Core Courses - Executive MBA
Core Courses (48credit hours)
The Fisher core courses are designed to provide you with the fundamentals of business and to help you develop the managerial thinking skills you will need to become a source of competitive advantage for your firm.
Module 1 (12 credit hours) January-March
Strategy Formulation and Implementation : Examines the nature of corporate strategy, development of a conceptual framework for understanding competition in industries and factors that shape competitive success or failure.
Organizational Behavior and Teamwork Skills: Overviews the foundations of human behavior in organizations. Topics include group and teamwork effectiveness, managing performance, power and influence, leadership, conflict management, and organizational culture.
Managerial Economics: Applies microeconomic theory to help managers develop effective structures and systems to implement the firm's strategy.
Module 2 (12 credit hours) March-May
Information Systems Management Decision Making: Analyzes the role of the information systems’ function in organizations and the role of information in the decision-making process.
Data Analysis for Managers: Introduces descriptive statistics, statistical inference, and regression. Major emphasis is placed on achieving an application-oriented understanding of data analysis tools and techniques.
Accounting for Decision-Making: Examines fundamental accounting concepts and techniques that are employed by entities to facilitate planning, performance evaluation, and control.
Module 3 (12 credit hours) June, August, September
Finance: Making Investment Decisions: Deals with important managerial decisions, such as project selection and financing, starting with the fundamental concepts of valuation and risk return.
Marketing Management: Focuses on identifying an organization's target customers and developing effective product, pricing, promotion, and distribution strategies for those customers to create customer loyalty through competitive advantage.
Operations Management: Considers strategic issues in managing operations as a means for competing in global markets, analyzes processes, capacity, quality, and improvement policies in both service and manufacturing settings.
Module 4 (12 credit hours) October, November, January, February
International Field Study: Emerging Markets: Integrates a diverse body of knowledge to address the issues faced by the multinational firm.
Professional Development: A practical review of the drivers of success in executive leadership roles, with a heavy emphasis on individual assessment, personal development, and career goals.
Business Development: Helps students develop their own conceptual models and practical tools for entrepreneurship and prepares students through the development of a business plan in time for the Center for Entrepeneuership's annual Deloitte & Touche $145,000 Business Plan Competition