Business Administration (MBA)

Description for MBAAF601:
Introduces the student to economic principles of particular interest to the firm manager. The course is divided roughly into two parts that deal with macroeconomic and microeconomic issues. In the macro section such key aggregates as gross domestic product, unemployment rate, inflation rate, and balance of payments, which are of importance to the firm manager, are discussed. Discussions focus on a critical examination of how these aggregates are measured and determined in various competing theoretical models. The theory discussed here then serves as an analytical tool in understanding and evaluating economic policies related to such current economic issues as unemployment, inflation, and trade imbalances. In the micro section, emphasis is given to a) the theory of markets, how prices and quantities are determined in markets and factors that affect these prices and quantities; and b) how firms compete in different market environments. Besides concentrating on the theory, special attention is given to how the concepts covered are applied to real-world microeconomic problems.

Prerequisites: MBAMS 600 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF603:
This course has four goals. It seeks to provide students with 1) an understanding of the evolving business structure of Massachusetts, and its place in U.S. and world goods and service industries; 2) an introduction to country and regional analysis, especially macro-economic analysis and social and organizational analysis, as they pertain to understanding customer-markets, competitors, and comparative investment locations; 3) an introduction to major global economic, technological, and political trends, including changing demographics and regulation, technological "creative destruction," emerging markets, and transitions to capitalism; and 4) an introduction and overview of industry analysis, focusing on key Massachusetts industries, including financial services and banking, health care products and services, and computer hardware and software. The course involves intensive student research projects and team presentations.

Prerequisite: Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF610:
Instructs students in the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. The financial accounting component presents techniques used to measure business transactions, preparation of financial statements, recording and valuation of assets, owners’ equity, revenue, cost, and expenses. The managerial accounting component deals with techniques for management decision-making, planning, and control.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 601 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF611:
This course acquaints students with financial accounting theory. Particular emphasis is given to the relationship between theory and such practical problems as the limitations of traditional financial statements and asset and current liability items. Students acquire an understanding of issues unique to corporations and complete the study of the balance sheet by examining long-term debt and equity items.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 610 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF612:
Examines the use of cost accounting as a means of providing quantitative information for managerial decision-making and control. Emphasizes analysis of cost behavior, cost-volume-profit relationships, budgeting, and performance measurement.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 610 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF617:
This course introduces students to the important role management accounting plays in helping managers make informed decisions. In particular, the course emphasizes modern theories of product cost, performance measurement, and management control systems. It uses cases to describe real-world problems and to illustrate such concepts as activity-based cost systems, productivity measurement, and total quality.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 610 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF620:
This course is intended to provide the student with a sound understanding and appreciation of the principles of corporate finance. The course covers the theory and practice of financial decision making by managers and describes how financial theory can be used to address practical problems and to illuminate institutional aspects of the financial world. Topics include the time value of money, capital budgeting, financial statement analysis, asset valuation, portfolio theory, capital structure, dividend policy, long-term financing, and issues of corporate control. The course enables students to develop the skills and intellectual framework for addressing a variety of financial problems.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 610 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF621:
This course is a natural extension of MBA AF 620, the core financial management course. It builds on the principles and concepts developed there and introduces such new topics as real options, convertible securities, lending, mergers and acquisitions.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 620 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAAF623:
Introduces the principles and techniques for building financial models, especially in an uncertainty framework. Topics covered included decision support systems, risk analysis, portfolio theory, and capital budgeting under uncertainty. Integrates financial, accounting, and statistical concepts and techniques to construct financial models and to perform analyses using popular software applications. Emphasizes the application of financial modeling techniques in identifying and implementing business solutions. The course will be of special interest to students seeking more hands-on experience in constructing financial models and more in-depth knowledge in financial software.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 620 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT653:
This course focuses on the theory, research, and techniques of organizational diagnosis and change. Students learn how to engage in systematic structural and behavioral analyses and to design effective strategies for intervention and change.

Prerequisites: MBAMGT 650 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT660:
This course looks at the relationship of business to the external environment and considers business in relation to legal, social, political, and economic systems, focusing in particular on the impact of governmental regulation on business. The course also addresses the functioning of the US business enterprise in the context of the international business environment. Finally, through an examination of the role of ethics in management decision-making, the course explores how business organizations can operate effectively and responsibly in the context of the external environment.

Prerequisite: Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT660:
This course looks at the relationship of business to the external environment and considers business in relation to legal, social, political, and economic systems, focusing in particular on the impact of governmental regulation on business. The course also addresses the functioning of the US business enterprise in the context of the international business environment. Finally, through an examination of the role of ethics in management decision-making, the course explores how business organizations can operate effectively and responsibly in the context of the external environment.

Prerequisite: Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT668:
This course will introduce students to the field of urban economic development in the context of real estate development. Students will explore the principles of economic development focusing on the role of real estate developers, companies, community organizations, and government agencies in the decline and revitalization of neighborhoods, cities, and regions. They will be exposed to diverse issues involved in economic development with particular emphasis on practical aspects. Topics to be covered in this course include opportunity and impact assessments, stakeholder analysis, and project management. A combination of lectures, site visits, and group projects will help students to gain an appreciation of the role of real state in urban economic development, and develop the skills required to lead and assess development projects.

