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EMBA Worldwide Core Courses

We understand how valuable an executive's time is. That's why the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business has designed a curriculum that delivers the leadership skills, strategies, and analysis tools that executives need to further their professional careers, in a format tailored to the working professional.

The core of the EMBA Worldwide program meets not only the rigorous accreditation standards of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International; it also meets the high standard that you've set for yourself and your organization.

Review our curriculum and see why EMBA Worldwide is where you are, and where you want to be.

Financial Accounting: Reporting and Financial Statement Analysis
In this course students learn how to read financial reports with insight and confidence. Topics include performance dimensions, nature of present-value concepts, accounting assets and equities, financial analysis, fiduciary and managerial control, alternate accounting principles and ethical dimensions of reporting.
Business Ethics and Public Policy
Leaders in business today need to skillfully and responsibly face the challenges of a changing global-business environment. This course examines concepts, issues, and tools related to the management of ethics, social responsibility in business, and the management of public affairs and regulation.
Decision Optimization and Risk Management
With the advent of powerful personal computers, sophisticated and user-friendly decision technologies now play an increasingly important role for optimizing decisions and for managing risk by managers and executives at all levels.  Indeed, the utilization of these technologies in a time-sensitive manner can have a tremendous impact on a company’s profitability and can even mean the difference between competitive success and failure. This course focuses on modeling and analyzing complex problems with such technologies.  Specifically, methodologies discussed in the course include linear and nonlinear optimization, simulation, and decision analysis. The course is designed to develop quantitative modeling skills for dealing with a wide range of complex problems in practice. While the course focuses on applications from manufacturing and operations management, examples from other business contexts such as finance and marketing are also discussed.
Economic Analysis for Managerial Decisions
Using powerful negotiating tools such as game theory, signalling, and Nash equilibriums, this course helps the student understand how markets reconcile the separate needs of consumers and producers, providing a crucial economic framework for managerial decisions.
Financial Management
No manager or professional can move up in his or her career without a strong theoretical and practical base in financial management. This course explores valuation techniques and how they can be applied to corporate-finance decisions. It includes case studies, models, and techniques used to estimate the inputs to these valuation models, the impact of risk on valuation, and how these valuation models help in decisions related to capital budgeting, asset acquisitions, and the capital structure of corporations.
Global Human Resource Management
Whether you work in operations, finance, marketing, or other fields, your ability to maximize human capital will be fundamental to your organization's success. Using case studies, this course discusses the influence of changing technologies, public-policy directives, and international competitive requirements as they affect decisions relating to staffing, compensation, employee relations, and human-resource development.
Information Technology and Business Value
When should an organization move into a new technology? How do you know if a new technology will give your business a competitive edge? This course equips you with the tools to answer those critical questions, and through case studies, provides an overview of how general managers can apply information technology (IT) to increase their effectiveness. With the help of case studies, it examines how IT provides information to support decision making, cooperative work, organizational competitive advantage, and interorganizational communication.
Learning Community Workshop
Our Learning Community Workshop brings students together at the beginning of their study in the EMBA program and lays the foundation for our learning environment. Through team-building exercises and group observation, students will get acquainted and learn respect for one another's differences, how to take risks, and the value of cooperation over competition in a classroom environment.
Marketing Management
This is a dynamic, fast-moving course, taught in part using a simulation, where students make decisions about when to launch products and how to promote them. The course discusses such fundamental topics as proper choice of pricing, packaging, advertising, selling, and distribution of products—but stresses the ability to put those ideas into practice. Issues of customer satisfaction, market orientation, quality, cross-functional integration, and new-product development teams are also addressed.
Organizational Behavior: Leadership and team Effectiveness
As organizations become flatter, organizational effectiveness relies more and more on interpersonal skills and management of small groups and teams. This course addresses interpersonal effectiveness, decision making and problem solving, effective group processes, and motivation of key employees.
Statistical Analysis: Uncertainty, Prediction, and Quality Control
This course places a fundamental emphasis on the use of statistics for modeling and solving problems in marketing, finance, human resources, and operations management. It discusses how statistics can help managers grasp and solve common managerial problems. Integrated statistical tools and methodologies useful in a managerial environment are provided.
Strategic Cost Management
Firms around the world are under pressure to become as efficient as they can. Even leading companies that are dominant players in their markets must learn to minimize costs to remain competitive—not only to survive, but to thrive, as well. Their long-term survival is based in large part on their ability to manage costs effectively. This course focuses on determining the costs of products and services, as well as illustrating how managers can best use this information in the planning and control of business operations.
Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage
The Strategic Management course focuses on formulating and implementing strategies to compete in today’s fast-changing global economy. Beginning with a hands-on understanding of powerful analytical frameworks, derived from industrial-organization economics and the behavioral sciences that help guide the development of strategy, the course will prepare managers to anticipate and confidently face the implementation challenges of gaining and sustaining competitive advantage in an uncertain world.
Strategic Vision for a Global Future
As globalization gathers pace across the business landscape, senior managers must learn to cope with increasing levels of strategic uncertainty. Globally contestable markets, radical technological- and business-process innovation, and shifting consumer preferences combine to stress-test corporations' strategic-planning and execution capabilities. In particular, there is a need for new models of strategy and competition—incorporating such concepts as real options, scenario thinking, non-market factors, and new-game strategies (e.g.,bottom-of-the-pyramid approaches). Accordingly, this course provides participants with a set of rigorous tools and frameworks for making sense of today's high-ambiguity global environment.
Strategic Leadership for Change
This course deals with issues of leadership at the organizational level. In the course we will study the particular challenges of leading an organization. Such challenges include development and implementation of corporate vision, values, goals, etc.; organizational design and change management; working with a board of directors, shareholders and the media; and crisis management.
Negotiating for Business Executives
This fast-paced, multi-media course aims to help you negotiate better deals, a skill that is useful in business as well as life. It aims to give you tools to improve your performance, to build on your current competencies, and to take you to the next level. The course will focus on how to prepare for a negotiation to increase results; how to deal with difficult negotiators; how to increase your power against a strong counterpart; how to transform competitive into collaborative negotiations; and how to adapt to different negotiating styles across cultures. The course uses exercises, simulations, and videos to build your negotiating competency, which you can apply in real time.