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Accelerated MBA Course Descriptions
EC580 Managerial Economics
Students will apply the principles of economics to managerial decision making. Topics will include: interest rates, inflation, international trade, business cycles and supply and demand. Case studies will be used to demonstrate the impact of pricing policies, and the relationship between market structure and strategy.
BA500 Legal Environment of Business
This course examines the legal and regulatory environment of business, and managerial decision making within the context of laws, regulations, and court decisions. Focus is on analysis of the legal system, including contracts, agencies, governmental regulations, torts, corporate and other types of business entities.
BK500 Managerial Marketing
Students will use a managerial approach to solving advanced topics in marketing with a heavy emphasis on case analysis. Students will use research data to make strategic marketing recommendations. Topics will include: market analysis, strategic planning, and implementation of marketing strategy.
BA505 Statistics for Managerial Decision Making
This course provides students with analytical tools and methodologies useful in management. The emphasis is on the use of data for modeling and solving problems in the areas of marketing, finance, human resources, and operations. Topics covered include data analysis and modeling, simple and multiple regression, nonparametric statistics, and statistical quality control.
BN510 Operations Management
This course focuses on managerial issues in manufacturing including project management, PERT, critical path analysis, and time-cost models. The major operations management issues are quality management and control, capacity management, plant location, layout and design, production planning and scheduling, supply chain management, and inventory management.
(Prerequisite: Statistics for Managerial Decision Making)
BN500 Organizational Effectiveness
This course introduces students to the basic principles of human behavior and how these principles apply to the management of individuals and groups in organizations. Topics include: individual differences in abilities and attitudes, attribution, motivation, group dynamics, power and politics, leadership, conflict resolution, organizational culture, and organizational structure and design.BC500 Corporate Financial Reporting
This course will be taught from a financial statement user’s perspective, as opposed to a preparer’s perspective. Students will learn to read, interpret and analyze the information contained in the financial statements of public companies, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, to aid in effective management decision making.
BC600 Managerial Finance
Major ideas in finance and methods of financial analysis are discussed and applied. Topics include capital structure, dividend policy, valuation of stocks and bonds, capital budgeting, risk assessment, interest rate analysis, and investment theory. (Prerequisite: Corporate Financial Reporting)
BA515 Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility
This course will explore how values shape individual ethical behaviors, and how these behaviors influence leadership and decision making. The course will provide practical knowledge and tools needed to effectively manage the everyday ethical issues that can arise in business. Students will discuss how legal, philosophical, and corporate practices influence ethical behavior for individuals and companies. Students examine how social, environmental, and stakeholder responsibilities, as well as different values, impact ethical behavior in companies. (Prerequisite: Legal Environment of Business)BA510 The Global Business Environment
This course will explore global issues facing businesses using a multi-disciplinary approach. Instructors from a variety of fields such as: economics. political science, philosophy, natural science, religion and sociology will team together to assist students in understanding how business responds to a changing global environment.BN600 Strategic Human Resource Management
Global competition combined with the transition to a knowledge-based economy requires organizations to take an integrated, strategic approach to preparing a workforce that can meet the business demands of the future. This course focuses on the history and changes in human resources, understanding business strategies and devising HR practices to support them, identifying how organizations gain sustainable competitive advantage through effective human resource strategies, and how workforce diversity and globalization is capable of enhancing an organization’s human talent to drive successful business results. Particular focus will be given to measuring human resource outcomes and the integration with overall business strategy.
BA600 Business Policy Capstone
This course will be the last course completed in the Mount Mercy MBA program. Students will develop a comprehensive case project which demonstrates strategic planning, policy formulation, and effective organizational implementation strategy. This final project will involve a real client, either an area business or non-profit organization, and teams will present the results to the client leadership team. (Prerequisite: All other courses)
For more information on the Master Degree in Business*, please contact:
Tom Castle, Dean of the Institute
Sam Walton Fellow, SIFE
Mount Mercy College
1330 Elmhurst Drive NE
Cedar Rapids IA 52402
319-363-1323 x 1843
tom@mtmercy.edu* Initial course offerings Spring, 2008; full program approval pending Higher Learning Commission and Iowa Department of Education review.
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