Prerequisites: MBAMGT 660 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT689:
Considers the diverse situations typically confronted by upper-level management and strategies for managing these situations, using knowledge acquired through study of the MBA Core. These strategies are based on an analysis of the internal conditions of the firm and the constraints and opportunities afforded by the external environment. Students learn to develop strategy implementation plans that provide detailed descriptions of appropriate executive action.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT689:
Considers the diverse situations typically confronted by upper-level management and strategies for managing these situations, using knowledge acquired through study of the MBA Core. These strategies are based on an analysis of the internal conditions of the firm and the constraints and opportunities afforded by the external environment. Students learn to develop strategy implementation plans that provide detailed descriptions of appropriate executive action.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT697A:
Globalization, instantaneous communications and a rapidly evolving environment are making the process of defining new markets, segments and customers increasingly difficult and volatile. Global financial intuitional funding, transportation and waning purchasing power give rapid and mixed signals to firms planning and deploying new products into new and existing markets. Forces within the industry push at existing competitive advantage and challenge product longevity. The inverse of these problems are opportunities that arise for those companies and institutions that are agile and positioned to move quickly in new and sometime non-traditional directions.

This course helps you understand the forces at work, how to identify market segments for new product and system opportunities that appear and continue to shift over time. The course will address questions such as: How do managers find and control innovation? What are the economies of scale that can lead to developing new products? What rate of market adoption is required in order to introduce new products; new to the world or new to existing customers? How is Intellectual Property used in determining which products to build or which market segments to address? How are ideas taken from innovation to R&D and managed through the process of organization knowledge development? What part does Open Innovation have in new products and entering new markets? What does Brand strategy do for the product in the short term and in the longer term?

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT697B:
This course is designed to explore the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain in bringing the concepts, practices and tools of operations management to the healthcare industry. In addition to covering the basics of operations management students in this course will explore the significant environmental trends in the healthcare industry through a series of case studies to develop an understanding of strategic operations management and its integration into processes in the healthcare industry.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT697C:
This course stresses fundamental theories and strategies needed for effective writing in diverse management situations. The course perspective is that of the manager in a multinational organization; the course focus is on the impact of written message on receivers both internal and external to the organization; the course content is communication in the global marketplace, bearing in mind that although English is used extensively in doing business in the world communication is always influenced by culture. Written communication topics will focus on areas, such a audience awareness, organizational strategies, content development, language control, persuasion, and intercultural communication. Although most work is done in writing, students will be able to make effective communication choices. This course provides rigorous instruction in analytical reading, critical thinking, and business writing for Management students.

Prerequisite: MBAMGT 650. Permission of department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.7720).

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Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMGT698:
This course is limited to students pursuing professional internships for credit.

Prerequisite: Permission of department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.7720).

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMKT670:
This course focuses on the strategic decisions necessary to match organizational resources with market opportunities. Students learn to analyze market opportunities, to develop marketing plans and marketing mix strategies, and to manage implementation and control of the marketing plan.

Prerequisites: MBAAF 610 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMKT672:
This course is a natural extension of MBA AF 620, the core financial management course. It builds on the principles and concepts developed there and introduces such new topics as real options, convertible securities, lending, mergers and acquisitions.

Prerequisites: MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMKT677:
The contemporary environment requires more demonstrated cost effectiveness from every marketing program than ever before. Meanwhile the customer demands quality, value, service, and quick delivery. The primary way to resolve these potentially conflicting mandates is through information-driven relationship marketing programs. This course examines the customer database as the key element in marketing programs of this type. It considers strategic implications in both business and consumer markets, for both products and services. It pays special attention to the role of interactive media, including the Internet. It aims to develop a reasonable level of technical sophistication in terms of what information technology can and cannot accomplish, but it does not involve hands-on computer applications.

Prerequisite: MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management. Permission of department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.7720).

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Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMS600:
This course provides the mathematical skills and applications necessary to pursue graduate study in the College of Management. Topics include a review of basic algebra; graphing; linear, polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic functions; functions of several variables; systems of linear equations; probability; differentiation and integration.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMS630:
Acquaints students with statistical techniques used in management decision-making and develops their ability to characterize management problems that can be solved by such techniques. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression and correlation, chi square testing, analysis of variance, and decision theory. Students make use of computers and appropriate software to apply what they are learning.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMS635:
This course familiarizes students with the analysis, planning, and control of operations and operating resources in both production and service organizations. Topics covered include product design and process selection, capacity planning, location and layout decisions, and inventory control. Analytical techniques used in system design and operations planning and control problems are also discussed. Students make use of computers and appropriate software to apply what they are learning.

Prerequisites: MBAMS 630 or MSIS 630 or MS 630. BUSADM students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for MBAMS640:
Examines the role of information technology (IT) in supporting an organization’s operations, strategy, and change efforts. The course offers a comprehensive review of modern information technology architectures covering current approaches to the organization and management of computer technology, telecommunications, data organization, and information system applications. Major emphasis is given to the critical role that computer technology and information systems methodology play in the re-design of business processes under different organizational settings. The course makes extensive use of case scenarios to describe and to research further some issues involved in the planning, development, and implementation of streamlined organizational processes and information system applications. Some modules may involve the hands-on use of personal computers.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335