MBA Leadership Emphasis

Course Descriptions

• BUS 545 - Leading Entrepreneurial Organizations (3 Credits)
  Successful organizations emphasize learning to sustain their competitive advantage. This course will study entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Areas of emphasis include uncovering the methodologies and characteristics that foster innovation and achieve meaningful change in business that lead to the creation and implementation of profitable business opportunities.
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• BUS 550 - Technology and Innovation (3 Credits)
  This course adopts the perspective of a general manager - an individual charged with diagnosing complex situations and resolving them in ways that enhance organizational performance. The course emphasizes how general management decisions contribute to the creation and appropriation of economic value through innovation.
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• BUS 555 - Leading for Results (3 Credits)
  This course focuses on how leaders mobilize others within their organization to get extraordinary things done. You will analyze what characteristics you need to develop to achieve your own professional goals and reflect on ways you can develop your competencies as a leader.
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• BUS 560 - Leadership Capstone (3 Credits)
  This capstone course integrates knowledge gained in the previous graduate business courses. It centers on the theme that organizations achieve sustained success when their managers have astute, timely, strategic game plans, and they implement these plans with proficiency. This class incorporates the "big picture" and cuts across the whole spectrum of business and leadership.