Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Concentration: Management of Global Information Technology
BUAD-6-- Designing System for Global Users (Summer 2000)
Focus on the design of systems for global users, including users in other countries working in their own language with culturally appropriate and appealing systems (i.e., globalization) and users working across language barriers. Technologies covered include web pages, web browsers, web page development tools, word processors, translation management tools, machine translation, optical character recognition, search tools, and cross-language information retrieval.
Project 1; Beer World
Study of practices and procedures of the export and import processes with emphasis on international logistics, the role of international trade intermediaries, and the development of the export/import marketing programs, particularly for small businesses.
As workers enter the e-business marketplace, traditional backgrounds in business strategy, marketing, and operations are no longer sufficient to be competitive. Knowledge of the phases and methodology behind e-commerce implementations is key to providing value in a modern professional services firm. Focuses on life cycle of a fictitious retail business to consumer e-commerce site. Participation in the development of actual project deliverables and augmented by hands-on experience and problem solving of production challenges.Interactive Extranet for Class Discussions (Userid and Password required)
Electronic commerce is the conduct of intra-organizational transactions, messages, and inquiries through purely electronic means, as opposed to paper and/or voice. This course presents a survey of consumer and business-to-business electronic commerce models, systems, and technical solutions. Focuses on developing analytical skills in understanding the Internet's ability to introduce new forms of intermediation and understanding of the Internet B-2-B electronic commerce.Electronic Intermediaries in the Energy Industry
Electronic Intermediaries in the Energy Industry (Mirror Site)
An intensive introduction to the legal and ethical issues confronting the global business manager. The legal system, legal processes, and several areas of substantive commercial law relevant to the business manager; developing recognition of legal and ethical issues and their managerial implications. Examines product liability, the administrative legal process of regulation, antitrust, and the contract as the fundamental legal instrument of global commercial relations.
Focuses on developing and applying strategic management to successfully position organizations in a competitive global environment. Course is integrated with previous course experiences to hone decision making, analysis, and oral and written communication skills. Students work in small teams to analyze a real company's external environment, perform an internal corporate audit, and build detailed action plans including implementation issues and financial forecasting.
Daewoo's Globalization: Uz-Daewoo Auto Project
Daewoo's Globalization: Uz-Daewoo Auto Project (Presentation)
Uzbekistan - Currency Convertibility in Uzbekistan
The New Network Firm: A spherical Structure Built on a Human Investment Philosophy (Presentation)
This sequel to the systems analysis course (BUAD-657) covers the design activities for developing information systems, particularly database design. Covers both the technical facets of database implementation and management of large corporate databases. Course includes case studies and illustrations from global corporations with large distributed systems and hands-on exercises and projects.
System analysis is the first step in building an information system. The course focuses on two fundamental skills: understanding the customer's needs and modeling those needs using an automated tool. Includes case studies and illustrations from global corporations and hands-on exercises and projects.
Reverse-Engineered Borders Book Information Technology System Project
The foundation for understanding global commerce is becoming an informed customer of the vast telecommunications infrastructure that is making it possible. Lectures and case studies are used to understand the industry players, competitive advantages via telecommunications, and telecommunications investment decisions in the global business environment.
Case Study - MasterCard's Virtual Private Network
Case Study – CLECs Provide Alternative Medicine
Case Study - AQUILA - Satellite Access Network
Presentation - J. P. Morgan's Global Telecommunications Architecture
Team Project - J.P. Morgan's Global Telecommunications Architecture
Introduces future technology managers to the fundamentals, concepts, and terminology of telecommunications equipment and media, data communications, basic protocols, and network architecture.
Case Study - Rockwell International
Team Project - Internet Telephony
An introduction to current marketing management techniques and the tools necessary for effective marketing decision-making. Global perspective on marketing management and international marketing issues. Interactive learning techniques include the case method and active class participation. Issues including ethics, minorities, and the ecological environment are incorporated. Course content requires familiarity with micro economics theory, basic concepts of accounting, and Quattro-Pro or similar spreadsheet program.
