Online MBA Curriculum

Through MSOE’s integrated curriculum, you will develop leadership competencies using a combination of core content and field projects. Courses are focused on strategic business functions, organizational leadership and the effective application of business knowledge. Our strategic MBA content includes the analysis of leading-edge business cases and requires you to apply your learning to solve real problems in your business or organization. In addition to the core required MBA courses, further hone your skills with a specialization of your choosing in analytics, new product management or education leadership.

The online MBA is 37 credits in total, with 19 credits from the required courses and 18 credits from your specialization courses.

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Online MBA Required Courses

BUS 5700 Marketing (3 credits)

This course introduces you to the major elements of marketing and the marketing planning process. Throughout the term we will concentrate on understanding and addressing stakeholder (customer) needs, implementing voice of customer plans and developing marketing branding and communications strategies and tactics to help you achieve your specific goals.

Students learn the major elements of marketing and the marketing planning process, with a focus on identifying and addressing customer and stakeholder needs. Students design a marketing plan that includes market segmentation, target markets and marketing mix.

BUS 6000 Organizational Behavior (3 credits)

The purpose of this course is to help you examine and understand organizations from numerous and diverse perspectives at the individual, group and organizational levels. Beginning with the deepest foundations of individual values, emotions, motivations and behaviors, you will examine and reflect on self and others to understand, predict, and guide multifaceted group dynamics while connecting this to the complex interplay between organizational structure, culture, and change. Diversity, globalization and ethics will be woven throughout the course. As an advanced course in management, ground in contemporary and classic theory, the course will be conducted in a team-based learning format to promote reflection, context-based application and integrated learning of self and others. The concepts and skills you learn in this course can help you to influence and lead members of groups and organizations, while helping you to reach personal fulfillment today and in the future.

BUS 6100 Ethical Leadership (3 credits)

This course introduces students to important ethical challenges they will face as leaders in business. The class will use two perspectives, the individual and the enterprise. The initial focus of the course will be on developing skills in ethical analyses that can assist managers as they make both individual-level and firm-level decisions about responsible courses of action when duties, loyalties, rules, norms, and interests are in conflict.

On an enterprise level, the class will go on to explore the role business can play in helping to meet global societal needs, whether it involves the environment, improving health, expanding education or eradicating poverty? Is there any responsibility on the part of business to help meet those needs? What are models of successful business engagement in this area? How should success be measured? Are there limits to what businesses can and should do, and what institutional changes will enable businesses and entrepreneurs to better succeed? This course provides students the opportunity to engage in the critical analysis of these and other questions that lie at the foundation of social impact and responsibility.

Students will engage through projects, games, case studies learning through self-discovery and guided class discussions with their peers.

BUS 6151 Data Visualization (3 credits)

Within this course, students learn how to visualize data to support effective decision making. Students will learn how to create visualizations and dashboards for a variety of audiences. Special attention will be paid to storytelling with data, in the context of a business decision/scenario. Students will learn how to evaluate the appropriate human-analytics interfaces to best support communication and interpretation of results at all organizational levels.

BUS 6400 Economics (3 credits)

This course explores the concepts and principles of microeconomics, which govern the functioning of a firm/organization under different market conditions. It further aims at enhancing the understanding capabilities of students about macroeconomic principles and decision making by business and government. Time Value of Money will be used to solve business problems.

Applied Project Management I-IV (1 credit each)

  • BUS 7921 Applied Project Management I (1 credit)
  • BUS 7922 Applied Project Management II (1 credit)
  • BUS 7923 Applied Project Management III (1 credit)
  • BUS 7924 Applied Project Management IV (1 credit)

The Applied Project Management MBA sequence of courses presents the knowledge and skills required to identify, plan, implement, monitor and control, and close projects according to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) methodology. Through authentic project leadership experiences, students build and manage teams, assign tasks and hold others accountable for project deliverables. They also study failed projects with an eye toward drafting recommendations for future project and team success. Finally, the course describes the roles and responsibilities of not only project leaders, but also team members and organization steering committees.

