Executive MBA
Executive MBA - Graduate Courses
EMBA 961 Strategic Thinking & Organizational Viability (back to previous page)
This module is an examination of major management issues facing the chief executive and senior management of an organization, including issues of creating and maintaining a long-term competitive edge, active adaptation and creating a desirable future and means of approximating it, processes for dissolving conflicts and delivering value for all stakeholders, resource allocation and risk/return in financial markets, effective utilization of supply chain and innovative processes for new products and services, examination of competing business modules and technology/products/service platforms. This module serves as a foundation, setting the stage for detail presentation of organizational components in the subsequent modules in an integrated sequence. 13 credit hours.
EMBA 962 Measurement (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EMBA 961. This module explores how firms assure viability. Firms (organizations) must measure their performance in executing their plans, performance of their employees, as well as the organizational performance in meeting the expectations of stakeholders. Effective measurement systems from financial, accounting, marketing, human resources, to learning and adaptation are reviewed. The process of integrative executive management and its use to create a “Balanced Score Card” for the organization is examined. 12 credit hours.
EMBA 963 Ethics, Environmentalism, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EMBA 962. This module explores current societal challenges facing businesses. Although the primary objective of a firm is to maximize its total profit, it must also comply with the domestic laws and customs of every country in which it operates. In addition, it must also respond to emerging global standards of corporate behavior and social responsibility. Topics covered include forces that affect and shape business institutions in the form of recurring or newly emerging social, legal, ethical, and political issues. Examples of these include concerns for corporate ethical behavior, domestic and global sustainability, workplace issues, stakeholder relations, and product safety. Also addressed will be regulations and social norms that govern and restrict domestic and international business activities. 7 credit hours.
EMBA 964 Competing Globally (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EMBA 963. This module incorporates the greater complexity of multinational operations. Economic systems of identifying and classifying types of economies are reviewed. The strategic management modes of entry into different types of economics are explored. Key intellectual property issues are identified. Marketing, product adaptation and appropriate channels of distribution are addressed. Multinational accounting and finance, new types of risks, currency issues, and tax planning are examined. 6 credit hours.
EMBA 965 Cultural Transformation (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EMBA 964. This module explores the organization and its ability to cope with ever-present change and complexity in the environment. Systems for hiring, training and retaining talent; measuring individual and group performance; and appropriate reward and recognition systems are reviewed. At the organizational level increasing capabilities need to be fostered, and systems of organizational learning are critically analyzed. To achieve sustainability, the organization must also become innovative and customer-centric. The role of management in identifying needed systems and successful implementation are explored. 6 credit hours.
EMBA 966 Capstone: Leading and Execution (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EMBA 965. This module emphasizes a conceptual and integrative approach to leading and executing strategies for change and the long-term viability of an organization in a global environment. The module involves business simulation in which a team of students will run a global company and compete against other teams in the same industry. Teams will chart a company direction with strategic and financial objectives, craft and implement the strategy, interpret a wide variety of data and competitive intelligence that cuts across functional areas, and attempt to out-compete rivals. A large number of strategic and tactical decisions will draw on the lessons and techniques of prior modules and provide a capstone experience for the program. Teams will gain experience in making sound, responsible decisions and will be held accountable for delivering great results. 9 credit hours.
EMBA 997 The Washington Campus--How Washington Works/International Seminar (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EMBA 962 and at least concurrent registration in EMBA 963. The seminars at the Washington Campus emphasize governmental process and the range of considerations and constraints that bear upon the decisions of policymakers. Corporate executives and future business leaders examine the working of the legislative, regulatory, judicial, and executive functions of government in order to understand more clearly how they, as managers, can build the critical public policy dimension into daily operations and corporate strategy. The faculty of the Washington Campus are drawn from government, business, the press, and academia. They include members of Congress and their staffs, senior administration officials, lobbyists, journalists, noted scholars, and corporate executives. As companies expand their markets abroad, they need employees who are globally aware, flexible to change, and able to understand various social and business cultures. Therefore, it is important that students be exposed to a variety of perspectives on the real-life issues of doing business in different countries. 3 credit hours.
EMBA 999 Special Research Project Seminar (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EMBA 962 and at least concurrent registration in EMBA 963. A special research project seminar which culminates in a graduate-level business project being presented and critiqued, and in which state-of-the-art topics may be examined by nonfaculty guest lecturers. 3 credit hours.