Program Overview

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Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

Course Fees

Some courses may carry fees beyond the standard tuition costs to cover additional support or materials. Program-, subject- and course-specific fee information can be found on the Office of the Bursar website.

Course Descriptions

EMBA 600. Joint Executive MBA Program with UK

• Description: Joint Executive MBA Program with the University of Kentucky
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to the program

EMBA 601. Managing People

• Description: Concepts and techniques of individual and groups including personality, motivation, power and politics, decision-making, group dynamics, job satisfaction, cultural influences and organizational development.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to the program

EMBA 602. Business Models for Quantitative Analysis

• Description: Data organization and presentation, descriptive statistics, common probability distributions, regression and inferential statistics, such as confidence intervals and test of significance.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 603. Economics I

• Description: Study of market systems, supply & demand analysis, consumer behavior, production theory, economic costs and profit, and horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to the program

EMBA 604. Strategic Analysis

• Description: Strategic Analysis consists of analyzing information from the internal and external environments to recognize and assess organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to the program

EMBA 605. Economics II

• Description: Study of markets and market structure, competitive markets, monopoly, and pricing with market power, and oligopoly, rivalry, and strategic behavior.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 606. Financial Accounting

• Description: Fundamental principles of accounting needed by the manager. Topics include the assumptions of accounting, recording and reporting transactions and interpretation of data for decision-making purposes.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to the program

EMBA 607. Business Intelligence

• Description: Introduction to the field of business intelligence, including descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis of business data.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 608. Managerial Accounting

• Description: The use of accounting information to support managerial decision-making and business planning. Topics include cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting and direct costing versus absorption costing.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 609. Financial Management I

• Description: Introduction to financial concepts. Topics include the time value of money, analysis of risk and return, valuation of stocks and bonds and related concepts.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 610. Marketing Management I

• Description: Coverage and application of marketing management topics, including segmentation/targeting/positioning, buyer decision making, product/service strategy, promotional decisions, and pricing strategy.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 611. Financial Management II

• Description: Examines the capital investment decision-making process, cost of capital, financing (capital structure) decisions and related topics.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 612. Marketing Management II

• Description: Part two of marketing management involves expansion of product, distribution/place, and promotions in creating integrated marketing strategies.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 613. Leading Organizations

• Description: Theories of influence, leader behaviors, situation, followership, work teams and transformational leadership. Practical development of self-knowledge, self-confidence and choosing to lead.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 614. Managing Global Challenges

• Description: Foundations of the global economy, current trends in the global business environment and issues facing international organizations.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 615. Operations Management

• Description: Application of operation strategies and decisions, including process selection, capacity planning, lead time management and process improvement.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 616. Corporate Entrepreneurship

• Description: The course introduces entrepreneurship in the corporate setting, how it differs from individual entrepreneur activities, and models of entrepreneurial activities in an established organization.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 617. Business Strategy and Public Policy

• Description: This course examines how public policy decisions made at the federal and state levels influence business decision making.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 618. Complex Organizational Change

• Description: This course examines both the content and process of complex organizational change.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 619. Negotiations and Conflict Resolution

• Description: The course focuses on developing negotiating skills and becoming a more confident and judicious negotiator.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 620. Strategic Management

• Description: Strategic management consists of top management decision-making regarding business, corporate & international strategies, as well as issues influencing the implementation of those strategies.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to program

EMBA 650. Special Topics

• Description: Special Executive MBA elective course offerings that focus on a range of topics including (but not limited to): branding, business and marketing analytics, and financial modeling.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission to the program

Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to make the catalog accurate as of the date of publication. However, the University of Louisville reserves the right to change programs of study, academic policies, academic requirements, fees, course information, procedures for the confirmation of degrees, or the announced academic calendar and related deadlines without prior notice.