studieordninger top 20 amerikanske mba programmer
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Studieordninger top 20 amerikanske MBA programmer
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Skole Curriculum Placering
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#1 Harvard University
http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academic-experience/curriculum/Pages/required-curriculum.aspx
Boston, MA
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#1 Stanford University
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/mba/academic-experience/curriculum/mba1
Stanford, CA
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#1 University of Pennsylvania
http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/academics/curriculum.cfm Philadelphia, PA
MBA
#4 University of Chicago (Booth)
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/programs/full-time/academics/curriculum
Chicago, IL
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#5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/program-components/personalized-curriculum/the-core/
Cambridge, MA
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#6 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/two-year-mba-program.aspx
Evanston, IL
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#7 University of California – Berkeley (Haas)
http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/curriculum.html Berkeley, CA
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#8 Columbia University
http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs-admissions/mba/academics/core-curriculum
New York, NY
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#9 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/required-curriculum/core-curriculum-overview
Hanover, NH
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#10 New York Universi
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/academics/curriculum
New York, NY
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ty (Stern)
#11 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Ross)
http://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/courses?area=Accounting&type=Core&term=All&program=All&search=
Ann Arbor, MI
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#11 University of Virginia (Darden)
http://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/academics/curriculum/ Charlottesville, VA
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#13 Yale University
http://som.yale.edu/our-programs/mba/curriculum/our-integrated-curriculum
New Haven, CT
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#14 Duke University (Fuqua)
http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/programs/duke_mba/weekend-mba/academics/curriculum/
Durham, NC
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#15 University of Texas – Austin (McCombs)
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/MBA/Full-Time/Academics/Curriculum/Core-Curriculum
Austin, TX
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#16 University of California – Los Angeles (Anderson)
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/centers/price-center-for-entrepreneurial-studies/mba-students/mba-curriculum
Los Angeles, CA
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#17 Cornell University (Johnson)
http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Two-Year-MBA/Curriculum/Core-Courses
Ithaca, NY
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#18 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
http://tepper.cmu.edu/prospective-students/masters/mba/curriculum
Pittsburg, PA
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#19 University of North Carolina
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/programs/mba/curriculum Chapel Hill, NC
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– Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
#20 Emory University
http://goizueta.emory.edu/degree/fulltimemba/curriculum/index.html
Atlanta, GA
MBA
Harvard http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academic-experience/curriculum/Pages/required-curriculum.aspx
[Online set 15. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
1. Semester:
Finance I (This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a
firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves can create value)
Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) (Recognizing that accounting is the primary
channel for communicating information about the economics of a business, this course
provides a broad view of how accounting contributes to an organization)
Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) (This course focuses on how managers
become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise)
Marketing (The objectives of this course are to demonstrate the role of marketing in the
company; to explore the relationship of marketing to other functions; and to show how
effective marketing builds on a thorough understanding of buyer behavior to create value
for customers)
Technology and Operations Management (TOM) (This course enables students to
develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's
operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes
underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as the creation and
delivery of services)
Field Foundations (Leadership Intelligence: FIELD Foundations engages small teams in
interactive workshops—held in new flexible classrooms called "hives"—that reshape how
students think, act, and see themselves. Through team feedback and self-reflection,
participants deepen their emotional intelligence and develop a growing awareness of their
own leadership styles)
Field 2 (Global Intelligence: FIELD 2 immerses student teams in emerging markets,
requiring them to develop a new product or service concept for global partner
organizations around the world)
2. Semester:
Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) (This course
introduces tools for studying the economic environment of business to help managers
understand the implications for their companies – National income and balance of
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payment accounting, Exchange rate theory, Political regimes, international trade, foreign
direct investment, portfolio capital, global environmental issues)
Strategy (The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating
strategy. It provides an understanding of: competitive advantage, value for customers, risks
and opportunities)
The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) (This course addresses the issues faced by
managers who wish to turn opportunity into viable organizations that create value, and
empowers students to develop their own approaches, guidelines, and skills for being
entrepreneurial managers)
Finance II (This course builds on the foundation developed in Finance I, focusing on three
sets of managerial decisions: evaluate complex investments, execute financial policies
within a firm, integrate financial decisions faced by firms)
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) (In this course, students learn about
the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult
managerial decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities
of corporate leaders. It also teaches students about management and governance systems
leaders can use to promote responsible conduct by companies and their employees, and
shows how personal values can play a critical role in effective leadership)
Field 3 (Integrative Intelligence: FIELD 3 brings the entire first-year experience together by
challenging students to synthesize the knowledge, skills, and tools acquired in the RC within
a real microbusiness they must design and launch themselves)
Valgfag:
Students may take any combination of courses—up to five courses per semester—and also have the
opportunity to cross-register for courses in other select graduate programs.
Accounting and management:
1. Designing Competitive Organizations (This course has a very specific purpose: to teach students
how to design (and manage) a business that can win in highly-competitive global markets –
Allocating Resources to Customers, Designing High-Performing Jobs, Measuring and monitoring
Performance etc.) (also listed under Strategy and General Management)
2. Field course: i-Lab Design Thinking & Innovation Projects (The capacity to innovate has
become a critical skill for the 21st century business person and entrepreneur operating in ever
more complicated and fast changing world. Design thinking is an approach to innovation that uses
deep customer understanding, problem framing, a range of ideation techniques, iterative
prototyping, experimenting and critique to generate and develop implementable concepts that
meet user needs. This course takes the view that innovative problem solving and design thinking
can be learned through repeated practice.) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Business, Government & the International Economy:
1. Energy (The course will benefit students who intend to participate, as managers, capital providers,
or consultants, in companies involved in supplying energy services to households, firms, and other
customers. It will also benefit students who may work for firms in energy-intensive or energy-
related industries, including transportation companies, vehicle manufacturers, and suppliers to
producers of oil, gas, and electricity. More broadly, students interested in questions of
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international political economy and in the economics of strategic competition will benefit from the
course.)
2. Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and
General Management)
3. Globalization and Emerging Markets
4. Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy
5. Managing International Trade and Investment
6. The Role of government in Market Economies
Entrepreneurial Management:
1. Building Life Science Business
2. Business Marketing and Sales (also listed under Marketing)
3. The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States (Historical development of the United
States development in entrepreneurship)
4. Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Finance)
5. Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under General Management and Business,
Government & the International Economy)
6. Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Services
7. Field Course: Entrepreneurship Laboratory (E-Lab) (also listed under Technology & Operations
Management)
8. Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (also listed under Finance)
9. Field Course: i-Lab Design Thinking Projects (also listed under Accounting and Management)
10. Field Course: Product Management 101
11. Field Course: Product Management 102
12. Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Finance)
13. Founders' Dilemmas
14. Launching Technology Ventures
15. Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management)
16. The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Negotiation,
Organizations & Markets)
17. Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management)
18. Venture Capital and Private Equity (also listed under Finance)
Finance:
1. Building Sustainable Cities and Infrastructure
2. Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Marketing and General Management)
3. Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring
4. Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
5. Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (also listed under Entrepreneurial
Management)
6. Field Course: Private Equity Projects
7. Field Course: Stock Pitching
8. Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
9. IFC: Africa; Building Cities
10. IFC: India; Social Enterprise and Private Sector Approaches in Developing India
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11. IFC: New York City; Private Equity and Real Estate
12. Investing in Emerging Markets
13. Investment Management
14. Investment Strategies
15. Managing the Financial Firm
16. Private Equity Finance
17. Real Estate Private Equity
18. Real Property
19. Venture Capital and Private Equity (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
General Management:
1. All Roads Lead to Rome: Leadership Lessons from Antiquity (also listed under Organizational
Behavior)
2. The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance (also listed under Organizational Behavior)
3. Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Finance and Marketing)
4. Creating Value in Business and Government
5. Designing Competitive Organizations (also listed under Accounting & Management and
Strategy )
6. Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovations in Education
7. Field Course: Innovating in Health Care
8. Field Course: Social Innovation Lab
9. General Management: Processes and Action
10. IFC: China; The Business of Going Global, China-Style
11. Innovating in Health Care Intensive Course
12. Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
13. Leading Social Enterprise
14. Managing Change
15. The Moral Leader
16. Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
17. Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under Strategy)
Marketing:
1. Agribusiness
2. Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Finance and General Management)
3. Business Marketing & Sales (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
4. Consumers, Corporations and Public Health
5. Digital Marketing Strategy
6. Retailing
7. Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets:
1. Deals
2. IFC: UK and the Netherlands; Behavioral Insights
3. Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value
4. Negotiation
5. Negotiation Intensive Course
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6. The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial
Management)
Organizational Behavior:
1. All Roads Lead to Rome: Leadership Lessons from Antiquity (also listed under General
Management)
2. Authentic Leadership Development
3. The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance (also listed under General Management)
4. How Star Women Succeed: Leading Effective Careers and Organizations
5. Managing Human Capital
6. Power and Influence
Strategy:
1. Competing Globally
2. Corporate Strategy
3. Designing Competitive Organizations (also listed under Accounting & Management and General
Management)
4. IFC: Japan; Tohoku: The World's Test Market for Authentic Entrepreneurship
5. The Microeconomics of Competiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development
6. Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management )
7. Strategy and Technology
Technology & Operations Management:
1. Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
2. Digital Innovation and Transformation
3. Field Course: Commercializing Science
4. Field Course: Entrepreneurship Laboratory (E-Lab) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
5. Managing Service Operations
6. Operations Strategy: Managing Growth
7. Supply Chain Management
8. Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor
9. US Healthcare Strategy
Stanford http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/mba/academic-experience/curriculum/mba1
[Online set 15. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
1. Semester
Critical Analytical Thinking (CAT) (This course addresses issues that transcend any single
discipline or function of management. In 18-person seminars, you will analyze, write about, and
debate fundamental issues, questions, and phenomena that arise in management. CAT will
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enhance your ability to identify critical questions when exploring a new business issue, to parse
issues, to develop reasoned positions, and to make compelling arguments.)
Ethics in Management (This course emphasizes frameworks for conducting ethical analysis (on
what basis can you say that a course of action is or is not ethical), the analysis of ethical dilemmas
(how do you think about situations in which different ethical precepts collide), and how to deal on
a day-to-day basis with the practical issues of ethical behavior in organizations.)
Financial Accounting (Business leaders must read, understand, and use corporate financial
statements. The base-level and accelerated courses in this area are broad courses in how financial
accounting information is produced and used. The advanced applications option assumes
knowledge of most of the information in the base-level courses and covers advanced financial
reporting topics, including consolidation, derivatives, hedging, leases, revenue recognition, variable
interest entities, and equity compensation.)
