Students planning to attend professional graduate programs (like medicine or law) or students considering opening or expanding a small business after graduation may want to consider the General Management concentration. All other students should complete one of the other concentrations. Recruiters continually tell us that they want students to graduate with a broad understanding of business and a thorough understanding of at least one area of business.
The General Management concentration does not provide the depth in one concentration that most employers seek. This is why it is best for students who do not plan to practice business immediately (like those continuing on to medical or law school) or those who will immediately open or expand a business after graduation. Students must earn at least a grade of “C” in all courses for a concentration.
In order to satisfy the requirements for the General Management concentration, students finish all Management core classes and complete 18 credits (six courses) of advanced management coursework in the following fashion:
1. Complete five courses from five different clusters listed below.
2. Complete one course from any cluster. This last course can be from one of the clusters in which one of the first five courses was completed.
Accounting Cluster |
MGT 4010 - Business Taxation MGT 4015 - Advanced Managerial Accounting MGT 4026 - Financial Reporting and Analysis I MGT 4027 - Financial Reporting and Analysis II MGT 4028 - Financial Analysis and Reporting of Technology Firms MGT 4030 - International Accounting MGT 4041 - Auditing and Financial Control Systems MGT 4043 - Advanced Financial Reporting (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Advanced Financial Reporting. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4045 - Seminar in Advanced Accounting MGT 4047 - Ethics and Accounting (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Accounting Ethics. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4910 - (Special Problems) taught by a COB Accounting faculty member. |
Business Ethics and Law Cluster |
MGT 3605 - Principles of Commercial Law (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Principles of Commercial Law. No credit allowed for both) MGT 3607 - Business Ethics (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Business Orgs and Managers. No credit allowed for both) MGT 3608 - Technology Law and Ethics (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Technology Law and Ethics. No credit allowed for both) MGT 3609 - Legal Aspects of Real Estate (previously taught as MGT 4803- Legal Aspects of Real Estate. No credit allowed for both) MGT 3614 - Law for Entrepreneurs MGT 4803 - Business & Government Regulation MGT 4803 - Corporate Governance MGT 4803 - Employment, Benefits, and Compensation Law MGT 4803 - Foundations of Internet Policy and Governance MGT 4803 - Information Security Strategies & Policies MGT 4803 - Legal Aspects of Managing Intellectual Property MGT 4803 - Legal Issues in Sports Management MGT 4803 - Privacy, Technology, Policy and Law |
Finance Cluster |
MGT 3075 - Security Valuation MGT 3076 - Investments MGT 3079 - Management of Financial Institutions MGT 3082 - Fundamentals of Real Estate Development (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Fundamentals of Real Estate Development. No credit allowed for both) MGT 3084 - Derivative Securities MGT 4066 - Corporate Restructuring MGT 4067 - Financial Markets and Structures MGT 4068 - Fixed Income (Previously taught as MGT 4803 - Fixed Income Securities. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4070 - International Finance MGT 4072 - Entrepreneurial Finance |
Information Technology Management Cluster |
MGT 3743 - Emerging Technologies MGT 3745 - Business Programming (previously taught as MGT 4803 through Fall 2014) MGT 4050 - Business Analytics (previously taught as MGT 4803 through Fall 2014) MGT 4052 – Systems Analysis and Design MGT 4053 – Business Data Communications MGT 4056 – Electronic Commerce MGT 4057 – Business Process Analysis and Design MGT 4058 – Database Management MGT 4803 – Project Management |
Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship Cluster |
MGT 4192 - IMPACT Forum or MGT 4191 Entrepreneurship Forum (both cannot count for concentration) MGT 4193 - Servant Leadership, Values, & Systems MGT 4194 - Social Entrepreneurship (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4610 - Law, Management, & Economics (only if completed summer 2011 due to special content added that term for the Budapest Progam) MGT 4670 - Entrepreneurship |
Leading and Managing Human Capital Cluster |
MGT 3103 - Leading in Changing Business Environments MGT 3607 - Business Ethics (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Business Orgs and Managers. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4102 - Management Consulting (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Consulting. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4106 - Teams in Organizations (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Teamwork in Organizations. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4116 - The Role of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in U.S. and Global Organizations (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Gender and Ethnicity in US and Global Organizations. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4803 - Cross-Cultural Management MGT 4803 - Innovation and Entrepreneurial Behavior MGT 4803 - International Human Resources MGT 4803 - Leadership: Managing Work Relationships (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Fairness and Leadership: Building High Trust Cultures. No credit allowed for both MGT 4803 - Leadership: Managing Work Relationships and MGT 4803 - Fairness and Leadership: Building High Trust Cultures) MGT 4803 - Motivation and Rewards MGT 4803 - Strategic Management of Human Assets |
Marketing Cluster |
MGT 3310 - Marketing Research: Design and Analysis MGT 4303 - Personal Selling MGT 4304 - Strategic Brand Management MGT 4308 - Advertising and Promotions/Integrated Marketing Communications (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Advertising and Promotions. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4309 - Services Marketing MGT 4311 - Digital Marketing (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Digital Marketing. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4331 - Consumer Behavior MGT 4332 - Database & Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Strategy (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Database & CRM. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4335 - International Marketing MGT 4803 - Marketing Analysis MGT 4803 - Sales Management MGT 4910 - Special Problems/Independent Research offered by COB Marketing Faculty |
Operations and Supply Chain Management Cluster |
MGT 3510 - Management of Technology MGT 3744 - Collaborative Product Development MGT 4352 - Operations Resource Planning MGT 4353 - Operations Strategy MGT 4360 - Global Operations and Supply Chain Management MGT 4366 - Service Operations MGT 4401- Supply Chain Modeling (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Supply Chain Modeling. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4803 - Management of Healthcare Operations MGT 4803 - Revenue Analytics |
Strategy Cluster |
MGT 3661 - Advanced Concepts in International Business MGT 3662 - Management in the Healthcare Sector (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Management in the Healthcare Sector. No credit allowed for both) MGT 3663 - Technology Strategy (previously taught as MGT 4803 - Technology Strategy. No credit allowed for both) MGT 4803 - Behavioral Economics MGT 4803 - Business Forecasting MGT 4803 - Game Theory for Managers MGT 4803 - Global Business Strategy MGT 4803 - Intellectual Property Strategy MGT 4803 - Managerial Economics MGT 4803 - New Venture Strategy MGT 4803 - Strategic Entrepreneurship |