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Introduction to the MBA Program

The Berkeley College MBA in Management program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in business management. The program can be completed in either a traditional two-year format or an accelerated one-year format.

Program Learning Outcomes

The program is designed to help students achieve the following learning outcomes:

• Develop a deep understanding of business principles and practices
• Cultivate strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Enhance leadership and management abilities
• Foster a global perspective on business and management

Sample Program Sequence

The program sequence is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in business management. The sample program sequence includes:

• Core courses
• Electives
• Capstone course

Core Courses

The core courses are designed to provide students with a foundation in business principles and practices. The core courses include:

• MBA5501 Essentials of Management: This course provides a focused review of management, strategy, marketing, accounting, finance, and economics.
• MBA6610 Operations Management: This course focuses on business processes, procedures, and strategies used to transform inputs into finished goods and services.
• MBA6615 Leadership and Corporate Governance: This course addresses how leadership influences behavior in organizations and integrates approaches to leadership and management theory.
• MBA6620 Managerial Economics for Business Decision-Making: This course explores models of decision-making and the application of micro and macroeconomic principles to business decision-making.
• MBA6625 Managerial Finance: This course provides a conceptual foundation for analyzing a firm's financial decisions and requires students to make financial decisions in uncertain, real-world situations.
• MBA6630 Marketing Strategy in a Global Context: This course takes an innovative approach to the marketing function by developing strategic thinking along two lines customer satisfaction and profitability.
• MBA6635 Strategic Management of Technology: This course focuses on technology as a strategic weapon to enhance a business organization's competitive advantage in the marketplace.
• MBA8810 MBA Capstone: This course is an integrative course designed to capitalize on student knowledge of finance, organizational behavior, marketing, and other functional disciplines.

Electives

The electives are designed to provide students with specialized knowledge in specific areas of business management. The electives include:

• MBA6100 Law Enforcement Executive Accountability: This course presents a study of law enforcement regulatory concepts, principles, and processes.
• MBA6105 Law Enforcement Executive Leadership: This course addresses the complexities of policing and managing those who do it.
• MBA6110 Crisis Leadership: This course addresses the Law Enforcement Chief Executive and their role in leading through crisis.
• MBA6115 Law Enforcement Executive Policy and Planning: This course provides a practicum of case-study based executive leadership decision-making exercises.
• MBA6605 Accounting Theory: This course presents an in-depth study of accounting concepts, principles, and processes.
• MBA6606 Advanced Taxation: This course is designed to provide advanced study in federal taxation concepts and applications.
• MBA6607 Advanced Auditing: This course presents the rapidly changing demands of the auditing profession by meeting the data-driven requirements of today's business environment.
• MBA6608 Forensic Accounting and Fraud: This course provides an overview of forensic accounting and fraud including the related regulatory environment and financial statement fraud.
• MBA6640 Compensation and Employee Benefits: This course focuses on how managers can design compensation and benefits programs to attract, retain, and motivate qualified employees.
• MBA6641 Employee Recruitment and Selection: This course is designed for students who desire to understand and master the intricacies associated with the recruitment and selection of human resources.
• MBA6643 Contemporary Issues in Human Resources Management: This course requires the student to assume the role of a Human Resource Consultant for the purpose of developing a company's strategic plan.
• MBA6644 Strategic Human Resource Management: This course presents the evolutionary and strategic role of human resources in achieving organizational success.
• MBA6651 Healthcare Systems and Environment: This course identifies and explains the essential elements of current healthcare systems with a focus on the relationships among each of the diverse components.
• MBA6653 Healthcare Informatics: This course identifies and provides an introduction to the health informatics field.
• MBA6654 Practical Case Studies in Healthcare Management: This course is designed to capitalize on student knowledge of finance, organizational management, marketing, economics, and other functional disciplines.
• MBA6655 Healthcare Finance: This course applies principles and procedures of corporate finance to the financial management of healthcare organizations.
• MBA6660 Financial Markets and Institutions: This course focuses on the role of financial institutions and markets in a changing global economy.
• MBA6661 Managing in the Governmental and Non-profit Sectors: This course explores the unique leadership skills, organizational attributes, environmental constraints, accountability, and ethical demands of working in the governmental and non-profit sectors.
• MBA6662 Project Management: This course covers designing, managing, and monitoring projects in organizations.
• MBA6663 Entrepreneurship: This course explores the theoretical and practical aspects of conceptualizing, planning, and beginning a small business.
• MBA6664 Negotiation and Conflict Management: This course links both the science and art of negotiation and conflict resolution.
• MBA6665 Financial Statement Analysis: This course emphasizes evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of financial statements for decision-making from the perspective of users of financial data.
• MBA6667 Corporate Treasury and Risk Management: This course presents a comprehensive study of the elements of corporate treasury management function.
• MBA6669 Contemporary Issues in Financial Management: This course applies knowledge gained in previous courses to topical business issues through case studies, simulations, and other activities.
• MBA6672 Global Supply Chain Management: This course studies procurement strategies, global principles of international sourcing and supply chain management.
• MBA6673 Supply Chain Logistics: This course helps students understand the unique understanding and opportunities of the strategic role of logistics in a supply chain.
• MBA6674 Supply Chain Analytics and Analysis: This course introduces the fundamentals of data-driven decisions in supply chain management.
• MBA6675 Supply Chain Risk Management: This course addresses many of the risks associated with managing supply chains.
• MBA6682 Customer Service Management: This course is designed around a conceptual framework known as the Gaps Model of Service Quality.
• MBA6683 Global Marketing Management: This course introduces concepts of marketing in an international setting.
• MBA6684 Digital Media Workshop: This hands-on workshop is an experiential course in which students collaborate with an outside business entity.
• MBA6685 Contemporary Issues in Marketing Management: This seminar-style course examines current issues related to designing and managing business marketing strategies and organizations.
• MBA6690 Internship: This elective course provides an opportunity for the student to utilize employment outside of Berkeley College in a structured and documented environment.