Executive MBA (EMBA) Archive 2019-2020

Executive MBA Archive 2019-2020

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Self-Aware Leader Seminar-Boston- Fall 1 Semester- Two Days 
An off-campus team-building business simulation with your cohort to develop your personal leadership style and increase self-awareness. 

Leadership and Team Building Seminar - Fort Myers, Florida - One Week
This seminar develops and refines your team leadership skills. It combines classroom activities with the experiential, competitive challenge of team sailboat racing creating an intense team experience that integrates theory and practice.

Global Business Seminar- London and Paris- Spring Semester- One Week
Develop and present strategic recommendations to international organizations through multiple flash consulting engagements to gain critical economic, political and cultural perspectives on doing business globally.

Public Policy Seminar- Washington, D.C.- Summer Semester- One Week
This one-week immersion provides first-hand exposure to the link between public policy development and organizational strategy. Meet with lobbyists and leaders at think tanks, regulatory agencies, national associations, and other organizations that influence public policy development.

Executive MBA Program Degree Requirements

Suffolk’s Executive MBA course content and subject areas are described below.

EMBA Curriculum

13 Courses
45 Credits

Program Length: 16 months

Fall I Semester (12 Credits)

Credits:

1.5

Description:

This two-day, off-campus seminar emphasizes how personal leadership style and self-awareness influences both team dynamics and performance outcomes in the context of a business simulation, during which students address strategic and operational issues.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course provides the foundation for skills that are a prerequisite for being a successful manager and leader. Most people fail to advance in an organization because they lack the management skills necessary to function effectively in an organizational setting. The general purpose of this course is to help you acquire and practice the knowledge and skills to manage people and organizations. This knowledge is essential to those whose career goals include achieving leadership positions in an organization.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course develops skills in how to use accounting information to analyze the performance and financial condition of a company, and to facilitate decision-making, planning and budgeting, and performance appraisal in a managerial context. This course focuses on the use of accounting information - such as the financial reporting, analysis, interpretation and decision-making and downplays the preparation aspect involving accounting mechanics such as detailed journal entries and ledger preparation.

Credits:

3

Description:

Conducted in Miami, Florida, this seminar develops and refines organizational leadership skills by combining classroom activities and a physical challenge to create an intense team experience based on integrating theory and practice.

Spring Semester (12 Credits)

Prerequisites:

Take EMBA-600, EMBA-610, and EMGOB-855

Credits:

3

Description:

Introduces students to operations management in the services, manufacturing and distribution industries while covering 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, and regression analysis.

Credits:

1.5

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.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of the global business environment and the cross-cultural factors that affect management practice in this environment. Topics covered include economic environment, free trade and regional integration, foreign direct investment, exchange rate determination and relevant government policies, the decision to go international, and the multinational firm and its business functions.

Credits:

1.5

Description:

Feasible opportunities can occur in existing or new business organizations. However, what is a feasible opportunity? What are the differences in identifying, planning, and executing new business opportunities within existing (corporate entrepreneurship) or new entities (new venture creation/startups)? In this course, you will begin the opportunity recognition process by understanding how creativity can generate business ideas for assessment and validation for business potential. You will validate the opportunity through business planning techniques, as well as understand the constraints created by an existing corporate culture where resources may be abundant or scarce (in the context of return on investment, corporate synergy, recognition in the marketplace, incremental and/or radical innovation potential, etc.), or where organizational structures, politics, etc. restrict or enhance the ability to launch new opportunities. For new ventures, you will validate the opportunity's ability to generate sustainable profit, growth, and capital, in a landscape where innovation and failure are prevalent.

Summer Semester (12 Credits)

Prerequisites:

Take EMBA-622, EMBA-630, and EMBA-640

Credits:

3

Description:

Introduces the basic principles of corporate finance. The main focus of the course is on fundamental principles such as time value of money, asset valuation, and risk and return trade-off. Topics covered also include cost of capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure.

Credits:

3

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 examine current marketing theory as it is being shaped by forward-thinking academics and new developments in business practices. This course provides students with a strong foundation in marketing principles and practices.

