analysis, efficient capital markets, behavioral finance, financial securities and markets, security analysis and valuation, investment strategies, debt and equity portfolio management, mutual funds, asset allocation, and taxes. Prerequisite: FIN 530. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
FIN 575: Behavioral Finance. The study of the alternative financial and investment research into cognitive biases, heuristics, emotions, crowd behavior, and stock market psychology. The course investigates the applications of these concepts and provides approaches in which corporate managers and investors advance their intuitive and analytical decision making skills. Prerequisite: FIN 530 or Consent of Instructor. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
MGT 533: Strategic Human Resource Management. Examines the design and alignment of HR architecture with the firm's business-model. Topics include: operational competencies, human capital development, employment relationships, employee mobility, compensation, work groups, knowledge workers, and inter-firm learning. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
MGT 555: Operations Management. Study of management decision making in production and operations. Quantitative techniques are utilized to promote an organization’s competitive advantage. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
MGT 560: Human Behavior in Organizations. An analysis of the behavior of persons in organizational settings, including personality, values, motivation, leadership, authority and performance in groups, and informal groups. This course explores how the alignment of these variables with strategic goals promotes an organization's competitive advantage. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
MGT 565 Entrepreneurship. A study of the strategic role of the entrepreneurial process and resulting innovations, based on challenges and opportunities. This course examines how an entrepreneur achieves competitive advantage in the global marketplace. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
MGT 590: Strategic Management. Study of long-term management tasks of strategy formulation and implementation for an organization’s competitive advantage. Topics include environmental analysis, strategy development, implementation, evaluation, and organization governance. Should be taken in the final semester of the MBA program. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
MGT 601: Contemporary Topics in Management. An exploration of contemporary topics in business management. May be repeated for credit for different topics. Examples of topics include e-commerce, lean manufacturing, service operations, global