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| Pre-Program Quantitative
Intensive (Pre-Module) This session provides a refresher in calculations, statistics for decision-making, quantitative analysis, and Microsoft Excel to ensure that participants maximize their time in the Eller Executive MBA from day one. |
Module 1: Leadership and Negotiation |
| Module 2: Performance of the Firm This module examines financial statements within a conceptual framework of accounting with attention to the inherent strengths and limitations of reported financial information and its use as input to business decisions. Participants gain exposure to the fundamentals of capital structure alternatives, reporting and disclosure issues, liability identification, equity development and key measures for managing organizational performance as they relate to competitive strategy. |
| Module 3: Strategic Decision Making Today’s increasingly competitive global marketplace requires that senior managers possess the practical analytical skills needed to manage the financial and tangible resources of a firm. This module introduces executives to the most current tools and frameworks for data analysis and decision making to lead organizational change. Participants leverage those tools to create a high-performance work system and sustained culture of innovation. |
| Module 4: Organizational Operations Since work occurs within processes, this module takes an operational approach to understanding how work gets done in organizations and determining the costs of those efforts. This module exposes executives to a framework and analytical tools for systematically designing, examining, and improving processes, along with an understanding of the nature of tradeoffs that must be made in operations and IT to support the strategy of the firm. |
| Module 5: Financial Structure and Valuation Value creation lies at the heart of every firm’s mission and serves as the goal toward which every manager strives. As agents serving owners and stakeholders, managers must implement strategies that maximize the value of an organization, a process that begins with understanding the best methods for calculating value. Participants gain exposure to the fundamental concepts and techniques associated with corporate financial management, asset valuation models and methods for assessing organizational performance. |
| Module 6: The Customer Value Proposition This module examines strategies and tactics for growing a profitable enterprise by focusing on customers, competitors, and market opportunities, and by fostering a company-wide, customer-centric approach. Executives review market-based management techniques for continually re-creating customer value and bringing new and improved products and services to market, therefore enhancing the value proposition between an organization and its various stakeholders. |
| Module 7: The Competitive Landscape Modern businesses face a range of strategic imperatives: exploit evolving technologies, implement new combinations of virtual and physical activities, and optimize value chains. In this module, executives examine the critical strategic and economic issues inherent in today’s traditional and electronic marketplaces, identifying barriers to success, learning techniques for distilling complex business challenges, and exploring methods for combining economic principles with current research for sound corporate strategies. |
| Module 8: Strategic Innovation As agents serving owners and stakeholders, managers must implement strategies that maximize the value of an organization. Throughout this module, executives explore innovation, a process designed to transform knowledge or ideas into commercial success. The result of the innovation could be a new company, a new product, a new market, or a new process. Taught in concert with Modules 5 and 6, this module examines the innovation process including the development of the business case necessary for success in the market. |
| Module 9: Managing Human Capital in Changing Organizations An organization’s success relies on continually assessing current capabilities and identifying gaps in key areas. This module covers methods for managing people in an organization during times of organizational change to create a high-performance work system and sustained culture of innovation. Additionally, executives explore means for developing people, leveraging diversity, managing talent, and aligning the organization. |
| Module 10: Business Law, Governance, and Corporate Ethics Organizational leaders must be able to navigate the complex legal environment and fully understand the role of corporate governance in stakeholder relationships, strategic planning, and corporate performance. At the same time, today’s attention to the social impact of business has made ethics more important to organizational success than at any time in recent history. Module 11 combines these topics to explore the interplay of law, stakeholder interests, corporate ethics, financial performance, and social return on investment. |
Module 11: Global Business Perspectives (with international
trip) |
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12: Special Topics in Business and Leadership Module 12 introduces participants to advanced topics in management and organizational leadership as well as current, relevant research from a range of disciplines and domains. Guest experts share information, answer questions, and moderate class discussions in two- to four-hour seminars for these final three days of the Eller Executive MBA program. |
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13: Project Management This module spans nearly the entire EMBA program. Participants deepen their project management abilities by integrating coursework for Module 13 with other modules. At the same time, participants use their developing project management knowledge in real-time by applying skill to manage their required Executive Projects. |
For more information, check out the Executive Project.
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