MBA Required Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation Courses | 15 | |
BUS 5100 |
Ethical Leadership for Dynamic Organizations
Take an intensive journey and gain a deep sense of virtuous behavior that creates and deploys people-focused organizations for the betterment of society. This course will analyze foundational ethic principles that can ignite organizational growth. | |
BUS 5110 |
People-Focused Management
Discover how to create people-focused organizations that achieve growth, build brands and generate exceptional experiences for employees and customers. This course will provide initiatives and tools for motivating organizations to maximize the triple bottom line: people, profit and planet. | |
BUS 5120 |
Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth
Learn accounting and financial insight to drive business decisions that result in profitable and sustainable growth for an organization. Students will interpret financial reports, evaluate investments and understand the implications of financing strategies. | |
BUS 5130 |
Mastering Analytics and Decision Making
In this course, students will learn how to use statistics for practical business applications and apply the bulletproof problem-solving approach to business challenges. Students will be able to tell a story with data and interpret and present Tableau visualizations. | |
BUS 5140 |
Managerial Economics & Econometrics
This course provides a clear and balanced presentation of relevant economic practices, analytics, theories and concepts. The focus of this course will be on the application of modeling and predictive analytics, relevant theories and the tools of analysis in the decision-making sciences to examine how managers make optimal economic choices in the face of constrained resources. The course should be thought of as applied analytical economics, emphasizing those topics of the greatest interest and importance to decision-making managers and economists, including demand, production, cost, pricing, market structure and government regulations. | |
| Experiential Learning Courses (pick 2) | 6 | |
BUS 7000 |
Industry Leaders Seminar Series
This course introduces the graduate student to best practices in business administration from the perspective of organizational leaders who give guest lectures for the students. Students get exposed to the culture, business and technical aspects of various industry types, and hone their professional networking skills. Series delivered over two semesters and combines on-campus and online components. | |
BUS 7010 |
MBA Internship / Intraship
The internship experience provides the student with a practical application experience that cannot be duplicated in the classroom. Curricular emphasis is placed on student use of learned skills and exposure to hands-on business techniques. Students must work in an approved business site for a minimum of 120 hours to practice skills discussed in other MBA classes. All sites are to be approved by the MBA internship instructor. International students must have their I-20s signed by the school’s designated school official before they begin this experience. | |
BUS 7020 |
Business Coaching
This course takes a practical Coaching approach to exploring the student’s lifelong learning mindset toward professional development while discovering personal and professional strengths that can impact business interactions, behavior, and decisions. No matter where a student is in their learning journey or professional career, this course is designed to invite self-discovery and appreciative inquiry to forefront. Students will assess goals and strategies for upskilling, enhanced performance management, and career advancement. | |
BUS 7030 |
Service Learning
Students will explore how they can best use their God-given talents in service to Christ in the Church and in the world through participating in readings, discussions, weekly reflections, and volunteer activities. Students will volunteer 15 hours of their time at an organization of their choosing. By the end of this course, students will understand what it means to “Live Uncommon” and be ready to apply these principles as Christian business leaders. | |
BUS 7040 |
Study Abroad
This course allows students to travel abroad to experience business and cultures other than that available in the United States. Students will be immersed in an environment that will allow improved cultural awareness, communication skills and tactile learning. Special International Student Information: This class is available only to students for opportunities outside the home country of the international student. | |
BUS 7050 |
Project Management
This course presents project management from a practical point of view. The course focuses on the technical aspects of project management that are directly related to practice. Numerous career examples are considered to help explain how to apply proven project management tools in different disciplines. Students will actively use techniques to manage a group project and focus on each stage of a project’s life‐cycle. Software tools for project design and management are also presented and used. | |
BUS 7060 |
Introduction to Six Sigma
This course introduces a method that organizes an operational improvement project into five components: define, measure, analyze, implement and control (DMAIC). Similar to a scientific research project, students will learn the Six Sigma process and how to use measures and statistics to make the right decisions to improve the effectiveness of organizational operations. This is an “application project course” and the project will be the most significant mediator of success and the final grade.
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BUS 7090 |
Special Topics: Business & Industry
This course covers a wide range of emerging and existing topics and is designed to be flexible as to capture commercial and industrial innovation as they develop. One such example is water. By collaborating with the 123 organizations in SE Wisconsin that are in water as well as the Water Council, Water Institute and the New School of Fresh Water Sciences, we can prepare students for employment in specialty sectors. Another example is energy but, specific to employment in the SE Wisconsin’s industrial and commercial energy sector. | |
| Capstone | 3 | |
BUS 7500 |
Strategic Management
This is a course incorporating utilization of a textbook, Capstone Foundation simulation, and other resources such as Internet and workplace materials. | |
| Total Hours | 24 | |
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Develop a roadmap for unlocking sustainable, profitable and organic growth to disrupt industries and spark growth for your organization.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Pick 4 courses from the following list: | 12 | |
BUS 6000 |
Strategic Innovation
This course is designed to introduce students to the practices necessary to stimulate and manage innovation in an organization. Students are given frameworks and methods for designing, developing, and implementing innovation in real work situations. The aim of the course is to provide the learner with the perspective and skill base necessary to lead innovation‐focused projects, people, and ventures. How to create an organizational culture for innovation and commensurate competencies will also be introduced. This course will emphasize how innovation tools and methods can be successfully employed in real work situations. Each module is designed to engage in a conceptual and experiential application of innovation practices. | |
BUS 6010 |
New Venture Formation and Business Development
This course focuses on the process of writing a business plan suited to a new venture, as well as on business development. Students are guided through the process of writing their own business plan. Students also gain an understanding of the business development process, associated with commercializing a product or service within a company. | |
BUS 6020 |
Intellectual Property and Regulatory Issues
This course provides lectures and case studies on various aspect of intellectual property and regulatory matters as they relate to product development and commercialization. An overview is provided of the major forms of intellectual property (IP): patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret. IP issues as they pertain to the business of product development are presented through case studies and lectures. | |
BUS 6710 |
Digital & Social Media Marketing Strategies
This course is designed to help the student understand the social media and digital revolution; the concepts, tools and applications. This course will provide students with the practical knowledge and insights needed to successfully plan, implement, manage, and measure digital and social media marketing efforts. | |
BUS 6740 |
Marketing Research and Intelligence
The purpose of this class is to understand market research concepts, methodologies, segmentation, sampling, interpretation and analysis of data, questionnaire writing and design, and how to present findings in a manner that benefit an organization and aid in strategic decisions. Research trends and ethics within market research will also be covered. The class will culminate in a final project and presentation. | |
BUS 6800 |
Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship
The adoption of the tenets of sustainability in all sectors of the economy continues to gain traction. This course introduces the graduate student to the triple bottom line of Sustainability (People, Planet and Profit) as related to the development of products and to Social Entrepreneurship concepts that guide how such a business is run. The course is designed to provide a student from any discipline a foundation on the key competencies embedded in sustainability and sustainable development. The focus of the course is on balancing a company’s need to maximize profits while also minimizing negative impact on the environment and maximizing positive social impact. Industry-relevant examples from the areas of healthcare and natural sciences are used to illustrate these concepts in a practical way. | |
| Total Hours | 12 | |