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                                                             MBA Elective Course Descriptions 
                                                               Subject to Change                        The MBA Program reserves the right to offer courses based on faculty availability to teach 
                                                               Course Name/#          Course Title      Brief Description
                                                                                                         An introduction to information technologies critical to business organizations.
                                                                    BA 523              IT Strategy
                                                                                                        Understand how macroeconomic events and policies affect the global economy and business decisions. 
                                                                                                         Includes the following topics:                                                                                            
                                                                                        Business,       -Exchange rate regimes: pegs, crawls and the Euro
                                                                    BA 545           Government, and    -Unemployment, inflation and growth
                                                                                       International    -Trade: NAFTA & other trade agreements
                                                                                        Economics       -Development and Growth
                                                                                                        -The financial crisis revisited
                                                                                                        This one-credit course presents a CEO’s perspective on the key opportunities and challenges faced by 
                                                                                                        business leaders as they seek to adapt themselves and their organizations to today’s complex global 
                                                                                                        business environment. Course content is based on extensive research and first-hand experience 
                                                                                                        working with senior leaders from major corporations worldwide, including companies like 3M, Cisco, 
                                                                                   Strategic Leadership  Merck, UBS, IBM, Samsung, Daimler AG, BASF, Hewlett-Packard, ARAMARK, PwC and many others. 
                                                                    BA 565               Seminar        The lessons learned from those benchmark companies and the evolving models of management they 
                                                                                                        are helping to create will form the backbone of a series of discussions on 21st century business 
                                                                                                        strategies and structures, as well as the new leadership competencies required to guide them.
                                                                                                        The Professional Services Engagement Practicum for MBA students is a practicum experience in which 
                                                                                                        teams of three to five students work with a sponsoring organization to address a current business 
                                                                                                        challenge facing that organization. In doing so, students are expected to acquire fundamental 
                                                                                                        knowledge and skills related to project management as well as to apply the wide range of knowledge 
                                                                                                        and skills they have developed throughout their studies at Smeal.                                                             
                                                                                                                      The overall learning objective of this experience is to improve each student’s ability as a 
                                                                                   Professional Services business professional with a particular focus on improving that student’s ability to:
                                                                    BA 575             Engagement       1. enable a team’s success through effective leadership and collaboration
                                                                                                        2. apply critical thinking and analytical skills to a specific business challenge
                                                                                                        3. communicate effectively in a business setting (written, visual, and oral)
                                                                                                        4. manage project work in order to effectively and efficiently deliver results in a professional business 
                                                                                                        setting
                                                                                                        This course will provide a unique view of business issues that relate to sustainability and to a lesser 
                                                                                                        degree corporate social responsibility. Course will provide students with an understanding of how 
                                                                    BA 597         Sustainable Business environmental and sustainability issues are impacting business strategies, operations and ultimately the 
                                                                                        Strategies      top and bottom lines. We will also examine the external forces, such as environmental groups, policy-
                                                                                                        makers, and “green” consumers, that impact business management.
                                                                                                        Primary areas of focus include intellectual property ("IP") law (patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade 
                                                                                                        secrets) and antitrust law, as well as basic principles of U.S. law and the legal rules for related industry 
                                                                                                        practices such as licensing. Students will also learn the legal rules designed to encourage competition 
                                                                  BLAW 525           Business Law for   (and punish anticompetitive behavior). Finally, the course will help students to better appreciate when 
                                                                                        Innovation      professional legal counsel is necessary, and how to manage those interactions more cost effectively. 
                                                                                                        Although the course will impart advanced legal concepts, prior coursework in business law is not 
                                                                                                        required. 
                                                                                                        This course is designed to illuminate the necessary entrepreneurial skills and the creation methodology 
                                                                                                        used to build a startup. Students will learn how to develop ideas and how to convert some of those 
                                                                                                        ideas into opportunities that, through iteration, become repeatable and scalable business 
                                                                                                        models.Successful entrepreneurs are not risk seeking mavericks. Instead, entrepreneurs utilize a logic 
                                                                                                        of control, known as effectuation, and must be structured and persuasive. Successful entrepreneurs 
                                                                                   Starting and Growing must co-create opportunities with customers, suppliers and even competitors to integrate market forces 
                                                                  ENTR 502              a Business      that shape their business model.
                                                                                                        By focusing on the creation of an opportunity rooted in actual market conditions, this course provides an 
                                                                                                        applied approach to the field of entrepreneurship. Students will learn the basics of generating ideas, 
                                                                                                        creating value propositions, designing market based experiments, identifying customer segments and 
                                                                                                        communicating business concepts with multiple stakeholders.
