Executive MBA Curriculum

Implications of domestic and foreign legal environments for managerial decision-making.

Understanding current environmental challenges' effect on business and strategies of eco-efficiency, product stewardship, green marketing, and sustainable development.

Business and leadership skills, including teamwork, communications, conflict resolution, and negotiations.

Tools, concepts, and statistical methods to analyze corporate and economic data.

Focuses on understanding and applying ethical decision-making practices in business.

Measuring and reporting the financial performance of the firm, and concepts in cost and managerial accounting.

An introduction to finance. Topics include the time value of money, capital budgeting, risk and return, capital structure, dividend policy, and working capital management.

Basic economic concepts and the ability to apply these concepts to business decision-making and public policy analysis.

Tools and techniques to manage the information technology infrastructure that supports a global organization.

Examines the complex nature of international negotiations in business and how relationships with domestic and foreign governments impact the decision-making process.

Leadership and behavioral concepts to enhance the individual, team, and organizational performance.

Marketing of products and services in international and technological environments.

Conceptual and analytical skills to manage manufacturing, supply chain, and service operations.

Integrating knowledge of the functional areas of a business to understand how firms gain and sustain a competitive advantage in a globally competitive environment.

Explores global business issues and strategies through an international residency.

Examines the position of the U.S. in world markets, various types of international business transactions, and the impact of global economic, political, legal, and cultural forces.

The Global Strategy Project will be your capstone experience, where you and your capstone team will work with a corporate sponsor to address a current issue on a global scale. You'll identify opportunities and make recommendations for implementing strategies internationally, from product and pricing to procurement, logistics, and management.

Past Global Strategy Project Sponsors:

• Ally Bank
• Chick-fil-A
• The Coca-Cola Company
• The Clorox Company
• CNN
• Delta Airlines
• Equifax
• GE Power & Water
• Gulfstream
• The Home Depot
• JLL
• Panasonic
• Samsung
• Southern Company
• ThyssenKrupp
• Turner Construction

Focuses on the process and technology infrastructure necessary to support international logistics, procurement, and delivery, as well as reaching new customers through electronic channels.

Focuses on foreign exchange transactions, management of exposure, international bond, and equity markets, and international banking.

Examines managing a global workforce through effective employee recruitment, compensation, performance appraisals, and HR processes and systems.

Examines key emerging technologies in B2B environments, their development patterns, and the associated impact on industries, industrial competitiveness, and society.

Explores global business issues and strategies through an international residency.

Explores methods to adapt, evolve, or create change for strategic competitive advantage and how organizations structure themselves in order to increase the effectiveness in response to competitive demands.

As a member of a select team, you'll choose an emerging technology and complete a full business plan that demonstrates the process of taking a technology-driven product or service to market. This comprehensive and integrative experiences concludes with a business plan competition. 

Teaches various methods for raising capital to fund the development and launch of new technology products and services.

Students will take one elective during the summer semester and one during the second fall semester of the program. Examples of electives may include Cybersecurity and Privacy for Executives, Fintech and Global Currencies, Global Product and Brand Management, New Product Strategies, Analysis of Emerging Technologies, and Technology Strategy.