Master of Business Administration
Course Descriptions for the Traditional Calendar Format and 4+1 Format
MBA 540 Management of Information Systems (4 credits)
This course examines the use of information systems and their impact on service business processes. This covers the management of the flow of information and services across the information systems user-producer interface. The course looks at the users of information systems and at the producers of information systems. The course approaches such topics as systems development, assessment of systems performance, and discussion of trends in the corporate application of developing technology from a managerial perspective.
MBA 550 Global Business Issues (4 credits)
This course addresses important issues pertaining to cross-border operations and practices of multinational enterprises as well as trade issues between nation states. Cultural, political, environmental, fair labor practices, regional integration and trade restrictions issues all impinge upon management decisions. The course integrates basic trade theories underpinning multinational business with case studies that illustrate real world applicability of these theories and making them more transparent to the students. It also incorporates the ethical dilemma and the social responsibility concerns faced by multinational corporations in their international operations.
MBA 554 Public Administration (3 credits)
The study of public administration in contemporary United States society with emphasis on the functioning and control of governmental agencies, the nature of bureaucracy, planning, budgeting, and decision making.
MBA 560 Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility (4 credits)
This course includes a systematic overview of normative ethics and a comprehensive discussion of contemporary moral and legal issues in a business context. Ethical problems, presented by case studies, are analyzed and applied to business and public issues. The course is designed to ground students in the fundamental principles of the law that impact the day to day affairs of business and provide a framework for future case analysis and ethical decision-making.
MBA 570 Quantitative Methods and Business Research (4 credits)
This course deals with rational applications to decision making through the study of quantitative models and research methodology. It emphasizes analysis of data, interpretation of model results, and their implications for managerial decisions. Topics include decision analysis, probability relations and distributions, regression models and forecasting, project analysis, queuing, and linear programming.
MBA 600 MBA Practicum (3 credits)
This course offers students a structured learning experience that will include a domestic or international practicum placement with an organization that is relevant to the student’s current career aspirations and/or professional objectives as well as an opportunity for reflection during periodic meetings (face-to-face or virtual). Students will also read and discuss literature that will support their transfer of learning from the applied experience to the classroom. Finally, students will complete a series of written reflection papers designed to fully integrate the learning experience.
MBA 610 Organizational Behavior and Leadership (3 credits)
Over the past decade, managers have come to realize the importance that an understanding of human behavior and leadership plays in determining a manager’s effectiveness. This course focuses on the impact that individuals, groups, and structures have on behavior within an organization. Furthermore, it explores the relationship between these factors and individual and organizational performance. Topical areas include individual differences, group dynamics, organizational processes, organizational change, conflict and negotiation, leadership, culture, and ethics.
MBA 615 Public Policy (3 credits)
This course acquaints students with the underlying structure and dynamics of public policy formulation, implementation and evaluation at the state, local, and federal levels. Drawing on a number of analytic approaches, the course seeks to understand this complex political phenomenon in the context of the institutions that drive it.
MBA 620 Marketing Management (3 credits)
This course focuses on managing the marketing function. The emphasis is on the nature and scope of the marketing manager’s responsibilities and on marketing decision-making. Topics include market and environmental analysis, marketing planning, and the development and management of marketing programs.
MBA 630 Accounting for Managers (3 credits)
An intermediate study of financial and managerial accounting and the importance it has for managers. The course will begin with accounting theory, the conceptual framework and the development of generally accepted accounting principles. The first seven weeks will cover the major topics that involve the asset-side of the balance sheet and its relationship to the income statement. The remaining part of the term will focus on the in-depth study of accounting for internal reporting and decision-making. Topics include cost concepts and behavior, job-order and process costing, allocation of service department costs and joint costs, variable costing, cost estimation, cost-volume-profit analysis, and variance analysis.
MBA 635 Accounting for Government and Nonprofit Organizations (3 credits)
This course provides a complete review of the accounting principles and practices used in Not-for-Profit organizations with a heavy focus on governmental accounting practices. The course also covers accounting principles and practices for hospitals, colleges and universities, health and welfare agencies, and other similar organizations. A logical framework for understanding and solving the accounting-related problems of nonprofit organizations is emphasized.
MBA 640 Managerial Economics (3 credits)
This course is a study of the applications of economic theory and principles to decision making in organizations. The course utilizes concepts from economic theory to ascertain the different dimensions of problems faced by managers and to derive alternative solutions to those problems. It focuses on the interactions that lead to price determination in output and input markets, and how they could be employed by managers to form general strategies that will enhance the value of their respective entities.
MBA 650 Managerial Finance (3 credits)
This course is a study of traditional and contemporary theories of finance as applied to the solution of management problems identified in selected cases. The focus of the applications activity is on policy formulations and decision making under conditions of uncertainty. The course builds upon concepts from financial management and managerial accounting courses. This course offers methods for determining the optimal volume and composition of firm assets, liabilities, and equity. The theories and practices of capital budgeting and financing of assets are emphasized.
MBA 655 Public Budgeting and Finance (3 credits)
This course is designed to acquaint the Learner with the administration and management of public funds for organizations in the public sector. Organizational unites could be at local, state, or federals levels, as well as in the private sector in the form of nonprofit organizations.
MBA 690 MBA Capstone Learning Experience (3 credits)
This course is a capstone, integrative course for graduating MBA students at Ohio Dominican University. This course provides students an opportunity to develop, implement, reflect upon, and present an integrative learning experience aligned with their professional interests. The Capstone learning project will be a collaborative learning experience and will provide students an opportunity to apply cross-disciplinary learning to a significant project.
MBA 690P MBA Capstone Learning Experience (3 credits)
This course is a capstone, integrative course for graduating MBA students at Ohio Dominican University. This course provides students an opportunity to develop, implement, reflect upon, and present an integrative learning experience aligned with their professional interests. The Capstone learning project will be a collaborative learning experience and will provide students an opportunity to apply cross-disciplinary learning to a significant project specifically related to the Public Administration concentration.
