Management - Graduate

Courses

GM511: Leading Organizational Change

Credits 3
This course examines effective approaches to leadership in business organizations within four frameworks. This includes examination of leadership models, problem solving, ethics, and strategic styles of interaction, decision-making techniques, and effective strategies for implementing goals with organizational frameworks.

GM520: Bus Law, Ethics & Sustainability

Credits 3
This course examines legal and ethical dimensions of decision making and impact on corporate and public policy. It places emphasis on exerting effective leadership as related to ethical behavior. This course examines contract and agency law, property, business organization and fair pricing are examined from a legal and ethical perspective in business.

GM525: Management Information Systems

Credits 3
This course provides the fundamental concepts necessary to understand, develop, and manage information systems in organizations. Students will examine the operational, managerial, and strategic issues of managing information technologies to support business operations. Topics include the role of information technology in organizations; hardware; software; ethical issues and the control of information technology.

GM534: Cont Bio/Psyc/Social Iss Seniors

Credits 3
This course examines biological, psychological, and social perspectives to present a multifaceted picture of aging both in problem identification and opportunity that accompany old age. Issues that will be explored include: the prevalence of HIV/AIDs in later life, current research on mental potential in old age, the creation of age-friendly cities, and new options for end-of-life care. Through case studies, threaded discussions, weekly assignments, and a class project students will analyze the impact of health care payment on employers, providers, consumers and society.

GM535: Communications and Change Mgmt

Credits 3
The purpose of this course is to develop the ability to communicate effectively as managers. The course uses communication theories, techniques and strategies to present a functional communication model. Topics include communication strategy and analysis; managerial presentation skills; managerial writing; and corporate communication.

GM540: Organizational Behavior

Credits 3
This course is about the human side of the organization. Students will analyze organizations using the "four-frame approach": structure, people, power/politics, and perception. This includes methods of evaluation, change, and development influencing behavior through motivation, short-term/long-term behavioral factors, and satisfaction through job design.

GM541: Managerial Accounting

Credits 3
This course takes the student beyond the preparation of financial statements to budgeting, recording, reporting and analyzing both financial and nonfinancial accounting information to be used by managers within organizations. This analysis provides the basis for managers to make informed business decisions. Prerequisite: Competency in Accounting

GM543: Economics for Competitive Advantage

Credits 3
This course deals with the application of fiscal and monetary policy tools. The framework for achieving the goal is threefold: 1) understand economic analysis, 2) use economic analysis to evaluate current developments and the financial news, and 3) use economic tools and principles to predict future events. Prerequisites: Competencies in Micro-and Macroeconomics

GM544: Quality and Systems in Senior Care

Credits 3
This course examines quality and systems in health care and focuses the lens on seniors. Topics in this course include: how health care institutions can use the quality improvement process and the variety of models available to provide better care to seniors and gain control of system frustrations and problems. Through case studies, threaded discussions, weekly assignments, and a class project you will analyze the impact of health care payment on employers, providers, consumers and society.

GM550: Future/Energy Business and Society

Credits 3
This course examines the interaction of energy usage, business and society. Students study corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing, doing business in less developed countries and the role energy will play in future business development, including the social, community and political road blocks encountered in new and existing energy ventures. Prerequisite: GM510

GM554: Payment Systems for Seniors

Credits 3
This course examines payment sources for senior health care services including: an introduction to health care financing, employment-related medical expense coverage and provided a thorough analysis of the alternatives available for senior clients to finance medical and long-term care. Topics include: consumer-directed health insurance plans for older clients, underwriting medical expense insurance and insuring the unhealthy, interim, supplemental, and ancillary medical expense insurance, medicare, medicare supplements, medicaid and veterans' benefits, the need for financing long-term care, caregivers and settings for long-term care, personal resources to meet long-term care needs, development of long-term care insurance, characteristics of individual long-term care insurance and the underwriting of long-term care insurance. Through case studies, threaded discussions, weekly assignments, and a class project students will analyze the impact of health care payment on employers, providers, consumers and society.

