EMBA
Coursework
Tool Area Courses
USF is proud that its EMBA curriculum is the both comprehensive and rigorous. The 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: Daniel Bradley
Organizational Behavior and Leadership
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: Gert-Jan de Vreede
Managerial Decision Analysis
Introduction to data analytical methods including data visualization and data modeling.
Starting from basic principles, the course will introduce students to tools and techniques
for building regression models from data. Emphasis will be placed on real world applications
and implementing these applications using state of the art statistical software.
Faculty: Wolfgang Jank
Data Analytics
Advanced methods in data analytics. A second course in the series, it will place emphasis
on advanced data mining concepts and techniques, focusing on student-led projects
and discussions, and introducing students to advanced data mining software solutions.
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: Timothy Heath
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
Selected Topics in 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/Entrepreneurship
Negotiation and 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: Donald Addison
Strategic Entrepreneurship
Rapid technological development and global competition is shrinking life cycles in
almost every industry. This puts increasing pressure on businesses to identify new
opportunities and rapidly develop new products and services to meet those opportunities.
Strategic Entrepreneurship focuses on two key parts of innovating in this hyper competitive
environment. First, students will learn several techniques to analyze and identify
opportunities in a rapidly changing market place. Second, students will learn how
to develop novel product and service concepts based on their opportunity analysis.
Understanding and being able to apply these concepts provides students unique insight
into how thrive in our rapidly changing society and economy.
Faculty: Dirk Libaers
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
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
This is the last course and serves as the capstone for the EMBA program. An integrative
approach to decision-making requires aspiring executives to combine the cutting-edge
concepts, principles and skills learned in the separate disciplines previously covered
in the program. Case analysis and experiential methods are the primary vehicles for
learning. Each team will develop, write and present a discussion case generated from
interviews with executives at companies in the Tampa Bay Area. Those cases deemed
worthy will be put forward for possible publication in the Muma Case Review.
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.
Integrated Business Solutions
This course is specifically designed to strengthen the decision making capabilities
for aspiring C-Suite Executives. This is the first course of the second year of the
EMBA program, and students will combine and apply skills learned in the first year.
Students will use discussion cases to analyze strategic and tactical business decisions
related to the selection, deployment, and utilization of solutions in today's business
environment. Each team will develop, write and present a discussion case generated
from interviews with executives at companies in the Tampa Bay Area. Those cases deemed
worthy will be put forward for possible publication in the Muma Case Review.
Faculty: Matthew Mullarkey