Executive MBA

Executive MBA - Graduate Courses 

EX 903 The Communication Process (back to previous page)
A survey of communication theory as applied to the organizational environment. Special attention will be directed toward management communication styles, conflict, disagreement, change in organizations, formal versus informal power and communication, people in organizations, structure of organizations, motivation, barriers to effective communication and communication competencies in organizations.
2 credits.

EX 909 Business and Government Relations (back to previous page)
An analysis of the impact of the major regulatory agencies of the federal government upon business. Specific attention given to the legal and economic impacts of the agencies; their independence of action vis-a-vis Congress, the judiciary, and each other.

EX 912 Financial Accounting (back to previous page)
An understanding of information in financial reports and how managers use this information in decision making. Includes financial accounting standards, methods of financial statement analysis and current developments in financial reporting.

EX 915 Quantitative Decision Making (back to previous page)
Probability and financial analysis techniques within the framework of the randomness encountered in the real world. Includes practical applications of expected values, value of information, Markov systems, game theory and decision theory.

EX 918 Managerial Economics (back to previous page)
Application of economic analysis to business forecasting, planning and policy formulation. Includes cost-benefit analysis, cost estimation and break-even analysis.

EX 921 Executive Management and Leadership (back to previous page)
The role of managers in globally competitive organizations. Topics include the nature of management and leadership, managing ethically in a global economy, basic management skill sets and motivational theories.

EX 924 Financial Management I (back to previous page)
Analysis of financial decision models for investment, financing and dividend decisions of the profit-oriented firm. Includes capital budgeting, capital structures and the cost of capital and dividend policy.

EX 927 Financial Management II (back to previous page)
Analysis of financial decision models for the management of working capital. The management of current assets and the related financing mixture.

EX 930 Marketing Practice (back to previous page)
The new marketing concept and its application in the modern corporation. Organizational aspects and environmental determinants of marketing decisions are examined, culminating in a discussion of buyer behavior characteristics. Practical considerations in using the elements of the marketing mix: product, price, channel and promotion policy.

EX 933 Managing the Global Marketplace (back to previous page)
An examination of the theory and practice of a national or international company trading in world markets.  Focusing on strategic planning for this environment from economic, political, social, regulatory and competitive points of view.

EX 939 Operations Management (back to previous page)
An examination of the best practices used by operations management to achieve competitive advantage. Topics will include: organization, productivity measurement, competitiveness, product and process design, quality management, procurement, JIT, empowerment and change management.

EX 942 Managerial Accounting (back to previous page)
An understanding of the uses of accounting data by managers in directing the affairs of organizations. Includes cost systems, profit planning, standard and relevant costs, and world-class manufacturing concepts.

EX 948 Business Law (back to previous page)
This course provides a framework for considering the respective roles of institutional and individual legal responsibility as it relates to major federal statutes that are commonly invoked in corporate prosecutions. Major emphasis will be placed on employment law, including labor, and white collar prosecutions.

EXID 951 Marketing Management (back to previous page)
Strategic considerations and options in managing a firm's marketing function. Scope and methods of marketing research as well as issues involved in new product management. The importance, opportunities and constraints of international marketing. The unique aspects of service marketing.

EX 954 Organizational Development (back to previous page)
Effective management of the aggregate human resource in the modern organization. Analysis of human resource planning, recruitment and selection; training and development; compensation and benefits; other human resource functions. Understanding how to utilize these functions in managing change for organizational effectiveness.

EX 957 Corporate Policy and Strategy (back to previous page)
Examination of the major management issues facing the chief executive with emphasis on resource allocation questions. Includes the strategy development process, supporting organization structure and reward system. Serves as an integrating mechanism for several preceding courses.

EX 960 Information Management (back to previous page)
Analysis of technologies, costs and challenges of integrating computers into the modern business environment.

EX 997 The Washington Campus--How Washington Works/International Seminar (back to previous page)
The seminars at The Washington Campus emphasize governmental process and the range of considerations and constraints which 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 is drawn from government, business, the press and academia. It includes 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 changes, and able to understand various social and business cultures. Therefore, it is important that students are exposed to a variety of perspectives on the real-life issues of doing business in different countries.

EX 998 Marketplace - Business Simulation (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EXID 912, EXID 924, EXID 930, EXID 942. In this business simulation students will virtually run a new venture firm for two years in compressed time (8 to 12 rounds of decision making). The real challenge in the game, and in real-life ventures, is that managers must continually make a large number of concurrent strategic and tactical decisions, with no rest from the advertising decision while solving the pricing decision. There is heavy emphasis on the inter-connectiveness of business functions.

EX 999 Special Research Topics (back to previous page)
A seminar which culminates in student research being presented and critiqued, and in which state-of-the-art topics may be examined by nonfaculty guest lecturers.