GM556: Consumer Behavior

Credits 3

This course examines how digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and emerging neuroscience insights are reshaping consumer behavior and competitive strategy. Students analyze how firms leverage behavioral data, AI-driven personalization, and cognitive science to influence attention, motivation, decision-making, and customer loyalty. Through case-based discussions, strategic memos, and an applied final project, learners develop actionable consumer insight strategies while critically evaluating ethical and regulatory implications in modern digital markets. Prerequisite: GM562

GM557: Marketing Campaigns

Credits 3

This course introduces you to the building blocks, processes and profound effects a well-crafted marketing campaign can have on a company’s business, employees, R&D direction and product development, bottom line, culture, values and brand. The crowning jewel of the marketing function is the creation of a company’s brand. Brands are the long tail portion of the myriad functions marketing serves its clients. A well-crafted brand not only informs a potential customer of a company’s unique selling proposition (USP) and the quality of the products and services it offers, but most importantly, it clearly and succinctly defines the essence of the company’s intangible voice, promise, culture, mission, vision, etc. that drive customer interest and loyalty and clearly differentiates it from its competitors. Prerequisite: GM562

GM561: Financial Management

Credits 3
This course concerns the management of financial resources. Topics include capital structure, present value, valuation, financial planning, as well as risk management. Sound management strategy is applied to decision-making. Prerequisite: Competency in Accounting

GM562: Marketing Management

Credits 3
This course provides a managerial approach to the identification and analysis of marketing problems through strategy development. It covers processes for searching for and identifying prospective opportunities, as well as a review of the marketing mix elements relating to planning, development and implementation of a marketing plan.

GM563: Human Resource Management

Credits 3
This course deals with the real world objectives, actions and practices involved in human resource management, using an analytical and systematic approach. It describes relevant theories and research about human behavior and presents leading-edge practices that illustrate how human resource management can achieve both efficiency and equity in the employment relationship.

GM565: Compensation and Benefits

Credits 3
This course examines compensation and benefits plans and practices within U.S. and global organizations and the ways in which they impact the management functions throughout the organization.

GM566: Driving Operational Performance

Credits 3
This course provides an understanding and appreciation of the operations management concepts and quantitative methods used in the control of business services, personnel, production, and inventory in organizations. It also addresses the efficient and effective use of resources, systematic direction and control, transformation of inputs into finished goods, and operations strategy. Topics include forecasting, linear programming, inventory management, statistical process control, Just-In-Time manufacturing, queuing theory, project management, and others. Prerequisite: Competency in Statistics

GM570: Training and Development

Credits 3
This course focuses on methods for using training and development to create more productive organizations. It explores the conduct of needs assessments and the design and implementation of training programs to address those needs, analysis and application of adult learning theories.

GM571: Corporate Finance

Credits 3

This course examines advanced corporate financial decision-making within modern capital markets. Emphasis is placed on value creation, capital budgeting under uncertainty, capital structure theory, and practice, payout policy, risk management, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and financial distress. The course integrates theory with empirical evidence and real-world applications, using case studies, financial modeling, and academic research. Prerequisite: GM561

GM572: Investment Analysis

Credits 3

This course provides an advanced examination of investment theory and practice, focusing on the valuation of financial assets, portfolio construction, and risk management. Students will explore both traditional financial models and contemporary developments in asset pricing, behavioral finance, and alternative investments. Emphasis is placed on applying quantitative tools and critical thinking to real-world investment decisions, including equity and fixed-income valuation, portfolio optimization, and performance evaluation. Prerequisite GM561

GM575: Building a Sustainable Enterprise

Credits 3
Adopting a systems approach, this course studies the concepts of sustainable business practices. Students discuss resources such as food, water, energy and raw materials, as they consider their effect on a business enterprise. This course examines how profitability and sustainability interact in the triple bottom line concept. Prerequisite: GM561

GM585: International Brand Management

Credits 3

This course will guide students through the most significant aspects of global brand management, from understanding international trade fundamentals to developing a complete international marketing plan. Prerequsiite: GM562

GM592: Health Policy

Credits 3
This course provides an in-depth analysis of the issues and laws affecting health policy. It explores the political and social environment in which policy decisions are made, and the consequences of such decisions. Students discuss specific health issues in local communities to determine the effect of local and governmental policies on those problems.

