CMB 8000 Leadership Challenge (2 credits)

Focuses on communication, team building, and adaptive problem solving.  It is structured to create a sense of community among students through a cohesive team atmosphere. The Challenge clearly sets expectations for future class involvement and helps you identify the skills you will need to excel in the FTE MBA program.  Note: The Leadership Challenge is required of all incoming students, and takes place over the course of two consecutive weekends. 

CMB 8010 Foundations of Economics (4 credits)

Covers micro, macro, and international economics. Microeconomic section topics include: demand and supply movements that lead to price and output decisions by firms in competitive and monopolistic industries, effects of taxation, and price regulation. Macroeconomic section includes: the gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment, and the analytics of monetary and fiscal policies and their effectiveness in achieving macroeconomic stabilization. International economics section includes: free trade, trade barriers, exchange rate determination, and the balance of international payments.

CMB 8015 Statistics (2 credits)

Examines descriptive and inferential statistics as applied to management problem solving and decision making. Provides an understanding of common statistical methods and tools used for decision making in business. Topics include: descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and time series.

CMB 8020 Accounting (4 credits)

Includes both financial and managerial accounting topics. First half of the course covers financial reporting and understanding the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flow, and related financial statement ratios. Second half of the course uses case histories to understand the financial analysis required to make managerial decisions. Specific topics include: budgeting, cost management systems, activity-based costing, relevant cost analysis, and performance measurement. The Balanced Scorecard and Economic Value Added (EVA®) are among the performance management techniques examined in this course.

CMB 8035 Business Technology Management (4 credits)

Examines the interrelationships among business models and processes, computing and communications technology, and the management best practices that drive the adoption, deployment, and support of business technology. Covers emerging business models including e-business, supply chain management, personalization and customization—as well as current and emerging technology infrastructures, architectures, and applications. Examines technology management methods and tools, including business cases, total-cost-of-ownership calculations, and ROI models.  Also discusses how prudent investment in computing and communications technology can enable profitable growth.

CMB 8030 Leadership and Ethics (4 credits)

Focuses on the behavioral dimension of managerial action and decision making with emphasis on the dynamics and challenges of providing responsible leadership and developing high performance teams. Includes an exploration of business ethics, diversity, motivation, communication, performance evaluation, conflict management, negotiations, organizational change, and learning in a global environment.

CMB 8040 Decision Making for Business Applications (2 credits)

Empowers students to identify, model, and solve practical business problems. Provides an understanding of the development, application, interpretation, and implementation of computer-based decision support models. Introduction covers technology’s role in supporting value-based decisions and provides an overview of the modeling approaches used. Module One—decision analysis—includes a review of classical decision analysis, including utility theory, decision trees, and the analytic hierarchy process. Module Tow—simulation—examines the analysis of complex systems when relationships are probabilistic, and covers process redesign and analysis of the simulation output.

CMB 8025 Marketing Management (4 credits)

Focuses on the analysis, implementation, and control of strategic market decisions designed to accomplish an organization’s objectives. Covers the description and evaluation of how goods and services meet consumer needs and how they are priced, promoted, and distributed for domestic and international consumption. Also explores economic, government, social, and other environmental forces in relation to the marketing function. Students use cases to analyze organizations’ marketing decisions and simulations to mirror real world marketing experience.

CMB 8045 Financial Management (4 credits)

Combines the theory and application of financial management in a survey course, providing basic information about the economic and financial environment in which financial managers make decisions. Includes overviews of financial statement analysis, risk analysis, and the valuation process. Use case analysis to teach students how to apply financial management skills and tools to develop and implement effective financial strategies in several areas including: cost of capital, capital budgeting, capital structure, working capital management, and multinational financial management.

CMB 8050 Supply Chain Management (4 credits)

Focuses on improving an organization’s supply chain through coordination among multiple sites, functions, and economic actors (customers and suppliers). Covers design and implement of strategies to improve supply chain structure and management—cross-functionally, within the firm, and across an industry value chain among interacting firms. Discussed strategies include: restructuring supply chain facility networks, coordinating information and materials flow, managing supplier relations, and managing customer order fulfillment processes.

CMB 8056/8057 Strategic Management for Global Organizations (6 credits)

Examines the entire strategic management process including industry and competitive analysis, developing a vision and mission, assessing organizational capabilities, formulating and implementing strategy, and evaluation and control. Includes an in-depth discussion of corporate governments, ethical conduct, corporate diversification, and strategic leadership. Also involves discussions regarding global operations in conjunction with an international trip.

CMB 8060 Financial Risk Management (4 credits)

Combines the theory and practice of corporate finance and derivatives. Focuses on derivatives pricing models, the structure of the markets for these instruments, and the development of hedging strategies to manage corporate risks related to changes in interest rates, foreign currencies, stock prices, and commodities. Provides students with an understanding of how derivative securities such as forwards, futures, options, and swaps are priced and used to maximize shareholder value. Uses case studies for students to apply their knowledge of the principles of risk management as they relate to real options, simulation, value-at-risk (VaR), and other concepts to solve real-world financial problems.