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TMMBA 500 Building Effective Teams (0.5-4, max. 5)
Focuses on building and maintaining effective work teams. Prerequisite: permission of Foster School of Business. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 501 Microeconomics for Technology Managers (2)
Presents the fundamentals of price theory via consideration of theory of the consumer and theory of the firm in markets. Illustrates application of price theory to solve decision-making problems.
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TMMBA 502 Financial Reporting and Analysis (4)
Financial accounting information in technology companies from a management perspective. Topics include use of financial statements by managers, investors, financial analysts, and other firm stakeholders; measurement and reporting of assets, equities, income; analysis of financial ratios; and comparisons of financial performance across companies. Prerequisite: Permission of Foster School of Business.
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TMMBA 503 Statistical Analysis of Data (2)
An introduction to statistical techniques useful for management decision-making, with analysis of problems using spreadsheet programs. Topics include visualization and summarization of data and variability; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; and prediction using multiple regression and time series analysis. Prerequisite: Permission of Foster School of Business.
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TMMBA 504 Competitive Strategy (4)
Addresses design and implementation of strategies in organizations. Examines how managerial action can reinvent bases of competition within existing industries and how creation and implementation of strategy drives business success. Offered: Sp.
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TMMBA 505 Strategic Marketing Management (4)
Fundamentals of marketing analysis in the context of technology-based products and services. Topics include development of a marketing strategy, customer and competitor analyses, and marketing research. Prerequisite: Permission of Foster School of Business.
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TMMBA 509 Professional Communications (*, max. 6)
Prepares managers to both communicate and present ideas effectively within the organization, across cultures, and across generations. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 510 Leadership Development (4)
Examines principles of effective leadership and people management. Includes leadership theories, styles, and behaviors, decision making models, strategies for influencing employee motivation and performance of management teams, staffing and performance appraisal in technology companies, and management of organizational change.
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TMMBA 511 Information Management in E-Business (4)
Focuses on the role of information technologies in organizations, emphasizing information management and coordination. Provides a framework for understanding the link between information and management practices, and how this relationship is influenced by underlying technological trends.
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TMMBA 512 Corporate Financial Strategy (4)
Examines the theory of corporate finance and its application to firm's corporate financial decisions. Includes capital budgeting, capital structure, and financing decisions. Explores fundamentals of firm valuation and the link between managerial corporate financial decision and firm value.
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TMMBA 514 Decision Modeling (2)
Introduction to spreadsheet-based modeling techniques for management decision making. Includes linear and integer programming, sensitivity analysis, and simulation. Formulation and interpretation. Prerequisite: permission of Foster School of Business.
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TMMBA 515 Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (2)
Provides an understanding of the dynamics of industries driven by technological innovation. Explores managerially-oriented frameworks for strategic management of technology innovation and new product development.
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TMMBA 516 Operations and Supply Chain Management (4)
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TMMBA 517 Managerial Accounting and Decision Making (4)
Explores the critical internal ramifications of information in both decision making and performance evaluation. Through lectures and numerous case analyses, students become versed in cost concepts and cost behavior; overhead allocation (including activity-based costing); incremental analysis and decision making; and performance evaluation and incentive systems, including use of economic value added (EVA) and a balanced scorecard.
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TMMBA 518 Protecting Intellecutal Property (1)
Explores the legal issues related to recognition, management, and protection of intellectual propery in technology companies. Includes the establishment, protection and maintenance of copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
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TMMBA 519 Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness (2)
Provides an opportunity to explore and develop critical leadership attributes, qualities, skills, and competencies needed to create and sustain dynamic organizational success. Students are challenged to build on their skills and competencies and to exchange ideas and experiences to enhance leadership throughout their organizations. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 520 Marketing of Innovation and Digital Media (4)
Analyzes marketing strategy throughout the product life cycle, with special emphasis on marketing new products. Explores tools and techniques for identifying market opportunities, as well as use of the internet in market strategy.
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TMMBA 521 Project Management (4)
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TMMBA 522 Projects in Technology Management (2)
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TMMBA 523 Negotiations (2)
How to become an effective negotiator by learning proven techniques to build and maintain relationships, apply appropriate power and influence, structure agreements, and develop buy-in. Practices the methods employed by skilled negotiators such as developing a framework that leads to win-win solutions; how to resolve difficult situations using dispute settlement skill; powerful strategies for planning, negotiating, and implementing agreements. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 524 Leading Organizational Change (4)
Explores major principles fundamental to leading and managing organizational change. Prerequisite: permission of Foster School of Business.
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TMMBA 525 Practicum in Technology Management (2)
A mini-thesis project analyzing a management issue in a selected company. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 526 Ethical Leadership (3)
Examines the ethical aspects of business. Topics including ethical decision-making; the ethical aspects of leadership and culture; stakeholder management corporate social responsibility; sustainability; and corporate governance.
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TMMBA 528 Current Issues in Management (1-4, max. 6)
Study of a current issue in management of technology companies.
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TMMBA 530 Case Competition in Technology Management (1)
Student teams analyze and present recommendations on a complex case in a technology-oriented company. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 542 Financial Statement Analysis (2)
Increases student ability to extract and interpret information in financial statements, developing accounting analysis skills.
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TMMBA 549 International Business and Cultural Immersion (2)
Explores business concepts, skills, and strategic insights in a new cultural context and market economy. Prepares managers to think globally in approaching strategic expansion opportunities within their organization. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 551 Leading Across Cultures (2)
Focuses on cross-cultural management issues and the influence that cultural differences have on managerial processes.
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TMMBA 552 Global Strategy (2)
Overview of many of the issues that global managers face including government-MNE relations, global strategy, entry modes, country analysis, and political strategies.
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TMMBA 553 Entrepreneurship (4)
Places student in the role of an entrepreneur to address issues related to new venture creation.
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TMMBA 554 Entrepreneurial Practicum (2)
Focuses on developing advanced entrepreneurial investment, strategic and persuasive communication frameworks and skills. Course culminates with an entrepreneurial investment practicum allowing students to put their learning into practice with local entrepreneurs and venture capitalist. Credit/no-credit only.
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TMMBA 555 Entrepreneurial Finance (2)
Examines issues and challenges associated with venture capital financing. Topics include evaluating venture capital financing arrangements; terms and provisions of venture capital agreements; and the structuring of venture capital organizations.
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TMMBA 560 Technology Commercialization Case Studies (4)
Assists students to develop a framework for understanding and analyzing the commercialization of technology-enabled ventures from an entrepreneurial perspective. Through "learning by doing," students work and experience the topics, tools, and techniques that support technology commercialization projects.
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