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MBA 5100 Legal Environment
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course reviews the immediate legal problems confronting business organizations in the contemporary world. Topics include: the formation of contracts, execution and defenses to contract claims, contract remedies and contract damages. Also considered are sales contracts that emphasize international sales. Special attention will be devoted to the employment contract with emphasis on early termination problems, sexual discrimination and harassment problems as these emerge via new interpretations of the law. | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5120 Stat Analysis for Decn Making
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course addresses the ever-increasing availability and use of quantitative data in decision making. The central concept of uncertainty and risk and the relationship between business decisions and games of chance are treated. Sample data analysis is followed by probability theory and models and functions of random variables, culminating in inferences from data. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5140 Foundations of Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course addresses concepts of organizational design and organizational behavior within the context of contingency theory. Organizational design focuses on the basic types of structures of the formal organization, as well as the key processes required for those structures to function. Organizational behavior focuses on activities of the manager, behaviors traceable to the informal organization, and to motivational needs of the organization's membership. | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5160 Foundations of Marketing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The course examines the marketing functions in consumer, business-to-business, government and non-profit markets with an emphasis on the role of marketing in the organization. Areas to be investigated include marketing and customer information, market segmentation, global and ethical issues, as well as, product planning, channels of distribution, pricing and promotion analysis. | 2 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5180 Found of Financial Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The essential elements of corporate financial management are explored in this course. Topics include: ratio analysis, time value of money, risk versus return, leverage and all aspects of long term corporate capital budgeting and financing. The course develops the student's ability to evaluate business decisions. | 2 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5190 Found of Prod & Oper Mgmt
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Operations Management is responsible for planning and coordinating the use of the organization's resources to produce goods and provide services (convert inputs into outputs). Operations decisions involve design decisions and operating decisions. Design decisions relate to capacity planning, product design, process design, layout of facilities and selecting locations for facilities. Operating decisions relate to quality assurance, scheduling, inventory management and project management | 2 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5200 Decision Analysis
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course familiarizes the student with frequently used models in decision science and management science. Such models include regression and correlation, forecasting and time series; decision analysis; risk simulation; optimization techniques, e.g., linear programming, modeling, operations research and management science methods. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5210 Pers Dev, Eth & Soc Resp/Organ
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course serves as a gateway into the MBA program. Topics related to three levels of human system (person, group, and society) are introduced: personal development, team development, and social responsibility. Topics include personal values and goals. ethics in business, team roles and processes, role of free markets, sustainable growth, global commerce, governance of the firm, transparency, and business-government relations. Service learning is required. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5220 Corporate Finance
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A practitioner-oriented study approach to the problems facing the corporate financial manager. Application of modern finance theory and tools to problem-solving in the areas of capital budgeting, working capital management, long-term financing and dividend policy and mergers and restructuring decisions. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5240 Marketing Mgmt & Planning
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course analyzes and assesses marketing opportunities and threats, assesses competitive advantages and disadvantages, and develops business plans that are consistent with these assessments. Specific topics include methods of market analysis and decision making in multi-markets and global strategic businesses. The course may include case analysis, a group project or a simulation that examines the strategic marketing position of the firm. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5250 Organizational Leadership
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course addresses the characteristics of contemporary work organizations (flat in structure, team-based in decision making, networked for information sharing and communication, diversified in membership, and global in orientation) and the leadership function. It concentrates on the essential leadership skills of critical thinking, problem solving, written presentation, oral presentation, and behavioral flexibility. For each skill area, individual feedback is given to participants as the basis for personal and career development. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5260 Info Systems & Techology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A comprehensive study of management information systems and technology, theory and practice. The course presents concepts encompassing strategic impact, technology integration, managing rapidly evolving technologies, IT sourcing policies, application development process and partnerships and constituencies. The course aims to prepare leaders in managing the use of information, systems and technology to harness the power of new technologies to make better decisions and more effectively manage organizations, thereby enabling them to compete more effectively. This course uses case studies in a team format | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5270 Organizational Processes
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course examines the analytic framework and tools needed to analyze, manage, and lead the organization of the future. Features of the 'new organization' are: flat, networked, flexible, diverse, and global. This form of organization is contrasted with it's traditional predecessor, and forces are identified that help or hinder movement from the old form to the new. Certain skills that the manager will need for the new organization are investigated and practiced (e.g., the ability to work in teams or the ability to negotiate in instances of conflict). | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5310 Applied Decision Analysis
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The management skill of modeling in support of decision making. Assessing uncertainties, risk preference and selecting the best course of action in a management decision making situation. Decision making with prior probability, decision analysis with sampling, incorporating decision preference into models. Single and multi-attribute utility models and risk analysis. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5320 e-Business Strategies
