MS in Management (MS x)

Examines the actions that managers must take to stimulate innovation and direct it in ways that allow the organization to accomplish its goals. Topics include what organization forms are most conducive to innovation, what factors hinder innovativeness and how can they be overcome, and what role managers play in bringing about innovation. Focuses on the actions that companies and their managers can take to design their organizations and systems effectively in order to foster innovativeness. Elements of an organization's infrastructure include design, reward mechanisms, communication patterns, boundary spanning, control systems, leadership at all levels, and the organization's culture.

HRMG 6212 | 3 Hours

Offers practical guidance for improved decision making in business situations involving critical ethical issues, to stimulate creative and constructive thinking and learning for working professionals. Combines didactic instruction and a series of case studies, readings, and field study experiences to demonstrate how to assign ethical problems into categories and approach the problems using standard tools and techniques to be applied when working under conditions of uncertainty. Reexamines ideas about ethics and offers opportunity for students to reflect on their sense of moral suasion. Instructs how to identify what constitutes an ethical problem and how to view ethical issues as signposts for attention and not as impediments to moving forward.

MGMT 6213 | 3 Hours

Covers basic principles and techniques of descriptive and predictive analytics. What are the essential data analysis concepts underlying business analytics? Topics include descriptive statistics, data visualization, probability and modeling uncertainty, sampling, estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression analysis, time-series analysis, and forecasting. Emphasizes an understanding of how these tools can support decision making and analytics initiatives in a business context with real-world examples and case studies. Uses various software packages for analyzing data sets and creating visualizations.

MISM 6202 | 3 Hours

Explores the challenges and processes for harnessing technological innovation for new-business development. Integrates technology strategy, innovation in marketing, product development, and organization design for the purpose of enterprise growth. Through readings, cases, and exercises, studies how firms from different industries gain competitive advantage through distinctive products and services, and leverage their technologies and skills into new emerging markets. Also focuses on processes for conceiving, financing, and organizing new ventures.

INNO 6200 | 3 Hours

Offers students an opportunity to analyze whether, why, and how multibusiness corporations expand their operations into new business areas by questioning decisions to grow globally through mechanisms such as acquisitions or alliances. Uses rigorous case-based discussions, expert readings, and major current events to discuss issues related to the choice of make, buy, or partner. Offers students an opportunity to evaluate how these different corporate entrepreneurial strategies are used to help firms be more competitive and innovative.

ENTR 6225 | 3 Hours

Introduces how to measure, analyze, and evaluate the profit impact of marketing actions (MAP) by bringing together marketing, strategy, and finance. Your organization is going to spend millions on a new marketing or strategic initiative, but how will you know if it is working? Marketing performance measurement and feedback systems enable managers to take smarter risks by assessing experimental projects and forecasting the profit potential of bigger, bolder initiatives. Offers students an opportunity to explore systems that summarize marketing productivity and suggest steps for performance improvement in marketing strategy and tactics.

MKTG 6230 | 3 Hours

Focuses on the integrative management of processes and activities involved in transformation and delivery of goods and services. Offers students an opportunity to obtain foundational knowledge on operations and supply chain management concepts, techniques, and functions. Topics covered include sourcing and procurement, manufacturing and service operations, process design and control, quality management, capacity planning, demand planning and forecasting, inventory management, transportation and distribution management, interfirm relationship management, and attendant information flows.

SCHM 6201 | 3 Hours

Introduces Python and its use as a financial data analytics tool. Python has become one of the most widely used open-source, cross-platform programming languages. Covers the basics of programming in Python and key libraries (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, etc.) used in data analytics, then focuses on implementing various financial models in Python. Topics include single and multifactor portfolio models, portfolio theory and the efficient frontier, algorithmic trading, options and futures, and value at risk.

FINA 6333 | 3 Hours

Covers methods of managing data and extracting insights from real-world financial sources. Topics include extracting and organizing data from financial, geospatial and supply chain sources; financial aggregation; and reporting. Applications include current and emergent data sources employed in finance, risk-weighted assets, market and credit risk modeling, stress testing, and climate risk. Studies major sources of financial data, data visualization, and architecture. Offers hands-on instruction in tools used in the financial industry to process datasets.

FINA 6342 | 3 Hours

Examines the history and evolution of the ways banking has changed following the 2008 financial crisis. Changes impacting the banking industry include major changes in the regulatory environment, changes in market liquidity, negative interest rates, shifts in Fed monetary policy, LIBOR transition, and technological innovation (blockchain, digital currency, automation, and artificial intelligence). Analyzes the history and evolution of these changes and the impact on the financial services industry, with a specific focus on the banking sector. Discusses the management of various banking functions (risk management, governance, profitability, liquidity management, auditing, and regulation) in today's regulatory and market environment as well as the evolution of payment systems and the expected impact of technological advancements, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, on the industry.

FINA 6340 | 3 Hours

Offers a broad overview of the world of fintech from the perspectives of both large financial institutions and small startups. Explores the dynamic intersections of finance and technology with a deep understanding of financial innovation, fintech trends, and blockchain technology. Presents a comprehensive understanding of regulatory challenges, risks, and opportunities within the fintech landscape. Focuses on cutting-edge concepts that are shaping the financial industry. Analyzes the impact of blockchain technology, understanding its role in creating secure, transparent, and immutable financial ecosystems.

FINA 6237 | 3 Hours

Introduces design principles for creating meaningful displays of information to support effective business decision making. Studies how to collect and process data; create interactive visualizations; and use them to demonstrate or provide insight into a problem, situation, or phenomenon. Introduces methods to critique visualizations along with ways to identify design principles that make good visualizations effective. Discusses the challenges of making data understandable across a wide range of audiences. Provides an overview of data visualization, key design principles and techniques for visualizing data, and the fundamentals of communication that are required for effective data presentation. Other topics may include ethical uses of information displays, storytelling, infographics, immersive visualizations, and information dashboard design. Offers students an opportunity to use one or more software tools.

MISM 6210 | 3 Hours

Familiarizes students with domestic and international financial markets and the securities traded therein. Discusses a variety of techniques for valuation of financial assets and relies heavily on quantitative methods. Critically analyzes such qualitative concepts as market efficiency, intrinsic value, and risk. The contents of this course, descriptive, theoretical, and applied, should provide students with the ability to build unique valuation models to suit the particular investment alternative they wish to scrutinize. Also provides students with an understanding of how investment theory and investment practice relate.

FINA 6203 | 3 Hours