Online MBA General Track Courses

BUS 5500 Statistics and Data Analytics (3 credits)

This course reviews and applies the foundational concepts of statistics and analytics to common problems and scenarios found in the business domain. The focus on descriptive and diagnostic statistical techniques helps prepare students for more advanced study of prescriptive and predictive analytics. Topics include interval estimation, hypothesis testing, parametric and nonparametric tests and an introduction to advanced analytics. The use of statistical programming languages such as R and Python will be emphasized to expose the student to contemporary statistical processing environments on computing clusters.

BUS 5800 Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)

You have a solution to a problem; how do you turn it into a successful business model? What are the tools and techniques for taking an idea to market? This course will expose students to the most successful processes and tools for the intrapreneur ( innovating and commercializing a product, service or process idea in an existing organization) and the entrepreneur (developing a product or service and creating a start-up). Students will develop a business model using a visual tool and a series of hypotheses formulations to determine product-market fit as the foundation of a successful business opportunity. The business model becomes the outline for a pitch—a primary tool of the entrepreneurially minded value-creator. This class will result in an abbreviated business plan; ready for detailed analysis and launch.

BUS 6200 Finance and Accounting (3 credits)

In this course, students cover key financial concepts, identify the financial decisions confronting organizations, and learn to analyze an organization’s status using financial tools and techniques. It includes acquiring a knowledge of and working with the financial statement as well as the principal aspects of financial planning and control. Program and organizational budgets and the budget process are included, as well as the evaluation of spending proposals. Students also learn the role of financial planning in an organization’s strategic planning process, including cash flow presentation and analysis, capital investment decision making and both long-term and short-term financial decision making.

BUS 6500 Supply Chain Management (3 credits)

This course focuses on supply management strategies and supply chain design. We will examine the varied approaches to supply as it relates to product development, sourcing, logistics, coordination efforts, and performance measurements in a global setting. The objectives of this course are to build a basic understanding of supply strategy and supply base management, analyze and study approaches to some of the issues and problems encountered in supply chain management today, and outline potential areas and actions designed for improvements in performance.

BUS 6600 Human Resources Management (3 credits)

This course prepares students to conduct job analysis, write job descriptions and identify job specifications as the foundation for talent management. Students will develop plans to recruit, interview, and screen candidates and also define strategies to onboard, socialize, develop and evaluate people to drive organizational success. In addition, students will identify and evaluate a variety of employee compensation and benefit models and assess the impact on employee performance, motivation, commitment and retention. Finally, the course focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion from both legal and ethical frameworks.

BUS 6900 Strategic Management (3 credits)

Have you ever wondered what it takes to develop a winning competitive business strategy? How does a firm achieve superior performance in a world where the global pace of change seems to be constantly accelerating? This course embraces the challenges in the context of two specific imperatives—value creation and opportunity recognition. Value creation involves creating and maintaining first-rate performance in the face of dynamic industry shifts and competitive forces. Opportunity recognition requires foresight and decisiveness with a sense of responsibility and stewardship for utilizing the resources available to the firm to maximize potential using their competitive advantage to impact the industry and the world positively.

Online MBA in Advanced Business Strategy Using AI and Analytics Specialization Courses

BUS 5500 Statistics and Data Analytics (3 credits)

This course reviews and applies the foundational concepts of statistics and analytics to common problems and scenarios found in the business domain. The focus on descriptive and diagnostic statistical techniques helps prepare students for more advanced study of prescriptive and predictive analytics. Topics include interval estimation, hypothesis testing, parametric and nonparametric tests and an introduction to advanced analytics. The use of statistical programming languages such as R and Python will be emphasized to expose the student to contemporary statistical processing environments on computing clusters.

BUS 5800 Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)

You have a solution to a problem; how do you turn it into a successful business model? What are the tools and techniques for taking an idea to market? This course will expose students to the most successful processes and tools for the intrapreneur (innovating and commercializing a product, service or process idea in an existing organization) and the entrepreneur (developing a product or service and creating a start-up). Students will develop a business model using a visual tool and a series of hypotheses formulations to determine product-market fit as the foundation of a successful business opportunity. The business model becomes the outline for a pitch—a primary tool of the entrepreneurially minded value-creator. This class will result in an abbreviated business plan; ready for detailed analysis and launch.

