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Fall 2014
Mar 28, 2024
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GRBU 504 - Evidence-Based Decsn Mkg
This course is an introduction to evidence-based managerial decision making, focusing on case analysis and problem identification, and statistical and other quantitative techniques for collecting and analyzing data for use in problem analysis and in supporting managerial decision making. Students are expected to complete Pre-MBA coursework prior to the start of this course.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 505 - Communication-Written
This is an intensive, cooperative learning lab for honing written communication skills. The focus is on producing concise, professional documents for paper or electronic delivery. Students critically examine written communication principles as they apply to the tools and protocols that organizations use to manage people, processes and resources. Short-term writing assignments include memos, e-mail messages, business letters, resumes, proposals, and executive summaries. The semester project is a formal business report.
1.000 Credit hours
1.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 506 - Accounting for Managers
This course will enhance students’ understanding of external and internal financial reporting and the role each plays in providing useful information to decision makers. Students will develop an understanding of how business transactions impact financial statements and how these statements can be used to assess the business entity’s profitability, liquidity. In addition, coverage will encompass the various reporting alternatives and their impact on financial statements. Finally, coverage will shift to current internal financial reporting issues relevant to managers in today’s business environment including cost management concepts and cost behavior and cost estimation techniques. Students are expected to complete Pre-MBA coursework prior to the start of this course.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 507 - Communication-Presentation
This interactive seminar stresses development of presentation and interpersonal skills. Emphasis is on preparing and delivering business presentations: analyzing audiences and situations, structuring messages, choosing arguments and evidence, preparing visual support, explaining quantitative analyses, and improving platform dynamics. To monitor progress, students critique videotapes of their performances. Secondary course topics include listening skills, group problem solving, meeting facilitation, one-on-one conferences, and peer coaching.
1.000 Credit hours
1.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 508 - Ethical Decision Making
This course teaches graduate students essential qualitative decision-making skills for analyzing business issues with an ethical dimension. Conflicting and complementary conceptions of the ethical decision making model are presented that demonstrate how to critically reason through ethical dilemmas in business. These rational processes will enable students to effectively recognize, evaluate and resolve ethical conflicts. Throughout the semester, the analytical frameworks will be applied to common ethical challenges to each business discipline.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 509 - Mngng People for Sust Comp Adv
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of an increasingly important source of sustained competitive advantage in our rapidly changing global environment: an organization’s human capital. The primary focus is on understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the behaviors and attitudes of people and teams in organizations. It also examines how managers, executives and other organizational leaders can effectively manage in order for their people to exceed expectations, while simultaneously controlling costs, thus leading to enduring value for many. Accordingly, the course draws on rich organizational examples and employs interactive learning activities, such as a team project.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 510 - Understanding the Value Chain
This course is designed to familiarize students with the concept of the value chain. The emphasis will be on the importance of understanding business not as a collection of separate functions but as an integrated set of disciplines that work collaboratively to create business processes delivering value to a firm's customers. The evolution of the value chain concept and the impact of technology on value chain management will also be demonstrated, as well as the value chain's impact on the firm's competitiveness and profitability.
2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 511 - Marketing Strategy & Models
This course deals with development, implementation, and evaluation of marketing management in a complex business environment. Contemporary concepts and theories will be presented with a focus on analytical and financial models and that will assist marketing managers in making better decisions. The course also focuses on formulating and implementing marketing management strategies and policies. The marketing management process is important at all levels of the organization, regardless of the title applied to activity. Emerging perspectives on marketing management and the impact of digital media are additionally emphasized. Prerequisites: Accounting for Managers and Evidence-based Decision Making.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 513 - Applied Managerial Economics
This course studies the application of microeconomic theories and tools from a managerial perspective. The applied aspect of the course comes from analyzing case studies and studying the empirical testing of the theories. Topics include both traditional topics in microeconomics (elasticity, production costs, market structures and profit maximization), in addition to advanced topics (simple and complex pricing, strategic decision-making, decision-making under uncertainty and organizational design).
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 514 - Financial Management
Finance is about decisions firms make in two broad areas: the investments it makes and how it pays for them. The first involves spending money on things such as physical capital, human capital, technological capability, brand capital, and so forth. The second involves raising money, usually from creditors and shareholders. In business decision making, the objective is to maximize shareholder wealth. Financial Management provides an introduction to the tool kit of analytical techniques that can be used to assess the impact of business decisions on shareholder value. The course covers these topics: the Role of Finance, Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Forecasting, Time Value of Money, Valuation of Bonds and Stocks, Investment Decision Making (Capital Budgeting) and Risk, Return and the Opportunity Cost of Capital. Prerequisites: Accounting for Managers, Applied Managerial Economics and Evidence-based Decision Making. Students are expected to complete Pre-MBA coursework prior to the start of this course.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 515 - Info Systems for Managers
Increasingly, information systems are used by all employees across all levels and functional areas within an organization. As a result, knowledge of information systems is a key success factor for all business professionals within the organization. In stark contrast to the past, today’s information systems are no longer limited to a supporting role for business operations. Global business opportunities, fueled by improvements in technology, are transforming many if not most business processes. As the information explosion continues, information systems are expected to play a pivotal role in the implementation of business strategies designed to gain competitive advantage. This course provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models. Moreover, this course emphasizes the conceptualization of information systems as structured technology configurations working collectively to serve the information needs of an organization.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 516 - Strategic Uses of Accntg Info
This course provides an introduction to the use of accounting information for planning operations, controlling activities and evaluating the performance of an organization. Both the advantages and disadvantages of traditional cost systems are explored and then that knowledge is expanded by exploring reasons why traditional cost systems may not provide relevant information for firms to compete in a constantly evolving, global marketplace. Coverage of topics related to traditional cost system design include cost terminology and cost classifications, types of cost behavior, and cost-volume-profit analysis. Topics related to the design of non-traditional cost systems include a brief introduction to both activity analysis and activity-based cost systems.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 517 - Value Chain & Sup Chain Mgmt
This course provides insight into the role of Value Chain Management (VCM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) in linking the enterprise functions and business entities. The emphasis is on the importance of understanding the business not as a collection of separate functions but as an integrated set of disciplines that work collaboratively to create business processes that deliver value to a firm’s customers. The evolution of the value chain concept and the impact of technology on value chain management will be demonstrated, as well as the impact of effective value chain management on a firm’s competitiveness and profitability. The course will also analyze the SCM processes and methods that facilitate the efficient and effective exchange of goods, services, information, and cash to complete the business transaction from supplier’s supplier to customer’s customer. Attention is given to such managerial concepts as forecasting, demand planning, operations planning, supply management, production, operations management, transportation, inventory management, and distribution. Interdisciplinary managerial concepts are presented to show how a focus on the quality of service and product and the integration of the supply chain processes offers great potential for improving corporate profitability and creating a sustainable competitive advantage.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 518 - Legal Issues in Business
The purpose of this course is to provide future business leaders with an understanding of the environment in which they must navigate. Toward that end students will become familiar with the legal framework in which businesses must operate. With an emphasis on contracts, negligence, product liability, agency, employment law, intellectual property, environmental management as well as extra judicial means for resolving disputes, this course is intended to prepare the emerging manager to face the challenges before him confident of his recognition of potential legal issues.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 520 - Managing a Diverse Work Force
This course provides a comprehensive, integrated, critical thinking approach to the behavioral issues inherent in managing today's sophisticated and diverse workforce. Philosophically, this course views the employees as a key potential competitive advantage. Utilizing a highly interactive learning environment, this course focuses on hiring a diverse group of capable people, communicating clearly, effectively appraising employee performance, motivating employees to perform at higher levels and leading employees with integrity to ensure organizational success.
2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 522 - Advanced Financial Management
This course develops the advanced theoretical constructs of corporate financial decision making. Students are involved with the fundamental decisions and compromises of financial managers as they face the issues related to capital management. The course presumes that students have a thorough understanding of the concept of the time value of money and have been introduced to the basic techniques of the financial systems and corporate financial management.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 523 - Managing Operations
An organization's operating system converts input , materials, people, knowledge, machines, buildings, technology, cash and other resources into products and services in a scientific, socially responsible and ethical manner. This course will focus on five basic areas: operations strategy and the four dimensions on which businesses compete cost, quality, timeliness and flexibility. Emphasis will be placed on concepts and methodologies applicable to manufacturing and service.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid Course, Lecture, Online

