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201 Financial Reporting
Coverage includes the fundamentals of accounting and reporting economic events and transactions. The course emphasizes the preparation of balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flow, and statements of stockholders equity.Prerequisite: Must be admitted into the Masters of Professional Accountancy Program. Not open for credit to students who have completed Management 200A.
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201B Organizational Strategy and Structure
Strategic management of organizations, including analysis of industries, firm resources and capabilities and corporate strategy. Strategy formulation, implementation and strategic decision-making. Firm and industry life cycles and change. Analysis of organizational design and structure including differentiation and integration.
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202B Business, Government and the International Economy
Examines the influence of government and international factors on the business environment. Topics include business cycles, inflation and interest rates, the federal debt, monetary policy and international trade and finance. Prerequisite: 202A.
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207 Management Information Systems
This course gets at the heart of business model transformation (when firms want to transform the way they do business) through the lens of people, process and technology frameworks (up to 40+) that allow a leader to lead teams through automating business functions while achieving key outcomes for the customer. The is a seminar style course that requires a rigorous real life project application of the content.
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215 Business Law
Covers the study of the legal environment of business. Subject matter includes an introduction to the American legal system, legal reasoning, contracts, agency, business organizations, and government regulation. Provides students with a basic understanding of the significant legal issues that confront managers and executives.
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223 Power and Influence in Management
Most social scientists define power as "the capacity to get what you want over the resistance of others" and influence as "the translation of power into action". Power and Influence in Management examines the bases of subunit and individual power in organizations and the means by which subunit and individual power is translated into influence. The course assumes that leaders sometimes must acquire power to be effective, but recognizes that leaders do not always use power in the interests of the organization. Thus, the course explores the positive and negative effects that power and its use can have on organizational effectiveness and in the process considers the ethics of power and influence. Power and Influence in Management also recognizes that leaders are not the only organizational participants who acquire power and exercise influence in organizations. Thus the course focuses not just on leaders but also middle level managers and lower level employees. The course's most basic premise is that managers at all levels of the organization can improve their effectiveness (both in pursuit of their own and their organization's interests) if they better understand how power is accumulated and used in organizations. Class sessions are devoted to discussing case studies in light of theoretical arguments advanced in readings.
Prerequisite: 201A.
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224 Managing People in High Performance Organizations
Strategic approach to the management of people within organization. Explore choices firms make in managing people--decisions as to selection, performance evaluation, compensation, and other management policies and practices. Analyze employment systems' fit with firms' environments and strategies and the consequences of choices managers make regarding policies and practices.
Prerequisite: 201A
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234 Pricing
Combines lectures, cases and homework to teach students tools and skills necessary to analyze pricing situations, make pricing decisions, and implement them, in a systematic manner.
Prerequisite: 203A/403A
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241 New Product Development
Why do some companies consistently outperform other companies in developing successful new products and services? Why do so many new products fail in the marketplace? This course introduces students to the major activities involved in developing new products and services. Emphasis is on learning practical skills and techniques that can help students be successful in a product development environment. Students will learn how to understand customer and user needs, and translate them into meaningful product concepts; manage product development programs and teams across multiple functions. Do financial analysis of programs and make economic tradeoffs in the development effort. Choose product development methodologies appropriate for the business and products. As part of the course, students may work on a new product development project. More details available in the syllabus.
Prerequisite: 204
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243 Auditing and Attestation Services
Advanced treatment of the audit process and environment. Topics include audit planning and performance, evidence, internal controls, professional standards, and audit reports. Reviews, compilations and attestation services are examined, as are governmental agency audits. Prerequisite: Must be admitted into the Masters of Professional Accountancy Advanced treatment of the audit process and environment. Topics include audit planning and performance, evidence, internal controls, professional standards, and audit reports. Reviews, compilations and attestation services are examined, as are governmental agency audits.
Requirement: Must be admitted into the Masters of Professional Accountancy Program
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246 Negotiation in Organizations
This course is designed to help students develop the ability to effectively negotiate in a competitive business environment. It focuses on negotiation skill-building in the areas of individual conflict management, team management, performance appraisal, corporate impression management and inter-organizational project management. The course will be taught largely through in-class simulations to provide an opportunity for experiential learning. The simulations will also allow students to develop a personal style of negotiation by discovering what works best for them in different situations.
