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BUAD 6381 - Intl Financial Management
(3)
This module covers important concepts in international economic and financial analysis, and stresses their use in the financial management of multi-national corporations, in international portfolio management, and foreign direct investment decisions.
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BUAD 6391 - Real Estate Finance
Spring (3) Staff
The real estate market collapse which led to a global financial crisis has changed the way we view and evaluate commercial real estate. This Real Estate Finance CAM will provide students with an essential understanding of the key forces underlying various real estate related financing decisions from unsecuritized local commercial properties to real estate-based financial derivatives traded on Wall Street.
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BUAD 6411 - Marketing Research
(2)
This course is designed to examine marketing research as a systematic process that delivers actionable insights.Special emphasis will be given to digital tools that can be used for data collection and analysis.Topics will include research design and methods, with a focus on how to utilize marketing research for effective management decisions.
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BUAD 6421 - Marketing Strategy
(3)
Focuses on analyzing market threats and opportunities, assessing competitive advantages, forecasting patterns of market evolution and developing marketing strategies that are consistent with these assessments.
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BUAD 6441 - Customer Experience Management
(3)
To be competitive in today’s marketplace, service organizations must provide a quality experience for their customers. Customer experience management (CEM) is the process of strategically managing a customer’s entire experience with a company. Specifically, this course identifies the key dimensions on which customer perceptions of service excellence are based, and describes strategies for offering superior customer service. Key course concepts include: (1) identifying the key drivers of service excellence, (2) reducing problems (i.e., failures) in service performance, (3) measuring customer and employee satisfaction, (4) developing a service recovery system, (5) understanding the role of employees in the service process, (6) managing and measuring financial customer outcomes, (7) developing social media marketing strategy, and (8) managing customer rewards/loyalty programs. Students who complete this course will not only have a better understanding of how customers evaluate service firms; they will also have a “tool kit” of ideas, measures and techniques to help improve service excellence.
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BUAD 6451 - Solving Creative Problems
Spring (3) Staff
A study of the processes of creativity and innovation in complex problem-solving, informed by both business and inter-disciplinary approaches. Throughout the course, students engage in a mix of experiential, experimental, and reflective exercises designed to promote integrative and creative problem-solving, with an emphasis on the techniques, frameworks and mindsets that drive innovation in organizations.
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BUAD 6521 - Management Consulting
(2)
This course examines the management consulting process and prepares students for a role as either an internal or external consultant. The course is designed to provide a framework for understanding the art and science of providing management counsel to client organizations in the public and private sectors. The course follows the process of a typical consulting engagement in identifying key project requirements, feasibility and design alternatives.
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BUAD 6551 - Teams: Design, Selection, & Development
(3)
Working in teams has become the norm in most organizations yet most people have many misconceptions about what makes groups effective. We will cover work in a variety of teams including: project teams, self-directed teams, research teams, consulting teams, and multinational teams. Groups can be exhilarating or maddening. This course is designed to develop the knowledge and skills to enable you to improve the performance of most teams. The course includes a refresher on practical theories of group effectiveness, application of human resource management techniques to teams; selecting team members; developing the team and its members; applying appropriate rewards, and coverage of skills and tools designed to diagnose and improve team functioning.
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BUAD 6571 - Leadership and Planned Change
(3)
Examines current issues in leadership and managerial strategies for successfully implementing, institutionalizing and evaluating change initiatives.
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BUAD 6581 - Human Resources Management II
(1.5) Prerequisite(s): BUAD 6541
Building on the foundation of Human Resources Management I, this course takes a strategic perspective on human resource management (HRM), understanding how HRM professionals work with other organizational managers and leaders to develop and implement effective and efficient HRM practices that support the strategic objectives of their organizations.
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BUAD 6591 - Predictive Analytics
(3)
This course is designed to provide students with a deep understanding of the theory and practice fo Classification techniques, which constitutes perhaps the most commonly used techniques in the Data Scientists’s toolkit. These Predictive Analytics techniques are important members of a family of analytics often referred to as Machine Learning techniques. An important part of this course is an introduction to a powerful and ubiquitous software package called R, which is used extensively in labs and assignments in this class.
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BUAD 6601 - Management of Emerging Technologies
(3)
This course focuses on the state-of-the-art techniques for developing and managing the development of new products and software, especially those technologies for identifying competitive product and software configurations, rapid prototyping, and discovering what users want and need in a quick, cost-effective manner. Topics include 3D printing, prototyping, voice of the customer, agile development, maturity models, collaborative design, and Scrum.