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                                                                  Course Name/#           Course Title       Brief Description
                                                                                                             This course is intended to increase students' ability to be successful in (1) starting a new venture aimed 
                                                                                                             at social or environmental impact, and/or (2) being an effective social/environmental change agent while 
                                                                                                             working in a traditional corporate career.  Learning outcomes include:                             • Understanding 
                                                                                                             of key features of social entrepreneurship 
                                                                                         Entrepreneurial     • Exposure to innovative business models aimed at societal problems
                                                                     ENTR 597                Finance         • Appreciation of how this approach can also be applied inside an existing organization
                                                                                                             • Completion of self-assessment tool for entrepreneurial strengths & opportunities 
                                                                                                             • Ability to use analytic tools aimed at developing a social enterprise 
                                                                                                             Finance 550 is the first course in the Finance Concentration. The course builds upon and reinforces the 
                                                                                                             theoretical and institutional framework learned in introductory business finance courses, and primarily 
                                                                                      Financial Analysis and 
                                                                      FIN 550                                through the vehicle of case analyses, seeks to apply these concepts to real world situations. The topics 
                                                                                            Valuation        covered include financial analysis, financial forecasting, working capital management, securities 
                                                                                                             markets, and security valuation.
                                                                                                             The course deals with the analysis of problems in international business finance and the impact of 
                                                                                                             evolving international payment systems on business.  The focus will be on how decisions about financial 
                                                                                                             management are and should be made in the modern multinational enterprise.  The impact that these 
                                                                      FIN 555            Global Finance      decisions have on the worldwide allocation of economic resources and distribution of wealth will be 
                                                                                                             assessed. Other topics of discussion include: what are the financial risks inherent in these decisions?  
                                                                                                             What role can new financial instruments play in the management of these risks?  
                                                                                                             The purpose of this course is to introduce some of the important issues and problems encountered in 
                                                                                                             recognizing exposures to risk in both financial and non-financial firms, and to provide students with a 
                                                                                                             strategic decision-making perspective. Considerable importance will be placed on how exposures to risk 
                                                                                                             affect the firm, and how risk exposures can be re-engineered to enhance firm value. An introduction to 
                                                                                      Financial Engineering financial markets and the major sources of risk exposure to the firm will be provided. Measurement of 
                                                                      FIN 577             and Corporate      risk exposures will be discussed and various methods of managing and controlling risk will be explored. 
                                                                                             Strategy        Tools of the financial engineer—futures, options, swaps, and other derivatives—will be explained and 
                                                                                                             applications will be demonstrated.
                                                                                                             The objectives of this course are to: describe important  nancial markets, and develop
                                                                                                             tools for pricing and managing different sources of  financial risks. The course will
                                                                                                             cover traditional securities, the term structure concepts as well as more recently
                                                                      FIN 581           Financial Markets    developed financial instruments. The course is rigorous and quantitative. Students
                                                                                                             are expected to understand and apply quantitative methods. Examples illustrate
                                                                                                             important real-world applications of the theory.
                                                                                                             This course provides the rigorous theoretical foundations and vital tools needed to structure, manage 
                                                                                         Modern Portfolio    and monitor the performance of an investment portfolio. Topics include portfolio theory, the risk-return 
                                                                      FIN 583         Management: Theory relationship, asset allocation and security selection, style analysis and performance evaluation, 
                                                                                           and Practice      mutual/hedge funds. 
                                                                                                             The purposes of the course are to provide the student with (1) a fundamental understanding of the 
                                                                                       Mergers Finance &  finance and economics of the M&A marketplace, and (2) the basic skills needed to succeed in various 
                                                                      FIN 597               Economics        professional capacities in the M&A marketplace, such as investment banker, management consultant, 
                                                                                                             strategic planner, and lawyer.
                                                                                                             This  course  is  an  applied  course  designed  to  build  on  the  fundamentals  mastered  in the  
                                                                                                             program’s  core courses.  The course provides tools to perform in-depth analyses of corporate 
                                                                                                             investment policy and corporate financial policy, geared toward maximizing shareholder value. We’ll 
                                                                                                             discuss the costs and benefits of M&A as an alternative strategy to organic growth and the tools for 
                                                                                                             resolving financial distress, including strategic bankruptcy.  Following lectures, students are expected to 
                                                                      FIN 871           Strategic Financial  learn by doing with  extensive  lab  work  (“application  tests”).  Prepared  students  will  be  familiar  
                                                                                          Management         with  financial  statements and will have a working knowledge of financial calculators and excel 
                                                                                                             modeling. The course consists of a combination of assigned reading, lectures, application tests (lab 
                                                                                                             work), case studies, and a substantial cumulative final exam. 
                                                                                                             Insurance  575  is  an  introductory  survey  course  examining  the  evolving  field  of  corporate  risk 
                                                                                                             management. Risk management is a systematic approach used by firms to protect themselves from the 
                                                                      INS 575           Risk Management      adverse financial consequences of risky events. This class explores the risk management decisions 
                                                                                                             facing firms, examining how they manage and protect themselves from loss.
