Master of Business Administration (Financial Services)

BUSI 6410.03: Advanced Marketing.Students will develop the ability to understand an industry from the point of view of a marketing manager.Students also develop the capability to prepare a market analysis and a marketing strategy.BUSI 6990.03: Strategic, Leadership and Change.The Strategic Leadership and Change course is the capstone course in the MBA (Financial Services) program.It provides students with the ability to integrate the concepts and techniques developed in earlier courses.Strategy-formulation abilities are enhanced, and strategy implementation is emphasized. Students are able todevelop and apply the skills necessary in managing organizational change.RISK MANAGEMENT COURSESBUSI 6601.03: Legal Aspects of Risk Management.This course focuses on law and legal compliance from the perspective of managing risk. Being the only legalaspects course in the program, it establishes a foundation in the most relevant areas of law, including dorts,contracts, interventions by equity, insurance, and business associations. It also considers the real-worldproblems faced by those engaged in the practice of corporate governance and examines the ethicalconsiderations involved.BUSI 6540.03: Measurement and Methodological Approaches in Risk Management.This course is concerned with the methodology and measurement of risk. The course content will provide themeasurement tools and methodological approach available in the study of risk. The course is presented in fivemodules in fourteen lessons. Module 1 provides an introduction to the theory of risk and a review of basicstatistical concepts used in risk measurement. Module 2 presents the foundation of risk assessment usingmodern portfolio theory and risk specific analysis applications. Module 3 continues with risk assessment modelspresenting alternative approaches and using regression analysis applications. Module 4 discusses the role ofoptions in risk measurement and assessment. Module 5 provides real world applications of risk measurement bypresenting several risk based studies.BUSI 6300.03: Concepts of Risk Management.This comprehensive course covers both enterprise risk management and financial risk management. Thecourse examines the essential methodologies for uncovering, measuring and managing risk exposures. Specifictopics include operational, strategic, and reputational risk, and the COSO framework for risk integration.Additionally financial hedging concepts with derivatives are studied.New Courses – currently in the approval stages as of June 2009BUSI 6XXX.03: Global Markets and InstitutionsGlobal Markets and Institutions is an introduction to the world of global finance. It has been designed to give atheoretical background to topics such as financial institutions and currency markets and to explain how theseimpact the world economy. Throughout the course, application to real-life examples will be used extensively.BUSI 6XXX.03: Investment and Money Management78