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GRBU 530 - The Global Economy
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of economic analysis in an international context with an emphasis on applying the basic principles of macroeconomics to global issues. Emphasis is placed on understanding current global economic events in the context of economic models, cultural differences, and historical events. Prerequisites: Applied Managerial Economics.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

Business Department

GRBU 535 - Cases in Finance
Fundamental techniques of financial analysis; examination of the application of these techniques to reporting, planning, controlling and evaluating business activity.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 536 - Taxes as a Basis for Mgr Dec
This course is concerned with business decisions in areas where taxation plays an important role. It deals with the tax background that management must have in order to make its day-to-day decisons, and describes those phases of taxation which are general elective responsibilities.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 537 - Public Affairs Mgmt
This course focuses on understanding the organization's public affairs dimension and the role played by the public affairs manager by enabling students to identify and evaluate key external and internal organizational forces (stakeholders) and environments impacting the organization. Students should become familiar with, and be able to apply, public affairs management tools and skills for dealing with those forces and environments. Public affairs management skills include stakeholder analysis, public issue and crisis management, social responsibility and corporate citizenship evaluation, regulatory and public policy strategies, environmental responsibility and the impact of technology.
2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 538 - Strategy Form & Implementation
This course teaches students about the process of planning and implementing business strategies. Students will be challenged to apply their understanding of the business disciplines studied in MBA Foundation and MBA Core courses in order to develop a future direction for an organization. The fundamentals of formulating business strategies will be stressed.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

