Course Descriptions

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Course Credit Hours Reg. # Description
Math 110
College Algebra
3    
Acc 200
Principles of Accounting
3    
Bus M 300
Financial Management
3    
Org B 327
Human Resource Management
3    
Bus M 340
Marketing Management
3    
Org B 347
Managerial Leadership Development
3    
Bus M 390
Ethics for Management
3    
I Sys 404
Data Communications
3    
Bus M 419
Advanced Real Estate Analysis
3    
Org B 431
Managing Global Human Capital
3    
Bus M 454
Sales Management
3    
Bus M 475
Financing New Ventures
3    
Bus M 479
Creating and Managing New Ventures
3    
Bus M 481
Strategy II
3    
Org B 490R
Seminar in Organizational Behavior Human Resources
3    
Bus M 493
Entrepreneurial Projects
     
MBA 501
Corporate Financial Accounting
1.5 9682 Analyzing financial accounting and reporting issues used by perspective managers.
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.
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.
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.
I Sys 520
Business Programming
3    
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.
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.
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.
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.
MBA 539
Theory & Practice of Third-World Development
3 8817 Paradigms of economic development; strategies and applications in various societies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MBA 550
Marketing Management
3 0895 Development of analytical marketing tools and techniques; their utilization in case analysis and decision making in marketing management.
MBA 584
Intro to Global Management
1.5 9695 Foundations in global management integrating strategy, finance, operations, marketing and human resource management.
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.
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.
MBA 590R
Section 3
Knowledge Brokering
1.5    
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.
Bus M 593
Entrepreneurial Projects
3    
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.
MBA 614
Spreadsheet Automation & Modeling
3   Programming in Excel VBA; automating common tasks; retrieving data from web servers; building optimization models and user forms.
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.
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.
MBA 622
Investments
3 0924 Basic principles and techniques of investment analysis and portfolio selection and management. Portfolio policies available to investors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MBA 631
Power, Influence and Negotiation
3.0 11521  
MBA 633
Supply Chain Strategy
3.0 11328  
MBA 637
Global Supply Chain
3   Emerging rules of a global marketplace and their influence on key supply chain activities and processes.
MBA 640
Leadership
1.5 10215 Understanding and building individual leadership skills required for a global business environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MBA 690R
Management Field Study
VAR 1-3 6787 Experience working with faculty and management in assisting businesses with specific projects.
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.
MBA 693R
Section 2
Product Development for PD students
1.5 6898  
MBA 693R
Section 3
Creating and Managing Social Ventures
3    
MBA 693R
Section 4
Forecasting
1.5 6898 2nd block