As a student in the NU online MBA program, you can build on your current career success, expand your managerial skills and knowledge base, and put your new learning to use in your place of work. You can gain a solid foundation in all areas of business enterprise - and be prepared to drive business growth in the global marketplace.

Online MBA Finance Specialization

This MBA Finance specialization focuses on a wide variety of topics within the domain of finance including entrepreneurship for high tech companies, investment analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and value creation. Enhance your ability to perform risk analysis, capital budgeting, foreign direct investment, multinational capital budgeting, and manage foreign currency risk while also exploring quantitative methods of valuation. Take an in-depth look at mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint ventures, and IPOs from a management perspective and develop an understanding of how investment theory and investment practice relate to one another. This specialization also provides a unique perspective on crisis management, specifically examining how to diagnose and solve the common ailments that lead to workouts, bankruptcies, and liquidations. Selected case studies will offer a new point of view on the financial, ethical, legal, general business, and strategic aspects of business turnarounds.

The online MBA with Healthcare Management specialization allows students like you to explore the evolution of the U.S. healthcare industry. From the original, primitive forms of organized institutional care through to the current, increasingly integrated and managed care systems, the dynamics of the healthcare industry are examined in detail. Students are asked to compare current policies and proposals for health reform and look at how the actions taken in a given area correspond to the structure and function of other areas. While analyzing the impact of change in the field of healthcare, students are introduced to the interactions of the regulatory, economic, political, and social aspects of the healthcare system. The courses within this specialization analyze the managerial aspects of the industry including strategic decision making, environmental analysis, strategic formulation, and strategy implementation. Students discover how healthcare organizations meet their stakeholders' numerous goals and manage their resources in this competitive environment

High Technology Management specialization examines the various approaches available to develop and protect intellectual property while building your knowledge of corporate governance and structures as well as business law and intellectual property management within technology companies. Faculty use experiential exercises and hands-on activities to help you answer questions surrounding the increasingly important topic of teamwork, for example how to build and lead successful co-located, virtual, global, and top management teams by creating an environment that fosters effective communication, collaboration, and commitment. This specialization is not limited to teamwork or IP and with the help of text books and case studies, students also focus on matters of entrepreneurial finance including the financial analysis of high technology ventures, working capital management, risk analysis, capital budgeting, sources of financing, valuation, and exit strategies such as licensing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and IPOs.

The Online MBA Innovation & Entrepreneurship program is an exciting specialization which covers a wide range of topics from debt financing and management of small businesses to entrepreneurial finance for high tech companies, new product development, and new venture creation. Develop the tools you need to be an entrepreneur in every sense of the word.

Learn to appreciate the significance of market research, improve your marketing skills, explore the stages of new product development, and appreciate the impact of new products on interrelated business functions. Study working capital management, risk analysis, capital budgeting, sources of financing, valuation, and exit strategies including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and licensing. Gain an advantage over your competition with the insight provided by guest speakers from start-up companies, law firms, and venture capital firms. Graduate prepared for the challenges of entrepreneurship with a sound foundation of knowledge developed through reading, self-assessment exercises, and group projects.

Courses in International Management specialization address the management of international marketing and finances as well as the cultural aspects of international business. Develop the skills to create a sustainable, competitive, global advantage by becoming a successful innovator and fostering an environment of continuous growth. Learn to compete successfully in international markets, defend your home market against overseas competitors, and understand the needs of global customers.

Examine the specific concepts and techniques necessary for the financial management of a multinational firm including the operation of foreign exchange markets, multinational capital budgeting, managing foreign direct investment and political risk, and financing control systems for the multinational firm. Different resources are needed to match your organizational capabilities to the higher levels of market, resource, and product complexity that are involved in introducing products to new markets the world over. Students study material from a wide range of cultures to develop a well-balanced perspective on this subject matter.

Marketing can be broken up into a number of categories. It involves research, focused strategies, new product development, brand advertising, and knowledge of diverse markets. This specialization has been designed to cover all of these topics in depth. Learn how to build brand power by studying the concepts, theories, principles, and terminology of brand management and brand equity. Explore target market identification, message strategy, media choice, and advertising evaluation in addition to the qualitative and quantitative marketing research methodologies available to managers. Do you feel confident in your understanding of the international market? Our faculty reviews the decision making process involved in marketing goods abroad; the opportunities and challenges facing the international marketing executive; and the economic, cultural, and political forces affecting the marketing process in the international marketplace. Students develop an in-depth understanding of the unique challenges placed on the service sector's marketing landscape and learn how to build and maintain strong customer relationships.