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248 Marketing Strategies
Examines process by which organizations develop strategic marketing plans. Includes definition of activities and products, marketing audits, appraising market opportunities, design of new activities and products, and organizing marketing planning function. Applications to problems in private and public sector marketing
Prerequisite: 202A and 204
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250 Technology Competition and Strategy
This course provides you a framework for thinking about technology competition and strategy. More contemporarily, this course is about a business revolution that we are in the middle of, a platform revolution. Platform-enabled marketplaces, and other Internet-based goods and products with digital components and network effects, have stormed at the head of economic activity. Platform-mediated networks produce over half the revenue for over half of the world's 100 largest companies (e.g., Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, American Express, Time Warner). Technology entrepreneurship is commonplace. But this class of goods has very different, almost weird, characteristics, with distinctive economic forces that affect supply (e.g., supply and cost structures), demand (e.g., how value is created) and markets (e.g., industry organization, alliances, and competition). Managing and responding to these forces requires distinctive competitive strategies. Conversely, strategic errors can be devastating. What are these forces? How do they impact market outcomes in technology industries? And how should firms shape their competitive strategy?
Prerequisites: 202A, 203A
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251 Management of Innovation
This course focuses on the management of technology-based innovation. Topics include the impact of new technologies on industries, dominant designs, incremental and transformative innovations, and the life-cycle of products. The class will examine the organization of highly innovative firms, and the relationship of core competencies to both innovation and rigidity. Addresses the relationship of innovation to management practices such as leadership, competitive strategic planning and teamwork by using cases and field studies. Students perform an innovation audit of an area firm.
Prerequisite: 201A
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261 Investment Analysis
Examines models of asset pricing and the actual performance of U.S. and foreign investments, with an emphasis on equity investments. The class will look at the factors affecting stock and bond returns, the success of different investment strategies, and the ability of individual investors and institutional players to "beat the market." Other topics include diversification, market crashes, fixed-income analysis, the organization and performance of mutual funds.
Prerequisite: 203A, 205
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265 Technology Finance and Valuation
This course examines VC finance and the related practice of Research and Development finance. The goal of the course is to apply finance tools and framework to the world of venture capital and financing of projects in high-growth industries.
Prerequisite: 205
Video: MGT265 Technology Finance Course Overview
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267 Managing Teams and Projects
This course teaches the theory and processes of group and team behavior so that you can successfully manage groups and work effectively in a variety of group settings. The first goal of the course is to provide conceptual guidelines for analyzing and diagnosing group dynamics and determining one's strategic options as a manager. The second goal is to understand how technological change affects team processes in organizations. Finally, this course will impart practical interpersonal skills for implementing effective strategies for group situations. The course is intended for students who seek greater understanding of teams and who wish to increase their competence in managing and working effectively in these contexts. - Enrollment Priority given to second year students.
- Prerequisite: 201A The Individual and Group Dynamics
Formally, "Teams and Technology"
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269 Machine Learning with Python
This course introduces popular machine learning methods to address big data problems businesses face. It covers topics in clustering, association rules for market basket analysis, classification, numeric prediction, model evaluation, etc. This course provides an entry point for students to use Python to apply machine learning models to analyze various types of data. This is a very hands-on class. You will be learning Python to process data and perform data mining and machine learning tasks on different types of data. The course is recommended for students interested in understanding the techniques and applications of using data mining and machine learning methods to process data, and also for students who are interested in learning Python from scratch and using it to program and analyze data. After taking this class, the students should be able to understand the data mining process, comprehend several popular machine learning and data mining methods, use Python to apply data mining and machines learning methods on different types of data, and also formulate problems for a given data set.
*This course was previoulsy called, "Data Mining".
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271 Strategic Cost Management
This class examines how firms use organizational design and cost management to achieve a sustainable cost structure as a basis for superior profit performance. A value chain framework is used to explore how firms design and structure business processes for strategic advantage. We start with an overview of how modern product costing systems work and their limitations as a basis for strategic cost management. We then study how firms manage costs during product design and development, production and/or service delivery, and after the sale. Competitive cost structures are increasingly obtained, not through technical efficiencies of a single firm, but through innovative collaboration among firms ---- what has been termed the 'extended enterprise.' Thus more than half of the course examines cost management at the boundaries of the firm --- where the firm interacts with suppliers, strategic alliance partners, customers and society.
