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Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Economics
48 Semester Credit Hours
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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.

 
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