Case Analysis - Pacific Pride Services, Inc.
Case Analysis - Rogers Communications, Ltd.
Case Analysis - Kirin Brewer Co. Ltd. - The Dry Beer War.
The practices and principles involved in conducting the functional aspects of business in an international context; includes the study of the nature, scope, and trends of international business as well as the international monetary system, international agreements, and considerations resulting from the environmental differences between nations.
Case Study - Chaos in the Currency Markets
Class Presentation - Chaos in the Currency Markets
Chapter Summaries and Class Notes (Combined effort of the class of Spring 1999)
The theoretical, technological, practical, and managerial foundations of management information systems. Includes information technologies, systems development, the impact of information systems on business organizations, information technology as a competitive tool, and the management of information systems within domestic and multinational corporations. Introduces students to current systems and software.
Case Study - International Airlines Integrated Customer Information System (ICIS)
Case Study - Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A) and (B)
Case Study: OTISLINE
Case Study: Nokia Telecommunications: Redesign of International Logistics
Final Project - MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM PROPOSAL
The current managerial issues involved with the behavior of individuals in organizations, including motivation; recruiting, selection and placement; leadership; performance appraisal; organizational structure; compensation; organizational culture; diversity; equal opportunity; and change.
Case Study - People Express Case Analysis
Case Study - FAA and Air Traffic Controllers
Case Study - HRM/OB Problems and Recommendations in Order Administration
Case Study - Integrated Circuit Group Reorganization
Financial theory and techniques of analysis, including valuation theory, theories of risk measurement, managing the firm's investment decisions and capital structure, sources of financing for the firm and financial planning and analysis.
Operations research concerns itself with deciding how to best design and operate complex real-world systems. In this course students use actual OR applications in production, distribution, transportation, and inventory management to learn how to mathematically model decision problems, solve the models using state-of-the-art microcomputer software, analyze model output, and implement results.
The decision-aiding tools that can be applied by managers to gain insight into decision problems range from easy-to-visualize graphical displays of data to sophisticated statistical tests. In this course students use real-world data sets and microcomputer-based software to learn how to describe sets of measurements, construct probability distributions, estimate numerical descriptive measures, and build linear statistical models.
Macroeconomics: gross domestic product and its components; determinants of consumption and savings; monetary policy on interest rates and fiscal policy on taxes and expenditures; inflation and unemployment; foreign exchange markets; project analysis of the aggregate economy.
Case Study - Petroleum Prices Fall as Driving Season Fades
Case Study - Retail Sales Rose Again Last Month, But 0.3% Gain Implies Pace is Slowing
Case Study - Current Economic Expansions Could Be Headed For The Record Books
Microeconomics of the household and firm. Consumer demand and pricing; incomes, prices and preferences; firm behavior: variable and fixed costs, hiring labor and capital, and production level; firms in perfectly and imperfectly competitive markets; pricing strategy; project analysis of firms and industries; analysis of data on costs, revenue and pricing of a specific form and business.
Case Study - Electricity Savings To Be Short-Circuited - Deregulation Benefits To Consumers Will Be Delayed
Case Study - IBM to Introduce $999 PC To Compete with Rivals
A survey of fundamental financial accounting principles focusing on the strengths and limitations of accounting information for external users. Includes asset and equity valuation, income determination, basic transition analysis, financial accounting alternatives, primary financial statements and financial accounting issues related to multinational operations.
A survey of fundamental managerial accounting concepts with emphasis on the utility of accounting information for management planning, control, and decision making. Includes cash flows, cost behavior patterns, basic cost accounting, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, special decision applications, responsibility accounting and performance reporting.
Team Project - Electric Industry Project
Class Presentation - Changes in Electric Industry
The acquisition of knowledge and skills in three primary areas: diversity, team building/meeting management, and negotiation/conflict management. Through readings, cases, simulations and out-of-class applications, students gain insights into their personal competencies while developing techniques for effectively managing interpersonal and group processes with an appreciation for cultural differences.