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BUAD 6611 - Supply Chain Management
(3)
This course deals primarily with the design and operation of logistics networks or supply chains, and the flow of materials and information on them. Students in this course will be exposed to both the strategic and operational aspects of managing today’s complex supply chains. Specific topics include vendor-managed inventory; efficient customer response; collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment; planning distribution and supply; managing product variety, transportation, supply chain planning, distribution and supply; managed product variety; transportation; supply chain planning software; eMarketplaces; inter- and meta-mediaries and design and optimization of supply networks.
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BUAD 6621 - Project Management
(1.5-3)
This course focuses on the management of complex projects and the rules and techniques, which have been developed in the past 25 years to assist managers with such projects. All three phases of project management - Planning, Scheduling, and Control are explored in detail. In addition to studying various scheduling techniques for projects, this course explores issues dealing with project selection methods, project risk assessment, project team dynamics, new product development projects, runaway projects, and monitoring and control of projects.
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BUAD 6631 - Advanced Project Management
(1.5)
This course picks up where Project Management Part I ends. The objectives of this course are to:
• extend the student’s knowledge of project management, particularly in the areas of project cost management (cost estimating and application of earned value management) and project risk management. We will use a (30 day trial version) of an add-on software package to MS Project for quantitative risk management.
• expand the student’s capabilities with MS Project
• extend the student’s knowledge in other areas of project management including (1) project selection, (2) value engineering as well as (3) program management and (4) project portfolio management.
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BUAD 6641 - Lean Toolkit
(1.5)
In this course, you will learn the Lean methodology, which uses a particular type of business process mapping in order to document and understand business processes (values stream mapping). This course would not qualify a student for Green Belt Certification.
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BUAD 6651 - Six Sigma Toolkit
(1.5)
In this course, you will learn the Lean methodology, which uses a particular type of business process mapping in order to document and understand business processes (values stream mapping). This course would not qualify a student for Green Belt Certification.
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BUAD 6671 - Lean Six Sigma Project
(1.5)
Students learn Lean and Six Sigma tools in the Lean Toolkit and Six Sigma Toolkit courses for improving the quality and efficiency of business processes. These courses also offer a first exposure to the application of those tools. This course offers additional experience in applying Lean and Six Sigma tools to a project. Analogous with industry standards, a student who completes this course earns a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
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BUAD 6691 - Engineering Economic Analysis
(3)
Organizations that do engineering and/or technology development must address the economic aspects of their projects. Early portions of the course assume that benefits, costs, and quantities have a high degree of certainty. The latter portion of the course explores risk (uncertainty) with regard to benefits, costs, and quantities.
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BUAD 6701 - Data Science for Managers
(2)
A family of (often non-parametric) analytical methods collectively referred to as “Machine Learning” methods has grown out of the Artificial Intelligence community and has become commonplace in many of the world’s leading analytics competitors. This course introduces students to one of the leading software applications for such tools (the open source system called R), and uses it to discuss several of Machine Learning’s most frequently used techniques in supervised and unsupervised learning.
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BUAD 6711 - Advanced Modeling Techniques
Spring (3) Staff
This course is designed to provide students with the skills necessary to develop advanced decision models using a variety of programming and database tools. This semester, we will focus on VBA and Access.
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BUAD 6731 - Healthcare Informatics
Spring (3) Staff
Health Informatics involves the management and use of resources – technology, capital, governance and people – and methods such as process management and innovation to promote efficient and effective delivery of healthcare. The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of how to use information, and information systems to support clinical, administrative and patient services in conducting the business of healthcare. Through hands-on experience, students will learn from analysis of operational or strategic problems in a health care setting and explore challenges and opportunities in various segments of the healthcare industry such as consulting and policy making, supply chain, pharmaceuticals and insurance.
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BUAD 6741 - Principles of Negotiation
(3)
This course uses Game Theory to provide a theoretical foundation for understanding negotiation, and it provides first hand experience in different bargaining situations. A number of tools are developed that are useful in planning and preparing for a negotiation.
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BUAD 6811 - Global Business Immerson
(1.5-3)
The objectives of this course are: 1) to introduce students to the interactive concepts of marketing and culture, 2) to enable students to understand the cultural issues at the corporate, national and transnational levels, 3) to provide insights on effective marketing and management decision making in unfamiliar or cross-cultural settings, particularly with respect to various international contexts, and 4) most importantly to give students unique experiences with cultural immersion.
