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The core curriculum of the Weatherhead MBA program provides a solid foundation for
thorough, informed decision-making in today's business environment. It is designed to give you a broad experience of all
major areas of the current business spectrum. Below is a brief description
of each of the core courses.
Curriculum Spotlight
As you explore your opportunities to pursue an MBA degree, you will discover that the Weatherhead MBA Experience is unique among business schools for many reasons. Within your curriculum, three courses set Weatherhead apart:
Leadership Assessment and Development (LEAD)
As the foundation of the Weatherhead MBA, this class encourages you to play an active role in developing the shape and direction of your learning experience.
Strategic Issues and Applications (SIA)
SIA is a capstone course that “pulls it all together,” enabling you to apply lessons you have learned in each of your MBA classes.
Action Learning This program provides the opportunity for full-time students to participate in problem solving for companies in an Action Learning project. In this unique course, you and your classmates will form consulting teams to assist major corporations in addressing a current management challenge with the guidance of faculty coaching.
These courses provide students unique opportunities to prepare for leadership positions.
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MBA Core Curriculum (Full-time and Part-time)
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ACCT 401: Fin & Mgrl Accountancy
- 3.0
This course examines the underlying framework of financial and managerial accountancy, focusing on how financial information is used by: (1) parties external to the organization to evaluate financial performance, i.e., stockholders, creditors, and government agencies; and (2) internal management to plan, control, and evaluate the financial results of the organization.
BAFI 402: Financial Management I
- 3.0
In this course, students are introduced to the basics of corporate finance, including the objectives, tasks, and decisions made by corporate financial managers. The course covers discounted cash flows, bond and stock valuation, cost of capital, capital budgeting, asset risk and return, and short-term and long-term financial management. Coreq: ACCT 401.
ECON 403: Economics For Management
- 3.0
This course surveys of the basic principles of micro and macroeconomics. Topics covered in microeconomics include supply and demand, the theory of production and costs, market structures and factor markets. Macroeconomics topics are the national incomes accounts, the determination of national income, employment and inflation, fiscal and monetary policies and international trade.
MGMT 403: Leadership Assessment & Devel
- 3.0
This course is designed to increase competitive attractiveness in the marketplace and maximize the added value of the M.B.A. program. The objective of the course is to have students learn a method for assessing and developing in themselves the knowledge and abilities relevant to management throughout their careers. This is accomplished by helping students develop an individualized learning plan to enhance their level of knowledge in 11 fields and 22 abilities. Students engage in a number of assessment activities, then receive feedback and interpret it. This occurs in the context of an Executive Action Team (i.e., students and a facilitator) in which students help each other assess their current capability and future development needs. This course is limited to students in the M.B.A. program.
MGMT 413: Human Values In Organization
- 3.0
Examines the behavioral sciences relevant to the effective management of people and the effective design of human resources system, structure and policies. Topics include leadership, change management, motivation and pay systems, team dynamics, staffing, decision making, organizational communications, employee participation, performance appraisal, conflict management, negotiation, work design, organizational design, and organizations culture. A variety of methods, including experiential and interactive learning methods, are used to study these topics.
MGMT 499: Strategic Issues & Application
- 3.0
This course wraps up the M.B.A. core by providing an integrative experience of applying the full range of managerial skills addressed throughout the core in a comprehensive case exercise. Students develop, document, and present comprehensive, implementable strategic and tactical actions programs in groups. Prereq: ACCT 401 and BAFI 402.
MIDS 409: System And Design Thinking
- 3.0
For over a half-century, the field of information systems has been learning about the design, development, testing, and use of complex systems. Computers are just the start. The networks that connect them to create a massive communications grid, the software that runs on them, and the impact of these artifacts on organizations have all generated large bodies of knowledge. Two modes of thinking have proven particularly valuable in making sense of these developments--system thinking and design thinking. While this course applies concepts from system thinking and design thinking to problems related to using information in organizations, the techniques are widely applicable to managing.
MKMR 403: Managerial Marketing
- 3.0
This course focuses on managing marketing as a process of creating value and mutually desirable exchanges of values. That is the foundation of a customer orientation and a central theme of market-driven management. Methods for strategic marketing planning, understanding buyer behavior, market analysis, segmentation and devising integrated marketing programs are introduced. Creating customer value and competitive advantage in worldwide markets is the central theme. Prereq: ACCT 401.
OPMT 405: Operations Management
- 3.0
Operations management deals with the design of products and processes, the acquisition of resources, the conversion of inputs to outputs, and the distribution of goods and services. It is central to a firm's ability to compete effectively. As global competition in both goods and services increases, the management of operations is becoming more and more important. This course provides a broad overview of the managerial issues associated with production and delivery of goods and services. It includes the use of quantitative modeling using computers as a central methodology. Prereq: QUMM 414.
QUMM 414: Statistics & Decision Modeling
- 3.0
This course provides the foundations of statistical and operations research methodologies for managerial decision-making. Business statistics focuses on statistical thinking as one of the fundamentals of effective management. Topics covered include sampling and the normal distribution, making inferences from data via confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, and analyzing relationships between samples. Decision modeling of organizational systems uses mathematical and computer models to provide a quantitative perspective on identifying, analyzing and solving complex decision problems. This course includes an introduction to linear programming models and applications, simulation techniques in decision-making, and project management.
Additional Required Course for Full-time MBA
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MGMT 498: Action Learning
- 3.0
This course allows teams of students to integrate functional core knowledge from the first year of the M.B.A. program and apply analysis and strategic management skills in a real-world setting. Students will be evaluated by the instructor and the project managers at the client organizations. Prereq: Second year full-time M.B.A. status.
Note: Because of the diverse educational and professional background of our students, Weatherhead offers pre-program “camps” to prepare students without a background in statistics or finance to thrive in our fast-paced learning environments. We also offer waiver evaluation days in the Full-time two-year program so that students can be exempt from core courses that they have already mastered and substitute electives of their choice. Individuals pursuing the Part-time MBA may be eligible for core course waivers based on previous completed academic work.
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