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.

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.

The internship provides an opportunity for MBA students to gain business experience in a professional setting, applying their course-based learning to challenges in a business or non-profit enterprise. Students explore the relationship between theory and practice while completing at least 250 hours of time on site. Required of all full-time MBA students (unless waived due to significant prior relevant professional experience). The internship is completed in the summer term, but students can begin it in the spring by registering for it in term IV if needed.

Serves as the core marketing course in the MBA program. Provides an introduction and overview to the theory and practice of marketing. Explores the theory and applications of marketing concepts through a mix of cases, discussions, lectures, guest speakers, individual assignments, simulations, and group projects. Focuses on understanding and building customer value in consumer, business-to-business, and services settings. Examines strategic marketing elements (segmentation, targeting, positioning), as well as executional elements (pricing, channels, promotion, and value proposition).