Master's Degrees
Management courses at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business provide students with practice in solving realistic problems, preparing them for the application of critical and analytical methods in all types of organizations. As graduates, they have sophisticated leadership skills and are ready to begin careers as managers and business owners.
The following courses are designed to address management issues that apply to a broad range of industries, government agencies and non-profit organizations:
Management courses
MG100 Introduction to Business (5 Credits)
This course gives students an overview of the interrelated factors making up the business environment including ethics, entrepreneurship, marketing, management, leadership, finances and information technology. In addition, the student learns about past, present and future trends in business. The student develops decision-making and problem-solving skills through case studies, group exercises and presentations.
MG110 Supervisory Management (4 Credits)
Students learn roles and responsibilities of direct line managers. Practical training includes employee orientation and training, coaching, motivation, employee assignment, task supervision, performance assessment, compensation, reviews, conflict resolution and dealing with labor/management issues.
MG120 Small Business Management (4 Credits)
This course was designed to introduce the student to small business management in the real world. Through the use of lecture, class discussion, and the text, the student will become familiar with writing business plans, financial report analysis, business acquisition, and government regulations that impact small business. Study will include the legal aspects of small business, site selection, and the future prospects for these businesses. There will be a major focus on entrepreneurial activities and the traits of entrepreneurs. The student will bring his or her own work and life experiences to class and combine them with case study, class projects, and discussion so as to gain an understanding of the problems and opportunities involved in the operation of a small business.
MG125 Customer Service Strategies (3 Credits)
This course focuses on customer service strategies that lead to a competitive advantage for the business organization. Students study the interrelationships of customer service and other facets of a successful business.
MG130 Retail Management (4 Credits)
This course focuses on the retail side of modern marketing and knowledge, strategies and managerial skills necessary for successful operation of retail enterprises. It benefits students interested in middle management, small business operations, retail, and franchise ownership. Topics include customer communications, site selection, planning, merchandise buying, promotion, human resources management, pricing, inventory management and resource management.
MG150 Business Law (5 Credits)
The course introduces legal issues affecting businesses, including classifications of laws, contracts, sales transactions, negotiable instruments, employment law and landlord-tenant law.
MG200 Transportation Business Management (4 Credits)
This course introduces students to trucking and transportation business management. Students explore successful strategies for working with financial and labor variables to best serve the customer. Class exercises and case studies use students’ work and life experiences.
Prerequisites: MG100
MG220 Small Business Management (4 Credits)
This course introduces small business management in the real world. Topics include writing business plans, financial report analysis, business acquisition, government regulations and legal issues affecting small businesses, site selection, and assessing future prospects of a business. There is a major focus on entrepreneurial activities and the traits of entrepreneurs. Students integrate their work and life experiences with case studies, class projects and discussion as they investigate problems and opportunities involved in operation of small businesses.
MG300 Finance (4 Credits)
This course presents theory and practices of finance. Students examine structure of companies and analyze effects of various long-term and short-term financing options.
Prerequisites: AC150, AND CM121, AND BS100 OR MH100
MG310 Human Resource Management (4 Credits)
This course covers legislation, job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment and selection, focusing on staffing an organization so it has the type and number of employees it needs at any given time. Topics may include new employee orientation, basic literacy training, education for high-level executives, career development programs to foster teamwork, comprehensive organizational development in response to change, compensation, and the collective bargaining process.
Prerequisites: MG100 OR SC100, AND CM121
MG320 Operations Management (4 Credits)
This course covers traditional operations management activities, such as inventory control, scheduling, project management and forecasting. Those activities are discussed in the context of quality management, supply chain management and other approaches to operational management.
Prerequisites: MG100, AND CM121, AND BS100 OR MH100
MG330 Marketing Strategy (4 Credits)
The course explores the process of decision making, strategy development, elements of competition, and the tools that assist in decision analysis.
Prerequisites: MG100, AND MK150
MG340 Leadership and Management (4 Credits)
This course explores historical and modern management concepts, including managerial planning, organizing, controlling, motivating, ethics, decision-making, communicating and group behavior and leadership. Students employ leadership strategies to resolve realistic management problems.
Prerequisites: MG100 OR MG110 OR SC100, AND CM121
MG350 Business Analysis Techniques (4 Credits)
This is an introduction to management science methods. Students receive practical experience and apply modeling tools and techniques for business decision-making. Quantitative modeling techniques explored include forecasting analysis, linear programming, network analysis, probability concepts and decision tree analysis.
Prerequisites: AC160, AND MG100, AND CS256
MG360 Supply Chain Management (4 Credits)
This course presents supply chain management as it applies to transportation and other industries that require inventory control, scheduling, project management, forecasting and other operational processes.
