MBA 501 Marketing for Managers provides a high-level overview of marketing鈥檚 role in an organization. Students learn to assess the way an organization鈥檚 marketing strategy guides its tactical decisions. Students also learn how to evaluate a marketing plan鈥檚 design, communication, and value proposition and ethical considerations while applying marketing theory. Pre-requisites: None
MBA 502 addresses the fundamentals of reading, analyzing, and interpreting accounting data to make informed business decisions. Topics include accounting for assets and liabilities, analysis of financial statements, ethical and legal responsibilities, cost-volume-profit analysis, forecasting, and budgeting. This course. Pre-requisites: ACCT 201 or equivalent Peregrine Course and Assessment
MBA 503 This course is designed to assist managers in applying principles of microeconomics to their organizations including basic economic theory, market economies, demand and production, competitive and monopolistic market structures, and behavioral economics, and the ethical consequences of economics. Pre-requisites: ECON 215 or equivalent Peregrine Course and Assessment
MBA 504 Finance for Managers covers topics such as analyzing financial statements, valuation techniques, budgeting and investing in capital, managing risk, financial modeling, corporate financing, and ethical considerations of finance and corporate governance. Pre-requisites: FINA 318 or equivalent Peregrine Course and Assessment
Students analyze strategic options, develop a strategic plan, monitor the plan, and analyze their performance using a simulated business scenario. Concepts covered include: planning and analysis; SWOT and PESTEL analysis; and the integration of an organization鈥檚 functions to achieve a strategic vision.
Prerequisites for MBA 505: MBA 501, MBA 502, MBA 503, MBA, 504, MOLP 783, MOLP 787, MOLP 788, MOLP 789 or Approval by the Executive Director of Graduate Business and Applied Leadership.
MOLP 781 is grounded in theories and models of applied leadership. This course examines the various components of the leadership process, including leaders, followers, goals, contexts, and cultural values and norms. The course also explores the dynamic relationship between leaders and followers, the means used by leaders and followers to achieve their goals, and the ethical implications of those means and the goals themselves. Focus is placed on how the concepts explored in class translate to application, as well as the importance of continuing to develop one鈥檚 understanding and practice of leadership throughout one鈥檚 lifetime. Pre-requisites: None
This course introduces learners to the foundational principles and practical applications of data analysis as a tool for managerial and organizational leadership. Students will examine how quantitative and qualitative data are collected, interpreted, and applied to support strategic planning, resource allocation, performance management, and evidence-based decision making across a broad range of organizational contexts. Pre-requisites: None
MOLP 783 explores the communication between leaders and followers. Attention is given to how leaders and followers send and receive messages as well as how they may create and manage meaning. The course (1) presents major concepts of communication as they relate to the practice of leadership, (2) emphasizes the importance of understanding communication as it relates to the leadership process, (3) demonstrates the way communication affects the leadership process, and (4) builds professional communication skills that help leaders better communicate with their followers and diverse stakeholders. Major communication concepts addressed. Pre-requisites: None
Students will examine how ethical theories and legal and regulatory frameworks shape the leadership process, such as how leaders make decisions and communicate with stakeholders, how organizations structure policies, manage human resources, and respond to risk. The course explores a broad range of legal and regulatory considerations relevant to organizational leaders, including employment law, workplace rights and anti-discrimination protections, liability and risk management, regulatory compliance, contractual obligations, and sector-specific legal requirements. Students will build the analytical capacity to use ethical theories and legal frameworks as complementary tools for addressing professional dilemmas, evaluating organizational practices, and designing policies that reflect both moral responsibility and legal accountability. Pre-requisites: None
This course prepares organizational leaders to address the complexity, uncertainty, and rapid change that define today's leadership environment through two complementary frameworks. Through systems thinking, students examine the interdependent factors and interactions that shape organizational outcomes, building the capacity to identify root causes of complex and "wicked" problems rather than addressing symptoms alone. Through design thinking, students approach problem-solving as a human-centered, iterative process emphasizing empathy, precise problem definition, creative ideation, prototyping, and solution testing. Together, these frameworks equip students to analyze multifaceted challenges, evaluate competing evidence, and design well-reasoned, actionable solutions for complex organizational environments. Pre-requisites: None
This course explores ways of organizing people in organizations to solve problems and facilitate positive systemic change. Functional, cross-functional, and self-directed work teams will be investigated. The benefits of having multiple people engage together in a collaborative and cooperative environment to develop and deliver an organization鈥檚 products and/or services will be studied, as well as the roles leaders play in facilitating work teams.
Pre-requisites: None
Project managers are responsible for leading teams, defining goals, communicating with stakeholders, and seeing a project through to its closure; thus, MOLP 789 explores the roles and attributes of project management - the organization, planning, implementation, and navigation of project plans while managing financial, human, and temporal resources within restraints such as supply chains, budgets, and schedules. Pre-requisites: None
MOLP 783 explores the communication between leaders and followers. Attention is given to how leaders and followers send and receive messages as well as how they may create and manage meaning. The course (1) presents major concepts of communication as they relate to the practice of leadership, (2) emphasizes the importance of understanding communication as it relates to the leadership process, (3) demonstrates the way communication affects the leadership process, and (4) builds professional communication skills that help leaders better communicate with their followers and diverse stakeholders. Major communication concepts addressed.
This course explores ways of organizing people in organizations to solve problems and facilitate positive systemic change. Functional, cross-functional, and self-directed work teams will be investigated. The benefits of having multiple people engage together in a collaborative and cooperative environment to develop and deliver an organization鈥檚 products and/or services will be studied, as well as the roles leaders play in facilitating work teams.
Pre-requisites: None
Leadership:
Business Management:
15 Hours
*NOTE: The Leadership certificate requires one additional course in addition to the 33 credit hours for the MBA for a total of 36 hours for the MBA program to complete this certificate.
