Juris Doctorate/Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA) Degree Program
For law courses, refer to the Juris Doctor Program
MBA 101 Managing Organizations & People 4 units
Course Description
Introduces students to concepts, models and frameworks to help them become better acquainted
with the organizations they work for, the teams they work in, the people they work with, and
their own personal development. The course focuses on five main areas of study: developing as a
manager, working well within groups, developing effective organizations, assessing the external
environment in which organizations operate, and initiating change within organizations. Tying
all of these elements together, the course devotes particular attention to the traits, skills and
behaviors that are indicative of good leadership. It also explores how organizations and managers
can be transformed for better alignment with the business demands of the future.
MBA 102 Financial Reporting and Control 4 units
Course Description
Introduces accounting and an examination of how it helps in decision-making. Financial
accounting (information needs of stockholders, creditors, and analysts) and managerial
accounting (information needs of managers) are stressed equally. Topics covered include:
income statement and balance sheet format, purposes, and limitations, statement of cash flows,
analysis of financial statements, cost behavior, use of relevant costs in decision-making,
budgeting, and divisional performance measurement. Course includes lectures, exams, and a
group project.
MBA 103 Data Analysis for Managerial Decision Making 4 units
Course Description
Managers deal with a large amount of information in quantitative form. Effective managers must
understand the conditions under which quantitative techniques may be appropriately applied for
decision-making. In this course, students develop skills in using the computer to examine and
report data Focus is on supporting decisions through: deriving meaning from particular data sets,
use of statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression/correlation analysis.
MBA 104 Marketing Management 4 units
Course Description
Builds an in-depth understanding of basic marketing concepts and applies those concepts to a
variety of management situations, including non-profit and public sector settings. The course
provides working knowledge of the tools of marketing (product policy, pricing, distribution,
promotion, consumer behavior), and the ways in which these tools can be usefully employed.
The course also builds practical skills in analyzing marketing problems and opportunities and in
developing marketing programs.
MBA 105 Financial Management 4 units
Course Description
This course examines three sets of issues: saving and investing decisions by households,
investment and financing decisions by corporations, role of securities markets and financial
intermediaries in the economy. Decisions today affect the timing and uncertainty of future flows
of income; both timing and risk determine the current value of those future flows. This course
develops the tools required to analyze these decisions and their interaction within the financial
system.
MBA 106 Economics and Management Decisions 4 units
Course Description
Presents many of the decision problems managers face and the economic analysis they need to
guide these decisions. In the first half of the course, microeconomic tools are used to structure
complicated decision problems about strategic subjects, such as production, pricing, and
investment. Some of these decisions take place in uncertain environments, and the class
addresses this uncertainty by making probabilistic forecasts and sequential decisions. Since most
decisions depend on the structure of the industry in which a company operates, an additional goal
is to distinguish different market structures and apply competitive strategies using game theory.
In the second half of the course, the focus shifts to the study of the national and global economic
environments within which companies operate. The class identifies the drivers of fluctuations in
key features of the economies, such as gross domestic product, inflation, interest rates, exchange
rates. Students analyze and share economic developments in particular countries. Since
governments play key roles in determining the fate of economies and companies, the final theme
is the rationale for and efficacy of government policy tools.
MBA 107 Competition, Innovation and Strategy 4 units
Course Description
This course draws on findings from a number of academic disciplines, especially economics,
organization theory, and sociology, to build a fundamental understanding of how and why some
f m s achieve and sustain superior performance. Successful strategy design and implementation
require marketing, finance, and other areas. The course is designed to develop this integrative
view of the firm and its environment, along with appropriate analytical skills. Global
management is an important additional theme of the course: while many of the cases are US-
based companies, students will be challenged to extend the conceptual framework to encompass
global businesses and to apply any lessons learned to international contexts.
MBA 108 Creating Value through Operations and Technology 4 units
Course Description
This course is case-oriented and is focused on topics of use to managers in any environment:
process analysis, process improvement, and strategic operations decision-making. The course
emphasizes the importance of effectiveness and efficiency and evaluates the potential trade-offs
between them.
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