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BUAD 6831 - Non-Profit Organization
(3)
The objective of this course is to analyze the role of non-profit organizations as economic entities in a market economy (for example, methods of financing these organizations.) The course will also explore liability, application of strategic planning to identify potentially useful market niches of these organizations, the legal obligations of management, and portfolio management appropriate for these organizations.
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BUAD 6871 - Mng & Fin Small Bus Enterprise
(3)
Designed for those who wish to undertake a career journey in the direction of running a smaller business enterprise or a family business. It is structured to allow the students to develop an alternative to a large company or professional service firm. Every aspect of a business is covered, from the legal entity utilized through the management and financing of the enterprise. The creation and review of individual Business Plans will be required.
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BUAD 6881 - Private Equity & Venture Cap
(3)
Covers the essential principles of the risks and rewards associated with Private Equity and Venture Capital. Financial analysis of a business and risk/return characteristics, business valuation methods, and the financing sources are covered to better understand the required returns to risk investors. Other topics include: fundraising, early stage, middle stage, and ultimately late stage investments; buyouts and exit strategies; the structuring of the “deal”; the creation of term sheets, negotiation strategies, and human capital and resources.
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BUAD 6951 - Business Research Seminar
(0-6)
Special topics courses allows the faculty to teach cutting edge material.
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BUAD 6971 - Independent Study
(0-6)
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BUAD 5013 - Communication for Managers
(3)
The need to communicate well is a critical part of a manager’s professional development. This course helps prospective and practicing managers assess and develop their communication abilities to be a successful managerial communicator. Through course activities, students will understand the importance of effective communication in managerial and leadership roles, appreciate the value of strategic organizational communication, and enhance their speaking, writing, and other communication abilities. Special topics in the course include: presentation graphics, ethics, intercultural communication, and media relations.
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BUAD 5103 - Financial Accounting
(3)
Concepts and principles of financial and administrative accounting essential to the interpretation and analysis of accounting information, including financial reports, bankruptcy analysis, budgeting, control, production and costing, stock options, and board governance.
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BUAD 5113 - Managerial Accounting
(3)
This course deals with the use of accounting information for decision-making, planning, and control. The goal is to acquaint the student of management with the fundamentals of internal accounting, better known as management accounting. The emphasis is on using accounting information in managing an organization, rather than product costing and income determination.
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BUAD 5223 - Management Information Systems
(3)
The focus of Management of Information Systems is on the technology that enables its use in the business and organizational setting. Issues such as hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, and the Internet will be discussed. Students will experience hands-on applications in some areas. An understanding of how Information Technology enables fundamental transformations in firms, markets, products, and business processes will be gained. This course addresses the management issues surrounding the impact of information technology in organizations. It is designed with the line and general managers in mind, rather than the managers of the IS function.
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BUAD 5303 - Finance
(3)
The course covers basic principles and theories of financial valuation, risk pricing and risk management. These principles are applied to corporate finance topics such as: how a firm decides to invest its resources in long term assets and growth opportunities; how a firm will manage its sources of capital and raise funds to finance chosen investments; and how the firm will plan and control funds flow.
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BUAD 5403 - Marketing
(3)
Examination of marketing from a managerial viewpoint; emphasis on evaluating marketing alternatives and in choosing from these alternatives.
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BUAD 5503 - Organizational Behavior
(3)
Designed to provide you with the analytic frameworks and tools to diagnose events in and to take effective action in today’s changing organizations. The course draws on knowledge from the domains of Organization Behavior (OB), Organization Theory (OT), and Human Resource Management (HRM) to provide you with the understanding and skills that you need to be an effective manager of people in these changing organizations. OT, OB and HRM are concerned with developing understanding about how human beings act in organized settings and how organized systems affect human behavior through policies, structures and strategies. In addition to conceptual understanding, ongoing assessments and experiential exercises provide you opportunities to reflect on your own behavior in order to develop new and more effective ways of interacting with others to accomplish work.
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BUAD 5603 - Operations Management
(3)
Study of the design, operation, and control of production and operating systems from a managerial standpoint, with emphasis on quantitative methods of analysis.
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BUAD 5703 - Quantitative Methods
(3)
Role and application of statistics in the analysis of business problems including estimation, statistical measures, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple and multiple linear regression and time series analysis.
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BUAD 5713 - Modeling & Simulation
(1.5)
This course is designed to introduce students to basic modeling, analysis, and simulation techniques. Emphasis will be placed on problem identification and formulation, sensitivity analysis, and model construction. Tools such as MS Excel, Solver, Crystal Ball, and @Risk will be used to solve business problems across all business functional areas: Finance, Accounting, Operations, Marketing, Information Systems, Policy, and Human Resource Management.
