Executive MBA Vietnam — Core Curriculum

Rigorous and challenging, the Shidler College of Business Executive MBA curriculum is designed to sharpen tools, refine skills, and put global challenges in perspective. You can expect to experience professional growth, and you may also find that your own entrepreneurial spirits will be ignited. It is a thoroughly modern curriculum which carefully integrates the human, information technology and quantitative aspects of modern management in a results-oriented structure.

The curriculum focuses on the basics and at the same time explores disciplines of the new technology, including entrepreneurship, e-business, and Asia-Pacific and global strategies. Coursework is stimulating, enabling participants to gain a thorough understanding of the financial management process.

By presenting new theories and applications and by challenging participants to incorporate new concepts into their everyday business experiences, the Executive MBA curriculum prepares managers and executives to meet new real-world business challenges and opportunities, and to succeed.

BUS 621 – Business Statistics (1.5 credits)

Statistical tools for the MBA. Corequisites: BUS 622

BUS 622 – Economic Foundations of Strategy (1.5 credits)

Microeconomic principles that provide structure to solve managerial problems, and to suggest strategies for success. Evaluation of the microeconomic competitive economic environment in which organizations operate. Corequisites: BUS 621

BUS 623 – Marketing Management (3 credits)

Concepts and issues in marketing within the global environment of business. Ethical dimensions and social responsibilities; market research; consumer segmentation and positioning; strategic marketing planning. Prerequisites: BUS 621, 622 (or concurrent)

BUS 624 – Accounting for Decision Making (3 credits)

Accounting tools for business professionals focusing on the role of accounting information in capital markets, managerial decision making and corporate governance. Prerequisites: ACC 201, or successful completion of Trueman, B. (2004). MBA Primer – Financial Accounting: Thomson South-Western, available online at http://www.mbaprimer.com or completing a 12 contact-hour tutorial or equivalent

BUS 625 – Leadership and Communication (1.5 credits)

Introduction to personal leadership development with emphasis on communication skill building and leading organizational change. Corequisites: BUS 626

BUS 626 – Organizational Behavior (1.5 credits)

Contributions made by sociology, psychology and related behavioral sciences to the understanding and prediction of human behavior in organizations. Corequisites: BUS 625

BUS 627 – Business, Government, and External Environment (1.5 credits)

Important issues related to the external environment of business. This includes but is not limited to international trade and finance, regulatory environment, social impacts of business. Corequisites: BUS 628

BUS 628 – Ethics (1.5 credits)

This course assists students in developing an awareness of major ethical issues which affect business decisions. It also encourages a socially responsible consideration of those issues and helps student learn how to identify and express their views. Corequisites: BUS 627

BUS 629 – Managerial Finance (3 credits)

Financial management theories and tools for business professionals; asset management; capital budgeting; capital structure and dividend policies. Prerequisites: BUS 621, 622, and 624 or concurrent Corequisites: BUS 631

BUS 630 – Managing Information Technology for Strategic Advantage (1.5 credits)

Theory, practices, techniques for managing information technology resources for innovation and for strategic advantage in global business environment. Emphasis on Asia/Pacific. Prerequisites: BUS 621, 622 Corequisites: BUS 631

BUS 631 – Operations and Supply Chain Management (1.5 credits)

Theory, practices, techniques for managing operations and supply chains for global integration of firms and organizations. Emphasis on Asia/Pacific. Prerequisites: BUS 621, 622 Corequisites: BUS 630

Integrative Capstone: 6 Credits

BUS 632 - Business Policy and Strategy (3 credits)
Integration of learning through analysis of comprehensive business problems, resolution of policy issues, and the study of competitive strategies in the international setting. Prerequisites: BUS 601, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629, 630, 631 (or concurrent for full-time MBA program)

BUS 696 - MBA Consulting Practicum (3 credits)
Final MBA requirement for those candidates not writing a thesis. Candidates will form consulting teams to perform a meaningful, strategic study for a client organization. BUS 696 is taken upon the completion of all core courses, including BUS 632, and usually in a student’s last semester of degree related course work. This course provides MBA students with an opportunity to apply MBA concepts and knowledge in a culminating effort as a consulting team. Prerequisites: All required MBA core courses including BUS 632