Prerequisite: 202A
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272 Financial Statement Analysis
Perform financial statement analysis on publicly traded companies by leveraging accounting data from the SEC and advanced data analytics techniques. Efficiently manage and synthesize vast volumes of data to formulate a distinctive investment thesis concerning the company's prospective financial performance.
Prerequisite: 400A
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276 Real Estate Finance and Development
Focuses on single-family, attached, detached, multi-family, and light commercial development. Studies factors that make up successful real estate developments. Considers the financial aspects of land acquisition, land development, construction, project lending and management. The course will have special lectures on Wetlands and the political process, forces, moratoriums and controls.
Prerequisite: 205 and 201A
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282 Supply Chain Management
Matching supply with demand is a primary challenge for a firm: excess supply is too costly, inadequate supply irritates customers. Matching supply to demand is easiest when a firm has a flexible supply process, but flexibility is generally expensive. In this course we will learn(1) how to assess the appropriate level of supply flexibility for a given industry and (2) explore strategies for economically increasing a firm’s supply flexibility. Lastly we will study coordination and incentives across multiple firms in a supply chain. While tactical models and decisions are part of this course, the emphasis is on the qualitative insights needed by general managers or management consultants.
Prerequisite: 203A
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287 Database Management with SQL
This course aims to provide a practical introduction to the fundamental principles of database management systems. After taking this course, students will be able to transform daily business activities into a database system from which information can be extracted, write SQL queries to extract information from the database, and understand some concepts of database marketing. Students will design and deploy a database solution using database software. A business database will be provided for students to design queries to answer business questions. Students will also learn how to connect databases to a data visualization tool and visualize database query results. The course is designed mainly for students who have no or very limited database background and are eager to learn how to set up his/her own database from scratch, write SQL queries to answer questions. No prerequisite is required for taking this course.
Formally, "Business Database & Database Marketing"
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290 The Business of Politics
This class is for students who want to better understand the relationship between politics and business. Students of this class will be better prepared to understand business as a political actor, the regulation of business by government, business participation in the policy making process, and constraints on business as a political power, among other topics. Students taking this class will hopefully be better prepared to help manage their organization through the policy and political landscape in a manner that is advantageous to their business.
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290 Food and Agriculture Industry Immersion
This industry immersion brings together graduate students from multiple departments and exposes them to significant managerial problems being faced in the food and agriculture industry.
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290 Biotechnology Industry Immersion
This industry immersion brings together graduate students from multiple departments and exposes them to significant managerial problems being faced in the biotechnology industry.
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290 Innovation Finance Industry Immersion
This industry immersion brings together graduate students from multiple departments and exposes them to significant managerial problems being faced by CFOS in the technology industry.
*Formally, "CFO Tech Immersion"
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290 Sustainable Energy Industry Immersion
This industry immersion brings together graduate students from multiple departments and exposes them to significant managerial problems being faced in the energy industry.
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291 The Causes of Organizational Wrongdoing
"The Causes of Organizational Wrongdoing" is motivated by the implicit contradiction between two personal observations. My experience suggests that the overwhelming majority of managers (and management students) aspire to manage in ethical, socially responsible, and law-abiding ways and embrace socially acceptable ideas about the difference between right and wrong. But media reports and academic studies suggest that unethical, socially irresponsible, and illegal behavior is common in organizations. This raises the question, why do otherwise ethical, socially responsible, and law-abiding people become involved in wrongful courses of action. This course will attempt to answer this question by examining classic and recent theories about why people cross the line between right and wrong, focusing more specifically on research that has been conducted on wrongdoing in and of organizations. The hope is that if we can develop a good understanding of organizational wrongdoing, we can reduce the chance that we, those we manage, and those who manage us will engage in wrongful behavior.
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292 Multi Asset Class Portfolio Management
Examines management of alternative investment and multi-asset-class portfolios from a practitioner perspective. Emphasizes drivers of asset class risk / return and the interconnectedness of asset classes. Topics include portfolio concepts, cash equivalents, bonds, stocks, hedge funds, private equity, real estate, credit cycles, financial crises and asset allocation.
Prerequisites: 402A, 403A, 405.
