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Master
of Science in Business
Graduate Thesis
The Master of Science program in Business: Administration
is broad-based with due emphasis on theoretical constructs
and practical applications. It is a program designed for
professionals or para-professionals who are often employed
as managers or management trainees in business organizations.
Students develop, hone and refine and acquire decision-making
skills that are crucial to effective management of an organization
and its personnel. They will learn to apply sophisticated
quantitative and analytical tools, and how to assess and
act on complex financial and economic indicators. Strategic
planning will also be explored, and program participants
will come to understand how the amalgam of sub-fields studied
combine to influence organizational structure, culture,
and linked control systems. Program curriculum is also designed
to provide a global management perspective for managers
and leaders operating in an international environment. Among
the topics considered are political, cultural, legal and
technological forces in the competitive environment.
Program Objectives:
- Prepare for leadership and service within a broad spectrum
of business and business-related arenas, by demonstration
of process and organizational mastery.
- Hone formerly-acquired tools specific to business processes
and procedures and manifest the capacity to understand
the principal theory, significance and practical applications
related to a broad range of complex issues within the
business sector.
- Evidence a comprehensive, nuanced understanding of
the functional components of business - economics, marketing,
accounting, finance, law, management, thus enabling the
holder of the Master’s degree to assume managerial and
leadership positions and like positions in which they
will have the occasion to contribute to the development,
sustenance or growth of the organization.
- Develop and be prepared to articulate and contextualize
a significant understanding of ethical situations commonly
encountered in business environments. Such an understanding
should allow for solution-centered contributions.
- Prepare to embrace and oversee global, political, social,
legal, regulatory, and technological issues as they relate
to business: knowledge put into applied use.
- Demonstrate preparedness for technical and professional
requirements of the workplace, including, where requisite,
certification examinations and other formalized verifications
of competency and knowledge acquisition.
- Demonstrate an understanding of economic and business
theories which, via critical thinking and systematic,
informed analysis, allow for strategic contributions that
will advance an organization.
- Demonstrate a substantial level of technical skills
acquisition – in order to ensure the ability to create
an array of documents and to produce data analysis reports,
as needed or desirable.
- Further hone communicative skills, which underpin the
ability to conduct independent research and to formulate
documents, reports, and publications that manifest mastery
of content and execution.
Career Opportunities: The successful graduate will
be suitably prepared to assume managerial and leadership-level
positions in the corporate sector, in industry, in government,
in other professional arenas – or, alternatively, to assume
enhanced (administrative and managerial) responsibilities
within the context of a currently-held position. The degree,
founded on, and grounded in, intensive training and high-pitched
expectations, is intended to provide the keys to advancement
and expanded opportunities at the management levels.
The Master in Science program in Business: Finance equips
graduate students with the skills necessary to excel in
today’s financial marketplace. The intensive training prepares
degree candidates to assume a wide range of professional
responsibilities in the financial industry (including financial
engineering, investments management, financial decision-making,
quantitative asset management, managerial economics, financial
forecasting, financial institutions, and applied research).
There is focused on the role of financial intermediaries;
valuation of financial assets; determination and behavior
of interest rates; incentives and determinants of corporate
behavior. The curriculum is designed to build and strengthen
skills in financial operations, financial decisions, investment
strategies and investment management.
Program Objectives:
- Evidence mastery of the major functional areas of business
including: the ability to develop, emend, analyze and
produce formalize reports relevant to financial information
- Refine and expand knowledge of finance-based applications
which allow for the inclusion of complex financial information
in both reporting and in managerial decision-making.
- Identify and embrace the responsibilities of a financial
manager’s roles in the areas of planning, organizing,
directing, and controlling, with specific expertise in
the area of financial leadership.
- Manifest a deep-rooted understanding of the finance
and marketing mix to successfully perform what can often
be competitive and complex environments.
- Acquire an extended familiarity with fundamental legal
concepts and their applications within the business community.
- Manifest substantial knowledge of the use of information
technology in managing organizations and the ability to
apply modern scientific and mathematical methods to management
and finance-related problems with a reasonable degree
of sophistication.
- Apply theoretical knowledge to the solution of complex,
financial problems -- both individually (in a managerial/leadership
role) and through teamwork within the context of an active
work environment.
- Demonstrate advanced sills that allow one to direct
and executive complex analytical and objective problem
solving adapted to the contextual needs of given organizations.
- Further hone communicative skills, which underpin the
ability to conduct independent research and to formulate
documents, reports, and publications that manifest mastery
of content and execution.
Career Opportunities: Employment opportunities are
readily identified in corporations, small firms, investment
brokerages, financial institutions, government and not-for-profit
organizations. Further opportunities include positions within
research organizations and consultancy-based enterprises.
The program is designed to provide an integral management
perspective for leaders operating in domestic and international
environments, with a focus on financial leadership.
The Master of Science program in Business: International
Business is centered on global perspectives. The degree
provides an opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills
in core business disciplines, all with an international
focus (comparative, contrastive, contextual) specialization.
The curriculum is designed to promote both depth and breadth:
marketing, strategy, finance, and operations management.
