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 Lehigh’s College of Business and Economics offers an accelerated full time, as well as a highly flexible part time MBA program. This 36 credit hour MBA program is available in multiple modes including on campus, on line and by distance with our partner companies. Students typically begin the program with prerequisite courses if required. These courses include financial accounting, statistics and principles of economics. The core curriculum consists of 21 credit hours. The remaining 15 credit hours may be spent on pursuing a concentration.
Degree Requirement Plans:
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| The MBA core curriculum grew out of a faculty commitment to maintain excellence and relevance in graduate business education. By focusing on the business value chain and the way in which different functional areas come together to create a competitive advantage, students experience decision making from the perspective of the company as a whole. Core courses are taught by faculty teams, and are designed to mirror business challenges and decision making in a dynamic and rapidly changing corporate environment.
The 36-credit program begins with a mandatory weekend orientation and ends with a capstone course that draws upon the student's knowledge acquired during the core curriculum experience. The capstone course, MBA-406 Integrative Experience, emphasizes strategic management issues and solutions. Cross-core project teams are assigned a comprehensive case analysis of a company undergoing change. These teams closely resemble cross-functional corporate teams where each person has a different and valuable set of knowledge, skills and experience. By combining industry projects, high-level class discussions, case analyses, and a computer simulation competition, this course exposes students to rigorous theoretical analysis while providing hands-on, simulated real world business experiences.
MBA 401. Introduction to the Organization and its Environment. (2)
An MBA core course that provides a thorough understanding of business organizations and clarifies ways middle and senior managers can create and sustain organizational competitive advantage.
The course examines the organization from an overall perspective within the context of the firm’s internal and external environment.
The second aspect of this course deals with the ability to communicate effectively in today’s business and professional environment.
Students will examine and practice the written and verbal communications strategies and skills that are essential to their success in business.
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MBA 402. Managing Financial and Physical Resources. (4)
An MBA core course designed to integrate financial and managerial concepts into operations decisions.
Disciplines of Accounting, Finance and Economics are combined to provide substantive foundations for discussing and analyzing data.
Implications of analysis are applied to facilitate decision making in other areas such as marketing, operations (manufacturing, logistics and engineering), human resources, information technology and general management.
Prerequisites: MBA 401, GBUS 401 or equivalent
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MBA 403. Managing Information. (4)
An MBA core course that addresses concepts and methods involved in the collection, organization and dissemination of information that helps managers make operational and strategic decisions.
The course also addresses attributes of information and examines enterprise-wide impacts of local decisions.
Revenue, cost, time and quality-based information are accorded equal emphasis, while students are exposed to alternative evaluation methods for decisions related to different parts of the value chain.
Topics include: activity based costing; activity based management; transaction analysis; operational and strategic decisions such as outsourcing, design partnerships, etc; investment analysis for short life-cycle investments; evaluation of uncertainty, risk and ambiguity; metrics development; compensation policies; segment evaluation methods; target costing and functional analysis; quality function deployment; total cost of ownership; and transfer pricing.
In addition, the course deals with information technology enablers which allow firms to improve value delivered to customers and evaluation and management of emerging forms of cooperation, such as joint ventures and project based strategic alliances.
Prerequisites: MBA 401, GBUS 401 and ECO 401 or equivalents
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MBA 404. Managing Products and Services. (4)
An MBA core course focusing on the management of products and services within a firm's value chain.
The course addresses exceeding customer expectations, establishing total quality as the core foundation, developing a strong customer focus, creating value through supply chain management, developing new products for competitive advantage, matching aggregate supply with customer demand, and designing market channels and influencing customers.
Prerequisite: MBA 401
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MBA 405. Managing People. (4)
An MBA core course that examines how effective organizations are created, maintained, and improved.
The course will focus on how to attract good people into an organization and how to make them productive.
Topics include: organizational design, job design, staffing, training and development, performance teams, influence, diversity, change, ethical decision making, and current people issues facing today's organizations.
The course includes a comprehensive simulation (to be conducted on a Saturday during the semester) and a group project which allows students to apply the principles and concepts covered in the course.
Prerequisite: MBA 401
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MBA 406. Integrative Experience. (3)
An MBA core course in which students apply the body of knowledge acquired in MBA 401 through 405 by way of simulation, case presentations and a cross core project.
This course places an emphasis on strategic management and takes the point of view of the general manager to view the organization from an overall perspective in the context of the firm’s internal and external environment.
In doing so, students examine historical perspectives, contemporary theories, and practical applications all in the spirit of helping them develop a broad understanding of strategic management issues and solutions.
By combining high-level class discussions, case analyses, a computer simulation competition and the cross-core project this course exposes students to rigorous theoretical analysis while providing hands-on, simulated real world business experiences.
Prerequisites: MBA 401, MBA 402, MBA 403, MBA 404, MBA 405
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