This Orientation course is designed specifically to meet the needs of working professionals as they transition into their core MBA coursework. This course also provides students with the opportunity to develop a programmatic, personalized learning plan tailored to help them pursue their educational and personal goals. In this course, students will learn about the courses in the program and explore varying definitions of leadership as they formulate ideas for their own personal definition. They will develop individual, performance-based goals by creating a Personal Success Plan. Students will also evaluate their Microsoft Office skills and remediate any gaps that may exist.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

This course provides the foundation for the study of the practice of leadership in the MBA. The course starts on the premises that leadership is a social process and that everyone is capable of practicing leadership. The course is built on an ontological consideration of leadership as a practice by introducing participants to various perspectives of leadership and their ontological constructs, culminating with the collaborative framework of the Center for Creative Leadership. Drawing from this exploration, participants will develop a leadership philosophy to inform them about their own practice of leadership.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

This is a research course in which students analyze a leadership issue related to the direction, alignment, or commitment of organizational outcomes and then convert that issue into a research question. Students will investigate what is known about the issue (literature review), identify potential findings (theory and hypothesis), and develop a basic design (methodology) to answer the research question. The results will be a written report and presentation with a line of sight regarding how data-informed decision-making supports leaders in their strategic success.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

This course provides the foundation for the study of the practice of leadership in the MBA. The course starts from the premises that leadership is a social process and that everyone is capable of practicing leadership. The course is built on an ontological consideration of leadership as a practice by introducing participants to several perspectives of leadership and their ontological constructs culminating with the collaborative framework of the Center for Creative Leadership. Drawing from this exploration, participants will develop a leadership philosophy to inform their own practice of leadership.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

In this course, students will learn and apply the four fundamental skills relevant to leadership at all levels and across industries. They will analyze the performance of prominent leaders who practiced particular skills and explore how to apply those skills in their careers.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

This course delivers practical, hands-on experience with the essential concepts of economics that a business manager or leaders must deploy to be successful. In this course, you will learn what these concepts are, why they are important, how to ask the right questions at the right time, and how to deploy the concepts in a real-world business environment. Topics covered in this course include price systems, market structures, monetary and fiscal policies, consumer theory, inflation rates, interest rates, employment levels, national output. Along the way to developing these practical skills, this course will advance the student’s awareness of and exposure to the advantages of software tools like Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, and Solver.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

This course is designed to provide financial information to executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and other interested parties to make the best decisions toward achieving the goals, and objectives or their organizations. Topics include accounting implications and recognition of business acquisition, cost volume – Profit Analysis, and understanding financial Statements.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

This course will cover the financial and legal structure of a company. Other topics include working capital management, time value of money, cost of capital, capital budgeting, dividend policy, globalization of finance, ethical standards, and financial strategy.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

As communities and organizations become more diverse, whether in culture, race, ethnicity, gender, functional expertise, etc., leaders need to be able to see situations and people for what/who they really are and to lead effectively, creating sustainable and productive workplaces. In this course, students will learn to recognize and acknowledge their own biases and strategies to break their bias habits. As they deal with their own biases, students will learn to lead others to counteract bias and effectively drive change both personally and professionally.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

In this course, students learn through case study, individual and group assignments, as well as the creation of a marketing plan, about the principles of Marketing Management and the impact that marketing has on an organization’s performance in both domestic and global environments. Students gain knowledge on how to develop successful customer-driven marketing strategies as well as the fundamental marketing functions of Product, Price, Place, and Promotion (the 4Ps). Other topics include digital marketing, online marketing (web sites, email marketing, online advertising, and more), social media marketing (content marketing, major Social Media Platforms, social media engagement), and Mobile Marketing (Mobile advertising, mobile apps, texting, mobile web sites).

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

The objective of this course is to highlight the relationship between organizational strategies, structures, and processes. Strategic implementation often involves changes in organizational design that influence the nature of tasks, patterns of communication, and benchmarks for performance. And both the strategy and the resulting design led to significant adjustments to the human resource management (HRM) mix in terms of staffing, employee development and employee retention. To achieve this objective, this course reviews both theoretical perspectives and opportunities for students to apply their experience to an applied project concerning the organization in which they are currently employed.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

Course topics will focus on the dynamics of change, organizational redesign, and the essential skills necessary for leaders to initiate corporate and organizational transformations. Resistance and acceptance of change initiatives, including the impact of organizational culture will be examined. Students will strengthen their leadership skills and strategies in order to initiate and implement change through problem-solving experiences across a broad range of organizational contexts.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

Drawing on the groundbreaking, global research of the Center for Creative Leadership, this course will consider the critical strategies and tactics leaders use in building new organizational cultures and practices of cooperation. The course will include an exploration of the purpose of boundaries within organizations, the types of boundaries, and the strategies and tactics necessary to work effectively across boundaries. Students will apply the concepts learned to develop an action plan to address a current challenge in an organization of which they are a part.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600

This course emanates from the precept that individuals and teams practice strategic leadership by creating the direction, alignment, and commitment needed to achieve the enduring performance potential of an organization. To do this effectively, leaders must understand how to think, act, and influence strategically. The course topics will focus on helping students understand and begin to develop these three critical competencies of strategic leadership.  Students will be able to challenge current strategies by taking a broader and more robust view of opportunities and threats in their organization’s environment, influence their peers to adopt strategies that are more in keeping with an evolving business environment, and initiate meaningful changes that position the organization to thrive, not simply survive.

Prerequisite: LMBA 600; Recommended: Prior completion of: core competency courses.

A capstone course requires students to integrate principles, theories, and methods learned in courses required throughout their academic career. This project-based capstone is designed for students to use possibility thinking in order to demonstrate application, learning, and integration of all course material and core content into a business plan or leadership portfolio. Students can select which type of capstone is desired and work as individuals or as a group under the guidance of an assigned faculty advisor. In this course, students have the opportunity to conduct research, gather relevant data, and integrate and apply knowledge and skills learned in preceding courses. Students creatively analyze, synthesize, and evaluate learned knowledge in projects having a professional focus and communicate the results of their projects effectively at a professional level.