This course explores theory and techniques that are basic for the control of investment risks and optimization of investment returns. This course analyzes contemporary theories such as the Random Walk, Market Efficiency, Portfolio Theory, Security Analysis and techniques of security selection and availability to the institutional portfolio manager. Topics include analysis of securities and security market operations, theories of market behavior, and application in selection of personal and corporate investment strategies. Students focus on the role of the modern portfolio manager in achieving diversification along with reviewing and evaluating client investment goals.

This course explores managing international business and global competition with an understanding of international financial instruments, markets, and institutions. Topics include foreign exchange risk, determination of exchange rates and interest rates, management of foreign exchange risk with forwards, options, and swaps; exchange rate forecasting; the review of currency speculative attacks; and dynamics of the balance of payments with focus on understanding international capital flows, country debt, and exchange rate fluctuations.

Financial decision making is explored with focus on special topics through case studies such as lease versus buy, Venture Capital and other private equity investing, real estate finance, matching corporate strategy with organizational financing, and tax planning.

This course teaches students how to finance an organization by focusing on financial aspects in terms of original and growth capital. Topics include pro-forma development and review, business valuation modes, financing startups, going public, selling out, cash flow analysis and raising capital from private investors, venture capitalists, vendors, insurance companies, and banks.

This course focuses on the importance of marketing research for making sound marketing strategy decisions. The course details the stages of the marketing research process including: the purpose of the research, designing the plan for the research, performing the research, and preparing the research report. The course identifies marketing information systems and highlights the marketing decision support system.

This course focuses on the consumer and business-to-business decision-making processes of which can be extensive, limited, or routine. Consumers proceed through multiple stages to reach a purchasing decision, usually personal and often impulsive, when they purchase from businesses. Topics include need recognition, alternative search, alternative evaluation, purchase decision, and postpurchase evaluation. The course highlights how the process is influenced by social, marketing, and situational factors. In parallel, business-to-business (B2B) marketing behaviors and decisions are different in their purchasing issues: purchasing decisions, providing a problem-solving solution, long-term profitable relationships; product development, branding, communications channels, promotions, and pricing/discounts/quantities.

This course focuses on the marketing communications tools, techniques, and media used in the business world. Creating the right customer focus requires a coordination and integration of multiple elements: promotion, advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, public relations, licensing, sponsorships, and customer services. The goal of the course is to present an integrated marketing strategy through the unification of all communications tools providing a comprehensive message to targeted customers.

This course is uniquely designed to introduce students to the conceptual and technical issues of marketing research and design based upon behavior research methodologies. Major topics are: behavioral research designs; variances in domestic and global market research data gathering techniques; filling the domestic and/or global product-market knowledge gap based upon company strategies; and analytical techniques applied to marketing data.

This course introduces the manager to common ethical issues faced in business settings, including for-profit-only issues, community concerns, impacts on the environment, an examination of stakeholder concerns, and treatment of employees.

Supply chain management encompasses development of integrated strategies in managing overall costs, attaining profit goals, and satisfying customers. Building on the implementation of enterprise software and new applications, leaders are better able to plan sales revenue, schedule production, set optimal inventory levels, plan distribution/warehousing and global logistics, source goods and services strategically, and finance operations through better working capital management. Recognition is also given to important interrelationships among sales management, logistics, production, marketing, and financial management. This course also focuses on outsourcing as a corporate strategy to reduce costs, improve cycle time and customer service and improve the overall performance of the supply chain. The human resource implications and challenges inherent in implementing outsourcing will be addressed and the pros and cons of this strategy debated in class. Requirements of the course will include case analyses.

This course focuses on the development of effective communication strategies and their applications in various organizational contexts and with different stakeholder groups. Topics covered include defining the organizational communications culture and styles, audience assessment, overcoming communications barriers, communications etiquette, and ethical dimensions of communications. Techniques covered include preparation of memos and business reports, business correspondence using email and hard-copy formats, preparing and delivering oral reports, and facilitating discussions.

This course includes an exploration of the diverse determinants and organizational consequences of both individual and group behavior within formal organizations. Emphasis is on theories, concepts, and empirical findings from behavioral theory that will help leaders understand and motivate members and teams of an organization. Featured in this course are case studies of actual business situations.

This course covers an introduction to the business enterprise, current business practices applied to managed care, review of economic systems and basic economic principles, evolution of health- and managed-care markets, cost/effectiveness analysis, medical care markets, economics of contract formation, economics of corporate decision making, merger analysis, and insurance costs.

