Courses
MBA Foundation Courses (18 credits - may be waived)
You take nine two-credit Foundation courses that cover the major functional business areas. These courses may be waived based on prior coursework or a waiver exam.
- ACC 501 Financial Accounting (2 credits)
- FIN 502 Finance (2 credits)
- OBC 503 Organizational Behavior (2 credits)
- OIE 504 Operations Management (2 credits)
- OIE 505 Quantitative Methods (2 credits)
- MKT 506 Principles Of Marketing (2 credits)
- MIS 507 Management Information Systems (2 credits)
- FIN 508 Economics Of The Firm (2 credits)
- FIN 509 Domestic And Global Economic Environment Of Business (2 credits)
MBA Core Courses (15 credits - required)
The core of your MBA program is a sequence of five highly integrated courses that address the most important issues in technology management.
- OBC 511 Interpersonal And Leadership Skills For Technological Managers (3 credits)
- MKT 512 Creating And Implementing Strategy In Technological Organizations (3 credits)
- OIE 513 Creating Processes In Technological Organizations (3 credits)
- ACC 514 Business Analysis For Technological Managers(4 credits)
- BUS 515 Legal And Ethical Context Of Technological Organizations (2 credits)
MBA Elective Courses (12 credits - required)
- OBC 531 Managing Organizational Change
- OBC 532 Human Resource Management
- OBC 533 Negotiations
- OIE 541 Operations Risk Management
- OIE 544 Supply Chain Management and Electronic Commerce
- OIE 546 Managing Technological Innovation
- OIE 548 Productivity Management
- OIE 552 Modeling and Optimizing Processes
- OIE 553 Global Purchasing and Logistics
- OIE 554 Global Operations Strategy
- OIE 555 Lean Process Design
- OIE 557 Service Operations Management
- OIE 558 Designing and Managing Six-Sigma Processes
- MKT 563 Marketing of Emerging Technologies
- MKT 564 Global Technology Marketing
- MKT 567 Integrated Marketing Communications
- MKT 568 Data Mining Business Applications
- MIS 571 Database Applications Development
- MIS 573 System Design and Development
- MIS 574 Enterprise Systems
- MIS 576 Project Management
- MIS 577 Foundations of Information Technology
- MIS 578 Telecommunications Management
- MIS 579 E-Business Applications
- MIS 582 Information Security Management
- ETR 592 New Venture Management and Entrepreneurship
- BUS 598 Independent Study
- OBC 598C Managing Creativity in Knowledge Intensive Organizations
(Up to nine elective credits may be taken from other WPI graduate departments.)
MBA Graduate Qualifying Project (GQP) (4 credits - required)
You round out your program with a four-credit capstone project.
- BUS 516 Graduate Qualifying Project
Distance Technology
All management classes are taught online using a dynamic learning management system that provides an easy-to-use interface for web-based course content and a suite of collaboration tools that help to foster interaction between both faculty and students and student-to-student.
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