Discover the Tech MBA

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 and how to apply economic concepts to problems encountered by technology managers

Learn how to use information to support better decision making, monitor operations, enable global communications and see how organizations are doing it. Topics include knowledge management and information technology to support a learning organization.

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 and corporate social responsibility and the role of reputational capital.

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 and innovate to create new operational capabilities.

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.

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.

This course teaches marketing strategies for hi-tech markets with shrinking product life cycles, rapid changes in knowledge, and great uncertainty about competitors. It includes various learning techniques like discussions, case analyses, and a marketing decision simulation to craft strategies for hi-tech products and understand customer response while considering the continuously shifting technological changes.

Applied Finance is a core course for business majors, teaching basic finance tools that are essential for success in any career. The focus is on principles and practices that help financial managers make decisions that maximize shareholder wealth and create value.

The course provides students with an insight into Indigenous knowledge and worldviews, concepts of Indigenous wealth and value, and aspects of particular legal environments. Through relational comprehension with content, transformative approaches and innovative models and research you will gain a better understanding of how Indigenous protocols, decision making, and history impacts business and partnerships. Students will engage and apply their learning through the lens of entrepreneurship as one mechanism by which Indigenous notions of value are expressed in business environments.

Taken alongside Indigenous Business Environments, this course provides local experiential learning opportunities designed to support students in gaining an understanding of how to build respectful partnerships with Indigenous community and to learn how businesses across industry sectors could work with Indigenous peoples to incorporate the legal and ethical considerations of Indigenous knowledge and worldviews within the current and future economic landscape.

This course consists of a comprehensive strategy simulation called CAPSIM. CAPSIM is used in leading business schools around the world to help students enact, and in turn be tested on their knowledge of business strategy.

Focus on building global competency and management skills needed to develop strategies, design organizations, and manage the operations of companies whose activities span national boundaries.

This course focuses on technology-based firms and their strategies for creating a competitive advantage. It covers overall firm strategy and technology strategy. The course explores how organizations that rely on innovation and intangible assets are managed. You'll learn about developing and implementing strategies in science and technology sectors using various tools and techniques.

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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.

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

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

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.