The Fox Executive MBA

Managing the Enterprise in the Global Context

Globalization – the increasing interdependence and integration of the global economy – is changing the world at an ever-increasing pace, making product life cycles shorter and driving swift economic growth. This course will examine the three crucial drivers of globalization – emerging economies, innovation and sustainability – to provide students with a sound understanding of these concepts and the ability to evaluate opportunities and threats to today’s global business environment. The course is enhanced by an in-depth learning experience during a week-long international trip to two countries with different cultures and in different stages of economic development.

Taught by Ram Mudambi
Professor & Chair for General & Strategic Management

Law Course Aims to Keep Businesses Out of Court and Out of the Headlines

There’s no doubt that scandals make great news, particularly ones that involve business leaders or well-known companies. Through his “Law and Ethics in the Business Enterprise” course, Professor James M. Lammendola  is teaching second-year EMBA students how to protect themselves and their businesses from common legal pitfalls. Participants in this course learn how to spot and avoid situations, policies and behaviors that can result in the diversion of valuable resources to resolving time-consuming disputes.

Taught by James Lammendola
Instructor, Legal Studies

Effective Business Planning and Growth the Focus of Accounting

Driving corporate planning and growth are the key job functions for all business leaders. These valuable skills are explored in “Strategic Cost Analysis for Enterprise Management,” a course for first-year students being taught by Stan Ross. Course participants will learn the importance of relevance, timeliness, and quantitative and qualitative information in moving a business forward. Other areas of study include the use of accounting principles and concepts to examine cost behavior, variable margin, cost-volume-profit relationships, budgeting, break-even and incremental analysis.

Taught by Stan Ross
Lecturer, Accounting

Real-World Application Solidifies Lessons of Operations Management Course

Our operations management course starts with the fundamentals – techniques that reduce costs and add value in service, manufacturing, and supply chain organizations – and follows through with their applications. Under the leadership of Professor Ed Rosenthal, students master the principles of quality management, capacity planning, supply chain management, and project management, and get hands-on experience as they design and complete course projects in the workplace.

Taught by Edward Rosenthal
Associate Professor, Management Science &
Operations Management

Statistical Analysis for Successful Leaders

A successful leader is one who can not only evaluate a company’s data, but also know when to question what he or she sees. In “Statistical Analysis for Managers,”Professor Alicia Strandberg is teaching these very skills to first-year EMBA students. Through this course, students become familiar with relevant statistical methods and acquire the ability to answer critical questions about the importance of statistical significant results; the reliability of published materials; reasonable and unreasonable variations when comparing groups; and the use of relationships to predict future sale volume.

Taught by Alicia Strandberg
Assistant Professor of Statistics

Econ and Quantitative Methods Guarantee a Good Forecast

In the second semester of the program, students get a 1-2 punch to help them forecast sales (or other measures) at their own organizations. In the Quantitative Methods course, Professor Howard Weiss has students run their data through a variety of time series models in order to identify trend and seasonality and understand the forecasting errors. In Professor Bill Dunkelberg’s Economics course students study the structure of firms, how they operate in a market, the importance of investment and sales growth and how to incorporate causal factors and the macroeconomic environment with their company data to produce forecasts. In each case, students can compare these forecasts to the ones generated by their organizations.

Taught by Howard Weiss
Academic Director, Fox EMBA & PMBA Programs
Professor of Management Science/Operations Management

Taught by William Dunkelberg
Professor Economics