Executive MBA Courses

At a fundamental level, all strategies are based on two very broad options: Do what everyone else is doing, but spend less money doing it, or do something no one else can do. The former focuses on being more efficient than your rivals. The latter focuses on expanding the "pie" by staking out some sustainable position based on a unique advantage you create with a clever, often complex and interdependent set of activities (which some call a value chain or a business model).

We offer wide range of strategy electives. Some are more broad-based, focuses on say global strategy. Others deal with strategy within a functional area such as marketing. Students with a strong interest in strategy typically take more than the minimum number of electives to acquire greater depth and strategic perspective.

Strategy Electives

• Advanced Strategy Topics: Linking Strategy, Finance, Operations
• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership & Lifework
• Multinational Firms & Strategy
• Negotiations

Finance encompasses a wide range of issues including micro-investment theory, economics of uncertainty, the role of financial markets and institutions, the regulation of financial products, firms and markets, the theory of the firm, and corporate governance. The field is unique among the social sciences in that it has had a direct and significant influence on practice. The impact of the efficient market hypothesis, portfolio selection, risk analysis, and contingent-claim pricing on capital budgeting and money management is clearly evident.

Taught by instructors from one of the nation's finest finance faculty, the finance electives include broad-based courses suitable for students seeking broad, survey knowledge of finance, courses that appeal to those making a career switch into finance, and courses suitable for experienced finance executives and professionals seeking greater depth beyond their current job responsibilities and coverage of topical issues in finance.

Finance Electives

• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Alternative Investments
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Financial Markets
• Global Macroeconomics Perspective
• Strategic Cost Management

The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a fundamental transformation brought about by legislative, regulatory, technological, and demographic changes. Increasingly, healthcare professionals and administrators are being asked to deliver higher quality care to more patients – all in an environment of constant change and significant regulatory uncertainty. Healthcare education does not address many of the business and organizational challenges that practitioners and administrators face in today’s environment. Fortunately, there are many tools, techniques, and lessons from other businesses that can be instructive in addressing the unique challenges of the healthcare system.

Our healthcare electives examine "best in industry" systems and tools used to manage businesses and reframes them for the healthcare sector. Students focus on the some of the most important issues facing the US healthcare system: strategic agility, leading and managing change, cost and quality management, and the move to value-based delivery system.

Healthcare Electives

• Business of Healthcare: Moving from Volume to Value Based Healthcare Delivery
• Healthcare Operations: Continuous Operations Improvement in Healthcare Org’s
• Cost and Performance Measurement in Healthcare
• Healthcare Strategy: Strategically Leading Health Care Organizations
• Healthcare Law, Regulation, & Institutions (Washington, DC)

These electives are ideal for seasoned personnel of the healthcare system, including practitioners, administrators, and consultants involved in the delivery of care, as well as the design and management of systems

Today's corporate leaders must be able to account for and leverage digital technology and novel operating practices. By studying systems and processes that define the operating and information practices in firms, markets, and society, Goizueta students will have the tools to manage as globalization and emerging digital technologies continue to transform the structure, form, and governance of these systems and processes.

Information Systems & Operations Management Electives

• Technology & Complex Adaptive Systems
• Process Analysis & Six Sigma
• Decision Modeling