Course Descriptions
| Course | Credit Hours | Reg. # | Description |
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Math 110 College Algebra |
3 | ||
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Acc 200 Principles of Accounting |
3 | ||
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Bus M 300 Financial Management |
3 | ||
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Org B 327 Human Resource Management |
3 | ||
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Bus M 340 Marketing Management |
3 | ||
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Org B 347 Managerial Leadership Development |
3 | ||
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Bus M 390 Ethics for Management |
3 | ||
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I Sys 404 Data Communications |
3 | ||
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Bus M 419 Advanced Real Estate Analysis |
3 | ||
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Org B 431 Managing Global Human Capital |
3 | ||
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Bus M 454 Sales Management |
3 | ||
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Bus M 475 Financing New Ventures |
3 | ||
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Bus M 479 Creating and Managing New Ventures |
3 | ||
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Bus M 481 Strategy II |
3 | ||
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Org B 490R Seminar in Organizational Behavior Human Resources |
3 | ||
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Bus M 493 Entrepreneurial Projects |
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MBA 501 Corporate Financial Accounting |
1.5 | 9682 | Analyzing financial accounting and reporting issues used by perspective managers. |
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MBA 505 Leadership 1 |
2.0 | Developing skillful business communication techniques, particularly in writing and interpersonal influence. Learning accepted business correspondence and report-writing concepts. | |
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MBA 510 Management & Information Technology |
1.5 | 9696 | Management and control with information technology. Information flow, database design, and use applied to cost controls and managerial decision making. |
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MBA 512 Leading Change in a Technical Environment |
3 | Principles and skills of leading information technology-enabled organization change and system implementation. Topics include leadership, change management, ERP/CRM systems implementation, knowledge management, and business process redesign. | |
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I Sys 520 Business Programming |
3 | ||
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MBA 520 Business Finance |
3 | 0898-09 | Short-term financing of a business operation. Developing techniques for financial planning, such as analysis of ratios, profitability, and liquidity. |
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MBA 526 Money & Banking |
1.5 | 10205 | The process whereby financial institutions, the public, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury interact in the macro-economy to create money and influence interest rates. |
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MBA 530 Operations Management |
3 | 9688 | Examining issues and tools in production and operations management. Specific tools for forecasting, planning, inventory control, and project management presented and developed. |
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MBA 535 IPD Seminar |
1.5 | 10354 | For IPD students only. Review research in product and process development, reports on internships, and guest speakers on the topic of product and process development. |
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MBA 539 Theory & Practice of Third-World Development |
3 | 8817 | Paradigms of economic development; strategies and applications in various societies. |
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MBA 543 Consulting |
1.5 | Forces operating to induce or resist change in organizations; current models and methods for organizational intervention and the intervention process. | |
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MBA 544 Dynamics of Groups and Work Teams |
3.0 | 0875 | Group dynamics and process in organizations. Theory and skill development applied to both individual roles in groups and effective work teams. Only for OBHR majors. |
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MBA 547 Labor Relations |
3 | 8795 | Overview of industrial relations and collective bargaining: evolution of unionism and labor-management relations, labor law, union-organizing campaigns, contract negotiation, and arbitration procedures. |
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MBA 548 Strategic Human Resource Management |
3.0 | 10997 | Approaches the study of human resource management issues from the general manager's perspective. Topics include the employment relationship, recruiting/selection, employment law, performance management, and HRM in emerging companies. Emphasis is placed on managing human assets in the context of the firm's strategy, industry, and stakeholder environment. |
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MBA 550 Marketing Management |
3 | 0895 | Development of analytical marketing tools and techniques; their utilization in case analysis and decision making in marketing management. |
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MBA 584 Intro to Global Management |
1.5 | 9695 | Foundations in global management integrating strategy, finance, operations, marketing and human resource management. |
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MBA 590R Section 1 Business Plan Competition Mgt. |
1.5 | 09697 | Directors of the BYU Business Plan Competition learn and apply skills in leadership, governance, financial management, mentoring, and VC Angel networking. Application and faculty approval required. |
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MBA 590R Section 2 Retail Practicum |
1.5 | 09697 | Managing a retail lab to provide experience for marketing, small business creativity, tactics, and management. Application required. |
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MBA 590R Section 3 Knowledge Brokering |
1.5 | ||
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MBA 593R Management Seminar |
0.5 | 6892 | Invited guests speak on topics of general management interest ranging from ethics, industry problems and opportunities, government policies, and relevant current events. |
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Bus M 593 Entrepreneurial Projects |
3 | ||
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MBA 599R Internship Practicum |
1.0 | 0858 | For International students only. Internship providing hands-on experience in management positions. Credit does not count toward graduation for MBAs. |
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MBA 614 Spreadsheet Automation & Modeling |
3 | Programming in Excel VBA; automating common tasks; retrieving data from web servers; building optimization models and user forms. | |
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MBA 620 Personal Financial Planning |
