The Evening MBA Program is designed to be completed part‐time over a 3‐year period. After completing the required core courses, students have the flexibility to complete the curriculum at their own pace. The program is comprised of 48 required core credits and 28 elective credits for a total of 76 credits.
Students generally complete core classes over the first six quarters of their study and begin adding electives in spring quarter of their second year. The third year consists of elective courses only.
Core Curriculum
Analysis of Global Economic Conditions
Examines the interaction of goods, labor and asset markets, as well as the dynamics of international trade. Students explore key economic indicators such as output growth, inflation and unemployment, along with interest and exchange rates, and the role of monetary and fiscal policies in shaping economic conditions.
Competitive Strategy
Develops frameworks for analyzing value creation and building effective business strategies. Students learn to think strategically, evaluate industry structures and competitive dynamics, and plan and implement strategies that support long-term organizational success.
Corporate Finance
Introduces the core principles of corporate finance, including investment decisions and portfolio theory. Students evaluate capital budgeting opportunities and examine how capital structure choices impact firm value and financial performance.
Data Management for Analytics
Introduces the core concepts of database systems and data management. Students write SQL queries to retrieve information from relational databases and use data to generate and present insights from real-world business scenarios.
Decision Support Models
Focuses on quantitative modeling approaches used to inform business decision-making. Students apply techniques such as linear programming, decision theory and simulation to analyze complex problems and evaluate potential outcomes.
eLead – Leadership Development & Building Effective Teams
Develops leadership abilities through assessment, instruction and coaching. Emphasizes team building and collaboration, written, oral and interpersonal communication, and applied leadership activities.
Ethical Leadership
Explores the ethical dimensions of conducting business and the responsibilities of organizational leaders. Students develop frameworks for ethical decision-making, stakeholder management and corporate social responsibility, with attention to sustainability and corporate governance.
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Examines the preparation and interpretation of financial statements within a business context. Students learn key accounting concepts and methods, along with institutional and regulatory influences, and how measurement and reporting issues impact financial decision-making.
Leading Teams and Organizations
Examines how effective teams and organizations are structured and managed. Students explore organization theory, leadership in organizations and human resource management, while developing skills in delegation, empowerment and leading change.
Managerial Accounting
Focuses on the use of accounting information to support managerial decision-making. Students analyze relevant costs, understand management accounting systems and apply budgeting and performance evaluation techniques in business contexts.
Marketing Strategy
Examines how organizations define markets, analyze customers and assess competitive dynamics. Students develop marketing plans by applying frameworks that align market insights with strategic decision-making.
Microeconomic Analysis
Introduces economic principles used to analyze consumer behavior, production decisions and cost structures. Students examine market dynamics, including monopoly power, and evaluate the impact of externalities on welfare and resource allocation.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Focuses on how organizations design and manage operations to improve productivity and competitiveness. Students explore capacity planning, just-in-time production systems and inventory management to align supply with demand and support efficient business performance.
Professional Communications
Develops professional communication skills for business settings. Students communicate effectively as managers and team leaders through written, oral and interpersonal communication.
Statistics for Business Decisions
Introduces statistical methods used to analyze data and support business decision-making. Students summarize data, develop forecasting models and assess uncertainty, while applying inference, prediction techniques and methods for quality improvement.
Evening MBA Elective Course Descriptions
Explore Full-time MBA electives across business disciplines, including finance, marketing, strategy, analytics and more.
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- AI
- Data and Analytics
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Experiential Learning
- Finance and Investment
- Global Business
- Marketing
- Operations and Supply Chain
- Social Impact and Sustainability
- Strategy and Leadership
AI
AI in Business
AI is everywhere and changing all aspects of business, from personal productivity to team workflows and new customer experiences. Learn how to lead the development and deployment of an AI-based solution to business problems.
Building Business Applications of LLMs and Generative Models
Provides a hands-on introduction to Generative AI, enabling students to work directly with state-of-the art LLMs and apply them to core business applications such as market research, advertising, AI search, and agents.
Data and Analytics
Business Analytics: Tools for Big Data
Introduces data analytics techniques through quantitative tools and advanced software. Students develop skills for working with and managing teams of analytics professionals.
Modeling with Spreadsheets
Applies spreadsheet tools to quantitative business problems. Students analyze financial and operational scenarios, including cash flow, pricing, revenue management and project selection.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Angel Investing
Provides hands-on experience in evaluating early-stage investment opportunities. Students examine how capital is raised and deployed in startup environments.
Biomedical Entrepreneurship
Explores the commercialization of biomedical innovations. Students examine the landscape of healthcare and life sciences ventures.
Business Plan Practicum
Applies real-world concepts to launching a business. Students develop business plans and may participate in startup competitions.
Entrepreneurial Finance
Examines financial planning, valuation and funding strategies for new ventures. Students analyze venture capital structures and financing decisions.
