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Leadership and Organizational Behavior

SCH-MGMT

Provides an overview of different perspectives and approaches to leadership practice and related organizational behavior topics. Relying on a participative multi-learning approach, the course goes beyond traditional leadership practices to examine empowering leadership approaches for addressing contemporary organizational behavior challenges such as leading teams. The overall objective is to increase students' understanding of and ability to apply contemporary leadership and organizational behavior knowledge in work situations.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
U+ class; $85/term reg. fee + $925/credit. Refunds differ from Univ. day classes; see www.umass.edu/universityplus/resources/refund-policy. Open to Online MBA and Engineering Management Students,

Data Science for Finance

SCH-MGMT

This course combines three perspectives essential to financial decision-making: inferential thinking, computational thinking, and real-world relevance. Financial decisions are increasingly data-driven, and require more than inferential thinking. Computational thinking and real-world problems are also needed for finance professionals to function effectively. Students will utilize all three perspectives to make better financial decisions.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit

Corporate Real Estate

SCH-MGMT

Commercial properties occupied by a business for its operations across office, industrial, logistics, and data centers. This course will provide an overview of the practice and execution of Corporate Real Estate including strategic planning, transaction management, capital markets, construction project management, facilities management and lease administration. Topics will include occupancy planning and trends, co-working, site selection, outsource partners, financing, own vs. lease decisions, sustainability and LEED, and portfolio management.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
U+ class; $85/term reg. fee + $925/credit. Refunds differ from Univ. day classes; see www.umass.edu/universityplus/resources/refund-policy. Open to Online MBA Students.

Fixed Income Securities

SCH-MGMT

This course is designed to provide students with the key building blocks necessary for a career in fixed income investment management, with applications to real estate and banking. Students will learn how to select, evaluate and manage fixed income investments. This course makes extensive use of case studies to afford students the opportunity to apply the theory and lessons learned in the text and class, to real world situations.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit

Operations Management

SCH-MGMT

The goal of this course is to teach leaders what they need to know in order to build high-performance operations with world-class processes of innovation and continuous improvement. We cover the most current methodologies and tools, together with the most important soft skills required, to create efficient and responsive operations that deliver the highest quality services and products.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
U+ class; $85/term reg. fee + $925/credit. Refunds differ from Univ. day classes; see www.umass.edu/universityplus/resources/refund-policy. Open to Online MBA students.

Operations Management

SCH-MGMT

The goal of this course is to teach leaders what they need to know in order to build high-performance operations with world-class processes of innovation and continuous improvement. We cover the most current methodologies and tools, together with the most important soft skills required, to create efficient and responsive operations that deliver the highest quality services and products.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
U+ class; $85/term reg. fee + $925/credit. Refunds differ from Univ. day classes; see www.umass.edu/universityplus/resources/refund-policy. Open to Online MBA Students.

Operations Management

SCH-MGMT

The goal of this course is to teach leaders what they need to know in order to build high-performance operations with world-class processes of innovation and continuous improvement. We cover the most current methodologies and tools, together with the most important soft skills required, to create efficient and responsive operations that deliver the highest quality services and products.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
U+ class; $85/term reg. fee + $925/credit. Refunds differ from Univ. day classes; see www.umass.edu/universityplus/resources/refund-policy. Open to Online MBA Students.

Operations Management

SCH-MGMT

The goal of this course is to teach leaders what they need to know in order to build high-performance operations with world-class processes of innovation and continuous improvement. We cover the most current methodologies and tools, together with the most important soft skills required, to create efficient and responsive operations that deliver the highest quality services and products.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
For MBA students only

Operations Management

SCH-MGMT

The goal of this course is to teach leaders what they need to know in order to build high-performance operations with world-class processes of innovation and continuous improvement. We cover the most current methodologies and tools, together with the most important soft skills required, to create efficient and responsive operations that deliver the highest quality services and products.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
U+ class; $85/term reg. fee + $925/credit. Refunds differ from Univ. day classes; see www.umass.edu/universityplus/resources/refund-policy. Open to Online MBA Students.

Analytics in Social Media

SCH-MGMT

As people are increasingly sharing their daily lives on social media, organizations and celebrities are using it as a channel to directly engage with followers. A lot of data is being generated in these interactions. This course seeks to provide students with frameworks and tools to gather insights from this data. For an organization this might allow them to gain insights into their market structure and their customers' perceptions of the brand. Other areas of interest may be studying the changing perceptions about the brands in response to the exchanges amongst netzines or the organization's marketing campaigns. This course will have several hands-on exercises based on the R language (No previous experience with R is required). Students will work with some near real-time datasets of tweets, US stock market data for select ticker symbols, and some popular RSS news feeds from the instructor's research projects in this field. Students will work in groups on a project that will use these datasets. While there are no prerequires for this course, a few skills would be helpful for anyone intending to take this course and these are; a basic understanding of descriptive statistics, some experience with spreadsheets, and any experience writing spreadsheet macros, database queries or some basic computer programming.

Course Details

Spring 2026

This class is non-credit
Course Notes
U+ class; $85/term reg. fee + $925/credit. Last day to: Add/Drop: 2/2, Withdraw: 2/21, Last day of 100% refund: 2/2, 50% refund: 2/21, no refunds past this date. Refunds differ from Univ. day classes; see www.umass.edu/universityplus/resources/refund-policy. Open to Online MBA Students and MSBA students.
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