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                                                                  Course Name/#            Course Title      Brief Description
                                                                                                             This course will help you to develop team facilitation skills. It focuses on observation, diagnosis, and 
                                                                                                             intervention skills for developing effective teams. Topics include diagnosing group dynamics, giving and 
                                                                                                             receiving feedback effectively, and facilitating cross-cultural communication and conflict management 
                                                                                                             within teams. You will experience team dynamics first hand as a member of a team in the class, engage 
                                                                                                             in self- and group-observation and practice facilitation techniques in the first year MBA student team to 
                                                                                                             which you are assigned as a facilitator. The course provides a real-time practicum in diagnosing team 
                                                                     MGMT 520            Team Facilitation   issues and intervening to facilitate problem solving and resolution of team conflicts. Techniques for 
                                                                                                             diagnosing your own facilitation and conflict handling skills and for helping teams constructively deal 
                                                                                                             with conflicts will be integral parts of the course. Dealing constructively with diversity in teams will also 
                                                                                                             be addressed.
                                                                                                             Innovation is a term frequently used in today's business environment, and its importance is only 
                                                                                                             growing. New products and services continue to bombard customers, and there is no end in sight to 
                                                                                                             what Schumpeter labeled as a process of creative destruction. Yet, while innovation is vital for a firm’s 
                                                                                                             wellbeing and growth, it is difficult to spawn and sustain. Those in charge of organizations must develop 
                                                                                                             an understanding of the challenges of and solutions to sustaining innovation. With this in mind, this 
                                                                                                             course will cover the following topics.
                                                                                                             • Models of innovation and technological change
                                                                     MGMT 551           Growth Innovation  • Understanding the role of the past, present and the future
                                                                                             Strategy        • Disruptive innovations
                                                                                                             • Challenges of fostering disruptive innovations
                                                                                                             • Organizational processes for sustaining innovation
                                                                                                             • Appropriating the benefits of innovation
                                                                                                             • The importance of standards
                                                                                                             • Platforms and eco-systems
                                                                                                             This course focuses on the "strategic" challenges facing the multinational firm. The types of questions 
                                                                                                             that we address are: Why do firms go abroad? What differentiates a "global" from a "multi-domestic" 
                                                                                                             industry? What are the sources of competitive advantage in a global context? Why and when do/should 
                                                                                                             companies engage in cross-border strategic alliances? What are the associated risks and how to guard 
                                                                                                             against them? What potential roles can foreign subsidiaries play in an MNC's global strategy? How do 
                                                                     MGMT 561             Global Business    companies choose an optimal global structure? How do companies ensure coordination between the 
                                                                                                             center and the subsidiaries and among subsidiaries? How do companies manage strategic change from 
                                                                                                             one type of global strategy to another?
                                                                                                             This course provides a pragmatic and ethical framework for analyzing the sources of power in 
                                                                                                             organizations and the circumstances that lead to its attainment and effective use.  The goals of this 
                                                                                                             course are to help you learn more about the nature and sources of power in organizations and increase 
                                                                                                             your ability and confidence in diagnosing power situations, managing conflict, and using political 
                                                                                                             strategies in pragmatic ways to get things done in the workplace and other organizations.  Topics 
                                                                     MGMT 565          Power and Influence  covered include formal and informal sources of power, social exchange perspectives on power, network 
                                                                                                             structures and their consequences, organizational culture and symbolic actions, the bases of 
                                                                                                             interpersonal influence, and diagnostic tools and techniques to identify the "rules of the game." 
                                                                                                             Project Management and Delivery addresses concepts and methodologies associated with project 
                                                                                                             management and the delivery of non-repetitive business activities.  In this course, students will learn 
                                                                                                             how to organize and manage work activities related to delivery of a collaborative venture that has 
                                                                                                             unique objectives along with a beginning and an end. More specifically, students will learn and apply 
                                                                                                             common project management tools and techniques used in various aspects of project management 
                                                                                                             including but not limited to requirements gathering, stakeholder analysis, project definition/charter, 
                                                                                                             project scheduling, project communication planning, risk mitigation planning, project budgeting & 
                                                                                                             control, project metrics/assessment, project documentation planning, and project closeout assessment. 
                                                                                                             Traditional and agile approaches to project management will be explored along with the benefits and 
                                                                                                             drawbacks of each approach.  Strategic considerations will include identification of success criteria, 
                                                                                           Management        effective use of KPIs and performance metrics, timely identification and mitigation of project risk, team 
                                                                                                             formation, resource constraints, project sponsorship, leadership within a project management context, 
                                                                     MGMT 885          Consulting Methods & 
                                                                                              Practice       and management of scope creep.Project management is a set of competencies with wide applications 
                                                                                                             in almost every area of human endeavor.  As students move forward in their professional careers, their 
                                                                                                             ability to effectively lead and manage project work (i.e., unique, non-repetitive, collaborative initiatives) 
                                                                                                             will be a significant determinate of their success.  The objective of this course is to providestudents with 
                                                                                                             fundamental knowledge and skillsrelated to project management that will enable their professional 
                                                                                                             success.