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BUAD 5723 - Managerial Economics
(3)
This course studies economic analysis applied to managerial decision making. Besides basic topics of demand, cost and production, and market structures, this course also covers demand forecasting, pricing strategies, game theory, and information economics.
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BUAD 5903 - Global Competitive Strategy
(3)
Pre-req: Complete Phase II courses and two electives.
Covers analysis for decision making at industry, firm and business levels, focusing especially on multi-business firms and global industries. Firm resources and competencies, business and environmental demands, and the sources of competitive advantage are the major focus points of this course, which stresses practical applications of theory.
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BUAD 5943 - National & Global Economies
(3)
This course is intended to provide information that can be used to interpret economic events and assess their impact on the economy and an organization. Part of this information concerns not just economics but an understanding of how some political choices are made in various countries. This knowledge is critical for risk assessment and a realistic planning of business operations over the next year. You leave the course with some fundamental “rules of thumb” that allow you to assess potential large scale economic risks to your organization.
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BUAD 5015 - Communication for Executives
(1.5)
This course is designed specifically for the communication needs of executives. Building on skills and knowledge essential for successful communication, the course will focus on the value of effective managerial communication, provide an understanding of strategic organizational communication, and enhance speaking, writing, and other communication abilities.
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BUAD 5105 - Accounting - Reporting & Analysis
(2.5)
This course introduces the basic concepts of financial accounting necessary to generate financial statements and reports. It examines strategies used to master the economic subtleties of business, and provides the managerial skills needed to analyze and interpret financial statements for internal and external use. BUAD 5705 Statistics for Business (2.5 Credits): This course focuses on data analysis and how managers use data to make better business decisions. We will examine the role and application of statistics in the analysis of business problems including estimation, statistical measures, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression models.
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BUAD 5115 - Accounting for Decision Making & Control
(2.5)
This course continues the accounting series with cost accounting, activities analysis, profit planning and budgetary systems, cost allocations, transfer pricing, and performance evaluation.
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BUAD 5215 - Managing Information Systems
(2.5)
The course focuses upon strategic influence of information technology (IT) within organizations. Designed primarily for non-IT executives, the course will prepare for understanding of technological vocabulary, emerging technologies and how they enhance core business functions, and demonstrating the business value of IT investment. Practice based exercises will augment the learning experience through modeling IT choices and information utilization.
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BUAD 5305 - Financial Management
(2.5)
This course is structured on the concepts and tools of valuation. It covers financial and project analysis, financial forecasting, risk and return, cost of capital, mergers and acquisitions, and valuation.
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BUAD 5325 - Corporate Financial Policy
(2.5)
Building on the topics in Financial Management, Corporate Financial Policy covers advanced topics in financial markets and strategy, including debt and equity management policy, financing, derivatives and risk management, and international finance.
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BUAD 5405 - Marketing Management
(2.5)
This course focuses on the problems of building an integrated marketing program in light of external forces, such as the consumer, the trade, the competition and the regulatory environment. Specific emphasis is placed on the marketing concept, the marketing mix, market definition and dynamics, segmentation and positioning, and product/market evolution.
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BUAD 5425 - Marketing Strategy
(2.5)
This course focuses on the formulation of marketing strategy, including balancing market opportunities and threats with available resources and alternative responses, as well as analysis of markets, product and pricing strategies.
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BUAD 5505 - Leadership in an Uncertain Era
(2.5)
This course is designed to improve your effectiveness as a manager by deepening your understanding of how organizations work. To succeed in the business world, you must (a) analyze organizational events and processes and (b) design and implement actions to increase organizational effectiveness. These critical leadership skills are even more important today, as organizations enter a period of enormous upheaval and change. The course begins with an intensive two-day leadership forum that focuses on heightening your awareness of leadership challenges and enhancing your ability to address them. As the semester continues, we build upon that seminal experience by exploring how the structure, power relations, and culture of organizations shape and constrain the behavior of individuals within them. The course culminates in a project in which you apply both conceptual tools and leadership skills to events in your current organization.
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BUAD 5515 - Leading Change in Organizations
(2.5)
Building on the concepts from Leadership in an Uncertain Era, this course examines the leader’s role in diagnosing, anticipating, planning, implementing, and evaluating change within organizations. Case studies and group projects focus on organizational analysis, barriers to change, overcoming resistance to change, change intervention strategies and methods, and change evaluation.
