800-Level Courses
900-Level Courses
(*Asterisk and highlight designate core courses.)
ADMN 829: Financial Policy
Managers at all levels must solve complex problems of business finance. This course provides practical tools for major financial decision-making. Topics include real options, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, financial planning, and working capital management. The course is a complement to ADMN 930: Financial Management.
ADMN 830: Investments Analysis
This course looks at selecting and managing financial assets to achieve targeted objectives. It focuses on equities, fixed-income securities, and investment alternatives. Subjects covered include portfolio theory, risk management decisions, asset pricing, efficient market hypothesis, and arbitrage pricing theory.
ADMN 832: Exploration in Entrepreneurial Management
This course examines the role of the entrepreneur in the strategic management of change and innovation in new ventures. It addresses the characteristic behavioral, organizational, financial, and market problems of entrepreneurs and new enterprises, using case analysis, guest speakers, and business plan preparation.
ADMN 834: Private Equity/Venture Capital
How to finance the entrepreneurial venture? This course covers the financial mechanisms available for new venture creation, from seed and startup financing to initial public offering, from both entrepreneur and investor perspectives. The focus is on U.S., Europe, and Asian markets.
ADMN 836: Financial Statement Analysis
Learn the empirical properties of financial statement data and its ability to predict events such as security returns, corporate restructuring, debt ratings, and financial distress. This course includes an empirical research project using computer data banks.
*ADMN 840: International Business
Specific issues and problems confront managers in the international economy. This course addresses the problems of working across national borders for managers working in multinational enterprises.
*ADMN 841: International Management
Develop an understanding of international business from the point of view of management and leadership, human resource management, and organizational structure and change. This course addresses cultural impact on management thinking and business practice and develops the skills needed to manage effectively in international and multicultural environments.
ADMN 845: Supply Chain Management
Learn how to design, plan, and operate supply chains for competitive advantage, including: 1) the key drivers of supply chain operations used to improve performance, and 2) logistics and supply chain methodologies and their managerial context.
ADMN 846: International Financial Management
Multinational firms face particular financial management problems. This course focuses on identifying and managing foreign exchange rate exposures and making financial decisions in a global context.
ADMN 848: Law: Use and Application in Business
This course covers the use and understanding of law as it applies to business judgment and policy making, including basic legal rules and their application. Topics include contracts, corporations, agencies, partnerships, administrative agencies, and commissions. Case-method teaching with outside research.
ADMN 852: Marketing Research
Research is fundamental to the marketing process. This course addresses identifying, collecting, and analyzing research data. It considers strengths, limitations, the environment, and the evaluation of research in marketing.
ADMN 859: Managing Technological Innovations
Explore the formulation of technical innovation strategy from a management point of view. This course uses case-based examples and technological frameworks to identify patterns of innovation and organizational characteristics that promote innovativeness in both firms and industries.
ADMN 863: International Marketing
A number of environmental factors affect international trade, including: culture and business customs; political and legal factors and constraints; economic and technological development; and the international monetary system. This course integrates these factors with marketing management, research, and segmentation. It also addresses decision-making for product promotion, distribution, and pricing.
ADMN 865: Total Quality Management
TQM is a management approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction. This course uses extensive real-world examples and cases to help future managers develop diagnostic skills and a conceptual framework for designing total quality management systems. Includes individual exercises in the use of process improvement tools and methods and team projects to develop leadership skills.
ADMN 898: Topics
Special topics; may be repeated. Prerequisite: consent of adviser and instructor.
*ADMN 900: Integrative Management Seminar
This course extends throughout the first year of the Executive MBA program. Each term, it brings in regional business and governmental leaders to discuss current business topics and challenges in a globally networked and competitive world. It includes field trips and issues of immediate concern.
ADMN 902: MBA Internship
Real-world experience is an essential part of the MBA program. This internship provides students with the opportunity to gain business experience and explore the relationship between theory and practice in a professional setting, working for a company for eight hours per week. The course includes a research project, and is required for students with less than two years of work experience.
ADMN 905: Integrated Team Projects I
Students work with faculty and Corporate Roundtable members on projects that apply and integrate concepts learned in class. The course is designed to enhance a student's field and research experience.
ADMN 906: Integrated Team Projects II
Students work with faculty and Corporate Roundtable members on projects that apply and integrate concepts learned in class. The course is designed to enhance a student's field and research experience.
*ADMN 912: Organizational Behavior
In this course students develop an understanding of individual and work group dynamics and how they impact personal and group effectiveness. Topics include individual and group differences, work groups and teams, interpersonal communications, motivation and rewards, influence and empowerment, conflict resolution, management models, and leadership. Taught experientially. Special fee.
