BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION
EMB689 Leadership and Negotiationx
This course examines the nature and process of leadership and developing negotiation strategies in executive environments. It surveys theories of leadership, negotiations, bargaining and conflict resolution. The course emphasizes case studies and problem solving employing ethical business models.
MKT602 Marketing Managementx
Provides a structured approach to marketing management, guiding the student through market analysis, customer segmentation, product development, service development and marketing implementation. The objective of the course is to give the students an understanding of marketing as an inherent area of their responsibility. They will be exposed to core concepts of marketing that will be found useful in understanding markets, trends, customers, competition and other areas when working in any organization.
FIN501 Fundamentals of Financex
This course teaches the nature and workings of financial markets and their use by corporations, investors and others. They will acquire some skills in modern valuation techniques, including the pricing of fixed-income securities, equities, foreign exchange and derivatives. They will learn about the principles of finance, including arbitrage, market efficiency, and portfolio theory. In the context of corporate finance, the course will introduce the key principles of selecting real investments, financing them, and managing financial risk. From the point of view of investors, individual as well as institutional, we will consider the principles of portfolio selection and management. Finally, the course will look at how banks and other financial institutions make money by bringing issuers and investors together.
HRM400 Human Resources Managementx
Introduces the student to basic human psychology, employee/employer feedback practices and selection theory (predominantly psychometric analysis and interviewing). Human Resources also teaches soft management skills such as working within a multicultural setting.
MNS683 Decision and Risk Analysisx
Decision and Risk Analysis for management as a focus on the application of mathematical models in decision making. All the techniques on basic mathematics, operations research and statistics are introduced to enable individuals to pick up the right one for particular problem at hand ranging from optimization technique, decision under uncertainty to tackling problems common to research situation.
ACC201 Financial Accountingx
The goal of Financial Accounting Concepts is to enable students to understand how any given business event affects the financial statements. To that end, Edmonds' uses a horizontal financial statements model that allows students to see the simultaneous impact of a single business event on all of the key financial statements (the income statement, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows). This model also provides an effective means for comparing the effects of one transaction with the effects of another transaction. These are the big picture relationships that both accounting majors and general business students need to understand to function effectively in the business world.
BUC400 Business Communicationx
Writing and speaking skills necessary for a career in management. Students polish communication strategies and methods through discussion of principles, examples, and cases. Several written and oral assignments, most based on material from other subjects and from career development activities. Corporate Communication is intended to help you think strategically about communication and to aid you in improving your writing, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills within a managerial setting. We will look at a range of successful practices and guidelines that have been derived from both research and experience, give you the opportunity to practice your skills, and provide you with feedback to help you strengthen them. Typically, we will use a workshop format that relies heavily on discussion and in-class exercises.
FIN 800 Corporate Financex
Basics of finance with an emphasis on project finance. Introduces the student to Net Present Value (NPV), nominal and real interest rates, risk, return, the opportunity cost of capital, portfolio theory and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC).
MKT800 Business Developmentx
Teaches sales, negotiation and networking skills with an emphasis on start-up and family businesses.
MGT800 Technology Management x
Introduces the student to best practices in managing a technology business. Elaborates on pertinent theories such as product lifecycle, time to market, concurrent engineering and new product development.
ECO608 Macro Economics & Economic Analysis for Business Decisionsx
This course is an amalgamation of macroeconomics and managerial (or applied microeconomics). Macro Economics deals with the principles of economics that involve the measurement of and interrelationships between aggregate economic variables, and policies that help ensuring sound health of economy. In the context of globalisation and greater role being assigned to the private enterprise in the erstwhile regulated economies, it is becoming a real challenge for evolving and fine-tuning macroeconomic policies in line with the rapid changes occurring from time to time both in the national and global economy. The first part of the present course has been designed to help students to familiarise with major macroeconomic variables that determine the macroeconomic state and influence pace of growth of an economy. The course also aims at exposing the management students to influences of such policies on the economic environment in which business organizations need to operate, so that they could make timely and appropriate policy decisions.
Business and economic environment of a country remains dynamic and more so in the present era of globalisation. Latter part of this course is concerned primarily with basic microeconomic principles and concepts, and analyzing of the economic and business environment for arriving at suitable managerial decisions that can be implemented by commercial firms for desired business outcomes.
MGT442 Strategic Managementx
The Strategic Management Area allows students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for a managerial approach to running a business in today's competitive environment. This course focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management. It will concentrate on modern analytical approaches and on enduring successful strategic practices. It is consciously designed with a technological and global outlook since this orientation in many ways highlights the significant emerging trends in strategic management. The course is intended to provide the students with a pragmatic approach that will guide the formulation and implementation of corporate, business, and functional strategies. This course focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management.
