Weekend MBA Curriculum
Subject Overviews
Building Managerial SkillsThe initial intensive two-week session focuses on building a common knowledge base in three key areas. These areas are managerial skills, financial accounting, and data analysis. These traditional topics create a foundation for mastering the program's other components.
- PIM 800: Managerial Skills (2 credits)
- PIM 811: Financial Accounting Concepts (2 credits)
- PIM 850: Analysis and Decision Modeling (2 credits)
Analyzing the Organization
As an integrative set, these courses examine the fabric of the organization - how the organization is organized and managed, how it uses accounting data, how it processes information, how it markets products or services, and how its operating processes relate. As a direct link to the work environment, students apply this knowledge to their organizations by preparing an integrated paper in PIM 801: Firm Analysis.
- PIM 801: Firm Analysis (1 credit)
- PIM 812: Managerial Accounting Concepts (1.5 credits)
- PIM 813: Information Systems (1.5 credits)
- PIM 852: Organization Design (1.5 credits)
- PIM 853: Human Resource Management (1.5 credits)
- PIM 870: Supply Chain Management (1.5 credits)
Analyzing the Organization's Environment
These courses link the organization to its external environment. Customers and competitors define marketplaces. Financial markets assess the firm, and the firm uses financial markets to obtain resources. Legal issues influence many of today's critical managerial decisions. Again, students prepare an integrated paper, PIM 802: Environmental Analysis, to
- PIM 802: Environmental Analysis (1.5 credits)
- PIM 831: Managerial Legal Environment (1.5 credits)
- PIM 841: Corporate Finance (1.5 credits)
- PIM 842: Managerial Finance (1.5 credits)
- PIM 862: Customer and Competitor Analysis (1.5 credits)
- PIM 863: Marketing Systems (1.5 credits)
- PIM 876: Ethics in the Workplace (1.5 credits)
Managing Change and Innovation
Managing change and innovation is a modern management constant. Reengineering, entrepreneurship, downsizing, speed of technology change, short product life cycles, and virtual organizations are familiar themes in today's organizations. In short, they support the fact that the leaders must make decisions with few givens. We devote special attention to these critical topics.
- PIM 821: Managerial Economics (1.5 or 2 credits)
- PIM 871: Product Innovation (1.5 credits)
- PIM 875: Product and Process Development (1.5 credits)
Developing Strategy in a Global Environment
How does a firm build a strategic plan, position itself, and execute that plan in global marketplace? Many tools are needed - macroeconomics, international business, strategy, policy development, and control processes. Team teaching is used during the third semester, to present topics as an integrated whole. Students apply these tools in building a strategy (PIM 803: Strategic Analysis) for their employing organizations. This module becomes an end-of-program synthesis and the final building block in integrative management.
- PIM 803: Strategic Analysis (1.5 credits)
- PIM 822: Macroeconomics for Managers (1.5 credits)
- PIM 855: Strategic Management (3.0 credits)
- PIM 872: International Strategies (1.5 credits)
- PIM 874: The Global Marketplace (3.0 credits)
Current Issues in Business
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)