Program Overview

Tippie Professional Programs Courses (MBA)

The Tippie Professional Programs offer a range of courses for students pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. Below are the details of the courses available:

MBA Courses

• MBA:8110 Marketing Management: This course covers concepts, principles, and models of marketing management, focusing on strategic planning, management decision-making, and implementation of marketing programs. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8120 Management in Organizations: The course explores how to explain, predict, and influence behavior in organizations, including decision-making, leadership, communication, group skills in management positions, motivation, leadership, teams, organizational culture, organizational design, individual differences, and organizational change. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8130 Business Communication: Students build executive-ready communication skills in writing, presenting, and visualizing, learning to communicate effectively, efficiently, and in a compelling manner to capture interest and drive action. (1-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8140 Corporate Financial Reporting: This course delves into contemporary financial reporting practices in the United States, examining how alternative accounting treatments affect the usefulness of financial information in applied decision settings. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8150 Data and Decisions: Introduction to business analytics, utilizing Excel to apply descriptive and predictive analytical tools to solve practical business problems using real-world data, dealing with uncertainty in decision-making, and formal probability concepts and statistical methods. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8160 Managerial Economics: The course covers models of consumer and firm behavior with applications, market equilibrium and structure, and pricing decisions. (1-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8170 International Economic Environment of the Firm: Basic determinants of aggregate output, employment, wages, unemployment, consumption, investment, international trade flows, interest rates, exchange rates, prices, and inflation in open economies are discussed, along with the sources and nature of economic growth and the effects of domestic and foreign monetary, fiscal policies. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8180 Managerial Finance: Time value of money, applications of present value techniques, stock and bond valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital calculation, portfolio formation, and efficient market analysis are covered, with recommendations for Professional Program students to take MBA:8140 or an undergraduate-level financial accounting or finance course. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8240 Operations and Supply Chain: The course focuses on planning and decision-making activities for managing an organization's operations in both manufacturing and services, emphasizing production and service delivery strategy, process design, capacity planning, process analytics, queueing, and an introduction to supply chain management. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8300 Foundations in Strategy: Key elements of domestic competitive and corporate strategy are explored, including industry analysis, strategies for achieving competitive advantage, and corporate strategy. (2-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8310 Business Integration: Student teams run an operational business simulation, conduct organizational/industry analysis, assess market opportunities, define strategic direction, and compete for company profitability and market share, with prerequisites including five of the following: MBA:8110, MBA:8140, MBA:8150, MBA:8180, MBA:8240, MBA:8300. (1-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8320 Strategic Business Growth: The course focuses on key decisions leaders must make to significantly grow their business and achieve exceptional profitability, with students creating a 10x growth plan for their current business or startup. (3 s.h.)
• MBA:8330 Seminar in Strategic Management I: Introduction to strategic management, the role of marketing, operations, and finance in strategic planning, and case studies. (1-3 s.h.)
• MBA:8430 Communication With Artificial Intelligence and Business Technology: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs to produce and enhance business writing, developing professional presentation skills, and optimizing program-generated visualizations for human audiences. (3 s.h.)
• MBA:8500 Seminar in International Business: Issues and challenges facing organizations doing business in international markets, including social, economic, political factors, business policies, and customs in the global environment, with requirements including MBA enrollment. (0-6 s.h.)
• MBA:9130 Leadership Communication and Story: Learning how effective communication drives effective leadership, including during difficult conversations and crises, and how stories can be used to create a vision and empower others. (3 s.h.)
• MBA:9300 Strategy in Action: Focus on a company's current strategic plan, conducting an internal analysis to determine the firm's ability to execute the strategic plan, developing a strategy map and aligned balance scorecard, and proposing recommendations for improving the firm's ability to turn strategy into action, with prerequisites including MBA:8300 and four of the following: MBA:8120, MBA:8110, (MBA:8150 or BAIS:9100), MBA:8160, MBA:8180. (3 s.h.)