This course provides an understanding of the organization and delivery of health services, drawing on theory from the social science and business disciplines. Topics include organization of healthcare delivery, organizational theory, integration/continuum of care perspectives, organizational models, adoption of innovations, provider relationships and network structures, and impact on efficacy.

This course provides understanding and skills in the development of policy analysis, recent legislative developments, federal health reform, state health plans, the regulatory processes, political forces in health policy, methods for influencing policy, and PAC.

This course offers a review of recent developments in healthcare liability, negligence theory, formation of contracts, law of agency, labor law, documentation procedures, evaluation of evidence in litigation, theory of the case, settlement of claims, values clarification, current ethical issues in the practice of healthcare administration, and lobbying practices in the healthcare industry.

This course considers outcomes, healthcare assessment in integrated delivery systems, risk adjustment methods, performance analysis design, development of health status indicators, evaluation techniques, results reporting, medical decision making, professional practice patterns and behaviors, professional behaviors, organizational structure analysis, and medical culture issues.

This course focuses on multirange planning strategies in the integrated healthcare industry. Topics covered include historical perspectives of planning, market demographic analysis, strategic decision making, and comparative analysis of planning models. These principles are applied to the specialized theories and methods of marketing and promoting in healthcare. Topics covered include strategic planning and marketing, market research, marketing of health programs, competitor analysis, healthcare advertising, provider referrals, and consumer behaviors.

This course offering focuses on elements and qualities of proactive leadership, including effective behaviors, communication strategies, time management, problem and dispute resolution, employee empowerment, leadership professional development, and leadership for continuous improvement initiatives.

This course focuses on the understanding and development of management skills for continued effectiveness. Topics include applied organization theory, organization design, applications of management theory, conceptual models, inter-organizational networks/coalitions, quality management strategies, change management and innovation, human resource policies, training management and communication skills, conflict management, dispute resolution techniques, and a review of behavioral science research that relates to organizational behavior.

This course presents information systems design, management, and maintenance applied to various healthcare settings, system architecture analysis and design, software evaluation and testing, system life cycle, replacement planning and electronic data interchange, and reviews current software application.

This course covers the principles, practices, and strategies of negotiation and risk management within the context of contemporary healthcare administration, including facilities, services, personnel, real estate, and materials acquisitions, legal implications, labor management and collective bargaining, and insurance principles and practices.

This course requires the writing of a capstone project that integrates research related to concepts, methodologies, policies, and regulations as it applies to the role of a health services manager.

This course explores managing international business and global competition with an understanding of international financial instruments, markets, and institutions. Topics include foreign exchange risk, determination of exchange rates and interest rates, management of foreign exchange risk with forwards, options, and swaps; exchange rate forecasting; the review of currency speculative attacks; and dynamics of the balance of payments with focus on understanding international capital flows, country debt, and exchange rate fluctuations.

This graduate course examines the nature and complexities of international business; the factors that determine the international environment [economic, accounting, ethical, physical, socio-cultural, political, legal, labor, competitive, and distributive]; most important international organizations; and the methods that can be used by business to effectively and ethically deal with these forces. The course provides an in-depth review and analysis of the latest theories and research on leadership and collaboration research and literature as it is related to international business practices will be examined. Communication projects will focus on critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making based on relevant research, information literacy, applied technology, integration, ethical, and diversity concerns.

This course focuses on the opportunities, problems, and challenges involved in international marketing. The course examines the methods companies use to organize their international versus domestic markets, international market research tasks, methods of entry strategies in the international markets, and potential marketing strategies for a multinational firm. Knowledge of local cultural environments is high-lighted as a prerequisite for success.

This graduate course provides the advanced graduate student with an opportunity to explore the standards, standard setting practices, regulations, and compliance issues with the most important international organizations and agreements. The course provides an in-depth review and analysis of the latest theories and research on international standards, regulation, and compliance. Research is done to discover the processes, regulations, and compliance standards that impact international business. Attention is given to issues of violation, defense, conflict resolution options, and resolution. Special attention is given to how international corporations are organized and function internally and as part of the globalization process. The topic must be researched from a multidisciplinary, theoretical, research study, and practical implemental perspective. Communication projects will focus on critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making based on relevant research, information literacy, applied technology, integration, ethical, and diversity concerns.

