Fisher College of Business

Prospective MBA Working Professional Students

Our Program

Core Coursework

The core coursework, which accounts for approximately 52% of your degree requirements, is listed below.

MBA 800: Financial Accounting & Reporting
Mechanics of income statement, balance sheet and fund flows; accounting policy choices; financial statement analysis using fund flows; ratios, quality of earnings, sustainable growth rates and inflation adjustments.

MBA 870: Statistics
Introduction to statistical inference and its use in decision-making; major emphasis on achieving an application-oriented understanding of regression analysis.

MBA 812: Managerial Economics
Approaches microeconomics from a managerial and organizational perspective. Course materials combine theory development with both examples and case analyses that illuminate and challenge the theory.

MBA 860: Organizational Behavior & Teamwork Skills
Overview of factors that influence individual work performance and techniques to improve it; analytical frameworks for determining effectiveness of given techniques in specific circumstances.

MBA 801: Cost Accounting
Cost data for inventory valuation; cost data for decision making (pricing, product-mix, make or buy); cost data for performance evaluation and control.

MBA 810: Finance - Making Investment Decisions
Development of an understanding of financial terminology, instruments and foundations for analyzing and dealing with the financial management problems of business enterprises.

MBA 871: Decisions & Decision Models
The use of quantitative techniques in practical decision-making situations; emphasis on concepts with relatively little mathematics utilized to describe the techniques.

MBA 840: Marketing Management
Focuses on the interrelated elements of the marketing mix, its relationship with the other functional areas of management, and marketing responses to the external environment.

MBA 850: Operations Management
Introduction to basic operations principles; exploration of major operating problems; strategic and tactical decision-making; emphasis on determination of policy for managing productive resources; role of operations manager.

MBA 820: Macroeconomics
Focuses on broad macroeconomic principles and the environment as they relate to business.

MBA 880: Legal & Regulatory Environment
Focuses on the application of law to managerial decisions; designed to provide an appreciation and understanding of the relationship between legal and business strategy.

MBA 980: Strategy Formulation & Implementation
Introduction to the nature of corporate strategy, development of a conceptual framework for understanding competition in industries and the factors that shape competitive success or failure.

 
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