Course Overview: https://clipchamp.com/watch/NO7dY2j4R1l
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293 Consumer Behavior
Consumers and customers (current consumers/customers and prospects) are the focus of all marketing activity. Starting with this simple proposition, this course examines a wide range of behavioral science concepts and their application to marketing situations,the cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses of consumers to products and services, and to the marketing of those products and services. Significant attention will be paid to how B2C consumers and B2B customers make decisions, and how marketers can influence those decisions. Changes in consumer behavior in the internet age will be addressed.
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293 Strategic Branding
This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of branding strategies and implementation.
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297 International Study Trip
This class is designed to help develop knowledge, skills and desire to do business in the international marketplace. Each time, we pick a new part of the world to study that reflects some special opportunity. The course will begin with discussion of importance of international business and theory of Comparative Advantage and the continued trend towards globalization. The class will follow up with appreciation of spectrum of key cultural parameters: individual independence or group conformity; hierarchical or flat societies; feeling or thinking decision-making; implicit or explicit communication styles; legal contracts or personal relationships; etc. We will discuss how these cultural tendencies shape business practices. Next we’ll build an appreciation for international risk by discussing corporate governance, foreign exchange fluctuations, political/economic infrastructure, taxation policies, and sovereign credit ratings. We’ll use case studies to enhance discussion of theories.
Note: Students who have previously taken IST may register for a second time, but they will have the lowest priority in terms of registration. That is, even if you are in your third year in the program, and can register early, if you have taken the course previously, you will be put on the end of the line in terms of registration priority.
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298 Directed Group Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (S/U grading only.)
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298 Seminar: Food & Agriculture
Students will be exposed to the latest technologies and practices being employed in the food/ag industry, develop an understanding of the business context within which companies operate in the food/ag industry and build on the Food/Ag immersion course offered in the Winter quarter.
Prerequisite: 290 Food and Agriculture Industry Immersion, or Permission of instructor.
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298 Pre-Immersion: Food and Agriculture
Students will be exposed to the latest technologies and practices being employed in the food/ag industry, develop an understanding of the business context within which companies operate in the food/ag industry and prepare them for the Food/Ag immersion course offered in the Winter quarter of 2023.
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299 Individual Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (S/U grading only.)
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406A Decision Analytics: Spreadsheet Based
Develops decision-making and problem-solving skills in conjunction with a quantitative model-building approach.
Not open for credit to students who have taken 206V.
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407 Storytelling for Leadership
Internalize the fundamental principles behind stories that educate, influence, motivate, inspire, persuade and connect.
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408V The Business of the Media
Focuses on the media industries and how emerging digital technologies are disrupting the way media consumption, distribution and business models work. Course will highlight the economics of several media- both news and entertainment - including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cable television, motion pictures, video gaming, and social media. The course will include guest speakers from the different media industries studied, highlight innovative start-ups through case studies.
Offered Online. Equivalent to 408
Restricted to students enrolled in MBA program
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412 International Marketing
Understanding basic concepts of international marketing. Understanding and managing heterogeneous, dynamic, and interdependent environments across countries. How to develop and implement an international marketing strategy: where and how to compete how to adapt your marketing mix.
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415V Business Law
Covers the study of the legal environment of business. Subject matter includes an introduction to the American legal system, legal reasoning, contracts, agency, business organizations, and government regulation. Provides students with a basic understanding of the significant legal issues that confront managers and executives.
Online
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417A Collaborative Leadership 1
Part one of a two-part course to empower emerging leaders with the skills necessary to build and guide effective teams, embodying a leadership style that is anchored in shared responsibility and values-based decision-making.
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419 Business Strategy Consulting
In this course, students will learn practical business consulting skills which will help you apply strategy theories in the workplace. You will learn and practice tools to frame and analyze problems, conduct research, communicate findings and navigate client relationships.
Recommended: 201B & 204
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423 Leader as Coach: An Introduction to Coaching Skills for Leaders
This course develops the skills for managers, business leaders and people leaders to coach their people. Leaders who can coach have the ability to motivate and develop their employees by enabling them to develop themselves and unleash their full potential. The course covers fundamental coaching skills and coaching model that leaders can apply to their day-to-day interactions with their team, direct reports, as well as their peers. Occasionally, the coaching skills can also be applied to situations when people need to manage up to more effectively engage with their supervisors.
