Academics

Introduction to the concepts, assumptions, principles, and procedures underlying financial accounting, with an emphasis on understanding how a company's operating, investing, and financing activities are reported on its financial statements.

Introduction to the concepts, assumptions, and methods underlying managerial accounting, with an emphasis on using accounting information to plan and control a company's operations. Topics include information relevant for decision-making, cost behavior, activity-based costing, pricing, cost-volume-profit analysis, operating budgets and variance analysis, capital budgeting, and performance evaluation.

The goal of this course is to take the students beyond the classroom and into real-world business scenarios to apply what they have learned in their business courses. In the IMPACT experience, students gain a structured approach to problem solving – one designed to yield innovative results. Project sponsors are organizations big and small – from Fortune 100 companies to non-profits to start-ups. Together with their team, students will address a strategic issue and work to solve a real business problem for an external organization.

Communication skills are critical to your success at Goizueta. Business Communication Strategy creates the foundation for strong communication & introduces the dynamics of interpersonal & organizational communication. You will create, develop, & deliver professional presentations & documents, individually and in a team. Through the Birkman® assessment, you will increase your self-awareness, which helps you identify your most productive communication style.

Survey of the legal environment in which business enterprises operate. Topics include jurisprudential thought, sources of law, separation of powers, business ethics, constitutional law, regulation of interstate commerce, bill of rights, administrative law, and civil procedure.

This goal of this course is to provide the veteran students with a holistic examination and study of the process of a military service member going through ‘Transition, Transformation, and Integration’ as they move from a military career into the business world. It will build upon other courses in the Master in Business for Veterans Program, from what they learned in their ‘Academic Boot Camp’, Principled Leadership Course, and Career Development Program. They will learn about applying their experiences and leadership from a military context into a business setting while leveraging lessons from veteran business leaders on how to navigate a business culture.

This course uses several quantitative tools and excel formulas to teach students to compute important concepts to determine fundamental values of assets and corporate financial decisions. Students are assigned problems sets and cases that present real-world problems faced by corporate managers, and students apply the concepts and they learn in course to solve these problems.

This course in microeconomics will provide the fundamentals in understanding the how scarce resources and allocated in a system of unlimited wants. We will be examining how firms and workers respond to incentives, how tools & statistics help us determine the most efficient use of resources, how firms profit maximize and how markets arrive at equilibrium.

Evolution of Information Technology has dramatically increased the availability and importance of data and statistical analysis in business decision making. This course centers on understanding the decision process and the role that statistical tools play. The emphasis is on structuring the decision processes and statistical tools, methods, analysis, and models that will serve the program curriculum and beyond.

This course looks at how processes and systems, the so-called operating core of the organization, impacts the ability of a firm to execute its strategy. The challenges confronting firms competing in today's dynamic environment demand a multi-disciplinary focus. As we prepare students who seek to understand and face these challenges, this course covers the multiple activities comprising a firm's operating core and its supply chain. The operating core of a firm is an integrated system that combines activities related to design and engineering, production, quality management, networks of material and information flows, and the development, distribution and delivery of goods and services to customers.

The class introduces participants to concepts and principles of marketing management. The major role of marketing in a company (or public agency) is determining, creating, communicating and delivering a value proposition that meets the needs of its customers. In addition, marketing in its boundary-spanning role introduces the "voice of the customer" into the firm, helps build long-term relationships and ensures that the firm builds equity with its customers.

Leading Organizations and Strategy focuses on the job, viewpoint, and skills of the general manager of a firm in diagnosing what is critical in business situations and in finding realistic solutions to strategic and organizational problems. We will examine issues central to the long- and short-term competitive position of the company. This class will introduce you to crucial strategic and organizational skills, all of which will have a substantial impact upon organizational profitability and your own successful career.

The goal of this course is to be a transitional leadership experience for military veterans who are enrolled in the Master in Business for Veterans Program. Exercising ‘Principled Leadership’ is fundamental for military leaders and critical as they make the transition to becoming business leaders. The course is designed to help veteran students take assessment of their own leadership qualities, personality, values, purpose in life. They will conduct research and discussion on different styles of leadership while engaging with veterans who have successfully made the transition from leading in the military to being organizational leaders in the business world. They will do extensive reading about business leaders to examine successes, failures, and do a deep dive into examining their own leadership style; incorporating self-assessment data and develop an individualized personal development plan to carry them through their transition and into the next phase of their careers. The fundamental purpose of the course is to assist each veteran student in determining the path on how to become the business leader they aspire to be as.

Offers students an opportunity to develop negotiation skills for a global business environment. Students learn to manage conflicts with competence, fairness, and sensitivity. The course relies heavily on simulations to promote learning by doing. It provides a low-risk setting with individual feedback to help students evolve an effective negotiating style that feels natural.

This course is designed to endow you with an entrepreneurial perspective, enhance your ability to use functional knowledge in an applied setting, and familiarize you with the skills and resources necessary for starting a new venture.

By the end of the class you will be able to:

• Identify trends and opportunities in the marketplace
• Formulate new venture ideas
• Analyze your market and validate your customer base
• Present a competitive analysis of a specific industry
• Create a revenue model, forecast costs and demand, and assess potential profitability
• Understand how financing, venture capital and valuation work
• Utilize a business model canvas
• Put together and present a business plan and pitch
• Analyze ventures, both inside and outside of corporations