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MBA for innovation

Before classes officially start, you’ll take pre-MBA online refresher courses, such as Excel and Financial Accounting.

You take them online during July and August before classes start in September, enabling you to learn at your own pace and ease your entry into the MOT MBA program.

These mandatory courses take approximately 30 hours to complete, depending on your background and prior knowledge. You will receive more information and instructions after you have been accepted into the program.

The four-day (full days) mandatory orientation happens the first week of September after Labour Day. Please note: BUS 761 (Leadership for the Technology Driven Enterprise) will be taught during this period.

Leadership for the Technology Driven Enterprise

Develop critical management competencies at the individual, interpersonal, team and organizational levels. You’ll learn about:

• Effective organization
• How to motivate people
• Taking a leadership role

Note: This is an intensive course that takes place during Orientation.

Financial and Managerial Accounting

Learn the concepts and principles involved in financial accounting from the user perspective. By the end of this course, you’ll understand:

• How to read financial accounts
• How to use accounting information to make managerial decisions

Managing Technological Innovation

Examine successful product and process innovations in industry, and learn how to innovate and manage technological change within new ventures and multi-divisional enterprises. You’ll examine:

• Real-life case studies
• How to manage a technology portfolio
• Effective organization and change management

Managerial Economics for Technology Firms

Gain an understanding of the basic concepts involved in microeconomics, and how economic reasoning affects managerial decision making. You’ll learn about:

• The importance of economic concepts, models and quantitative applications
• How to apply economic concepts to problems encountered by technology managers

Strategic Use of Information and Knowledge

Learn how to use information to support better decision making, monitor operations and enable global communications. And see how organizations are doing it. Topics include:

• Knowledge management and information technology to support a learning organization

Business Ethics**

Ethics is a huge and important topic in business. Learn how to navigate the moral issues and debates raised by direct participants and stakeholders in the high-tech economy. Topics include:

• Character-building practices
• Moral stages in the high-tech career
• Corporate social responsibility and the role of reputational capital

Business Operations Design

Explore the strategic role of operations in technology-based firms. By the end of this course, you will understand the impact of operations on business performance. You’ll learn how to:

• Use operations to create innovations
• Innovate to create new operational capabilities

Entrepreneurship

An overview of entrepreneurial thinking and actions such as: opportunity discovery; strategy and implementation; innovation in the context of uncertainty, ambiguity and risk.

Negotiations**

Negotiation is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more parties that are interdependent and who are seeking to maximize their outcomes. You will plan for various negotiation situations and use interactive exercises to improve your ability to negotiate.

Marketing Technology Based Products and Services

What differentiates high-tech markets from more traditional ones is the environment of shrinking product life cycles, rapid changes in information and knowledge and great uncertainty about competitors. This course is designed to teach strategies for developing and executing marketing strategies in technology-intensive markets. You’ll learn how to use a variety of learning techniques including discussions, cases analyses, and a marketing decision simulation. The course will define hi-tech products, attempt to understand customer response to them, and find ways of crafting marketing strategies for them, while bearing in mind that the tectonic plates of technological change are continually shifting.

Managerial Finance

Applied Finance is the core finance course required of all business majors, and it serves as the basis for all other courses in the area of finance as well as providing the basic tools that every business student will need to be successful in their chosen career. Emphasis is placed on the underlying principles and practices and how they relate to the decision-making process faced by a financial manager charged with the objective of shareholder wealth maximization and value creation.

** These courses are offered as intensives, generally delivered on weekends. Dates will be provided well in advance.

Strategic Management of Technology-Based Firms

This course deals with how technology-based firms develop and implement strategies to create competitive advantage. The module treats strategy at two levels of analysis: (a) the overall strategy of the firm and (b) the technology strategy of the firm. Explore how organizations that depend on innovation and the commercialization of intangible assets are managed strategically. You’ll learn about:

• Developing strategies in science and technology based sectors
• Tools and techniques for the development and implementation of strategies

Project Management

Learn how to manage complex projects and increase the probability of success. You’ll learn about:

• Ways to manage the introduction of new products or services
• Manage information systems change and other forms of business change

Managing Self and Others

In this intensive three-day experience, discover what you would actually do when confronted with the reality of working in a complex and changing company with multiple interdependencies, financial and geographical constraints.

Note: This course takes place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Capstone

Put your new knowledge to the test in a technology simulation working on your own and within a team.

Topics in International Business

This course will address emerging issues in international business relevant to technology intensive firms. Globalization means that cross-cultural business interactions have become more commonplace.

Industry Consulting Project

In the Industry Consulting Project, you'll work with some of the most innovative companies in the world and talk in depth with their senior representatives. Then you’ll present real-life cases to technology companies in Vancouver.