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432 Project Management with Applications in Healthcare
This course will focus on the heart of healthcare administration and how project management can be applied as a key lever to increase efficiency, decrease costs and improve the patient experience.
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433 Corporate Sustainability
Learn practical information that will help students understand the basics of designing, managing and evaluating an effective CSR program. Expose students to a basic set of CSR issues in the context of cross-purpose business challenges and then focus on the analysis and critical decisions that managers must make to move their business and their social agenda forward. **Note, this is a one unit version of 290-Corporate Social Responsibility**
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435 Data Wrangling
The course will develop practical skills to pre-process data. This tidied raw data can then be used for downstream data analysis, modeling, and visualization.
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436 Introduction to Derivative Securities
The objective of this course is to introduce students to derivative securities and other forms of financial innovations. Various characteristics of futures, options, and other derivative securities markets and how public agencies, businesses, and others use these markets are discussed.
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437 Healthcare Analytics
Introduction to advanced analytics framework, key Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning concepts, and modeling techniques towards solving high-value and high-impact healthcare business problems.
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440S Integrated Management Simulation
Apply theory and concepts from marketing, finance, organizational behavior, accounting, and strategy in order to manage a simulated corporation.
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443 Customer Analytics
Teaches students how to use customer analytics to learn about and market to individual customers. Examines the different types of data analytics and how they fit into the customer relationship management world.
Prereq: 204/404/404V
Formally, "Customer Relationship Management"
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443V Customer Analytics
Teaches students how to use customer analytics to learn about and market to individual customers. Examines the different types of data analytics and how they fit into the customer relationship management world.
Online Course
Prereq: 204/404/404V
Formally, "Customer Relationship Management"
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444 Strategic Branding
This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of branding strategies and implementation.
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450 Practicum for Technology Competition and Strategy
In-depth practicum project course. Apply theories, concepts, and models, learned in MGT 250 to a real-world business problem, through data collection, data analysis, simulation, modeling and post-model interpretation.
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450 Technology Competition & Strategy
This course provides you a framework for thinking about technology competition and strategy. More contemporarily, this course is about a business revolution that we are in the middle of, a platform revolution. Platform-enabled marketplaces, and other Internet-based goods and products with digital components and network effects, have stormed at the head of economic activity. Platform-mediated networks produce over half the revenue for over half of the world's 100 largest companies (e.g., Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, American Express, Time Warner). Technology entrepreneurship is commonplace. But this class of goods has very different, almost weird, characteristics, with distinctive economic forces that affect supply (e.g., supply and cost structures), demand (e.g., how value is created) and markets (e.g., industry organization, alliances, and competition). Managing and responding to these forces requires distinctive competitive strategies. Conversely, strategic errors can be devastating. What are these forces? How do they impact market outcomes in technology industries? And how should firms shape their competitive strategy?
Prerequisites: 402A, 403A
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450V Technology Competition & Strategy
This course provides you a framework for thinking about technology competition and strategy. More contemporarily, this course is about a business revolution that we are in the middle of, a platform revolution. Platform-enabled marketplaces, and other Internet-based goods and products with digital components and network effects, have stormed at the head of economic activity. Platform-mediated networks produce over half the revenue for over half of the world's 100 largest companies (e.g., Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, American Express, Time Warner). Technology entrepreneurship is commonplace. But this class of goods has very different, almost weird, characteristics, with distinctive economic forces that affect supply (e.g., supply and cost structures), demand (e.g., how value is created) and markets (e.g., industry organization, alliances, and competition). Managing and responding to these forces requires distinctive competitive strategies. Conversely, strategic errors can be devastating. What are these forces? How do they impact market outcomes in technology industries? And how should firms shape their competitive strategy?
Prerequisites: 402A, 403A
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450Y Technology Competition & Strategy
This course provides you a framework for thinking about technology competition and strategy. More contemporarily, this course is about a business revolution that we are in the middle of, a platform revolution. Platform-enabled marketplaces, and other Internet-based goods and products with digital components and network effects, have stormed at the head of economic activity. Platform-mediated networks produce over half the revenue for over half of the world's 100 largest companies (e.g., Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, American Express, Time Warner). Technology entrepreneurship is commonplace. But this class of goods has very different, almost weird, characteristics, with distinctive economic forces that affect supply (e.g., supply and cost structures), demand (e.g., how value is created) and markets (e.g., industry organization, alliances, and competition). Managing and responding to these forces requires distinctive competitive strategies. Conversely, strategic errors can be devastating. What are these forces? How do they impact market outcomes in technology industries? And how should firms shape their competitive strategy?
