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The Weekend Curriculum
Enhancing the part-time experience is
the Weekend MBA cohort program, which is
often reserved for full-time students in
other MBA programs. During the first
five semesters, students follow a
lock-step progression through the core
courses and enjoy a cohesive, team
spirit among their peers. All courses
are 2 credits and last seven to eight
weeks, except Data, Models and
Decisions, Financial Management, and
Leadership and Managing Human Capital
each of which is 3 credits and lasts 15
weeks.
Weekend MBA core classes generally
meet from around 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the
Ronald Reagan Building International
Trade Center in Washington DC. The
model for core course scheduling
generally follows this repeating
pattern: two consecutive Saturdays of
classes with the following Saturday off.
Once the core curriculum is finished,
Weekend MBA students may continue taking
electives on alternate Saturdays or take
advantage of Evening MBA electives
during the week at Baltimore, College
Park, Shady Grove, and Washington DC.
Evening MBA electives usually meet 7 to
9:40 p.m. once a week.
Core Business Courses
Core Course Descriptions
BUSI 610 Introduction to Financial
Accounting; (2 credits). Overview of
financial accounting, periodic financial
statements and the financial reporting
process. Introduction to the importance
of financial statements as information
sources for creditors and investors and
as a means by which managers can
communicate information about their
firms.
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611 Managerial Accounting; (2 credits).
Use of accounting data in corporate
planning and control. Cost-volume-
profit analysis, budgeting, pricing
decisions and cost data, transfer
pricing, activity-based management,
performance measures, and standard
costing.
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Technology
Selectives
BUSI 621 Strategic & Transformational IT
(2 credits) Includes case studies to
illustrate managerial decisions about
technology as well as lectures that help
frame the issues. There will be
extensive class discussion; assignments
include two short case write-ups, a
group project on industry
transformation, and a term paper defined
by the student. There are no exams. The
course does not assume any particular
student background. It is focused on
management issues and is suitable for
the student with no IT experience as
well as for students with technical
backgrounds who want to understand how
to manage IT in the firm.
BUSI 622 Managing Digital Business
Markets (2 credits) Examines the
question of how to manage digital
businesses and markets. As businesses
become increasingly buying and selling
digital goods, participating in digital
markets, and relying on digital
information to manage their operations,
they often face new challenges. In this
course, we will examine some of the
characteristics of digital businesses
and markets that make them unique and
understand how companies can best manage
them.
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BUSI 630
Data Models and Decisions; (3 credits).
To develop probabilistic and
statistical concepts, methods and models
through examples motivated by real-life
data from business and to stress the
role that statistics plays in the
managerial decision making process.
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BUSI 634 Operations Management; (2
credits). Examines the strategic
role that the operations function can
play, and offers tools and techniques
that the firm can use for strategy
execution. We cover concepts of
operations management applied to both
manufacturing and services, which can be
divided into two broad areas. The first
area relates to productivity
improvement: process flowcharting,
analysis of process flows and
bottlenecks, impact of variability on
processes (queuing), quality management,
six-sigma, and lean operations. The
second area relates to choosing optimal
capacity, given costs - inventory
management and revenue management.
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BUSI 640
Financial Management; (3 credits).
Analysis of major corporate financial
decisions using a market-oriented
framework. Topics include capital
budgeting, security portfolio theory,
operation and efficiency of financial
markets, options pricing, financing
decisions, capital structure, payout
policy and international finance.
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BUSI 650
Marketing Management; (2 credits).
Analysis of marketing problems and
evaluation of specific marketing efforts
regarding the organization's products
and services, pricing activities,
channel selection, and promotion
strategies in both domestic and
international markets.
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Entrepreneurship Selectives
BUSI 660 Entrepreneurship
& New Ventures (2 credits)
Provides an introduction to
important tools and skills
necessary to create and grow a
successful new venture. The
course integrates research
findings from a range of
different practical and
intellectual perspectives,
including psychology, sociology,
economics, strategic management,
and history into practical,
hands on lessons for an
entrepreneur. Class projects
provide the foundations for new,
real businesses.
BUSI 661 Creativity for
Business Leaders and
Entrepreneurs (2 credits)
Examines the concept of
creativity as it applies in
today's and tomorrow's complex
business environment. The course
gives an overview of the
cognitive foundations of
creativity, examines many of the
preconceived notions about
creativity in business and
discusses multiple ways in which
creativity can help business
leaders and entrepreneurs to
succeed. Topics include
creativity techniques for groups
and individuals, creativity as a
foundation to recognize business
opportunities and develop
innovative products and
services, selecting ideas and
making them stick, mental and
organizational obstacles to
creativity as well as an
overview of electronic tools to
increase creative capability.
BUSI 647 Entrepreneurship,
Finance and Private Equity (2
credits)
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BUSI 664 Leadership and Managing
Human Capital; (3 credits). Examines
concepts of leadership and human
resource management principles.
Emphasizes skill building and creating a
competitive advantage by creating a
culture that develops extraordinary
leaders and unleashes employee talent.
Topics include leadership, decision
making, communication and conflict, work
motivation, teams, ensuring legal
compliance and leveraging diversity,
recruiting, selecting and retaining
qualified employees who fit the job and
the organization, measuring performance
and providing feedback, and managing
changes in leadership and HR strategy.
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Global Selectives
BUSI 672 Global Supply Chain
Management (2 credits) Offers a
practical blueprint for understanding,
building, implementing, and sustaining
supply chains in today’s rapidly
changing global supply chain
environment. It will provide the student
with a survey of the fast-moving Supply
Chain Management discipline and
practice, including the evolution of
supply chain strategies, business models
and technologies; current best practices
in demand and supply management; and
methodologies for conducting supply
chain-wide diagnostic assessments and
formulating process improvement plans.
BUSI 673 International Economics
for Managers (2 credits) Focus on
understanding critical aspects of the
global business environment that
influence firm decisions and behavior.
Globalization is present in market
competition, capital markets, and
managerial talent as evidenced by free
trade areas and economic unions forming,
the volatility in global financial
markets, and the continued rise of
transnational firms. With globalization,
the challenge for firms is to
acknowledge, understand and act when
appropriate - to act by sourcing,
lobbying, and relocating value chain
activities internationally.
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BUSI
681 Managerial Economics and Public
Policy; (2 credits). Basic
microeconomic principles used by firms,
including supply and demand,
elasticities, costs, productivity,
pricing, market structure and
competitive implications of alternative
market structures. Market failures and
government intervention. Public policy
processes affecting business operations.
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BUSI 683 The
Global Economic Environment; (2
credits). Introduction to the
relationship between national and
international economic environments.
Determinants of output, interest rates,
prices and exchange rates. Analysis of
the effect of economic policies (fiscal,
monetary, trade, tax) on the firm and
the economy.
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BUSI 690
Strategic Management; (2 credits).
Integrative strategic management
focusing on strategy formulation and
implementation in domestic and global
settings. Industry and competitor
analysis, industry and firm value chain,
leadership, goal setting, organizational
structure and culture. Case study
approach to top management and
organizational problems.
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Evening MBA
Curriculum
Weekend MBA
Curriculum
ELECTIVES
Evening: Baltimore
Evening: Shady Grove
Evening: Washington
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