Curriculum
The MBA Anywhere™ program (Drexel University's AACSB accredited Online MBA program) consists of 51 credits (19 courses) offered in a cohorted format, which provides individuals with the opportunity to progress through the online MBA program with the same group of students over a 24 month period. The program offers the option to concentrate in Finance, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, or Business Analytics, and to enroll in the Flexi-core option featuring courses from LeBow's 5 Centers of Excellence.
This online MBA program also features on site residencies, two are required and one is optional. The residencies are four-day, intensive courses that are exclusive to the MBA Anywhere™ program. The plan of study is detailed below.
Courses and delivery format may change without notice to facilitate optimal relevant learning as determined by faculty.
Course Descriptions
MGMT 601 Residency #1: Managing the Total Enterprise
Business simulation focusing on the need to integrate strategic and operational concepts, issues, and decisions in moving technological enterprise from start-up to success.
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BUSN 505: Financial Performance of the Firm - Accounting
This course provides detailed coverage of the financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, statement of stockholder’s equity, and statement of cash flows) and their construction. Students will also learn how to analyze the impact of corporate transactions on companies’ financial condition and operating performance.
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BUSN 506: Financial Performance of the Firm - Finance
Topics include ratio analysis, cash flow management, pro-forma financial statements, etc.
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BUSN 507: Essentials of Economics I
This course teaches basic microeconomic theory and how to apply it to the analysis of real world issues. Students will study supply and demand, the economics of production, and the economics of market structures such as competition, monopoly, and oligopoly
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BUSN 508: Essentials of Economics II
This course teaches basic macroeconomics theory and how to apply it to the analysis of real world issues. Students will study national income accounting, price indexes, inflation, unemployment, aggregate demand, aggregate supply, fiscal policy, the banking system, monetary policy, capital flows, and exchange rates.
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STAT 601: Business Statistics
Focuses on the basic principles and implementation techniques of analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression analysis, and statistical process control. An understanding of how these tools can support managerial decision making is also emphasized.
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POM 601: Operations Management
Intended as an introduction to the fields of production and operations management (POM). Production and operations activities, such as forecasting, capacity and inventory, scheduling activities and assuring qualities are discussed from the perspective of the supply chain. The philosophy of Just-In-Time (JIT) and responsive manufacturing/service is highlighted.
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ACCT 601: Managerial Accounting
Discuss management accounting as part of the firm’s information system, drawing on modern cost accounting and budgeting systems for planning and controlling business operations.
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MKTG 601: Marketing Strategy and Planning
Students will apply the tools and concepts of their general marketing course to understand the needs of current and future customers as well as learn strategies for product development, promotion, pricing, and place as they relate to an organization’s marketing goals. With an emphasis on the application of strategic planning, students will learn how to achieve competitive advantage.
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FIN 601: Corporate Financial Management
Emphasizes the analysis of corporate investment and financing decisions, including capital budgeting, capital structure and working capital management.
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MGMT 602: Managing Technological Innovation
Focuses on the role of technology and innovation in building, sustaining and leveraging competitive advantage for firms. It examines how industries are transformed by new technologies and how managerial decisions shape the appropriation of technology. Touches upon the challenges of managing innovation in firms.
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ECON 601: Managerial Economics
Covers demand and cost analysis, pricing policies, capital budgeting and selected topics of economic analysis as they relate to business policies.
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ORGB 625: Leadership and Professional Development
Helps students develop knowledge and skills to enhance their professional development and to become effective leaders. Students will understand trends in contemporary organizations, enhance their self-awareness, refine their interpersonal skills and apply these skills to improve their work effectiveness.
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MGMT 780: Strategic Management
Provides an integrative study of the functions and responsibilities of top management and the strategies that affect the character and success of the total enterprise. Uses case studies and assigned readings to develop the viewpoint of top management charged with responsibility for the enterprise as a whole.
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Concentration Course
Areas of Concentration: Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship/Innovation, or Business Analytics
*Advanced Financial Management (FIN 602)
Provides an in-depth treatment of long-term financing decisions, including estimation of the cost of capital, financial leverage, dividend policy, and capital structure determination.
*Channels Distribution Management (MKTG 624)
Applies marketing channel theory and research to the design of channel systems, selection of intermediaries, administration of interorganizational channels, and evaluation of distribution performance.
