Graziadio Business School
Fully Employed Programs
BS in Management
Goal 1: Students will be effective communicators in business settings.
- Students will be able to organize and deliver cogent oral presentations.
- Students will be able to organize and deliver cogent written presentations.
Goal 2: Students will be able to meaningfully contribute in a team environment.
- Students will skillfully evaluate performance effectiveness of team members.
- Teams will effectively complete the goals of a project.
Goal 3: Students will have the ability to recognize ethical issues and to incorporate ethical considerations when recommending courses of action.
- Students can identify ethical standards for an ethical problem.
- Students can select solutions when presented with and ethical problem.
Goal 4: Graduates will have a global orientation.
- Our students will be able to define and present key elements of another culture (other than the US) and their role in business decision making.
- Our students will be able to evaluate the economic conditions and forces affecting the introduction of a product or service in a foreign country.
- Our students will be able to evaluate the political risks involving international business in a foreign country.
Fully Employed MBA
Goal 1: Students have the skills to analyze business situations in an integrated, multi-disciplinary way and recommend solutions.
- Students recognize the importance of multi-disciplinary problem solving.
- Students engage in multi-disciplinary problem solving.
- Students develop and justify strategic recommendations that indicate the integration of a variety of business functions.
Goal 2: Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking.
- Students prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline.
- Students prepare a written report analyzing a business problem.
Goal 3: Students accurately appraise team dynamics and demonstrate effective team membership and leadership skills.
- Students use trust as a basis to achieve team goals and resolve conflicts based on trust.
- Students will be able to support a team effort and will hold themselves and others accountable for obtaining performance outcomes.
- Students identify and obtain goals for the team project.
Goal 4: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making.
- Students recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations.
- Students develop solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and recognize the consequences of those solutions.
Online MBA
Goal 1: Students have the skills to analyze business situations in an integrated, multi-disciplinary way and recommend solutions.
- Students recognize the importance of multi-disciplinary problem solving.
- Students engage in multi-disciplinary problem solving.
- Students develop and justify strategic recommendations that indicate the integration of a variety of business functions.
Goal 2: Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking.
- Students prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline.
- Students prepare a written report analyzing a business problem.
Goal 3: Students accurately appraise team dynamics and demonstrate effective team membership and leadership skills.
- Students use trust as a basis to achieve team goals and resolve conflicts based on trust.
- Students will be able to support a team effort and will hold themselves and others accountable for obtaining performance outcomes.
- Students identify and obtain goals for the team project.
Goal 4: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making.
- Students recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations.
- Students develop solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and recognize the consequences of those solutions.
MS in Human Resources
Goal 1: Effective Team Players
- Students are able to work effectively within a team environment.
- Students participate in all aspects of team engagement.
Goal 2: Knowledge of HR Concepts
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge talent management.
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of change management.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of legal requirements within the HR function.
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of HR's strategic role in organizations.
Goal 3: Business Concepts
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of accounting concepts.
- Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of economic concepts.
Goal 4: Global/Ethical
- Students will develop an ethical basis for fostering global, diverse, and inclusive organizational environments.
- Students will be able to articulate ethical considerations for HR managers and leaders.
MS in Management and Leadership
Goal 1: Students will be able to demonstrate an increased self‐awareness and personal understanding.
- Students will design and generate (on an individual basis) a personal development plan by the end of the program.
- Students will develop the ability to synthesize and integrate information from assessments, feedback, and self-reflections.
Goal 2: Students will develop strong working knowledge of managerial and leadership capabilities in a values-centered framework.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to put leadership and influence principles into practice.
- Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills.
- Students will learn and practice conflict management and negotiation skills.
- Students can appraise ethical dilemmas, recommend solutions, and assess the consequences of those solutions.
Goal 3: Students will show competency in managing people and teams within public/private organizations.
- Students will be able to transform an organization by leading and managing change.
- Students will be able to use effective interpersonal communications.
- Students will be able to interpret team dynamics and practice effective team membership and leadership.
Goal 4: Students will demonstrate multicultural competency
- Students will be able to adapt to a global environment and practice global leadership skills.
- Students will be able to relate to a diverse workforce and practice effective management of diversity.
Executive Programs
Executive MBA
Goal 1: Students have the skills to strategically analyze business situations in an integrated, multi-disciplinary way and recommend solutions.
