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MBA 700 Defining your Plan for Success: The MBA Mindset
This course provides an overview of resources that will help students navigate their degree requirements. Students will also create personal and professional goals to pursue during their program and beyond. Students will also explore topics from both academic and business perspectives that will help them grow into successful business leaders.
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MBA 701 Leading & Communicating in Dynamic & Diverse Organizations
Students will learn how to effectively communicate with and lead diverse groups of people within dynamic organizations. They will enhance their competency in the areas of teamwork, emotional intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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MBA 702 Making Informed Managerial Decisions
This course prepares students to make informed and ethical managerial-level decisions in their organization to align with the firm's overall strategy. Students will learn to use appropriate decision frameworks and tools and will acquire skills to recognize and navigate challenging decision environments.
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MBA 703 Developing New Products and Services
In today's competitive marketplace, innovation is critical to the long-term survival of a business. Firms use new product and service development decision frameworks, structures, and processes to discover new markets, understand the potential for product innovations, and manage the risk in pursuing these opportunities.
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MBA 704 Competing Strategically in a Global Environment
This course focuses on how managers must lead their companies strategically in developing and sustaining ongoing efforts to compete globally. Students will learn a series of interrelated steps in which managers conduct analyses at the industry, business, and corporate levels, decide on strategies to enhance firm competitiveness, and evaluate and modify those strategies as needed.
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MBA 705 Navigating Change amid Uncertainty
This course prepares students to lead organizations into the future. By considering current technology trends, students will explore the future impacts on individuals, organizations, and society. By linking this future to the current strategic planning process, leaders will learn and apply an organizational change management framework to implement, communicate and sustain the change.
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MBA 708 Essentials of Financial Analysis
In this course, students will gain familiarity with interpreting corporate financial statements, specifically how the information within the statements informs the corporate decision-making process.
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MBA 709 Essentials of Economic and Statistical Analysis
In this course, students will gain familiarity with essential concepts of economics and statistics and be ready to apply these concepts in business applications in subsequent graduate business coursework.
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MBA 710 MBA Program Capstone
In this course, students demonstrate that they can apply and integrate what they have learned in the MBA program by passing the MBA program assessment, completing a project in which they solve an organizational problem, and developing a plan for their post-MBA success. Students will also refine the personal and professional goals they set at the start of the program.
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MBA 742 Introduction to Financial Fraud
Fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets are major problems for businesses of all sizes. Knowledge about how fraud is committed and how to spot the potential for fraud are valuable for managers at all levels.
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MBA 746 Mutual Fund Investing
Students will learn criteria for selecting mutual funds, how to develop investment portfolios composed of multiple mutual funds consistent with demographic characteristics of the investor, and how to assess mutual fund and portfolio performance.
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MBA 747 Financial Statement Analysis
Analysis and interpretation of financial statements. Skills taught include: how to interpret financial statements, analyze cash flows, evaluate earnings quality, uncover hidden assets and liabilities, and forecasting financial statements.
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MBA 753 Corporate Venturing
This course examines how organizations effectively create new businesses and foster innovation. It focuses on the process through which organizations turn a good idea into a viable business. Students will learn how to encourage entrepreneurship, identify opportunities, locate potential new business within the firm, select the right managers, and set up planning processes.
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MBA 754 Fundamental Methods of Forecasting
The ability to forecast data which becomes available at regular intervals is very important in the business environment. With the power of modern computers it is possible to carry out effective short term (one or two periods ahead) forecasts using methods studied in the context of a short course.
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MBA 755 Consumer Behavior
This class will help you to understand how and why consumers behave as they do. We will delve into our own attitudes, motivations and purchase behavior to derive insight. We will learn about the pervasive consumer behavior theories developed primarily in marketing and psychology.
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MBA 757 Managing Workplace Stress
Workplace stress costs organizations millions of dollars annually in lost productivity and turnover. In this course, we will examine the major theories of stress, causes of stress, and consequences of stress. We will take a hands-on approach to developing action plans to address stress in your workplace.
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MBA 758 Strategies and Tactics of Pricing
This course presents a framework for evaluating pricing decisions. Pricing is examined from the perspective of customers, competitors and costs; in a variety of contexts, including business-to-business markets, consumer goods markets, services, and not-for profit companies.
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MBA 759 Selling Ideas at Work
This course provides students with an understanding of how business people make decisions. It teaches students to utilize developed skills to sell ideas at work to both individuals and to groups.
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MBA 760 Employee Training and Development
The development of an organization’s human resources is becoming more critical as an organization attempts to survive in an increasingly turbulent, dynamic, and competitive global marketplace. This course focuses on: (1) The role of human resource development in maintaining an organization’s competitive position. (2) Identification of assessment techniques that will assist the manager in determining the general training needs of the organization and the specific needs of the employees. (3) Development of practices that will assist managers to transfer training to the workplace more successfully (4) The role of assessment in training. (5) Special topics of interest, such as diversity training and career management.
