Executive MBA Curriculum

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Scheller's Executive MBA program allows you to tailor your experience by focusing on one of two specializations — Global Business (GB) or Management of Technology (MoT). Through courses, capstone projects, international travel, and more, you’ll cultivate the leadership acumen, tech savvy, and analytical skills to lead.
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Core Courses
Build a strong foundation in business through the following core coursework.
Implications of domestic and foreign legal environments for managerial decision-making.
Understanding current environmental challenges' effect on business and strategies of eco-efficiency, product stewardship, green marketing, and sustainable development.
Business and leadership skills, including teamwork, communications, conflict resolution, and negotiations.
Tools, concepts, and statistical methods to analyze corporate and economic data.
Focuses on understanding and applying ethical decision-making practices in business.
Measuring and reporting the financial performance of the firm, and concepts in cost and managerial accounting.
An introduction to finance. Topics include the time value of money, capital budgeting, risk and return, capital structure, dividend policy, and working capital management.
Basic economic concepts and the ability to apply these concepts to business decision-making and public policy analysis.
Tools and techniques to manage the information technology infrastructure that supports a global organization.
Examines the complex nature of international negotiations in business and how relationships with domestic and foreign governments impact the decision-making process.
Leadership and behavioral concepts to enhance the individual, team, and organizational performance.
Marketing of products and services in international and technological environments.
Conceptual and analytical skills to manage manufacturing, supply chain, and service operations.
Integrating knowledge of the functional areas of a business to understand how firms gain and sustain a competitive advantage in a globally competitive environment.
Management of Technology Courses
In addition to the Executive MBA core courses, Management of Technology (MoT) students must complete the following courses:
Examines key emerging technologies in B2B environments, their development patterns, and the associated impact on industries, industrial competitiveness, and society.
Explores global business issues and strategies through an international residency.
Explores methods to adapt, evolve, or create change for strategic competitive advantage and how organizations structure themselves in order to increase the effectiveness in response to competitive demands.
Participants develop and present a proposal for a new technology-based product or service.
Participants execute the concept developed in MOT Project I, including marketing and financial analysis.
Teaches various methods for raising capital to fund the development and launch of new technology products and services.
Global Business Courses
In addition to the Executive MBA core courses, Global Business (GB) students must complete the following courses:
Explores global business issues and strategies through an international residency.
Examines the position of the U.S. in world markets, various types of international business transactions, and the impact of global economic, political, legal, and cultural forces.
Participants are given a global strategy-related problem faced by a company and collect information regarding the problem.
Participants define the goals that they want to achieve through a solution.
Focuses on the process and technology infrastructure necessary to support international logistics, procurement, and delivery, as well as reaching new customers through electronic channels.
Focuses on foreign exchange transactions, management of exposure, international bond, and equity markets, and international banking.
Examines managing a global workforce through effective employee recruitment, compensation, performance appraisals, and HR processes and systems.
Electives
In addition to the core curriculum and track-specific coursework, Executive MBA students take two elective courses to help customized their academic experience.
Students will take one elective during the summer semester and one during the second fall semester of the program. Examples of electives may include Cybersecurity and Privacy for Executives, Fintech and Global Currencies, Global Product and Brand Management, New Product Strategies, Analysis of Emerging Technologies, and Technology Strategy.