- Students recognize the importance of multi-disciplinary problem solving.
- Students engage in multi-disciplinary problem solving.
- Students develop and justify strategic recommendations that indicate the integration of a variety of business functions.
Goal 2: Students understand team dynamics and are effective team members and leaders.
- Students identify characteristics of team members, and explain their implications for leadership, communication styles, decision making, and team dynamics.
- Students evaluate performance effectiveness, and select and apply appropriate motivation and ethical reward theories to obtain expected performance outcomes.
- Students provide ongoing developmental feedback that is useful, timely, and non-threatening.
Goal 3: Students incorporate strategic considerations in decision-making.
- Students are able to recognize strategic dilemmas in business situations.
- Students can select solutions when presented with strategic dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions.
Goal 4: Develop an organization's grand strategy (including competitive, corporate, industry, and global strategies) and recommend implementation of the plan.
- Assess the organization's internal vision/mission, opportunities/threats, and strengths/weaknesses.
- Formulate a grand strategy, and assess the consequences (including ethical and societal).
- Design structures, processes, controls, and performance management systems best suited to implement grand strategy.
President and Key Executive MBA
Goal 1: Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct a cultural assessment of an organization, including the organization's culture regarding ethical conduct.
- Students will interview managers from an organization that a fellow student is involved with and write an analysis of their findings.
- Students will write an analysis of the culture of an organization they are involved with.
- Students will analyze the organization's culture regarding ethical conduct.
Goal 2: Students will demonstrate the ability to perform a financial analysis of an organization.
- Students will prepare a financial forecast for an organization.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze financial information.
- Students will effectively communicate financial recommendations for an organization.
Goal 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the external environment of an organization. This will include the economic, social/cultural, political/legal/regulatory, technological, demographic, natural, and competitive elements of the environment from a global perspective.
- Students will develop scenarios for change in external variables.
- Students will develop a competitive/industry analysis for an organization that will examine both current and anticipated competition.
- Students will effectively communicate the potential implications of changes in environmental variables.
Goal 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to prepare a marketing plan for an organization.
- Students will develop a complete marketing mix for an organization.
- Students will develop an understanding of how to create, deliver, and communicate value in a product.
Goal 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to prepare a strategic plan for an organization.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to envision an organization's desired future state, including articulating appropriate vision, mission, and goals.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to identify an organization's strengths and weaknesses.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate the long- and short-term consequences of their proposed strategies.
MS in Organization Development
Goal 1: Knowledge of Self
- Students will be able to identify their personal development goals to use self as instrument of change in consulting.
- Students will be able to articulate events which shifted their knowledge of self and can relate it to their own consulting practice and philosophy.
Goal 2: Knowledge of OD Concepts
- Students will be able to articulate key concepts in Organization Development.
- Students will be able to demonstrate consulting skills and client centered responses.
Goal 3: Global/Ethical
- Students will be able to develop model for ethically entering a culture different than their own.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the implications and consequences for choosing a particular OD intervention in a country other than the United States.
- Students will be able to demonstrate competence in requirements of Human Subjects Research.
Goal 4: Research skills
- Students will be able to design a study, collect data, analyze the results, and make recommendations for research and practice.
Full-time Programs
Full-time MBA
Goal 1 Teams: Students are effective team players
- Students are able to effectively work with a team environment.
- Students participate in all aspects of team development.
Goal 2 Ethics: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making.
- Students are able to recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations.
- Students can select solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions.
Goal 3 Communication: Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking.
- Students will be able to prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline.
- Students will be able to prepare a written report analyzing a business problem.
Goal 4 Finance: Students have the skills necessary to fully analyze the financial standing of a company.
- Students can perform a full accounting analysis of a publicly traded company.
- Students can assess how the external economic environment affects firm performance.
- Students can perform a full financial analysis of a company.
- Students can effectively draw conclusions about the financial status of a company based on the combined accounting and financial information.
Goal 5: Graduates will have a global orientation (IMBA only)
- Our students will be able to define and present key elements of another culture (other than the US) and their role in business decision making.
- Our students will be able to evaluate the economic conditions and forces affecting the introduction of a product or service in a foreign country.
- Our Students will be able to evaluate the political risks involving international business in a foreign country.