Leadership Labs (This experiential course focuses on questions such as: How do we maximize the
performance of the teams we become a part of? What interpersonal skills give us influence? Which
interpersonal strengths can propel us to our next promotion? What development areas might
prevent our ascension to the executive suite?)
Managerial Skills (In the Managerial Skills Labs, we examine several common managerial
challenges faced by executives. Together with faculty, students explore these topics using four case
examples, each asking students to evaluate a series of situations, develop alternatives for their
resolution, and ultimately recommend and implement a course of action from the point of view of
the company’s owner/manager. We have selected small to midsized businesses as the context for
these discussions to highlight the impact that key decisions and their implementation can have on
the broader organization. Students should come to class prepared to role-play important
conversations between management and other key individuals.)
Managing Groups and Teams (This course introduces you to the structures and processes that
affect group performance and highlights some of the common pitfalls associated with working in
teams. Topics include team culture, fostering creativity and coordination, making group decisions,
and dealing with a variety of personalities. You will participate in a number of group exercises to
illustrate principles of teamwork and to give you practice not only diagnosing team problems but
also taking action to improve total team performance.)
Optimization and Simulation Modeling (Disciplined thought is often based on analytical
models: simplified, quantitative depictions of a complex reality that allow you to focus your
attention on a few key issues. Management runs on numbers and models. Whatever is your current
level of modeling skills, improving those skills is a key to success. Even if you never construct
models yourself, as a manager you will be a consumer of them; to be an intelligent consumer, you
must know from experience the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative models.)
Organizational Behavior (Building on the discipline of social psychology, this course helps you
cultivate mindsets and build skills to understand the ways in which organizations and their
members affect each other. You will learn frameworks for diagnosing and resolving problems in
organizational settings. The course relates theory and research to organizational problems by
reviewing basic concepts such as individual motivation and behavior; decision making;
interpersonal communication and influence; small group behavior; and dyadic, individual, and
inter-group conflict and cooperation.)
Strategic Leadership (This course examines fundamental issues of general management and
leadership within an organization. You will learn about setting an organization’s strategic direction,
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aligning structure to implement strategy, and leading individuals within the firm. You will study the
interplay among formal structure, informal networks, and culture in shaping organizational
performance.)
2. Semester
Corporate Finance (Designed to be the natural follow-up to the Managerial Finance courses in
winter, the Corporate Finance courses will develop and extend standard tools and techniques of
financial analysis, valuation, and model-building, and apply these methods to a wide range of cases.
Case topics will include capital structure, valuation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and
venture capital, international finance, hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts, financial distress
and bankruptcy.)
Data Analysis and Decision Making (General managers require a sophisticated understanding of
what one can (and cannot) infer from data, and how to use those inferences to make good
decisions. Our courses in data analysis provide the analytical techniques for using data to make
appropriate inferences and good decisions.)
Human Resource Management (The human resources of an organization are often the most
valuable assets of the organization, and the assets that are most difficult to manage. Drawing on
the disciplines of economics, social psychology, and organizational sociology, the course offerings in
Human Resource Management give you frameworks and concepts that help you manage your
organization’s personnel.)
Information Management (Knowledge of technology (computing, networks, software
applications, etc.) is a prerequisite for a successful manager. Understanding the implications of
technology for management, strategy, and organization is even more important. So rather than just
look at a snapshot of the current status of different technologies (which will obviously change over
time), the Information Management courses focus on management issues such as: How do
information technologies create value? How do you implement them? How do they affect the
structure of competition?)
Managerial Accounting (To evaluate business strategies and outcomes, you must understand the
many ways that firms account for, control, and manage costs. Courses in this area explore
alternative costing methods and how the resulting cost information can be used for decision-
making, planning, and performance measurement.)
Managerial Finance (This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on
applications that are vital for corporate managers. We begin with an overview of accounting
fundamentals, including basic financial statement analysis. With this background, we will then
consider the major financial decisions made by corporate managers both within the firm and in
their interactions with investors. Essential in most of these decisions is the process of valuation,
which will be an important emphasis of the course. Topics include criteria for making investment
decisions, valuation of financial assets and liabilities, relationships between risk and return, market
efficiency, capital structure choice, payout policy, the effective use and valuation of derivative
securities, and risk management.)
Marketing (These courses introduce you to the substantive and procedural aspects of marketing
management. You’ll learn about analyzing the needs and wants of potential customers, and
creating and delivering goods and services profitably.)
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Microeconomics (The discipline of microeconomics is the foundation of much of what you study
in business school, as well as being a tool of analysis of specific market and non-market
interactions. The base-level course provides you with the essential frameworks and concepts to
study market equilibrium, firm and consumer behavior, and competitive interactions through the
lens of microeconomics. The advanced applications option spends less time on the basics and
instead applies those basics to specific contexts, such as auctions, price discrimination, and
business strategy.)
Operations (This area addresses basic managerial issues arising in the operations of both
manufacturing and service industries. You will learn about the problems and issues confronting
operations managers and gain language, conceptual models, and analytical techniques that are
broadly applicable in confronting such problems.)
Strategy Beyond Markets (Markets and the business environment are increasingly interrelated;
conversely, the profit-maximizing activities of firms often give rise to issues that involve
governments and the public. As a business leader, you will need to participate in complex decision-
making involving the legal, political, and social environments of business. This area considers the
strategic interactions of firms with important constituents, organizations, and institutions outside
of markets.)
Valgfag:
Customize your MBA experience by choosing from a broad range of electives. These courses change based
on feedback and demand, but here is a sampling of recent electives.
Accounting:
1. Accounting-Based Valuation
2. Alphanomics: Informational Arbitrage in Equity Markets
3. Analysis and Valuation for Event-Driven Investing
4. Board Governance
5. Mergers and Acquisitions: Accounting, Regulatory, and Governance Issues
Entrepreneurship:
1. Aligning Start-ups with Their Market
2. Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch
3. Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
4. Entrepreneurship from the Perspectives of Women
5. The Startup Garage: Testing and Launch
6. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
Finance:
1. Angel and Venture Capital Financing and Decision Making
2. Corporate Financial Modeling
3. Debt Markets
4. Finance of Retirement and Pensions
5. Institutional Money Management
6. Modeling for Investment Management
7. Behavioral Finance
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8. Entrepreneurial Finance
9. Private Equity in Frontier Markets: Creating a New Investible Asset Class
10. Financial Trading Strategies
General Management:
1. Becoming a Leader: Managing Early Career Challenges
2. Cleantech: Business Fundamentals and Public Policy
3. Compassion and Leadership
4. Creating High Potential Ventures in Developing Economies
5. Energy Markets and Policy
6. Leadership and Crisis Management
7. Family Business
8. Funding Social Impact: Methods and Measurement
9. Real Estate Investment
10. Real Life Ethics
11. Sports Business Management
12. Strategic Philanthropy
13. Thinking Like a Lawyer
14. Work and Family
Managerial Economics:
1. Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care
2. Contemporary Economic Policy
3. Growth and Stabilization in the Global Economy
4. Management Practices in Europe, the U.S., and Emerging Markets
5. Motivation in Theory and in Practice
6. Political Economy of Health Care in the United States
7. The Financial Crisis
Marketing:
1. Consumer Behavior
2. Marketing Analytics
3. Marketing Research
4. Marketing Research for Entrepreneurs
5. Redesigning Marketing
6. Sports Marketing
Operations and Information Technology:
1. Biodesign Innovation: Concept Development and Implementation
2. Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation
3. Design for Extreme Affordability
4. The Role of Information Technology in the New Energy Economy
Organizational Behavior:
1. Conflict Management and Negotiation
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2. High-Performance Leadership
3. Interpersonal Dynamics
4. Leadership in the Entertainment Industry
5. Leadership Fellows
6. Negotiations
7. The Paths to Power
8. Redesigning Work for 21st Century Men and Women
9. Scaling Change
Political Economics:
1. The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature
2. The Future of Growth: Developed and Developing World
3. Managing Global Political Risk
Strategic Management:
1. Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations
2. Global Value Chain Strategies
3. Leading Strategic Change in the Health Care Industry
4. Managing Growing Enterprises
5. Managing to Outcomes in Education and Other Sectors
6. New Business Models in the Developing World
7. Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations and Social Ventures
8. Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
9. Strategic Thinking in Action - in Business and Beyond
University of Pennsylvania http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/academics/curriculum.cfm
[Online set 15. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Leadership (This intense immersion experience shapes the learning team and leadership
experience that helps you develop your future personal leadership style and capabilities. You will
begin with the Teamwork and Leadership Simulation, a team-based, highly interactive simulation
that is custom designed for this course.)
Marketing Management (Design and implement the most strategic combination of marketing
efforts to reach a firm’s target markets. Develop skills to apply analytical concepts and marketing
tools to such decisions as segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and
promotion.)
Operations Management (Learn to measure key process parameters, such as capacity and lead
time, and how to improve a process through approaches such as finding and removing bottlenecks
or better work division. Next, focus on restructuring processes and management for increased
performance.)
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Microeconomics Foundation (Master the basic theory of microeconomics: supply, demand,
consumer behavior, market price and output, production, cost, simple competitive market
equilibrium, simple monopoly pricing and output determination, price discrimination, and
bundling.)
Economics: Advanced Topics in Managerial Economics (Apply microeconomic theory to firm
management, and learn how to use microeconomics to enhance decision making. Topics covered
include: sophisticated pricing policies, transfer pricing, strategies for dealing with competitor firms,
cooperation strategies, managing under uncertainty, and more.)
Statistics: Regression Analysis for Managers (Become familiar with two key statistical
methodologies for working with data: regression analysis and experimentation. Learn techniques,
such as least-squares estimation, tests and confidence intervals, correlation and autocorrelation,
collinearity, and randomization.)
Management communication: Speaking and Writing (Speaking: The Fall speaking course
covers persuasion, impromptu speaking, speaking confidently, handling Q&A, and speaking on-
camera. The Spring speaking courses offer a choice of advanced topics. Writing: The Fall writing
requirement is a pass/fail, non-credit course required for graduation. Course objections are clear,
concise, persuasive writing.)
Fleksible obligatoriske fag:
Operations.
Marketing.
Communication.
Accounting.
Corporate Finance.
Macroeconomics.
Management.
Legal studies & business ethics.