The Operations & Supply Chain Management specialization provides students like you with the tools necessary to function effectively within various types of environments including global supply chains and the transportation industry. Enhance your ability to work closely with management teams while examining contemporary issues that affect the design of supply chain systems and processes and analyzing the current status and future prospects of modes of international transportation. Courses in this specialization emphasize the importance of transportation planning, inventory control, warehouse management, development of customer service standards, and procurement in the design and operation of supply and distribution systems. Students graduate with a comprehensive understanding of the structure of various transportation industries; the principal problems facing these industries and their potential solutions; and the importance of the relationship between transportation, logistics, supply chain management, and other functional areas of the business.

Online MBA Course Descriptions

Core Courses
Elective Specializations Courses

Core Courses

Managing Ethics in the Workplace and Marketplace
Seeks to stimulate creative individual and group thinking and learning for working professionals while offering practical guidance for improved decision-making in both common and novel ethical business situations. Recent and historical executive and managerial criminal conduct and ethical lapses have destroyed careers and shareholder value in addition to severely eroding employee and public trust. Uses a series of case studies, readings, and field study experiences to actively engage students in a timely, relevant, and challenging fashion.
Global Competition and Market Dominance
Trains managers to understand the competitive implications of global economic policies, the business effects of technological change, and the commercial imperatives of alternative political systems at a macro level. At a micro level, it creates a framework for industry analysis in a global setting that combines economic analysis, competitive analysis, and business decision-making skills.
Managing People and Organizations
Examines today's evolving environment, in which effective utilization of human resources is a source of competitive advantage. To maximize the contribution of organizational members, managers must be able to understand, diagnose, and influence workplace behavior in the context of change. Topics include management of cross-functional teams and boundaryless organizations. Emphasis is on the role of corporate culture and distributed leadership.
Financial and Management Accounting
Covers financial accounting and management accounting. Financial accounting offers an opportunity to develop an understanding of financial statements, the critical financial foundation and language of business. Management accounting offers an opportunity to develop the ability to use financial accounting, other financial information, and nonfinancial information to evaluate the impact of alternate business decisions on profitability and cash flow.
Value Creation Through Financial Decision-Making
Develops tools and techniques of financial analysis and valuation to support financial decision-making. Presents future managers with actual business problems to learn to apply the tools of financial analysis to strategic decisions faced by the firm, such as capital budgeting, capital structure, use of derivatives, and currency exposure management. Highlights the role of financial management as a source of value creation in a competitive environment characterized by rapid technological, personal, and market changes.
Managing Information Resources
Focuses on issues of the strategic uses of information technology for competitive advantage, support of business processes, information and control, digital business, integration of business with technology, organizational communication, and data management. Information has become a key resource in doing business. Managers must understand that high-quality information adds value to existing products and services, enhances the creation of new products, changes the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes, and affects relationships with customers, suppliers, and competitors.
Information Analysis
Provides students with basic information analysis skills and tools needed to manage effectively in today's information-intensive business climate. Exposes students to analytical problems from different areas of business and the quantitative concepts and techniques that can analyze them. Course objectives are to improve the information analysis skills of the students, to provide students with a working knowledge of important statistical tools, to help students become more critical evaluators of studies and reports involving statistical and quantitative methods, and to improve skills in communicating the results of analyses. Offers students the opportunity to learn how to evaluate, analyze, and interpret data, and present their findings and conclusions that will be most useful for managerial decision-making through the use of business applications and analytical software.
Managing the Global Enterprise
Focuses on the international business environment, and examines the influence on global decision-making of such areas as the international economy and trade issues, legal and political context differences, governmental actions, cultural and ethical system differences, exchange rates and international currency markets, international institutions like the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund, and regional agreements like the European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur. Also analyzes why firms internationalize their operations, how they can internationalize, and key areas such as international manufacturing, marketing, human resource management, and strategy.
Creating and Sustaining Customer Markets
Focuses on marketing analysis and planning. Emphasizes analysis of customer needs and company and competitor capabilities. This analysis forms the basis of a sound marketing strategy that provides value to customers in a way superior to competitors. Discusses how to deliver this strategy through the development of an integrated marketing program covering product offerings, pricing, promotion, and distribution.
Management of Service and Manufacturing Operations
Focuses on decision-making by an operations manager. The operations manager's major job function is to provide quality products and services desired by customers, on time and at a competitive cost. Helps the operations manager to perform this function in both the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy. Explores operations management concepts, techniques, and models. These include the optimum allocation and efficient utilization of manpower, materials, equipment, and technology at strategic and tactical levels in the organization. Topics include process analysis, capacity planning, materials management, resource allocation, quality management, and scheduling.
Strategic Decision-Making in a Changing Environment
Focuses on strategy development and implementation for a line of business and for the corporation as a whole by adopting a top management perspective. Beginning with developing a mission statement and goals for the firm, focuses on environmental scanning, incorporating economic, technological, sociopolitical, and legal trends in conducting industry analysis, thus assessing opportunities and threats and the firm's capabilities before formulating strategy that represents a fit between the environment and the firm. Discusses how to develop competitive advantage and assess competitive positioning, and studies how organizational structure and systems contribute to implementing strategy. Stresses the role of leadership and motivation before moving on to feedback mechanisms to assess success in strategy implementation, leading to revision of strategic plans as needed.
Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise Growth
Explores the challenges and processes for harnessing technological innovation for new-business development. Integrates technology strategy, innovation in marketing, product development, and organization design for the purpose of enterprise growth. Through readings, cases, and exercises, studies how firms from different industries gain competitive advantage through distinctive products and services, and leverage their technologies and skills into new emerging markets. Also focuses on processes for conceiving, financing, and organizing new ventures.
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Elective Specializations Courses

