Business 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)
Students learn basic modern management concepts, including those involving sexual harassment and sexual violence awareness, and explore the status and future of the American business system.
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.
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 trucking and transportation business management, focusing on challenges the trucking industry faces in response to changes in financial and labor variables. Students learn how to maintain customer service in light of those changes, as well as how to analyze financial reports, augment systemic safety precautions and understand government regulations that affect transportation. Topics include customer-centered business models, effective leadership in the transportation industry, process and systems approach in management, and effective decision-making models. Students integrate work and life experiences with case studies, class projects and discussion as they explore problems and opportunities facing trucking and transportation businesses.
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 & 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 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 & 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 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: 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 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.
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.
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: AC510 OR CM550 OR MG551
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 the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools to award Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees, Bachelor of Science degrees, Associate in Applied Science degrees and diplomas.