Prerequisites: 402A, 403A
*Hybrid Course
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460A Corporate Finance: Part A
This course will study valuation techniques in applied settings, study a variety of investment decisions, and analyze how capital structure considerations play a role in firm’s investment policies.
Prerequisite: 205 Financial Policy and Theory
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460B Corporate Finance: Part B
Advanced course in corporate finance that builds on 460A, with an aim to extend knowledge of the theory and practice of corporate finance.
Prerequistie: 460A Corporate Finance: Fundamentals
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472 Financial Statement Analysis
Studies how investors, creditors, others use accounting and other information in making rational investment, lending decisions. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of financial information in a variety of contexts. Where applicable, recent research in finance and economics is discussed.
Prerequisite: 400A
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476V Real Estate Finance and Development
Focuses on single-family, attached, detached, multi-family, and light commercial development. Studies factors that make up successful real estate developments. Considers the financial aspects of land acquisition, land development, construction, project lending and management. The course will have special lectures on Wetlands and the political process, forces, moratoriums and controls
Online Course
Prerequisite: 205 and 201A
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490 High Impact Presentations
This course focuses on how to design and deliver presentations that connects to the minds and the hearts of your audience.
Prerequisite: 407 - Storytelling for Leadership
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490 Pre-Immersion: Biotechnology Industry
Biotech Basics will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of cell and molecular biology that underly many biotech innovations currently on the market. In addition, students will explore current trends in bioprocessing, personal genomics, precision agriculture and other biotech-related fields. This course will be designed for students without a deep knowledgebase or technical background in STEM; small group activities and discussions, in addition to lecture material, will help to build familiarity with key biotech terms and concepts.
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490 Business Communication
Strong verbal communication skills are critical to success in business. Business leadership relies on the ability to strategically deliver public speeches, formal presentations and impromptu remarks. Effective leaders regularly practice and receive feedback on their communication. In this seminar style course, each session will provide students with the opportunity to deliver speeches and receive feedback. Students will practice multiple styles of speaking, including speaking in different contexts, and for different audiences.
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490 Careers in Product Management
This course is designed to provide an overview of the roles and responsibilities of the product manager and for related roles such as brand manager and product marketing manager in both non-technology and technology firms.
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490 Introduction to Software Product Management
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of Product Management, focusing on the skills and knowledge required to guide a product from conception to launch and beyond. Students will gain a deep understanding of the product lifecycle, user research, market analysis, product strategy, design, development, launch, and growth. Through interactive group activities, case studies, and lecture content, students will develop the practical skills necessary to excel as product managers in today's dynamic business environment.
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490A Topics in Management (2)
Advanced topics in general management. Various issues and topics covered in the MBA core will be more extensively discussed. Topics include: business writing, management, organizational behavior, business communications, development, and workplace processes.
IN-PERSON RESIDENTIAL COURSE
ONLINE MBA PROGRAM
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490A Executive-in-Residence Seminar
Information Technology in Modern Enterprises. An overview and discussion of the information technology (IT) function in modern enterprises. The important emerging technologies, processes and skills that are needed to drive Digital Transformation in these organizations. Technical roles, skills and careers within IT. Discussion on the role of data and the importance of intelligent workflows, AI and Machine Learning to today’s organizations. Hear from leaders of IT organizations in different industries.
Srini Koushik: https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/profile/srinivas-srini-koushik
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490B Organizational Politics
Organizations are political institutions that use power and influence to make decisions and implement initiatives. While organizational politics is often perceived negatively with many trying their best to avoid it and a few enjoying the political game, in essence we all have to manage an organization’s political environment. This course analyzes the inherent power dimension associated with politics as a means to navigate the subtleties of political situations and diagnose an organization’s political landscape by thinking and acting politically.