Finance

Investment Analysis
Familiarizes students with domestic and international financial markets and the securities traded therein. Discusses a variety of techniques for valuation of financial assets and relies heavily on quantitative methods. Critically analyzes such qualitative concepts as market efficiency, intrinsic value, and risk. The contents of this course, descriptive, theoretical, and applied, should provide students with the ability to build unique valuation models to suit the particular investment alternative they wish to scrutinize. Also provides students with an understanding of how investment theory and investment practice relate.
Valuation and Value Creation
Explores recent developments in financial management and financial analysis through the use of modern finance theory to make capital allocation decisions that lead to long-run value maximization for the corporation. Focuses on applications and financial model building, risk analysis for valuation applications, and business strategies to measure and manage corporate value and value creation. Topics are relevant to value consultants, corporate managers, and securities analysts.
Healthcare Finance
Implements financial management and economic principles to analyze real-world healthcare issues. Emphasizes and encourages problem solving and creative thinking through the use of texts, cases, and models of the healthcare industry. Students are exposed to financial, managerial, and risk management strategies unique to the healthcare industry.
Business Turnarounds
Concentrates on the diagnosis, prescription, and implementation of actions pertinent to business turnarounds, troubled companies, workouts, bankruptcies, and liquidations. Case studies and readings guide the student through the maze of financial, ethical, legal, general business, and strategic aspects of turnarounds, culminating in the student evaluating and developing a turnaround plan.
Investment Banking
Discusses policy, strategy, and administration of financial services firms. Topics include issuance of securities, the service function within financial services, pricing a negotiated issue of common stock or competitive bid issue, and meeting capital requirements of a securities firm.
International Finance Management
Develops specific concepts, policies, and techniques for the financial management of the multinational firm. Topics include operation of the foreign exchange markets, foreign exchange risk management, sources and instruments of international financing, foreign direct investment and the management of political risk, multinational capital budgeting, and financing control systems for the multinational firm.
Entrepreneurial Finance for High Tech Companies
Provides an overview of entrepreneurial finance with a focus on high-technology companies. Specific topics covered include analyzing the financial needs of high-technology ventures, including working capital management, risk analysis, capital budgeting, sources of financing, valuation; and exit strategies, including licensing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings (IPOs). Uses a combination of text material, books, and cases.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Explores the environments that have recently given rise to a large number of corporate mergers and the business factors underlying these corporate combinations. Examines the financial, managerial, accounting, and legal factors affecting mergers. Studies how to appraise a potential merger and structure a merger on advantageous terms.
Financial Strategy
Develops financial, analytical, and communication skills necessary to develop and implement a financial strategy consistent with firm value creation in a dynamic environment. Stresses the impact of ethical and legal considerations, global markets, and technological innovation on efficient economic outcomes. Emphasizes written and oral communication skills. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to identify and analyze a firm's strategic opportunities and propose a suitable financial strategy that is consistent with firm value creation.
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Healthcare Management

