Examine the effects of cost, price, and profit on management decision-making, and learn about the tools and methods managers use to make informed business decisions.
Learn how to apply statistical information and quantitative methods to the workplace. Examine techniques for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data applicable to many fields, from anthropology to hedge fund management.
Learn how to apply statistical information and quantitative methods to the workplace. Examine techniques for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data applicable to many fields, from anthropology to hedge fund management.
Learn about the laws that business managers must follow to protect their consumers, employees, and overall operations. Explore conflict management strategies and legal issues, such as torts, contracts, property law, intellectual property, and employment law.
Learn about the components of business information systems, with an emphasis on data transmission, management information software, and the ways that businesses manage data.
Learn the fundamentals of modern business management as you explore how business management practices evolved from the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s to today.
Learn how to manage business processes to produce the products and services your customers need. Topics include product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.
Learn how to manage business processes to produce the products and services your customers need. Topics include product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.
Examine business practices and laws that help business managers create a better and more effective working environment. Subjects include job analysis, recruitment, training, performance measurement, compensation, safety, and labor relations.
Learn how to plan and operate a small business as a manager or entrepreneur by writing a business plan, launching a new venture, identifying market opportunities, creating a marketing plan, and financing your business.
Learn effective management and leadership techniques, with topics including leadership theory, change management, decision making, and the distinction between leadership and management.
Explore the steps and processes businesses follow to complete tasks and meet deadlines by focusing on the role project managers play in initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and terminating projects.
Explore the steps and processes businesses follow to complete tasks and meet deadlines by focusing on the role project managers play in initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and terminating projects.
Perfect your negotiation and conflict resolution skills to build and maintain healthy business relationships by examining the concepts, processes, strategies, and ethical issues related to negotiation and conflict resolution.
Perfect your negotiation skills and create strategies that will help you maintain healthy business relationships by examining the concepts, processes, strategies, and ethical issues related to negotiation and discussing appropriate conduct across a variety of business contexts.
Incorporate what you've learned from all of our core business courses in this capstone course, which covers strategic management, identifying goals, formulating winning strategies, and implementing successful business techniques.
This graduate-level course explores the various financial decisions made in both personal and business contexts, including credit card interest rates, home mortgages, investment allocation, and creating shareholder value. The course emphasizes the importance of a thorough understanding of financial principles and theories and their practical application in day-to-day operations for effective decision making.
This graduate-level course covers the key components of marketing and the development of marketing strategies. A strategic approach will be emphasized throughout this course, challenging students to think critically and make decisions like a marketing manager or upper-level executive. Topics include the strategic planning process, analysis of the external environment, examination of the marketing mix, and creation of a strategic marketing plan aligned with the overall goals of the organization.
Focus on people at the individual and group levels by managing diverse teams within an organizational culture. Learn to communicate well to lead teams in a dynamic, volatile, and uncertain business environment by incorporating organizational design and human resource management principles.
In this graduate-level course, learn how to manage a project from beginning to end by focusing on project integration management across the PMI ten knowledge areas: project integration, scope, schedule, cost, human resource, communication, stakeholder, quality, risk, and procurement management.
In this graduate-level course, you will learn how to manage business operations and supply chains, including setting production goals and strategies, designing and improving production processes, conducting workflow analyses, and analyzing physical facilities.
Learn graduate-level concepts related to business strategy development and implementation, including considerations for ethics when making business strategy decisions, the internal and external constraints when developing strategy, measurement tools, and models related to strategy formulation, and implementation within a global and ethical context.
This graduate-level course will teach you how data management, database systems, and database applications function in the world of business by exploring technical information and implementation issues relevant to organizational data management.
Explore concepts and strategies for change management and implementation – by learning how to lead yourself first, you can effectively lead others and organizations.
Explore hardware/software components, assembly language, and the functional architecture and design of computers, with a focus on topics like instruction sets, processor arithmetic and control, Von Neumann architecture, pipelining, memory management, storage, and input/output.
Learn how to apply an engineering approach to computer software development by focusing on software principles, lifecycle models, requirements and specifications, architecture and conceptual model design, detailed design, implementation, validation and verification, quality assurance, configuration control, project management, tools, and environments.
Learn how to apply an engineering approach to computer software design and development by focusing on topics like life cycle models, software requirements, specification, conceptual model design, detailed design, validation and verification, design quality assurance, software design/development environments, and project management.
Learn how to apply an engineering approach to computer software design and development by focusing on topics like life cycle models, software requirements, specification, conceptual model design, detailed design, validation and verification, design quality assurance, software design/development environments, and project management.
Examine how operating systems and design have evolved as changes in hardware and software led to contemporary operating systems. Topics include basic OS concepts, methods of OS design and construction, process coordination, management, and algorithms for CPU scheduling, memory, and general resource allocation.
Learn about database architecture and implementation by exploring Structured Query Language (SQL), including topics like file structures and access methods; database modeling, design, and user interface; the components of database management systems; and information storage and retrieval.
Introduction to the fundamentals of information security, computer security technology and principles, access control mechanisms, cryptography algorithms, software security, physical security, and security management and risk assessment.
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Learn how accounting and financial management are applied to the critical decisions made by a firm and their effects on a firm's value by reviewing the statements that make up the firm's financial package.
Focus on people at the individual and group levels and managing diverse teams within the organizational culture. Learn to communicate well to lead teams in a dynamic, volatile, and uncertain business environment by incorporating organizational design and human resource management principles.
Learn how to manage a project from beginning to end by focusing on project integration management across the PMI ten knowledge areas: project integration, scope, schedule, cost, human resource, communication, stakeholder, quality, risk, and procurement management.
Learn how to manage business operations and supply chains, including setting production goals and strategies, designing and improving production processes, conducting workflow analyses, and analyzing physical facilities.
Learn how data management, database systems, and database applications function in the world of business by exploring technical information and implementation issues relevant to organizational data management.
Explore topics including the leadership and management skills necessary in the different stages of group development, how to create an effective team, and how to harness a team's strengths.
Explore the planning functions of managers, including management strategy frameworks, components of business strategy, and setting and achieving goals and objectives.
Explore how raw materials are selected, obtained, and then distributed to the customer as a finished product – the supply chain. Learn how every step in the process can be affected by changes in distribution, resource availability, and other external factors.