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490B Field study: Biotechnology Industry Immersion
Students will visit diagnostics and pharmaceutical biotechnology industries to develop an understanding of the business context within which companies operate and learn about the management and operation of these businesses by interacting with the business leadership team and plant tour.
Prerequisite - 290 Biotechnology Industry Immersion
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490BV Capital Investments and Budgeting
Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis and Capital Budgeting analyze and study how firms capitalize and finance themselves and how to value investments and projects utilizing concepts of expected cash flows, revenues, expenses, cost of capital, leasing, capital markets and more.
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490BV Strategic Change: Organizational Design for Disruption
In the modern economy, market change is rapid as competition becomes fiercer, customers more fickle, and technology a key differentiator across industries – from automobiles to media. To compete, firms must become adept at strategic change: disrupt or be disrupted. The central tenet of this course is that effective strategic change is rooted in having entrepreneurial elements in a firm’s organization design that drives strategy discovery for successful pivots. This course teaches elements of design for strategy discovery and how to incorporate them in established firms. Lessons are uncovered through case-based analysis, hands-on exercises, lecture, video, and theoretical analyses comparing different perspectives. Evaluation is based on course contributions, a memo, and a group presentation applying lessons from the course to a case.
Please note, there is an online MBA course with the same name that covers the same course content.
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490BV Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Marketing
Artificial Intelligence (AI) contributes the greatest value to marketing among all business functions. The course provides a strong understanding of AI tools to empower marketers to enhance their activities to gain competitive advantage.
*Online course
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490BV Financial Institutions and Banking
This course will analyze the role of financial markets and financial institutions in allocating capital.
Prerequisites:400A and 405.
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490V Executive Leadership Seminar
This seminar brings successful corporate leaders to the MBA program to teach important lessons from the frontlines of industry. Executives share their first-hand experiences of the complexities of today's business world, inspiring students to seek new ways to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Online
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490V Applied Data Science for Business Leaders
Data science is transforming companies across industries and fueling unprecedented innovation and the “data science literacy” is becoming critical for business leadership. This course focuses on the applied side of data science in organizations across key business domains and is organized to give students a practical understanding of the WHY (business analytics value proposition), the WHAT (analytics problems in high-value business domains), and the HOW (solution framework for analytics, including artificial intelligence & machine learning). The students will also learn storytelling strategies for pitching business cases. Applying data science in organizations is a “team sport”, so the course will also cover theWHO (key cross-functional stakeholders) in an organizational context. The course will also invite industry leaders to share how leaders are applying data science in their organizations for driving data-driven insights to deliver business outcomes.
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490V The Business of Politics
This class is for students who want to better understand the relationship between politics and business. Students of this class will be better prepared to understand business as a political actor, the regulation of business by government, business participation in the policy making process, and constraints on business as a political power, among other topics. Students taking this class will hopefully be better prepared to help manage their organization through the policy and political landscape in a manner that is advantageous to their business.
*This course is offered online
**Not available for credit for students who have taken MGT/P/B 290 (Business of Politics)
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490V Financial Statement Analysis
Studies how investors, creditors, others use accounting and other information in making rational investment, lending decisions. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of financial information in a variety of contexts. Where applicable, recent research in finance and economics is discussed.
Note: Not open for credit for students who have taken 472V or 272. Online version of 272.
Online course
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491V Re-Thinking Digital
This course emphasizes the need for preparing yourself and your business for the next generation of Digital. It aims to teach the principles involved in re-designing digital value chains.
*Online Course
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491V Fundamentals of Applied AI
This course provides students with a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts and structure of AI applications. We focus on the pillars of the frontier in AI developments so students can navigate any current and future AI application space We take you from basic architectural foundations to agent-based AI ensemble applications, something that most likely becomes applications standard only in 1.5 years from now.
*Online Course
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492V Introduction to FinTech
Covers the evolution of “traditional” finance methods -- namely, the disruptions and innovations that have transformed: (i) how companies and consumers access funds (borrowing); (ii) how new technologies change real estate markets; (iii) how fintech companies changed the payment services; and (iv) how cryptocurrencies challenge traditional fiat money.
Online Course
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499 Directed Individual Study Management Practicum
Provides the opportunity for students to gain experience in applying business methodologies previously acquired in other Graduate School of Management courses. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor; sponsorship of a Graduate School of Management Academic Senate faculty member and approval of graduate advisor.
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