Online Master of Business Administration

Learning Outcomes:

• Use technology to conduct in-depth business valuation models and be able to interpret and use the model results to make informed business decisions
• Use accounting information to make business decisions
• Understand and interpret the financial reports of firms in different industries
• Recognize the potential effects on financial results of management decisions, corporate transactions, and the adoption of different accounting policies
• Communicate effectively with other users of company financial reports

Learning Outcomes

• From the firm’s management perspective to be able to effectively identify the market structure that the firm competes in and its primary and secondary competitors
• Integrate the use of marginal analysis into the managerial decision-making process

Learning Outcomes:

• Know the role and function of the financial sector participants including banks, investment banks, mutual funds, securities markets and corporations
• Understand the function of management and role of corporate governance in firm success
• Be able to analyze key financial statements
• Use information contained in financial statements to evaluate firm performance and develop financial forecasts.
• Derive the free cash flow generated by a project or business and consider the implications of inaccuracies in forecasts.
• Understand interest rates and monetary policy including the term structure of interest rates and resulting yield curve
• Be able to perform security valuation using important valuation models and deriving the appropriate discount rates.
• Understand time value of money concepts, WACC, and capital budgeting techniques.
• Identify and apply appropriate decision criteria to determine whether real assets should be acquired or sold.
• Estimate an appropriate risk-adjusted required rate of return for evaluating investments in real assets.
• Understand how capital structure and payout policies affect firm value and growth.

Learning Outcomes:

• An enhanced ability to manage organizations and their members by improving the skills for identifying causes of organizational events and devising action plans for influencing future events and behaviors.
• An increased understanding of the roles of theory and research in management decision making.
• Additional critical thinking skills for identifying organizational dynamics based on existing theories and research as applied to case-study analysis.
• Interpret and integrate concepts and strategies into business practices.
• Develop a working relationship with contemporary management challenges for the purpose of understanding, developing, analyzing, and preparing for consideration of management decisions.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand concepts of working with a computer and other related devices
• Understand the advances of Excel and Access
• Understand the role of information systems in supporting decision-making
• Discuss how technologies can be used to improve management
• Gain experience on organizing and manipulating data using Excel and Access

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the role of strategy in marketing management
• Develop analytical skills to understand a marketing problem
• Acquire basic skills to design appropriate marketing mix for a target market
• Understand the implementation of a marketing program from a managerial perspective

Learning Outcomes

Identify or define the set of decisions that operations managers make; the trends and challenges facing them; and the customer supplier relationships between them

Describe or explain operations in a global environment and develop strategies for competitive advantage

Describe or explain processes, process choices and layout strategies, and their impact on efficiency, effectiveness and customer service

Describe total quality management, lean six sigma methods and tools for continuous improvement

Describe or explain the development of operational policies such an inventory management and scheduling techniques

Identify or define the resource planning process and the relationship amongst functional areas of the firm

Improve writing skills and develop critical thinking skills for problem solving

Learning Outcomes:

• Integrate previously studied material and apply strategic concepts to solve business problems at the general manager level.
• Analyze a firm externally and internally to identify its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and propose actions based on that analysis.
• Think strategically at functional, business, corporate, and international levels.
• Present ideas effectively orally and in writing as an individual and as a team.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the nature of the inter-linkages between countries
• Comprehend the basic tenets of international trade theory
• Be able to assess the effects of protectionist trade policies on individual domestic markets using diagrammatic analysis
• Appreciate the usefulness and limits to international trade theories
• Appreciate the international nature of money and how exchange rates are determined

Learning Outcomes

• Students are able to understand the environment in which international finance decisions are made
• Students are able to understand the factors that affect currency values and the role of Central banks and other macroeconomic factors
• Students are able to assess the risk associated with an MNC
• Students understand risk management techniques that MNCs may apply to hedge their risks
• Apply the net present value, internal rate of return, and modified internal rate of return techniques to make project selection decisions in a capital budgeting context and perform sensitivity analysis in capital project decision-making

The purpose of this course is to develop the knowledge, insight, and skills to:

• Trade stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
• Measure the returns and risks of investing.
• Understand, assess, and react to global macroeconomic events.
• Evaluate and value stocks.
• Create diversified portfolios.
• Assess portfolio performance.
• Hedge risks and speculate in the option and futures markets.
• Recognize cognitive errors and psychological biases in yourself and in others.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the role and purpose of financial markets and institutions in society.
• Explain evolution of financial market regulation and current trends.
• Discuss the similarities, differences, advantages, and disadvantages of various types of financial organizations.
• Describe the global impact of central banking principles and monetary policy on financial institutions and markets.
• Understand the role of market regulatory agencies in the function of an orderly market.
• Understand the role of the national auction markets in price discovery of financial assets and derivatives.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the foundations of the health care system in the United States
• Compare and contrast the US Health care system to other health care system models
• Differentiate between the components of the health care delivery system
• Understand the interrelationships and integration of the components of the US health care system responsible for the actual delivery of health care to the population at large
• Articulate the effect of major health care legislation on the delivery of health care.
• Understand how basic health care policy and politics shape health care delivery systems
• Compare and contrast the ideals of market justice and social justice in health care delivery
• Examine the concepts of cost, quality, and access to care as vital components of health care system changes