Business Department

GRBU 539 - Equity Portfolio Mgmt
Equity Portfolio Management centers around how to construct an optimal investment portfolio. Within the context of portfolio optimization, the course provides a general framework for designing, evaluating and implementing a variety of strategies for selecting common stock portfolios. Using software and data available through the Investment Center, students apply these concepts in the development and evaluation of their own portfolio strategies.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 540 - Derivative Securities
Derivatives are financial instruments whose returns depend on the performance of some other underlying assets. They are used extensively to manage financial risk. This course will study the building blocks of derivatives; futures, forwards and options, and examine their use in a number of applications including hedging, portfolio management and raising capital. The course will also study the securitization process and its role in creating derivative securities. Finally the course will examine organizational issues that are critical to avoiding derivative losses.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 541 - IT Infrastructure
This course exposes students to the various technical elements and managerial issues of the IT infrastructure. The infrastructure includes computer hardware, application software, networking and telecommunications, data management, and physical facilities. Specific technologies covered include Internet applications and protocols, cloud computing, local area network configuration, and web programming. Managerial issues include understanding strategic technology requirements within the context of an organization's business plans, anticipating and managing capacity requirements and growth, and applying appropriate, cost-effective technologies to business problems.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 543 - Enterprise Models
This course provides an overview of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, focusing on the strategic use of these systems to help businesses achieve organizational goals. ERP software is an implementation of best-in-class business processes. It simulates real-world business functions, provides seamless integrated information for business operations and decision-making, and supports the enterprise in linking, utilizing, allocating and controlling its resources on a real-time basis. Students learn how an ERP enhances enterprise performance by streamlining enterprise processes, optimizing its resources, and allowing it to make quick, accurate, and consistent decisions. Through experiential learning, students also learn how to customize an ERP system to ensure that system configurations meet best practices.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 544 - Systems Analysis
This course focuses on systems development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, techniques, and tools. SDLC methodologies vary, but essentially they include project selection and planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of IS-based solutions to organizational problems. Interpersonal skill development with clients, users, team members, and others associated with development, operation, and maintenance of systems is emphasized. Both process-oriented and object-oriented modeling techniques are practiced. Specifically, Data-Flow Diagrams (DFD) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) models are used to describe requirements, including the needs of the users, the data elements, and processing logic.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 545 - Database Mngmt and Controls
For many if not most modern organizations, data is their most important asset. With a focus on corporate-level database management systems (DBMSs), this course provides students with the knowledge and skill set needed to create and sustain data resources. Topics covered include the components of a DBMS, and the factors to consider when choosing a particular DBMS implementation. Topics also include the design and development of relational databases, focusing on concepts, principles, issues, and techniques for managing data resources. Students become familiar with the entity-relationship modeling technique for conceptual design and formulation of a database, as well as the business need for normalization and de-normalization of data. Structured Query Language (SQL) is introduced in order to demonstrate how data can queried and manipulated within a database.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 559 - Employment Law
This course will examine the legal dimensions of the employment relationship in a non-union setting. As such, students will become familiar with the employment-at-will doctrine and will understand the exceptions to that doctrine. Several federal laws will also be examined including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the American with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, COBRA, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, OSHA, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. The course will also cover also issues including privacy in the workplace, employment testing, performance appraisals, and affirmative action.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 560 - Fundamentals of Real Estate
The course involves study of the problems in financial residential, commercial and industrial real estate. Methods of financing covered include use of individual and business equity; loans secured by mortgages; land contracts; sale-and-leaseback arrangements; cooperatives, syndicates, and real estate servicing; foreclosing loans and mortgage arrangements by principals, agents and mortgage bankers.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 600 - Global Marketing Mgmt
This course, fully incorporating the global point of view in international marketing, provides a conceptual framework for a managerial approach to the field. Emphasis is placed on the view that international marketing effectiveness requires a strategic understanding. The integration of all relevant trends, facts and markets into an overall framework that allows managers to consider many different markets simultaneously rather than on a country-by-country basis is presented. Numerous examples of international marketing situations faced by actual U.S. and foreign organizations are examined. Issues are tackled from the manager's point of view and concepts are included that help students address specific international marketing questions.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 602 - Business to Business Marketing
The focus of this course is on problems dealing with industrial marketing. These include strategic planning, industrial buyer behavior, market selection, vendor-customer relations and the application of the marketing mix to the industrial environment. Case studies and application of marketing concepts are used as managerial tools of analysis and problem solving.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 605 - Sales Management
