Curriculum

USF is proud that its EMBA curriculum is the most comprehensive in Florida. The twenty required courses provide a framework through which students learn to broaden and enrich their management skills, expand their knowledge of modern business techniques and to further their understanding of the social, political and economic forces that shape the business environment. USF EMBA students develop excellent technical skills, managerial expertise, fiscal proficiency, and an understanding of world markets.

Tool Area Courses	Management Applications
Financial Applications	Integrated Business Applications

Tool Area Courses

Financial Accounting for Managers
Financial accounting is concerned with the information made available to external users, primarily investors and creditors, in the form of interim and annual reports on income, financial position, and changes in financial position. 
Faculty: Dr. Susan Albring     

Managerial Accounting and Control
Managerial accounting is concerned primarily with the internal use of accounting information for planning and control. This course emphasizes how managers can use accounting information to improve profit planning, cost control, short and long range planning and decision making. 
Faculty: Dr. Nathan Stuart     

Managerial Economics
This course utilizes the concepts and tools of microeconomic analysis for decision making with different market structures.    
Faculty: Don Fell

Global Economic Environment of Business
The primary focus of this course is the effect of foreign trade on the US economy. Particular emphasis is placed on exploring the balance of trade and balance of payments, as well as the determinants of foreign exchange rates. The course is also concerned with the overall national level of economic activity and related issues of unemployment, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy.
Faculty: Don Fell

Financial Management I
The use and allocation of funds is studied in Financial Management I. Decision models and approaches are utilized in both certain and uncertain situations. A logical framework for asset management is developed and applied to problems and cases.
Faculty: Dr. Chris Pantzalis

Marketing Management
This course explores the application of marketing functions to business management. Market driven approaches are examined as they apply to industrial products and services in profit and not-for profit sectors. Students learn how to assess market opportunities and how to create marketing product/ service planning, pricing policy, communication strategy, sales strategy, distribution system management and promotion strategies.
Faculty: Dr. Paul Solomon

Social, Legal, and Ethical Systems
This course provides an analysis of the important legal and social principles affecting the business environment and decision making. The influence of social, cultural, political, and legal environment of institutional behavior, including the changing nature of the business system is explored. The public policy process, corporate power, legitimacy and managerial autonomy, and organizational reactions to environmental forces are topics covered in this class.  
Faculty: Sharon Hanna-West    

Human Behavior in Organizations
Examines the basic factors involved in managing organizations in a business environment. Both individual and group behavior are analyzed. Individual behavior is discussed from the perspectives of learning, perception, attitudes, personality, stress, and motivation. Social behavior and organizational processes include group formation, structure and processes, leadership, communication styles and structures, decision making, power, politics and conflict. This course represents a foundation for the ongoing sequence of management courses in this program.
Faculty: Dr. Jerry Koehler  

Managerial Decision Analysis
Application of statistical methods to business problems includes a review of basic statistics, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression, and correlation. As each topic is developed, emphasis will be placed on applications to business problems. In addition, students will be given instruction and experience in the use of a standard software package to perform regression analysis and analysis of variance. 
Faculty: Dr. Murray Cohen

Operations Management and Quality Enhancement
Principles and concepts of operations management, including the foundations of quality, are presented. The study of applications concerning strategic operations planning with the goal of quality enhancement and continuous improvement, in both the service and manufacturing environments, are also discussed.
Faculty: Dr. Ronald Satterfield  

Management Information Systems

The impact of business data and information systems on decision making, analysis and management of information resources, and the utilization of computer-aided management tools are presented. The terminology and concepts used in information technology and alternative methodologies for developing information systems are also discussed.  
Faculty: Dr. Rosann Collins   
 
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Financial Applications

International Financial Management
This course provides a foundation for the understanding of financial management of international business. The subjects covered relate to international finance, multinational business finance and financial market theory.
Faculty: Dr. Chris Pantzalis

Investments
The Investments course explores portfolio construction, asset allocation, equity valuation, dead investments and risk management. Strong focus is placed in the investment process and investment policy. 
Faculty: Dr. Delroy Hunter

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Management/Marketing Applications

 

Conflict Resolution in Organizations

This course is designed to give managers an appropriate background in negotiation and conflict resolution, particularly as applied to labor management relations. Specifically, the course provides a general background in negotiation and other conflict resolution strategies, which may be employed in organizations, and allows the student to apply this knowledge in a variety of simulation exercises and case analyses. 
Faculty: Dr. Cynthia Cohen

Human Resource Management
The focus of this course centers around complex decision making processes involved in the management of human resources within an organizational system geared to meeting both individual and organizational needs and objectives.
Faculty: Dr. Cynthia Cohen

Executive Leadership
This course is designed for Executive MBA students who are or aspire to be top executives in triple bottom line organizations. Topics include classical approaches, influence, power, traits, behaviors, contingency theories, gender, charismatic and transformational leadership. Further, it addresses the executive leadership role in the influence and development of the following organization processes: strategy, structure, management systems, motivation, decision-making, human resource policy, culture, communication, team innovation, control and change.
Faculty: Dr. Jerry Koehler

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Integrated Business Applications

International Business
The emphasis of this course is upon the cultural and economic environment in which business must operate when it is engaged in international trade, international finance and other international operations.     
Faculty: Dr. Steven Baumgarten


Business Problems Analysis
An integrative approach to problem solving and decision-making which combines the concepts, principles and skills learned in the separate disciplines. Case analysis and experiential methods are the primary vehicles for learning.  
Faculty: Dr. Barry Karafin    

Applied Research Project
In consultation with an advisor, each participant will select a topic for the applied research project. The project provides an opportunity to apply skills developed during the first year of the program and to relate the academic curriculum to on-the-job decision situations.     

Overseas Program
The overseas program provides the opportunity to participate in a week long study trip offered each summer. Details of each year's overseas program, including supplementary costs, dates and travel itineraries are announced well in advance of the planned departure date. Participation in this Program may be chosen in place of the Applied Research Project.     

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