Learning Outcomes

• Explain selected components of the economic aspects of planning
• Describe the costs and revenue sources of health care
• Explain the financial structure of health care institutions
• Interpret basic fiscal theory and principles
• Describe the purposes of journals and ledgers to identify and compute operating costs
• Describe the purpose and interpret financial statements (balance sheet and income statements)
• Interpret selected components of the economic aspects of an organization
• Define basic fiscal and accounting terminology and principles
• Describe the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of the cash and accrual bases of accounting
• Explain budgeting concepts, the specific elements of a budget and the budget cycle
• Describe the use and effect of strategic planning and forecasting as part of the budgeting process
• Summarize current research findings pertinent to organizations
• Apply selected components of the economic aspects of staffing
• Examine the development of personnel financial plans
• Analyze and explains variances to an operating budget
• Examine methodologies for projecting the cost of patient care
• Generate human resource management strategies to manage costs related to recruitment, retention, turnover and absenteeism
• Apply research findings to validate financial management of human resources
• Analyzes selected components of the economic aspects of control
• Identify the department or nurse manager’s role in the capital budgeting process
• Select appropriate fiscal decision-making strategies
• Describe basic marketing concepts, including market segmentation, customer behavior, market share and market research
• Describe research processes available to examine financial management of the delivery of nursing care

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the types, purposes, and sources of law and regulations applicable to the management and liability of professionals, employers, and patients in the health care setting
• Identify and apply ethical principles to issues and dilemmas frequently encountered by health care administrators and nurse executives
• Demonstrate proficient awareness of legal and ethical issues related to client data, information, confidentiality, and informed consent
• Analyze and propose solutions to real world administrative health care system problems through the interpretation of applicable laws and ethical principles

Learning Outcomes:

• Appreciate the complexities of defining leadership and recognizing ways that the terms are used in society.
• Identify and explain variables associated with leadership, including the role played by leader qualities, follower characteristics, and situational factors.
• Appreciate the importance of ethical leadership.
• Recognize the linkages between the concepts of power, influence, and leadership.
• Understand the history of leadership theory development.
• Understand the theory and principles behind important leadership, teamwork, and organizational skills.
• Apply theory and skills to roles in workplaces and organizations.

Learning Outcomes:

• A deeper understanding of the entrepreneurial process, the art of innovation, and the process of transforming ideas into business models.
• Hands-on experience in crafting business models and business plans.
• Additional critical thinking skills for identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, creating business plans, and managing a start-up firm.
• Interpret and integrate associated concepts and strategies into business practices.
• Develop a working relationship with contemporary start-up and management challenges for the purpose of understanding, developing, analyzing, and preparing for consideration of associated management decisions.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the theories and practices that comprise talent management.

2. Develop an appreciation for human resources as a strategic asset.

3. Learn concepts and approaches to align talent management practices with business strategy.

4. Develop a philosophy of talent management that will enable you to perform more effectively as a manager, both domestically and in a global environment.

5. Apply theories and concepts of talent management to real world situation through a semester-long project of developing a talent management strategy for an organization.

6. Be resourceful, write professionally, and meet deadlines.

Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate the ability to use technology effectively to analyze data.
• Know the concepts of Entity-Relationship (ER) model.
• Be able to design and draw a model for a database application.
• Know the concepts of Normalization and appreciate why it is important to the database design.
• Gain an experience on how database systems can be constructed using commercial DBMS products.
• Know the concepts of data warehouses and business intelligence systems.

Learning Outcomes

• Define and understand business intelligence and analytics, scorecards and dashboards
• Learn to use Tableau, SAP Predictive Analytics, and other software
• Learn to extract data from various organizational sources such as Data Warehouses, Datamarts, Cubes, Databases, Excel workbooks and others
• Learn to manipulate data, and create reports, scorecards and dashboards, including mobile apps
• Develop applications for various functional areas of an organization
• Understand the potential impact of these applications in an organization
• Understand the projected growth of the area of Business Intelligence and Analytics

Learning Outcomes

• Define and understand data warehousing and its potential for business intelligence
• Be able to use data mining techniques to extract business intelligence from data
• Be able to create value by analyzing data using data mining and visualization software
• Be familiar with major data mining software packages
• Learn to extract data from various organizational sources such as databases, data warehouses, data marts, data cubes, Excel workbooks and others
• Develop data mining applications for various functional areas of an organization
• Understand the potential impact of business intelligence applications in an organization
• Understand the projected growth of data mining for business intelligence

Learning Outcomes

• Create a detailed e-commerce plan which integrates marketing, financial, management, and technological aspects
• Evaluate the usefulness of technologies in businesses today and their importance in driving business profitability
• Research in detail one specific technology and evaluate its impact on business and industry
• Analyze issues in several cases, identifying major problems and creating workable solutions that address the issues

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate problem solving with computer programming
• Demonstrate the basic techniques used to create programming scripts
• Design, code, and test software applications
• Discuss computer-programming terminology

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how to effectively target, track, and reach social consumers
• Be able to identify and handle unique dynamics of social media interactions, in order to enable the development of an effective social media marketing strategy
• Know how to develop a social media marketing strategy and integrate it with elements of marketing mix

Learning Outcomes:

• To develop skills for elaborating and analyzing strategic marketing programs in global markets, taking into consideration cultural, political, and legal differences among countries.
• To assess strategic business options to select market-entry strategies in international markets.
• To become familiar with major characteristics as well as opportunities, challenges, and business environments of various geographical regions of the world.
• To develop skills in market research frameworks and techniques for making international marketing decisions based on relevant data.