Students will develop business and decision-making skills
that are crucial to the direction of organizations within
international environments, where the issues present special
challenges and call for correlative solutions. Students
develop a comprehensive vision of globalization of markets
and production, global trade, regional trade agreements
and supra-national organizations, the effects of foreign
exchange systems and the refined tools required to assess,
manage and effect decisions as a function of this confluence
of carefully analyzed phenomena and procedures.
Program Objectives:
- Develop and implement creative, often sophisticated,
solutions to an array of complex business/administrative/managerial
problems with specific focus on comparative and contrastive
international settings and an awareness of the given cultural
environment.
- Establish a finely-honed understanding of, and sensitivity
to, principal complexities (differences and likenesses)
between and among business practices across geographical
and cultural boundaries.
- Develop a significant, usable knowledge of information
technology (a broad skill-set) in managing national and
international organizations and the ability to apply modern
scientific and mathematical methods to management, leadership
and other business-related problems.
- Demonstrate a cross-disciplinary understanding of the
functional components of business - economics, marketing,
accounting, finance, law, management, both in the US and
in a variety of other international settings.
- Evidence the ability to develop, implement and communicate
solid business policy using case analysis and discussion
(based on the identification and study of comparative
and contrastive operations and decisions in various international
forums).
- Apply theoretical knowledge to the solution of real-life
(field related) problems both individually and through
teamwork within the context of multiple active learning
environments.
- Manifest a solid command of global, political, social,
legal/regulatory, and technological issues as they relate
to and impact international business.
- Demonstrate analytical and objective problem solving
commonly encountered in international business, including
the more complex and multi-focal issues that arise.
- Further hone communicative skills, which underpin the
ability to conduct independent research and to formulate
documents, reports, and publications that manifest mastery
of content and execution.
Career Opportunities: The successful graduate will
be well prepared to assume managerial roles in the multi-national
corporate sector, in industry, in government, in other professional
arenas where awareness of, and sensitivity to, cross-cultural
environments are essential. Alternatively, the graduate
will be prepared to assume enhanced (internationally-based
or globally-focused) responsibilities within the context
of a currently-held position at the level of management
and leadership. Graduates may wish to consider as well leadership
opportunities with parent companies having foreign subsidiaries,
import/export-oriented firms and public sector bodies involved
in cross border and/or commercial transactions. Global emphases,
with intense and expansive comparative and contrastive analysis,
clearly distinguish this particular curricular option.
The Master of Science program in Business: Marketing is
designed to provide graduate students advanced analytical
marketing skills and hands-on marketing-project management
experience. The curriculum affords a strong foundation in
a variety of areas: brand and product management; logistics
and supply chain management; marketing research and analysis;
management consulting and project management; professional
selling and sales management; retail management, services
marketing and buying. The objective of this specialized
program is to develop mastery of marketing analysis and
communications to support business marketing strategy and
marketing decisions within the corporate sector and within
other public and private organizational settings. Students
will acquire decision-making skills and will learn how to
apply sophisticated quantitative and analytical tools, how
to assess and act on complex political, cultural, legal
and technological issues, all of which inform the multi-focal
areas of marketing, within the corporate environment and
well beyond.
Program Objectives:
- Develop significant mastery of the major functional
areas of business including: the ability to prepare, read,
analyze and communicate marketing-centered processes,
data, and findings and, at the managerial level, to use
analytical processes in the course of decision-making
and organizational strategy.
- Refine and advance the process by which marketing-based
information is analytically reviewed and presented so
as to provide a foundation for relevant managerial decisions.
- Demonstrate significant competency in the areas of
complex, specialized and often creative-based skill-sets
specifically associated with marketing.
- Demonstrate a solidified understanding marketing manager’s
(leader’s team-leader’s) roles in the areas of planning,
organizing, directing, design, delegation and oversight.
- Manifest the capacity to synthesize and contextualize
the multi-variable elements of the marketing mix in order
to perform successfully lead within that competitive and
complex environment.
- Evidence a well-informed understanding of legal concepts
as applied to marketing and their application to the business
community.
- Develop a significant knowledge of the use of information
technology in managing organizations and the ability to
apply modern scientific and mathematical methods to management
and marketing-related data analysis, presentation, problems
and solutions.
- Master the art of reviewing, calibrating and, as suitable
applying case analysis data and materials so as to integrate
suitable marketing strategies within the complex plexus
of the organization and in order to communicate recommendations
to other members of the marketing team and the executive
body.
- Further hone communicative skills, which underpin the
ability to conduct independent research and to formulate
documents, reports, and publications that manifest mastery
of content and execution.
Career Opportunities: The successful graduate will
be suitably prepared to assume managerial-level positions
in the marketing division of the corporate sector, in industry,
in government, in other professional arenas – or, alternatively,
to assume enhanced responsibilities within the context of
a currently-held (marketing-focused) position. Leadership
opportunities in sales and sales management, retail management,
product and brand management, market research, advertising,
distribution and logistics, purchasing are also viable options
for program graduates.
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