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A Survey of MBA Topics


The Fisher College Management Certificate Course is designed specifically for mid-career executives to enhance business skills and management effectiveness. The comprehensive curriculum provides an overview of all facets of business education, exposing executives to the same topics covered in an MBA program.
This survey of MBA topics are taught by the Fisher College of Business world-renowned, award-winning research faculty. Fisher College’s faculty are ranked -

  • # 1 — Strategy
  • # 2 — Finance
  • # 4 — Supply Chain Management
  • # 5 — Marketing
  • # 9 — Business research publications

Benefit to the Employee and the Company
The course enables participants to enhance their careers and value to their organization through a broad range of functional and managerial topics. Classes consist of professionals from diverse backgrounds and abilities with comparable levels of management experience.
Managers attending the Certificate Course improve their personal business acumen and gain greater insights into other businesses — ranging from Fortune 500 companies to medium and small businesses —both from the private and public sector. Companies benefit from improved executives’ business skills.
This program is ideal for those unable to take an extended leave to pursue a degree program, but would benefit from a survey of the major topics in a typical MBA curriculum.
The course’s unique evening schedule offers students the opportunity to apply their skills immediately in their own work environment while minimizing time away from the job.

Program Format
The Management Certificate Course introduces and develops a basic knowledge of managerial concepts and tools needed to compete in today’s global business environment.
The Management Certificate Course consists of a comprehensive series of business topics taught by Fisher College’s renowned faculty. These interactive classroom sessions explore business strategies, business models, theories and cases, linking these concepts to practical business situations. Participants benefit from interaction with Fisher faculty and other participants, identify new best practices, and learn to apply business theory in “real world” workplace situations.
Graduates of the Certificate Course receive a Management Certificate for their work from Fisher College of Business and the Ohio State University.
Who Should Attend
If you are interested in increasing your knowledge and understanding of management methods and issues and expanding your business vocabulary, you should attend this course. Managers and directors at all levels in an organization will benefit from this unique program format. The Management Certificate course will benefit:
  • Management personnel who want to enhance their business knowledge
  • Engineers who have been placed in a managerial capacity
  • Healthcare office managers and directors
  • Technical specialists with an interest in moving into management
  • Anyone interested in establishing a managerial foundation prior to pursuing a professional MBA program
  • Professionals interested in developing an understanding of managerial techniques
  • Supervisors
  • Small business owners
Spring 2008 - Fisher Survey of MBA Session Dates and Topics

March - 31
April - 2, 7, 9, 14, 21, 23, 28, 30 May - 5, 7, 12, 14
(Classes are Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6-8:30pm)
  • Leading with Social Styles & Strengths
  • Marketing: Principles of Branding
  • Accounting
  • Negotiations
  • Strategy
  • Lean Management
  • Financial Analysis (2 parts — I and II)
  • Sustainability
  • Talent Management
  • Communication Competencies
  • Creating Transformational Leaders
  • Supply Chain Management
Faculty
  • Keely Croxton - Associate Professor, Marketing & Logistics
  • Larry Inks – Clinical Assistant Professor, Management & Human Resources
  • Leslie Fine - Associate Professor, Marketing & Logistics
  • Ray Noe - Robert & Anne Hoyt Designated Professor, Management & Human Resources
  • Roy Lewicki - Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professor, Management & Human Resources
  • Jay Anand - Associate Professor, Management & Human Resources
  • Bernadette Minton - Associate Professor, Finance
  • Richard Murdock - Associate Professor, Accounting & MIS
  • Peg Pennington - Director of Continuous Improvement Programs, Center for Operational Excellence
  • Neil Drobny - Clinical Assistant Professor, Management & Human Resources
  • Gerald Nilsson-Weiskott - Principal, Leadership Development Group
Cost
Tuition for the Certificate Course is $2,145. This fee includes instruction, course materials and refreshments. Take advantage of a $200 discount for two or more employees from the same company.
Contact Us
To enroll, or for additional information, please contact:

Susan Davis
Program Manager
Executive Education
Fisher College of Business
110 Pfahl Hall
280 Woodruff Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1144
Phone: (614) 292-0917
Fax: (614) 292-6644
E-mail: davis.46@osu.edu

 
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