*Legal Issues in New Ventures (BLAW 646)
This course is intended to address the various legal and ethical issues that confront individuals and companies in starting up new ventures, either within an existing company or a new start-up company.
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Concentration or Flexible Core Course
Areas of Concentration: Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship/Innovation, or Business Analytics
*International Financial Management (FIN 648)
Uses analytical tools and data to formulate optimal financing and investment strategies in global markets. Analyzes exchange rate determination and international asset price linkages.
*Global Marketing (MKTG 630)
Covers concepts, principles, and practices of international marketing management. Studies cross-cultural differences and distribution systems, pricing methods, promotional methods, trade barriers, and current factors influencing international marketing.
*Marketing Information: Management and Research (MKTG 652)
Examines the current tools available to modern marketing decision makers for information management
and applies these tools in realistic situations.
*International Business (INTB 790)
Taken as an international residency, students will develop a better understanding of opportunities and challenges facing multinational and domestic firms abroad. Through this residency, students will develop the ability to evaluate decision-making in international business operations and analyze possible economic consequences of the changing environment on an international level.
Winter Flexible Core Areas: Corporate Governance, Corporate Reputation Management, or Entrepreneurship
*New Venture Planning (MGMT 652)
Students draw on their entire business education and practical experience and bring it to bear upon a plan for launching a new venture. Working in small teams, students research a new project or service; prepare marketing, sales and operation plans; and make financial plans.
*Corporate Brand and Reputation Management (MKTG 654)
An examination of how business managers can build the reputation of their organizations in order to gain competitive advantage in the market. The course will focus on how companies can enhance their financial value through increased attention to multiple stakeholders.
*Legal Options in Decision Making (BLAW 605)
This course studies the American legal system and the laws governing commercial transactions, relationships, and organizations with emphasis on the application of law in decision making.
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Concentration Course
Areas of Concentration: Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship/Innovation, or Business Analytics
*Mergers and Acquisitions (FIN 640)
Covers internal vs. external growth, forces of expansion, analysis of relevant quantitative factors, accounting and tax problems, and forms of expansion.
*Services Marketing (MKTG 646) Covers marketing theory, concepts, strategy, and tactics as applied to the unique characteristics and demands of service organizations and manufacturing firms that use service as a competitive advantage. Evaluates marketing strategies of various service industries using case studies to illustrate the links between internal business processes and external customer satisfaction.
*Strategic Human Resource Management (MGMT 640)
This course examines how line managers can determine the most effective HR practices. HR practices examined include job designs, reward systems, development and appraisal systems, and internal and external staffing approaches. Students are encouraged to think strategically about different aspects of managing the organization's human assets.
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Concentration or Flexible Core Course
Areas of Concentration: Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship/Innovation, or Business Analytics
*International Financial Management (FIN 648)
Uses analytical tools and data to formulate optimal financing and investment strategies in global markets. Analyzes exchange rate determination and international asset price linkages.
*Global Marketing (MKTG 630)
Covers concepts, principles, and practices of international marketing management. Studies cross-cultural differences and distribution systems, pricing methods, promotional methods, trade barriers, and current factors influencing international marketing.
*International Business (INTB 790)
Taken as an international residency, students will develop a better understanding of opportunities and challenges facing multinational and domestic firms abroad. Through this residency, students will develop the ability to evaluate decision-making in international business operations and analyze possible economic consequences of the changing environment on an international level.
Summer Flexible Core Areas: International Business or Strategic Leadership
*Leading Effective Organizations (ORGB 631)
In this course, students examine major concepts, theories, and processes relevant to the management of business and other organizations. Topics include: leadership, decision-making, performance appraisal and rewards, power and conflict, and the social structure of organizations and their networks of relationships. Students will learn to: differentiate and integrate complex concepts of team and teamwork; understand the organizational context in which teams operate; understand how individual, group, and organizational mindsets affect team performance.
*Information Systems Outsourcing Management (MIS 651)
The objective of this course is to introduce the student to issues in managing the outsourcing of IS. Students will be introduced to the central themes of outsourcing IS; learn what IS outsourcing is and is not, and the context of how business is becoming integrated across organizational lines.