Valgfag inklusiv hovedvalgfag:
Accounting
Business Economics and Public Policy
Entrepreneurial Management
Environmental and Risk Management
Finance
Health Care Management
Information: Strategy and Economics
Insurance and Risk Management
Management
Marketing
Marketing and Operations Management (Joint Major)
Multinational Management
Operations and Information Management
Organizational Effectiveness
Real Estate
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Statistics
Strategic Management
Advanced Corporate Finance
Advanced Real Estate Investment and Analysis
Competitive Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Entrepreneurship and Venture Initiation
Fixed Income Securities
Health Care Field Application Project
Information: Industry Structure and Competitive Strategy
Innovation, Change, and Entrepreneurship
International Development Strategy
University of Chicago (Booth) http://www.chicagobooth.edu/programs/full-
time/academics/curriculum [Online set 15. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Financial Accounting
Microeconomics (Microeconomics; Advanced Microeconomic Analysis; Accelerated
Microeconomics)
Statistics (Business Statistics; Applied Regression Analysis)
Finance (Introductory Finance; Investments; Corporation Finance)
Marketing (Marketing Strategy)
Operations (Operations Management)
Management Decisions (Managerial Decision Making; Managerial Accounting; Managerial
Decision Modeling)
Management People (Managing in Organizations; Strategic Leadership; Power and Influence in
Organizations; Managing the Workplace)
Management Strategy (Competitive Strategy; Strategy and Structure; Business Policy)
Business Environment (Macroeconomics; The Firm and the Non-Market Environment; Business,
Politics, and Ethics)
Valgfag:
Accounting:
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1. Cost analysis and Internal Controls (This course provides you with a framework to understand and
use the cost and accounting information you will encounter in careers in consulting, operations,
marketing, or general management. The course covers the vocabulary and mechanics of cost
accounting, basic issues involved in the design of managerial accounting systems, and the role of
managerial accounting resource allocation and performance evaluation.)
2. Accounting and Financial Analysis I
3. Accounting and Financial Analysis II
4. Taxes and Business Strategy
5. Financial Statement Analysis
Analytic Finance:
1. Quantitative Investment
2. Advanced Models of Option Pricing and Credit Risk
3. Theory of Financial Decisions 1
4. Portfolio Management
5. Advanced Investments
6. Fixed-Income Asset Pricing
7. Cases in Financial Risk Management
Analytic Management:
1. Managerial Decision Modeling (Successful decision-making requires the ability to structure
complex problems, to analyze available options in an uncertain world, and to finally make the best
decision, given the information available. You'll learn how to apply analytical tools including
optimization, simulation, and decision trees to examine managerial decision models. Business
applications include resource allocation, risk analysis, and sequential decision-making through
time.)
2. Data mining (In the age of the internet, businesses must process vast amounts of data. For
example, firms maintain large databases on their customers. What can be learned from this data to
help serve customers? How does a business use its information for customer-relationship
management? Modern statistical methods have been developed to help us deal with large and
complex data. The term "data-mining" refers to this collection of methods. This course is designed
to familiarize MBA students with relevant and helpful data-mining tools. The course is not
mathematical in nature. Attention is focused on interpretation of results and how to obtain them
using software. While the primary emphasis of the course will be on the data-mining or statistical
methods, we will relate them to management issues through readings and examples. Topics
include graphics, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, discriminant analysis, logit models,
regression and classification trees, neural networks, and issues in data collection and management)
3. Strategic Investment Decisions (This course integrates advanced analytical techniques with
intuitive economic (strategic) analysis - with an eye on how organizations really make decisions.
You will learn to develop and apply a variety of tools to achieve greater understanding and
sophistication in all aspects of the processes by which companies make strategic investment
decisions. The main goal will be for students to learn to use option pricing, dynamic programming,
decision trees, simulation techniques, scenario analysis, and game theory to value investment
opportunities. The focus will be to both incorporate the value from flexibility, delay, strategic
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responses, and learning into the analysis and to develop the tools to model and evaluate the full
range of environmental and strategic uncertainty that companies face. We will also study the
organizational processes required for effective, strategic investment decisions and resource
allocation. Among the issues we will discuss are decentralization/centralization, incentives,
measurement, and communication processes.)
4. Data-Driven Marketing
5. Financial Engineering – Cases in Financial Risk Management
Econometrics and Statistics:
1. Business Statistics
2. Applied Regression Analysis
3. Analysis of Financial Time Series
4. Financial Econometrics
5. Statistical Insight into Marketing, Consulting, and Entrepreneurship
Economics:
1. Macroeconomics
2. Microeconomics
3. Money and Banking
4. International Financial Policy
5. Advanced Microeconomic Analysi
6. Sports Analytics
Entrepreneurship:
1. Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
2. New Venture Strategy
3. Building the New Venture
4. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Small Seminar in Developing a Business Plan
5. Commercializing Innovation
Finance:
1. Financial Instruments
2. Portfolio Management
3. Financial Markets and Institutions
4. Advanced Investments
General Management:
1. Marketing Strategy
2. Corporation Finance
3. Operations Management: Business Process Fundamentals
4. Competitive Strategy
5. Strategic Leadership
International Business:
1. International Financial Policy
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2. The Wealth of Nations
3. Chinese Economy
Managerial and Organizational Behavior:
1. Strategic Leadership
2. Managerial Decision Making
3. Strategies and Processes of Negotiation
4. Managing in Organizations
5. Ethics of Business
Marketing Management:
1. Marketing Strategy
2. Pricing Strategies
3. Data-Driven Marketing
4. Management Lab
Operations Management:
1. Operations Management: Business Process Fundamentals
2. Healthcare Management Analytics Lab
3. Supply Chain Strategy and Practice
4. Managerial Decision Modeling
5. Revenue Management
6. Managing Service Operations
Strategic Management:
1. Competitive Strategy
2. The Strategy Symposium
3. Taking Charge
4. Technology Strategy
Massachusetts Institute http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/program-components/personalized-
curriculum/the-core/ [Online set 15. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (Introduces students to the principles of
microeconomic analysis used in managerial decision making. Topics include demand analysis, cost
and production functions, the behavior of competitive and noncompetitive markets, sources and
uses of market power, and game theory and competitive strategy, with applications to various
business and public policy decisions. Antitrust policy and other government regulations also are
discussed)
Data, Models, and Decisions (Introduces students to the basic tools in using data to make
informed management decisions. Covers introductory probability, decision analysis, basic statistics,
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regression, simulation, linear and nonlinear optimization, and discrete optimization. Computer
spreadsheet exercises, cases, and examples are drawn from marketing, finance, operations
management, and other management functions.)
Communication for Leaders (Focuses on the writing and speaking skills necessary for a career in
management. Students polish communication strategies and methods through discussion,
examples, and practice. Several written and oral assignments, most based on material from other
subjects and from career development activities. Schedule and curriculum coordinated with
Organizational Processes class.)
Organizational Processes (Designed to enhance students’ ability to take effective action in
complex organizational settings by providing the analytic tools needed to analyze, manage, and
lead the organizations of the future. Emphasis is on the importance of the organizational context in
influencing which individual styles and skills are effective. Employs a wide variety of learning tools,
from experiential learning to the more conventional discussion of written cases. Subject centers on
three complementary perspectives on organizations: the strategic design, political, and cultural
“lenses” of organizations. This course culminates in a team project around current topics related to
organization studies.)
Financial Accounting (An intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial
information. Adopts a decision-maker perspective of accounting by emphasizing the relationship
between accounting data and the underlying economic events generating them. Class sessions are
a mixture of lectures and case discussion. Assignments include textbook problems, analysis of
financial statements, and cases.)
Valgfag:
Financial Theory
Intro to Operations Management
Marketing Management
Competitive Strategy
Accounting:
1. Taxes and Business Strategy
2. Management Accounting and Control
3. Mergers and Acquisitions: The Market for Corporate Control
4. Corporate Financial Accounting
5. Financial Accounting
6. Doctoral Seminar in Accounting
7. Business Analysis Using Financial Statements
Communication:
1. Management Communication for Undergraduates
2. Doctoral communication skills for academics
3. Communications for leaders
4. Advanced Managerial communication
Corporate Strategy and Policy:
1. The Economic and strategic analysis of technology intensive industries
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2. Technology strategy for SDM
3. Technology strategy
4. Strategy and organizations
5. Strategic Management
6. Strategic Management II
7. Strategic Management and consulting proseminar: pratical applications
8. Strategic Management and consulting proseminar: current strategic challenges for global
enterprises
9. Strategic Management
10. Special seminar in strategy
11. Leadership in the real estate industry
12. Explaining heterogeneity in firm performance
13. Corporate strategy and extended enterprises
Finance:
1. Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior
2. Mergers and Acquisitions
3. International Finance – Corporate Finance
4. Finance Theory I
5. Finance Theory II
6. Intro to Practice of Finance
7. Financial Management
8. Finance Theory (MFin)
9. Introduction to Financial Economics
10. Entrepreneurial Finance
11. Investments
12. Advanced Corporate Finance
13. Options and Futures
14. Investment Management
15. Fixed Income
16. Advanced Financial Economics II
17. Advanced Financial Economics I
18. Advanced Financial Economics III
19. International Finance – Capital Markets
20. Analytics of Finance
21. Proseminar in Capital Markets/Investment Management
22. Proseminar in Corporate Finance/Investment Banking
23. Analytics of Finance II
24. Valuation
25. Retirement Finance, Lifecycle Investing, and Asset Management
26. Functional and Strategic Finance
27. Practice of Finance: Alternative Investments – Private Equity & Hedge Funds
28. Practice of Finance: Advanced Corporate Risk Management
29. Practice of Finance: Perspectives on Investment Management