MKT636 Marketing Strategy and Communications x
Elucidates the intricacies of strategy with regard to marketing and introduces the fundamentals of internal and external marketing communications in an international setting.
ODV420 Organisational Behaviourx
Explains how to structure project groups and firms, taking into account personality types, individual goals, diverging incentives, varying skill sets, cultural factors, communication practicalities and changing competitive environments. Particular emphasis is placed on outsourcing and supplier relationships.
EMBA Live consulting projectx
Application is the acid test for management theory. Without the project element, too much MBA content would escape unchallenged. The project enables you to combine content, integrate subject areas and most importantly test ideas directly with feedback from the real world.
Students will typically work in a two-person team on a consultancy project for a corporate client. Guided by a professor, students will resolve a critical business challenge of the client. Each student is expected to spend a minimum of 20 days on the Industry Project. Although negotiated between project teams and clients on an individual basis, teams can expect significant remuneration from clients for their services.
The project represents major part of your MBA assessment and is the perfect opportunity to integrate the skills and knowledge you have acquired and apply them to a major business challenge that your organisation faces. A successful project can have a major impact on your reputation and even position within your organisation.
Projects cover every possible subject including: internal strategic reviews, new market entry strategies, change management challenges, business diversification, mergers and acquisitions and performance measurement.
Executive Master of Business Administrationx
MGMT 5533
Leadership Challengesx
Leadership is a dynamic and multi-faceted concept. Much has been written and researched
on this topic and in this course, we will examine some of the current ideas on
organizational leadership. We will examine what it means to be a leader and how it differs
from being a manager. We will explore the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed
to be an effective leader in today's global environment. The course objective is to help
students learn more about their own leadership beliefs and see how they can hone
their own leadership behaviors.
This course will be very interactive in nature and will afford the students an opportunity
to examine and discuss their own ideas on leadership. We will read several current
books on the topic and compare and contrast their major ideas. Students will also
have opportunities to critique these ideas and examine them in written form.
Faculty:
Dr. Ken Eastman is the Head of the Department of Management and an associate
professor of management in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.
Prior to becoming department head, he was director of the OSU MBA program.
His research interests are mainly in the areas of leadership, extra-role behaviors, and
organizational politics. He has published articles in such journals as the Academy of
Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of Business
Ethics. He has presented over 200 seminars on topics such as leadership, Good to
Great, performance management, generations at work, and organizational politics to
such organizations as Sonic Corporation, Chesapeake, ConocoPhillips, OG&E,
ONEOK, Lopez Foods, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. In addition, he has received the
MGMT 5743
International Negotiationsx
The goal of this course is to make participants better negotiators and infl uencers in the
global arena. To that end the course will study sources of power, infl uence strategies,
and effective negotiation principles and tactics. In designing this course, we focused
explicitly on issues and topics that directly impact your negotiating skills in a cross-cultural
world. A considerable amount of time and energy will be spent on improving the
students’ negotiating skills through in-class exercises.
Faculty:
Dr. Andrew L. Urich is an interesting and enthusiastic communicator who helps people
get what they want. He is an associate professor of Business Law in the Department of
Legal Studies at Oklahoma State University and has served in this capacity for almost
fi fteen years. Prior to joining the faculty of the Spears School of Business, Dr. Urich
received a law degree from Case Western Reserve University, completed post doctoral
studies at the London Institute of Comparative Law, and practiced law with a major
corporate law fi rm. Dr. Urich is a lecturer, researcher, and consultant in the areas of
negotiation, consumer protection, and commercial law and is a recipient of the Greiner
Outstanding Teacher Award, the University Outreach Faculty Excellence Award, the
1999 Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, the Region V University Continuing Education
Association (UCEA) 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2007 Richard
W. Poole Faculty Outreach Excellence Award. Dr. Urich is an effective and entertaining
communicator with both practical and academic experience.
Dr. Raja Basu is the Vice-President for Academic Affairs for Oklahoma State University,
Tulsa. As the Chief Academic Offi cer of the university, he has overall responsibility for
operations, development, and promotion of all academic programs. Dr. Basu researches
and teaches in the areas of leadership, employee performance, team building, and
change management. He also consults with organizations in the aerospace, energy,
fi nancial services, technology, government, and non-profi t sectors.
Dr. Basu’s research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Engineering
& Technology Management, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Employee
Assistance Research, R&D Innovator, and International Journal of Stress Management.
He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management
Association. Basu is a three-time recipient of the Chandler-Frates & Reitz Award for
Outstanding Teaching in the MBA Program (2000, 2001, and 2007) and the Greiner
Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (1996) at OSU. Dr. Basu received his
MBA from Duke University and his Ph.D. from Purdue University.
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