The Ohio Dominican University MBA Program is designed to provide the knowledge and capabilities necessary for graduates to excel in a workplace increasingly marked by globalization, hyper-competition, increasing technological capability, and rapid change. Graduates will possess solid foundational skills, functional business knowledge, and the capacity to apply all that they have learned to real-world challenges, problems, and projects. Particular emphasis is placed on the student’s capacity to reflect creatively, choose strategically, and lead ethically.
BUS 510 Graduate Learning Strategies - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and capabilities to effectively engage the challenges of the MBA Program. In this regard, students will explore resources and actively practice skills related to writing, public speaking, use of computer software, research, effective teamwork, and conflict resolution. Additionally, students will complete an individual strengths assessment instrument and build a Personal Development Plan that will be revisited in the final course of the program.
BUS 564 Business Ethics - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course includes a systematic overview of normative ethics and a comprehensive discussion of contemporary moral issues in a business context. Ethical problems, presented by case studies, are analyzed and applied to business and public issues. The integration of personal vocation, institutional purpose, and managerial theory and practice, in light of the Christian social tradition, and in particular the Catholic social tradition, will be addressed.
BUS 570 Quantitative Business Analysis - 4 Credits (8 Weeks)
This course develops the student’s understanding of the quantitative techniques useful in management decision making. The focus is on the collection, interpretation, and reporting of data for decision making. The concepts covered include probability distributions, decision analysis, regression analysis and forecasting, linear programming, waiting line models, sensitivity analysis, and project management.
BUS 563 Business Law - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course will provide students with the fundamental principles of the law that impact the day to day affairs of business. Topics to be discussed include the nature and function of the law, contracts and commercial law, employment law, consumer law, and the regulation of government agencies . Emphasis is placed on the legal process as it affects and shapes the business environment.
BUS 630 Case Studies in Accounting - 4 Credits (9 weeks)
This course is a study of advanced managerial accounting and finance. The emphasis is on providing an understanding of the finance function for managers. Topics include preparation and interpretation of financial statements, cost-volume-profit analysis, bond and stock valuation, cost of capital, capital budgeting methods, and working capital management. Ethical standards for accounting professionals are emphasized and supported through extensive use of case studies.
BUS 640 Managerial Economics - 4 Credits (8 weeks)
This course introduces different methods of analyzing and presenting economic information relevant to policy formulation and the development of general strategies, with an emphasis on applicable economic principles for business practice in the service sector. Theoretical issues on demand, supply, product-market structures, and factor-market structures will be covered, although practical issues will dominate the course.
BUS 620 Strategic Marketing Management - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course examines the concepts and skills that are fundamental to understanding the customer and to building a customer-focused organization. Attention is given to the organizational strategies used to market goods and services which includes, but is not limited to, product strategies, pricing issues, distribution channels, and promotional strategies. Borrowing from the behavioral sciences, a variety of frameworks and tools are presented to provide a foundation for conducting customer analyses. The course provides students with a sophisticated yet practical understanding of the buying behavior issues that drive business success. The course also examines tools and skills to help students understand how to measure customer satisfaction and loyalty and appreciate the management of marketing practices.
BUS 650 Managerial Finance - 4 Credits (9 weeks)
This course is a study of traditional and contemporary theories of finance as applied to the solution of management problems identified in selected cases. The focus of the applications activities is on policy formulations and decision making under conditions of uncertainty. The course builds upon concepts from the financial management and managerial accounting courses. This course offers methods for determining the optimal volume and composition of firm assets, liabilities, and equity. The theories and practices of capital budgeting and financing of assets are emphasized.
BUS 545 Strategic Management of Technology and Information - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course focuses on the use of technology as a tool in the service of the organizational mission and strategy. It explores the role of technology in empowering the capture and dissemination of strategically important information and a variety of other uses in support of strategic implementation and the acquisition of competitive advantage.
BUS 660 Global Business Issues - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course provides information which describes the institutions and operation of international businesses. Its purpose is to study transactions taking place across national borders to satisfy the needs of foreign consumers, private organizations, and government agencies. Transactions consist of direct and indirect investments between friendly countries. The focus of international business is on the activities of large multinational corporations that account for the majority of global trade and are headquartered in various countries. A careful study of the selected cases will provide business students and persons working in international areas with some of the additional tools required for understanding, appreciating, and implementing business strategies.
BUS 690 Business Policy and Strategy - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course is an integration of the knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses in the MBA Program. The course is designed to illustrate development, implementation, and reformulation of business strategy. The course also stresses the need for, awareness of, and accommodation of changes in a company’s internal and external environments. Through the case study /analysis method, students will practice various strategic planning and policy-making decisions for businesses in the service industries.
BUS 725 Leadership and Change Management - 3 Credits (6 weeks)
This course focuses on an exploration of the models, perspectives, competencies, and tools related to providing leadership in changing environments and influencing organizational change. This course is also the capstone course in the MBA Program and will revisit and revise the Personal Development Plan crafted in the first course . Students will complete the Professional Portfolio which was initiated at the beginning of the program.
