The first year of Oregon Executive MBA’s curriculum focuses on the core knowledge and skills executives need in order to lead their organizations effectively. Through a variety of dynamic instructional formats, students are challenged to apply their learning to real world situations.
- Residency
- Global Business Environment
- Managerial Economics
- Business Ethics
- Financial Accounting
- Leadership & Motivation
- Leadership Practices Inventory - Parts 1 & 2
- Managerial Accounting
- Marketing Management
- Statistics
- Operations Management
- Capstone Overview
- Managing Organizations
- Business Writing
- Financial Analysis
- Opportunity Recognition
Course Descriptions
Residency
Held for three days before the academic year begins, residency at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business in Eugene, Oregon, includes an overview of the program, alumni presentations, team building activities, and the first two class sessions of the year. The residency session provides a foundation for the program and accelerates the formation of a supportive, positive learning environment and cohort.
(Non-credit)
Global Business Environment
Explores the strategic and operational issues confronting managers in firms engaged in global business. Guest executives will help integrate fundamental concepts and emerging events and issues in the global economy. The course develops the skills to effectively manage in crosscultural environments. Typical project: student teams analyze how companies respond to the complex challenges of global business.
(BA 726, 3 credits) Tina Starr
Managerial Economics
Examines economic concepts for solving major managerial problems by covering the concepts of cost, demand, rivalry, and competitive advantage. Includes an overview of monetary and fiscal policy impacts on organizations. Typical project: student learning teams compete in a business simulation
(BA 715, 3 credits) Glen Waddell
Business Ethics
Studies the derivation of values and their application to individual choices. This course emphasizes the conflict managers experience when choosing between two alternatives. Typical project: student teams address one current dilemma facing managers.
(BA 730, 1 credits) Jeffrey Stolle
Financial Accounting
An introduction to the reporting system used by businesses to convey financial information to external parties. Primary emphasis is placed on reading, understanding, and using financial reports outputs. Students will learn to prepare, comprehend, and perform basic analysis of financial statements. Typical project: an analysis of the financial statements of the student’s organization.
(BA 712, 4 credits) Gudrun Granholm
Leadership and Motivation
Examines management and leadership with an emphasis on effective organizational design for achieving strategic objectives. Emphasizes creating alignment among people, culture, structure, and reward systems to assure high performance. Typical project: analysis of student’s organization, structure, and culture as determinants of firm performance.
(BA 716, 2 credits) Dave Preston
Leadership Practices Inventory - Part 1
Managerial Accounting
Covers the development, presentation, and interpretation of cost information for management decision-making, planning, and control. Typical project: analyze and evaluate a costing system in the student’s company and make recommendations for improvement.
(BA 714, 3 credits) Ryan Wilson
Marketing Management
Studies the marketing process from the perspective of the general manager; fundamental marketing concepts are discussed and students develop frameworks to analyze complex marketing opportunities and challenges. Specific topics include market segmentation, targeting, positioning, differentiation, products, brands, pricing, distribution, promotion and global marketing. Typical project: students compete in a marketing simulation and prepare a critique of their organizations’ marketing programs.
(BA 717, 4 credits) Damian J. Vaughn
Statistics
Integrates statistical tools for analyzing business data and covers process analysis, data collection, regression, statistical control, and forecasting. Typical project: identify opportunities and application of statistical tools in the student’s business unit.
(BA 713, 3 credits) Glen Waddell
Leadership Practices Inventory - Part 2
Operations Management
This course examines methods and processes for providing a competitive advantage through continuous quality and process improvements, supplier management, and efficient production of products and services. Key topics include capacity planning, make/buy decisions, production, procurement, and logistics planning. Typical project: participation in an operations management simulation and analysis of supply chain case studies.
(BA 727, 2 credits) Nagesh Murthy
Capstone Overview
Managing Organizations
Examines management and leadership with an emphasis on effective organizational design for achieving strategic objectives. Emphasizes creating alignment among people, culture, structure, and reward systems to assure high performance. Typical project: analysis of student’s organization, structure, and culture as determinants of firm performance.
(BA 716, 2 credits) Damian Vaughn
Business Writing
This course covers the essentials of clear and concise business writing. Reviews the theory and practice of writing effectively for U.S. and international business audiences, addressing the use of rhetorical, cultural, and organizational analysis to create persuasive business documents.
(BA 708, 1 credit) Faculty member TBD
Financial Analysis
Focuses on the theories, concepts, and principles of financial analysis. This course includes the analysis of policy problems involved in financing the business corporation, the time value of money, asset valuation models, risk management, financial statement analysis, management of working capital, earnings and dividend determination, business combinations, and business reorganizations. Typical project: students apply financial tools and frameworks to real-world situations.
(BA 718, 4 credits) Deb Bauer
Opportunity Recognition
Introduces the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, a spirited approach to leadership that involves identifying high-potential opportunities, gathering resources, and managing rapid growth and significant risks through principled decision making.
(BA 710, 3 credits) Andrew Nelson
