From Seattle University's 2023-2024 Graduate Catalog.
All graduate courses are 3 credits, unless otherwise noted.
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(Pre-Fall 2022 Curriculum)
This course introduces the quantitative tools required for success in the Professional MBA program. These tools include: accounting, algebra, and statistics. Students will learn the basics of each of these tools and how to apply principles from these tools in real world business situations.
This course presents an integrated examination of financial statements with an emphasis on analysis for decision-making and introduces managerial accounting concepts important for planning and controlling business operations.
Registration Restriction: PMBA and MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management Students Only
This course introduces tools and techniques used in corporate financial management. Emphasis on financing and investment decisions in the presence of risk and conflicting goals among stakeholders. Topics include financial statement analysis, capital structure, time value of money, valuation, risk/return tradeoff and capital budgeting.
Registration Restriction: PMBA and MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management Students Only
Prerequisite: MBA 5005
This course introduces economic principles and applies them to business and policy issues. Central themes include assessing resources, understanding competitive markets, understanding market power and how it changes optimal business strategies, appreciating the problems of market failures and inequities springing from market allocations, and important macroeconomic principles. We conclude with considerations of political economy, how political, economic, and societal forces interact.
Registration Restriction: PMBA and MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management Students Only
Prerequisite: MBA 5006
This course focuses on how firms create value by paying attention to the critical interaction between marketing and operations decisions. Emphasis on business strategy, targeting, position, value proposition, and strategic operations decisions (cost, quality, sustainability, etc.)
Registration Restriction: PMBA and MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management Students Only
Prerequisite: MBA 5007
This course is designed to help students understand how the operations function-in both service and manufacturing industries-works with other functions to support the business strategy and add value to an organization by: providing superior products and services to its customers, improving the competitive positioning of the company, and supporting financial objectives. (formerly MBA 5215)
Registration Restriction: PMBA and MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management Students Only
4 CREDITS
This course fosters leadership skills and team development through a combination of traditional learning activities (readings, classroom experiences) and an experiential learning laboratory. In experiential activities, participants will be asked to practice various roles necessary to be an effective, high-performing manager and team member. (formerly MBA 5010)
Registration Restriction: PMBA and MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management Students Only
The focus of this course is on managing known and unknown risks to a firms’ value creation. The course examines intellectual property, litigation, IT investments, contracts (and risk sharing), information architecture as a risk management strategy, privacy risks, etc.
Registration Restriction: PMBA and MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management Students Only
This course helps develop essential knowledge and skills for effectively planning, implementing, and controlling marketing activities, including the psychological and quantitative aspects. The focus is on the application of basic marketing concepts and principles as well as strategic decision-making for achieving and sustaining competitive advantages in the marketplace. Key principles include: marketplace, customer value, marketing metrics, marketing strategy, consumer and buyer psychology, marketing mix, digital marketing, sustainable marketing, and marketing ethics.
Introduction to the field of marketing; a survey course covering marketing strategic planning, consumer behavior, marketing research, and management of price, promotion, distribution, and product.
(Pre-Fall 2022 Curriculum)
Focus on tools for developing effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including employees, customers, regulatory entities, etc. Covers organizational behavior topics (motivation, organizational justice, feedback, goal setting). PMBA students only.
Prerequisite: MBA 5205
(Pre-Fall 2022 Curriculum)
This course focuses on how firms create value by paying attention to the critical interaction between marketing and operations decisions. Emphasis on business strategy, targeting, position, value proposition, and strategic operations decisions (cost, quality, sustainability, etc.). PMBA students only.
Prerequisite: MBA 5210
(Pre-Fall 2022 Curriculum)
Concepts and principles underlying financial accounting, with emphasis on interpreting the content of published financial reports. Introduction and examination of the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, ratio analysis, and constructing financial statement. PMBA students only.
Prerequisite: Financial Accounting, Statistics
(Pre-Fall 2022 Curriculum)
Emphasis on applying core economic and financial principles and models in various decision environments. Principles of scarcity, flexibility and commitment, and uncertainty will find life in models of supply, demand, and markets. The objective is to provide the first elements of the information and decision-making tools used in rigorous analysis of business opportunities. PMBA students only.
Prerequisite: MBA 5220
(Pre-Fall 2022 Curriculum)
The focus of this course is on managing known and unknown risks to a firm’s value creation. The course examines intellectual property, litigation, IT investments, contracts (and risk sharing), information architecture as a risk management strategy, privacy risks, etc. PMBA students only.
Prerequisite: MBA 5225
1 CREDIT
Focus on developing outstanding writing and speaking skills through consultations and real world practice. Emphasis on assessment and feedback on interaction and influence skills in group contexts.
1 CREDIT
Focus on providing assessments and experiences that allow for reflection on career choices. Provides tools to enable more effective job search or self-leadership in crafting current job to reflect values, skills and interests.
This course provides a general overview of how to turn data into useful information, insight and intelligence in order to support decision-making using analytics by exposing students to a foundational understanding of the relevance of data-analytics within the business enterprise continuum.
This course addresses general management and the tasks of strategy formulation and implementation. It builds on and integrates material from all functional areas. Course to be taken during last two quarters of enrollment. Must be completed within last 9 credits of program. (MBA students may not receive credit for both MBA 5500 and INBU 5315)
Prerequisite: (MBA 5013 & MBA 5008) or (MBA 5215 & MBA 5230) or (FINC 5050 & ECON 5110).
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