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Courses

MBA Foundation Courses (18 credits - may be waived)

You take nine two-credit Foundation courses that cover the major functional business areas. These courses may be waived based on prior coursework or a waiver exam.

• ACC 501 Financial Accounting (2 credits)
• FIN 502 Finance (2 credits)
• OBC 503 Organizational Behavior (2 credits)
• OIE 504 Operations Management (2 credits)
• OIE 505 Quantitative Methods (2 credits)
• MKT 506 Principles Of Marketing (2 credits)
• MIS 507 Management Information Systems (2 credits)
• FIN 508 Economics Of The Firm (2 credits)
• FIN 509 Domestic And Global Economic Environment Of Business (2 credits)

MBA Core Courses (15 credits - required)

The core of your MBA program is a sequence of five highly integrated courses that address the most important issues in technology management.

• OBC 511 Interpersonal And Leadership Skills For Technological Managers (3 credits)
• MKT 512 Creating And Implementing Strategy In Technological Organizations (3 credits)
• OIE 513 Creating Processes In Technological Organizations (3 credits)
• ACC 514 Business Analysis For Technological Managers(4 credits)
• BUS 515 Legal And Ethical Context Of Technological Organizations (2 credits)

MBA Elective Courses (12 credits - required)

• OBC 531 Managing Organizational Change
• OBC 533 Negotiations
• OIE 541 Operations Risk Management
• OIE 544 Supply Chain Management and Electronic Commerce
• OIE 546 Managing Technological Innovation
• OIE 548 Productivity Management
• OIE 552 Modeling and Optimizing Processes
• OIE 553 Global Purchasing and Logistics
• OIE 554 Global Operations Strategy
• OIE 555 Lean Process Design
• OIE 557 Service Operations Management
• OIE 558 Designing and Managing Six-Sigma Processes
• MKT 563 Marketing of Emerging Technologies
• MKT 564 Global Technology Marketing
• MKT 567 Integrated Marketing Communications
• MKT 568 Data Mining Business Applications
• MIS 571 Database Applications Development
• MIS 573 System Design and Development
• MIS 574 Enterprise Systems
• MIS 576 Project Management
• MIS 578 Telecommunications Management
• MIS 579 E-Business Applications
• MIS 582 Information Security Management
• ETR 592 New Venture Management and Entrepreneurship
• BUS 598 Independent Study
• OBC 598C Managing Creativity in Knowledge Intensive Organizations

(Up to nine elective credits may be taken from other WPI graduate departments.)

MBA Graduate Qualifying Project (GQP) (4 credits - required)

You round out your program with a four-credit capstone project.

• BUS 516 Graduate Qualifying Project

Distance Technology

All management classes are taught online using a dynamic learning management system that provides an easy-to-use interface for web-based course content and a suite of collaboration tools that help to foster interaction between both faculty and students and student-to-student.

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