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BUAD 5605 - Operations & Supply Chain Mgmt
(2.5)
To achieve competitive advantage, managers must understand how to design and control products and services, as well as the systems for their delivery. To reach that understanding, this course focuses on issues of planning and control of complex products and services, managing quality and continuous improvement, and control of the supply chain.
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BUAD 5705 - Data Analysis (Part 1)
(1.5)
This course focuses on data analysis and how managers use data to make better business decisions. We will examine the role and application of statistics in the analysis of business problems including estimation, statistical measures, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression models.
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BUAD 5715 - Data Analysis (Part 2)
(2.5)
This course is designed to introduce students to basic modeling, analysis and simulation techniques. Emphasis will be placed on problem identification and formulation, sensitivity analysis and model construction. Spreadsheet tools will be used to solve business problems across various business functional areas.
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BUAD 5725 - Managerial Economics & Public Policy
(2.5)
This introductory applied economics class examines the basic concepts and applications of demand and supply analysis. The course also explores topics of production and pricing in both domestic and international markets. Furthering the understanding of different market structures, this course focuses on the causes and consequences of market failures, the application of game theory to corporate decision-making, and the impact of technological change, international competition and government regulation.
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BUAD 5805 - Ethical Accountability
(1)
In a world of increased global trade and commerce, this course focuses on understanding and managing the differing standards for everything from earnings to ethics. The course serves to help us better understand values, our accountabilities, and the impact of our decisions and actions in the workplace. To reach this understanding, issues of business ethics, business strategy and emerging technologies, and managing conflicting interests in a global economy will be discussed.
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BUAD 5815 - Global Business Immersion
(2.5)
An examination of the distinctive management issues that arise when firms are either contemplating or already doing business across national boundaries. This course requires the integration and application of knowledge and skills learned in earlier courses and also introduces the critical business skills of understanding and managing strategic issues in international settings.
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BUAD 5905 - Strategic Management
(2)
This course is the study of the management of organizations with special focus on the roles and tasks of individual managers. The course deals with analyzing external and internal environmental forces; formulating organizational objectives; understanding the often conflicting needs and expectations of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders; defining and appraising alternative courses of action; formulating and executing action plans; and establishing systems for monitoring and measuring results.
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BUAD 5945 - Global Environment of Business
(2.5)
This course focuses on how domestic and international product and financial markets operate. Students will develop expertise in applying models to generate qualitative forecasts of economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates and inflation. Through the analysis of case studies, the students will develop an understanding of policy decisions at the Federal Reserve and the effect that these policies have in the money and exchange rate markets.
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BUAD 6245 - EMBA Elective
(2)
EMBA students get to choose an elective towards the end of the third semester of residency.
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BUAD 5007 - Online MBA Residency
Fall and Spring (0 - 1) Staff Graded P/F
This is a Special Topics course. Students must participate in one of several weekend workshops offered on campus as a requirement for graduation. Each workshop will be focused on a topical business theme. The workshops will be offered 2-3 times each year, and students may meet this degree requirement by participating in any one of them. Students may opt to participate in more than one weekend workshop, but may only receive one credit toward their degree.
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BUAD 5017 - Renaissance Manager
(4)
This course provides a context for business, historically, functionally, and cross-culturally. It addresses the nature of problems; modes of thinking and inquiry; approaches to problem identification, framing/re-framing, and problem-solving; and approaching problems from multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives.
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BUAD 5107 - Accounting
(4)
This course introduces students to the roles that accounting systems play in organizations and in global capital markets. Accounting is often called “the language of business,” which emphasizes the prominent position it has in business communications and decision making. Reports derived from accounting systems are often the primary way information within organizations, and from organizations to various stakeholders, is communicated. Such information is essential input for, and serves a fundamental basis for, managerial and stakeholder decisions. By the end of this course, students should know the fundamentals of this language so that they can communicate effectively about important business matters.
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BUAD 5227 - Integrated Technology
(4)
This course is designed to introduce students to the basic information technology and digital fluency. Emphasis will be placed on understanding how managers can participate in opportunities to select and successfully implement information technologies in order to promote business strategy. Interactive analytic tool will be used to solve business problems involving various functional areas.
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BUAD 5307 - Finance
(4)
Students will learn about concepts and tools of valuation, financial and project analysis, financial forecasting, risk and return, cost of capital, mergers and acquisitions, and valuation.
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BUAD 5407 - Marketing
(4)
Focuses on developing integrated marketing programs that address customer needs, competitive activity, channel and supplier behavior, macro environmental factors, and market evolution. Emphasis is placed on assessing the market and developing a responsive marketing mix: product policy, pricing, channels of distribution, integrated marketing communications, and support structure.
