Overview

With an MBA/MST joint degree, you’ll learn how to handle taxation for corporate strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and other business transactions in the global arena. You’ll graduate able to anticipate tax law changes and manage their impact on businesses.

The program is offered full-time and part-time at our main campus in Boston. The MBA portion of the joint degree can also be completed at North Campus or fully online. Many MST courses are also available online.

Curriculum

MBA Required Introductory Course (1 Credit)

• MBA-600 Effective Career Planning

  Credits:

  1.00

  Description:

  A hands-on behavioral simulation run in teams, this course highlights the interpersonal dynamics that occur between people as they address strategic and operating issues; issues that often involve departmental interdependencies, power relationships, and judgment. MBA 600 emphasizes experiential learning through doing. Working in teams, students assume different roles in the organization. Each role contains extensive information on past business decisions and correspondence on current issues, problem symptoms, and decision situations.

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Required

MBA Core Courses* (18 Credits)

*May be waived with credit

• MBA-610 Organizational Behavior

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  This course explores human behavior and the overall functioning of organizational structures on three levels: the individual, the group, and the organization. Theoretical bases of behavior are used to provide understanding of peoples attitudes, motives, and behaviors in group and organizational settings as they relate to leadership, motivation, power, perceptions, group dynamics, communication, diversity, organizational culture, and decision making.

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Core

• MBA-622 Operations & Data Analysis

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  This course covers topics of operations management in the services, manufacturing and distribution industries while introducing statistics and quantitative analytic tools relevant to all functional areas. Applications include supply chain management, total quality management, forecasting, inventory planning and control, project planning and management, risk analysis, process design, and human resources issues in a global economy. Analytic tools for these applications include descriptive statistics and graphics, uncertainty assessment, inferences from samples, decision analysis and models, simulation, and regression analysis.

  Term:

  Offered Both Fall and Spring

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Core

• MBA-630 Economic Analysis for Managers

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  This course develops the basic tools for microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis with emphasis on business decision-making and the impact of economic policy on organizational performance and competitiveness with respect to global business.

  Term:

  Offered Both Fall and Spring

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Core

• MBA-640 Corporate Financial Reporting and Control

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Explores the structure and information content of the three principal financial statements of profit-directed companies, namely the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Students learn skills in how to use accounting information to analyze the performance and financial condition of a company, facilitate decision-making, planning and budgeting, and performance appraisal in a managerial context. Students with no prior background in accounting complete a programmed instruction in the mechanics of double entry accounting at the start of the course.

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Core

• MBA-650 Value Based Financial Management

  Prerequisites:

  MBA 620, MBA 630, MBA 640

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  This course introduces the basic principles of corporate finance. The main focus is on fundamental principles such as time value of money, asset valuation, and risk and return tradeoff. Topics to be covered also include cost of capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure.

  Term:

  Offered Both Fall and Spring

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Core

• MBA-660 Marketing: the Challenge of Managing Value

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Marketing is changing - constantly driven by dramatic technology developments, globalization, and evolving consumption values, practices, and lifestyles. This course covers Marketing themes, theories, and trends that are critical for superior business performance in the 21st century. In this course, we will examine current marketing theory as it is being shaped by forward thinking academics and new developments in todays business practices. This course provides students with a strong foundation in marketing principles and practices required in upper level elective courses.

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Core

Accounting Preparation Courses* (12 Credits)

*May be waived with credit

• ACCT-801 Graduate Financial Accounting I

  Prerequisites:

  MBA 640

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Students learn the practice of financial accounting and reporting under USGAAP. They explore the measurement and reporting of various asset, liability, and equity accounts; measurement and reporting of revenue, expense and net income; and the presentation and interpretation of financial statements. Pronouncements of authoritative sources such as the SEC, AICPA and the FASB are also studied. Reference is made to accounting practices in other countries and to pronouncements by the IASB.

  Type:

  MBA Accounting

• ACCT-802 Graduate Financial Accounting II

  Prerequisites:

  ACCT 801 or permission of instructor

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Continues the treatment of financial accounting and reporting from ACCT 801. Students learn the US GAAP accounting treatment of corporate securities and derivative contracts, treasury stock, contingent and recognized liabilities - including post-retirement benefits, bonds and leases, and the allocation of corporate tax expense. Accounting for inflation and changing prices are also discussed.

  Type:

  MBA Accounting

• ACCT-865 Technology and Financial Information Systems

  Prerequisites:

  MBA-640 Or ACCT-802

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Students learn how information management technologies affect the provision of disclosing financial information to management and to the financial markets. Students learn financial modeling to support planning and control processes, decision and executive support systems, database design, technical aspects of organizational communication and the implementation of internal controls; privacy and data security issues.

  Type:

  MBA Accounting

• BLLS-800 Business Law

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Examines the philosophy and practice of substantive law affecting the formation, operation and discharge of commercial transactions and contracts, and business associations, including agency, partnership, corporation and trust forms of association. Aspects of property law as well as international dimensions are considered.

  Term:

  Offered Both Fall and Spring

  Type:

  MBA Business Law & Ethics

Tax Core Courses** (12 Credits)

**May be waived and another tax elective substituted at the discretion of the MST Director.

• TAX-801 Issues in Federal Taxation

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  This first course in taxation concentrates on the federal income taxation of individuals with some discussion of business taxation. The objective of the course is to explore the basic structure of individual income taxation, including the individual tax formula, income, deductions and credits and an introduction to property transactions. A major emphasis is placed on how tax laws affect everyday personal and business decisions.

  Type:

  MBA Tax

• TAX-861 Tax Research

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Tax research methods, including identifying and defining tax questions, locating appropriate authority, and interpreting statutes, cases and rulings. Effective communication of research findings and recommendations, and proper administration, ethics and responsibilities of tax practice are emphasized in this course.

  Type:

  MBA Tax

• TAX-862 Taxation of Corporations

  Prerequisites:

  TAX 801 and TAX 861

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Concepts, principles and practices of taxation of corporations and their shareholders. The effects of taxation on corporate formation, capital structures, distribution and liquidation are covered.

  Type:

  MBA Tax

• TAX-863 Tax of Pass-Through Entities

  Prerequisites:

  TAX 801 and TAX 861

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  Concepts, principles and practices of taxation of partnerships and S-corporations, including the use of pass-through entities for tax planning.

  Type:

  MBA Tax

Electives (24 Credits)

Required MBA Capstone (3 Credits)

• MBA-800 Strategic Management

  Prerequisites:

  All MBA core courses and MBA 780 Students seeking special permission to take MBA 800 (concurrent with pre-req, above capacity, etc.) should contact the MBA Programs office at 617-573-8306

  Credits:

  3.00

  Description:

  In this course, students will develop a multi- functional general management perspective. Students will be required to integrate and apply knowledge and techniques learned in the core courses of the MBA program. Students will also learn about the principal concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management, they will develop the capacity for strategic thinking, and they will examine the organizational and environ- mental contexts in which strategic management unfolds. Students will achieve these course objectives through a variety of learning activities, such as case studies, computer simulations, examinations, project reports, and experiential exercises.

  Term:

  Offered Both Fall and Spring

  Type:

  MBA & Global MBA Required

Waivers and Transfer Credits