Master in Business Administration - Project Management

Management provides a solid foundation for facing the challenges of a rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment. This course introduces the fundamental management functions of planning, decision-making, organizing, leading, and controlling, as well as the tools and techniques of managing people, processes, projects, and the work environment. Students explore current issues in management and gain insights into how successful organizations operate.

Required Text Book:

• (10 Week Course Version) Modern Management: Concepts and Skills, 12th Edition - 9780132176316
• (8 Week Course) Modern Management: Concepts and Skills - 14th edition - 978-0133859812

This pulls together specialized models, tools, and processes from the perspective of the manager who is responsible implementing a coordinated marketing program. Because consumers and business buyers face an abundance of suppliers seeking to satisfy their every need, companies and not-for-profit organizations cannot survive today by simply doing a good job at marketing management. They must do an excellent job if they are to remain in the increasingly competitive global marketplace. Many studies have demonstrated that the key to profitable performance is knowing and satisfying target customers with competitively superior offers. This process takes place today in an increasingly global, technical, and competitive environment. Marketing management is the conscious effort to achieve desired exchange outcomes with target markets. The marketer's basic skill lies in influencing the level, timing, and composition of demand for a product, service, organization, place, person, idea or some form of information.

Required Text Book:

• Marketing Management, 14th Edition - 9780132102926

Today’s managers face many different opportunities to make decisions ethical and unethical as they compete with other firms. This course will provide an opportunity for managers to take business ethics seriously. That means taking the time to understand the core elements of the system that have gone awry and led to some extreme behaviors. Business ethics is primarily about business. This course will allow managers to get beyond the view of business as separate from ethics by allowing an opportunity to understand that business ethics is a fundamental of business management. This course begins by exploring the inherent values of future managers, how ethics is an integral aspect of an organization’s value-creation activities and aspirations.

Required Text Book:

• Taking Sides: Clashing views in Business Ethics and Society 12th Ed. - 9780073527352
• Business Ethics Now 3rd Ed. - 9780073524696

Advanced Strategic Management is designed to help students effectively guide an organization toward a profitable and dynamic future. This course provides students with a formal method of defining the organization's purpose and aligning the entire business to achieve corporate goals. It also examines emerging technologies in information processing as an important element of strategic planning.

Required Text Book:

• Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control, 12th ed. - 978-0-07-813716-7

Welcome to Quantitative Analysis. This course provides you with the background for using a broad array of powerful analytic tools to make business decisions. The skills you acquire and sharpen in this course will enable you to make recommendations regarding key business decisions based on the application of quantitative models. In addition, these skills will also enhance your ability to communicate and to reason in work, academic, and personal situations. By learning which methods are appropriate to a given situation and by becoming familiar with the assumptions associated with each method, you will be able to evaluate the quality of business proposals made by others. The abilities and knowledge to be gained from this course will help you become a better-skilled decision maker and problem solver. A key ability is to use mathematical programming to make or confirm decisions instead of relying on rules of thumb, opinions, and expert judgment.

Required Text Book:

• Quantitative Analysis for Management, 10th ed. - 978-0136036258

Accounting, the language of business, provides crucial decision-making information to business organizations. This introduction to financial and managerial accounting prepares students to construct and interpret financial statements, generate budgets, and to use accounting data for strategic and management purposes with an emphasis on profitability. Legal and ethical issues in accounting are also discussed.

Required Text Book:

• Managerial Accounting, 2nd Edition - 9780136091165

This course explores financial statement and cash flow analysis and the time value of money. It presents information on bonds and stock valuation and risk, return, and value. There are also discussions on capital budgeting processes and techniques, cash flow and capital budgeting, and cost of capital and project risk. Options and the international financial market are discussed as well.

Required Text Book:

• (10 Week Course) Corporate Finance: The Core (2nd Edition) - 978-0132153683
• (8 Week Course) Corporate Finance, The Core (3rd Edition) - 978-0133097894

Economics is the study of how resources are allocated. People of a nation and their government decide how much of a commodity should be produced and how that commodity is allocated. The allocation is done by a price system in free markets. There, prices determine how commodities are to be allocated, and prices determine how much should be made by a business. Microeconomics conveys the study of this allocation system to the level of an individual business. For over 200 years, business behavior has been carefully studied, conclusions made and tested, the models formulated and refined. Managerial Economics draws on the principles of economics and applies them to managerial decisions. It is incumbent on the student to be well versed in economic theories, models, and concepts so that their applications are pertinent, appropriate, and well-reasoned.

Required Text Book:

• Managerial Economics: Foundations of Business Analysis and Strategy, 11th ed. - 9780078021718

Project Management Essentials introduces the fundamental elements of effective project management and provides students with the opportunity to apply these elements using exercises and examples based on real-time projects. The tools and techniques used to plan, measure, and control projects, as well as the methods used to organize and manage projects, are also discussed. If you intend to certify as a Project Management Professional (PMP)®, initiate contact with the Project Management Institute at www.pmi.org and/or your local PMI® chapter. 

Required Text Book:

• (8 Week Course) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Sixth Edition) - 978-1628251845
• (10 Week Course) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge - 5th Edition - 978-1935589679
• (8 and 10 Week Course) Project Management in Practice - 5th Edition - 978-1118674666
• (8 and 10 Week Course) Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step - 9780735698741

PMP, Project Management Professional, PMBOK GUIDE, and PMI Talent Triangle are registered marks of The Project Management Institute, Inc.

Project Management Organizational Framework covers principles and practices presented in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Standards Committee. This guide addresses such organizational and structural issues as scope, time management, human resource planning, and project communications, and serves as the foundation for the project manager certification areas of competency.

Required Text Book:

• (10 Week Course) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 5th Edition - 9781935589679
• (8 Week Course) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Sixth Edition) - 978-1628251845
• (8 and 10 Week Course) Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling, 11th Edition - 9781118022276

PMP, Project Management Professional, PMBOK GUIDE, and PMI Talent Triangle are registered marks of The Project Management Institute, Inc.

PMIF completes the topics presented in the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge and includes project cost, quality, procurement, and risk management. Continuing the work from PMOF, PMIF provides students with additional opportunities to apply these concepts using real-life exercises and examples. Special consideration is given to preparing students for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification exam. 

Required Text Book:

• (8 and 10 Week Course) Project Management Case Studies, 4th Edition - 9781118022283
• (8 and 10 Week Course) Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling, 11th Edition - 9781118022276
• (8 Week Course) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Sixth Edition) - 978-1628251845
• (10 Week Course) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 5th Edition - 9781935589679

PMP, Project Management Professional, PMBOK GUIDE, and PMI Talent Triangle are registered marks of The Project Management Institute, Inc.

The capstone project allows students to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in their courses to the work environment. This project is completely individualized; students are encouraged to select work-related projects that are of particular interest to them and that will result in professional growth and benefit the organization.