MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Dr. Rakesh SambharyaGraduate Program Director
Inquiries for full admission to the program should be directed to the Office of Admissions. Non-Rutgers students interested in taking MBA courses should provide a transcript of course-work with their summer application and must obtain approval through the Graduate Director, Dr. Rakesh Sambharya 856-225-6452. Questions regarding admissibility to a course or to the program should be addressed to the Graduate Director.
DEPARTMENTAL LISTINGS
FOR SUMMER
2009
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- Accounting
- Business Administration
- Finance
- Human Resource Management
- Management
- Ecommerce and Information Technolocy
- Marketing
Accounting for Financial Reporting (Cr.3)
53:010:502:Sec.A6:91724 BSB 134
5/26-6/18 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Kenis
Email: kenis@camden.rutgers.edu
Comprehensive coverage of the accounting system designed for financial reporting to stakeholders of the firm such as stockholders, creditors, financial analysts, and the public at large. The impact of financial transactions on the operating performance and financial position of the firm are emphasized. Application of GAAP in accounting, accounting irregularities and ethics in financial reporting are incorporated throughout the course.
Accounting for Managerial Decisions (Cr.3)
53:010:503:Sec.D6:90664 BSB 106
6/22-7/16 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Kenis
Email: kenis@camden.rutgers.edu
Prerequisite: 53:010:502. The course covers the accounting systems designed to help management in decision making. Planning (budgeting) and control systems, various product and service costing methods, and cost analysis for pricing replacement, outsourcing, quality and other management decisions are emphasized. Performance evaluation of product lines, divisions, and the firm as a whole including balanced scorecard and incentive systems are also covered.
Special Topics in Accounting: Art of Decision Making (Cr.3)
53:010:670:Sec.D6:91718 BSB 107
6/22-7/16 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Seward
Email: hseward28@comcast.net
Prerequisite: 53:010:502. This course would bring together the area of decision making. Decision making techniques are currently taught in managerial/cost accounting, operations research, organizational behavior, and economics classes. Each area has its own set of techniques and procedures to solve problems and make decisions. They tend to stand alone and concentrate heavily on their own techniques. This course will take these disciplines and try to bring them together to solve specific business decisions. Case studies concerning different business, political, and government problems will be used to review past decisions and determine the techniques used in these decisions. In addition, two guest speakers will speak to the class. Readings will be selected to familiarize the class with some of the thinking in the current literature.
Managerial Economics (Cr.3)
53:135:500:Sec.J6:91559 BSB 335
7/20-8/11 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Ahmed
Email: mahmed@camden.rutgers.edu
Micro- and macro-economic analysis topics utilized in subsequent MBA courses. Supply, demand and market equilibrium; elasticity, revenue and marginal revenue; fixed, variable, average and marginal cost; perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly; employment, inflation, monetary policy and determinants of interest rates.
Statistical Methods for Managerial Decisions (Cr.3)
53:135:502:Sec.H4:91225 BSB 337C
7/6-8/10 M,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Jamil
Email: mamnoon@camden.rutgers.edu
This course provides mathematical and statistical foundation that will help students in understanding topics presented in courses offered by different functional areas such as finance, accounting, marketing and management. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and linear regression analysis. The course also includes the use of statistical software programs.
Financial Management (Cr.3)
53:390:506:Sec.D6:92837 ACCC
6/22-7/16 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Michelfelder
Email: richmich@camden.rutgers.edu
Off-campus at Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing, NJ. Prerequisite: 56:010:502 and 56:135:500. Valuation as the unifying principle of Finance. Topics include forms of business ownership, firm and project cash flows, time value of money, bond and stock valuation, capital budgeting, operating and financial leverage, risk and diversification, and the cost of capital.
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Career Dynamics (Cr.3)
53:533:525:Sec.B4:93540 BSB 337C
formerly ST in Human Resource Management: Career Management (Cr.3)
53:533:670:Sec.B4:93540
5/28-7/2 M,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
D’Eustachio
Email: sdeustachio@netzero.com
COURSE CANCELLED 5/15/09.
Managing People and Organizational Processes (Cr.3)
53:620:505:Sec.A6:90599 BSB 116
5/26-6/18 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Rabinowitz
Email: rabinowi@camden.rutgers.edu
Crosslisted with 56:834:505. This course is designed to help students acquire new knowledge and develop skills related to the understanding of managing behavior and processes in organizations. It is also the goal of this course to help you become more aware of your effectiveness as individuals and group/team participants in an organizational setting. Topical coverage includes, but is not limited to, organizational culture and structure, group/tem dynamics, leadership and power issues, communication, decision-making, motivation theories and applications, managing stress, and individual differences such as perceptions, attitudes and personality.
International Business Environment (Cr.3)
53:620:506:Sec.A6:94437 ACCC
5/26-6/18 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Foley
Email: geofoley@camden.rutgers.edu
Off-campus at Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing, NJ. Introduction to the context of international business. Overview of the economic, ethical, cultural, legal, and political issues that affect operations in the global arena. Discussion of various trade theories, trade barriers, and trade agreements. Modes of entering foreign countries. The study of multinational corporations in terms of their strategies, structures, human resources, and operations. Various regions of the world are explored through case studies. Mutli-cultural course
Motivation and Compensation (Cr.3)
53:620:526:Sec.A6:92549 BSB 107
5/26-6/18 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Falcone
Email: falker2@comcast.net
Prerequisite: 53:620:505. Topics include wages and salary determination; fringe benefit administration; incentive-wage structures; the impact of collective bargaining on wage levels and structure; organizational behavior; and wage and salary systems.