Healthcare Finance
Implements financial management and economic principles to analyze real-world healthcare issues. Emphasizes and encourages problem solving and creative thinking through the use of texts, cases, and models of the healthcare industry. Students are exposed to financial, managerial, and risk management strategies unique to the healthcare industry.
Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems
Introduces the history and current status of information systems in healthcare: information architectures, administrative and clinical applications, evidence-based medicine, information retrieval, decision support systems, security and confidentiality, bioinformatics, information system cycles, the electronic health record, key health information systems and standards, and medical devices.
Strategic Decision-Making for Healthcare Professionals
Examines how healthcare organizations manage their resources and competitive environment to meet the goals of their many stakeholders. Applies three essential elements of strategic decision-making—environmental analysis, strategic formulation, and strategy implementation—to the healthcare industry.
Healthcare Industry
Examines the evolution of the U.S. healthcare delivery system from early forms of organized institutional care through the current dynamic and increasingly integrated and managed care systems. Introduces students to the interactions of regulatory, economic, political, and social aspects of the healthcare system. Compares current policies and proposals for health reform. Students are asked to analyze the impact and consequences of actions in one era on the structure and function of healthcare practice in later years and to project these trends into the future.

High Technology Management

Business Law and Intellectual Property
Studies approaches to develop and protect intellectual property. Knowledge and know-how are strategic assets, whether they relate to products, companies, markets, and so forth. Also covers issues of corporate governance and structures.
Entrepreneurial Finance for High Tech Companies
Provides an overview of entrepreneurial finance with a focus on high-technology companies. Specific topics covered include analyzing the financial needs of high-technology ventures, including working capital management, risk analysis, capital budgeting, sources of financing, valuation; and exit strategies, including licensing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings (IPOs). Uses a combination of text material, books, and cases.
Virtual, Vicious Teams: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams
Offers an opportunity to learn how to build and lead different types of teams, including co-located, virtual, global, and top management teams. Asks students to identify the roles and responsibilities of team members and leaders and to develop effective communication, collaboration, and commitment among team members and other constituencies. Also examines how to effectively facilitate coordination across functionally distinct teams.
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Innovation Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: Services and Retail Business Creation
Covers the issues surrounding the creation of a new business in the service and retail sectors. Emphasizes issues relating to the start-up, growth, and operation of business ventures in these areas. Topics include developing a business plan for start-up, market positioning, services design, operations management, sales forecasting, cash flow management, and venture financing with a heavy emphasis on debt financing. Students are asked to develop business plans for services and retail ventures of their own choosing as the class project.
New Venture Creation
Gives students the opportunity to build a complete business plan for new high-potential ventures. Covers all aspects of the planning process, from the point of view of both the prospective entrepreneur and the potential investor. Explores the demands of the entrepreneurial career through reading, self-assessment exercises, and group projects. Guest speakers from start-up companies, law firms, and venture capital firms provide a window on current experiences in the small-business world. Recommended for prospective entrepreneurs as well as others who may become involved with new ventures.
Management of Small Business Enterprises
Stresses the operating problems of managing small businesses. Case studies develop analytical approaches for appraising the risks and rewards of potential growth opportunities as well as operating problems. Problems range from locating, evaluating, marketing, and financing a small company to the survival and growth of more established businesses. Guest speakers and entrepreneurs provide pertinent business perspectives to in-class activities.
New Product Development
Focuses on the challenges and decisions new-product managers face as they take ideas through the new-product-development process. Companies need to create, develop, and market new products and services continually to compete effectively in a rapidly changing environment. Provides an overview of the new-product-development process, with an emphasis on customer involvement in this process. Provides detailed insights on such topics as new-product strategy, idea generation, idea selection and evaluation, concept development and testing, product development and testing, and market testing.
Entrepreneurial Finance for High Tech Companies
Provides an overview of entrepreneurial finance with a focus on high-technology companies. Specific topics covered include analyzing the financial needs of high-technology ventures, including working capital management, risk analysis, capital budgeting, sources of financing, valuation; and exit strategies, including licensing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings (IPOs). Uses a combination of text material, books, and cases.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Explores using innovation to build and create value in the larger global context. Examines some of the latest innovation practices: (1) to build and create value within emerging economies, (2) to facilitate social entrepreneurship, (3) to promote sustainable development, and (4) to build and create value at the bottom of the pyramid. Exposes students to what successful entrepreneurs must learn, to balance business demands with the larger need for innovative thinking. Stresses the application of successful practices to generate results. Topics include creating and sharing knowledge and intellectual property, exploiting systems and networks, redefining disruptive innovation, and the steps necessary to make innovation and entrepreneurship happen in a variety of global contexts. Real-life examples and case studies are used to illustrate successful practices.