This course provides a framework for the integration of sales and marketing management while focusing on the goals of the overall marketing organization. Emphasis will be placed on establishing long-run relationships with customers based on ethical considerations, personal selling, customer service and overall sales force management. Attention will be given to both industrial and consumer sales while focusing on sales management practices.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 609 - Future Options/Commodities
This course develops an understanding of the futures and options markets. The use of these markets for arbitrage and risk reduction in portfolio management is discussed. Basic models for option pricing are covered. Pricing of future contracts is covered in considerable detail. Students will comprehend the effects of hedging and speculative activity on the efficiency of the markets.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 611 - Managing Quality
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the philosophy, tools and framework involved in implementing a quality management system. Student will be exposed to the evolution of the quality management movement, related quality and performance measurement systems, the teaching of W. Edwards Deming, the concept of Six Sigma, as well as other organizational change strategies related to quality. The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award and various regional and state quality recognition criteria will be emphasized, studied and discussed. Case studies of organizations that have successfully implemented the techniques will be an integral part of the classroom discussion. Students will be introduced to the American Society for Quality and its mission and roles in leading and promoting quality management. Class projects will be used to emphasize the Malcolm Baldridge National Award for Performance in excellence.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 612 - Org Ethics & Gov Intervention
This course provides students with an in-depth look at the formal and informal initiatives, processes and structures developed by business organizations and professional associations to address common ethical problems at work. The applied focus of this course will prepare students for a career in the ethics field or enable them to participate in their organization's efforts to promote ethics at work. In addition, the role of government (primarily in the U.S.) to promote ethical business conduct will be discussed.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 613 - Health Care Delivery
Through lectures, discussions and readings the course will expose the student to an understanding of health care delivery as a system composed of diverse policies, agencies, institutions and professions. The course will focus upon developing intervention strategies for various problems in health care delivery such as rational allocation in planning of services, coordination of services, cost containment, and ethical dilemmas inherent to the growth of medical technology in managing inter-professional conflict.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 614 - Global Ethics
This course identifies and discusses differences and similarities in ethical values and principles found in the practice of organizations conducting business around the world.  In particular, comparisons of culture and religion, and their impact upon business operations, will be explored.  Strategic opportunities emanating from cultural and/or religious differences will be developed to guide organizations conducting business in the global marketplace.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 615 - Case Studies in Gl Bus Ethics
Relying on common ethical decision-making frameworks, this business ethics elective explores and resolves current global ethical dilemmas found in the various functional business areas of accounting, finance, economics, information systems, legal compliance, management, marketing, supply chain management and sustainability. This is a case-based course where students wrestle with real-world business cases found in business ethics casebooks, on the Internet, in business periodicals, and possibly from their own work experience. Pre-requisite: GRBU 508 (or its equivalent)
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 616 - Leadership
This course focuses on culture, vision, strategy and implementation, all as derived from leaders. The emphasis is on top managers of modern organizations.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 618 - Management Consulting
This course will require students to learn and apply the course content to a variety of complex management consulting issues confronting businesses today. We will pay particular attention to consulting business models/concepts, problem solving methods, and intermingled relationships. You will also be expected to develop basic management consulting skills such as framing consulting issues, collecting and analyzing data, and creating then communicating proposed solutions. As you work on the consulting situations presented, the emphasis for development will be on your problem solving and analytical approach and quality of recommended solutions. All of this will greatly assist you as you begin to move toward your prospective careers.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 619 - Strategic Marketing Prob
This is the final course in the graduate marketing concentration. It is a review and integration of all marketing concepts, tools and techniques. This course enables students to apply their acquired marketing knowledge and skills to real world problems and situations. Utilizing the case study method, students analyze business problems from a managerial perspective and suggest practical marketing strategies.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 620 - Security Analysis
Basic concepts of investment policy, analytic techniques, valuation theory and financial markets are examined and models developed for determining the worth of a security.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 622 - Social Marketing
Social marketing involves developing and implementing marketing strategies designed to influence behavior to provide benefit to target market and, more generally, to society. This course will examine marketing theories and techniques and their impact relative to behavioral change. Ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability in social marketing will be considered, and are integrated throughout the course.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 623 - Risk Management
The course is designed to introduce the student to the critical fundamentals and principles of risk management. The course has been designed to introduce the student to the changing paradigm of risk management and how critical it has become to position an organization for success as well as navigate through troubled times. The course will concentrate on the different types of risks an organization faces, how these risks are identified, assessed and managed as well as how they interlink from an internal and external perspective. The course will highlight an integrated methodology to approach risk management, emphasize the importance of risk management as a competitive strength and provide the student with a fundamental understanding about the strategic, value-adding and risk-based business decision-making process.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