30. Financial Theory (EMBA)
31. Topics in Corporate Finance (EMBA)
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32. Data Technologies in Quantitative Finance
Health care Management:
1. Principles and Practice of Drug Development
2. Economics of the Health Care Industries
3. Dynamics of Biomedical Technologies
4. Critical Reading and Technical Assessment of Biomedical Information
5. Clinical Trials in Biomedical Enterprise
History, Environment and Ethnics:
1. Literature, Ethics, and Authority
2. Choice Points: Readings on the Exercise of Power & Responsibility
Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management:
1. Work, Employment, and Industrial Relations Theory
2. Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy
3. Strategic Human Resource Management
4. Research Seminar in Industrial Relations
5. Special Seminar in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
6. Power and Negotiation
7. Political Economy I: Theories of the State and the Economy
8. People and Organizations
9. Negotiation and Conflict Management
10. Leadership and Change
11. Strategic Human Resource Management
Information systems:
1. Management Information Systems
2. Management Information Systems
3. Workshop in Information Technology
4. Management Information Systems
5. Management Information Systems
6. IT Essentials II: Advanced Technologies for Digital Business in the Knowledge Economy
7. Evolution Towards Web 3.0 and the Emergence of Management 3.0
8. Information Technology Essentials
9. Information Technology as an Integrating Force in Manufacturing
10. Information Technology and Business Transformation Proseminar
11. Information Technology and Business Transformation Proseminar
12. Global Information Systems: Communications and Connectivity Among Information Systems
13. Management Information Systems
14. Fundamentals of Digital Business Strategy
International Management:
1. Special Seminar in International Management
2. China and India: Opportunities and Issues
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3. Special Seminar in International Management
4. International Management
5. Global Markets, National Policies and the Competitive Advantages of Firms
Law:
1. Sustainability, Trade, and the Environment
2. Special Seminar in Law: Law and the Commercialization of Cutting Edge Technologies
3. Special Seminar in Law: The Law of Mergers and Acquisitions
4. Special Seminar in Law
5. Patents, Copyrights, and the Law of Intellectual Property
6. Legal Issues in the Development Process
7. Law, Technology and Public Policy
8. Law and International Business
9. Basic Business Law & New Technologies
10. Basic Business Law & Finance
11. Basic Business Law
Leadership:
1. Tiger Teams
2. Spec Sem in Mgmt: Managing in Adversity
3. Practical Leadership
4. Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing, and Change
5. Leadership Lab for Corporate Social Innovation
6. Literature, Ethics, and Authority
7. Leadership in the Real Estate Industry
8. Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization
9. Cross Cultural Management
Managerial Economics:
1. Special Seminar in Managerial Economics
2. Pricing Strategy
3. Applied Econometrics and Forecasting for Management
4. Game Theory for Strategic Advantage
5. Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
6. Real Estate Economics
7. Competition in Telecommunications
8. Management and Policy in the International Economy
9. Macro and International Economics
10. Applied Macro- and International Economics
11. Industrial Economics for Strategic Decisions
12. Economic Analysis for Business Decisions
Marketing:
1. Workshop in Marketing
2. Strategic Market Measurement
3. Research Seminar in Marketing
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4. Special Seminar in Marketing
5. Pricing
6. New Product and Venture Development Proseminar
7. Marketing Strategy
8. Marketing Models
9. Marketing Management
10. Listening to the Customer
11. Entrepreneurial Marketing
12. Foundations of Consumer Centric Technologies
13. Design and Marketing New Products
14. Consumer Behavior
15. Branding
16. Applied Individual Psychology
Operations Management:
1. Workshop in Operations Management
2. The Theory of Operations Management
3. Supply Chain Planning
4. Research Project in Manufacturing
5. Seminar in Operations Management
6. Proseminar in Manufacturing
7. Product Design and Development
8. Operations Strategy
9. Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design
10. Management of Supply Networks for Products and Services
11. Management of Services: Concepts, Design, and Delivery
12. Logistics Systems
13. Introduction to Operations Management
14. International Supply Chain Management
15. Case Studies in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Operations Research/Statistics:
1. The Airline Industry
2. System Optimization and Analysis for Manufacturing
3. Systems Optimization: Models and Computation
4. Systems Optimization
5. Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis
6. Statistical Theory and Data Analysis
7. Statistical Learning and Data Mining
8. Statistical Consulting
9. Special Seminar in Operations Research
10. Special Seminar in Operation Research
11. Special Seminar in Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes
12. Queues: Theory and Applications
13. Optimization Methods
14. Nonlinear Programming
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15. Network Optimization
16. Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods
17. Introduction to Optimization
18. Introduction to Mathematical Programming
19. Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
20. Fundamentals of Probability
21. Decision Methodologies for Managers
22. Engineering Probability and Statistics
23. Decision Analysis
24. Data, Models, and Decisions
25. Data Mining: Algorithms and Applications
26. Competitive Decision-Making and Negotiation
27. Communicating with Data
Organizational Studies:
1. Special Seminar in Organization Studies
2. Seminar in Social Science Research Methods
3. Seminar in Leadership II
4. Qualitative Research Methods
5. Seminar in Leadership I
6. Planning and Managing Change
7. Organizations and Environments
8. Organizational Processes
9. Organizational Leadership and Change
10. Managerial Psychology Laboratory
11. Managerial Psychology
12. Leading Organizations
13. Leading Organizations I
14. Leadership and Management
15. Leadership and Change in Organizations
16. Individuals, Groups, and Organizations
17. Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods II
18. Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods I
19. Doctoral Seminar in Behavioral and Policy Sciences
20. Building and Leading Effective Teams
System Dynamics:
1. System Dynamics for Business Policy
2. Research Seminar in System Dynamics
3. Introduction to System Dynamics
4. Applications of System Dynamics
Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
1. The Software Business
2. Technology and Entrepreneurial Strategy
3. Strategic Decision Making in the Biomedical Business
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4. Special Seminar in Entrepreneurship
5. Research Themes in Management of Technology
6. Special Seminar in Entrepreneurship
7. New Enterprises
8. Managing Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship
9. Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship
10. Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends
11. How to Develop “Breakthrough” Products and Services
12. J Innovation Teams
13. Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Emerging Markets
14. Entrepreneurship Without Borders
15. Entrepreneurship Lab
16. Entrepreneurs in Innovation: Information Technology, Energy, Biotechnology and Communications
17. Early Stage Capital
18. Disruptive Technologies: Predator or Prey?
19. Designing and Leading the Innovative Organization
20. Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization
21. Corporate Entrepreneurship: Strategies for Technology-Based New Business Development
Northwestern University – Kellogg http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-
mba/two-year-mba-program.aspx [Online set 16. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Accounting for Decision Making
Business Strategy
Finance I
Marketing Management
Business Analysis
Microeconomics Analysis
Operations Management
Leadership in Organizations
Valgfag: N/A
University of California – Berkeley (Haas) http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/curriculum.html
[Online set 16. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
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Data and Decisions (2 units)
Economics for Business Decision Making (2 units) (Business success depends on the successful
positioning of the firm and the management of its resources. The goal of this course is to think
systematically about achieving competitive advantage through the management of the firm's
resources. We will analyze management decisions concerning real options, cost determination,
pricing, and market entry and exit. We will use readings and cases along with class discussion to
develop practical insights into managing for competitive advantage.)
Ethics and Responsible Business Leadership (1 unit)
Financial Accounting (2 units)
Introduction to Finance (2 units)
Leadership Communication (1 unit)
Leading People (2 units)
Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (2 units)
Marketing Management (2 units)
Operations (2 units)
Problem Finding, Problem Solving (1 unit)
Strategy, Structure, and Incentives (3 units)
Valgfag:
1. Fundamentals of Business
2. Game theory (Negotiation)
3. Energy and Environmental Markets
4. Cleantech to Market
5. Business Strategies for Emerging Markets: Management, Investment, and Opportunities
6. Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy
7. Financial Information Analysis
8. Corporate Financial Reporting
9. Managerial Accounting (This course emphasizes the use of accounting information throughout
the planning, operation and control stages of managing an organization. The course is divided into
three sections to reflect these three stages of management: 1) information for planning and
decision making; 2) information received during operations (cost accounting); and 3) information
for control and performance evaluation.)
10. Taxes and Firm Strategy
11. Corporate Finance
12. Financial Institutions and Markets
13. Assets Management
14. Investment Strategies and Styles
15. Global Financial Services
16. Portfolio Management
17. Mergers and Acquisitions: A focus on Creating Value
18. Behavioral Finance
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19. Designing Financial Models that Work
20. Financial Statement Modeling for Finance Careers
21. New Venture Finance
22. Topics in Finance
23. Risk Management via Optimization and Simulation
24. Decisions, Games, and Strategies
25. Service Strategy
26. Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management
27. Supply Chain Management
28. Negotiations and Conflict Resolution
29. Power and Politics in Organizations
30. Leadership I
31. Global Leadership
32. Special Topics in Management of Organizations
33. Customer Insights
34. Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis
35. Strategic Brand Management
36. Marketing Analytics
37. High Technology Marketing Management
38. Influencing Consumers
39. Sales Force Management and Channel Strategy
40. Topics in Marketing
41. International Marketing
42. Social Media Marketing
43. Pricing (This three-module course aims to equip students with proven concepts, techniques, and
frameworks for assessing and formulating pricing strategies. The first module develops the
economics and behavorial foundations of pricing. The second module discusses several innovative
pricing concepts including price customization, nonlinear pricing, price matching, and product line
pricing. The third module analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of several Internet-based, buyer-
determined pricing models.)
