BUSI 826 - Managerial Economics
Managerial Economics stresses the importance of incentives as determinants of human behavior and performance and emphasizes considering costs and benefits as an efficient way to make managerial decisions. The course bridges theory and practice and focuses on topics that are relevant to managerial decision making and problem solving, including: the demand decision (understanding what a customer will buy) and the production decision (determining what to produce, how to produce, and how much to produce and for whom to produce).
BUSI 844 - Lessons in Global Development
This course offers an overview of the strategic and operational opportunities and challenges for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies seeking to compete in the global marketplace. Students examine the successes and failures of firms across emerging economies, focusing on the roles of the public institutions, public/private partnerships, and programs in the socioeconomic development process. The course highlights the role of personal, organizational, and social capacity building through SME's and partnerships in responding to change and creating financial, social, environmental, and human wealth.
BUSI 853 - Emerging World
This Residency serves as SGU's foundation for developing healthy societies, organizations, and leaders. Participants examine the global context for creating healthy organizations in the emerging world. Students are motivated to develop a personal leadership credo and development plan for the program by answering the question. "Why would someone follow you?" This course provides the insights needed to successfully build and lead healthy organizations
BUSI 854 - Innovation & Entrepreneurship
This course empowers participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools of innovation management and entrepreneurship to solve problems and create value. The course builds on the premise that everyone is creative and that innovation is necessary to gain a competitive advantage in a fast-paced, transforming marketplace. An 'idea' is nothing without a plan. Using this methodology, students learn to combine creative ideas with market analysis and an implementation plan in order to successfully launch a business or a not-for-profit organization.
BUSI 858 - Project Lab
In this course, participants will design, research, develop, and complete a real-world project that allows them to bring all their Master in Business Administration (MBA) learning and training to real-life situations. Working individually or in teams of no more than three, students will develop the project across many courses throughout the program, guided by an assigned faculty mentor. Projects may require students to build networks with senior individuals at leading organizations (either locally or overseas) or create an advisory board or external project team. The project may take the form of a business venture, a social entrepreneurship plan, or a corporate entrepreneurship plan. Specific executable strategies for sale, promotion, and advertising are developed. Students will present their project work during their final residency week in Grenada. The final project for MBA-International Business (IB) participants is primarily developed through individual course assignments throughout the program.
BUSI 859 - Project Management
Virtually all organizations use project management to accomplish specific tasks, implement improvements, reach new markets, and innovate. Project success directly impacts financial performance and career advancement, and serves as the foundation for delivering healthy, cultural environments and meaningful work. This course will teach the concepts and techniques of project design, management, and assessment, and develop skills applicable to a variety of projects within international business.
BUSI 860 - Changing World
This Residency serves as SGU's foundation for developing healthy societies, organizations, and leaders. Here, the global context for creating health organizations in the health care industry is examined, where the need to provide high-quality, cost-effective health care through health organizations and good work has never been greater. By answering the question: "Why would someone follow you?" students are motivated to develop a personal leadership credo and development plan for the program. This course provides the insights needed to successfully build and lead healthy organizations.
BUSI 863 - Health Economics
This course will examine the rapidly changing healthcare industry. The course looks at health care as a business commodity. Issues such as demand, the role of government in policymaking, provider behavior, and competition are explored, providing an understanding of the unique economic complexities of health care. This course covers the economic principles of scarcity, efficiency, productivity, and market behavior that drive the rapidly changing health care industry worldwide, particularly in the USA. The major components of the health care system are examined, with a focus on topics such as quality vs. quantity of health care, care costs vs financing, and social welfare gains vs social welfare losses.
BUSI 868 - Health Systems
This course involves discussion and analysis of the foundations of global health and health systems, and their foundations in policy, economics, and human and cultural subsystems. Challenges and opportunities in global health, such as population aging, electronic medical records, IT, genomics, health care quality, and costs, are examined, as are the roles of NGOs and public-private partnerships in driving transformative change. The course takes a holistic and comparative approach to understanding the systems and nature of health by studying the realities of several national health systems.