Prerequisites: CM121, AND MG100
MG375 Managerial Economics (4 Credits)
This course explores economics in the managerial decision-making process and as an analytical tool in strategic business planning.
Prerequisites: SS200, AND BS100 OR MH100
MG380 Strategic Investments and Portfolio Management (4 Credits)
This course offers a detailed study of investment portfolio construction, management, evaluation and protection, paying specific attention to selection, diversification and valuation of investment tools and evaluation of portfolio performance. Students explore contemporary issues in portfolio management, including futures markets and integrating derivative assets.
Prerequisites: MG300, AND MG350
MG400 Corporate Finance (4 Credits)
Students learn an integrated approach to determining the value of the firm, including corporate acquisitions, transactions, cash flow, earnings and market-based valuation.
Prerequisites: MG300, AND MG350
MG420 Investments (4 Credits)
This course introduces principles of investing, including motivation, evaluation of an investment and descriptions of various types of investments. Students analyze strategies employed by investment professionals, learning how to use those strategies on both personal and professional levels.
Prerequisites: MG300, AND CM121
MG430 Business Ethics (4 Credits)
Students study moral and ethical issues including responsibilities of businesses to employees, responsibilities of employees to businesses, ethical issues in economic systems (emphasizing capitalism), and social responsibilities of businesses, including quality of products, truth in advertising and environmental concerns.
Prerequisites: MG100 OR MG110 OR SC100, AND CM121
MG440 Entrepreneurship (4 Credits)
This small business management course is appropriate for a student interested in managing or owning a small business. Topics include getting started, planning and managerial skills, inventory, financial production, risk management, ethics, marketing, taxation, development of a business plan and various cases for analysis.
Prerequisites: MG300, AND CM121
MG450 Derivatives (4 Credits)
This course is math intensive. It focuses on the nature and functions of derivative instruments (options, futures and swaps). The course emphasizes their use as tools for risk reduction, portfolio management and speculation.
Prerequisites: MG300
MG475 Capstone: Business Administration (4 Credits)
This course explores various elements of business strategy, assessing students' knowledge of managerial planning, organizing, controlling, motivating, ethics, decision-making, communicating, consumer understanding, marketing and operations. Students discuss and analyze the research, assessment and implementation of a successful business enterprise.
Prerequisites: AC160, AND MG340, AND MG430
MG545 Human Capital: Two-Sided Accountability (5 Credits)
This course provides an in-depth examination of measurement of human capital based on a nonlinear, integrated approach, accounting for elements that balance ROI metrics with qualitative assessments. Studies emphasize the alignment of employee performance with improved recruitment, training and development and retention practices; the relationship of human resources and organizational development; and the balance of human capital investments and accountability.
Prerequisites: AC505 OR AC510
MG551 Politics of Leadership in a Global Economy (4 Credits)
This course explores the political context of business, an arena in which leadership qualities define powerful managers. Topics include contemporary theories of control, motivation and persuasive communications, and how to successfully put those theories into practice in diverse work environments. Students research attributes of local, regional, national and international business leaders and analyze their commonalities and distinguishing characteristics. Through the lens of behavioral and human psychological theories, students examine the role and responsibility of the business leader in relation to employee and peer self-efficacy, group dynamics and workplace culture.
MG552 Case Studies in Business Ethics and Law (5 Credits)
This course enhances the learner's analytical, collaborative and communication skills through the study group approach to examination of case studies in business ethics and law. Student teams study challenges facing business leaders regarding responsibilities to employees and society and legal and regulatory systems that enforce those principles. Team members examine published cases and, through dialogue and negotiation, reach plausible solutions. The investigation concludes with the team's recommendations of ways to address those issues.
MG553 Case Studies in Marketing Management (5 Credits)
This course increases the learner's analytical, collaborative and communication skills through examination of published studies in various aspects of sales and marketing management. Students explore the effectiveness of marketing concepts by reviewing local, national and international case studies on topics including product design, promotion, sales account representation and targeted markets, using visual, statistical and analytical approaches. Students develop critical problem-solving skills that apply to various business scenarios and report findings through electronic formats and peer presentations.
MG554 Case Studies in Human Resources Management (5 Credits)
Students increase individual analytical, collaborative and communication skills through the study group approach as they examine case studies in human resource management for today's diverse work force. Students review and discuss ways to foster teamwork and encourage the clear communication of complex ideas and processes. Through collaboration with peers, students formulate innovative solutions in response to case histories of multi-level human resource management issues, including hiring, bargaining, employee training and professional development. In final analyses teams recommend effective practices for human resource aspects of organizational planning.
