St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Davenport Iowa 52803 admit

Graduate Curricula
*All requests for prerequisite waiver must be
approved on a case-by-case basis by the MBA
director.
Individual Career Needs Courses
MBA 700. Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Management
3 credits
This course is designed to trace the entrepreneurial
process from the initial idea through business
operations to the harvest. It is organized into
four parts: (1) The Entrepreneurial Process; (2)
Evaluating Opportunity and Developing the
Business Concept; (3) Assessing and Acquiring
Resources; and (4) Managing and Harvesting the
Venture. Cases are extensively used throughout
the course. Prerequisites: None.
MBA 710. Business Ethics
3 credits
A study of the basic concepts of ethics as typically
referred to in western civilization and a testing
of the basic hypotheses of the concepts. Through
formal lecturing, case studies, from dialogue, and
with the help of guest lecturers, working premises,
assumptions, and principles regarding business
ethics are analyzed. Delivery of a case study
required. Prerequisites: None.
MBA 715. Executive Management
Seminar/Selected Topics
3 credits
Specially selected courses are introduced into the
program at appropriate times to meet student
needs. Prerequisites: None.
MBA 721. Labor Management
Partnerships
3 credits
Pertinent topics involving workers, management,
and their common goals; development of
improved labor/management relations; identifying
risks involved in implementing successful
labor/management relations; recognizing barriers
to proposed improvements; insights into the
structure and responsibilities of unions; and
understanding corporate organization charts and
their implications. Prerequisites: None.
MBA 730. International Management
Environment
3 credits
This course is designed to provide the student
with an understanding of the challenging new
international environment in which American
business must operate. The course examines in
turn: patterns of international interdependence;
international trade; foreign exchange; international
monetary system; balance of payments and
international debt; foreign investment and multinational
corporations; and the effect of culture
upon doing business abroad. Prerequisites: MBA
526 or permission of instructor.
Concentrations
Many students opt for the Management
Generalist program, consisting of 15 courses (45
credit hours). However, there are four concentrations
offered only at the main campus, requiring
a student to take 17 courses (51 credit hours).
Students electing a basic concentration are
required to take the same thirteen specified graduate
courses plus the four respective courses listed
in the catalog – consequently, no individual
career needs courses are taken. The concentrations
are Finance, Human Resource Management,
Marketing, Management Information
Systems and Technology Management.
Finance Concentration
MBA 750. Financial Policy and
Decision Making
3 credits
Analyzes financial management through case
study and a prescribed set of readings. Teaches
the identification and evaluation of financial
problems and the weighing of feasible solutions
in order to recommend the “best” course of
action. Special emphasis will be on decision making
and policy formulation involving allocation
of capital, planning of capital spending for longand
short-run, capital budgeting problems, mergers
and acquisitions, and cost of capital.
Prerequisites: MBA 675.
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