Master of Business Administration (Concordia University Chicago)

Global Marketing in a Digital Era
This module is designed to provide students with the knowledge and understanding of the global marketing environment through key marketing concepts, digital marketing tools and global marketing strategy. The module challenges you to think critically about the global marketplace. Students will hone their approach to global marketing decisions, policies and strategies. Students will learn to formulate and evaluate a global marketing plan through the use of digital marketing tools and techniques.

Economics for Management
This module examines key economic concepts critical to managerial decision-making within today’s business environment with an emphasis on national and global, real-world applications. The module incorporates both microeconomic and macroeconomic principles.

Managing and Leading Effective Organisations
This module is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge to facilitate innovative leadership and management within different types of organizations. This module focuses on the impact of leadership and management on organizational effectiveness. Students will hone their critical thinking and problem solving skills. Students will learn attributes of successful leaders and managers, the challenges they face in in a global society, and how they build relationships and impact culture for organizational sustainability and innovations.

Ethics, Law and Communications in Decision Making
This module introduces the legal and ethical obligations in business. Knowledge of law and ethics must be included into managerial decisions. Students will learn to apply and communicate ethical frameworks to business decisions, with a lens on social responsibility. Proactive and effective communication can provide a competitive edge to organizations, reducing risk and liability.

Organizational Behavior
This module focuses on providing students with cutting edge thinking about the topics that are germane to organizational behavior. It is the people within an organization who create, innovate, and are responsible for keeping a competitive advantage. Knowing how to motivate and mobilize an organization’s human capital is critical to organizational performance. This module will assist students in developing a systematic understanding of why people behave the way they do and understand how to translate that knowledge into organizational applications.

Strategy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This module challenges students to think about how they can create, build, or change an organization through sound leadership and management theories, personal relationships, creative and critical thinking, as well as how design thinking and innovation principles can be used to create value.

Accounting for Decision Making
This module provides students with an understanding of accounting information critical in planning, control and decision making to achieve stated goals within an organization. It will incorporate the use of cases that focus on accounting data in directing the decisions and strategy of businesses. The module will provide students with the skills to analyse financial information through the use of appropriate accounting software in order to make sound managerial decisions. Managing Human Capital Organizational managers and leaders must understand how changing technologies, demographics, mergers and acquisitions, and globalization influence the potential of human capital to create and maintain strategic competitive advantage. This module will focus on how expanding the leadership and talent pool by having a sound diversity strategy can create competitive advantage. Issues such as immigration, diversity laws, work-life balance, equal opportunity, ageism, and the multigenerational workforce are discussed.

Statistics Applied to Managerial Problems
This module provides students with an understanding of statistical data for the primary purpose of managerial problem solving and decision making. Topics include probability distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, quality control and regression analysis. Applications of statistical techniques to issues in marketing, investment analysis and manufacturing are discussed.

Financial Management
This module provides students with the financial skills and critical thinking necessary to analyze and evaluate financial policy decisions in a global economy. The module focuses on financial statement analysis for decision making and includes time value of money; the cost of capital, valuation of stocks and bonds, management of short-term assets, short-term and long-term financing, capital markets, and multinational financial management. This module also addresses the impact of legal, social, technological, and ethical considerations on efficient economic outcomes.

Global Management
This module focuses on how globalization has opened the world to organizations and provides students the skills and knowledge to perform effectively as a leader within a company with global presence. Topics covered the broader themes about globalization and its implications, as well as multinational business strategies, from exporting to foreign direct investment, as well as economic, political, and cultural influences on the international marketplace. Capstone Course This Capstone course requires candidates to integrate and synthesize core course concepts learned throughout the MBA. Students will be challenged to complete case studies and a final project that relate to MBA program outcomes and the College’s Pillars of Knowledge, demonstrating skills needed to be an effective leader in today’s global workplace. The singular purpose of the MBA capstone is to provide students an opportunity to demonstrate their competency in applying the knowledge, concepts, and tools developed during their MBA program through an integrative experience. This is the last opportunity for faculty to assess student competency. "