*ADMN 919: Management Accounting
An introduction to preparing and interpreting financial information. Emphasis on the use of accounting information for management decision-making. Course highlights the guiding principles by which accounting reflects underlying economic events, and reporting and measurement issues that help managers make better decisions.
*ADMN 920: Financial Consulting
An introduction to the accounting discipline. This course develops financial statement literacy grounded in contemporary business issues, as well as an understanding of how and why economic events are recorded, communicated, and evaluated. Topics also include the roles of tax and compensation strategies in the business environment.
*ADMN 921: Managerial Accounting
This course builds on material covered in Financial Accounting. Students acquire, analyze, and interpret decision, control, and financial performance information within a managerial, strategic, and systems framework, in the context of rapid global change.
*ADMN 926: Information Systems and Enterprise Integration
How are information systems used to support the operations and decision-making functions within an organization? This course begins with a framework for understanding how systems are developed and used. Then, working in groups, students build enterprise systems using spreadsheets and relational database software. Students make several presentations during the semester.
*ADMN 930: Financial Management
This course focuses specifically on financial decision-making to maximize shareholder value. Topics include theories of risk and return, valuation of assets and market efficiency, and risk management. Prerequisites: ADMN 919 and 970.
*ADMN 940: Technology and Operations Management
Technology and operations can be a significant source of competitive advantage for a firm. In this course, students acquire a foundation for dealing with managerial decisions regarding technology and operations issues. The course prepares students to identify and implement operating improvements that directly affect form performance. Prerequisites: ADMN 926 and 956.
*ADMN 950: Managerial Statistics
Examines the role of statistics in the decision-making environment. In this course, students learn to apply statistical procedures to practical problems, increasing their ability to make and implement better managerial and business decisions. Topics include probability; discrete, continuous distributions; sampling distributions; interval estimation; linear regression; quality control; and hypothesis testing.
*ADMN 952: Organizations, Leadership, and Environments
This course examines both private and public institutions as open systems whose effectiveness depends upon the design of internal structures and cultures to fit external demand, opportunities, and threats. It develops students' analytic and diagnostic skills as designers of ethical and socially responsible organizations. Prerequisite: ADMN 912.
ADMN 953: The Social Power of Leadership in the 21st Century
The goal of this cross-disciplinary course is to develop a deep understanding of the dynamic, mutually reinforcing power of leadership/follower relations in modern organizations—including both toxic and beneficial processes and outcomes. Readings draw on literatures from business, social sciences, and philosophy to illuminate the complexities of leading 21st Century corporations, public service organizations, institutions of higher learning, and government agencies. A diverse cross section of students from doctoral and master's level programs across all UNH schools, colleges, and departments participate in the course, in order to most broadly examine how the leader/follower relationship can succeed or fail in pursuit of organizational strategies and objectives.
*ADMN 955: Quantitative Business Analysis
The use of quantitative analysis as an aid in complex decision-making. Topics include linear programming, forecasting, simulation, and general modeling procedures. The course features lecture, class discussion, problem solving, project presentations, and "unstructured" decision-making.
*ADMN 956: Managerial Decision Making
The use of quantitative information as an aid in complex decision-making. Topics include linear programming, forecasting, simulation, and general modeling procedures. The course features lecture, class discussion, problem solving, project presentations, and "unstructured" decision-making. Prerequisite: ADMN 926.
*ADMN 960: Marketing Management
This course offers an analytical approach to the study of marketing problems. It examines marketplace influence and the marketing environment on decision-making, including determining an organization's products, prices, channels, and communication strategies. It includes planning and controlling the marketing effort.
*ADMN 970: Economics
Specific economic principles are useful to business managers. The course includes both microeconomic topics—market behavior, economic costs, and decision-making—and macroeconomic topics: performance, financial markets, international trade and finance, and monetary and fiscal policy.
*ADMN 982: Strategic Management: Decision Making
This "capstone" course uses case examples of industries, companies, and other organizations in operation, studying them through the role of the strategic manager. It also integrates material covered in prior courses. Prerequisites: All core 900-level courses.
*ADMN 985: Organizational Structure and Environments
Students develop analytical and diagnostic skills as designers of ethical and socially responsible organizations. The course addresses problem solving and decision-making relative to economic, ethical, legal, political, social, and technological aspects of an organization's environment. Important components include case discussion, stake holder analysis, managerial values and ethics, and social issues management.
ADMN 992: Special Projects and Independent Study
Projects, research, and reading programs in areas that are required for a student's concentration. This course requires sixty days of advance approval of a student's plan of study by the adviser and the proposed instructor. Maximum of 6 credits, except by special permission.
