ACCTG3600 - Principles of Accounting

This course builds on the broad perspective provided by ACCTG 2600, focusing on a more detailed understanding of the links between business transactions and the information produced by an accounting system. It provides students with a deeper understanding of the role of accounting from the perspective of the various individuals who rely on accounting within a business. Students learn how transactions are recorded and how the accounting cycle generates financial reports and obtain a deeper understanding of and ability to use information provided within financial statements.

 

BUS1050 - Foundations of Business Thought

A liberal-education distribution course focusing on the nature of business and its historical, philosophical, and current role in today's world. Key issues include what a business is and how profit sustains that existence. Personal and organizational values and ethics are discussed in an environment of competing and complementary rights and monetary goals. Course addresses specific activities of a business (i.e., accounting, finance, marketing, production, and human resource management). Readings of a classical nature are presented to underscore the timeless nature of business and the relevancy of great works to today's business environment. Approach is pragmatic, with an emphasis on self discovery complimenting occasional lectures. Course is designed for students considering an undergraduate degree in business, for those pursuing the business minor, and for those who wish to use the course to satisfy a liberal-education distribution requirement.

 

ECON2010 - Principles of Microeconomics

This course presents the fundamental tools of analysis for understanding economic decision making among individuals, firms, and organizations, whose collective decisions determine how resources are allocated in a market economy. The tools presented include supply and demand analysis, theories of consumer and producer behavior, analysis of competition and market power, and their application to social welfare and public policy.

 

FINAN 3040 - Financial Management

Topics include financial analysis, working capital management, Fisherian economics, financial mathematics, capital budgeting, risk/return, cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy. This course requires knowledge of accounting, statistics, and microeconomics.

 

FINAN 3050 - Intro to Invest

Topics include financial markets, market efficiency, financial instruments, asset pricing, portfolio theory, buying and selling securities, term structure and bond valuation, and derivative securities. The class will also cover macroeconomics fundamentals like: Measuring the U.S. economy - GDP, inflation and unemployment, the Federal Reserve System and money creation in the economy. Our Group Project was to create a hedge-fund using marketwatch and research and pick stocks against other student teams. Our portfolio results are attached.

 

MGT3680 - Human Behavior in Organizations

This course examines behavioral theories and research focused on the individual in the context of groups and organizations as a whole. These theories and research are applied toward understanding the actions, events, and phenomena in organizations, as well as solving problems within organizations. The course content includes such topics as attitudes, personality, emotions, communication, motivation, decision-making, groups and teams, power, conflict and negotiation, leadership, organizational culture, and human resources.

 

MGT3810 - Business and Professional Communication

This course is an advanced communication course focused on public speaking and writing in a business context. Students will blend communication theory with intensive skill building as a way to improve their ability to manage their careers and communicate successfully in the business world. This course is comprised of three main sections: advanced public speaking, managerial writing, and career strategies. Students will master the following: (1) traditional correspondence: memo, letter, and proposal writing; (2) electronic correspondence: emails, blogging, text messaging, and instant messaging; (3) career strategies: resume and cover letter writing; and (4) networking skills including the value proposition and elevator speeches. The class is open to all majors and is well suited to any student who wants to sharpen their communication skills and professionalism in the workplace. 

 

 

MKTG3010 - Principles of Marketing

Marketing primarily deals with customer-focused business issues that can determine the success of failure of a firm. In this course, we teach the language of marketing, introduce the core concepts of effective marketing, and discuss the various factors that influence marketing decision making. We will concentrate on key business decisions concerning product attributes, promotional campaigns, pricing strategies, distribution efforts, market segmentation, and strategy formulation. We also present a framework for understanding the factors that affect a marketer's decisions and the role of marketing in a small businesses, corporations, and society. You will better understand these topics through some combination of lecture, textbook material, case discussions, videos, guest speakers from industry, and discussion of current marketing issues. This course is for Business Majors and Business Minors, Non-business majors are encouraged to take MKTG 3000.

 

OIS 3660 - Operations and Supply Chain Management

You will begin to learn how to manage resources and supply chains in industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing. The focus is on improving process flows, enhancing quality, controlling inventory, and increasing value for customers while increasing profit for your firm and every member of the supply chain.

 

OIS 5620 - Global Supply Chain Management

With rapid globalization, the production and delivery of services and goods increasingly involves multiple firms, and multiple units within a firm, spread across multiple continents. In Global Supply Chain Management (Global-SCM), we study how to improve performance of the individual firm as well as the supply chain network. Three important dimensions of any supply chain are (i) material flows (inventories), (ii) information flows, and (iii) the nature of the contractual arrangements among the various entities in the supply chain (incentives). How to align the Inventories-Information-Incentives (I3) of a supply chain operating in a global context is an important theme of this course. We will study the varied issues relating to Global-SCM through lectures, a variety of cases and games. Global-SCM is an essential course for any would-be consultant or entrepreneur, and for anyone aspiring to a senior management position.

