Curriculum

6211 | Financial Accounting
Basic concepts and methods used in financial reporting for understanding their content, context, and related processes. Income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Detailed accounting procedures, calculations, and choices. (3 credits)

6213 | Accounting for Internal Decision Making
Effective use of internal generation, communication and interpretation of information for both operational and strategic decision-making purposes. Restricted to students in the MBA program. (1.5 credits)

6224 | Decision Making and Data Analysis
Elements of decision making that enable managers to characterize their strengths, assess the competition, and forecast the future. Deterministic and probabilistic decision models. Analytical approaches involving uncertainty, multiple objectives, and multiple stakeholders. Probability concepts are used to develop and apply statistical models, with both exploratory and inferential statistical techniques used, including sampling, estimation, and hypothesis testing. (3 credits)

6223 | Operations Management
Concepts and techniques related to manufacturing and service operations. Process mapping, capacity analysis, production control, quality management, and supply chains. Integration of operations with a firm’s overall business strategy as a powerful competitive weapon. (1.5 credits)

6235 | Finance
Financial management examined through financial analyses, fund sources, investing, capital planning/budgeting, dividend policy, and working capital management. Money and capital markets, primary and secondary markets, and cash and futures markets. (3 credits)

6242 | Microeconomics for the World Economy
The economics of supply and demand in product markets. Theory of the firm (production and cost structure) and its competitive environment (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition). (1.5 credits)

6240 | Competition in the Global Economy
Analysis of political risk using insights from practice and political science. Introduces international macroeconomics, geopolitics, frameworks for analyzing firm-level investment, and trade decisions. Overview of the global business environment. (3 credits)

6250 | Technology for Business in D.C.
Real-world applications and management of technology such as business-IT alignment, digital transformation, strategic IT, cloud outsourcing, digital platform strategy and big data analytics. Students work on projects from DC metro area organization. (1.5 credits)

6263 | Organizations and Human Capital
Formal and informal organizational dynamics related to leading and managing human capital. Motivation and compensation, managing diversity, power and employee relations, organizational culture and change, leadership and decision making, and staffing and performance management. Restricted to MBA students. (3 credits)

6274 | Marketing
Marketing as an organizational function creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers, while managing customer relationships in ways that benefit both the organization and its stakeholders. Formulation and implementation of the elements of marketing strategy through the application of concepts of marketing, analytic perspectives, and decision tools. (3 credits)

6289 | Business Ethics and Public Policy
Political, legal, social, economic, and ethical forces acting upon business. Interaction of the market system and public policy process in the development of law and regulation. (3 credits)

6288 | Strategic Management
An integrative approach to strategic management; general manager’s perspective, strategy formulation, implementation of strategy and policy, and evaluation and control of strategy in various types of organizations. (3 credits)