44. Business and Public Policy
45. Managing the Legal Environmental of Business
46. Special Topics in Business and Public Policy
47. International Business
48. Real Estate Investment and Market Analysis
49. Real Estate Development
50. Real Estate Finance and Securitization
51. Real Estate Investment Strategy
52. Housing and the Urban Economy
53. Special Topics in Real Estate Economic and Finance I
54. Introduction to Management Technology
55. Biotechnology Industry Perspectives and Business Development
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56. Design as Strategic Management Issue
57. Innovation Strategies for Emerging Technologies
58. International Trade and Competition in High Technology
59. Hass@work
60. Innovation in Services and Business Models
61. Managing the New Product Development Process
62. Product Management Case Studies
63. Strategy for the Information Technology Firm
64. Special Topics in Innovation and Design
65. Corporate Strategy in Telecommunications and Media
66. Active Communication
67. Data Visualization for Discovery and Communication
68. Improvisational Leadership
69. Leader as Coach
70. Storytelling for Leadership
71. Topics in Managerial Communications
72. Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations
73. Nonprofit Boards
74. Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions
75. Strategic Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations
76. Social Investing – Recent Findings in Management and Finance
77. Topics in Nonprofit and Public Management
78. Social Sector Solutions: Social Enterprise
79. Topics in Socially Responsible Business
80. Individually Supervised Study for Graduate Students
81. Curricular Practical Training Internship
82. Selected Topics for MBA Students
83. Entrepreneurship
84. Venture Capital and Private Equity
85. Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
86. Case Studies in Entrepreneurship
87. The Lean Launch Pad
88. Investing in Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Building an Investment Screen, Methodology,
and Process
89. Top-Down Law
90. Entrepreneurship Workshop for Start-ups
91. Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology
92. Business Model Innovation and Entrepreneurial Strategy
93. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
94. Special Topics in Business Administration
95. Healthcare in the 21st Century
96. Health Care Finance
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97. Innovations in Healthcare
98. International Business Development for MBAs
99. International Business Development for MBAs
100. Seminar in International Business
101. MBA Exchange Program I
102. Strategic Leadership
103. Global Strategy and Multinational Enterprise
104. Competitive and Corporate Strategy
105. Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services
106. Marketing Strategy
107. Teaching Business
Columbia University http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs-admissions/mba/academics/core-
curriculum
[Online 16. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Managerial Statistics
Strategy Formulation
Financial Accounting
Finance
Managerial Economics
Business Analytics
Marketing
Global Economic Environment
Valgfag:
Consulting & Business Services:
1. Accounting
2. Business Outsourcing
3. Client Relations
4. Customer Insights/Analytics
5. Human Resource Consulting
6. Information Technology Consulting
7. Insurance
8. Management & Strategic Consulting
9. Marketing Consulting
10. Nonprofit Consulting
11. Operations Consulting
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12. Other Business Services
13. Strategic Consulting
14. Sustainability Consulting
Entrepreneurship & Social Entrepreneurship:
1. Emerging Markets & Social Enterprise
2. For-Profit Startups
3. Innovation
4. International Development
5. Intrapreneurship
6. Non-Tech Startups
7. Other Entrepreneurship
8. Social Entrepreneurship
9. Tech Startups
10. Venture Capital
Financial Services:
1. Asset Management
2. Asset Pricing
3. Corporate Finance
4. Financial Consulting
5. Financial Institutions
6. Investment Banking
7. Marketing
8. Microfinance
9. Public Finance
10. Research
11. Risk Management
12. Sales & Trading
13. Social Impact Investing
General Management & Marketing:
1. Accounting
2. Brand Management
3. Business/Corporate Development
4. Business Development
5. Buyer/Merchandising
6. Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability
7. Corporate/Product Development
8. Finance (Internal)
9. Nonprofit & Public Management
10. Operations
11. Other (Including Customer Relations/Project Management)
12. Rotational Management Services
13. Sales
14. Technology
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Dartmouth College – Tuck http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/required-curriculum/core-
curriculum-overview
[Online 16. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Analysis for General Managers
Managerial Economics
Leading Individuals and Teams
Statistics for Managers
Capital Markets
Decision Science
Financial Measurement, Analysis, and Reporting I
Leading Organizations
Management Communication
Personal Leadership
Corporate Finance
Competitive and Corporate Strategy
Global Economics for Managers
Marketing
Financial Measurement, Analysis, and Reporting II
Operations Management
Valgfag:
Accounting
1. Financial Reporting & Statement Analysis
2. Managerial Accounting
3. Taxes and Business Strategy
Communication
1. Communicating with Presence
2. Corporate Communication
3. Management Deck Presentations
4. Management Slide Presentations
Economics
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1. Business of International Development
2. Countries & Companies in the International Economy
3. Doing Business in China
4. Energy Economics
5. Research to Practice Seminar: Firms and Trade Policy
6. Leadership in the Global Economy
7. Nowcasting the Global Economy
Entrepreneurship
1. Building Entrepreneurial Ventures
2. Entrepreneurial Finance
3. Entrepreneurial Thinking
4. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector 1
5. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector 2
6. Leading Entrepreneurial Organizations
Ethics and Social Responsibility
1. Business-Social Sector Partnerships
2. Business & Ethics at the Base of the Pyramid
3. Business and Climate Change
4. Business and Society
5. Corporate Responsibility
6. Ethical Decision-Making
7. Ethics in Action
8. Managers and the Law
Experiential
1. Global Insight Expeditions
2. OnSite Global Consulting
Finance
1. Advanced Corporate Finance
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2. Corporate Restructuring
3. Research to Practice Seminar: Corporate Takeovers
4. Corporate Valuation
5. Credit Risk
6. Debt Markets
7. Field Study in Private Equity & Growth Ventures
8. Futures and Options Markets
9. International Corporate Finance
10. Investments
11. Research to Practice Seminar: Management of Investment Portfolios
12. Research to Practice Seminar: Private Equity
13. Private Equity Finance
14. Real Estate
15. Real Estate Mini
16. Seminar on Hedge Funds
17. Structuring Mergers & Acquisitions
18. The Arrhythmia of Finance
Healthcare
1. Business of Healthcare
2. Contemporary Issues in Biotech
3. International Health Systems
4. Investing & Deal Making in Healthcare: Practitioners’ Perspective
5. Management of Healthcare Organizations
6. Medical Care & the Corporation
7. Structure, Organization, and Economics of the Healthcare Industry
8. Value-Based Health Care Strategy
Marketing
1. Advertising Management
2. Consumer Insights
3. Research to Practice Seminar: Consumer Moral Judgment
4. Global Marketing
5. Managing the Marketing Channel
6. Marketing in the Network Economy
7. Marketing New Products
8. Marketing in an Environment of Constant Change
9. Marketing Research
10. Not-For-Profit Marketing
11. Research to Practice Seminar: Retail Pricing Strategies & Tactics
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12. Research to Practice Seminar: Sales Promotion
13. Services Marketing
14. Social Marketing
15. Strategic Brand Management
16. Research to Practice Seminar: Time in the Consumer Mind
Operations and Management Science
1. Applications of Optimization
2. Data Mining for Business Analytics
3. Enterprise Systems & the Governance of Integrated Organizations
4. Management of Service Operations
5. Operations Strategy
6. Professional Decision Modeling
7. Quantitative Problem Solving
8. Research to Practice Seminar: Retail Operations
9. Supply Chain Management Mini
10. Tools for Improving Operations
11. VBA Programming
Organizational Behavior
1. Comparative Models of Leadership
2. Consulting Project Management
3. Research to Practice Seminar: Leadership and Society
4. Leadership Out of the Box
5. Management of Disasters
6. Managing Corporate Wrongdoing
7. Managing Strategic Business Relationships
8. Managing Talent
9. Negotiations
10. The CEO Experience
11. Why Can’t Women Advance?
12. Women and Leadership
Strategy
1. Advanced Competitive Strategy
2. Corporate Development
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3. Current Topics in Management Consulting
4. Research to Practice Seminar: Deconstructing Apple
5. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategy
6. Global Strategy & Implementation
7. Implementing Strategy
8. Innovation Execution
9. International Strategy
10. Psychology of Strategic Leadership
11. Strategic Leadership
12. Strategic Principles for Internet Businesses
13. Strategy in a Turbulent Environment
14. Research to Practice Seminar: Strategy in Innovation Ecosystems
15. Sustainable Business
New York University – Stern http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-
mba/academics/curriculum
[Online set 16. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Financial Accounting & Reporting
Statistics & Data Analysis
Firms & Markets
Foundations of Finance
Firms & Markets
Foundations of Finance
The Global Economy
Leadership in Organizations
Marketing
Operations Management
Strategy
Valgfag:
1. Accounting
2. Banking
3. Business Analytics
4. Corporate Finance
5. Digital Marketing
6. Economics
7. Entertainment, Media and Technology
8. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
9. Finance
10. Financial Instruments and Markets
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11. Financial Systems and Analytics
12. Global Business
13. Law and Business
14. Leadership and Change Management
15. Luxury Marketing
16. Management
17. Management of Technology and Operations
18. Marketing
19. Product Management
20. Quantitative Finance
21. Real Estate
22. Social Innovation and Impact
23. Strategy
24. Supply Chain Management and Global Sourcing
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Ross) http://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/courses?area=Accounting&type=Core&term=All&program=All&s
earch=
[Online set 16. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Her er det MBA i Accounting.
Corporate Financial Research and Reporting
Cost Measurement & Control
Entrepreneurial Accounting
Evaluating Financial Performance
Management Accounting I
Management Accounting II
Principles of Financial Accounting
Principles of Managerial Accounting (Principles of Managerial Accounting --- This course deals with
decision-making in organizations, where the decisions involve the generation, analysis, or use of
financial information.)
Valg fag:
Valgfag for MBA I accounting
Accounting Information System Design
Advanced Financial Accounting
Advanced Management Accounting
Auditing and Assurance
Corporate Financial Reporting
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Cost Management Systems (Designing Competitive Organizations: Cost Management --- We
examine the crucial strategic role internal accounting systems play by helping management
understand and control organizational resource co)
Doctoral Seminar in Contemporary Accounting Issues
Federal Taxation and Managerial Decisions
Federal Taxation I
Federal Taxation II
Financial Communication and Investor Relations
Financial Instruments and Structured Finance
Financial Statement Analysis I
Financial Statement Analysis II
Independent Study Project
Maize and Blue Fund (Managing the Maize and Blue Fund --- In this course students act as portfolio
managers for the Maize and Blue (Student Managed) Fund.)
Managing the Maize and Blue Fund
Managing the Maize and Blue Fund as a Senior Analyst
University of Virginia – Darden http://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/academics/curriculum/
[Online set 17. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Mangement Communication (This course gives students the guidance and hands-on experience
that will allow them to communicate effectively as managers and leaders. Students will examine
communication strategies essential for success in business, identify their personal strengths and
goals, and practice activities that build upon proven competencies and offer practice in new
approaches. Students will gain comfort and skill in a personal communication style that is
authentic, credible, and authoritative. The course will improve students’ understanding of and
ability to apply communication strategy, and will help them not only appreciate the power of
personal and organizational narratives but also deliver successful written documents and oral
presentations.)
Global Economies and Markets
Financial Management and Policies
Accounting for Managers (This course consists of two complementary components: managerial
accounting and financial accounting. Managerial accounting has an internal focus and pertains to
the collection and analysis of financial information relevant to business operations, including costs
analysis, product and service costing, planning, budgeting, and performance evaluation. Financial
accounting pertains to the preparation and analysis of financial statements primarily intended for
use by external constituents such as investors, creditors, and government regulators. This course
takes primarily a user’s perspective rather than a preparer’s perspective. Nevertheless, it
emphasizes the importance of understanding generally accepted accounting principles and
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practices, including the rationale for existing accounting standards and the reasons for accepted
alternatives.)
Marketing
Operations Management
Leading Organizations
Decision Analysis (Business decisions, both tactical and strategic, are frequently made difficult by
the presence of uncertainty in the resulting consequences. This course presents a philosophy for
framing, analyzing, and proactively managing decisions involving uncertainty, whether the
uncertainty results from general conditions or the actions of competitors. The course will focus on
making the uncertainty explicit so that it can be objectively analyzed. One way to manage risk
proactively is to reduce the inherent uncertainty, for example, through better forecasting. Tools
and techniques to support this objective will include risk profiles, expected value, simulation,
sensitivity analysis, discounted cash flows, analytical probability distributions, data analysis,
sampling theory, and regression. The course will also focus on proactively managing risk by
recognizing and exploiting opportunities to reduce exposure to uncertainty, for example, through
contingent contracts. Tools and techniques will include decision trees, value of information, value
of control, downstream decisions, real options, and game theory.)