MG558 Applications of Operations Management (5 Credits)
Students use case studies in various aspects of operations management to create and apply models that maximize individual and team performance and service and product effectiveness and productivity. They then create formative and summative assessments that evaluate strategies used to increase operational effectiveness.
Prerequisites: AC505 OR AC510, AND MG554
MG565 Case Studies in Health Care Personnel Management (5 Credits)
This course provides an in-depth review of case studies in contemporary, diverse workforce issues in a variety of health care environments. Students examine current human resource theories and models and published studies on personnel management issues. They then develop simulations and formulate innovative solutions for recruiting, training, and retaining health care personnel.
MG567 Case Studies in Health Care Ethics (5 Credits)
Students examine ethical considerations and issues that affect ethical relationships between internal and external clients, patients and their family members, and health care personnel. They then analyze the impact of research, technology and global perspectives on ethical decision-making and practices. Discussion topics include the influence of future advances and increasing diversity in global populations.
Prerequisites: MG551
MG568 Applications of Health Care Administration (5 Credits)
Students review organizational theories and models that affect performance, structure and change within health care organizations and departments. Working individually and as team members, students select theories and models, reviewing feasibility within the students' current workplaces and analyzing usability of the theories and models in health care environments.
Prerequisites: CM550
MG569 Case Studies in Health Care Regulatory Affairs (5 Credits)
Students explore the scope of legal and government policies on the health care system and on the development of public health care policies. They examine the individual and interrelated effects, from a management and organizational perspective, of local, state, national and international health care regulatory agencies on clients, patients, and health care professionals.
Prerequisites: MG567
MG575 Case Studies in IT Personnel Management (5 Credits)
Students review case studies in leadership in corporate, private, and public IT organizations. They examine current human resource theories and models and published studies on IT department personnel organization, management, use of outsourced IT personnel and related issues. Students then develop simulations and formulate innovative solutions.
MG576 Applications of Project Management (5 Credits)
Students examine project management case studies and implement models that maximize project outcomes, basing selection of strategies on project scope and control, estimates, schedules, and costs. They then develop reports that address project assessment, enhanced revision and re-planning.
Prerequisites: AC505 OR AC510, AND CM550
MG577 Case Studies in IT Security Management and Ethics (5 Credits)
This course reviews accountability issues related to control and security of data and information management systems. Students examine contemporary case studies in ethical management of knowledge and decision-making systems and analyze outcomes and effects of those systems on the organizations and the public. Finally, students present implications of their analyses.
Prerequisites: MG551
MG578 Applications of Information Systems Management (5 Credits)
Students assess and study development of effective information systems. They then map applications of information management systems for their organizations and departments/units. The mapping includes outlining organizational needs, relationships of IT departments within the organization and organizational frameworks, processes for prioritizing service and system implementation.
Prerequisites: AC505 OR AC510, AND MG575
MG600 Strategic Management (5 Credits)
Students integrate knowledge acquired and applied in core courses to assess and develop strategies at the business unit and/or organizational level. Topics include strategic management models and their implementation, operational understanding of the strategic management processes, and the role of managerial leaders in strategic planning.
Prerequisites: AC505 OR AC510, AND CM550, AND MG551
MG610 Applications of Resource Management (4 Credits)
Students examine methods that maximize resources through cost-function strategies. They explore the impact of research, development, implementation and maintenance of new services and products on physical, fiscal and human resources. Students then use real time experiences to create models and simulations.
Prerequisites: AC505 OR AC510, AND MG554 OR MG565 OR MG575
Business management programs at GU/MSB
Globe University/Minnesota School of Business has a unique Bachelor’s in Business Management degree program, in which, during the third and fourth years of the program, a student takes courses that focus specifically on one of six areas of emphasis:
- Agriculture management
- Marketing management
- Finance
- Human resources management
- Music business management
We also offer a rigorous Master of Business Administration program, which can be completed at one of several locations or online.
For more information, please contact us. A representative will be happy to help you evaluate our programs in light of your personal goals.
Globe University and Minnesota School of Business are members of the Globe Education Network. Other member colleges include Utah Career College, Institute of Production and Recording, Minnesota School of Cosmetology, and the Duluth Business University. Globe Education Network also provides academic support and manages a wealth of shared resources for the benefit of students. Through consortium agreements approved by member schools' accrediting bodies, students are able to earn credit for classes taken at member schools.
Globe University/Minnesota School of Business is accredited by Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools to award Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees, master of science degrees, bachelor of science degrees, associate in applied science degrees, diplomas and certificates.