Entrepreneurial Influence and the Pitch
Focuses on persuasion and communication in entrepreneurship. Students develop and deliver effective pitches and learn how to influence key stakeholders.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Examines strategic and tactical marketing approaches for new ventures. Students explore segmentation, positioning, new technologies and brand-building.
Entrepreneurial Strategy
Explores how product and service ideas become sustainable businesses. Students evaluate strategic options and trade-offs in startup environments.
Environmental Innovation Practicum
Examines cleantech and other environmental solutions through applied learning. Students develop business concepts that address sustainability challenges.
Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Introduces the complexities of launching new ventures. Students examine how entrepreneurs create and grow businesses.
Health Innovation Practicum
Explores early-stage innovation in healthcare and life sciences. Students examine regulation, development processes and the economics of health technologies.
Innovation and Design Thinking
Examines frameworks for managing innovation-driven and technology-intensive businesses. Students explore how competition, technological change and organizational capabilities interact.
Innovation Strategy
Develops strategies for new and emerging industries. Students analyze innovation opportunities and defend strategic decisions using persuasion and analytics.
Intrapreneurship: Developing New Products within Organizations
Explores innovation within established companies. Students examine corporate innovation processes and product development in organizational settings.
Software Entrepreneurship
Examines strategies for building technology businesses. Students explore how entrepreneurs conceive, adapt and execute plans for software ventures.
Technology Commercialization
Applies entrepreneurial thinking to the commercialization of new technologies. Students develop business models, analyze technology opportunities and prepare funding proposals.
Venture Capital Investment Practicum
Provides an overview of venture capital investing. Students evaluate early-stage opportunities and the tools used in venture capital decision-making.
Experiential Learning
*Applied Global Consulting
Provides hands-on experience solving real-world business problems in global contexts. Students work in teams with clients from around the world and develop cross-cultural problem-solving skills.
Analytics Consulting Lab
Matches students with companies to solve real business problems using analytics. Students work on team-based projects that support complex business decisions.
Foster Research Partners
Provides hands-on experience with research and data analysis in a real-world setting. Students work with partner organizations to apply analytical skills to practical challenges.
Nonprofit Board Fellows Leadership Seminar
Provides experience with nonprofit governance through participation in real board settings. Students develop leadership, ethical and strategic management skills.
Short Term Study Abroad
Provides international learning opportunities through short-term academic programs and consulting projects. Students expand their understanding of business in global contexts.
Strategic Consulting Practicum
Provides experiential learning through consulting projects with regional businesses. Students apply MBA concepts to real business challenges while building leadership and industry experience.
Finance and Investment
Alternative Investments: Hedge Funds & Private Equity
Explores the risks and structures associated with hedge funds and private equity. Students evaluate investment opportunities and assess how alternative assets fit within a broader portfolio.
Asian Capital Markets
Examines capital markets and financial systems across Asia. Students explore cross-border investments, greenfield investments and mergers and acquisitions in global contexts.
Behavioral Finance
Explores how psychological biases influence investor behavior and financial markets. Students examine how these behaviors can affect pricing and investment decisions.
Business Valuation and Investment Analysis
Develops methods for valuing assets and firms. Students build financial projections and analyze the drivers of valuation.
Entrepreneurial Finance
Examines financial planning, valuation and funding strategies for new ventures. Students analyze venture capital structures and financing decisions.
Financial Futures & Options Markets
Provides an overview of futures and options markets. Students analyze pricing, review empirical evidence and apply hedging strategies to manage risk.
Financial Statement Analysis
Examines financial reporting from a user’s perspective. Students analyze financial statements, forecast performance and assess firm value.
Game Theory & Other Topics in Microeconomics
Applies game theory and economic analysis to complex strategic environments. Students use these frameworks to evaluate pricing, negotiation, and business strategy decisions.
Institutional Investment
Explores portfolio management, asset allocation and manager selection. Students evaluate investment strategies using quantitative tools common in the industry.
International Finance
Examines global trade, capital flows and currency risk. Students apply international finance frameworks to evaluate investment opportunities and solve real-world problems.
Introduction to Real Estate Finance & Investment
Introduces fundamental concepts and analytical techniques for real estate investment decisions. Students evaluate opportunities and financial performance in real estate contexts.
Investments
Covers portfolio management and investment analysis. Students build quantitative, communication and critical thinking skills for investment decision-making.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Examines the economics and strategy of mergers and acquisitions. Students analyze deal structures, sources of value and execution challenges.
Problems in Business Finance
Focuses on corporate financing and investment decisions. Students analyze capital structure, valuation, capital budgeting and financial strategy.
The Power of Access: Impact Lending to Underserved Communities
Explores lending and access to capital through work with underserved businesses. Students conduct financial assessments, risk analyses and forecasts while developing loan packages and examining how systemic bias can affect financing outcomes.
Global Business
Applied Global Macroeconomics
Examines key global macroeconomic concepts and theories. Students analyze how changes in the global economy affect business outcomes, competitors, suppliers and customers.
