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Courses - Spring 2025
BUSM
Full-Time MBA Program
Open Seats as of
11/12/2024 at 09:30 PM
BUSM614
(Perm Req)
Strategic Management
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUSI690 or BUSM614.
Analyze and identify profit opportunities and threats in different industry and competitive environments; Analyze and identify a firm's valuable assets, resources and capabilities and how they might be protected, leveraged, and extended in the market; Learn how to organize your company to be the best prepared to adapt its strategy over time as the market environment changes; and how to use organic growth as well as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances, and divestitures to ensure that the firm maintians the proper scale and scope to compete effectively over time.
BUSM624
(Perm Req)
Operations Management
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUSI634 or BUSM624.
Operations management is concerned with efficient and effective design and operation of business processes for delivering products and/or services. Emphasis is given to process analysis and design, capacity management and bottlenecks, waiting lines and the impact of uncertainty in process performance, quality management, lean, six-sigma, and revenue management.
BUSM626
(Perm Req)
The Global Economic Environment
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUSI683 or BUSM626.
Relationship between national and international economic environments. Determinants of output, interest rates, prices and exchange rates. Analysis of effect of economic policies (fiscal, monetary, trade, tax) on the firm and the economy.
BUSM701
Marketing Research Methods
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Prerequisite: BUSM606; and BUSM612.
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUMK701 or BUSM701.
Formerly: BUMK701.
The process of acquiring, classifying and interpreting primary and secondary marketing data needed for intelligent, profitable marketing decisions. Evaluation of the appropriateness of alternative methodologies, such as the inductive, deductive, survey, observational, and experimental. Recent developments in the systematic recording and use of internal and external data needed for marketing decisions.
Cross-listed with BDBA858D.Credit only granted for BUSM701 or BDBA858D
BUSM702
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Prerequisite: BUSM612.
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUMK715 or BUSM702.
Analysis of customer decision-making and how marketing strategy can be used to influence those decisions. The framework is a buyer behavior model, in which concepts from psychology, sociology, and economics are applied to individual and organizational purchase decisions. Marketing strategies of leading firms in consumer products, technology, and services (including internet services) are analyzed using a variety of case study formats. Focus is consumer behavior; however, principles can also be applied to the decision-making of business.
BUSM708
(Perm Req)
Independent Study in Business
Credits: 1 - 6
Grad Meth: Reg, S-F
Contact department for information to register for this course.
BUSM733
Valuation in Corporate Finance
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Prerequisite: BUSM610.
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUFN750 or BUSM733.
An advanced topics course in Corporate Finance dealing with valuation. Main topics will be, building pro forma statements, cost of capital, using ratios and comparables to value projects and firms, dicounted cash flow valuations, WACC and APV methods of valuation and Real Option Valuations.
BUSM735
Financial Strategy for Corporations
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Prerequisite: BUSM610.
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUFN751 or BUSM735.
An advanced course in corporate finance, focusing on the issues that firms face when they plan to raise external capital from financial markets. The focus is on the financing problems faced by mid-market to large firms and on capital raised from public markets. The forms of external finance vary from simple debt or equity to more complex securities that bundle with an element of risk management.
BUSM738A
(Perm Req)
Investment Fund Management; Mayer Fund
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg
BUSM750
Project Management in Dynamic Environments
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUSI785 or BUSM750.
Addresses project management skills that are required by successful managers in increasingly competitive and faster-moving environments. Examines fundamental concepts of successful project management, and the technical and managerial issues, methods, and techniques.
BUSM758A
Special Topics in Business; AI and Business Strategy
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
BUSM758F
Special Topics in Business; New Venture Financing
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
BUSM758I
Special Topics in Business; Advanced Financial Modeling and Equity Analysis
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
BUSM758M
Special Topics in Business; Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
BUSM758Q
Special Topics in Business; Sustainability in Business and Management
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
BUSM758R
Special Topics in Business; Foundations of AI
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Cross-listed with BDBA808F Credit granted for BUSM758R and BDBA808F
BUSM758Z
(Perm Req)
Special Topics in Business; Integrative Capstone
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
BUSM761
(Perm Req)
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Prerequisite: BUSM606.
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUDT733 or BUSM761.
Formerly: BUDT733.
Data mining techniques and their use in business decision making. A hands-on course that provides an understanding of the key methods of data visualization, exploration, classification, prediction, time series forecasting, and clustering.
BUSM762
Decision Analytics
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Prerequisite: BUSM606.
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUDT732 or BUSM762.
Analytical modeling for managerial decisions using a spreadsheet environment. Includes linear and nonlinear optimization models, decision making under uncertainty and simulation models.
BUSM775
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Credit only granted for: BUMO754 or BUSM775.
Focuses on the "strategic" and "organizational" questions that a company must address as it globalizes its footprint. Among the questions that will be addressed are: What are the potential benefits, costs, and risks associated with going abroad? What differentiates a "global" from a "multidomestic" industry? What are the sources of competitive advantage in a global context?
BUSM788V
Global Business Experience; Doing Business in Asia
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg