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MBA 626 - Asset Management

Introduction to bonds as the fundamental institutions and instruments of the markets where interest rates are determined. This includes the wide array of instruments that are derivatives of bonds, rates, currencies, and credit.
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MBA 572 - Entrepreneurial Analytics

Analysis of expected profitability of startups. Students collect and analyze data to estimate customer demand, cost, and profit and then make decisions to help startups profitably enter and compete in markets.
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MBA 570 - Entrepreneurial Innovation

Management of the class of business problems characterized by uncertainty. Design and execute experiments to dispel uncertainty. Learning by experience with entrepreneurial innovations. Find an unknown need, solve it, and validate the innovation with target customers.
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MBA 536 - Discipleship in Global Mgmt

Deepening the understanding of our Savior and restored gospel while maintaining our discipleship by expanding knowledge and preparing to manage careers in a global environment.
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MBA 525 - Financial Statement Analysis

Focus on using corporate financial statements to make business and investment decisions. Learn to use accounting information in a variety of decision contexts, including strategic ratio analysis, earnings quality analysis, credit risk analysis, building pro forma financial statements and security valuation. Emphasis will be given to practical applications and cultivating your analytical skills.
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MBA 696 - Strategic Leadership

Provides future leaders with a rigorous set of tools and frameworks to successfully lead organizations in a future that is increasingly turbulent and often hostile.
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MBA 675 - Corporate Social Strategy

Explore the idea that essential business institutions can be leveraged for positive social impact. As part of a larger effort to build a theory and practice of corporate social impact, students engage principles derived from economics, sociology, psychology, and business management and apply them to live cases in the corporate world.
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MBA 673 - Product Management

Combination of case-based discussions and hands-on projects. Case discussions range across industries, with a particular focus on tech and software. Key modules of the course are product strategy, ideating and solutioning, product development process, releasing/launching products, and product optimization.
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MBA 574 - Creating Virtuous Organization

This course explores the role of business in creating a Zion community, using the lens of organizational virtue as a starting point. Students will actively engage in creating thought leadership for incorporating principles of Zion-patterned governance in business and market institutions, as well as engaging readings on this topic from a variety of religious, scholarly, and popular sources. Students will apply their work to contemporary issues in the practice of business management and work to build a cohesive school of thought that can be shared with a variety of internal and external audiences.
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MBA 542 - Frameworks for Organizations

Learn and use multiple theoretical frames to understand and evaluate organizations in order to diagnose strengths and areas for improvement and to develop a course of action. Content, concepts, and theories related to both the micro (individual level) and macro (organizational level) aspects of organizational behavior.
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MBA 535 - Leadership and the Gospel

The focus of this course is becoming a disciple-leader by realizing the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in your life and your leadership. You become a disciple-leader by learning deeply the Gospel of Jesus Christ and implementing its principles in your life and your leadership. In order to learn deeply in our study of leadership and Gospel doctrine and principles, we must 1) know and understand them in our minds; 2) understand and feel them in our hearts; 3) learn to take effective, righteous action based on them; and 4) incorporate them into our identity, character and being.
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MBA 695 R - Kaizen

Multi-semester project-based MBA course in which students work as consultants to find, research, and deliver improvement projects. These projects largely (but not exclusively) are focused on processes inside the Marriott School of Business and in the MBA Program.
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MBA 692 - Social Impact

Issues facing social innovators, those that work full-time for them, and those who support them; understanding complex systems of for-profit, nonprofit, and hybrid social ventures; outlining involvement in social innovation as part of a lifetime of meaningful service.
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MBA 679 R - Advanced Venture Studio

An advanced course empowering student leaders through hands-on client work for entrepreneurs. This course follows MBA 678 and goes further into identifying and acquiring critical resources for early companies. These resources include operations support, work space, and financial capital. Students provide clients state-of-the-art support functions in tactical operations, sales and marketing, people organizations, legal and compliance, and engineering and product development at various stages of business development.
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MBA 678 - Venture Studio Practicum

This student-led Venture Studio helps founders and operators of new ventures in their early stages to to begin and execute appropriate "next steps." This acceleration process is a beginning-to-end solution for new venture problems in tactical operations, sales and marketing, people organizations, legal and compliance, and engineering and product development as needed at each stage of the process. The course requires diligence, analysis, and resource application to reduce failure risk for new ventures by all key measures. Students will typically address client capability gaps in several market stages: Incubator/Accelerator; Studio; Bootstrap; and Angel/Seed stage.
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MBA 693 R - Special Topics in Management

Subject to be arranged with instructor. Approval must be obtained from the MBA Office.
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MBA 692 - Social Innovation & Soc Entrp

Issues facing social innovators, those that work full-time for them, and those who support them; understanding complex systems of for-profit, nonprofit, and hybrid social ventures; outlining involvement in social innovation as part of a lifetime of meaningful service.
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MBA 691 - Real Estate Development

Applying financial and real estate principles to practical property investments. Insights into the real estate profession, emphasizing development.
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MBA 690 R - Management Field Study

Students complete consulting projects working with faculty and management to resolve business issues.
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MBA 688 - Corporate Social Innovation

Examining and applying models of social innovation unique to corporations: direct investment, partnerships with governments and/or NGOs, direct- or foundation-based philanthropy, and industry-or sector-level interventions, in both domestic and international contexts.
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MBA 687 - Strategic Simulation

Participating as teams in an on-line strategy experience and practicing skills in strategy formulation, group decision making, and strategy execution
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MBA 686 - Real Estate Analysis

Applying principles and techniques of property investments, including determining value, financing arrangements, and marketing and management problems.
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MBA 685 - Strategic Decision Making

Economic, philosophic (logical), psychological, political, and history-based models of decision making and judgment; improving students' decision making processes.
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MBA 683 - Creative Strategic Thinking

Understanding conditions under which creative ideas/strategies emerge; building skills for creative strategic thinking; generating valuable ideas for companies.
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MBA 682 - Strategy Lessons from History

Historical figures (such as Queen Elizabeth I, Winston Churchill, Brigham Young, and Ernest Shackleton) and their strategic leadership decisions in significant situations, highlighting key management concepts previously studied.
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MBA 681 - Strategy Implementation

Creating alignment among organizational elements of the firm; managing strategic change; and the role of personal and business values in strategy.
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MBA 680 - Competitive Strategy

Advanced course in competitive strategy for dynamic markets. Exploring topics such as growth, competitor analysis, positioning, and real options. Employing frameworks such as rugged landscapes, Schumperterian competition, and evolutionary economics to develop strategic options.
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MBA 677 R - Entreprenrshp Thru Acquisition

Evaluating industries, companies, and term sheets for acquisition targets involving search funds and technology licensing. Proven approach to lower-risk pursuit of entrepreneurship opportunities.
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MBA 676 R - New Venture Launchpad

Mentored support and coaching of launch of an actual venture. Guidance on solution validation, prototype development and testing, product/service launch, and business fundamentals (marketing, finance, operations, systems, etc.). At a minimum, students must be committed to launching a specific idea. Businesses already operating and generating revenue also welcome.
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MBA 674 - Managing New Ventures

Learn skills and tools to start and manage an early-stage company: building a founding team and management team, raising capital, determining legal structures and addressing other legal issues, hiring and growing the company, working with boards, collaborating with supplier & channel partners, establishing critical systems.
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