Program Description
The master of business administration (MBA) program in Economics provides
training in business for students interested in understanding the working
nature of business in a competitive environment. Courses in the MBA program
integrate information and theories from various disciplines, including
accounting, economics, finance, marketing, production operations, and
strategic management. The objective of this program is to develop students
into broadly educated business managers and executives who understand the
nature of business as a whole, with the tools and techniques applicable to a
wide variety of business situations.
Graduating students will be able to:
1. Work effectively in teams
2. Sell their ideas
3. Apply theory to understand real practical
situations
4. Think "outside the box" and develop novel
solutions
5. Integrate the functional department issues into
a coherent strategic whole
6. Analyze and synthesize problems
Graduating students
will be knowledgeable about:1. Current
international and global issues
2. Ethical and diversity issues
3. Current technology and environmental issues
4. Leading change in an organization
5. Current management trends
Course Descriptions
ACCT 504
Financial Accounting (3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Pacioli: Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni
et Proportionalita; and professional articles that include:
Comments on some obscure
or ambiguous points of the Treatise De Computis et Scripturis; Number
rustling: feel like your accounting is getting out of control? Rein it in
with the right software; and Out with the bad, in with the good: forget
about LIFO's poor reputation-find out how the IRS is making it better for
you - Tax Talk - last-in, first-out method of inventory accounting.
ACCT
505
Accounting Analysis
(3
Credit Hours)
A review of
professional
articles that include: Accounting for environmental
liabilities, individual credit card acquisitions and income tax
uncertainties in acquisitions; Accounting
for multiyear RRCs and sales and lease-backs of assets leased to other
parties - retrospectively rated contracts; Cost accounting supports clinical
evaluations; Stock compensation accounting; A worksheet for accounting for
deferred taxes; Don't wait for the next accounting scandal; and four
case studies in marketing: CPAs share solutions to common practice
development problems.
ECON
504
Micro Economics
(3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Hume:
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and
D. Hartley: Observations
on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and Expectations;
Helvetius: Letters of
Helvetius, Addressed to President Montesquieu, and M. Saurin,
on Perusing the Manuscript of The Spirit of Laws.
ECON
510
Economic & Political Theory
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Rousseau: The Social Contract or Principles of
Political; Jeremy Bentham;
Defence of Usury;
Smith:
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations; Malthus:
An Essay on the Principle of
Population; and Jean-Baptiste
Say: Letters to Thomas Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of
Commerce.
ECON
505
Macroeconomics
(3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Ricardo: The
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation; JS Mills:
Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social
Philosophy; and Marx and Engels: Communist Manifesto.
ECON
640
Global & Domestic Business Environment
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Darwin: The
foundations of the Origin of Species and two essays written in 1842 and
1844; Marx: Wage Labour and Capital;
Walras (The Mathematical Theory
of Political Economy: Review of Léon Walras, Éléments d'économie politique
pure, Nature, Vol. 40, No. 1036, September 5, p.434-6);
Marshall: Principles of Economics;
Veblen: Theory of Business
Enterprise; Keynes:
Economic Consequences of the Peace; and Fisher:
The Purchasing Power of Money.
MGMT 504 Organizational Behavior & HR Mgt
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Fayol: 14
elements of Administrative Management; Weber: The Fundamental
Concepts of Sociology; Roethlisberger and Dickson:
Management and the Worker;
McGregor: (Review of work); Maslow:
A Theory of Human
Motivation,
Psychological Review, 50, 370-396;
Peters and Waterman: In
Search of Excellence: Lessons from Americas Best Run Companies;
Deal and Kennedy: The
New Corporate Cultures: Revitalizing the Workplace After Downsizing,
Mergers, and Reengineering; and
Putting job candidates to the test - Case Studies - use of
employment tests.
MGMT
506
Production & Operations Management
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Gantt: Gantt Charts; Gilbreths: Applied Motion
Study; Yerkes: Autobiography of Robert Mearns Yerkes;
Lewin: A Dynamic Theory of
Personality (Chapter VIII); Scott: Increasing Human
Efficiency in Business; Fiedler; McClelland: (Review of Achievement
Theory); Herzberg: (Review of 2 Factor Hygiene and Motivation Theory); B.F.
Skinner: Teaching Machines,
Science 128:969-977 (1958);
and a review of the following professional articles: Going horizontal -
case studies on process-based organizations - Process Management: A New Leaf
Agribusiness opportunity missions: two case studies of success;
the case study:
A tradition of success: a legacy of business ownership drives tech
security pioneer; the case study:
Profit from pet products - three entrepreneurs find success addressing
the pet market - Business Trends; and the Electronic Records Management on a
Shoestring: Three Case Studies
.
MGMT
760
Global Management
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Pascale and Athos: The Art of Japanese Management
and Applications for American Executives;
Ouchi: Theory Z: How American
Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge; Deming: (Review of 14
Elements);
and a review of the following professional articles: Thames Water
Utilities: deep water - Case Studies: Change Management at Work; and The
Culture of Change: Case Studies of Improving Schools in Singapore and London
Tale of two mergers - one success, one failure Three stories of self-service
success - Case Studies - McData Corporation, Tally Defense Systems,
WellPoint Health Networks Inc The case against cases: Enron's popularity as
a business-school "success story" raises tough questions about how cases are
prepared - Education - Enron Corp.'s management.
OPRE
640
Applied Statistics
(3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Buffa:(Stanford paper in honor of his work); and the
following case study: Quantitative Approach (Buffa); Pythagoras:
(Review of the work of the Pythagoras); and Veblen: Introduction to
infinitesimal analysis; and functions of one real variable.
OPRE
650
Management Science
(3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Taylor: Principles of Scientific Management;
Drucker: Tomorrow is closer
than you think. Peter Drucker explains how it will differ from
today, and what needs to be done to prepare for it. The Economist,
November 02, 2001; and Münsterberg: Psychology and Industrial
Efficiency.