MBA 600 | Introduction to the MBA and Management Theory | 4 hours
This course reviews both the graduate management program and surveys leading contemporary leadership and management theories. In addition, the 360 degree managerial communication paradigm will be demonstrated as the main communication mechanism for management consulting teams. Students will also be introduced to the idea of using statistics as an important tool in their management decisions and will review several key statistical packages for management decision-making.

MBA 610 | Managerial Marketing Research | 4 hours
This course surveys both traditional and Internet approaches to marketing research. Students will be able to use enterprise and syndicated data sources, carry out data analysis, forecast sales via multiple regression and time series analyses; data mine; exploit and analyze scanner data; model market response behavior; and develop and analyze web site traffic metrics.

MBA 630 | Budgeting and Corporation Finance | 6 hours
This course discusses basic principles of finance and provides practical tools for financial decisions and valuation in a corporate context. The course starts by applying asset pricing tools to evaluate projects. Capital structure decisions are examined next, with an emphasis on how it may affect firm value. Other critical finance topics will be examined: how firms raise capital, agency conflicts, dividend policies, and mergers and acquisitions.

MBA 650 | Human Resources and Organizational Behavior | 4 hours
This course focuses on the executive level role of the human resource professional. The course content is centered on recruitment and selection, compensation, and the legal dimensions of human resource management. In addition, students will explore the dynamics of directing the human resources of a business organization. As noted above, a key element of this class is developing familiarity with the legal environment of personnel decisions and best practices in personnel advertising, recruitment, evaluation, promotion, and termination.

MBA 670 | International Business | 4 hours
This course takes a functional analysis of transnational legal principles relevant to the conduct and understanding of global business and economic transactions. Topics covered include the international legal environment and process, international and regional organizations; international contracts and sales; global financing and the regulation of international trade; national and international economic controls; transnational reach of criminal and economic regulations; foreign investments and taxation; global issues related to the environment, technology transfer and employment; and dispute resolution.

MBA 680 | Business Ethics | 4 hours
This course confronts a number of moral and legal issues that arise on both a domestic and international scale. This course will examine the arguments raised by partisans of conflicting viewpoints, sorting out the competing interests that motivate them. The goal in this course is to learn to articulate and defend informed opinions on topics of contemporary concern. As this is a critical part of the Mission of Mount Marty College, many of the topics will also be embedded in other classes in the curriculum.

MBA 690 | Executive Strategic Management | 4 hours
This course has four goals: (1) to develop an awareness of the strategic decisions that organizations must make and the factors on which they depend; (2) to provide a conceptual framework for identifying, evaluating, and formulating strategies; (3) to integrate material learned in the basic functional courses; (4) to convey an understanding of the formal and informal processes involved in formulating and implementing strategies. While this is not a formal class in Decision Science per se, it will use many of the statistical and modeling tools and processes of Decision Science to help students master the art of strategic management.

MBA 695 | Management Consulting | 6 hours
This course applies the theories covered in the EMBA course content to actual business consulting projects in industry. Upon completion of their consulting project, students will make presentations to senior management in client corporations. That management will review and critique their analysis and recommendations.