Business Department

GRBU 624 - Marketing Research
This course will focus on helping students identify a marketing problem, develop a research plan including some basic methods to get information from customers, and master research methods. The degree of learning will range from less detailed problem assessment in the marketing mix and project management to more detailed statistical methods. Concepts and their connection to marketing decisions are emphasized. This course is recommended as an elective for students who are concentrating in marketing and need preparation for marketing research.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 625 - Consumer Behavior
A study of the motivation and behavior of the individual consumer, the industrial purchaser, the government and institutional buyer; problems and ramifications of entering and operating successfully in the international market; relation and effect of marketing activities to the successful operation of the firm. Also, consideration of such aspects of the marketing function as pricing, product planning and promotion, market research and analysis.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 626 - Training & Development
Increasing employees' capability to perform more efficiently, effectively and with greater productivity can often differentiate one company from another. The Employee Training and Development course teaches students about the process of improving individual performance in organizations. Students will adopt the perspective of a Training and Development Department that is responsible for the optimum contribution of all employees. Students will be challenged to apply their understanding of competency-based development strategies. Students can expect to learn the fundamentals of how to: conduct job analysis; assess trainees; develop competency-based training and evaluate training effectiveness.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 628 - Org Assessment
Identifying best practices and then surpassing them is the challenge of all business leaders who strive for competitive excellence. Excellent performances almost always require the ability to measure and compare results. This course teaches students about the best practices in performance measurement currently being used in American business. Students will adopt a benchmarking inquiry perspective. Students will be challenged to apply effective research techniques and critically analyze performance measurement systems collected. Students will be expected to work effectively in research teams to perform data collection and analysis. Students can expect to learn about the best practices in the following performance measurement areas: organization results, employee performance, vendor performance and customer feedback.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 630 - Leading Change in Org
This course presents a theoretical and applied treatment of a pervasive and challenging task in the new global economy - continuously and successfully dealing with change. Students will learn the theories, concepts, and applications that will allow them to successfully initiate, analyze, and implement various types of organizational changes.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 637 - Study Abroad
Students who plan to take advantage of study abroad opportunities for a summer, semester, or academic year will register for the appropriate number of credits. All students who register for Study Abroad must receive advance approval from the Graduate School of Business for the number of credits that may be applied to their degree requirements.
1.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours
1.000 TO 6.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 641 - IS Security & Risk Management
This course examines the important area of information security and risk management. Essentially, students will explore the tools and methods used to assess a company’s vulnerability to a variety of ‘bad outcomes’ – data theft, data corruption, interruption of service, and so on – as well as the methods used to avoid those bad outcomes. In so doing, students will examine security from a variety of perspectives, including managerial (e.g., formation and enforcement of security policies, related IS governance issues, and personnel training) and technical (e.g., security hardware and software solutions, as well as the development and implementation of controls in applications, networks and operating systems). The technical perspective also includes hands-on use of the tools and techniques employed by hackers to gain access to information systems and confidential data.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 642 - Business Intelligence
The business climate is constantly changing and becoming more complex. To remain competitive, organizations must make decisions based on relevant and timely information. Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. Simply put, the objective of BI is to support better business decision-making by exploiting relevant and timely information. In this course, students will gain hands-on experience using important BI tools and technologies that underlie contemporary data-driven decision making. Such technologies include data, text and web mining, data warehouses, and business analytics for business performance management.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

