Master of Business Administration – International

• Core Courses: 36 credits

  • International Human Resource

  The course objective is to introduce students to the challenges the manager’s face to effectively manage the work force. In an effort to accomplish that goal, students are exposed to the various aspects of analysis and management of human resources job design, staffing, employee training and development, performance evaluation, compensation system design, and employee relations. The course places a special emphasis on the analysis of Human Resource Management’s strategic role in International and cross-cultural settings.

  • 21st Century Management:

  In this class students will gain an understanding of leading state-of-the-art business theories and will be able to apply them to real-world situations. Students will learn to understand and challenge the ideas of 20th century management thinkers, and to practice developing and challenging their own theoretical and applied models and paradigms

• International Economics:

The purpose of this course is to help students understand the basics of international trade and finance and the effects of various international economic policies on domestic and world welfare. The course will highlight sources of comparative advantage, gains and losses from trade, the impact of trade on economic growth, and effects of trade policy interventions such as tariffs, quotas, voluntary export restraints, and export subsidies. International agreements on regional trade liberalization and on multilateral trade liberalization will be also discussed. Topics on international finance will include balance of payments, determination of foreign exchange rates, and international monetary system.

• Business Statistics:

Business Statistics emphasis on concepts rather than in-depth coverage of traditional statistical methods. Topics include sampling and experimentation, descriptive statistics, probability, binomial and normal distributions, estimation, single sample and two sample hypothesis tests for means and proportions. Additional topics will be selected from descriptive methods in regression and correlation, or contingency table analysis.

• International Accounting:

This course develops a working knowledge of the basic accounting system. The primary focus is on financial accounting by the business entity. Students will learn to read and understand the four standard financial reports: the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of retained earnings with emphasis on their implications for management.

• Global Marketing:

The objective of the course is to develop the knowledge and understanding of the global marketing environment through key concepts, and tools, and theory. The course challenges the students to think critically about global competition, perspectives of marketing across national boundaries and within foreign countries, consumer similarities and differences outside the home country, marketing decisions concerning all parts of the marketing mix, research in trade laws and regulations in other markets, global analytical frameworks and tools; and understanding of the current strategies of major global firms.

• International Business Law:

This course prepares students for business dealings in international law. The lectures cover in detail the fundamental concepts, principals, and rules of law that apply to international business transactions. Topics include how market infrastructure (contracts, commercial laws, intellectual property) affect business strategy, with special emphasis on legal differences between countries.

• Organizational Behavior:

Students will gain a working knowledge of how to manage personal, interpersonal, and group processes by having the interpersonal skills to assume responsibility for leading and promoting teamwork among diverse stakeholders. Students will learn to manage individual and group behaviors in improving organizational productivity and performance. Through experiential learning, students will learn to integrate home, work, and educational observations and experiences and to convert them into proactive practical applications for growth and renewal.

• Principles of Import/Export:

This class is designed to provide students with the skills and tools necessary for international trade. Students will be exposed to techniques and procedures for conducting international trade. Some of the topics include operations, supply chain and logistics, government agencies and import/export channel networks, and the evaluation of international opportunities.

• International Finances:

This course is taught from the point of view of a firm engaged in international business. An examination of financial concepts and tools as they apply to the management of domestic and international operations. The course helps students to understand how the managers of a firm function in the increasingly uncertain environment. This class will focus on key economic theories, various financial instruments for risk management, exchange risk management, and international financing and investment issues

• International Ventures and Acquisitions:

This class focuses on developing student’s abilities to prepare to start a new international business. Students develop a specific business idea, and then examine the political risk, market opportunity, and operating conditions of their international market destination. The business plan is developed using market research options, entry modes, resource allocation, financial projections, and overall strategy for new ventures. The emphasis is on developing the ability of students to start a new business in another country using the business plan model

• Global Strategy:

This class covers the concepts of strategic management from a global perspective. The course focuses on understanding how firm's create competitive advantage in the global arena, and how firms can implement strategy. The course uses an international corporate simulation which requires students to develop a strategy to lead their own company and implement the strategy through tactics for operations, management, marketing, finance, logistics, and manufacturing. The simulation is an interactive competition between firms and includes random environmental factors which play a moderating role by impacting the performance of individual firms.

• International Finances:

This course is taught from the point of view of a firm engaged in international business. An examination of financial concepts and tools as they apply to the management of domestic and international operations. The course helps students to understand how the managers of a firm function in the increasingly uncertain environment. This class will focus on key economic theories, various financial instruments for risk management, exchange risk management, and international financing and investment issues

• International Ventures and Acquisitions:

This class focuses on developing student’s abilities to prepare to start a new international business. Students develop a specific business idea, and then examine the political risk, market opportunity, and operating conditions of their international market destination. The business plan is developed using market research options, entry modes, resource allocation, financial projections, and overall strategy for new ventures. The emphasis is on developing the ability of students to start a new business in another country using the business plan model

• Global Strategy:

This class covers the concepts of strategic management from a global perspective. The course focuses on understanding how firm's create competitive advantage in the global arena, and how firms can implement strategy. The course uses an international corporate simulation which requires students to develop a strategy to lead their own company and implement the strategy through tactics for operations, management, marketing, finance, logistics, and manufacturing. The simulation is an interactive competition between firms and includes random environmental factors which play a moderating role by impacting the performance of individual firms.