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A comprehensive study of e-Business. The course presents concepts encompassing e-Marketing and e-Operations, Electronic payments sytems, legal and ethical issues, e-Business Technology, Web development, Interoperability and standards, and Security issues. Future managers need to deeply understand how to integrate new information technology with innovative forms of organizing to develop effective e-business strategies. This course aims to prepare leaders in managing e-Business, systems and technology to harness the power of new technologies to make better decisions and more effectively manage organizations. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5330 Operations Research
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Deterministic and stochastic models and their application in business decision making and research. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5350 System Simulation
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Investigation of computer-based simulation techniques as a tool for analyzing various business, industrial and service organizations. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5370 Systems & Project Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
As technological integration and product complexity increase, so do new-product introduction lead times. To stay competitive, companies have sought to shorten the development times of new products by managing product development efforts as discrete projects using project management tools. This course provides students with up-to-date project management methods and tools to effectively plan, organize, and control product development processes. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5380 Adv Topics in Oper/Indus Mgmt
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Analysis of current problem facing industrial managers: JIT, flexible manufacturing and DSS. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5390 System Dynamics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course introduces students to system dynamics modeling for the analysis of policy and strategy in social systems. Students learn to visualize an organization in terms of the structures and policies that create dynamics and regulate performance. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5400 Capital Expenditure Analysis
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Capital expenditure analysis theory and current practice. The course involves the application of quantitative analysis techniques to the operational aspects of capital budgeting. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5420 Investments
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course introduces investment analysis. Topics covered include: securities markets, participating in these markets, valuation of stocks and bonds, risk and return, options, futures, theory and evidence of market efficiency, concepts concerning diversification, and an introduction to both portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model, and its impact on finance. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5430 Advanced Investment
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The emphasis in this course is portfolio construction, assessment and risk control. Additional topics include: the development of modern portfolio theory, portfolio construction, risk assessment, the use of derivatives and their impact on concepts related to risk and return, and asset allocation decisions relative to market conditions. Much of this is done in the context of mutual funds. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5450 Global Financial Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A study of those principles essential to an understanding of international investment and financing problems. Current theories and practice on global financial environment, foreign exchange, financial derivatives, financing international transactions, and global asset management. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5470 Real Estate
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Course considers selection, financing and taxation of investment in real property. Types of real estate investments, concepts regarding risk/return relationships, sources of investment capital and the criteria for selection of real estate investment and financing sources are also considered. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5500 New Product Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course studies the entire process of new product development from ideation, concept testing, prototypes, product design, packaging labeling, test marketing, national launch, and customer feedback. More recent themes in new product development such as total quality management (TQM) and ISO9000 compliance, innovation and improvisation, pioneer versus late mover advantage, market versus competitor orientation, and standardization versus customization are investigated. Case analysis of major new product/services successes and failures in the industrial and consumer goods sectors are undertaken. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5510 Marketing Communications
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A theoretical and applied study of communication strategies in marketing, especially media advertising, corporate advertising and promotional campaigns. The effectiveness of advertising and promotional mix strategies on influencing buyer attitudes and behavior are examined. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5520 Marketing Research
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A study of marketing research as a process, including preliminary steps and research design, questionnaires, secondary and primary data sampling, processing and interpreting data, evaluation and effective presentation of findings. Behavioral science aspects of research are investigated. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5530 Consumer Behavior
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Current theories and research on the behavior of consumers is examined from the viewpoint of marketing management decisions, planning and research. The behavioral science concepts underlying the study of consumer behavior are investigated. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5550 Channels Mgmt & Logistics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Design, implementation, and evaluation of marketing channels. Channel theory, channel member interactions, retail marketing systems, wholesaling, franchising and logistics concepts (transportation, warehousing, location analysis). Pricing issues, regulatory impact and deregulation particularly in the international markets. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5580 Global Marketing Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course studies the recent phenomenon and theories of global markets and opportunities, globalization drivers, global brands and services, global consumer cultures, global marketing strategies and tactics, and global market shares. Case analysis of major global companies in the industrial and consumer goods sectors are undertaken. Specific global marketing strategies addressed include: global strategic alliances; globalization versus localization; standardization versus customization of products and services. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5620 Entrepreneurship