Business Department

GRBU 644 - Software Quality Management
While software quality begins when requirements are gathered from a system's users, the importance of software quality management continues throughout the software development cycle. This class concentrates on software quality as it relates to appropriate requirements gathering, graphical and database program development that matches the requirements, development of data test beds, and procedures for insuring overall software quality. In this class, students learn the Quality Assurance (QA) / Quality Control (QA) model as it is applied to software development, automated testing development, development constraints and tradeoffs, as they relate to software quality, application development, IEEE standards for software quality assurance. Students also compare and contrast software quality assurance (SQA) and software verification & validation (SVV) methods when ensuring software quality.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 645 - Info Syst Policy and Strategy
Within the context of the current business and regulatory environment, this course presents a high-level business perspective on the management and strategic use of information systems across the enterprise. Students will understand the need to acquire, develop, and implement systems that support the operational, tactical, and strategic needs of the organization. Strategic IS planning, internal IS management, and IS governance are studied focusing on the integrative nature of these functions. Students will gain an understanding of the IS strategic planning process and its relationship with organizational strategic planning. Internal IS management is addressed from an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Service Management perspective.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 646 - Info Systems Audit and Control
Effective management and monitoring of the information systems control environment is critical to the achievement of business goals. As such, this course provides students with essential knowledge of the concepts and practices of information systems audit and control. This includes an understanding of the fundamentals of auditing, planning and implementation of information systems audits, and the corresponding ability to work in partnership with financial auditors in an assurance engagement. It also includes a detailed understanding of and ability to audit the IT control environment - from operating systems and networks, to application systems and operating procedures. Students also will gain hands-on experience with computer-assisted audit tools and techniques, and will use those tools to conduct tests of system-related processes and data - including fraud investigations.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 648 - Project and Change Management
This course provides an in depth exploration into the tools and techniques of project management for both business and technology projects. The presentation of the course concepts adheres to the Project Management Body of Knowledge® (PMBOK®) description of best practices, and covers the project management life cycle with its processes of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Students are also exposed to the challenges of large-scale program and portfolio management. The course emphasizes the importance of systems, ethics, and organizational cultures in the successful management of projects.Students will gain an awareness of resource conflicts, the impact of changes in requirements, and their impact on schedule, business and cost objectives. Students will learn the importance of a work breakdown structure, and the use of networks in planning, scheduling and controlling projects. The course demonstrates the importance of strategy and prioritizing projects for effective resource allocation, and to achieve earned value for the organization.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 649 - Research Problems
Special and individual study culminating in the submission of a research paper. Subjects are determined in consultation with the instructor. Students should consult the graduate business advisor regarding procedure before registering for this course. No more than three credits in Research Problems will be accepted during any one degree program.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours
1.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Research

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GRBU 650 - Prac Business Consult
An interactive class in which student teams of two or three provide extensive management counseling to a Pittsburgh area small business owner.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 654 - Data Warehousing
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the technical and managerial issues of data warehousing and data mining. Students will design, construct and implement data warehouses, using established methods and software tools. Students also will explore the use of data mining tools and techniques in the solution of business problems, both within and outside of corporate data warehouses. Data warehouse security, business justifications, and the impact of data mining on individual privacy also are addressed.
2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 659 - Strat Human Resources
This is an advanced-level course in Human Resources. The focus is on how the organization's Human Resource function can become a strategic partner working with senior management to change the organization. The course is designed to answer the question, "How can the Human Resource Department refine its systems and policies to better help the organization achieve its strategic objectives of being a quality-oriented, customer- driven, innovative, employee-empowered, and successful organization?" The innovative format of the course will feature business executives from well-managed organizations contributing to each class session.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 660 - Product Development/Innovation
The focus of this course is to build a foundation for students to pursue being a marketing manager who knows how to cope with the marketing complexities of new product development (NPD) and product life cycle management. This foundation will stress accomplishment in utilizing computer- based marketing decision support, case study applications on growing markets and developing teamwork skills.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 661 - Seminar in Finance
This course will consider special contemporary topics in Finance. The focus of the course will depend on the topics to be covered each time the course is offered. Students should check with the Graduate School of Business Office prior to registration for a summary of course content.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Other hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Seminar

