Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Entrepreneurship and Venture Strategy
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the entrepreneurial process from idea generation through venture launch and later growth. Students will work through the entrepreneurial process of identifying and obtaining the necessary resources to launch an entrepreneurial venture through the development of a business plan. Case studies will develop a student’s ability to assess the attractiveness of a new venture, anticipate the problems likely to be encountered as the business evolves, and plan for organizational scalability.

Entrepreneurial Finance
This course will explore the development of financial and business skills to identify, evaluate, start, and manage new ventures. This includes a survey of private equity from several perspectives, beginning with the entrepreneur/issuer, moving to private equity–venture capital and leveraged buyout–partnerships, and investors in private equity partnerships. This approach will focus on tools and techniques for creating, growing, and leading successful ventures by addressing the marketing and sales challenges involved in formulating and sustaining a marketplace competitive advantage.

Entrepreneurial Alternatives
This course will examine paths of entrepreneurship outside of high-growth, new venture creation. In particular, the course will focus on tactical elements of business acquisition and franchise purchase, including target evaluation, financial analysis of targets, business valuation, deal structuring, financing of purchases, and post-purchase operations and integration. In addition to its focus on business acquisition and franchise purchase, this course will explore other alternative entrepreneurial paths including corporate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in broad sectors of the economy including retail (both traditional and online), health care, telecommunications, consumer services, and businesses enhanced by the internet.

Project Design Management: Entrepreneurship
Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is an integration of process management processes in scope, time, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

Capstone Project: Entrepreneurship
Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with or research an organization, profit or nonprofit, to develop actionable business solutions.

Leadership and Quality Improvement in Healthcare
This course emphasizes the importance of ethical leadership in addressing improvement in quality in the healthcare system. The role of a leader in negotiation and influencing, building teams, implementing change, and creating learning organizations within the healthcare workplace are topics in this course. Readings in quality improvement, ethical leadership, and healthcare and case studies are a part of this course.

Healthcare Law & Regulation
This course emphasizes the legal landscape and the continued regulation needed to maintain a quality healthcare system. Analysis of laws and their impact on policy are addressed. Case studies, readings, and research are included in this course.

Healthcare Strategy & Policy
The focus of this course will be on healthcare’s role in the marketplace and the organizational strategic designs necessary for delivering healthcare value to consumers. Topics include healthcare economics, creating consumer value, domestic and global competition, and organizational sustainability.

Project Design Management: Healthcare Management
Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is an integration of process management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

Capstone Project: Healthcare Management
Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with or research an organization, profit or nonprofit, to develop actionable business solutions.

Talent & Performance Management
This course has a comprehensive approach to using specific human resource planning components to properly onboard and retain employees for a lifecycle of work. Topics include forecasting, recruitment, selection, job analysis, training, and career development models, performance appraisal options, compensation administration, retention, and separation/retirement strategies. Human resource development tools are addressed for their impact on increasing overall organizational effectiveness. Case studies and practical application culminate in definitive and useful organizational plans and practices for implementation.

Compensation Management
This course addresses the impact of compensation on human motivation and the necessity for compensation planning in establishing salaries and wages. Case studies and practical application culminate in definitive and useful organizational plans and practices for implementation.

Employee & Labor Relations
This course addresses the importance of understanding employee behavior within organizational work, employee relationships in the context of diversity, employee and management interactions, and labor relation methods and practices. Case studies and a labor simulation will be included in this course.

Project Design Management: Human Resources
Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is an integration of process management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

Capstone Project: Human Resource Management
Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with or research an organization, profit or nonprofit, to develop actionable business solutions.

Leadership Communication
This course develops the student’s leadership abilities in a variety of business communications, including public speaking, presentation, and oral and written communication.

Leadership & Team Building
This course focuses on developing the skills needed to successfully create and lead teams in organizations. Skills examined and practiced in this course include team building, conflict management, decision making, and strategic thinking.

Organizational Leadership
Students explore organizational theories related to structure and leadership, team dynamics and communication, and change management. Topics include pluralist contexts; conflict management; power, politics, and stakeholder management; resistance to change; and the importance of dialogue and listening.

Project Design Management
Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is the integration of process management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

Capstone Project: Leadership
Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with or research an organization, profit or nonprofit, to develop actionable business solutions.

Strategic Human Resource Management
Students leverage the broad content areas specific to the field of human resources (compensation/benefits, HRIS, employee wellness and safety, employee assistance, employee relations, training and development, selection and staffing, organizational development, performance management systems, job design, career development, and human resources planning) in identifying, recruiting, developing, renewing, and retaining human assets that add maximum value to the strategic imperatives of the organization.

Advanced Corporate Finance
Students focus on the functions of corporate finance, which include evaluating financial statements and ratios, asset utilization, and working capital models.

Advanced International Business
This course examines business from a multinational perspective concerning the global, economic, political, cultural, and social environment within which firms operate. Students will synthesize research and application to develop a framework of analysis for global business planning.

Project Design Management
Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is integration of management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

Capstone Project: Management
Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with or research an organization, profit or nonprofit, to develop actionable business solutions.

Brand Planning & Design
The focus of this course will be on giving students the preparation for creating equitable brands, implementing the brand strategy, and managing the brand for sustainability from the context of understanding the buyer. Formative analysis of brand effectiveness throughout the process will be emphasized. Current marketing readings, case studies, and project development are contained in this course.

Marketing Communications
This is a comprehensive course intended to address the communication tools used in the marketing field. The primary focus will be creating a communication process to reach a specific target market using digital or traditional methods within media strategy and budget management. Social media and other forms of electronic communication and commerce will be addressed in the course. Current marketing readings, case studies, and project development are contained in this course.

Marketing Decision Making & Analytics
This course will recap and include related and current dynamics in marketing decisions. The relationship of marketing decisions to other functional business decision-making is emphasized. As a result, students will analyze comprehensive business data models and determine the appropriate marketing strategies necessary. Topics include segmentation, demand forecasting, budgeting, and pricing. Current marketing readings, case studies, and project development are contained in this course.

Project Design Management: Marketing
Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is an integration of process management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

Capstone Project: Marketing
Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with or research an organization, profit or nonprofit, to develop actionable business solutions.

The Nonprofit Sector
This course evaluates the nonprofit sector, with particular emphasis on charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Students explore the scope and context of the sector, historical developments, management and leadership challenges, community-building roles, ethics, legal issues, social justice, and emerging issues such as information technology. In addition, students examine board and volunteer management in terms of legal responsibilities of boards, the role of boards in nonprofits, volunteer organization and management, and the dynamics of board and staff relations.

Social Entrepreneurship
This course innovatively establishes the fundamental concepts, principles, and tools necessary for social entrepreneurship. Combining development, business, and missiological theory in order to respond to the needs of a community, this course moves beyond business as mission and examines criteria for starting, building, and running a project that makes an impact for Christ and is a developmental asset to the local community.

Nonprofit Resource Development
Students explore principles of philanthropy and fundraising applicable to private nonprofit and governmental agencies.

Project Design Management
Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is the integration of process management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

Capstone Project: Nonprofit Management
Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with or research an organization, profit or nonprofit, to develop actionable business solutions.