*Plan of Study subject to change.

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Please also see our academic calendar.

*Plan of Study subject to change.

Today's business environment forces executives to use every tool at their disposal to create and maintain an effective and adaptable organization. A major source of effectiveness and adaptability is the way in which the company's efforts are organized—its systems, structures, management process, rewards, and strategies.

The primary job of senior management today is to design, build, and operate organizations that function effectively. What this means is that the organization is in a constant state of change. Understanding the change process is vital. Knowing the roadblocks to effective change is very important. The role of the manager as a change agent becomes critical. Often the problems arise not from the change itself, but the process of making the change. Individuals resist change. It is a natural phenomenon. How and why this change manifests itself is a central issue in this course. Developing the skills to move through the change process not knowing what roadblocks one might encounter is becoming incredibly valuable.

Organizations must devise and effectively execute business strategies that are intended to attract, hire, develop, retain, motivate, and evaluate employees in order to achieve organizational objectives. Managing Human Resources in a Global Environment will introduce you to key issues, practices, and principles that help organizations to manage their human resources effectively. This course also emphasizes the practice of human resource management in a global marketplace.

In this course, we enhance the your statistical and mathematical modeling skills covering the following topics:

• Probabilistic decision-making
• Regression analysis
• Forecasting
• Simulation with @@RISK
• Optimization modeling with the EXCEL Solver
• Making decisions when multiple objectives are involved
• Using neural networks to improve forecasting

Applications from all major functional areas will be discussed.

In this course, you will gain a user-oriented understanding of how accounting information should be managed to ensure its availability on a timely and relevant basis for decision-making. The first part of the course reviews financial accounting and reporting while the second part of the course focuses on cost-benefit analysis for evaluating the potential value-added results from planning, organizing, and controlling a firm’s accounting information. The use of cases, forum discussions and computer support is used extensively.

In this course, you’ll study information systems management issues, including:

• Enterprise support applications
• Systems acquisition and implementation practices
• Facilitating end-user support and telework and e-business opportunities

Coursework will include readings, case analysis, and one team project.

In this course, you’ll learn about:

• Economic decision making in the business firm
• The strategic interaction of business firms in industries
• The purchasing and behavior of individual consumers and consumers as a group
• The influence of public policy on market outcomes

You’ll also develop:

• A fluency with the language of economics and a strong 'economic intuition'
• An understanding of selected economics-based decision-making tools and the impact and interaction of the structure of an industry on competition
• The skills to analyze intra-industry rivalry
• An improved understanding of public policy issues

There will be an emphasis on the logical foundations of economic analysis and managerial decision making to promote the understanding and application of various quantitative measures.

In this course, you’ll learn about:

• Develop a working knowledge of the tools and analytical conventions used in the practice of corporate finance
• Establish an understanding of the basic elements of financial theory to be used in application of analytical reasoning to business problems
• Explore the interrelationship among corporate policies and decisions

Your coursework will include problem sets, study group preparation of executive summary memos and critiques, and the use of PC spreadsheets to develop a planning model for a case focusing on funds requirement.

The objective of this course is to provide you with a basic knowledge of the American legal system, the legal process, and relevant substantive law which is necessary to making informed and effective business decisions.

The law develops and evolves in response to changing social, economic, political, and technological forces, and business decisions often carry long-lasting as well as delayed effects.

We will focus on the study of the law of torts, contracts, and product liability. Understanding these legal principles will give prospective managers insight into the dynamics of the legal process to enable them to predict as soundly as possible the future legal environment in which their present decisions will bear fruit.

In this course you will be introduced to strategic management and planning, and asked to develop and execute a business strategy in a business simulation.

The online MBA at Kelley asks you to develop a wide variety of skills and competencies in management; developing and executing a business plan is only one of these skills. This course should be viewed as in introduction to many issues that you will address again from different perspectives throughout the remainder of the MBA program.

This course takes a macroeconomist's lens to the United States economy in a global context. After taking this course, you will better understand the U.S. and other industrial countries' economic performances, including the terminology and theories that are used to document and explain their long-term trends and cyclical ups and downs. That is, you should be able to better understand and evaluate articles you read in business periodicals like the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Economist, and the Financial Times.

This course offers an introduction to tools for strategic management. It provides an introductory review of the complexities involved in determining long-term strategies. Rather than assessing a firm's environment in terms of broadly defined opportunities and threats, you will:

• Examine the dynamics of the competitive environment
• Learn how both the pace and direction of industry change are influenced by the resources, capabilities, and competitive interaction of rivals

The course uses discussion forums, team projects, and an interactive simulation.

Here’s your introduction to the process of creating a market-driven organization. Specific course topics will include marketing strategy, market research and analysis, and the development of products and services, pricing, distribution and promotion. The course employs lectures, classroom discussion through threaded discussion forums, case analysis, and field research projects.

In this course, you’ll survey the management of operations in manufacturing and service firms. Students will work through diverse activities, such as:

• Determining the size and type of production process
• Purchasing the appropriate raw materials
• Planning and scheduling the flow of materials and the nature and content of inventories
• Assuring product quality
• Deciding on production hardware and how it gets used

You’ll also learn that managing operations will require both strategic and tactical skills. The topics considered include:

• Process analysis
• Workforce issues
• Materials management
• Quality and productivity
• Technology
• Strategic planning

The course makes considerable use of business cases. Most classes will be spent discussing the cases assigned. For each case, students will be asked to review actual company situations and apply technical and managerial skills to recommending courses of action. Most cases will be taken from manufacturing, but some will be service-oriented. Several of the cases will focus on international companies or challenges.

The Kelley Capstone Experience is an innovative course designed to enhance a student’s talent in leadership, team dynamics, consulting, and entrepreneurship. Experience in project scoping, data collection, and solutions delivery hones management skills that serve a student well in his or her career. Learning occurs through research and writing, lectures, team meetings, faculty coaching sessions, and presentations.

At its core, this course centers on “experiential learning” rather than on exploring the concept of strategy. That is, this is a course where you learn primarily by what you experience rather than what you read.