Business Ethics
Strategic Thinking and Action
Valgfag:
Accounting:
1. Management Planning and Control Systems
2. Taxation and Management Decisions
3. Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions
4. Financial Statement Analysis and Corporate Valuation
5. Financial Reporting & Analysis
Consulting:
1. Post-Merger Integration
2. The Practice of General Management
3. Strategy Seminar
4. The Consulting Process
5. Systems Design & Business Dynamics
6. Darden Consulting Projects
Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Strategy:
1. Starting New Ventures
2. Venture Capital
3. Acquisition of Closely-Held Enterprises
4. Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity
5. Entrepreneurial Thinking
6. Innovation and Design Experience
7. Entrepreneur as Change Agent
8. Entrepreneurs Taking Action
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9. Creative Capitalism
10. Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship
11. Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship
12. Markets in Human Hope
13. Management of Smaller Enterprises
14. Small Enterprise Finance
15. Negotiations
16. Introduction to Business Law
17. Developing New Products & Services
18. Technology Accelerator
19. Managing Turnarounds and Workouts
20. Leadership & Theatre: Ethics, Innovation and Creativity
21. Darden Business Project: Venturing
22. Post-Merger Integration
23. Strategy Seminar
24. Investigations into the Nature of Strategy
25. The Consulting Process *
26. Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West
27. Competitive Dynamics
28. Emerging Medical Technologies
29. Corporate Innovation and Design Experience
30. Organic Growth: A Challenge for Public Companies
31. Creativity and Design Thinking
32. Global Business Experience: Strategy as Design (offered every other year)
33. Darden Business Project: Consulting
Ethics:
1. Advanced Topics in Business Ethics
2. Business Ethics through Literature
3. Creative Capitalism (video)
4. Faith, Religion & Responsible Management Behavior
5. Leadership and Diversity through Literature
6. Leadership, Values & Ethics
7. Leadership and Theater: Ethics, Innovation and Creativity
Finance:
1. Financial Reporting *
2. Valuation in Financial Markets *
3. Corporate Financing
4. Corporate Financial Policies
5. Financial Institutions & Markets
6. International Corporate Finance
7. Mergers & Acquisitions
8. Financial Statement Analysis & Corporate Valuation
9. Hot Topics in Finance
10. Derivative Securities: Options & Futures
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11. Taxation & Management Decisions
12. Supply Chain Management
13. Management Decision Models
14. The Practice of General Management
Investment Banking:
1. Financial Reporting & Analysis
2. Valuation in Financial Markets
3. Corporate Financial Policies
4. Financial Institutions and Markets
5. Mergers & Acquisitions
6. International Corporate Finance
7. Derivative Securities: Options & Futures
8. Financial Statement Analysis & Corporate Valuation
9. The Practice of General Management
10. Strategic Management of Financial Service Organization
11. Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
Investment/Portfolio Management:
1. Financial Reporting & Analysis *
2. Valuation in Financial Markets *
3. Investments
4. Derivative Securities: Options & Futures
5. Portfolio Management
6. Arbitrage
7. Financial Institutions and Markets
8. International Corporate Finance
9. Management Decision Models
10. Financial Statement Analysis and Corporate Valuation
Small Enterprises:
1. Valuation in Financial Markets *
2. Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity
3. Small Enterprise Finance
4. Managing Turnarounds and Workouts
5. Venture Capital
6. Acquisition of Closely-Held Enterprises
7. Corporate Financial Policies
8. Corporate Financing
9. Financial Statement Analysis and Corporate Valuation
10. Operations Strategy
11. Supply Chain Management
12. Competitive Dynamics Seminar
Sales and Trading:
1. Financial Reporting & Analysis *
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2. Valuation in Financial Markets *
3. Investments
4. Arbitrage
5. Managing Investment Portfolios
6. Financial Institutions and Markets
7. Corporate Financing
8. Derivative Securities: Options & Futures
9. Bargaining & Negotiating
10. Management Decision Models
Global Economics and Markets:
1. Management of Economic Growth and Society
2. Business-Government Relations
3. Managing International Trade and Investment
4. Emerging Markets Finance
5. Global Industry Economics
Leadership and Organizational Behavior:
1. Bargaining and Negotiating
2. Establishing Yourself at Work
3. Human Capital Consulting
4. Leadership and Diversity through Literature
5. Leadership Learning Lab
6. Leadership Strategies
7. Leadership, Values, and Ethics
8. Leading Strategic Change
9. Leading Teams
10. Managerial Psychology
11. Mastering Global Leadership
12. Tactical Leadership
13. The Spirit of the New Workplace
Management Communications:
1. Advanced Managerial Communication
2. Corporate Communication
3. Media, Entertainment and Sports Management
4. Strategic Communication *
5. Interpersonal Communications
Marketing:
1. Managing Consumer Brands
2. Big Data in Marketing
3. Integrated Marketing Communications
4. Consumer Psychology
5. Marketing Intelligence *
6. Developing New Products and Services
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7. Interactive Marketing
8. Integration & Innovation in Services - The New Economy
9. Strategy Seminar
10. Valuation in Financial Markets * OR Financial Management
11. Management Decision Models
12. Competitive Dynamics Seminar
Operations:
1. Developing New Products and Services
2. Operations Strategy
3. Leading Strategic Change
4. Negotiations
5. General Managers Taking Action
6. General Management and Operational Effectiveness
7. Corporate Communication
8. Growing the Smaller Enterprise
9. Small Enterprise Finance
10. System Design and Business Dynamics
11. Managing Teams
12. Business to Business Marketing
Quantitative Analysis:
1. Data Analysis & Optimization*
2. DAO Webpage of Fame
3. Games and Auctions
4. Management Decision Models
5. Managerial Quantitative Analysis
Sustainability:
1. Business and Sustainability ( video)
2. Business Ethics through Literature
3. Business-Government Relations
4. Creative Capitalism ( video)
5. Entrepreneur as Change Agent
6. Faith, Religion and Responsible Management Decision Making
7. Global Economics of Water
8. Leadership and Diversity through Literature
9. Leadership and Theater: Ethics, Innovation and Creativity ( video)
10. Leadership, Values and Ethics
11. Markets in Human Hope
12. Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship
13. Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship ( video)
14. Systems Design & Business Dynamics
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Yale University http://som.yale.edu/our-programs/mba/curriculum/our-integrated-curriculum
[Online set 17. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Managing Groups and Teams
Basics of Accounting
Probability Modeling and Statistics
Modeling Managerial Decisions
Introduction to Negotiation
Basics of Economics
Organizational Perspectives (Competitor, Customer, Investor, Sourcing and Managing Funds,
Employee, Operations Engine, The Global Macroeconomy, Innovator, State and Society)
Integrated Management Perspectives
Global Study
Valgfag:
Foundations of Accounting and Valuation
Introduction to Marketing
Competitive Strategy
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations
Global Social Entrepreneurship: India
Mastering Influence & Persuasion I
Mastering Influence & Persuasion II
Corporate Finance I
Corporate Finance II
Financial Instrument & Contracts
GNAM Course: Mobil Banking Models for Developed and Emerging Markets
Pricing Strategy
Principles of Sustainability in Business
Energy Technology Innovation
Energy Systems Analysis
Behavioral and Institutional Economics
GNAM Course: Analysis of Competition Law and Enforcement Across Contries
Strategy, Technology & War
Policy Modeling
Entrepreneurial Business Planning
Managing Social Enterprises
Venture Capital & Private Equity Investments
The Regulation of Financial Institutions & Activities after the Financial Crisis
Start-up Founder Studies
Start-up Founder Practicum
World Financial History
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YCCI: Topics in Customer Insights
Transnational Corporations & Human Rights
Structuring Success: Skills and People Required to Convert Social Ideas into Positive Community
Reality
Corporate Environmental Management & Strategy
Nonprofit Organizations Clinic
Quantitative Investing
Financial Statement Analysis
Financial Distress: Restructuring Troubled Entities
Mathletics: Modeling Through Sports
Listening to the Customer
Strategic Market Measurement
Managing in Times of Rapid Change
Service Operations Management
Operations Strategy
Negotiations I
Negotiations II
Global Financial Crisis
Nonmarket Strategy
International Real Estate
Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Finance
The Next China
Capital Markets
GNAM Course: New Product Development
GNAM Course: Inclusive Business Models
Health Care Strategy
Duke University – Fuqua http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/programs/duke_mba/weekend-
mba/academics/curriculum/
[Online set d. 18 april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Leadership, Ethics, and Organizations (LEO)
Global Markets and Institutions (GMI)
Integrative Leadership Experience I (ILE I)
Probability and Statistics (Examines structures for managerial decision making under conditions of
partial information and uncertainty. After developing a foundation in probability theory, the course
extends this foundation to a set of methodologies for the analysis of decision problems. Included
are topics in probability, statistical inference, and regression analysis)
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Financial Accounting
Managerial Economics (This course considers how the actions of business firms, consumers, and
the government—operating within a price system in a decentralized market economy—answer
such basic resource allocation questions as what will be produced, how it will be produced, who
will consume what is produced, and what resources to divert from present consumption to
increase future consumption. The impact of various types of market structures (such as perfect
competition, monopoly, and oligopoly) on economic efficiency will be discussed.)
Integrative Leadership Experience II (ILE II)
Decision Models (Enhances the students' ability to address complex management problems
through the use of formal modeling and quantitative analysis techniques. Special emphasis is
placed on decision making under conditions of uncertainty and constrained resources. Analytical
techniques include decision analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and optimization.)
Marketing Management (Provides an overview of the role of marketing in organizations by
acquainting students with the fundamental issues and decisions involved in planning and managing
marketing activities in order to create value for customers. Attention is given to topics such as
product policy, pricing, advertising and communications, marketing research, and channels of
distribution. Major emphasis is placed on understanding the underlying forces that influence
marketing decisions, including customer behavior, competitive marketing activity, and
organizational considerations)
Managerial Accounting (Emphasizes the use of accounting information for internal purposes as
opposed to the external disclosure focus of the financial accounting course. The design of
management accounting systems for planning and controlling operations, and for motivating
personnel is covered. The course integrates accounting with ideas from microeconomics, data
analysis, finance, and operations management.)
Global Financial Management
Operations Management (Covers issues in the design, planning, and control of the processes by
which goods are manufactured and services are delivered. Specific topics include the analysis of
production processes, the impact of variability on process performance, inventory management,
lean productions, total quality management, process improvement, comparison of manufacturing
and service process management, and the strategic role of operations in the firm.)