International Management

Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage through Global Innovation
Examines the actions that managers and their companies can take to effectively foster growth through innovation and new product development. Discusses issues that play an important role in enabling a company to compete successfully in international markets, defend its home market against overseas competitors, and understand the needs of the global customer.
Cultural Aspects of International Business
Focuses on issues that arise when a firm operates in multiple countries with cultures that are different from its home country. Principally addresses the perspectives of U.S. firms operating overseas, but also explores other national firms operating in the United States and in third-country environments. A central issue is how corporate cultures evolve in the context of national cultures.
International Finance Management
Develops specific concepts, policies, and techniques for the financial management of the multinational firm. Topics include operation of the foreign exchange markets, foreign exchange risk management, sources and instruments of international financing, foreign direct investment and the management of political risk, multinational capital budgeting, and financing control systems for the multinational firm.
International Marketing
Develops understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing the international marketing executive, the decision-making process in marketing goods abroad, and the environmental forces—economic, cultural, and political—affecting the marketing process in the international marketplace.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Explores using innovation to build and create value in the larger global context. Examines some of the latest innovation practices: (1) to build and create value within emerging economies, (2) to facilitate social entrepreneurship, (3) to promote sustainable development, and (4) to build and create value at the bottom of the pyramid. Exposes students to what successful entrepreneurs must learn, to balance business demands with the larger need for innovative thinking. Stresses the application of successful practices to generate results. Topics include creating and sharing knowledge and intellectual property, exploiting systems and networks, redefining disruptive innovation, and the steps necessary to make innovation and entrepreneurship happen in a variety of global contexts. Real-life examples and case studies are used to illustrate successful practices.
Global Supply Chain Management
Analyzes the managerial activities of those involved in supply chain management operations and planning in companies involved in international commerce. Focuses on contemporary issues that affect the design of international supply chain systems, and examines the current status and future prospects of the modes of international transportation. Examines international trade and development issues, not only from the corporate perspective, but also in terms of government policy.
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Marketing

