Global MBA with a concentration in General Business online

To understand corporate social performance, business ethics, issues management, stakeholder management, corporate governance, the natural environment, and consumer protection to promote responsible business practices.

This course focuses on how to use financial statement information to make business decisions. The emphasis is on financial statement analysis and interpretation of financial disclosures to help improve risk assessment, forecasting, and decision making.

This course is designed to develop a global mindset for decision-making. Emphasis is on the process of globalization, international trade, and exchange rate dynamics.

Theoretical and practical rationale for international business activities; delineation of macro-environmental factors and international institutions that affect global business; policy concerns raised by the dynamic international environment; political, legal, and cultural environment; implementation of global strategies for smaller companies and multinationals.

Global marketing environment, concepts, and theories that are required to analyze the global market and to develop global marketing strategies.

This course covers fundamental concepts and methods of corporate finance, including risk-return framework, asset valuation, cost of capital, capital budgeting, distribution policy, capital structure, and working capital management.

Design, planning and execution of international operations, including acquisition of resources, location of production facilities, logistics, and operational mechanisms to match global supply with demand.

This course discusses foreign currency, international equity and bond markets around the world, and covers the hedging and forecasting techniques and tools used to measure and reduce risks faced by multinational corporations in global markets.

Using an international consulting project, this course focuses on value creation through strategic formulation and implementation of strategies in the global marketplace.

Staffing, training, and development aimed at the exploration of the basic aspects of the human resource planning process, including recruitment, selection, retention, and development of employees.

This course emphasizes the strategic role of human resource management function in developing and sustaining a competitive advantage in an increasingly diverse and competitive environment.

The course objective is to achieve an understanding of the various types of investments and their relative merits; security prices and yields; investment objectives, principles and standards for selection of specific investments; introduction to portfolio management.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of risk management and insurance by exploring sources of risk, the costs of risk, and the methods available to individuals and corporations to mitigate the cost of risk. Topics include health insurance, homeowners insurance, auto insurance, commercial property and liability insurances, insurance markets, and insurance regulation.

This course provides students with an opportunity to develop the necessary knowledge and skills in the areas of inter-personal, team-building, communication, mentoring, counseling, decision-making and problem solving, conflict management and negotiation; emphasis will be placed on managing a diverse work force and cross-functional teams with a focus on practical applications.

This course addresses the dilemmas and opportunities that managers face when interacting in international multi-cultural environments. The course focuses on increasing students’ effectiveness/ability to manage cross-cultural interactions, and in identifying, understanding, and managing the cultural components of organizational and business dynamics.

Research issues, methods and applications in marketing. The scope of market research, buyer and industrial applications, research methodologies including research design, data collection and analysis, report writing and presentation.

Impact of the current business environment on business-to-business marketing and purchasing; current practice in business-to-business marketing and purchasing, including concepts, theories, institutions, and events; managerial decision-making and competitive strategy and program development.