Credits:

3

Description:

Conducted in Washington, D.C., this seminar provides a first hand exposure to the linkage between public and economic policy and its impact on business strategy development and execution. It includes meetings with key members of Congress, the Administration, lobbyists, the media, and other organizations that may influence policy development.

Credits:

3

Description:

Emphasizes the theory and skills of win-win negotiation. Students assess their own negotiation styles, analyze the process of negotiation and apply theory-based skills for integrative problem-solving approaches to negotiation. The course utilizes a mix of teaching tools, including readings, lectures, cases, exercises, videotapes and role-playing.

Fall II Semester (9 Credits)

Credits:

3

Description:

This course explores multidisciplinary analytical techniques and case analysis as strategic management tools to assist executives in successful navigation of an increasingly complex, evolving, and highly competitive business environment in which ethical, legal, economic, and regulatory forces are continuously reshaping the global marketplace both to create and limit competitive opportunities.

Prerequisites:

Take EMBA-600 and EMBA-610

Credits:

3

Description:

Students develop a multifunctional general management perspective, integrating and applying knowledge and techniques learned in the core courses of the EMBA program. Students also learn about the principal concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management; develop the capacity for strategic thinking; and examine the organizational and environmental contexts in which strategic management unfolds. Students achieve these course objectives through a variety of learning activities, such as case studies, computer simulations, examinations, project reports, and experiential exercises.

Credits:

3

Description:

Are you ready to leverage your knowledge and experience into substantial business opportunities? Are you prepared to develop a strategy and accept the inherent risk with implementing new innovation? In this capstone course, you will utilize the executive program's business opportunity foundation and executive curriculum, leveraging your experience and individual motivation to develop, pitch, and implement your personally-designed project. You will define your project, develop an implementation plan and related executive summary, leading to pitching your opportunity to your selected peer group who serve as a project stakeholder. This two-semester capstone may be directed towards your current organization or within new venture.

EMBA Learning Goals & Objectives

Learning Goals Learning Objectives

Be able to effectively apply analytical and critical reasoning skills to solve organizational challenges.

(Analytical Reasoning)

  1. Identify the problem and related issues.
  2. Identify key assumptions.
  3. Generate salient alternatives.
  4. Examine the evidence and source of evidence.
  5. Identify conclusions, implications, and consequences.

Effectively articulate the role of ethics in management.

(Ethics)

  1. Identify conflicts of interests and pressures that could lead to unethical conduct.
  2. Understand what kinds of questions are helpful to ask oneself when confronting an ethical dilemma.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to identify and take into account the interests of different stakeholders.
  4. Understand how business strategies that facilitate “doing good” can be made consistent with profitability.
  5. Understand that what is legal may not always be ethical and that what is ethical may sometimes not be legal.
  6. Appreciate that ethical norms vary across different countries and cultures.

Indicate an understanding of how culture, economic and political issues differ across countries.

(Global Awareness)

  1. Articulate fundamental challenges of global business.
  2. Analyze financial impacts of operating a global business.
  3. Apply the analysis to global management situation.
  4. Identify challenges of an international workforce.
  5. Demonstrate cultural awareness of external constituents.

Be able to effectively communicate in oral form.

(Oral Communication)

  1. Organize the presentation effectively.
  2. Deliver the presentation with attention to volume, clarity, grammatical correctness and precision.
  3. Develop the topic.
  4. Communicate with the audience.
  5. Use communication aids effectively.
  6. Summarize the presentation.
 

Be able to effectively communicate in written form.

(Written Communication)

 
  1. Develop a topic with supporting details.
  2. Organize written communication effectively and logically.
  3. Use correct word choice and effective sentence structure.
  4. Employ normal conventions of spelling and grammar.
  5. Provide examples and supporting evidence.
  6. Communicate accurate quantitative information.
 

Assess their personal leadership style, qualities and abilities while at the same time indicating a plan for moving forward in their professional development to enhance their career paths.

(Leadership)

 
  1. Describe leadership and fellowship theories and use them to analyze a variety of situations.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to conceptualize why and how the theories function through the analysis of human behavior.
   
   

Advising

If you have questions regarding the Executive MBA Program, please contact Tammy MacLean, PhD, Director of the Center for Executive Education, at 617-573-8659 or by email.