BUSI 872 - Critical Thinking
This course will help students learn and practice skills that transcend any single discipline or management function. Students explore business issues broadly while developing analytical and persuasive skills to address environmental and organizational relationships as well as personal issues that arise across many forms of management. This course will help participants identify critical questions when exploring a new business issue, dissect and prioritize issues, develop reasoned positions, and make compelling arguments.
BUSI 873 - Ethics & Health Management
With leadership comes responsibility and a duty to 'do the right thing' using an awareness of one's own and others' ethical viewpoints. This course explores the numerous ethical duties faced by organizations and managers. Utilizing analytical frameworks and the latest findings on human behavior, participants will explore a wide range of ethical decisions and strategies - many with paradoxical and conflicting perspectives. These will help reveal and assess participants' ethical intuitions, assumptions, and frameworks, compare them within explicit modes of formal ethical thought, and learn how to use ethics in business scenarios.
BUSI 874 - Health Care Marketing
Marketing in health care has evolved rapidly, requiring health managers to better understand its relationship to consumer behavior, systems, and innovations in the delivery, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Students gain insights into the needs of a broad range of consumers, including patients, physicians, managed care providers, and insurance firms, among others. This course covers marketing strategy and research, consumer-based marketing, analysis and implementation techniques, and evaluation in light of changing markets, policies, social media, and ethical considerations, as well as cultural implications.
BUSI 875 - Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship
Solving the health crisis will require innovation across the industry. The issues are many, including the combination of high cost, uneven access, and quality of care, growth in health care spending by consumers, governments and insurance companies; the growing burden of care by hiring firms for their employees and retirees; public health and disease management; growth of the elderly population; the quality and cost of both 'fee-for-service' reimbursement and public-provided systems, among others. This course combines the application of concepts, studies, and tools from the fields of innovation and social entrepreneurship to understanding these issues. During this course, students will select the individual or team project to be addressed in the Project Lab course and will be assigned to their faculty mentor.
BUSI 876 - Healthcare HR Management
People have become the most critical resource in organizations, in both emerging and advanced economies. Human Resource Management (HRM) includes developing individual talent and organizational capability to create future leaders and sustain long-term success, and to achieve better outcomes and access to health care around the world, as well as improved health care models. This course will help students gain critical knowledge for creating value through people, addressing topics such as critiquing and reinventing existing HRM systems; recruiting, hiring, and developing talent; developing managers and leaders; organizational practices; managing talent and performance; information and decision-making tools; and managing change.
BUSI 877 - Legal Resp & Risk Management
Business is all about change, which increases the quantity and quality of opportunities, risks, and legal challenges within the health care industry. This course emphasizes management's need to scrutinize stakeholders, manage risk, and integrate law into practice and management activity. Employing law and risk management as sources of strategic advantage, as well as the health professional's responsibility, this course introduces the various forces impacting the legal framework and markets of the health care industry. It offers a global and national overview of key rules and regulations affecting health care delivery, risk factors, and risk management strategies and standards.
BUSI 878 - The Health Professional Small Business
The challenges of running a professional small business or medical/veterinary clinic are many. Owners or lead practitioners oftentimes wear many hats, servicing clients while running the business and meeting cash flow constraints. Through experiential learning, this course provides the foundations for building and running a professional small business or clinic, helping students learn the nuts and bolts of small business success. It covers topics such as computer systems and back-office management, workflow processes, customer service, cash flow planning, budgets and priorities, personnel policies, wages and benefits, marketing and advertising campaigns and measurements, and billing, collections, and insurance management.
BUSI 879 – Leadership and Management Labs
This experiential course brings together all the program learning in a series of business simulations that challenge students to think through leadership and management challenges and make relevant recommendations and decisions. Students reflect on their own leadership and management competence, asking themselves questions such as: How can we best manage ourselves when we make decisions without perfect information or endless time? How do we maximize the performance of the teams we become part of? What interpersonal skills give us influence? Which interpersonal strengths can propel us to our next promotion? What development areas might impact leadership and management effectiveness, or prevent our ascension to the executive suite? The labs are designed for deep self-reflection on the behaviors people choose, the consequences of those behaviors, and given choices, how people might become more productive.
