Develops an understanding of international business from the point of view of management and leadership, human resource management, and organizational structure and change. Emphasis on cultural impact on management thinking and business practice and on skills for managing effectively in international and multicultural environments. Prereq: ADMN 912.

Marketing Analytics is the art and science of developing and utilizing quantitative marketing decision models to plan, implement, and analyze marketing strategies and tactics. The course is primarily designed for graduate students who have already acquired basic data analysis skills as well as principles of marketing. Using marketing cases and related exercises tied to Marketing Engineering for Excel (ME-EL), students will develop marketing plans in various decision contexts. Specifically, this course will introduce a wide variety of quantitative models to improve marketing decision making in such areas as market response, customer segmentation/targeting, product/brand positioning, new product development, and allocation of marketing mix expenditures. Prereq: ADMN 960.

Special Topics; may be repeated. Pre- and co-requisite courses vary. Please consult time and room schedule for the specific 898 topics section you are interested in for details.

Focuses on financial decision making to maximize shareholder value. Course concepts are integrated into the standard theories of risk and return, valuation of assets and market efficiency and risk management. Students are expected to develop dexterity with financial decision tools and models, the quantitative elements of this course. Prereq: ADMN 919. Pre or Coreq: ADMN 970.