Foundations of Strategy
Leadership and Development
Valgfag:
1. Corporate Finance
2. Corporate Restructuring
3. Emerging Markets
4. Energy & the Environment
5. Entrepreneurship & New Venture Management
6. Financial Statement Analysis
7. Health Sector Management
8. Investments
9. Leadership
10. Market Intelligence
11. Marketing of Innovations
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12. Negotiation
13. Real Estate Finance
14. Service Operations or Supply Chain
15. Valuation & Fundamental Analysis
16. Venture Capital & Private Equity
University of Texas – Austin (McCombs) http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/MBA/Full-
Time/Academics/Curriculum/Core-Curriculum
[Online set 18. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Financial Accounting
Financial Management
Statistics
Marketing Management (Introduces you to the marketing perspective on strategy development, to
the elements of marketing analysis, and to the functional decision areas of the marketing manager
including products and product lines, pricing policies, branding, promotion and advertising, and
channels of distribution. The overall objective of this first course in marketing is to provide you with
a structured approach to strategic marketing problems and decisions)
Operations Management
Managerial Economics (Composed of two segments: microeconomics and macroeconomics. The
microeconomics component covers how individuals and firms make economic decisions. The
macroeconomics component examines how changes in global economy impact managerial decision
making.)
Strategic Career Planning
Strategic Management
Valgfag:
Accounting:
1. Advanced Topics in Financial Reporting
2. Financial Accounting Standards and Analysis
3. Financial Statement Analysis
4. Fraud Examination
5. Introduction to Assurance Services
6. Issues in Accounting and Control for Nonprofit Organization
7. Managing Auditing and Control
8. Performance Management and Control (This is an accounting course, but it is emphatically
NOT a course about annual reports and 10 Ks. The class is built around key questions that
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managers must deal with relating to planning, decision making and control. We use cases
as the basis for discussing these questions, addressing both quantitative and qualitative
aspects of how companies create their internal numbers, how they use those numbers to make
decisions and measure the success or failure of those decisions (and of those who make them),
and how the design of measurement systems and assumptions sometimes distorts those
numbers. The course is in tended to be broadly applicable for all types of MBA students,
including those who will work in less quantitative areas but will nonetheless need to understand
and interpret an organization’s internal accounting data )
9. Petroleum Accounting
BGS-LEB:
1. Business, Government, and Public Policy
2. Employment Law
3. Law, Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility
4. Law for Entrepreneurs
5. Law for Finance
6. Law of Commercial Real Estate, Finance, and Development
7. Strategic Corporate Communications
Finance:
1. Advanced Corporate Finance
2. Energy Finance Practicum
3. Financial Management of Small Business
4. Financial Markets and Institutions
5. Financial Risk Management
6. Financial Strategies
7. Fixed Income Analysis
8. Global Finance
9. Investment Theory and Practice - Investment Fund
10. Portfolio Management and Security Analysis
11. Real Estate Markets
12. Real Estate Practicum
13. Seminar in Real Estate Finance
14. Special Topics in Investment - MBA Investment Fund
15. Special Topics in Investment - Real Estate Investment Trust
16. Valuation
17. Venture Capital Fellows Program
IROM:
1. Business Analytics and Decision Modeling
2. Data Mining for Business Intel
3. Decision Support Modeling
4. Energy Law
5. Financial Modeling and Optimization
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6. Information and Knowledge Management
7. Information Technology Management
8. Intellectual Property
9. Large-Scale System Optimization
10. Managing Complexity
11. Managing International Risk
12. Managing Projects
13. Operations Practicum
14. Pricing and Revenue Optimization
15. Supply Chain Management
Management:
1. Advocacy
2. Art and Science of Negotiation
3. Art of Leadership
4. Business Law and Innovation
5. Creating and Managing Human Capital
6. Energy Technology and Policy
7. Enterprise of Technology
8. Entrepreneurial Management
9. Entrepreneurial Growth
10. Entrepreneurship and Incubation
11. From Idea to Intellectual Property
12. Global Management
13. Introduction to Consulting
14. Leading People and Organizations
15. Management Consulting Practicum
16. Managing Corporate Diversification and Renewal
17. Managing and Marketing in the Global Arena
18. Managing Crises
19. Managing Innovation and Analysis
20. Politics and Process
21. Social Entrepreneurship
22. Texas Venture Labs Practicum
23. Topics in Sustainable Development
24. Management Sustainability Practicum
Marketing:
1. Brand Management
2. Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
3. Business and the Environment
4. Business in Emerging Markets
5. Business in Latin America
6. Consumer Behavior
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7. Corporate Governance
8. Creativity and Leadership
9. Customer Strategy
10. Integrated Marketing Communications
11. International Business Fellows Seminar
12. Invisible Global Marketing
13. Marketing High Technology Products
14. Marketing Information and Analysis
15. Marketing and Customer Insight Practicum
16. Marketing Metrics
17. Pricing Channels
18. Strategic Marketing
19. Analysis of Markets
20. CCIMS Marketing Fellows Practicum
21. Marketing Analysis and Decision Making in the Information Age
University of California – Los Angeles (Anderson) http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/centers/price-center-for-entrepreneurial-studies/mba-students/mba-
curriculum
[Online set 19. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Business Strategy
Date Analysis and Statistics
Financial Accounting
Managerial Economics
Managerial Finance
Operations and Technology Mgt.
Elements of Marketing
Managing Human Resources
Theory of Finance
Advanced Marketing Strategy
The Global Economy
Management Field Study
Management Field Study
Product Management
Marketing Research: Design & Evaluation
Option Markets
Selected Topics in Finance
Human Resources Strategy or Managing
Technology for Competitive Advantage
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Valgfag:
Accounting:
1. Intermediate Financial Accounting I
2. Intermediate Financial Accounting II
3. Advanced Financial Accounting
4. Cost Accounting
5. Law for Entrepreneurs
6. Tax Principles and Policies
Market Assessment Principles:
1. Marketing Strategy & Planning
2. Management in the Distribution Channel
3. Price Policies
4. Marketing Research: Design &Evaluation
5. Product Management
Strategy and Organization:
1. Growth, Science and Technology
2. Entrepreneurship & Venture Initiation
3. Small Business Management
4. Corporate Entrepreneurship
5. Family Business
6. Entrepreneurship & Business Plan Development
7. Social Entrepreneurship
8. Leadership During Periods of Radical or Rapid Change: Crisis Management
Finance:
1. Theory of Finance
2. Profit Sector Financial Policy
3. Working Capital Management
4. Takeovers, Restructuring and Governance
5. Financing the Emerging Enterprise
6. Option Markets
7. Special Topics in Finance
Production and Operations Management:
1. The Operating Manager
2. Operations Strategy & Policy
3. Supply Chain Management
4. Managing Technology for Competitive Advantage
5. Advanced Entrepreneurial Operations
Human Resource Management:
1. Behavioral Foundations of Human Resource Management
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2. Managing Human Resources
3. People in Organizations
4. Managing Entrepreneurial Organizations
5. Leadership, Motivation and Power
6. Negotiations Behavior
Other Courses:
1. Business Forecasting
2. Comparative Market Structure and Competition
3. Elements of Economic Organizations: Doing Deals
4. Negotiations Analysis
5. Strategy in the Digital Economy
6. Entrepreneurial Real Estate Development
7. Ethical Considerations in Business
8. Analysis and Communications
9. Management Field Study
10. Fieldwork in Technical Assistance for Minority Business Enterprise
11. Field work in Organizations
12. Fieldwork in Investment Management
13. Research in Management
Cornell University (Johnson) http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Two-Year-MBA/Curriculum/Core-
Courses
[Online set 19. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Leading Teams
Financial Accounting
Microeconomics for Management
Marketing Management
Critical and Strategic Thinking
Managerial Finance
Strategy
Managing Operations
Data Analytics and Modeling
Valgfag:
N/A
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Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) http://tepper.cmu.edu/prospective-
students/masters/mba/curriculum
[Online set 19. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Probability and Statistics
Managerial Economics (This course presents the basic concepts of microeconomics theory with an
emphasis on business applications. The approach of microeconomics is to solve an economic
problem by modeling it as an optimization problem; the solution to the optimization problems then
interpreted in terms of the original economic problem. This approach will be used to answer such
problems as input selection, pricing and project selection. The format of the class is to present
theory common to a general class of applied problems and then to apply the theory by solving
actual problems. The goal of the class is for the students to be capable of applying the basic
concepts to problems faced both future classes (e.g. finance, macroeconomics) and future careers.)
Accounting I (This course is the first of two required accounting courses, designed to provide MBA
students with a solid foundation in accounting. The course introduces students to (1) corporate
financial statements and (2) basic cost concepts and their uses. By the end of the course, students
will have an improved ability to analyze the information content of financial statements and data
from managerial accounting systems. The course will be a mixture of practical, conceptual, and
critical approaches. From a practical viewpoint, the course will cover the relationship between
accounting data and a firm's underlying operating, investing, and financing activities. At a more
conceptual level, the course will focus on the principles and concepts that underlie common
reporting practices. The critical approach will focus on the limitations of accounting data, arising
from sensitivity to estimation methods as well as from possible manipulations.)
Corporate Strategy
Communication
Leadership Feedback Workshops
Optimization
Marketing
Finance
Managing People and Teams
Presentations
Statistical Decision Making
Accounting II (The objective of this course is to provide the student with the ability to use
accounting information to make longer-term planning and control decisions. In this second course
in accounting, we focus mainly on performance evaluation, taking into account the measurement
and incentive implications. We will learn not only how to measure and evaluate the performance of
internal sub-units of the firm from an internal managerial perspective, but also how to evaluate the
overall firm’s performance from an external stakeholder's perspective. Topics covered include:
activity based costing, budgeting, variance analysis, responsibility centers, transfer pricing, internal
control and performance evaluation, inter-company investment accounting and financial statement
analysis)
Operations
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Ethics
Global Economics or Managing Networks and Organizations
Valgfag:
1. Financial Statement Analysis
2. Entrepreneurship for High Growth Companies
3. Commercialization and Innovation: Strategy
4. Finance II
5. Options
6. Business to Business Marketing
7. Negotiations
8. Applications of Operations Research
9. Demand Management and Price Optimization (Operation Management, Throughout this course
we illustrate mathematical analysis and strategic principles applied to real operational challenges,
i.e., the tools of demand management and price optimization. We seek both rigor and
relevance. Our aim is to provide both tactical knowledge and high-level insights needed by general
managers and management consultants. We will demonstrate that companies can use (and have
used) the tools from this course to significantly enhance their competitiveness. We will cover
different kinds of business processes, including service operations and manufacturing. Specifically,
the course deals with the management of reservations for capacity (revenue management), the
optimization of tactical and operational pricing decisions (constrained-supply pricing, markdown
pricing, and customized pricing), and the integration of demand and supply management decisions
(joint pricing, inventory, production, and distribution management).)
