Curriculum

Core Courses

Financial & Managerial Accounting

This course explores concepts and principles in financial accounting from the user perspective and use of accounting information for managerial decision making.

Managerial Economics     

Students are introduced to basic concepts in microeconomics and explore the relevance of economic reasoning to managerial decision-making, both tactical and strategic. The importance of economic concepts, models and quantitative applications will be emphasized and applied to problems regularly encountered by technology managers.

Innovation     

This course examines successful product and process innovations in industry, as well as the effective organization and management of the technological change process in new ventures, multi-divisional and multinational enterprises.

Strategy

How technology-based firms develop and implement strategies to create renewable advantage is the basis for this class. The module treats strategy as a complex phenomenon needing to be viewed through different lenses in the light of the challenges of the fast-moving knowledge economy.

Marketing

What differentiates high-tech markets from more traditional ones is the environment - shrinking product life cycles, rapid changes in information and knowledge, and great uncertainty about competitors. This course teaches techniques for developing and executing marketing strategies in technology-intensive markets.

Business Operations Design

This course uses systems theory and process design as key elements to explain fundamental choices in organizational design.

Leadership for the Technology-Driven Enterprise

This course teaches developing and balancing critical management competencies at the individual, interpersonal, team and organizational levels. Focus is on effective organization, motivation and leadership.

Project Management

In high technology firms, projects are a way of life. The introduction of a new product or service, the redesign of an information system, and the opening of a new warehouse, are all examples of projects that the technology-driven manager may encounter. This course demonstrates how complexity can be managed in a manner that increases the probability of project success.

Managing Self and Others

This is an intensive three-day experience where students discover what they would actually do when confronted with the reality of working in a company with multiple interdependencies, financial and geographical constraints, and a complex and changing environment.

Ethics

How to navigate the moral quandaries, issues and debates raised by direct participants and stakeholders in the high-tech economy are explored. Topics include character building practices, moral stages in the high-tech career, corporate social responsibility, the role of reputation capital in the high-tech firm, and the moral and legal obligations of the expert.

International Management

Technology firms today are ‘born global’ in terms of markets, production, and research and development. Topics include cultural intelligence, comparative management and international business.

Applied Finance

The basics of applied finance as it relates to raising capital is the main point of discussion. Other topics include business valuation techniques, evaluating merger and acquisition opportunities and evolving Internet business models.

MBA Applied Project

In the Applied Project students tackle real business issues for client organizations, using all the knowledge they acquired and skills they honed to develop feasible and optimal solutions. Clients obtain new perspectives and students synthesize their learning.

Technology Specific Curriculum

Technology firms are focused on the development and delivery of new products. Understanding new product development strategy and processes, and customer-based research methods is critical. Project management skills are essential in managing the complexity of technology-driven initiatives. Students also learn how information systems support decision-making and the challenges of doing business globally.

Strategic Use of Information and Knowledge

This course will demonstrate through cases and discussion how information can be used to support decision making, monitor operations, and enable global communications. Topics include knowledge management and information technology to support a learning organization.

Product Management

New product development, strategy and processes, including customer-based research methods are covered.