BUSI 880 - Business Thinking
This course will help students learn and practice skills that transcend any single discipline or management function. Students explore business issues broadly while developing analytical and persuasive skills to address environmental and organizational issues, as well as relationship and personal issues. This course helps participants identify critical questions, dissect and prioritize issues, develop reasoned positions, and make compelling arguments.
BUSI 881 - Research Methods
Successful, performance-oriented leaders and managers know how to conduct effective research to inform a range of decisions: selecting new markets, partners, products, or services; sourcing, developing, and launching new innovations; developing market research survey instruments; understanding customer requirements; or analyzing alternative strategic options. This course examines the rudiments of decision theory, decision trees, and qualitative and quantitative research methods, while actively using case studies, research methods, and other tools and exercises critical to formulating decisions. Research questions are drawn from marketing, finance, operations management, and other management functions within a broad set of industries.
BUSI 882 - Strategy & Decision Making
Strategy is the heart of business performance, yet a strategy is difficult to develop and even harder to implement. This course examines how firms in the health care industry formulate and implement business strategies that create value in their local and global markets. Drawing on a range of health sector studies and well-tested frameworks, students learn the key ingredients of strategy, think through challenges, develop the capacity to anticipate and assess alternative impacts, and gain lessons they can apply to their own organizations. Exercises and training in strategic decision-making allowed students to learn and apply advanced strategic thinking skills.
BUSI 883 - Health Organizations
Learning to lead, manage, and develop effective organizational systems in the health sector is a critical skill for successful managers. By examining traditional, modern, and postmodern theories of the organization, students can discuss, compare, and contrast a rich set of topics related to organizational behavior and dynamics, including motivation, learning, group dynamics, team building, power and politics, conflict, and interpersonal relations. Through experiential learning, participants explore the role of leadership in organizational transformation and decision-making across firms with differing cultures, values, and ethical foundations.
BUSI 884 - Health Informatics
The intersection of information science, computer science, and health care creates a very active and innovative interdisciplinary arena. This provides a context for dealing with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computer systems, but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems. The managerial application of concepts prepares participants to rely on and manage information technology to accomplish their objectives as managers and consultants. The course provides both an overview of technology solutions and a discussion of the latest trends in healthcare informatics, including Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Personal Health Records (PHR), clinical information systems, consumer health, social media, telemedicine and imaging, privacy and security.
BUSI 885 - Finance, Accounting & Managerial Finance
This course explores how financial management affects health care decision-making. Classical and emerging analytical methods applied to the financing, investment, and operational components of health care delivery are presented. An overview of the organization of financial management in health care, revenue sources, cost accounting and analysis, setting care rates, and capital management practices is also provided. Planning a budget for optimal health management is introduced in the framework of current health policies and reforms.
BUSI 887 - Human Resource Management
People have become the most critical resource in organizations, in both emerging and advanced economies. Human Resource Management (HRM) includes developing individual talent and organizational capability to create future leaders and sustain long-term success. This course helps participants to address topics such as critiquing and reinventing existing people management systems; recruiting, hiring, and developing talent; developing managers and leaders; managing talent and performance; and creating value through people and managing change.
BUSI 888 - Managing Information
In a globalized networked economy, the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information are important. This course provides a foundation to prepare participants to serve as managers and consultants who can rely on and manage information technology to accomplish organizational objectives. The course provides an overview of technology solutions and a discussion of the latest trends in business informatics, including data management, e-commerce, social media, networking, databases, cloud computing, knowledge management, software and hardware trends, privacy, security, and ethical issues.
BUSI 889 - Global Strat & Strategic Management
Strategy is the heart of business performance, yet a strategy is difficult to develop and even harder to implement. This course examines how firms in emerging economies formulate and implement corporate and business strategies that create value in their local, regional, and global marketplaces. Students learn theories of international management that incorporate a macro environment, the firm, and the role of the individual manager, in an international setting. Drawing on numerous firm studies in emerging economies and well-tested frameworks, students learn the key ingredients of global strategy, think through challenges, develop the capacity to provide alternatives and anticipated impacts, and gain lessons that may apply to their own organizations.