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GRBU 662 - Supply Mgmt-Purchasing
This course is an introduction to the principles of effective purchasing and materials management. The course provides an understanding of the important role of the purchasing function in supply chain management, including an overview of the concept of the supply chain. The course's scope ranges from understanding how effective purchasing management contributes to an organization's successful performance and the relationship between corporate strategy and purchasing strategy, to the specifics of sound purchasing practice associated with that performance. The issue of electronic procurement is also explored. The principles discussed are applicable to the purchasing operations of all organizations.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 663 - Entrepreneurship
This course deals with the overall management of the small business enterprise. Coverage includes entering the small business arena, organizing and financing a business, operation of the small firm, growth planning, and problems associated with the small business size. Specific emphasis will be placed on development of the formal business plan.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 667 - Physical Distribution Mgmt
This course explores the traditional functional areas of transportation, warehousing, material handling and packaging, distribution planning, finished goods inventory, order processing and customer service. The responsibilities, processes, and technologies supporting each functional area will be analyzed and the criticality of integrating these functions into the supply chain will be discussed. The frame- work for analyzing these topics will stress the need to develop the integrated view of the supply chain system and to utilize performance measures for evaluating and improving supply chain system performance.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 669 - Strategic Supply Chain Mgmt
The focus of this course will be on the impact of effective supply chain management on the organization's productivity and competitiveness. Students will explore the links between overall business strategy and supply chain strategy, and will develop an in-depth understanding of the principles of supply chain excellence. Field research, combined with Duquesne supply chain management software, will provide students with experience in supply chain management development and integration.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 672 - Electronic Marketing
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad managerial overview of the realities of electronic business and the potential for electronic marketing in the digital economy. The course will cover electronic business models and strategies, the critical success factors behind electronic business, merging traditional and electronic marketing strategies, and the requirements for building an electronic marketing plan.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 673 - Forecasting,Prod/Inv Pln
Forecasting, production planning and inventory planning are central to the success of any firm and have proven to be a major factor in effective supply chain integration. These topics are often thought of as "nuts-and-bolts" operations management issues which have gained visibility for their value to the supply chain process. This course will focus on the strategy behind integrating the critical processes, by developing a working knowledge of the techniques currently used to manage Forecasting, Production Planning and Inventory Planning, and applying that knowledge through, case analysis. Decision support technology for the planning process will be introduced to provide insight into current challenges, opportunities and trends in the management of these disciplines.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 674 - Exec Insights-Global Issues
This course draws on the collective experience and wisdom of expert guest lecturers and distinguished business leaders to provide students with a top-level perspective of important contemporary business issues. These include the impact of terrorism, religion, poverty and other factors that create challenges and opportunities in today's global business environment.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 684 - Independent Study-Finance
This course will consider special contemporary topics in Finance. The focus of the course will depend on the topics to be covered each time the course is offered. Students should check with the Graduate School of Business Office prior to registration for a summary of course content.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Independent Study

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GRBU 685 - Ind Study - SCM Purchasing
This course is an introduction to the principles of effective purchasing and materials management. The course provides an understanding of the important role of the purchasing function in supply chain management, including an overview of the concept of the supply chain. The course's scope ranges from understanding how effective purchasing management contributes to an organization's successful performance and the relationship between corporate strategy and purchasing strategy, to the specifics of sound purchasing practice associated with that performance. The issue of electronic procurement is also explored. The principles discussed are applicable to the purchasing operations of all organizations.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Independent Study

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GRBU 686 - Independent Study - Marketing
This course deals with development, implementation, and evaluation of marketing management in a complex business environment. Contemporary concepts and theories will be presented with a focus on analytical and financial models and that will assist marketing managers in making better decisions. The course also focuses on formulating and implementing marketing management strategies and policies. The marketing management process is important at all levels of the organization, regardless of the title applied to activity. Emerging perspectives on marketing management and the impact of digital media are additionally emphasized. Prerequisites: Accounting for Managers and Evidence-based Decision Making.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Independent Study

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GRBU 687 - Ind Study - SCM Phys Distrib
This course explores the traditional functional areas of transportation, warehousing, material handling and packaging, distribution planning, finished goods inventory, order processing and customer service. The responsibilities, processes, and technologies supporting each functional area will be analyzed and the criticality of integrating these functions into the supply chain will be discussed. The frame- work for analyzing these topics will stress the need to develop the integrated view of the supply chain system and to utilize performance measures for evaluating and improving supply chain system performance.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Independent Study

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GRBU 689 - Independent Study

1.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours
1.000 TO 6.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Independent Study

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GRBU 690 - Special Topics
This course will be offered as needed to address important contemporary issues in business. Specific course content will be provided to students prior to the registration period for the semester in which the course is offered.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours
1.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 691 - Special Topics

