MBA 742 Introduction to Financial Fraud
Fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets are major problems for businesses of all sizes. Knowledge about how fraud is committed and how to spot the potential for fraud are valuable for managers at all levels. View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Finance, Ethics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 746 Mutual Fund Investing
Students will learn criteria for selecting mutual funds, how to develop investment portfolios composed of multiple mutual funds consisten with demographic characteristics of the investor, and how to assess mutual fund and portfolio performance. View course description.
1 Credit • Duration: 3 Weeks • Typically Offered: Winterim, Summer
Subject Area: Finance
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2025, Summer 2025
MBA 747 Financial Statement Analysis
Analysis and interpretation of financial statements. Skills taught include: how to interpret financial statements, analyze cash flows, evaluate earnings quality, uncover hidden assets and liabilities, and forecasting financial statements. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Fall
Subject Areas: Accounting, Finance, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Fall 2024
MBA 753 Corporate Venturing
This course examines how organizations effectively create new businesses and foster innovation. It focuses on the process through which organizations turn a good idea into a viable business. Students will learn how to encourage entrepreneurship, identify opportunities, locate potential new business within the firm, select the right managers, and set up planning processes. View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Entrepreneurship, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 754 Fundamental Methods of Forecasting
The ability to forecast data which becomes available at regular intervals is very important in the business environment. With the power of modern computers it is possible to carry out effective short term (one or two periods ahead) forecasts using methods studied in the context of a short course. The course will be very heavily weighted toward applied work rather than the mathematical theory… View course description.
1 Credit • Duration: 3 Weeks • Typically Offered: Winterim, Summer
Subject Areas: Accounting, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2025, Summer 2025
MBA 755 Consumer Behavior
This class will help you to understand how and why consumers behave as they do. We will delve into our own attitudes, motivations and purchase behavior to derive insight. We will learn about the pervasive consumer behavior theories developed primarily in marketing and psychology. Using these theories, we will attempt to predict how consumers (both in B2C and in B2B settings) will respond to a… View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Marketing, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 757 Managing Workplace Stress
Workplace stress costs organizations millions of dollars annually in lost productivity and turnover. In this course, we will examine the major theories of stress, causes of stress, and consequences of stress. We will take a hands-on approach to developing action plans to address stress in your workplace. View course description.
1 Credit • Duration: 3 Weeks • Typically Offered: Winterim, Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2025, Summer 2025
MBA 758 Strategies and Tactics of Pricing
This course presents a framework for evaluating pricing decisions. Pricing is examined from the perspective of customers, competitors and costs; in a variety of contexts, including business-to-business markets, consumer goods markets, services, and not-for profit companies. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Marketing, Non-Profit
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 759 Selling Ideas at Work
This course provides students with an understanding of how business people make decisions. It teaches students to utilize developed skills to sell ideas at work to both individuals and to groups. View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Subject Areas: Marketing, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2025, Summer 2025
MBA 760 Employee Training and Development
This course focuses on: (1) Human resource development's role in maintaining an organization's competitive position, (2) Identification of training needs, (3) Transferring training to the workplace, (4) Training assessment. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Human Resources, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 761 Project Management
The course examines project identification, selection, and planning. It will be organized along two major phases of the project management process: 1) Project Selection and Definition; and 2) Project Planning. View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Fall, Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Project Management, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 762 Organizational Leadership and Change
This course examines how change can be accomplished within organizations–who is responsible for change and how people can be helped to change. View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Fall, Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Leadership, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 763 Business and Ethics
Does a company have any obligation to help solve social problems? What about a manufacturer's obligation to the consumer with respect to product defects and safety? This course examines economic activity in an ethical framework. View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Spring
Subject Areas: Management, Ethics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2025
MBA 764 Work-Family Issues in Contemporary Times
This course will critically examine and analyze issues of work and family life from both employee and employer perspectives. View course description.
1 Credit • Duration: 3 Weeks • Typically Offered: Winterim, Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Human Resources, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2025, Summer 2025
MBA 766 Contract Law for Managers
This course emphasizes using the law in ethical managerial decision making. It examines contract law, sales law, and law in e-commerce. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Spring
Subject Areas: Management, Ethics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2025
MBA 770 E-Business Fundamentals for Managers
This course provides an overview of the fast-growing Internet-based economy and asks, from a management point of view, How may e-business contribute to the operational, tactical and strategic goals of an organization? View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Fall
Subject Areas: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship
Upcoming Class Offerings: Fall 2024
MBA 773 Communicating for Success: Writing for Results
The purpose of this course is to enhance students' workplace communication skills. Students and their organizations will benefit as students apply practical strategies to writing effective routine, negative-news, and persuasive messages and creating PowerPoints for any audience. Using their current organizations (or organization of their choice) as a reference, students will engage… View course description.