10. Risk Management
11. Government and Business
12. Strategic IT
13. Information Security and Privacy
14. Innovation Ecosystems
15. Communicating Change
16. Business Acing I
17. Financial Regulation
18. Marketing Communication & Buyer Behavior
19. Managing Intellectual Capital & Knowledge
20. Managerial Economics
21. Business Fundamentals
22. Entrepreneurial Alternatives
23. Investment Analysis
24. Corporate Finance
25. Brand Strategy
26. Organizational Learning and Strategic Management
27. Trade and Investment Strategy
28. Modern Data Management
29. Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives
30. Consulting and Conflict Resolution
31. Business Acting II
32. International Financial Statement Analysis
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33. The Business of Healthcare Innovations
34. Commercialization and Innovation: Workshop
35. Marketing for Entrepreneurship
36. Emerging Markets
37. Theory and Policy of Modern Finance
38. Debt Markets
39. Studies in Financial Engineering
40. Customer-Driven Strategies and Services
41. Evidence-Based Management
42. Evolving Toward High Impact Leadership
43. Operations Research Implementations
44. Business Network
45. Sustainable Operations
46. Real Options
47. Advance Information Security & Privacy (Operations Management, This advice is particularly
relevant when it pertains to strategic and tactical decisions. Before we can advise managers on
what to do, we need to specify an objective function to be optimized. This task is nontrivial,
because there is potential for disagreement among shareholders, due to differences in their risk
attitudes, time preferences, wealth, and labor income. However, if we consider (i) sufficiently small
projects that do not affect market prices (price taking assumption) and (ii) that generate cash flows
that can be replicated using portfolios of traded securities (partial spanning assumption), then
shareholders all agree that managers should maximize the market value of a firm’s equity. Even
when these assumptions are violated, this objective function can be a reasonable proxy for guiding
managerial decision making. The standard net present value rule used by static discounted cash
flow analysis is consistent with this objective function only in very special circumstances: The
selection of now or never projects characterized by a deterministic stream of future cash flows.
That is, this approach ignores the ability of managers to use all the available information when
deciding on the timing to undertake a project and when managing a project.
In contrast to static discounted cash flow analysis, real options analysis is an approach to
managerial decision making that always assumes that managers maximize the market value of
projects and they use all the available information when making decisions, in particular when
managing projects that involve dynamic and state contingent choices among alternatives (options),
such as, expanding/reducing manufacturing capacity, investing in new products or technology,
suspending production, and mothballing a plant. The resulting valuation and managerial decisions
can thus be very different when real options analysis is used rather than static discounted cash flow
analysis.)
48. Business Management
49. Corporate Financial Reporting
50. Money, Banking and Financial Markets
51. Venture Capital and Private Equity
52. International Finance
53. Real Estate
54. Marketing Research
55. New Product Management
56. Organizational Power and Influence
57. Organizational Power and Influence
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58. Data Mining
59. Optimization Methods in Finance
60. Supply Chain Management
61. Strategic Corporate Management
62. Mobile Pervasive Computing Services
63. Corporate Restructuring
64. Developing Star Performers
65. Service Management: GO-TO-MARKET Strategy and Operations
66. Big Data
67. Designing and Leading a Business-Special Section
68. Strategy, Performance Measurement and Corporate Governance (The course studies the role of
managerial accounting systems in developing, communicating, and implementing an organization's
strategy. Much of the course is focused on incentive issues throughout the organization, including
the board of directors (corporate governance), top management team (executive compensation),
division heads (investment, profit, revenue, and cost centers), and lower-level managers.
Managerial accounting systems establish administrative procedures (e.g., strategic planning and
budgeting), performance measures (e.g., revenues, costs, profits, ROI, EVA, variances from budget,
the Balanced Scorecard, etc.), and contracts (both explicit and implicit contracts).)
69. Gaining Advantage Through Sales
70. Monetary Policy in the US and Abroad
71. Pricing Strategy
72. Consumer Behavior
73. Team Conflict and Multiparty Negotiation
74. Statistical Applications in Management
75. Six Sigma Tools and Techniques
76. Operations Strategy
77. Technology Strategy
78. Contracts
79. Digital Marketing and Social Media Strategy
80. Executive Communication Skills
81. Taxes and Business Strategy
82. Funding Early Stage Ventures
83. Capitalism
84. Business Forecasting W/Time Series Models
85. Energy Finance
86. Marketing With Electronic and Social Media
87. Organizational Change
88. Personnel Strategy
89. Catastrophic Risk Analysis
90. Mobile Pervasive Computing Project
91. Management of Software Development for Technology Executives
92. System Architecture for Managers
93. Product and Brand Management
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University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) http://www.kenan-
flagler.unc.edu/programs/mba/curriculum
[Online set 20. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
Analytical Tools
Financial Accounting
Financial Tools
Leading & Managing
Microeconomics
Business Strategy
Finance
Macroeconomics
Marketing
Operations
Teamwork Assessment
Ethical Leadership
Management Communication: Presentation Skills
Managerial Accounting: (Managerial accounting provides information for decision making,
product–costing, and planning-control-evaluation activities. This course takes the
perspective of both the user and the preparer of accounting information. The emphasis is
on the fundamental concepts and the strategic importance of accounting data to
managerial activity with special consideration given to the underlying accounting
procedures and the underlying accounting processes. During this course, you should
specifically:
Develop an appreciation for the role of accounting data in decision making, product-costing, and planning-control-evaluation activities;
Embrace an understanding of the data accumulation process in order to facilitate effective communication between managers and accountants;
Master specific techniques for using a myriad of accounting information in multiple situations; and
Internalize contemporary concerns with respect to U.S. productivity and the world economy along with implications for information systems.
Teaching Methods: A significant amount of group and case work.
Materials Covered:
Product Costing and the Manufacturing Environment Activity Cost Analysis and Planning
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Profitability Analysis and Planning Contribution Analysis for Decision Making Operational Budgeting Performance Assessment Strategic Management of Price, Cost, and Quality Profitability of Strategic Business Segments )
Valgfag:
A sample of our most popular electives of the past 2 years is grouped below.
Accounting:
Complex Deals Financial Statement Analysis Taxes in Finance Topics in Financial Reporting
Entrepreneurship:
Business Plan Analysis Family Business Introduction to Entrepreneurship Launching the Venture Social Entrepreneurship The Business and Economics of Sport VC Deal Structure
Finance:
Applied Corporate Finance Fundamental Principles of Corporate Finance Investment Banking Real Estate Process Mergers and Acquisitions Portfolio Management
Healthcare:
Challenge of Healthcare: A System Overview Healthcare Entrepreneurship Healthcare Marketing Healthcare Reform and New Market Realities Health System Mergers and Strategic Transactions
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Management:
Corporate Strategy Global Leadership: Leading Across Cultures Negotiations Groups and Teams in Organizations Leading in the Middle Global Business Strategy
Marketing:
Brand Strategy Customer Relationship Management Global Marketing Marketing Analysis Pricing Sales
Operations:
Data Analytics: Tools and Opportunities Management Science Models Project Management Retail Operations Service Operations Management Supply Chain Management
Sustainable Enterprise:
Alternative Energy Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility Innovations in Green Building Strategies in Sustainable Enterprise Sustainability Immersion Systems Thinking for Sustainable Enterprise
Emory University http://goizueta.emory.edu/degree/fulltimemba/curriculum/index.html
[Online set 20. april 2015]
Obligatoriske fag:
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Economics
Data & Decision Analytics
Marketing Management
Financial Management
Financial Reporting & Analysis
Professional Communications
Leading With Emotional Intelligence
Leading Organizations & Strategy
Managerial Finance (Address the theory and practice of financial management, defined by many as
the raising and allocation of financial resources by the companies over time)
Processes & Systems Management (As technology becomes more integrated into business
processes, managers and leaders alike must be able to understand and communicate the enabling
potential of these tools across the supply chain. This course integrates the fundamental principles
of information systems and operations management to cover the multiple activities comprising a
firm's operating core and its supply chain. This course examines what is required in order for firms
to achieve world class operational performance and supply chain integration. Topics include the
supply chain perspective, supplier partnerships, process analysis, lean manufacturing, theory of
constraints, quality management and system modeling and simulation.)
Management Practice
Valgfag:
Accounting:
1. Advanced Financial Accounting
2. Auditing
3. Financial Reporting I
4. Financial Reporting II
5. Financial Statement Analysis
6. Information and Global Capital Markets
7. Managerial Accounting
8. Tax for Management Decisions
Finance:
1. Advanced Corporate Finance
2. Advanced Derivative Assets
3. Advanced Real Estate Finance
4. Applied Investment Management
5. Corporate Governance and Restructuring
6. Derivative Asset Analysis
7. Doing Deals: Private Equity
8. Economic Environment of Business
9. Fixed Income Securities
10. Global Derivatives Markets
11. Global Macroeconomic Perspectives
12. International Finance
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13. Investing in Illiquid Assets
14. Investment Banking
15. Project Finance
16. Real Estate Development
17. Real Estate Investment Analysis
18. Real Estate Management and Finance
19. Real Estate Market Analysis
20. Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management
21. Venture Capital and Private Equity
Information Systems & Operations Management:
1. An APP for That: Designing the Small and the Many
2. Analytics for e-Markets
3. Business Forecasting
4. Decision Modeling
5. Decision Tools and Visualization
6. Operations Strategy
7. Process Analysis and Six Sigma
8. Project Management and Collaboration
9. Social Media and Virtual Communities
10. Strategic Decision Analysis
11. Supply Chain Management
Marketing:
1. Bio-Tech Market Analysis
2. Customer Behavior
3. Customer Relationship Management
4. Goizueta Marketing Strategy Consultancy
5. Ideation
6. Integrated Marketing Communications
7. Market Intelligence: Making Data- Driven Decisions
8. Marketing Seminar
9. Marketing Strategy
10. Marketing Fieldwork
11. New Product Lab
12. Sports Marketing
13. Pricing and Marketing Productivity
14. Product and Brand Management
15. Sales and Business Development
Organization & Management:
1. Advanced Strategy Topics
2. Applied Entrepreneurship
3. Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
4. Corporate Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions
5. Entrepreneurship