Coursework

Tool Area Courses

USF is proud that its EMBA curriculum is the both comprehensive and rigorous. The twenty required courses provide a framework through which students learn to broaden and enrich their management skills, expand their knowledge of modern business techniques and to further their understanding of the social, political and economic forces that shape the business environment. USF EMBA students develop excellent technical skills, managerial expertise, fiscal proficiency, and an understanding of world markets.

• Accounting Concepts for Managers
  Introduction to the regulatory environment in which accounting exists, the accounting process, basic financial statements and the role of accounting information in the decisions of internal and external users. This course explores how capital market participants use the statements to make decisions and provides an introduction on how accounting information is generated and used by managers for planning, controlling and evaluating business performance.
  Faculty: Bei Dong
  
  
• Financial Management
  The use and allocation of funds is studied in Financial Management I. Decision models and approaches are utilized in both certain and uncertain situations. A logical framework for asset management is developed and applied to problems and cases.
  Faculty: Chris Pantzalis
  
  
• Human Behavior in Organizations
  Examines the basic factors involved in managing organizations in a business environment. Both individual and group behavior are analyzed. Individual behavior is discussed from the perspectives of learning, perception, attitudes, personality, stress, and motivation. Social behavior and organizational processes include group formation, structure and processes, leadership, communication styles and structures, decision making, power, politics and conflict. This course represents a foundation for the ongoing sequence of management courses in this program.
  Faculty: Jerry Koehler
  
  
• Introduction to Economic Concepts for Managers
  Introduction to economic foundations of business decision making for firms operating in domestic and foreign markets. Fundamental tools of analysis from managerial economics are developed and applied to various aspects of business decision making.
  Faculty: Chris Thomas
  
  
• Management Information Systems
  The impact of business data and information systems on decision making, analysis and management of information resources, and the utilization of computer-aided management tools are presented. The terminology and concepts used in information technology and alternative methodologies for developing information systems are also discussed.
  Faculty: Anol Bhattacherjee
  
  
• Managerial Decision Analysis
  Application of statistical methods to business problems includes a review of basic statistics, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression, and correlation. As each topic is developed, emphasis will be placed on applications to business problems. In addition, students will be given instruction and experience in the use of a standard software package to perform regression analysis and analysis of variance.
  Faculty: Wolfgang Jank
  
  
• Marketing Management
  This course explores the application of marketing functions to business management. Market driven approaches are examined as they apply to industrial products and services in profit and not-for profit sectors. Students learn how to assess market opportunities and how to create marketing product/ service planning, pricing policy, communication strategy, sales strategy, distribution system management and promotion strategies.
  Faculty: Paul Solomon
  
  
• Operations Management and Quality Enhancement
  Principles and concepts of operations management, including the foundations of quality, are presented. The study of applications concerning strategic operations planning with the goal of quality enhancement and continuous improvement, in both the service and manufacturing environments, are also discussed.
  Faculty: Ronald Satterfield
  
  
• Social, Legal, and Ethical Systems
  This course provides an analysis of the important legal and social principles affecting the business environment and decision making. The influence of social, cultural, political, and legal environment of institutional behavior, including the changing nature of the business system is explored. The public policy process, corporate power, legitimacy and managerial autonomy, and organizational reactions to environmental forces are topics covered in this class.
  Faculty: Sharon Hanna-West

Discipline Applications

Financial Applications

• International Financial Management
  This course provides a foundation for the understanding of financial management of international business. The subjects covered relate to international finance, multinational business finance and financial market theory.
  Faculty: Chris Pantzalis
  
  
• Investments
  The Investments course explores portfolio construction, asset allocation, equity valuation, dead investments and risk management. Strong focus is placed in the investment process and investment policy.
  Faculty: Delroy Hunter

Management/Marketing Applications

• Conflict Resolution in Organizations
  This course is designed to give managers an appropriate background in negotiation and conflict resolution, particularly as applied to labor management relations. Specifically, the course provides a general background in negotiation and other conflict resolution strategies, which may be employed in organizations, and allows the student to apply this knowledge in a variety of simulation exercises and case analyses.
  Faculty: Cynthia Cohen
  
  
• Human Resource Management
  The focus of this course centers around complex decision making processes involved in the management of human resources within an organizational system geared to meeting both individual and organizational needs and objectives.
  Faculty: Cynthia Cohen
  
  
• Executive Leadership
  This course is designed for Executive MBA students who are or aspire to be top executives in triple bottom line organizations. Topics include classical approaches, influence, power, traits, behaviors, contingency theories, gender, charismatic and transformational leadership. Further, it addresses the executive leadership role in the influence and development of the following organization processes: strategy, structure, management systems, motivation, decision-making, human resource policy, culture, communication, team innovation, control and change.
  Faculty: Jerry Koehler

Integrated Business Applications

• International Marketing Management
  Analysis of the international marketing environment and the difference between domestic and internatonal marketing. Emphasis on preparing international market plans for a specific country.
  Faculty: Sajeev Varki
  
  
• Business Problems Analysis
  An integrative approach to problem solving and decision-making which combines the concepts, principles and skills learned in the separate disciplines. Case analysis and experiential methods are the primary vehicles for learning.
  Faculty: Grandon Gill
  
  
• International Study Program
  The Executive MBA international trip is a required component of the curriculum and is one of the memorable highlights of the program. It takes you inside individual companies and industries abroad and gives you an overview of the economic, political and cultural factors that influence business opportunities and practices globally. Following the trip, students apply the insights gained from their first year of coursework and the international trip in a written report.