Program Overview

Management Masters (MMGB) Program

The Management Masters (MMGB) program offers a comprehensive curriculum designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in today's fast-paced business environment.

Course Descriptions

The program includes a wide range of courses, each with its own unique focus and learning objectives. Some of the courses offered in the MMGB program include:

• MMGB 6007: Investment Applications (3 Credits) This course introduces students to investment principles in the U.S. and global capital markets, covering topics such as asset pricing, valuation of fixed income and equity securities, and portfolio management.
• MMGB 6009: Financial Fundamentals (3 Credits) This course provides an overview of the financial system, including financial markets, instruments, and institutions, as well as basic methods of valuation and risk assessment.
• MMGB 6010: Financial Markets and Responsibility (3 Credits) This course explores the global financial markets, including the instruments traded, institutions, trading mechanisms, and regulatory structures, with a focus on social responsibility and ethics.
• MMGB 6111: Accounting and CSR Reporting Principles (3 Credits) This course covers traditional accounting principles while integrating new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting practices for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors.
• MMGB 6411: Finance in Sustainable Organizations (3 Credits) This course examines finance through the lens of sustainability, considering how organizations can use financial tools and techniques to create monetary wealth while supporting social justice and environmental health.
• MMGB 6610: Being a Discerning Leader (0-3 Credits) This course introduces students to the challenges faced by managers, providing frameworks for competing theories on human nature and exploring their consequences for organizational management.
• MMGB 6611: Marketing in the Digital Age (3 Credits) This course focuses on how marketing creates value in interactions with other business functions, stakeholders, and consumers, emphasizing customer-driven marketing in the digital age.
• MMGB 6613: Leading Organizations in the 21st Century (3 Credits) This course presents organizational structure and process theories, focusing on how organizations operate within and relate to a competitive global environment, and explores critical issues related to the individual, firm, and management's role.
• MMGB 6620: Leading Innovation for a Global World (2-3 Credits) In this course, students build on insights from Introduction to Modern Management, exploring global initiatives addressing global challenges such as climate change, social inequity, and poverty, and complete a research project and case study.
• MMGB 6627: Modern Operations & Supply Chain Management (3 Credits) This course provides an introduction to operations and supply chain management, covering topics such as operations strategy, process management, inventory management, quality management, and lean supply chain.
• MMGB 6630: Sustainable Business Master Class (3 Credits) This intensive course prepares students to be leaders in the rapidly emerging world of sustainable business, addressing crises such as climate change, inequality, and environmental degradation.
• MMGB 6631: Social Innovation Master Class (3 Credits) This course is a special offering for students interested in understanding and experiencing the promise of social innovation, learning from global leaders in the field how social innovation can shape business strategy.
• MMGB 6632: Applied Sustainability Innovation (3 Credits) This course is a real-life consulting engagement with a leading fair-trade company, where selected student teams develop innovative solutions to real-life challenges faced by the company.
• MMGB 6633: Leadership in the 21st Century (3 Credits) This course examines the challenges of leading organizations in the current era, including globalization, environmental crisis, and social problems, and explores ways of dealing with these challenges proactively.
• MMGB 6650: Advanced Business Communication (3 Credits) This course instructs students on effective management communication, including communicating change, managing stakeholders, empowering others, and presenting compelling ideas.
• MMGB 6710: Purpose-Driven Marketing (3 Credits) This course introduces students to purpose-driven marketing, using marketing frameworks to enhance individual and societal well-being, and develops stakeholder-oriented marketing strategies.
• MMGB 6820: Managerial Statistics (3 Credits) This course introduces students to basic statistical concepts essential for business research and decision-making, including descriptive statistics, probability distributions, and regression analysis.
• MMGB 760A: Sustainability Reporting and Finance (3 Credits) This course studies finance, corporate disclosures, and sustainability reporting practices as integrated subjects, covering financial and reporting principles, financial analysis, and industry-focused disclosures.
• MMGB 7620: Understanding the Digital Consumer (3 Credits) This course prepares students for marketing to digital consumers, covering the latest social science research and theories to better understand consumer behavior in traditional and digital marketplaces.
• MMGB 7637: Crisis Communication and Leadership Strategies (3 Credits) This course teaches students theoretical conceptualizations, public relations, and crisis management skills to handle real-world crises, assessing how public relations fits into strategic management and decision-making.
• MMGB 7642: Sustainability and Finance (3 Credits) This course explores how the evolving needs of society are changing the way financial theories, tools, and techniques are conceived and applied.
• MMGB 7660: Business Strategy for the Modern World (3 Credits) This course focuses on defining an organization's mission, establishing objectives, developing strategies, and assuring implementation and continual updating of long-term plans.
• MMGB 7680: Disruption in Digital Media (3 Credits) This course examines social media innovations and their disruptive force on traditional media, as well as how businesses handle the new technological environment.
• MMGB 76AK: Corporate Communications (3 Credits) This course critically examines contemporary scholarship on effective and ineffective practices for persuading stakeholders at various levels, focusing on internal and external organizational communication.
• MMGB 8999: Independent Study (1-3 Credits) This course allows students to explore specific topics of interest in-depth, under the guidance of a faculty member.