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The Isenberg MBA curriculum includes 11 required core courses. Take either Marketing Management or Services Marketing Management to satisfy the marketing requirement.
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Accounting for Decision Making
A conceptual introduction to financial accounting, covering the complete accounting cycle and resulting financial statements. Topics include asset valuation and reporting, debt and evaluation financing, inter-corporate investments, and earnings management. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 630.
Business and Its Environment
Relationship between business firms and various environments in which they operate; examines environmental impact of business decisions, issues related to social accountability of firms, and concepts of cost-benefit analysis. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 783.
Business Data Analysis
Statistical methods employed in collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. Business applications of sampling, analysis of variance, experimental design, regression analysis, and forecasting models. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 650.
Financial Analysis and Decisions
Basic concepts, principles, and practices involved in financing businesses and in maintaining efficient operation of the firm. Framework for analyzing savings-investment and other financial decisions. Both theory and techniques applicable to financial problem solving. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 640.
Foundation of Accounting
In this course students will learn to prepare and interpret the three major components of the corporate annual report: the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, and the Statement of Cash Flows. The underlying accounting model that produces these statements will be critically reviewed; both its strengths and limitations will be evaluated. Additionally the role of popular ratios in forecasting firm profitability, risk, and liquidity are considered. Student will gain this knowledge through homework assignments, discussion questions, and an integrative case analysis. This 1 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 597FA.
Foundation of Finance
This course will provide students with an overview of the important issues regarding how finance works in the world economy. Topics include: bond markets, money markets, securitization, equity markets, futures and options markets, derivatives markets, and foreign exchange markets. There are several topics that will covered in a short period of time, this course focuses on the fundamentals and describes what these markets provide and how each functions. This 1 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 597FF.
Human Resource Management
Overview of human resource management theory and practice in organizations. HR activities include: strategy, recruitment, selection, separation; training and career development; health and safety; compensation; EEO issues, labor relations, performance evaluations, and international human resource management. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 770.
Information Management
The management of information technology resources to successfully integrate into an organization electronic commerce, network computing, supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, transaction processing systems, customer relationship management, information security and other relevant topics. This 3 credit course is referred to as SCH-MGMT 632.
Managerial Accounting and Control
Accounting pertinent to managers in making internal decisions. Topics include cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, profit planning, transfer pricing, evaluation of segment profitability, and activity-based costing. This 3 credit course course is listed as SCH-MGMT 631.
Marketing Management
Marketing concepts of planning, organization, control, and decision making from viewpoint of the business executive. Stress on tools available for analysis and control of marketing activities. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 660.
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Addresses questions of organization design and human behavior. Presents perspectives for understanding and analyzing processes of managing complex organizations and the interpersonal dynamics within them. This 4 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 680.
Organizational Planning and Strategy
Capstone course requiring application of knowledge, theories, and techniques derived from previous courses, using integrative cases and empirical observations to formulate improved policies and plans. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 689.
Production-Operations Management
Analysis of production problems and solution techniques. Work-flow processes, technology of materials and equipment, and control of availability, quality, cost, and price of products and resources. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 670.
Services Marketing Management
This course can be taken in place of SCH-MGMT 660 Marketing Management in the core curriculum or as an elective. This course covers the essentials of marketing management as they apply to service industries, including health care, hospitality and financial services. A strategic marketing planning approach is used to identify and resolve marketing issues and problems facing firms and organizations in the service sector. Such topics as service quality, segmentation, positioning, consumer expectations, the consumer decision process, service recovery, internal marketing and relationship marketing are presented. This 3 credit elective course is listed as SCH-MGMT 713.
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