GM594: Healthcare Finance

Credits 3
This course examines the payment sources for health care service including health maintenance organizations, indemnity plans, prospective payment systems, pricing and reimbursement. Through case studies, the student analyzes the impact of health care payment on employers, providers, consumers and society. Prerequisite: GM561

GM596: Quality Improvement Processes

Credits 3
This course focuses on how health care institutions use the quality improvement process and a variety of models to gain control of system frustrations. Cases focus on models that work in a variety of institutions with specific attention to issues of time, patient acuity and other topics of current interest. This course utilizes current and past health care research as a point of discussion.

GM599: MBA-Independent Study

Credits 3
Independent study offers an opportunity to explore an area of study not included in the catalog listing of approved courses. The topic of an Independent Study should be selected and carefully designed by the student and faculty sponsor, and must meet with the approval of the Program Director and Dean no later than the end of the add/drop period of the term in which the Independent Study is to occur. Normally, the student will be expected to have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 and possess the appropriate background and interest to pursue the proposed area of study. A "Proposal for Independent Study" form may be obtained from the Office of the Registrar.

GM610: Human Resource Management Seminar

Credits 3

The purpose of this course is to encourage critical inquiry and collaboration. This course provides students the ability to apply key skills in human resource management either through an Applied Action Research assignment or through an internship. Students must submit a request form to the HR Academic Director and receive written permission before enrolling the course. Prerequisites: GM510, GM520, GM563, GM565, GM570, and CGPA of 3.50 or better.

GM625: Labor Relations & Employment Law

Credits 3
This course focuses on essential aspects of employment law at the international, federal, and state levels throughout the employment life cycle, from hiring through termination. Students will have the opportunity to apply topics through applied learning assignments in order to develop a solid understanding on how to implement appropriate and effective HR policies and procedures for an organization.

GM630: Energy Economics

Credits 3

This course provides the student with an overview of energy production, transportation and usage and how economics, technology, and sustainability issues interact. Students examine traditional non-renewable energy sources and renewable sources. The course studies worldwide markets for energy and the need for conservation, and considers further exploitation and improved technology. Prerequisites: GM561

GM640: International Management

Credits 3
This course focuses on leading a global enterprise, including the challenges of managing across national boundaries and within foreign countries, and the coordination of global management programs. It introduces the nature of international operations, including issues of culture, politics, physical geography, and infrastructure.

GM670: Behavioral Finance

Credits 3

This course examines how psychological, cognitive, and emotional factors influence financial decision-making and market outcomes. Moving beyond the assumptions of traditional finance and the Efficient Market Hypothesis, students will explore how biases, heuristics, social dynamics, and limits to arbitrage affect asset pricing, portfolio construction, corporate finance, and market anomalies. Students will critically evaluate seminal academic research and apply behavioral frameworks to real-world financial markets. Emphasis is placed on empirical evidence, experimental design, and implications for investment management, financial regulation, and corporate strategy. Prerequsite: GM561

GM691: Strategic Mgmt of Organizations

Credits 3
This course integrates leadership skills and knowledge from all functional business areas to develop, implement and evaluate organizational strategic plans. This capstone course challenges students to work cooperatively to design a complex organization using concepts learned throughout the course of study. Note: This course may not be transferred into the program. Prerequisites: Completion of all M.B.A. coursework at the 500 level.