Master of Science in Management
The M.S.M. degree program offers an academic grounding in management theories and their application to business practices, and provides decision-making tools with a process orientation. The program is designed for working professionals who seek a degree that will enhance their current career paths while broadening and deepening their existing managerial strengths.
Process:
Students take the Cornerstone Course, then all core and specialization courses, then the Capstone Course.
Program Outcomes
Students will be able to:
Program Credit Requirements: 36 (27 core plus 9 electives) Choose three specialization electives or work with an advisor to choose nine credits from all available electives.
Core: 27 credits
Process:
Students take the Cornerstone Course, then all core and specialization courses, then the Capstone Course.
Program Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Evaluate contemporary managerial theories for their applicability to current best practices
- Evaluate contemporary managerial theories for their applicability to one’s own approach to management
- Clearly communicate one’s assessments and evaluations to others
- Assess processes for continuously improving an organization’s performance
Program Credit Requirements: 36 (27 core plus 9 electives) Choose three specialization electives or work with an advisor to choose nine credits from all available electives.
Core: 27 credits
Master of Science in Management - Program Outline
Core Courses
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- Must be taken first. This course focuses on analyzing, critiquing, and applying current managerial theory and practice, and serves as the cornerstone experience for MSM students. Students assess their own approaches to managing organizations in relation to theories and best practices.
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- This course focuses on theories, concepts, tools, and techniques used in the management and measurement of quality, productivity, and competitiveness in an international environment. Topics include continuous quality improvement; employee involvement in quality; team building for quality; the relationship between quality, productivity, and competitiveness; and statistical process control. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on theories, concepts, tools, and techniques used in the management of communication processes within an organization. Topics include interpersonal/organizational communication policies and practices, team development and management, and crisis communication policies and practices. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on the financial theories, concepts, tools, and techniques with which to manage financial resources, respond to competitive challenges, begin new projects, and recover from financial setbacks. Topics covered include: What managers need to know about accounting and finance; and managing your CFO. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on theories, concepts, tools, and techniques with which to strategically and systemically design and implement organizational structures. Topics covered include: Matching organization mission, strategies, culture and structure; and ensuring the long-term growth and development of an organization and its resources. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on theories and practices related to managers’ roles and corporate governance issues. Topics covered include: Defining corporate governance and ownership, managing boards, executive compensation, and regulatory issues such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Ethical issues underpin the discussion of all topics. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on the ethical aspects of doing business in the world and the choices made within such a business context. Topics covered include the corporation as person, employee rights and responsibilities, consumer issues and product liability, societal issues and business ethics as embedded in cultures. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
- This course focuses on the ethical aspects of doing business in the world and the choices made within such a business context. Topics covered include the corporation as person, employee rights and responsibilities, consumer issues and product liability, societal issues and business ethics as embedded in cultures. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This seminar/scenario based experience focuses on the integration of concepts, theories, and practices covered in the M.S.M. program. Students become part of a business team in which they, as senior managers, run companies for several virtual years. Prerequisite: All core and elective courses. Must be the last course (core and electives) students take.
Leadership Elective Courses
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- This course explores the definitions and philosophies of leadership in the corporate environment. Topics include how leadership is instilled through education and training, the role of values and ethics in leadership, the role of power and influence and an exploration of successful leadership traits. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on the importance of corporate visionary as a source of long-term business success and practical guidelines for how to move one's organization toward that status. Topics covered include the frameworks identified in book Built to Last and the organizational change principles necessary to implement the Built to Last vision framework. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- Major topics include barriers to implementing organizational change; chaos, anxiety and political sources of employee resistance to change; using Dissatisfaction, Vision and Process tools to implement change; applying different leadership styles to supporting change; and balancing change for dynamic stability using different implementation approaches and pacing of different kinds of changes. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
Project Management Elective Courses
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- Principles of Project Management introduces the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of the project management field. Topics include defining scope, assessing risk, assessing cost, developing timelines, planning communication, considering procurement, human resource and integration issues, and defining and managing quality for a variety of project management settings. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on current organizational and behavioral tools and techniques needed for successful project management. Topics covered include professional project management development, cost and schedule control, and setting effective project schedules and financial plans for risk management. Prerequisites: MSM 500, PMI 520.
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- This course focuses on the acquiring of goods and services in the project management environment. Topics covered include procurement and solicitation planning, source selection, contract administration, and decision making that minimizes ethical and legal risk. Prerequisites: MSM 500, PMI 520, PMI 521.
Non-Profit Management Elective Courses
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- This course focuses on the legal issues related to the initiation, maintenance, and growth of nonprofit organizations. Topics covered include nonprofit formation and statutory requirements; liability; tax issues; and laws affecting contracts, employment issues, lobbying and public advocacy, and fund raising. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on the building of systems and practices needed to sustain a financially healthy nonprofit organization. Topics covered include building and managing treasurers and board-level finance committees, viewing financial data strategically, capital formation, generating earned income, and creating processes for managing strategic endowment, gifts, and tax planning issues. Prerequisite: MSM 500, MSM 503.
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- This course focuses on general human resource policies and procedures and on those aspects of human resources management unique to nonprofit organizations. Topics covered include staffing, compensation, performance appraisal and development, and supervision of employees and volunteers. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
Health Care Administration Elective Courses
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- This course focuses on managerial policies related to the management of health care facilities. Topics covered include the application of management theories to the health care industry; budgeting and cost effectiveness; and the analysis and development of health information systems. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This courses focuses on current health care delivery systems related conditions imposed externally and internally. Topics covered include compliance with regulations and laws related to health maintenance organizations, health care corporation, group practice clinics, and prepaid health care organizations. Prerequisite: HLH 540.
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- This course focuses on the politics and economics of health care, national health insurance, risk factors and their effect on the economy. Topics covered include analysis of service providers, and legislation relating to the operation and management of health care facilities. Prerequisite: HLH 540.
Marketing Elective Courses
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- This course focuses on the organizational and marketing skills needed to develop new products. Topics include specific approaches to organizing product development processes and teams, choosing markets, generating and evaluating product ideas, choosing product attributes, predicting the success of new products and launching products. Prerequisite: MSM 500.
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- This course focuses on new product marketing plan development. Topics include marketing research and post research to measure the success of the product's introduction, developing branding strategies, and developing marketing communication strategies. Prerequisite: MBA 501.
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- This course focuses on the regulatory, cultural, strategic, and political dimensions of international marketing. Topics include problems of cross-national marketing; identification of market potential; development of strategies to suit cultural differences; management of multinational marketing efforts; development of product promotion policies, pricing strategies and distribution methods.