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BUAD 5507 - Organizational Behavior
(4)
Organizational behavior is a field of study that seeks to understand, explain, and improve human behavior. The structure of this course is organized around how renaissance managers can improve two aspects of human behavior: (1) job performance - the degree to which employees perform the behaviors needed for the organization to achieve its goals, and (2) organizational commitment - the degree to which employees remain loyal to the organization rather than seeking employment elsewhere. This course will guide you through a model that seeks to explain these two areas of organizational behavior.
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BUAD 5517 - Leadership in the 21st Century
(4)
Leadership in the 21st century involves much more than the traditional topics of culture, networking, change management, and diversity. In a society in which technologies are constantly disrupting modes of communication and teams are increasingly global, today’s manager needs to understand coping with constant change, messaging and empathy, and the powerful emerging leadership trends.
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BUAD 5607 - Operations
(4)
To achieve competitive advantage, managers must understand how to design and control products and services, as well as the systems for their delivery. To reach that understanding, this course focuses on issues of planning and control of complex products and services, managing quality and continuous improvement, and control of the supply chain.
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BUAD 5707 - Business Analytics
(4)
The aim of this course is to supply the student with the analytical tools needed to succeed in business. The material will be closely coordinated and integrated with the other course offerings in the first year core (marketing, finance, etc.). The course covers various tools that are necessary to analyze and understand the implications of collected data. These include statistical tools (hypothesis testing, correlation and covariance analysis, probability distributions, simple and multiple regression, and forecasting) along with statistical decision making, simulation, constrained optimization, and sensitivity analysis. Emphasis will be placed on a student’s ability to understand and interpret the results of their analyses.
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BUAD 5907 - Strategy
(4)
Covers analysis for decision making at industry, firm and business levels, focusing especially on multi-business firms and global industries. Firm resources and competencies, business and environmental demands, and the sources of competitive advantage are the major focus points of this course, which stresses practical applications of theory.
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BUAD 5947 - Global Managerial Economics
(4)
This course explores essential macro- and microeconomic theories and evidence on how markets work and factors that impede their proper functioning in an applied, global framework. In this course students will relate the effects of countries’ differing monetary and fiscal policies to competitive conditions in various industries. They will apply demand and cost analysis as well as industrial structure to frame and answer questions of optimal pricing, resource allocation, global outsourcing, and competitive strategies.
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BUAD 5967 - Revolutionary Leader Practicum
(4)
Revolutionary Leader is a supervised business practicum in which each student applies the functional as well as design skills that they have learned to the “wicked” problem of their choice. The final deliverable is a detailed description of the problem to be solved, the approach(es) taken to address it, results, lessons learned, and next steps.
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BUAD 5029 - Accounting for Complex Financial Transactions
Fall (3) Picconi
Expands and integrates knowledge of US and international generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in a rigorous study of financial reporting issues with significant income statement and balance sheet implications. Builds on the Financial Markets Module to develop an in-depth understanding of complex financial transactions. Incorporates related academic literature and research into financial reporting standards.
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BUAD 5039 - Current Issues in IT & Accounting Analytics (Sprint)
Spring (1) Jones
Develops an understanding of current issues in information technology and accounting analytics, such as the design and security of large accounting databases. This intensive, hands-on course emphasizes the use of analytical and statistical tools in the context of current issues affecting the accounting profession. Students will conduct analyses, interpret findings, and use data visualization tools to communicate the results of their analyses.
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BUAD 5049 - Valuation & Fair Value Accounting
Fall (3) Jones
Reviews theories of equity valuation and applies these theories by building valuation models using financial statements.
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BUAD 5069 - Professional Accounting
Fall (2) Smith
Enhances several key abilities necessary to function in a professional accounting environment. Topics include: clearly communicating technical knowledge, exercising professional judgment, protecting and upholding professional integrity, how to develop and maintain professional relationships, how to generate and provide useful data to help inform business decisions, and the responsibility to help boards fulfill fiduciary duties and in maintaining safe and productive financial markets. Particular focus is on oral and written communication, data analysis, and project leadership.
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BUAD 5079 - Financial Instruments & Derivatives
Fall (2) Merrick
Expands the accounting professional’s understanding of the most important financial instruments and derivatives. Examines their economic functions, contractual features, market mechanics, valuation, and specific uses in investment and corporate financial practices such as risk management. Special attention is given to debt securities and the securitization process, as well as commonly used derivative instruments.
