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Global companies are faced with varied and dynamic environments in which they must accurately assess the political, legal, technological, competitive, and cultural factors that shape their strategies and operations. This course prepares students for careers in a dynamic global environment wherein they will be responsible for effective strategic, organizational, and interpersonal management. Students develop the skills necessary to design and implement global strategies, conduct effective cross-national interactions, and manage daily operations in foreign subsidiaries in today’s hypercompetitive, cross-cultural global arena.

This course provides an overview of health care policy in the United States and a close examination of selected current policy issues. Students critically examine the process of health policy development, analysis and implementation to better understand the myriad factors that influence policy, as well as the mechanisms for intervention on behalf of programs and institutions.

This course stresses the practical use of statistics in collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. Areas covered include descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, regression analysis, and time series analysis. Students learn to use statistical thinking to improve the managerial decision making process.

This course introduces students to the elements of cost-effectiveness analysis for health interventions and outcomes. Each student identifies a research problem, collects data, creates a decision analysis tree, calculates quality-adjusted life years, and tests for errors to demonstrate how cost-effectiveness analyses may transform the way health care is administered.

This course provides a broad understanding of the theories, research, and practices related to organizational behavior and leadership in the contemporary global environment. Emphasis is on examining the multilevel issues of change, behavior and leadership from political, cultural, and economic influence. The course provides a comprehensive overview of the social science theories and scholarship that seek to explain variations and similarities in the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations. Comparative perspectives on motivation and leadership, workforce diversity, teamwork, communication, and ethics are explored. Emphasis is on geography, globalization, demographics, diversity, change management, and corporate responsibility.

This course focuses on the human resource competencies and the organization. The first half of the course covers the following human resource competencies: leadership and navigation; ethical practice; business acumen; relationship management; consultation; critical evaluation; global and cultural effectiveness; and communication. The second half covers topics related to the organization, including: structure of the human resource function; organizational effectiveness and development; workforce management; employee relations; and technology and data.

This course focuses on human resource strategy and people. The first half of the course focuses on understanding people from a human resource perspective. Topics include talent acquisition and retention, employee engagement, learning and development, and total rewards. The second half of the course focuses on business and human resource strategy.

This course focuses on the workplace environment from a human resource perspective. This course focuses on human resource in the global context and covers topics such as diversity and inclusion, risk management, corporate social responsibility, and U.S. Employment Law and Regulations.

Managerial Economics is an applied branch of microeconomics that examines resource-allocation and tactical decisions that are made by analysts, managers, and consultants in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors of the economy. In this course students expand their knowledge of key economic concepts and tools addressing the decision-making process. Students also examine the philosophy of optimization, the role of profit, and the relationship between managerial economics and other areas of business and economic analysis.

Specific topics include the fundamental economic concepts of marginal analysis, net present value, risk, and decision analysis. The course also critically looks at areas of demand and forecasting, production and cost, pricing and output decisions; including strategy and tactics, long-term investment decisions, and risk management in the private and the public not-for-profit sectors of the economy. Students are required to apply economic tools to solve business problems using case analysis from a wide array of industries.

In this course, students gain an in-depth appreciation of problem-solving and decision-making in a dynamic business world. Emphasis is placed on defining managerial problems quantitatively and modeling these problems using computer-based simulations. Topics include queuing theory, decision analysis, project planning, networking, and inventory analysis.

This course teaches the fundamentals of strategic marketing. Students learn to apply a market-oriented perspective to the analysis of environmental factors and organizational resources and capabilities, to formulate collective business goals, and design customer-driven marketing strategies that achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. This course emphasizes the use of critical thinking skills by concentrating on marketing case studies. Students conduct environmental analysis, formulate marketing strategy, and implement and evaluate marketing programs.

This course introduces students to financial theory and concepts. It incorporates the analysis, planning, and control of internal and external financial decisions of a firm with emphasis on corporate structure. In addition, the course explores important financial concerns facing multinational corporations, including ethics, and the role of information technology. Through the case study method, students acquire a practical knowledge of how to develop and examine financial reports that aid managers in making business decisions, in addition to gaining a working knowledge of managerial finance by learning to develop a systematic approach to financial analysis.

The emphasis of this course is on the managerial skills of the professional manager in the implementation of production policies and strategies. Students examine the issues in production and operations management and learn to take an active role in developing effective methods for solving problems. Through analysis and preparation of case studies, students develop problem-solving skills in a number of areas pertaining to manufacturing and service organizations. Students also gain a comprehensive understanding of all areas of production and operations management, as well as how creative management can lead to competitive advantage.

This course examines methods of how to streamline organizational operations, enhance quality performance, and improve customer satisfaction within budgetary and labor constraints. Through case studies, students obtain the practical knowledge necessary to deal with the critical contemporary issues facing health care managers. Students examine how creative operations management can provide important competitive advantages and how successful operation strategies are integrated into overall planning within legally sanctioned guidelines.

This course is an in-depth examination of the methods to improve organizational operations, enhance quality performance, and improve customer satisfaction within budgetary and labor constraints. Students gain practical knowledge necessary to deal with the critical issues facing information technology managers today. Through case studies, lectures, and discussions, students examine how creative operations management in IT can provide important competitive advantages and how successful operation strategies are integrated into overall planning.