BUS 6121 Data Wrangling and Exploration (3 credits)

This course provides an overview of data-driven decision making and the use of business analytics to support organizational performance. Special attention is paid to identifying appropriate sources of data, evaluating the quality of data, wrangling the data for specific analytical techniques, and exploring patterns within the data. Students will learn current practices, tools, and methods for data wrangling and exploration. Effective interpretation and communication of results are emphasized. The use of programming languages such as R and Python will be emphasized to expose the student to contemporary analytic processing environments on computing clusters.

BUS 6131 Predictive Analytics (3 credits)

Within this course, students learn to identify appropriate tools and/or combinations of tools to address decision-making scenarios within an organization. Special attention is paid to the application of analytics to predict future trends and probabilities. Students will learn the current tools and methods for predictive analytics, as well as the limitations of these methods. Ongoing focus is placed on communicating the interpretation of analytical results to a range of audiences. The use of the Python programming language is emphasized to expose the student to contemporary analytic processing environments on computing clusters. Machine learning and deep learning fundamentals are used to demonstrate the power of statistical learning on prediction in the era of Big Data.

BUS 6141 Analytics Leadership and Strategy (3 credits)

This course introduces the student to the concepts of analytics leadership and strategy to include identification of analytic stage maturity identification and evaluation. Topics include analytics life cycle, the research process, business decision making, building analytic capacity for strategic advantage, the analytics maturity model and DELTA framework, building analytic culture and analytic challenges. The course perspective is from the role of executive leadership driving analytic change within the organization.

BUS 6200 Finance and Accounting (3 credits)

In this course, students cover key financial concepts, identify the financial decisions confronting organizations, and learn to analyze an organization’s status using financial tools and techniques. It includes acquiring a knowledge of and working with the financial statement as well as the principal aspects of financial planning and control. Program and organizational budgets and the budget process are included, as well as the evaluation of spending proposals. Students also learn the role of financial planning in an organization’s strategic planning process, including cash flow presentation and analysis, capital investment decision making and both long-term and short-term financial decision making.

Online MBA in New Product Management Specialization Courses

BUS 5500 Statistics and Data Analytics (3 credits)

This course reviews and applies the foundational concepts of statistics and analytics to common problems and scenarios found in the business domain. The focus on descriptive and diagnostic statistical techniques helps prepare students for more advanced study of prescriptive and predictive analytics. Topics include interval estimation, hypothesis testing, parametric and nonparametric tests and an introduction to advanced analytics. The use of statistical programming languages such as R and Python will be emphasized to expose the student to contemporary statistical processing environments on computing clusters.

BUS 5800 Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)

You have a solution to a problem; how do you turn it into a successful business model? What are the tools and techniques for taking an idea to market? This course will expose students to the most successful processes and tools for the intrapreneur (innovating and commercializing a product, service or process idea in an existing organization) and the entrepreneur (developing a product or service and creating a start-up). Students will develop a business model using a visual tool and a series of hypotheses formulations to determine product-market fit as the foundation of a successful business opportunity. The business model becomes the outline for a pitch—a primary tool of the entrepreneurially minded value-creator. This class will result in an abbreviated business plan; ready for detailed analysis and launch.

BUS 5950 New Product Management (3 credits)

Why are some firms more successful than others at innovating new products? Why do they win more often? What are the best practices of the most successful product innovation firms? This course will allow you to learn about the best practices of phase-gate process firms and agile and lean product development practitioners. New products (innovations) are physical products, processes, software, as well as services. You will conduct an audit of current practices against a backdrop of best practices and develop a continuous improvement plan for innovation. The emphasis will be on creating a hybrid innovation process that fits with a given firm. We will study the innovation process at leading firms like Toyota, Solar Turbines, Embraer and Ford. The course is structured around professional certification by the Product Development Management Association.

BUS 6200 Finance and Accounting (3 credits)

In this course, students cover key financial concepts, identify the financial decisions confronting organizations, and learn to analyze an organization’s status using financial tools and techniques. It includes acquiring a knowledge of and working with the financial statement as well as the principal aspects of financial planning and control. Program and organizational budgets and the budget process are included, as well as the evaluation of spending proposals. Students also learn the role of financial planning in an organization’s strategic planning process, including cash flow presentation and analysis, capital investment decision making and both long-term and short-term financial decision making.

