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This course focuses on contemporary leadership and organizational behavior perspectives. Students explore topics such as authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and teamwork while examining the individual, group, and organizational factors that influence a leader’s ability to exert influence and enact change. Through self-assessment, simulation, and reflection, students achieve a heightened understanding of how they can enhance their own leadership effectiveness, contribute to the effectiveness of their organizations, and realize their professional aspirations. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

This course examines the responsibilities of ethical leadership in the modern organization. Course content will underscore stakeholder rights and the organization’s and leadership duties to its stakeholders, both internal and external, as well as to society-at-large. Political, social, environmental, technological and cultural ethical challenges faced in the business environment are explored. Major areas of analysis include: employer and employee rights; advertising; environmental issues; and social responsibility. A variety of managerial reflection and decision-making techniques will be applied in the analysis and solving of ethical problems. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

In this course, students explore entrepreneurship, its challenges and rewards, and the utilization of entrepreneurial skills in start-ups, franchises, small business, corporate, government, and social enterprise settings. Students examine creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship by engaging in the process of generating, evaluating, critiquing, and selecting creative ideas, and identifying further steps for bringing such ideas to market. Pre-requisite(s): Admission to the MBA program; or permission of Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

This course integrates the core concepts of entrepreneurship with the skills and knowledge required for managing a small business. Students review major areas of small business operations, such as legal setup and obligations to the government and employees, banking and financing, accounting, and financial statements. Additional topics covered in this course are staff hiring and human resource issues, marketing, technology, procurement, sales and customer service, location selection and facility management, partnerships, and outsourcing. Students also explore issues related to franchising, buying, and selling of small businesses. Pre-requisite(s): Admission to the MBA program. or permission of Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

This course provides an in-depth study of a special topic in business and management not covered in one of the other program courses. Topics offered may be chosen based on research interests of students and faculty, special faculty expertise, or areas of current debate and emerging interest in the field. This course may be taken for credit multiple times, provided that different topics are covered in each course. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 1-6 semester hours

This course provides students with an opportunity to apply their entrepreneurship skills to a hands-on project. Working in teams, students engage in one of two projects. In the first option, students identify, assess, and select an idea for a product or service, create a prototype, draft a business model canvas, and present their product or service to a jury. In the second option, students identify a real-world organizational problem and design an entrepreneurial solution to the problem that addresses constraints faced by a business, non-profit, or government organization, presenting their formal proposal to the organization’s principals. Pre-requisite(s): Admission to the MBA program; or permission of Program Chair or designate. 3 semester hours

The course is an integrative project focused on theoretical and practical aspects of organizational leadership and the integration of the material covered throughout the MSOL program. In a session-long project, students demonstrate analytical capacity in determining a course of action that contributes to the organization’s financial and operational success while concurrently meeting the goals of the discipline and/or work unit in an ethical and professional manner. Pre-requisite(s): Admission to the School of Business and Management and completion of: LAP 526, PPA 503, MBA 503, MBA 508, MBA 506, OBD 550, OBD 544, OBD 551, and BUS 576. Co-requisite(s): Admission to the College of Professional Studies and Advancement. 3 semester hours