Competing in the Global Economy
Explores internationalization and the operation of complex global organizations. Students learn to implement plans, mitigate risk and solve problems in global settings.
Global Business Forum
Examines current trends and issues in global business. Students engage with leaders from international businesses and other organizations to explore multiple perspectives.
Managing in a Global Environment
Examines global business trends, political systems, legal systems, economic systems and culture. Students analyze how firms enter foreign markets and develop global strategies.
Marketing
Advertising & Promotion Management
Examines advertising strategy and communication planning. Students develop critical thinking and communication skills while evaluating market implications.
Analytics for Marketing Decisions
Applies data analytics to marketing strategy and decision-making. Students use optimization strategies and descriptive and predictive models across the marketing mix.
Business-to-Business Marketing
Explores marketing strategy in business-to-business contexts. Students assess market opportunities, manage execution and make data-driven decisions that deliver value.
Consumer Insights
Develops research strategies to answer consumer and marketing questions. Students design data collection approaches, interpret findings and evaluate strategic recommendations.
Consumer Marketing & Brand Management
Examines brand strategy and consumer psychology. Students develop frameworks to build brand equity and increase consumer engagement.
Customer Analytics
Focuses on using data to understand and market to individual customers. Students apply databases, analytics and computing systems to collect, analyze and act on customer information.
Digital Marketing Analytics
Explores digital marketing strategy and performance measurement. Students evaluate digital opportunities, analyze marketing strategies and build online business models.
*Go-to-Market Strategy
Develops strategies for launching products and building sales organizations. Students examine sales approaches, go-to-market planning and team deployment.
Pricing Strategies & Tactics
Examines pricing strategies in different market and customer conditions. Students develop pricing plans designed to improve profitability.
Strategic Product Management
Focuses on product innovation, prioritization and execution. Students learn how product managers define success, make decisions with data and communicate across teams.
Operations and Supply Chain
Enterprise Risk Management
Examines management tools and frameworks for understanding and identifying risk. Students learn how to improve a firm’s risk position and adapt organizations to manage uncertainty.
International Supply Chain Management
Explores strategic and operational decisions involved in designing and managing global supply chains. Students evaluate how supply chains support business performance in international contexts.
Project Management
Covers the planning, scheduling and execution of complex projects. Students apply tools for initiation, budgeting, contracting and project control.
Supply Chain Management
Develops analytical and modeling skills for supply chain design and planning. Students use problem-solving tools, simulations and team-based exercises to understand supply chain decisions.
Social Impact and Sustainability
Business Sustainability Reporting & Analysis
Traditional financial accounting is not designed to measure the societal impact of a company’s operations. Sustainability reporting has evolved to fill this void, allowing for a more comprehensive lens of both performance and risk assessment. Leaders learn more about frictions related to both measurement and disclosure regulation as you map environmental and social impacts to commonly disclosed metrics within ESG reports.
Climate Risk & Innovation
Where Technology meets Climate. Where Finance meets the future. Explore how we power AI’s energy demands sustainably. Discuss how insurers quantify climate risk exposure. Understand more on how we can scale renewable tech without ecological harm.
Corporate Equity
Equips emerging leaders to understand the historical roots of inequity in the United States and its modern impact on workplaces and communities. Students will learn to lead authentically, confront bias, and design equity-driven strategies that foster innovation and trust.
Developing Strategies for Social Impact
Applies strategic thinking to social and societal challenges. Students develop tools and techniques for solving complex social impact problems.
The Power of Access: Impact Lending to Underserved Communities
Explores lending and access to capital through work with underserved businesses. Students conduct financial assessments, risk analyses and forecasts while developing loan packages and examining how systemic bias can affect financing outcomes.
Strategy and Leadership
CEO & Board Governance
Examines the roles and relationships between chief executives and boards in the modern regulatory environment. Students analyze governance, strategy, risk oversight and corporate culture.
Deal-Making in High Velocity Ventures
Develops negotiation strategies for fast-moving entrepreneurial environments. Students evaluate complex stakeholder dynamics and practice producing effective outcomes.
Leading & Managing High-Performing Organizations
Develops leadership skills and organizational effectiveness. Students gain clarity on values, practice skills that support strong performance and build frameworks for growth and development.
Mindful Decision Making
Examines decision-making biases and the role of identity and emotion in behavior. Students apply mindfulness to complex business challenges and managerial decisions under stress.
Power and Status Dynamics in the Workplace
Designed to help leaders make things happen for themselves and others in the workplace, despite the obstacles of being powerless or less respected that stand in your way. Leaders learn and experience concepts that are central to our understanding of how power and status function in organizations.
Successful Negotiations
Develops negotiation skills using practical analytical frameworks. Students refine their ability to negotiate effectively across a range of business settings.
*Women at the Top
Explores leadership through guest speakers and discussion with women business leaders. Students examine influence, authentic leadership and how to lead a full life.
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