop learning skills for systematic reflection, experiential learning, and evidence-based management, and gain proficiency in effective classroom teamwork and leadership as well as active learning techniques.

Facilitates the development of interpersonal and team skills leaders need to function effectively. Focus is on the integrated behavioral competencies that organizations value today; self awareness, communication, collaboration, and relationship-building.  Students will plan and implement new behaviors relevant to individuals who hold leadership positions, as well as those who informally assume leadership roles as they work with others to achieve business goals.  

The development of knowledge and skills useful for advancing one’s career. Students will practice skills for vocational self-assessment, job and career information seeking, assessing opportunities, negotiating job design and compensation, self-promoting and professional branding, and planning and managing career stages and transitions.

The class focuses on understanding from the manager’s perspective what financial numbers really mean and how finance works. Topics include the accounting cycle, financial statement analysis, financial ratios, time value of money, risk and return, capital budgeting, costing systems, cost-volume-profit analysis, and budgetary planning.

This course introduces numeracy as a way for students to think competently about quantitative information. Students will learn how to take real world problems, interpret the information, and translate them into mathematical form. The course will address thinking critically, interpreting deterministic and probabilistic information, statistical reasoning, and mathematical modeling.

An application of high-performance work system design to the team context. Students are challenged to understand the evidence-based components of team design and to apply the analysis of them to the effective design and management of workplace teams. At the completion of the course, students will be equipped to construct logical bundles of team design characteristics that positively influence individual and team performance to drive enhanced individual, team, and organizational outcomes. Participating in an experiential learning course, students should expect to complete cases, projects, and activities in a team context.

 

Prerequisite:

• BUAD 6103. Career Advancement.

It is a pervasive challenge for leaders to adapt their organizations to today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment. In this course, students develop appropriate strategies for leading through the adaptive challenges faced by contemporary organizations. Emphasis is placed on the human factors of organizational changes, including leadership; influential organizational change models; stages of organizational change; and organizational culture change.

 

Prerequisite:

• Completion of Gupta Core Courses.

This course covers the strategic functions of for-profit, non-profit, educational, and governmental institutions. The course will cover the foundations necessary for the integration of business functions and their interface with the external environment. Specifically, this course is focused on functional literacy in areas spanning the value chain including, marketing, management, finance, accounting, entrepreneurship, and organizational technology and systems. The perspectives include all levels from the person to the organization and its environment.

 

Prerequisite:

• ACCT/FINA 6310. Financial Intelligence.

This course builds upon the foundation of the Integrated Business Operations course. Formulation and implementation of corporate level strategies for sustainable competitive advantage will be covered. The topics covered include industry analysis, internal analysis, achieving and maintaining different types of competitive advantage, and management of diversified corporations. The advancement of critical analysis, systematic reflection, and evidence-based decision-making skills is emphasized. The learning method is an orchestrated sequence of progressively complex integrated business problem solving. The delivery of the course will focus on case analysis and simulations.

 

Prerequisite:

• MANA 7330. Integrated Business Operations.

The Capstone Experience is designed to integrate all earlier course work. Under the guidance of the professor, each student participates on a team that is assigned to work with a real organization on a comprehensive client consulting project. Teams are expected to develop a scope of work (or proposal), research the firm and industry, interact with the client on an appropriate basis and present their project findings/recommendations to the client in the form of a report and presentation at the end of the semester.

Prerequisite:

• MANA 7330. Integrated Business Operations.