MS in Accounting
- PLO 1: Interpret and apply financial accounting concepts, and describe other fundamental accounting and business concepts.
- PLO 2: Evaluate accounting and business problems from the perspective of multiple business disciplines and professional standards, then formulate, communicate, and defend recommendations to decision-makers based on those evaluations.
- PLO 3: Produce clearly written, concise business analyses, and deliver clear, well organized, persuasive oral presentations.
- PLO 4: Establish positive group interactions while working effectively in teams with people from diverse backgrounds.
- PLO 5: Analyze business and accounting situations in keeping with professional standards and moral values and recommend appropriate courses of action.
- PLO 6: Engage in professional service.
MS in Applied Analytics
Goal 1: Ethics
- Students are able to recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations
- Students can select solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions
Goal 2: Communication
- Students will be able to prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline.
- Students will be able to prepare a written report analyzing a business problem.
- Students will be able to create effective visualizations of complex data and analyses.
Goal 3 Analytics
- Students apply the appropriate portfolio of methods and techniques for collecting, storing, and transforming structured and unstructured, quantitative and qualitative data
- Students use appropriate contemporary "best of breed" software tools for manipulating and analyzing structured and unstructured, quantitative and qualitative data (e.g. Hadoop, SAS Enterprise Miner, R, Tableau)
- Students employ evidenced-based decision making to a variety of business functions, operational problems, and competitive or strategic intelligence
MS in Applied Finance
Goal 1 Ethics: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision‐making.
- Students are able to recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations.
- Students can select solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions.
Goal 2 Communication: Students have satisfactory communication skills, both orally and in writing, to persuasively and professionally articulate their quantitative analyses.
- Students will be able to prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline.
- Students will be able to prepare a written report analyzing a business problem.
Goal 3 Finance: Students have the skills necessary to fully analyze the financial standing of a company.
- Students can perform a full accounting analysis of a publicly traded company.
- Students can assess how the external economic environment affects firm performance.
- Students can perform a full financial analysis of a company.
- Students can effectively draw conclusions about the financial status of a company based on the combined accounting and financial information.
MS in Global Business
Goal 1 Team: Students are effective team players
- Students are able to effectively work with a team environment.
- Students participate in all aspects of team development.
Goal 2 Ethics: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making.
- Students are able to recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations.
- Students can select solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions.
Goal 3 Communication: Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking.
- Students will be able to prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline.
- Students will be able to prepare a written report analyzing a business problem.
Goal 4 Global: Students understand the complexities of the global economic environment and know how to translate these complexities into successful international business strategies and processes.
- Students have a general understanding of how the global economy works, which nations contribute to the major global trade, and how trade is facilitated.
- Students are able to understand how a nation accounts for its domestic economy, the influence of global economic health, and what contributes to global economic swings.
MS in Human Resources
Goal 1: Effective Team Players
- Students are able to work effectively within a team environment.
- Students participate in all aspects of team engagement.
Goal 2: Knowledge of HR Concepts
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge talent management.
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of change management.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of legal requirements within the HR function.
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of HR's strategic role in organizations.
Goal 3: Business Concepts
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of accounting concepts.
- Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of economic concepts.
Goal 4: Global/Ethical
- Students will develop an ethical basis for fostering global, diverse, and inclusive organizational environments.
- Students will be able to articulate ethical considerations for HR managers and leaders.
MS in Real Estate
Goal 1: Ethics: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making
- Students are able to recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations.
- Students can select solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions.
Goal 2: Communication: Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking
- Students will be able to prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline.
- Students will be able to prepare a written report analyzing a real estate business problem.
Goal 3: Real Estate Investments and Finance: Students have the skills necessary to analyze the real estate investment and finance decisions of companies
- Students develop a comprehensive understanding of the four quadrants of real estate investing and finance: private equity, private debt/financing, public equity (REITs), and public debt (mortgage back securities).
- Students develop strong quantitative and financial modeling skills appropriate for an analyst.
- Students develop a strong technical and computer skills that provide competitive advantage in the real estate market.
- Students can perform a financial statement analysis of a publicly traded company.
- Students can assess how the external economic environment affects real estate markets and investment performance within a portfolio context.
- Students cultivate a global understanding of the real estate market.
MS in Real Estate Curriculum Map