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BUAD 6129 - Integrated Winter Field Exp
Spring (4) Foster
This course is designed to assist students in successfully integrating workplace issues into past and future academic education. Students will learn to use academically rigorous conceptual frameworks in analyzing and solving problems that arise in the field.
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BUAD 6149 - Driving Organizational Performance
Spring (3) Woods
This course will cover managerial accounting topics such as: customer lifetime value estimation, cost of service delays, cost of quality analyses, time-driven Activity-Based-Costing, profit planning along the value chain, financial and operational forecasting, outsourcing, supplier choice and performance measurement, and analyses of profit drivers. This course replaces the Accounting for Business Strategies course, which met the cost credit requirement.
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BUAD 6159 - Taxation and Business Strategy
Spring (3) Bertolini
This economics-based course provides a conceptual framework for understanding tax issues in the context of business decisions and business strategy. Students learn about the role of taxes throughout the firm’s life cycle: choice of organizational form, employee compensation, investment opportunities, capital structure and dividend policy, financial innovations, international operations, and business combinations. The key conceptual components include: (a) consideration of the tax implications for all parties to the transaction; (b) consideration of both explicit and implicit taxes, such as lower before-tax rates of return on tax-favored investments; and (c) consideration of both tax and non-tax costs. Ultimately, the course provides a useful framework for thinking about taxes in all tax regimes (i.e., across countries and over time).
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BUAD 6169 - Business Law
Spring (3) Stauffer
Following an introduction of the American legal system, Business Law will expose students to an in-depth look at contract law, commercial law, including the Uniform Commercial Code’s Articles on Sales, Negotiable Instruments, Secured Transactions and Creditors Rights. Additional topics covered include bankruptcy, agency law, business organizations, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLC, and corporations.
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BUAD 6179 - Tax Research and Current Topics
Spring (3) Stephens
Expands and integrates knowledge of domestic and international tax topics in a rigorous research-based study of U.S. tax law, tax planning and tax compliance, including contemporary topics such as comparative forms of doing business, compensation and benefits, international and multistate taxation, corporate reorganizations, and tax exempt entities. Incorporates relevant academic research, as well as statutory and case-based research into tax laws and regulations related to contemporary tax issues.
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BUAD 6189 - Estate and Financial Planning
Spring (3) Stephens
This course provides an introduction to the principles of estate and financial planning, with an emphasis on tax planning opportunities. Topics include a study of the estate and gift tax laws, effective use of trusts and life insurance, valuation techniques, integrated family tax and financial planning, succession planning for the closely-held business, and elections available to taxpayers. Also featured are debt management, retirement planning and investment planning, with an emphasis on issues facing both younger professionals as well as high net worth individuals.
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BUAD 6199 - Advanced Auditing & Audit Research
Fall (3) Foster
Expands and integrates knowledge of US and international generally accepted auditing principles (GAAS) in a rigorous study of financial reporting issues with significant balance sheet implications. Topics include advanced treatments of analytical procedures, audit planning, risk assessment, internal controls, audit evidence, audit documentation, and auditing fair. Incorporates related academic research, research into auditing standards, and contemporary auditing issues.
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BUAD 6209 - Govt & Non-profit Accounting
Spring (3) Foster
This course is designed to expose graduate business students to the financial accounting and auditing issues related to state and local governmental and not-for-profit organizations in the United States. Students will review the body of accounting and auditing literature, specifically related to organizations in the public sector. Due to time constraints, Federal government accounting will not be addressed.
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BUAD 6229 - Financial Statement Analysis
Spring (3) Shane
This course introduces students to the elements of financial statement analysis and increases students’ ability to extract and use information from financial reports. While financial statements are prepared in accordance with specific accounting rules and principles, most of the numbers in financial statements are based on a set of assumptions and choices made by management. In this class, students learn how to identify and adjust for the effects of accounting choices on the comparability of reported earnings and other accounting performance measures across countries, across firms, and over time. Students also learn how to evaluate circumstances where accounting rules can cause disruptions in trends making it difficult to forecast earnings and free cash flows. In addition, students learn techniques to identify earnings management, as well as assess whether the financial statements reflect the riskiness of the firm. Finally, because many large companies operate in a global environment, the class will examine problems created by differences in accounting standards across countries (e.g., U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles versus International Financial Reporting Standards), as well as issues inherent in multinational companies such as how foreign currency affects financial statements.
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BUAD 6239 - Auditing Information Systems
Spring (3) Staff
Develops in-depth knowledge about conducting an information systems audit, developing frameworks for management and application control, using audit software, conducting concurrent auditing techniques, evaluating data integrity, system effectiveness, and system efficiency. Also introduces: technical security controls to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber-attacks; risk and vulnerability analysis to select, design and evaluate security controls; and legal, ethical, and privacy aspects of information assurance.