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course covers the entrepreneurial process from conception to birth to adolescence of a new venture. It concentrates on attributes of entrepreneurs/intrapreneurs searching for opportunities, and gathering resources to convert opportunities into businesses. Students learn to evaluate new ventures and develop a business plan to pursue those ventures. It is stressed throughout that new venture development can happen both within and outside an existing organization. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5640 Business Turnaround Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This class will explore the concepts, theories, patterns and recent cases of the four stages of corporate sickness: decline, distress, insolvency and bankruptcy. It will examine contemporary product, production, accounting, financial, marketing, alliance and joint-venture-based turnaround strategies to combat organizational sickness. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5680 Diversity in Mgmt & Mktg
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course explores the relationships of diversity to organizational change and development, effective management practices, and successful marketing methods. Participants develop an understanding of behavioral competence in recognizing the importance of diversity relative to suppliers, fellow professionals, employees, managers, and customers. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5700 International Business Law
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The internationalization of business throughout the world has introduced to the American business community the fact that American law no longer is the dominant rule. This course introduces the American business-person to the difference in legal systems governing international trades, the different legal rules and restraints imposed by treaty and by the realignment of the world business community, and the various remedies and protections available to the American business community. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5710 Environmental Law
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
An analysis of the impact of Federal and State environmental law on American business. The material covered includes creation of administrative agencies, empowerment, rule making procedures, the power of adjudication, compliance, penalties and dispute resolution. Public Acts considered include Air Quality Control Act, Water Quality Control Act, Toxic Substances Control Acts, Waste Management including underground storage tanks and National Energy Plans. Also considered are the international consequences of these acts and policies. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5720 HR Managmt: Personnel Process
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Develops student competencies with respect to comprehending and performing HRM tasks required to integrate HRM functions in support of the organization's strategic planning and implementation processes that depend critically on job analysis, selection and placement, training and development, performance evaluation and management, compensation of organizational members, meeting/exceeding legal and ethical standards of work place safety, fairness and security in the presence and absence of unions. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5760 Critical Issues in Labor
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Current issues affecting employees as they deal with collective-bargaining processes. A study of past, current and anticipated goals, policies and practices of the U.S. labor movement. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5840 Org Bahavior:Org Analysis
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Structural and functional effectiveness of work organizations and their implications for behavioral consequences. Mechanistic vs. organic systems, adherence to classical principles of organization, technology as a base factor. Organizational climate. Technical vs. social foundations of organization. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5850 Org Behavior:Org Development
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The organization as a complex social system whose outputs are dependent upon human inputs. Issues and technologies associated with the introduction of organizational change, including laboratory training, diagnostic intervention (survey-feedback confrontation), process interventions (team development) and task and environmental interventions. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5860 Org Behavior:Admin Strategy
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Administration as a dynamic process from the perspective of upper level management, with an emphasis on the political processes in the work organization. Power relationships established with internal and external influences. Types and composition of coalitions. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5890 Managing the Global Firm
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Managerial decisions facing the manager of a multinational corporation. The case method is used extensively to examine marketing decisions, financial operations, personnel processes and strategies planning. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5900 Strategic Management
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Administration as a dynamic process. Leadership strategy and the formulation, analysis and evaluation of organizational strategic policy. Case material and reports require the student to integrate his/her knowledge and skills for purposes of strategic policy decision-making. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5920 Emerging Trends in Business
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course is devoted to the investigation of significant, current trends in the area of business. Topics covered in the course vary across a wide spectrum of possible areas. Topics will be announced in advance. The course may be repeated when the topic changes. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5940 International Studies-Business
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Study in one or more disciplines conducted abroad under supervision of members of the faculty. This course provides students with the opportunity to gain additional perspective on international business, with specific reference to the host country. May be repeated once with permission of program director. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5950 Directed Studies
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Readings and research in a pertinent field of study chosen by the student and supervised by a faculty member. Conferences, oral reports or papers are required by the supervising faculty as evidence of work progress and project completion. May be repeated once with permission of director of Graduate Business Programs. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5960 Integrated Field Project
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
To reflect the applied nature of this MBA program, participants are encouraged to directly apply what they are learning to their own job setting and life experiences. This (subject) is usually undertaken by identifying a problem or change affiliated with one's work organization, describing that problem or change, and projecting a solution to the problem or likely outcome of the change. Participants then submit an approximately ten-page report to a faculty adviser; they will give an oral presentation of the report to their peers. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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MBA 5990 Master's Thesis
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
(Open to students with approval of instructor and the director of Graduate Business Programs.) Requires the submission of a thesis under the direction of a supervising faculty member. Students should consult the Graduate Business Programs Office for format requirements. | 6 | 0 | 0 | | |
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