Hult's Management MBA

—Module A

Every Management MBA must understand the underlying functional specialties of a business. The Module A courses in Hult's Management MBA provide the practical building blocks for students to understand the business as a whole and to proceed to strategic analysis in Module B. Each Management MBA course will provide students with the opportunity to solve particular functionally oriented problems, equipping students with the appropriate analytic tools and techniques to assess such issues.

Subjects covered in Hult's Management MBA*:

*Sample of Management MBA courses offered in the past.

MBA Management Course 1: International Financial Management

This course develops the financial skills and logical thought processes necessary to understand and discuss financial policy decisions in a global economy. Specific objectives include: developing an understanding of the time value of money, using financial statements in decision making, and understanding the nature of financial markets and the cost of capital. The course also covers valuation of stocks and bonds, management of short-term assets, short-term and long-term financing, lease financing, capital markets, multinational financial management and specific topics in financial management. The impact of legal, social, technological and ethical considerations on efficient economic outcomes is also stressed, together with effective written and oral communication skills that are necessary for the design and implementation of financial decisions.

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MBA Management Course 2: International Accounting

This segment will introduce you to the concepts and principles of financial accounting, with an emphasis on the interpretation of financial statements and how corporate financial statements reflect economic events. We will discuss the generally accepted accounting principles relating to these events, their limitations and their alternatives. At the conclusion of this segment, you should feel comfortable reading a company's annual report, capable of reaching a reasoned conclusion about a company's financial health, and able to make comparisons across firms and periods. Management MBA students should be savvy enough to pick up a set of financials, understand where the numbers come from and be able to "dissect" the statements and "reassemble" them to suit your decision-making needs.

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MBA Management Course 3: International Marketing Management

The aim of this MBA Management course is to provide you with a basic understanding of marketing management in the international environment; to introduce you to some key conceptual schemes and models that are valuable in analyzing marketing management and multinational marketing problems; and to provide you with training in planning and controlling domestic and international marketing strategies.

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MBA Management Course 4: Global Management

The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge, abilities and skills that can be used as successful members of organizations in the future. The class will explore the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations themselves - often in a global context. You will learn to diagnose complex, multi-dimensional situations and decide upon courses of action, as well as learning to develop and employ the perspectives of management and leadership roles. At the conclusion of the course, students will have developed an understanding of the places where they will work and the people with whom they will work, and how to improve their effectiveness.

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MBA Management Course 5: Managerial Economics

This is an introduction for students to solid analytical foundations (objective definition, marginal analysis and optimization, elasticity analysis, cost analysis, applied game theory, etc.) essential for rigorously addressing key issues in competitive strategy, marketing strategy and related fields, and for improving decision-making. You will also analyze markets and how they work, from perfect competition to oligopoly (rivalry between a small number of competitors) to monopoly (one dominant firm). Management MBA participants will learn about companies' strategic decision-making problems, their available options, and how the competitive environment crucially affects their performance. The course's ultimate goal is to develop skills for making effective managerial decisions and strategic choices based on the analysis of the companies' cost structures and their market conditions.

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MBA Management Course 6: Managerial Decision Making

Here, students will focus on computational techniques to improve decision-making in a wide range of business settings. Specifically, the class will discuss decision analysis, forecasting, linear programming, linear regression, multiple regression, waiting lines and Monte Carlo simulation, using real-world examples to illustrate the decisions that managers need to make. Management MBA students will learn to make good choices and avoid big mistakes that waste the company's resources and weaken its position in relation to competitors, with most decisions modeled using Excel spreadsheets. This MBA Management course presumes some familiarity with Microsoft Excel.

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