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MBA 761 Project Management
The course examines project identification, selection, and planning. It will be organized along two major phases of the project management process: 1) Project Selection and Definition; and 2) Project Planning.
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MBA 762 Organizational Leadership and Change
This course examines how change can be accomplished within organizations–who is responsible for change and how people can be helped to change.
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MBA 763 Business and Ethics
Does a company have any obligation to help solve social problems such as poverty, pollution, and urban decay? What ethical responsibilities should a multinational corporation assume in foreign countries? What obligation does a manufacturer have to the consumer with respect to product defects and safety? These are just a few of the issues that make the study of business ethics important and challenging. This course examines economic activity using ethics as a framework.
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MBA 764 Work-Family Issues in Contemporary Times
This course will critically examine and analyze issues of work and family life from both employee and employer perspectives.
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MBA 766 Contract Law for Managers
This course emphasizes using the law in ethical managerial decision making. It examines contract law, sales law, and law in e-commerce.
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MBA 770 E-Business Fundamentals for Managers
This course provides an overview of the fast-growing Internet-based economy and asks, from a management point of view, How may e-business contribute to the operational, tactical and strategic goals of an organization?
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MBA 773 Communicating for Success: Writing for Results
The purpose of this course is to enhance students' workplace communication skills. Students and their organizations will benefit as students apply practical strategies to writing effective routine, negative-news, and persuasive messages and creating PowerPoints for any audience.
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MBA 774 Sustainability and Organizational Management
This course is designed to introduce students to the interrelationship between business and the natural environment; specifically, it examines the impact of the environment on business and the consequences of daily and long-term business decisions on the environment.
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MBA 778 Managing Technology in Turbulent Times
The intent of this course it to show the synergy that exists between the introduction of technologies into an organization and the shift in management strategy and decision making that is essential to receive full value from the technology investment.
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MBA 780 Leading the Healthcare Workforce
This course explores challenges and opportunities that leaders in healthcare face. Students will learn how to maximize human resources and other organizational resources to improve organizational efficiencies and the quality of healthcare. Topics include motivation, EDIB (equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging), managing change, and other concepts related to leadership.
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MBA 781 Fundamentals of Health Information Technology Management
This course provides an introduction to the dynamic world of management of information technology in health care. A description of information processing, the content and evolution of healthcare information systems and the current and future methodologies being employed to acquire and manage information are discussed.
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MBA 782 Health Care Finance and Economics
Health Economics focuses on several issues related to health and the health care sector, including topics such as government intervention in health and health care, the impetus, design, and organization of health insurance markets, and the related impacts of both on health care reform, health outcomes, and decision making in the health arena.
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MBA 783 Informing Healthcare Decisions with Data Analytics
In this course students discover ways to gather, analyze, interpret, communicate, and use data for organizational decision making. Students learn concepts regarding data analytics, methodologies for gathering data, and strategies for managing data for analysis and use.
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MBA 784 Supply Chain Management
This course covers terminologies, concepts, and tools involved in managing supply chain operations, emphasizing qualitative and quantitative tools used in managerial decision making. Topics include Supply Chain Strategy, Supplier Management, Inventory Management, Distribution, and Logistics.
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MBA 786 Addressing Contemporary Issues and Trends in Healthcare
Students will examine current topics in healthcare in the United States. Topics may include, but are not limited to, healthcare costs; impacts of technology such as electronic records management, telehealth, and artificial intelligence; insurance and reimbursement; staffing; government and other regulatory requirements; equity and access to care; and burnout and stress management.
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MBA 787 Quantitative Business Analysis
This course focuses on applied quantitative business analysis and uses Microsoft Excel. The course covers problem solving concepts and techniques, plus effective presentation of analysis results. Critical thinking and analytical problem solving will be stressed throughout the course. Exercises for the course reflect a variety of business disciplines.
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MBA 789 Health Care Organization and Delivery
This course provides a foundational understanding of our complex health system, from basic organization and management of the system to an exploration of the relationships between cost, quality, and access in the context of system improvement and health care reform.
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MBA 791 Exploring Management Topics in the Nonprofit Sector
This course will provide a substantive introduction to the key principles and practical challenges in the law, management, and marketing of non-profit organizations (NPSs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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MBA 796 Directed Project (International Experience to Spain & Portugal)
During Winterim 2025, the UW MBA Consortium will be holding its first international experience in the vibrant cities of Madrid, Spain, and Lisbon, Portugal. This unique 1-credit directed project course will give students the chance to immerse themselves in the rich cultural tapestry of Spain and Portugal by participating in curated city tours and authentic cultural experiences that offer invaluable insights into the societal influences on business operations. This experience is also designed to deepen students' understanding of the diverse economic environments and business practices in the Iberian Peninsula. Through direct engagement with local, regional, national, and international companies, students will explore the unique challenges and opportunities that shape the region's markets.
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