This course addresses the ethical dimensions of management with a special focus on the processes managers may use to raise and resolve ethical dilemmas and conflicts in organizational settings. Policies pertaining to treatment of those raising ethical issues will be considered. The legal and regulatory requirements of ethical conduct will be examined. Policies and codes of conduct established by various organizations and industry groups will be critically examined. The course will feature case studies involving alleged breaches of ethical conduct among publicly held corporations.

This course will examine the impact of regulatory and compliance issues within a global marketplace. This course will focus on the evolution of international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, United Nations, the European Union, and North American Free Trade Agreement, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and their attempts to regulate international business transactions.

Fraud examination will cover the principles and methodology of fraud detection and deterrence; an integral component to effective corporate compliance. The course includes such topics as: fraud theories, skimming, cash larceny, check tampering, register disbursement schemes, billing schemes, payroll and expense reimbursement schemes, non-cash misappropriations, corruption, accounting principles and fraud, fraudulent financial statements, and interviewing witnesses.

This course will examine corporate compliance as a response to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, which is intended to dramatically alter business practices, relative to honesty, integrity, compliance, and ethical behavior in corporate America. Students will review the elements of the Act with particular emphasis on the areas of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB); auditor independence; corporate responsibility; enhanced financial disclosure; corporate fraud and accountability all designed to promote greater financial security and address corporate malfeasance. Additionally, students will, through discussion and research, consider the catalytic effect of such scandals such as Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, et al., on legislative action. As a part of developing a contextual framework this course will also analyze current and proposed changes in corporate governance that is attended to assure corporate compliance with the Act.

This course addresses the ethical and moral dimension of business. It stresses the application of moral concepts to practical case situations involving ethical dilemmas. Practical questions are addressed regarding the responsibilities and values involved in managing a firm’s relationship with individual employees, the marketplace, and society. Students analyze and understand the implications alternative resolutions of moral dilemmas have on organizational performance.

This course provides an opportunity to investigate issues and trends shaping the nonprofit and public sectors and the challenges they present for leaders. "Best practices" and benchmarking public and nonprofit sectors are examined. Topics include trends in philanthropy and public giving; mergers, strategic alliances, and joint ventures within and across sectors; new models for governance and boards; and the type of leadership that is required to create and maintain high levels of excellence in organizations.

Behavior within the public organization framework and the new dynamics required in management are considered. Focus is on such issues as perception, attitude formation, motivation, leadership, systems theory, communication and information flow, conflict theory, and decision theory.

This course studies processes of making public policy, including detection of public issues, consideration of alternatives, and adoption and implementation of solutions. This course highlights the major contributors in the policy process, as well as the environment within which they work.

This course studies fundamental normative debates in the public and nonprofit financial management arena with a focus on resulting implementation principles and techniques in governmental accounting, financial reporting, budget and revenue decisions, debt management, cash and investment management, pensions and employee benefits, and risk management.

This course provides an overview and comparative understanding of sustainable business practices, along with frameworks of sustainable business practice and economic principles, and provides the foundations for helping managers achieve competitive advantage. This course also presents current theory and practice of systems thinking to understanding global, environmental, and social change. This holistic and dynamic understanding helps bridge the social sciences with the natural sciences to understand the complexities involved in developing and implementing sustainable business practice. Issues of sustainable business practices are explored in order to provide tools and methods to help students understand, make decisions, implement, and evaluate emerging global issues surrounding sustainable business practice.

The course introduces Six Sigma is a change management framework that has evolved from a focus on process improvement using statistical tools to a comprehensive framework for managing a sustainable business. The course also surveys the analytic tools and techniques which are useful in the design and operation of sustainable systems from supply networks to distribution channels. The material is taught from a managerial perspective, with an emphasis on where and how specific tools can be used to improve the overall performance, reduce the total cost, while increasing the sustainability of the firm's value chain.

This dynamic graduate course provides an analysis of ethical theories that address topics of global and business sustainability. Also included are relevant economic theories that inform sustainability decisions in business and organizations. Theories and readings in natural capitalism, managing and accounting for the triple bottom line, finding and developing market solutions, and determining and reducing externalities are included. Additionally, measuring and reporting firm performance and reviewing social responsibility standards, policies, and risks are included.

This course is project-based and is intended to help students to learn how to frame sustainable systems problems. The course uses project management tools to plan and implement a sustainability study. Students are asked to identify an existing organization and conduct a full sustainability analysis. Students are asked to identify the sustainability issues of the organization and choose the most appropriate analysis to use among such tools as systems modeling, Six Sigma, sustainable value chain analysis, etc. The course focuses on gaining practical insight from the sustainability analysis process.