3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture, Online

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GRBU 694 - Special Topics

1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours
1.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 695 - Grad Business Internship
This internship provides the student with a professional work experience in an organizational environment. It is an extension of the curriculum and provides meaningful experience related to the student's area of concentration. The internship responsibilities must be approved in advance by a faculty sponsor. The student is supervised within the work setting and also by a faculty member from the Gradute School of Business Administration.
1.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours
1.000 TO 6.000 Other hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Internship

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GRBU 696 - Grad Business Internship

0.000 Credit hours
0.000 Other hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Internship

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GRBU 698 - Thesis-Business & Admin
Writing of the thesis and oral presentation of the results of the research investigation before a faculty board.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 699 - Thesis-Business & Admin
Writing of the thesis and oral presentation of the results of the research investigation before a faculty board.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 801 - Fraud Examination
This course highlights a number of important controls that prevent fraud and abuse, explores the most common asset theft fraud schemes and teaches the detective skills needed to determine if inappropriate events have taken place. Additionally, the course defines computer fraud and exposes students to techniques for preventing its occurrence.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 804 - SEC Reporting
This course exposes students to the various periodic financial reporting requirements for publicly held companies as well as financial statement requirements for companies in the process of going public. Through actual SEC filings and case studies the course illustrates a wide range of SEC reporting requirements. Current SEC developments will also be discussed.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 811 - Advanced Financial Reporting
Advanced Financial Reporting is a continuation of the two course undergraduate Intermediate Accounting sequence. In this course, students examine major theoretical concepts for some of the more sophisticated topics underlying external financial reporting including income taxes, leases, pensions and postretirement benefits (other than pensions) and derivatives. In addition, students will utilize the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Codification to research guidance on the proper reporting of transactions and events in conformance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Course Prerequisites: Intermediate Accounting I and II (or equivalent coursework).
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 812 - Non-Profit and Government Acct
This is a graduate level accounting course designed to provide the student with a detailed understanding of the accounting and reporting for state and local governments in accordance with pronouncements issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Additionally, the course will also cover the unique accounting and financial reporting needs of governmental and non-governmental non-profit organizations.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 813 - Advanced Cost Accounting
This course is intended to extend the student’s knowledge of traditional accounting techniques for product costing beyond that acquired in an introductory Cost Accounting course. A number of additional, more contemporary approaches to the cost accounting function are also explored. Course Prerequisites: Cost Accounting
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 814 - Accounting Ethics
Ethical judgment is a foundation of the accounting profession. Those core values included objectivity, independence, integrity and professionalism. This course will serve as a general introduction to professional ethics in the accounting and business environments. We will discuss the fundamental ethical issues of business and society, the roles and responsibilities of the accounting and auditing profession, ethical behavior by management, and legal and professional guidelines that address the conduct will be considered within this course. This course is intended to provide the foundations upon which accountants employ ethical reasoning in their professional judgments. The course will further investigate the effectiveness of professional codes of ethics like those ascribed to by self-regulatory organizations (e.g. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New York Stock Exchange, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board) and regulatory agencies like Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, the course will consider psychological, sociological, political and economic implications of ethical judgments within the context of accounting and business decisions. Several management and economic theories from agency/contracting theory and stakeholder analysis will be incorporated to evaluate the role of ethics in the business environment.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 815 - Intnl Financial Rept Standards
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have made the convergence of their separate standards a major priority. This course will examine the key differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP. Beginning with an overview of the conceptual frameworks, students will learn how the ISAB and FASB set their respective standards. This will be followed by an exploration of the substantive differences in the standards themselves as well as the ethical implications associated with each of the reporting systems.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 816 - Legal Process and Procedure
This course is an introduction to the basic institutions and concepts of the American legal system. Attention is focused upon courts, their law-making capacity and their relationship to other branches of government. Procedural concepts such as jurisdiction, pleadings and discovery are considered as well as basic constitutional standards such as due process. Rules of procedure, evidence and white collar crime are also discussed. The course also examines the role of equity in our legal system.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Pharmacy, Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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GRBU 890 - Sptp:Ind Study-Macc

1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours
1.000 TO 3.000 Other hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Independent Study

Business Department

GRBU 891 - Special Topics
This course is an introduction to the basic institutions and concepts of the American legal system. Attention is focused upon courts, their law-making capacity and their relationship to other branches of government, particularly the legislature. Procedural concepts such as jurisdiction and joinder are considered as well as basic constitutional standards such as due process and equal protection. The course also examines the role of equity in our legal order.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Pittsburgh Council on HE
Schedule Types: Lecture

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