Market-Focused Strategy
Offers an advanced course in defining and managing an organization's product-market strategy. Intended for marketing specialists and non-specialists interested in incorporating a market focus from a general management or consulting perspective. Emphasizes using market information to choose and manage the company's relationships with customers and competitors in a complex, changing environment, as well as the practical concerns of implementing and evaluating marketing strategy.
Marketing Research
Provides an overview of the major qualitative and quantitative marketing research methodologies available to marketing managers. Explores customer relationship management (CRM) and multivariate statistical techniques including conjoint analysis, customer satisfaction, and service quality measurement.
New Product Development
Focuses on the challenges and decisions new-product managers face as they take ideas through the new-product-development process. Companies need to create, develop, and market new products and services continually to compete effectively in a rapidly changing environment. Provides an overview of the new-product-development process, with an emphasis on customer involvement in this process. Provides detailed insights on such topics as new-product strategy, idea generation, idea selection and evaluation, concept development and testing, product development and testing, and market testing.
Digital Marketing
Explores the latest trends in technology and new media, their effect on marketing goods and services, and how to deliver value to the customer using the latest technological innovations. Examines the latest trends in digital marketing, such as mobile marketing, and how the mobile platform can be used for branding purposes and to enhance customer relationships. Explores topics such as branding and advertising via mobile phones, online social networks and communities, technology adoption in global emerging markets, and how the Internet empowers customers and enables firms to engage in customer advocacy. Also examines how marketing research is conducted for technological innovations and ethical concerns that arise with technology usage, such as privacy and security issues, identity theft, and the role of trust in digital marketing.
International Marketing
Develops understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing the international marketing executive, the decision-making process in marketing goods abroad, and the environmental forces—economic, cultural, and political—affecting the marketing process in the international marketplace.
Brand and Advertising Management
Designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the brand-building process. Exposes students to the concepts, theories, principles, and terminology of brand management. Discusses brand equity. Also explores one very important tool used by brand managers, advertising. Covers such issues as target market identification, message strategy, media choice, and advertising evaluation.
Marketing in Service Sector
Provides students with knowledge of management needs and techniques associated with the service sector of the economy. Includes understanding the differences between goods and service marketing, and how these differences influence marketing strategy and the tactical design of marketing mix variables. Assists in understanding the difference between tangible goods and services, differences in the consumer evaluation process between goods and services, special marketing problems created by the differences between goods and services, and strategies that address the unique problems in service marketing.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management
Analyzes the role and activities of those involved in supply chain management decision-making. Emphasizes the importance of transportation planning, inventory control, warehouse management, development of customer service standards, and procurement in the design and operation of supply and distribution systems. Emphasis is on the importance of information systems and the Internet in supporting such activities. Special attention is also given to the close working relationships with managers in other functional areas including manufacturing, information systems, marketing, and international operations. This integrative approach to management is critical in supporting supply chain cost and service improvements.
The Transportation Industries
Examines the structure, operations, problems, and potential of the several major modes of domestic transportation, and focuses on the interaction between transportation companies and shippers in the marketplace. Explores the major dynamics of the transportation marketplace and their impact on supply chain management. Provides students with a managerial perspective on controlling what is typically the most expensive component of supply chain management, transportation expenditures.
Global Supply Chain Management
Analyzes the managerial activities of those involved in supply chain management operations and planning in companies involved in international commerce. Focuses on contemporary issues that affect the design of international supply chain systems, and examines the current status and future prospects of the modes of international transportation. Examines international trade and development issues, not only from the corporate perspective, but also in terms of government policy.
Growing and Protecting Business Value Through the Supply Chain Management
Designed to provide insights into how supply chain innovators are elevating their strategic value within organizations. Focuses on a number of emerging leadership models by examining strategic, value-added opportunities for building supply chain management (SCM) innovation as a core competency; connecting SCM to boardroom goals; building an understanding of high-performance SCM systems; assessing and configuring innovative SCM strategies; and managing change in a dynamic global SCM environment. Offers students an opportunity to learn and practice the tools and frameworks and build their skills as well as diagnostically evaluate current operating models.
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Sustainability

Sustainability and Supply Chain Management
Focuses on how to create sustainable supply chains that profitably yield high-quality, safe products without supply interruption while creating a net benefit for the employees, community, and the environment. Studies how companies measure environmental performance and use the data to motivate associates, suppliers, customers, policy makers, and the public. Also addresses the impacts of global sustainability frameworks and measures.
Sustainability and Leadership
Examines how organizational leaders influence decisions to advance an environmental agenda. Studies the scientific knowledge that organizational leaders must have to make effective sustainability decisions. Examines how a variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, government-sponsored enterprises, and nongovernment organizations, interact on environmental issues.
Sustainability and the Business Environment
Examines how the environment affects corporate strategy, public policy, and individual decision making. Exposes students to the skills and knowledge to help organizations understand and act upon the principles of sustainability. Examines a variety of environmental problems, including global warming, use and disposal of toxic substances, and depletion of natural resources. Also studies how companies solve these problems by reducing their impact on the environment through solutions such as zero emissions, green design, and corporate environmental reporting.
Sustainability and Innovation in Product Design
Focuses on examining various strategies organizations have taken for sustainability in innovation. Introduces the concept of designing products for the “triple bottom line”—people, planet, and profit. Use of case study discussions and a product development group exercise will help demonstrate the opportunities and issues arising from sustainability initiatives in corporations.
Sustainability and the Economics of Markets
Examines the idea that building a sustainable business enterprise often involves correcting market failures. Examines the responsibilities of the business enterprise to society at large. Also explores the causes of and remedies for market failures, such as diverse areas as immigration, education, health care, climate change, and finance, and what these mean for governments, businesses, and individuals.

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