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financial management cycle from planning through
evaluation. Prerequisites: MGT 5001.
MGT 5131 PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT
AND IMPROVEMENT (3 credits). Covers the
productivity and quality improvement process,
organizing for successful implementation of the
Deming philosophy, organizational structure and
implementing teams. Includes productivity, profit
and quality, organizational anxieties, measurement
problems, partial/total firm productivity, JIT and
TQM. Prerequisites: MGT 5006.
MGT 5132 BASIC ECONOMICS (3 credits). Covers
market forces of supply and demand, concept of
utility, firm and production, production function and
costs of production, and various market structures.
Introduces macroeconomics, the issues of aggregation,
circular flow model, monetary sector and the
government stabilization policies.
MGT 5133 ADVA NCED A NA LY TICA L
METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT (3 credits).
Quantitative models using management science,
operations research and decision science techniques
with business applications. Includes linear
and integer linear programming (graphical and simplex
methods), inventory models, queuing models
and Markov processes. Prerequisites: MGT 5006,
MGT 5022.
MGT 5134 COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE IN
SPACE (3 credits). Includes economic considerations
of space processing and Earth resources
observation; history of in-space experimentation
and developments; definition of Earth’s orbital environment
and its attendant commercial advantages;
launch operations and landing/retrieval; financial/
profit considerations of operating in space; and
current commercial space opportunities and risks.
MGT 5136 INVESTMENT ANALYSIS (3 credits).
Includes portfolio design, analysis and management
including the Markowitz approach to portfolio
design; the simplified model of William Sharpe;
and the capital asset pricing model. Covers the
management of bond and equity portfolios, portfolio
optimization, arbitrage and hedging techniques.
Prerequisites: MGT 5002, MGT 5006.
MGT 5137 THE MANAGEMENT OF ENGI-
NEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (3 credits).
Explores relationships between technology, innovation,
management and business operations. Studies
technology strategy in terms of the discoveryproduct-market
path. Relates the management
functions of planning, organizing and controlling
to life cycles. Uses case studies.
MGT 5138 BUSINESS ETHICS (3 credits). Covers
concepts of moral philosophy and their relevance
to decision making, and applies this understanding
in a wide variety of practical management settings.
Extensively uses case analyses.
MGT 5139 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
ANALYSIS (3 credits). Focuses on understanding
the problems associated with international financial
management. Includes the environment of international
financial management, foreign exchange risk
management, multinational working capital management,
foreign investment analysis and financing
foreign operations. Prerequisites: MGT 5002.
MGT 5140 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (3
credits). Covers international financial systems
and methods needed to adapt to the international
setting. Includes international monetary system,
foreign exchange markets and international trade,
international accounting and taxation, foreign direct
financial investment, international capital markets,
multinational capital budgeting, exchange exposure
and risk management. Prerequisites: MGT 5002.
MGT 5141 IMPLEMENTING STATISTICAL
PROCESS CONTROL (3 credits). Implements
an overall SPC program, emphasizing how to manage
a process throughout the entire organization
with the aid of tools and methods for the improvement
of quality. Includes how to target processes
for SPC, conduct process capability studies and
maintain ongoing process control. Prerequisites:
MGT 5006.
MGT 5142 BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT AND
PUBLIC POLICY (3 credits). Covers the legal
basis of the relationship of business and government,
dimensions of federal regulation of business
through Congressional action, administrative oversight
by executive department agencies, regulatory
power of independent agencies (Federal Reserve,
SEC and FTC) and importance of political action
committees in the influencing of public policy.
MGT 5145 TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS
STRATEGY (3 credits). Focuses on the process
of developing a technology strategy and integrating
it with business strategy. Involves technology
situation analysis, technology portfolio development,
technology and corporate strategy integration
and establishing technology investment priorities.
Extensively uses case studies.
MGT 5146 MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION
(3 credits). Considers innovation in a historical
context, organizing organizational culture and
innovation, managing cross-functional teams, venturing
and organization learning, intra- and entrepreneurship,
managing R&D resources, executive
leadership and the management of innovation and
change, and designing innovative organizations.
Prerequisites: MGT 5013.
MGT 5147 MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOL-
OGY RESEARCH SEMINAR (3 credits). Overviews
past and current MOT research. Systematically
explores adaptation of scientific methodology
to the analysis and solution of technology management
problems. Requires a written proposal and a
formal oral defense.
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