 

OIS 2340 - Business Statistics

This fast paced class covers the fundamental statistical concepts of collection, analysis, and interpretation of business and economic data; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability theory and probability distributions; sampling distributions and statistical inference, including estimation and hypothesis testing. Functional area cases from Finance, Marketing, Accounting and Operations are analyzed. Microsoft Excel is used for computation and descriptive purposes.

 

OIS 3440 - Applications of Business Statistics

This practical and example-based course uses the essential tools and concepts of Six Sigma as a unifying framework. Discussion topics include design of experiments, goodness of fit, contingency tables, correlation analysis, nonparametric statistics, and an introduction to statistical process control. Moreover, hands-on skill is acquired for the development and interpretation of regression models from functional areas of accounting, finance, marketing and operations with a focus on depth rather than breadth of the subject material. Microsoft Excel is used to create graphical and numerical outputs with emphasis on interpretation of output. A comprehensive case write-up and presentation, integrating the essentials of course tools is prescribed as the end-of -term project. Business cases are used throughout the term for reinforcement purposes.

 

STRAT 3410 - Business Law: The Commercial Environment

The overall course objective is to provide each student with a working knowledge and understanding of the law as it pertains to business concepts and issues. Course topics include intentional torts, contracts, agency, property, negligence and strict liability, constitutional law, and copyright.

 

STRAT 5700 - Strategic Management

This course teaches students important theories in strategy and allows them to apply the theories to real business situations through the extensive use of cases. Students learn key frameworks and analytical tools that help managers allocate company resources, and develop strategies to gain competitive advantages over rival firms. Course topics include industry analysis, internal analysis, business level strategies, diversification, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. The course carries a substantial reading and writing load. Students are expected to actively participate in class and case discussions. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: Full Major status in the David Eccles School of Business.

 

Productivity Program

The DLC’s Productivity Program will help you develop learning and motivation strategies that will boost your productivity so you can reach your academic goals. Each week, a Graduate Academic Coach from the DLC will share useful research and effective strategies to help improve your productivity. This program will focus on common struggles for graduate students: improving time management, reducing procrastination and distractions, managing multiple responsibilities, overcoming perfectionism. After completing this program, you will have established productive habits and have renewed confidence in your ability to get things done.

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ENGR 6210 – Leadership and Team Effectiveness

Leadership and Team Effectiveness is fundamentally the product of the appropriate application of leadership and management at the group or team level. As such, it is about your ability to get things accomplished successfully with others regardless of your position or authority or geographic locations of team members. In this course students will become familiar with different ways of exercising leadership, their own strengths and weaknesses, and how they can best work with others in a leadership context. They will learn and apply leadership skills in a hands-on practical way that encourages them to challenge their own beliefs and assumptions about what constitutes leadership. The emphasis is on application of concepts in actual leadership settings and situations. Topics include development of leadership theories, personal assessment and development, values and ethics, motivation, power, followership, group dynamics, multiculturalism in leadership, conflict resolution, performance excellence, and the change process. Through a process of readings, self-discovery, group observations, and case studies, the student will identify, observe, analyze, and apply new leadership behaviors

 

BUSMHR 7244 – Negotiations

The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and processes of negotiation as it is practiced in a variety of settings. This course is designed to complement the technical and diagnostic skills learned in other courses at Fisher. A basic premise of the course is that although a manager needs analytical skills to develop optimal solutions to problems, a broad array of negotiation skills is needed in order for these solutions to be accepted and  implemented. 

 

ENGR 6220 – Financial and Managerial Accounting

Provides an overview of the basic topics in financial and managerial accounting. The primary focus will be on helping engineering students understand the meaning of the numbers in financial statements, their relationship to one another, and learning how they are used in planning, decision-making and control towards achieving the objectives of an organization.

 

PUBAFRS 5610 - Innovation, Policy, and the Global Economy

This course examines frameworks and theories of public administration, governance, and policy for science and engineering at the international level. It will will critique existing theories of global knowledge development and transfer, governance, and trade through the lens of science and engineering.

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ISE 6810 - Project Management for Engineers

Providing foundational and advanced project management/leadership education focusing on relevant and best practice project management . Topics such as leadership, organizational change, culture in the context of project-based case studies, will prepare students to plan, organize, engineer for success, lead/manage and participate in the multi-faceted and complex conditions that arise during planning, execution and implementation of various scope and complexity of projects and programs. 

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BUSMHR  - Advanced Strategic Implementation

The aim of this course is to help students gain an organization design perspective on challenges in strategy formulation and implementation, especially in multi-business firms.

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