Orientation Weekend

Students begin their executive MBA experience with a three-day intensive orientation weekend held at Whistler in early September. This team-building opportunity is designed to introduce faculty, staff and students and provide an overview of business case analysis.

Leadership

Explore the management of relationships and how to work effectively in teams. Learn how leadership can impact an organization in the face of competition, power, controversy and conflict.

Managerial Economics

Facilitate decision-making in the presence of risk, uncertainty and missing information by applying economic concepts to analyze supply and demand, costs and productivity and industries.

Negotiations

This course will help you learn how to become a better negotiator. Students will plan for various negotiation situations and improve their ability to negotiate through weekly negotiation exercises.

Accounting

Provides theoretical and practical knowledge to interpret and use accounting reports. Understand how accounting reports are prepared including the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Organizational Theory

Applies contemporary organizational theory to the managerial challenges associated with organizational structure and change, adapting organizations to a changing environment and articulating plans for organizational survival and growth.

Marketing

Understand the importance of the formulation and execution of effective marketing plans. Learn how to analyze diverse elements of the market environment, including market opportunities, demand and firm capabilities.

Information Technology

Focuses on the strategic role information can play in organizations. This course will assist you in making the choices required to plan, acquire and manage information technology.

Financial Management

This course gives participants a thorough understanding of how financial management works. Topics discussed include a variety of issues such as financial analysis, diagnosis of short-term funding needs, financial structure, cost of capital and valuation.

New Ventures

Through a series of immersive and experiential workshops and projects, participants will experience firsthand the challenges involved in the discovery, evaluation and implementation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

International Business

Examines the economic, legal, political, socio- cultural and institutional environment of global business and the responses of organizations in terms of strategy, organizational design, managing employees, and social responsibility in a global context.

Strategy

Introduces the principles and frameworks for evaluating threats to an organization’s performance and provides opportunities to apply these tools to cases and students’ own organizations.

Ethics

Students examine the relevance and importance of business ethics, with attention devoted to corporate social responsibility, professional ethics and reputational capital.

The Project

This assignment is a major learning tool. It’s an individual problem-solving report that applies previous learnings to a strategic analysis. Typically, this analysis will consider elements of an organization’s strategic position and provide recommendations. Other options for project formats include public policy analysis, specialized topics (in consultation with your supervisor) and analysis of strategy implementation.

Students often choose to focus on an issue of importance to their own companies. This presents an opportunity to provide real value back to the organization in terms of strategic analysis and recommendations. A faculty member provides one-to-one supervision and support during the project.