3 | 0896 | Financial decision making for households; income tax, retirement and estate planning, investment strategy, portfolio management, and personal risk management. Business interest affecting personal finances. |
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MBA 621 Advanced Corporate Finance |
3 | 6183 | Issues such as mergers/acquisitions, valuation, financial restructurings, leveraged buyouts, capital structure, international portfolio analysis, tax-driven decisions, leasing, recapitalizations, industry restructurings. |
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MBA 622 Investments |
3 | 0924 | Basic principles and techniques of investment analysis and portfolio selection and management. Portfolio policies available to investors. |
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MBA 624 Capital and Security Markets |
3 | 0930 | Functions and instruments of capital markets: relationships to money markets, historical background, structures, and analysis of significant economic problems and trends in the markets. |
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MBA 626 Derivatives & Fixed Incomes |
3 | 0936 | Valuing and using derivatives and fixed income securities. Key concepts include: equilibrium pricing, arbitrary pricing and shaping of competitive strategy. |
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MBA 628 Issues in Global Trade and Finance |
3 | 10213 | Global market issues for public and private sectors. Impacts of trade and economic integration; global rule of financial markets and institutions. |
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MBA 629 Silver Fund |
3 | 8725 | Team management of actual investment portfolios for a full year. Responsibility for economic forecasts, security selection, and portfolio strategy. Students apply for a position of management in the spring for the following year. Selections for participation made by faculty committee. |
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MBA 631 Power, Influence and Negotiation |
3.0 | 11521 | |
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MBA 633 Supply Chain Strategy |
3.0 | 11328 | |
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MBA 637 Global Supply Chain |
3 | Emerging rules of a global marketplace and their influence on key supply chain activities and processes. | |
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MBA 640 Leadership |
1.5 | 10215 | Understanding and building individual leadership skills required for a global business environment. |
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MBA 643 Advanced Human Resource Management |
3 | 4199 | Advanced analysis of human resource functions, staffing, performance, evaluation, compensation and benefits etc), with emphasis on selected new developments the HR field such as certification. |
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MBA 644 Diversity and Discrimination in Organizations |
3 | 4200 | Dynamics of difference and discrimination in organizations, considered from three perspectives: interpersonal, intergroup, and institutional. This course provides a model that has helped managers analyze discrimination and work more effectively with different employee populations. |
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MBA 645 International Human Resource |
3 | Understanding national, organizational, and ethnic cultures and cultural frameworks used for business. Cross-country analysis; international human resource issues and working abroad. | |
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MBA 646 Designing and Leading Teams |
1.5 | Topics include effective team structure and composition, individual and group autonomy, power and influence, and team conflict. | |
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MBA 654 Sales Management |
3 | 6259 | Personal selling and sales management, including strategic role of personal selling; business to business selling; organizing, directing, and compensating the sales force; and evaluating sales performance. |
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MBA 660 Advanced Brand Strategy |
3 | Strategic market analysis and development and implementation of a strategic marketing plan for a new product, new business, or an ongoing operation. | |
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MBA 665 Advanced Venture Capital/Private Equity Strategy |
3.0 | 11227 | Prerequisite: MBA 664; application required. Applied experience in VC/PE, conducting due diligence on clients, industry, competition; observation and participation in deal structure, tracking progress of funded client companies. Year long course. |
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MBA 669 Entrepreneurial Strategy |
3 | 10783 | Development and application of strategies in emerging businesses with focus on strategic business models, capital acquisition, and competitive differentiation in new businesses, especially e-businesses. Students consult directly with businesses. |
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MBA 672 Entrepreneurial Marketing |
3 | Marketing strategies for startup companies. Topics include marketing to investors, internal marketing, and how to market products/service without a marketing budget. | |
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MBA 679 Creating and Managing New Ventures |
3 | 9402 | Key issues and problems facing managers in start-up companies. Team-taught by professors and entrepreneurs; particularly helpful for students starting businesses. |
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MBA 681 Strategic Implementation |
1.5 | 9926 | Second Block. This will be a traditional couse on implementation involving cases and readings with the focus on execution and alignment. Part will explore managing change and will be integrated with the material received in the q1st block on leadership. Required reading is Good to Great. |
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MBA 683 Creative Strategic Thinking |
3.0 | 11333 | Designed to help students understand the conditions under which ideas/strategies emerge. and build their skills at creative strategic thinking and generating valuable ideas for their companies. |
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MBA 686 Real Estate Analysis: Finance and Investment |
3.0 | 6262 | Applying principles and techniques of property investments, including determining value, financing arrangements, and marketing and management problems. |
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MBA 687 Strategic Simulation |
1.5 | 11228 | Students form into teams participating in an on-line strategy experience and practice skills in strategy formulation, group decision making and strategy execution. |
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MBA 690R Management Field Study |
VAR 1-3 | 6787 | Experience working with faculty and management in assisting businesses with specific projects. |
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MBA 693R Section 1 Readings and Conference |
VAR | 6898 | Subject to be arranged with professor of your choice. Approval must be obtained from the MBA office. |
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MBA 693R Section 2 Product Development for PD students |
1.5 | 6898 | |
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MBA 693R Section 3 Creating and Managing Social Ventures |
3 | ||
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MBA 693R Section 4 Forecasting |
1.5 | 6898 | 2nd block |
