The convenience
of online study.

All students attend a 14-day orientation before starting classes. This GDBA orientation prepares you to learn in an online, graduate-level business program. It ensures that everyone has the same foundational learning skills and program expectations. You’ll learn by doing, completing a series of activities that challenge you intellectually while developing your facility with online tools and methods. During the orientation, you will also:

• Meet instructors and classmates
• Learn to use the online learning tools and access university resources
• Complete learning activities using the online Learning Management System
• Develop a personal study plan that aligns with your career goals and MBA aspirations

To level up your leadership skills, participate in a carefully curated set of courses, designed to introduce you to leadership and teamwork fundamentals as well as the case analysis process.

Managing People and Organizations

Gain an understanding of how individuals and teams function effectively in work situations. Learn how organizational behaviour themes, such as emotions, motivation, and group dynamics, relate to functional issues such as job design, salary structures, and recruitment.

Financial and Managerial Accounting

Move beyond accounting fundamentals and processes. Learn to make business decisions in support of broader organizational objectives that are based on sound analysis of financial information.

Business Ethics (half course)

Professional decision-making involves moving from complexity and ambiguity to action. Build an integrated set of ethical and analytical reasoning tools for addressing the challenges that arise in real-world decisions.

Managerial Economics

Gain an introduction to the basic concepts in economics, and explore the relevance of economic reasoning to tactical and strategic managerial decision-making. Study the importance of economic concepts, economic models and quantitative applications, and understand how they apply to common problems managers encounter.

Managerial Finance (Prerequisite: Financial/Managerial Accounting)

Gain a practical understanding of managerial finance and the role of the financial manager. Learn to apply financial statement analysis, valuation techniques, capital budgeting, project analysis, and other financial tools. Explore a wide variety of subjects, including:

• Maximizing shareholder wealth
• Agency conflicts
• Ethical corporate behaviour

Business Analytics

Explore the key concepts of probability and statistics that provide the basic tools to approach statistics critically. Focus on the use of quantitative or statistical techniques in managerial decision-making and learn to apply them in business settings.

Marketing Management

Get an overview of the marketing process, including learning how to analyze data and make decisions on pricing, product design, promotion and distribution as part of developing a comprehensive marketing plan. The course concludes with a collaborative online marketing simulation.

Business and Indigenous Peoples

The purpose of this course is to help students understand the issues involved when companies are operating, or intend to operate, in the traditional territories of First Nations and other Indigenous peoples. The course will also examine the role that Indigenous people play in Canada's economy including entrepreneurship and community-owned businesses.