Curriculum - Business Fundamentals

Overview | Business Fundamentals |  Managerial Leadership | Electives | Concentrations

These courses focus on developing analytical tools knowledge that support the rest of the curriculum.

• Essentials of Effective Leadership focuses on increasing a manager's understanding about the nature and dynamics of interpersonal behavior related to organizational performance by providing an introduction to theory and research in the behavioral sciences. Using a combination of case discussions, group activities, and lectures, the primary goal is to offer conceptual frameworks and principles that will improve managerial effectiveness. Topics covered include motivation, social perception, interpersonal influence, communication, group decision making, commitment, and leadership.
• Financial Accounting provides the insight to see through the numbers by developing your understanding of the language of business, how financial statements are prepared, how to interpret financial statements, conduct preliminary financial analyses of the firm, and forecast a firm's financial performance.
• Microeconomics focuses on the basic economic principles of the firm and their relevance in business decisions. The course covers supply and demand and its relation to market behavior followed by economic determinants of individuals' consumption, savings, and labor behavior.
• Statistics provides a comprehensive treatment of basic statistical concepts and analytical tools for data-driven decision makers. Topics covered include time series, categorical data, random variables and their distributions, variability, and regression models. Priority is given to understanding the concepts and their relevance to business.
• Macroeconomics analyzes both short-run fluctuations and long-run growth of the aggregate economy. Topics include booms and recessions, inflation and unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, budget and trade deficits, interest and exchange rates, and the productivity slowdown.
• Corporate Finance for Executives focuses on the interactions between financial structures and the value of the underlying real assets. After a short introduction to capital budgeting and valuation methods, the course focuses on the process of capital structure decisions. Recent theories in corporate finance are illustrated through a series of examples and cases. Special emphasis is placed on the ways in which financing affects the incentive structure of financial claimants.

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