Supply Chain Management (Cr.3)
53:620:531:Sec.D6:94438 BSB 335
6/22-7/16 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Baveja
Email: baveja@camden.rutgers.edu
Prerequisite: 53:620:504 or 53:620:513. This course provides the understanding of how supply chain design and planning decisions impact the performance of the firm as well as the entire supply chain. It links supply chain structures and logistical capabilities in a firm and utilize the concepts learned in various functional areas such as management, marketing and finance, within the context of supply chain management. A blend of lectures and case studies are employed to facilitate learning of course materials. This course may also count toward an Operations Management/Management Science elective.
Special Topics in Management: Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Cr.3)
53:620:670:Sec.A6:91224 BSB 106
5/26-6/18 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Day
Email: dlday@camden.rutgers.edu
COURSE CANCELLED 5/15/09.
Special Topics in Management: Corporate Restructuring (Cr.3)
53:620:671:Sec.J6:93542 BSB 116
7/20-8/11 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Vance
Email: dvance@camden.rutgers.edu
Examines the financial and accounting correlates of corporate insolvency; develops strategies for turning around a firm, including accounting, financial, legal, management, and marketing policies; and illustrates the concepts through several case studies.
Special Topics in Management: Business & the Natural Environment (Cr.3)
53:620:678:Sec.D6:92270 BSB 134
6/22-7/16 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Heller
Email: heller@ExecEd-environment.com
Cross listed with: 56:834:602. Awareness that greening initiatives can create competitive advantage has reached a tipping point. Increasingly companies no longer think of environmental performance as just about compliance, now they are looking for ways to integrate environmental stewardship into their business strategy, operations and innovation designs. Emerging from this awareness are new ways of doing business that are both profitable and environmentally sound. In this course we will study examples on the cutting edge of these developments. We will look at corporations that are creating a “double bottom line” by strategizing about the ecological impact of their decisions, as well as the economic impact. We will learn about industrial designers who are rethinking everything from tennis shoes to corporate headquarters’ buildings with the environment in mind. We will consider new alliances between business and environmental NGOs—both stakeholders in a sustainable society. This course is organized around three major shifts in the business world that are driving environmental initiatives beyond compliance. The first shift is from a world of plentiful natural resources and scarce labor, at the first industrial revolution, to the current situation: plentiful labor and scarcer natural resources. The second shift is from a practice of minimizing industrial waste to a principle of eliminating – not reducing – the very concept of waste. The third shift is from designing almost all products and services for the wealthiest one billion people in the world, to developing emerging markets with a smaller environmental footprint.
Special Topics in Management: Designing, Leading and Managing Productive Nonprofit Organizations (Cr.3)
53:620:679:Sec.B6:94481 ATG 225
5/26-6/30 Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Van Til
Email: vantil@camden.rutgers.edu
Cross listed with 50:975:492, 52:620:496, 56:834:607. This course examines ways in which healthy and vital nonprofit organizations may be created and sustained in modern society. A special focus of the course will involve the development and examination of individually selected cases in nonprofit and voluntary organization, real and potential, as they seek to serve the urban community of Camden and its surrounding area. The course is designed to serve undergraduate students interested in the nonprofit/voluntary/civil society sector; graduate students in the applied social sciences of public administration, city planning, social work, education, business, and community health; and practitioners working within nonprofit and community-based organizations. The course will be led by Prof. Jon Van Til, internationally known for his scholarship and leadership in the field of nonprofit/voluntary/civil society action and research. Van Til currently serves as Convenor of the Civil Society Design Network, a global collaborative of senior scholars.
ECOMMERCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Managing Information Technology and Resources (Cr. 3)
53:623:510:Sec.A6:91336 BSB 336
5/26-6/18 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Banerjee
Email: snehamy@camden.rutgers.edu
Information technology (IT) is an important driver and enabler of the dramatic transformation of the business landscape. This course is designed to provide future managers with a fundamental understanding of the key IT issues for effective decision making on IT initiatives and investments, and manage the IT assets of an organization. Both managerial and technical aspects of IT management are discussed. Case studies and hands-on assignments reinforce the concepts and current business practices.
Managing Information Technology and Resources (Cr. 3)
53:623:510:Sec.J6:94439 ACCC
7/20-8/11 M,Tu,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Banerjee
Email: snehamy@camden.rutgers.edu
Off-campus at Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing, NJ. Information technology (IT) is an important driver and enabler of the dramatic transformation of the business landscape. This course is designed to provide future managers with a fundamental understanding of the key IT issues for effective decision making on IT initiatives and investments, and manage the IT assets of an organization. Both managerial and technical aspects of IT management are discussed. Case studies and hands-on assignments reinforce the concepts and current business practices.
Special Topics in Marketing: Health Care Marketing (Cr.3)
53:630:670:Sec.H4:92842 BSB 334
7/6-8/10 M,Th 6:00pm-9:40pm
Shute
Email: rshute@camden.rutgers.edu
Marketing in the healthcare industry has become increasingly important in today’s business environment. The proliferation of brands in the pharmaceutical industry, the medical device industry, the hospital industry and managed care present an increasing challenge to the marketer. There are many similarities with marketing in other industries but there are also many differences driven by unique issues such as price regulation, potential limited distribution of services and the unique position of the consumer determination of value. The course will focus on the unique marketing challenges in the health care industry.