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BUAD 6249 - Data Analysis & Simulation for Accounting
Spring (3) Guerrero
This course is designed to introduce students to basic modeling, analysis and simulation techniques. Emphasis will be placed on problem identification and formulation, sensitivity analysis, and model construction. Tools such as MS Excel, Solver, Crystal Ball, and @Risk will be used to solve accounting-related business problems.
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BUAD 6269 - Advanced Federal Taxation
Spring (3) Stephens
To provide the accountant and the manager with the ability to recognize tax factors that influence business decisions and to integrate them into the business decision-making process. This will include the development of a tax foundation, the ability to read and apply the Code and Regulations, the ability to conduct tax research using both online and offline tax research data bases, the ability to engage in effective tax planning, and the ability to present the identified tax consequences in both oral and written presentations. Ethical influences will be identified and discussed as related to taxation and the related business decision.
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BUAD 6279 - Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination
Spring (3) Staff
This course is an introduction to forensic accounting. Forensic accounting encompasses those services an accountant provides to assist a court or a client in settling a legal dispute and includes the following specialized knowledge and skills: 1) accounting, auditing, economics, finance, business law, quantitative methods, statistics, and tax; 2) investigative skills to collect, analyze, and evaluate evidential matter; and 3) written and oral communication skills. The content of this course will include: 1) fraud and financial investigation services; 2) litigation consulting and expert witness services; and 3) computer forensics. To illustrate concepts, the class will discuss high profile cases (e.g., investment frauds such as Madoff and financial statement frauds such as WorldCom, Enron, etc.). Guest speakers who possess specialized expertise may present on selected topics (e.g., fraud investigation, interviewing and interrogation techniques, cybercrime and digital forensics analysis, and the legal environment).
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BUAD 6289 - Taxation of Mergers & Acquisitions
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Selected Problems in the Taxation of Mergers & Acquisitions This advanced course focuses primarily on corporate transactions and by using a series of examples, this course will explore different ways to structure both nontaxable and taxable combinations of business entities considering the tax goals and consequences of such transactions, and the role of the tax lawyer in representing a party to a business combination.
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BUAD 6299 - Partnership & LLC Taxation
Spring (3) Richardson
This course examines the fundamental rules governing the federal income taxation of partnerships, including LLCs treated as partnerships for income tax purposes. An overview of S corporation taxation and federal income tax issues to consider in choosing the appropriate entity are also covered. .
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BUAD 6319 - Tax Compliance, Research & Planning
Fall (3) Bertolini
The objective of this course is to broaden the ability of the student to engage in tax compliance, tax research, and tax planning in a team-oriented environment. Group communication opportunities, both oral and written, are emphasized.
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BUAD 6329 - Introduction to Academic Research in Accounting
Fall (1) Staff
Students will develop a framework for understanding scholarly research in accounting and will gain exposure to classic and current accounting research studies.
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BUAD 6339 - Data and Analysis in Accounting Research
Fall (1) Staff
Students will develop findamental empirical skills, such as the use of databases and regression analysis. Applications will include the replication of a published accounting research study.
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BUAD 6349 - Design of Accounting Research Studies
Fall (1) Staff
Students will learn to apply the scientific method to accounting research questions by studying research designs used in scholarly accounting research and their effectiveness for causal inference. Applications will include addressing a research question using alternative designs.
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BUAD 6359 - Current Research in Accounting
Spring (1) Staff
Students read and discuss current academic research papers presented by William and Mary faculty and external accounting researchers. This course is open to any student interested in how research informs business practices and is well-suited for students considering careers in academia. Attendance at research presentations is required. Topics change each year so this course may be repeated once for credit.
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BUAD 5012 - Competing Through Business Analytics
Fall (3) Bradley
This intensive course will include a survey of the state-of-the-art in business analytics: A review of companies that have used business analytics for competitive advantage and how they have done it. These topics will be initiated with a panel discussion on the first day of class. This course will teach business acumen and how the field of analytics fits within the context of business. Topics will include subjects such as: understanding balance sheets and income statements, budgets, business metrics as used for performance measurement and incentives, communicating with impact, visualization, the functions of a company; how they interact, and what data they have, and project management techniques. The course will also include: Survey of opportunities for problem solving using business analytics in operations, supply chain, human resources, finance, and marketing, and also an introduction to the tools that are covered in this program.
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