Curriculum Information
“The EMBA Program in Mexico City provides the tools and techniques that
managers need to successfully position themselves as strategic leaders in their
organizations.”
–-Luis Armando Kuri, MVS Comunicaciones
Year I
- Austin Intensive I - August 2008 (One Week)
- Fall Semester 2008
- Spring Semester 2009
- Summer Semester 2009
Year II
- Austin Intensive II - August 2009 (One Week)
- Fall Semester 2009
- Spring Semester 2010
- International Study Tour - May 2010 (One Week)
Year I
August 2008
Austin Intensive I (One Week)
Each of the two years begins in Austin with an August week-long Intensive Course to prepare students for the academic year. Topics include an introduction to the courses students will take during that year and the skills they will need to master the materials. The Austin Intensive classes are held at the McCombs School.
ACC 381M
Financial Accounting
Objective: To develop a sophisticated and coherent approach to the use of financial accounting information.
Course Description: This course provides an examination of the strengths and weaknesses of the information produced in financial reports, the pressures faced by management and auditors as they prepare financial statements, the set of information available to business decision makers beyond the information presented in audited financial statements, the difficulties involved in evaluating decisions after outcomes are known, and the impact of accounting information on strategic decisions.
Professors:
Ross Jennings
Managerial Statistics
Objective: To develop an understanding of data and decision analysis to help managers make better decisions in the presence of uncertainty.
Course Description: This course focuses on regression and its application to business problems. Topics include basic probability concepts, sampling distributions, simple and multiple linear regression models, forecasting models and decision trees. Extensive use is made of real-world data sets to illustrate the application of the techniques discussed in the course.
Professor: Paul Damien
Managerial Economics
Objective: To develop economic reasoning to analyze the choices of firms within the context of a changing international economy.
Course Description: This course provides an understanding of the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces, both domestic and international, that influence management decisions and corporate performance. Topics include interest rates and relationships between markets, economic policy, inflation and unemployment, profit maximization under varying market conditions, market failures and externalities, and game-theoretic analysis of corporate decision making.
Professors: Michael Brandl, Macario Schettino
Information Technology Management
Objective: To provide students frameworks and analytical tools to understand the economic and strategic implications of IT, transformation dynamics, and risks and pitfalls of IT decisions.
Course Description: The course will address many issues that are of interest to all managers including identifying the characteristics of IT innovation and their implications on firm IT adoption; understanding IT and the Internet contributions to economic growth; evaluating the strategic implications of IT; developing an actionable framework for electronic business transformation; exploring emerging IT-driven business practices (e.g., supply chain management, customer relationship management, and enterprise resource planning); and developing quantitative models for IT investment justification. The topics and case studies covered in the course provide students with a real-world approach to managing IT investments and risks.
Professor: Anitesh Barua
Financial Management
Objective: To examine the role of financial management in creating value and to present the analytic framework used in the study of finance.
Course Description: A study of the basic concepts of valuation theory and efficient markets, specifically the markets’ valuations of the different combinations of risk and expected return created by management decisions; capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy; agency theory, issues of corporate control and governance; the workings of the debt and equity markets; and the options perspective of debt and equity.
Professor: Ramesh Rao, James Nolen
Operations Management
Objective: To provide a process-oriented understanding of operations.
Course Description: An examination of processes that transform inputs into finished goods and services, process improvement, total quality management, product and process development, supply chain management, and the relation of operations strategy to product and service design and to business strategy.
Professors: Genaro Gutierrez, Didimo Dewar
Strategic Management
Objective: To develop a top management perspective on the firm, the firm’s purpose, and sources of strategic success.
Course Description: This course is about the creation and maintenance of a long-term vision for the organization and focuses on the determination of strategic direction, nature and sources of competitive advantage, and the management of the strategic process. As such it deals with the analytical, behavioral, and creative aspects of business simultaneously.
Professor: Violina Rindova
Managing People and Organizations
Objective: To increase current capabilities in analyzing and redesigning organizations and in leading and managing people through change.
Course Description: An analysis of organizational deficiencies and alternative and evolving organization designs, individual, group and organizational decision-making, and processes for motivating and persuading individuals and groups
to change.
Professors: John Daly, Teresa Liedo
Year II
Austin Intensive II - August 2009 (One Week)
Year Two begins with an introduction to the topics that students will encounter in their second year of study.Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Objective: To provide an understanding of significant legal and
ethical standards that affect the management decision making
process.
Course Description: A study of selected legal rules governing
business, including the transactional (e.g., contractual
relationships), property interests (such as intellectual
property rights) and regulatory (ranging from tort law to
employment constraints). The course focuses on analysis of cases
and the application of these legal standards with associated
ethical questions.
Professors: Christopher Meakin,
David Spence
Managerial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis
Objective: To develop understanding of both the internal
accounting data used by management to make business decisions
and the external accounting data used by creditors, investors
and analysts to make lending and investment decisions.
Course Description: The course surveys the strategic uses of the
most important elements of internal accounting systems including
cost accounting systems and management control systems used for
planning and budgeting. The course also surveys the use of
publicly-available financial accounting information to evaluate
past performance, forecast future performance, and estimate the
value of debt and equity securities.
Professor: David Platt,
Brian Lendecky
Marketing Management
Objective: To build an understanding of the key elements of
marketing and distribution.
Course Description: An examination of the marketing function and
how it relates to value creation, strategic corporate
management, and marketing decisions; the major phenomena
underlying marketing strategy formation and the component
divisions of product planning, communications, and channels of
distribution; both theory and cases to develop a managerial
perspective of marketing; and the link between marketing
strategy and financial value.
Professor: Kate Mackie
Global Management
Objective: To develop an appreciation for and better
understanding of the management challenges inherent in global
firms.
Course Description: This course is designed to sensitize and
challenge students to better address competition in a global
context. This would include the shifting competitive
environment, the emergence of new global competitors from China,
India and Russia, developing strategies to enter/exit a
particular arena, and balancing the need for local
responsiveness and global efficiency.
Professors: Robert Mettlen, Mario de Marchis
Diversification and Renewal
Objective: To develop an understanding of how companies create
strategies to cope with changing global markets.
Course Description: The management of diversification, growth
and renewal from the perspective of the general manager drives
this course towards strategies that fit changing global markets.
How firms achieve this process via internal development,
acquisitions, strategic alliances, learning, benchmarking and
moving to best practices delineated.
Professors: David Jemison,
John Butler
Investment Theory
Objective: Focuses on the examination and valuation of the major
investment vehicles popular today throughout the world.
Course Description: Investments is the study of financial assets
and pricing. An examination of the pricing and the use of equity
securities, fixed income securities, and options. Additional
topics covered include: modern portfolio theory; the capital
asset pricing model; the relationship between the economy and
financial securities; the functioning of markets; asset
allocation; measuring returns; and mutual funds.
Professor: Andres Alamazan,
Gerardo Dubcovsky
May 2010
International Study Tour (One Week)
International Study Tour (One Week)
The emphasis of the final seminar, which is held at an international location, is on
emerging issues in global management. Lectures and discussion on a variety of
topics serve to synthesize the entire curriculum and provide closure for the program.
*The Texas MBA Programs Committee reserves the right to make modifications to the curriculum and seminars.