BUSI 890 - International Marketing
Attracting and retaining customers is fundamental to the success of all organizations. In this course, marketing theory and concepts will be applied to a variety of real-life case studies, including marketing strategy development, market definition, target market segmentation, distribution channel strategy and choices, sales promotion strategy, branding, and other related areas. Special attention is given to providing a well-rounded perspective on international markets (national and regional) that encompasses history, geography, language, religion, and economics.
BUSI 891 - Globalizing Operations
Managers use both strategic perspectives and quantitative analyses to make sound operational decisions within a globally distributed supply chain, determining where and how to locate resources and how to build processes that deliver value to stakeholders. This course enables an understanding of management issues, concepts, and tools related to supply chain management. Paying particular attention to small and medium enterprises (SME's) in emerging economies, it includes coverage of the general operations management framework, process and quality management, product considerations, lean manufacturing, supply chain issues, inventory management, information management, and logistics/distribution networks.
BUSI 892 - Communication in Cross-Cultural Environments
This course provides an integrated approach to managerial and business communication. Students are introduced to interpersonal and organizational theory and concepts, and learn skills in writing, listening, speaking, and non-verbal communications. Students will apply data, theory, and skills to issues, negotiations, and crisis situations to gain insights into their own and others' communication styles and to become more effective managers.
BUSI 893 – International Managerial Finance
This course introduces the theory, methods, and concerns of corporate finance. It examines the time value of money and capital budgeting techniques; uncertainty and the trade-off between risk and return, security market efficiency, optimal capital structure, and dividend policy decisions. This course also analyzes the financial problems corporations face when operating in an international environment, especially those that inform corporate strategy and the decision to invest abroad.
BUSI 894 - Modern Org Theory & Design
This course examines the theory and effective design of an organization to achieve strategic objectives in complex environments. Through case studies and metaphors, students examine alternative organizational structures and are encouraged to generate a range of complementary and competing insights about the nature of organizations and how they can be designed, managed, and evolved to ensure high performance. Linkages with the participant's national and regional cultural context are made.
BUSI 895 - Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting is the measurement of economic activity for decision-making. Financial statements are a key product of this measurement and a key component of financial reporting activities. Many of the failures and crises of confidence of recent times are the result of accounting irregularities, where the dissemination of relevant and reliable information is at risk and the integrity of the financial system has been challenged. This course develops participants’ ability to be an informed user of financial statements and to understand their implications for future cash flows and a firm's earnings potential.
BUSI 896 - Ethics & Management
Leaders have a responsibility and a duty to “do the right thing,” drawing on awareness of their own and others’ ethical viewpoints, which is particularly challenging in cross-cultural environments. This course explores the numerous ethical duties faced by organizations and managers. Drawing on ethical and analytical frameworks from diverse cultures and traditions, students will explore a wide range of ethical decisions and strategies – many with paradoxical and conflicting perspectives. Different ethical systems and modes of formal ethical thought are explored in order to reveal and assess personal and ethical intuitions, cultural sensitivities, and assumptions, which are then applied to ethical challenges in international business.
BUSI 897 - Legal Aspects of International Business
Legal Aspects of International Business provides the framework for doing business across national borders, considering both the similarities and differences of the legal systems of various countries and providing a hierarchy of rules for resolving conflicts of laws. This course introduces the student to the laws and regulations applicable to international contracts from single transactions for goods and services to long-term business relationships such as agency, distribution, licenses, and joint ventures. Students will learn about corporate legal structures, trade finance, project finance, payment systems, transportation and logistics, intellectual property, human rights, and environmental protection. Students will apply legal reasoning to international business cases and practical business problems.
BUSI 898 - MBA Onboarding
This course provides the necessary experience and orientation to the online MBA programs. By exposure to the resources listed in the "Course Syllabus", students are enabled to navigate and maximize their skill sets towards successful course completion. Consequently, students will identify and strengthen their skills.