1 Credit • Duration: 3 Weeks • Typically Offered: Winterim, Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Communication, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2025, Summer 2025
MBA 774 Sustainability and Organizational Management
This course is designed to introduce students to the interrelationship between business and the natural environment; specifically, it examines the impact of the environment on business and the consequences of daily and long-term business decisions on the environment. View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer (in odd years)
Subject Areas: Management, Sustainability, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 778 Managing Technology in Turbulent Times
The intent of this course it to show the synergy that exists between the introduction of technologies into an organization and the shift in management strategy and decision making that is essential to receive full value from the technology investment. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Information Technology, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 780 Leading the Healthcare Workforce
This course explores challenges and opportunities that leaders in healthcare face. Students will learn how to maximize human resources and other organizational resources to improve organizational efficiencies and the quality of healthcare. Topics include motivation, EDIB (equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging), managing change, and other concepts related to leadership. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Fall
Subject Areas: Healthcare Management, Human Resources, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Fall 2024
MBA 781 Fundamentals of Health Information Technology Management
This course provides an introduction to the dynamic world of management of information technology in health care. A description of information processing, the content and evolution of healthcare information systems and the current and future methodologies being employed to acquire and manage information are discussed. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Healthcare Management, Information Technology, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 782 Health Care Finance and Economics
Health Economics focuses on several issues related to health and the health care sector, including topics such as government intervention in health and health care, the impetus, design, and organization of health insurance markets, and the related impacts of both on health care reform, health outcomes, and decision making in the health arena. Because the U.S. does not have unlimited resources to… View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Healthcare Management, Finance, Economics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 783 Informing Healthcare Decisions with Data Analytics
In this course students discover ways to gather, analyze, interpret, communicate, and use data for organizational decision making. Students learn concepts regarding data analytics, methodologies for gathering data, and strategies for managing data for analysis and use. Students will also discuss ways to communicate data clearly and accurately for the variety of internal and external audiences in… View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Spring
Subject Areas: Concentration: Healthcare Management, Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2025
MBA 784 Supply Chain Management
This course covers terminologies, concepts, and tools involved in managing supply chain operations, emphasizing qualitative and quantitative tools used in managerial decision making. Topics include Supply Chain Strategy, Supplier Management, Inventory Management, Distribution, and Logistics. View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Supply Chain, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 786 Addressing Contemporary Issues and Trends in Healthcare
Students will examine current topics in healthcare in the United States. Topics may include, but are not limited to, healthcare costs; impacts of technology such as electronic records management, telehealth, and artificial intelligence; insurance and reimbursement; staffing; government and other regulatory requirements; equity and access to care; and burnout and stress management. Students will… View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Concentration: Healthcare Management, Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 787 Quantitative Business Analysis
This course focuses on applied quantitative business analysis and uses Microsoft Excel. The course covers problem solving concepts and techniques, plus effective presentation of analysis results. Critical thinking and analytical problem solving will be stressed throughout the course. Exercises for the course reflect a variety of business disciplines.While students will learn to use Excel, this is… View course description.
1.5 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Summer
Subject Areas: Management, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2025
MBA 789 Health Care Organization and Delivery
This course provides a foundational understanding of our complex health system, from basic organization and management of the system to an exploration of the relationships between cost, quality, and access in the context of system improvement and health care reform. We will take a policy perspective as we explore influential factors on health care resource challenges such as… View course description.
2 Credits • Duration: 7 Weeks • Typically Offered: Spring
Subject Areas: Healthcare Management, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2025
MBA 791 Exploring Management Topics in the Nonprofit Sector
This course will provide a substantive introduction to the key principles and practical challenges in the law, management, and marketing of non-profit organizations (NPSs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). View course description.
1 Credit • Duration: 3 Weeks • Typically Offered: Winterim
Subject Areas: Management, Marketing, Non-Profit
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2025
MBA 796 Directed Project (International Experience to Spain & Portugal)
During Winterim 2025, the UW MBA Consortium will be holding its first international experience in the vibrant cities of Madrid, Spain, and Lisbon, Portugal. This unique 1-credit directed project course will give students the chance to immerse themselves in the rich cultural tapestry of Spain and Portugal by participating in curated city tours and authentic cultural experiences that offer… View course description.
1 Credit • Duration: 3 Weeks • Typically Offered: Winterim
Subject Areas: Management, Supply Chain,Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2025
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Elective Courses
