Weekend MBA Curriculum
Course Descriptions
PIM 800: Managerial Skills (2 credits)
Thinking critically about organizational effectiveness, and creating, maintaining, and leading effective work groups in organizations.
PIM 801: Firm Analysis (1 credit)
Faculty-supervised, independent analysis of the student's employing organization. Organization structure, financial data, marketing, operations, and accounting systems issues.
PIM 802: Environmental Analysis (1.5 credits)
Faculty-supervised, independent analysis of the student's employing organization. Customer and competitor analysis, legal and financial environment, and human resource issues.
PIM 803: Strategic Analysis (1.5 credits)
Faculty-supervised, independent analysis of the student's employing organization. Strategy formulation and policy integration. Analysis and solution of modern management issues.
PIM 811: Financial Accounting Concepts (2.0 credits)
Financial reporting issues from a user's perspective. Measurement, valuation, and reporting concepts and issues. Analysis and use of financial accounting information for decision making.
PIM 812: Managerial Accounting Concepts (1.5 credits)
Accounting information for decision making and control, cost behavior patterns, activity-based costing, cost allocation, budgeting, transfer pricing, and accounting controls.
PIM 813: Information Systems (1.5 credits)
Information, process, and technology architectures of corporate information systems, role of information in organizational control and decision making, methods for evaluating effectiveness of information systems.
PIM 821: Managerial Economics (1.5 or 2 credits)
Analysis of the firm, demand and revenues, optimal production, cost minimization, profitability and pricing, and market structures.
PIM 822: Macroeconomics for Managers (1.5 credits)
Determinants of national income, employment and inflation. Macroeconomic environment of business; business fluctuations, fiscal and monetary policy, and international capital flows.
PIM 831: Managerial Legal Environment (1.5 credits)
An overview of the U.S. legal system, the interrelationship of law and ethics, and the regulation of business by state and federal statutes and governments.
PIM 841: Corporate Finance (1.5 credits)
Valuation techniques for stocks and bonds, investment decisions by firms, the relation between risk and return, pricing models for risk, U.S. capital markets.
PIM 842: Managerial Finance (1.5 credits)
Market efficiency, capital budgeting, security issues, dividend policy, capital structure, and bankruptcy costs. Agency problems between different stakeholders and option pricing.
PIM 850: Analysis and Decision Modeling (2 credits)
Models to support decision making, including regression analysis, project management, decision analysis, and forecasting.
PIM 852: Organization Design (1.5 credits)
Assessing tasks, environments, and technology to organize and implement corporate and business unit strategies. Assessing distinctive competencies in organizations to deal with dynamic environments.
PIM 853: Human Resource Management (1.5 credits)
Strategic organizational issues associated with managing the labor market to acquire, develop, and compensate human resources.
PIM 855: Strategic Management (3 credits)
Determination of the strategic direction of the firm and management of strategic processes in the firm. Integration of environmental factors and organizational functions in the analysis and solution of management problems
PIM 862: Customer and Competitor Analysis (1.5 credits)
Assessing consumer and organizational buying behavior processes and competitive global environments. Needs, wants, motivations, and behaviors will be examined for customers throughout the value chain within the context of competitive strategies.
PIM 863: Marketing Systems (1.5 credits)
Marketing decision making within a global, customer, economic, ecological, and competitive environments; how relevant information is gathered and analyzed, strategies are developed as a guide for the organization, and operational market plans are developed.
PIM 870: Supply Chain Management (1.5 credits)
Development of strategies within the supply chain. Examines key interrelationships among purchasing, manufacturing, operations, and logistics management to enhance economic competitiveness.
PIM 871: Product Innovation (1.5 credits)
Analytic, decision making, and planning concepts and tools for development of new innovative products and services. Strategic management of technological innovation within changing market environments.
PIM 872: International Strategies (1.5 credits)
International, comparative, and cross-cultural perspectives in business. Markets and implications for managers. Global opportunity assessment, currency risk, and operational considerations.
PIM 875: Product and Process Development (1.5 credits)
Approaches, methods, and tools for managing product and process innovation. Cross-functional integration, co-development partnerships, project scheduling, and trade-off management at the project level. Foster and manage continuous innovation and improvement. Organizational and managerial values, culture, human resource development and resource deployment at the organization level.
PIM 876: Ethics in the Workplace (1.5 credits)
An exploration of ethical dimensions of decision making in the business environment. Understanding of workplace decisions that affect stakeholders. Discuss previous ethical failures and prepare responses to ethical dilemmas.
PIM 873: Current Business Issues (3 to 9 credits)
The courses in the current issues in business module complement the core curriculum by addressing management issues in select industries, fields of study, and current topics. As a response to business needs and as resources allow, additional subjects may be developed. Five courses are currently scheduled in the Weekend MBA.
- PIM 873: The Strategy Process (1.5 credits)
- PIM 873: Financial Modeling and Simulation (1.5 credits)
- PIM 873: Negotiations (1.5 credits)
- PIM 873: Global Strategies (1.5 credits)
- PIM 873: Strategic Leadership (1.5 credits)
PIM 874: The Global Marketplace (3.0 credits)
International trip and seminar involving aspects of the commercial, economic, cultural, and political environments of dynamic country markets. Exposure to leading executives and government representatives of major trading partners of the U.S. Provides a comparative framework for competitive strategy in a multicultural setting.
PIM 891: Special Topics in Business (1.5 to 3 credits)
Faculty-supervised study in special topics relevant to business executives.