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                                                        Course Name/#       Course Title    Brief Description
                                                                                            The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and practice of negotiation in a variety of 
                                                                                            settings, with specific emphasis on multiparty contexts. A basic premise of the course is that while a 
                                                                                            manager needs analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to problems, a broad array of negotiation 
                                                          MGMT 821       Complex Negotiations skills and an understanding of multiparty dynamics are needed in order for these solutions to be 
                                                                                            accepted and implemented. The course will allow students to develop these skills experientially and to 
                                                                                            understand negotiation in useful analytical frameworks. Considerable emphasis will be placed on 
                                                                                            simulations and cases. 
                                                                                            The vast majority of new or revised business strategies – no matter how well crafted or
                                                                                            ingenious they are – fail in their implementation. In some cases, strategic plans amount to little
                                                                                            more than a top executive’s declarations or a powerpoint slidedeck. In other cases, they end up as
                                                                                            faint replicas of the original ideas. And in the most tragic cases, some perfectly sensible
                                                                                            strategies are so badly implemented that they cause outright company damage. Companies rise
                                                                                            and fall not according to their strategic brilliance or cleverness, but according to their ability to
                                                                                            execute on their strategic intentions.
                                                                                            This course addresses the managerial challenge of strategy implementation, particularly
                                                                                            by examining the organizational elements that must be drawn into line to support a strategy, as
                                                                                            well as the immense difficulties of changing an organization. As such, the course relies on two
                                                                                            overarching frameworks. The first is a model of organizational alignment; the second is a model
                                                                                            for managing the change process.
                                                                                            The course will emphasize application and practice, primarily by the use of cases. You
                                                                                            will be asked, class after class, to take the position of a senior manager or an advisor to a
                                                                                            manager, and develop answers to questions like these: What’s the real problem here? How are
                                                                              Strategic     the elements of the problem interconnected? What should be done? How, specifically, should we
                                                          MGMT 831        Implementation and  go about it?
                                                                               Change       Strategy Implementation and Organizational Change will be relevant for a broad array of
                                                                                            students, including those hoping to be managers, consultants, investors, and entrepreneurs.
                                                                                            Because the course focuses on changing entire organizations (rather than small parts of
                                                                                            organizations), we will be primarily taking the point of view of senior managers. However, our
                                                                                            frameworks and tools, and the skills you will develop, will be useful to you early in your careers,
                                                                                            as you face the need to manage change in your own subunits, as well as the need to comprehend and 
                                                                                            contribute to firm-wide changes.  
                                                                                            This course looks at the key issues, concepts, and methodologies associated with business 
                                                                                            transformation and management consulting. Students will explore the professional services industry, 
                                                                                            industry best practices, and a variety of client contexts where advisory services are needed. 
                                                                                            Additionally, students will learn common consulting methods and how to apply them in client 
                                                                                            organizations, particularly at the top management level. A consulting-oriented solution development life 
                                                                                            cycle is used as the organizing framework of the course. The primary phases of this framework include: 
                                                                              Business      client qualification / validation, problem identification, data gathering, requirements definition, project 
                                                          MGMT 880          Transformation  planning, solution design, solution development, solution implementation, and client relationship 
                                                                              Consulting    management. Students will learn to how to identify and define organization problems, highlight pain 
                                                                                            points, map work flows, explore business models, investigate strategic alignment, develop 
                                                                                            recommendations, present business cases, and deliver prototype solutions. The course will also enable 
                                                                                            students to learn how to advise managers and present key points and recommendations in a direct, 
                                                                                            clear, and compelling manner.
                                                                                            Students will learn to how to identify and define organization problems, highlight pain points, map work 
                                                                                            flows, explore business models, investigate strategic alignment, develop recommendations, present 
                                                          MKTG 532        Brand Management business cases, and deliver prototype solutions. The course will also enable students to learn how to 
                                                                                            advise managers and present key points and recommendations in a direct, clear, and compelling 
                                                                                            manner.
                                                                                            The creation, measurement and delivery of superior customer value in business markets is the focus of 
                                                                                            this course.  Successful market-focused business-to-business (B2B) organizations know the importance 
                                                                          Business Marketing  of linking customer needs to the development of high value products throughout the value chain in a 
                                                          MKTG 533              (B2B)       global, electronic environment.  And those successful organizations require that marketing be viewed as 
                                                                                            an investment, with measurable results and not as an expense.
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