BADM - Business Administration

"Advanced Effective Organizational Leadership" (AEOL) is designed to take the organization leader and future leader beyond the theory of managing resources. AEOL will examine the practical application of: (1) the characteristics of effective leaders, (2) the process involved in moving from manager to leader, and (3) leadership tools to help insure success in leading organizations.

Practicum completion is taken during the student’s final academic semester (the completion of 36 hours or concentration requirements) in the MBA program. Students work on-on-one and in small ad-hoc classroom settings to complete their practicum research project, culminating in the presentation of the final research to their practicum committee.

The International Business Competition Capstone assembles teas of various disciplines to complete in the annual Free Trade Alliance International Business Competition. Students travel to the conference to present their business plan. This course is taken during the student’s final spring semester.

This course surveys the current literature in information systems. It serves as an introduction to research methods, design and proposal writing.

Develops communication skills crucial to successful management. Focuses on identifying a range of communication styles and recognizing how to use them; dealing successfully with challenging or hostile audiences; understanding cross-cultural and global communication issues and differences; and leading and communicating in a crisis situation.

A study of management functions, human behavior in organizations, theories of leadership, and the change process.  Ethical issues of business decisions and actions will be examined from a Christian perspective.

Develops skills to establish productive relationships with your internal or external clients and customers. Focuses on building mutual goals, planning for results collaboratively, providing ongoing support and assessing client relationships.

This course presents the entrepreneurial process of establishing a new enterprise, including idea generation, identifying opportunities, and converting concepts into successful businesses. Issues with developing profit and non-profit organizations will be addressed.

A study of the design of an organization’s structure and business processes with a primary focus on applying the concepts and techniques of business process analysis.  Students will learn and apply the techniques of lean and six-sigma to improve the business processes of an organization.  Workflow management, process management and modeling notation will be covered.  Methods of introducing and implementing information technologies to enable process management and organizational change are examined.  Appropriate software will be used to aid students in business process analysis. Prerequisite: BADM 6305.

This course focuses on leadership and management theories and practices within non-profit, missional, and social enterprises, examining the unique working environment which consists of both professional staff and volunteers.  This course addresses issues related to motivation, leadership, conflict, and change, particularly as they apply to mission-driven organizations.

A review of critical issues in global economies. Topics include the unique problems and opportunities facing multi-national firms, the various environments of international business, and the management of international operations. This course is offered as an International Trip each summer.

This course provides students with a broad overview of the global sustainability challenges facing organizations. The course will focus on the business rationale for sustainability as well as the utilization of practical models and indicators for strategically managing sustainable business growth and value chains.     

This course surveys various topics in international business as well as recent events and relevant changes in the international business environment.

This course addresses the theories, concepts, and practices of social entrepreneurship, focusing on the issues involved in developing innovative, mission-based organizations (or programs within an existing organization), in order to meet the needs of a particular social group or geographic area, both in the United States and around the world.  Students develop skills and competencies for creating, developing, and implementing social entrepreneurship ideas, and learn how to measure the success of a social entrepreneurial activity.

This course focuses on understanding and applying appropriate economic and financial strategies within organizations, from a global perspective. Topics include the decision to invest abroad, forecasting exchange rates and managing exchange risk, and international portfolio diversification. Prerequisites: BECO 2311, BECO 2312, BFIN 3311.

Generative AI (GenAI) is ushering in a new age of productivity in business. Managers who ineffectively adopt it risk being outpaced by forward-thinking competitors. This course equips students to drive impact in any industry using GenAI tools.

Just like you wouldnʼt use a financial model to drive a marketing campaign, different business use cases require different AI tools. In this course, students will explore the potential and limitations of AI technologies, learning to identify business problems suitable for AI solutions and build effective AI implementation strategies.

Alongside powerful data-driven solutions, AI opens a Pandora's box of ethical issues: data privacy, bias, transparency, and balancing automation with human oversight. AI governance may be the biggest ethical issue of our time, something essential for any manager to understand before implementing this new technology. Students will develop AI policies for ethics and compliance, mitigate AI-related risks, and communicate governance standards to stakeholders.

AI project can help predict trends and optimizes operations, allowing businesses to understand not just what has happened but what will happen—and what should be done about it. By the end of this course, students will be prepared to drive financial and operational impact by managing AI project lifecycles: developing comprehensive project plans, managing data and models, ensuring effective deployment, and communicating progress and outcomes to stakeholders.

Storytelling is one of the oldest and most powerful tools for action, and this course empowers MBA students to transform raw data into compelling narratives that drive business decisions. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to create data queries and visualizations, integrate data into business planning, and effectively communicate your findings, helping organizations turn data into a strategic tool for competition and innovation.

Spreadsheet tools are the most universal and easily accessible program for most people to use and interpret data—and a vital skill for any analyst to know. In this course, students will learn data cleaning, financial modeling, optimization, and data visualization using PivotTables and PivotCharts, enabling students to analyze complex datasets, create forecasts, and effectively communicate insights to support data-driven decision-making in business contexts.

Managers who hope to stay competitive in business analytics need to be able to scale their analytics—and Python provides that solution. This course covers Python's significance in business analytics, setting up the Python environment, and learning basic syntax. You’ll leverage three of Python's essential libraries—NumPy for numerical data, Pandas for data manipulation, and Matplotlib for data visualization—to use data to solve complex business problems.

Organized classes to explore specialized problems in an area of business administration. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. May be offered for 1, 2, or 3 semester hours of credit ("V").