BUS 6500 Supply Chain Management (3 credits)

This course focuses on supply management strategies and supply chain design. We will examine the varied approaches to supply as it relates to product development, sourcing, logistics, coordination efforts, and performance measurements in a global setting. The objectives of this course are to build a basic understanding of supply strategy and supply base management, analyze and study approaches to some of the issues and problems encountered in supply chain management today, and outline potential areas and actions designed for improvements in performance.

BUS 6900 Strategic Management (3 credits)

Have you ever wondered what it takes to develop a winning competitive business strategy? How does a firm achieve superior performance in a world where the global pace of change seems to be constantly accelerating? This course embraces the challenges in the context of two specific imperatives—value creation and opportunity recognition. Value creation involves creating and maintaining first-rate performance in the face of dynamic industry shifts and competitive forces. Opportunity recognition requires foresight and decisiveness with a sense of responsibility and stewardship for utilizing the resources available to the firm to maximize potential using their competitive advantage to impact the industry and the world positively.

Online MBA in Education Leadership Specialization Courses

BUS 6112 Global Achievement Gap—Education Leadership (3 credits)

Leadership and the Global Achievement Gap engages students in evaluating research and various positions taken related to student achievement, social-emotional learning, and school leadership in relation to the global achievement gap. Focus is placed on reviewing studies that address the K-12 global achievement gap, identifying the extent of the gap, understanding the underlying factors that contribute to the gap and exploring changes in the U.S. educational system and related policies that have the potential to reduce or eliminate the gap while improving educational achievement for all students. Primary topics include evidence-based teaching and learning, high performing team development, work-based learning experiences, social-emotional learning, equity, special education, and improvement tools and processes. Assignments for the course are designed to be practical, applicable, and provide a foundation for students to explore areas of interest related to their program project.

BUS 6202 Finance and Accounting—Education Leadership (3 credits)

In this course, students will cover key financial concepts, identify the financial decisions confronting school districts, and learn to analyze a district’s status using financial tools and techniques. Accounting methods used in the public and private sector, as well as key financial statements are presented. Program and organizational budgets and the budget process are included, as well as the evaluation of spending proposals. Students also learn the role of financial planning in an organization’s strategic planning process.

BUS 6302 Statistical Thinking and Data Analytics—Education Leadership (3 credits)

This course provides an overview of common statistical techniques used in educational research and clinical practice. Students will learn the importance of using statistics and data analysis to support decision-making and reporting. They will understand the importance of using both quantitative data and qualitative data in an educational setting. They will learn to formulate questions, identify legitimate sources of data, and assess data quality.

This course will work on collecting and analyzing data related to MBA/EL culminating project using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, data analysis, review of research, and survey instruments. Students will also spend time understanding the statistical formulas more deeply around concepts commonly used in education: such as standard deviation, risk ratios, normal distribution, cohort growth and frequency distributions. Embedded support will be given around WISEdash, WI State Report Cards, National Center for Educational Statistics and other locally used data monitoring tools.

BUS 6602 Human Resource Management—Education Leadership (3 credits)

This course prepares students to identify, recruit, select, hire, orient, evaluate and develop the talent needed to drive organizational success in education environments. Current and emerging trends in strategic human resources and the work environment are identified and analyzed. Students identify and evaluate a variety of workforce culture issues and assess the impact of different employee recruitment, performance, engagement and retention strategies. Legal and regulatory requirements affecting the workforce are also reviewed. In addition, students will identify and evaluate a variety of employee compensation and benefit models. Examples, scenarios and applications in this course will focus on K-12 school settings.

BUS 6802 Innovation and Entrepreneurship—Education Leadership (3 credits)

This course helps students design innovative strategies to help their organization realize its greatest potential. Students explore how organizations pursue improvement and innovation, and why some organizations generate poor results. Students will also learn the stages and activities of the innovation in a social sector, and map and manage associated risk.

BUS 6902 Strategy—Education Leadership (3 credits)

This course examines the use of data to communicate organizational priorities and identify core operational processes and strategies for improvement. It also considers how new technologies can equip an organization to achieve its objectives, including the use of process analysis, lean tools and techniques to prioritize and enhance organizational performance. Additionally, this course will explore the value and importance of leadership in and around diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and understanding the historical, present and future contexts in a wide variety of areas related to social justice and equity.

Admissions Dates and Deadlines

Jan
17
Application Deadline
January 17
Spring 2024
Jan
21
Term Start
January 21
Spring 2025

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