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We invite to you to experience the Simmons MBA firsthand by visiting one of our dynamic classes. See for yourself how our renowned faculty of researchers, business owners, authors, consultants and analysts infuse the classroom with their practical knowledge.

To reserve a seat in class, please complete the following information and an Admission Counselor will contact you to schedule a visit based on the course(s) you check below. Note: Required information is indicated by an asterisk (*).

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Check the course(s) that you are interested in visiting. We recommend that you select more than one as space is limited. An Admission Counselor will contact you to find an available class based on the class(s) indicated below.

Stacy Blake-Beard Professor: Stacy Blake-Beard
Time: Tuesdays, 12:30 - 3:20pm and 6:00 - 9:00pm

Leading Individuals and Groups focuses on the function, role, and responsibility of the manager in an organizational context. Emphasis is placed on understanding the organizational culture and on developing skills needed for the manager in middle- and senior-level management positions; the transition that must be taken into account in moving from supervisory positions to middle management and from middle management to senior management; the management of relationships with subordinates, peers, and supervisors; managing change and conflict; leading a group; and valuing and managing a diverse workforce. The course also explores the more intangible management issues that may confront women in higher level management positions and examines the increasingly strategic need to identify and negotiate both formal and informal sources of support for implementing decisions within the organization.

Susan Hass Professor: Susan Hass
Time: Thursdays, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Managerial Accounting is concerned with management control systems and the information they generate, as well as their role in management analysis and decision making. The course introduces costing techniques, responsibility accounting, the budget process, and information analysis. Attention is given to the interrelationship between internal measurement systems and overall management planning, decision making, and control.(required course)

Jill Avery Professor: Jill Avery
Time: Wednesdays, 12:30 - 3:20pm

Marketing Management focuses on the analysis of marketing opportunities and problems in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and on the strategic and tactical decisions faced by the marketing manager. The course has three main components: (1) how environmental forces can influence the success or failure of a marketing plan and how to use market research to understand these environmental forces, (2) how marketing strategies are employed by a variety of organizations, and (3) how to successfully implement marketing strategies through product planning, pricing, promotion, and distribution decisions.

Mary Finlay Professor: Mary Finlay
Time: Monday, October 19th, 9:00 – 12:00pm, Wednesday, October 28th, 9:00 – 12:00pm, Monday, December 7th, 9:00 – 12:00pm

This course provides students with a foundation for understanding how an IT organization functions, how IT strategy is developed and implemented, and how technology trends are impacting corporations. This elective is not a bits and bytes course, but rather a course focused on providing the key information for a future leader to work effectively with the IT organization in their corporation. After completing this course, students are able to analyze and assess the performance of an IT organization; understand how IT strategy is developed and how it aligns with the business strategy; describe the major challenges in managing an IT department; and understand the top technology trends and what these trends mean for corporations. (elective)

Professor: Jane Mooney
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:00 - 11:00am and Mondays, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Financial Reporting and Analysis gives the student a clear understanding of how accounting data is used to communicate financial information to those outside an organization. The student learns to evaluate accounting issues and becomes thoroughly familiar with the concepts and mechanics of the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. Course emphasis is on using accounting data as an effective tool for decision making.

Spela Trefalt Professor: Spela Trefalt
Time: Mondays, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Leaders design their organizations to meet the competitive challenges they face in their local and global environments. This course explores the major elements of organizational dynamics from multiple perspectives, including formal structural arrangements, work practices and cultural norms, and relations of power and influence. The focus is on how existing organizational designs and cultures serve strategic ends and what possibilities exist to add value to the organization by changing these arrangements. During the course, students continually evaluate different approaches to conceptualizing and implementing organizational change.

Fiona Wilson Professor: Fiona Wilson
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 - 11:00am

Strategy I, is designed to be the first part of a two course sequence (to include Strategy II in the last semester). Together, these classes will help you integrate and apply the knowledge gained in courses specialized in the functional areas of business: marketing, operations management, finance, managerial accounting, and human resources, etc, in the context of competitive strategy formulation and implementation. In this course, Strategy I: Foundations and Frameworks for the Design of Strategy we will develop a thorough overview of Strategy, and will learn and apply the core frameworks and analytical tools required for the crafting of competitive strategy.

Paul Myers Professor: Paul Myers
Time: Tuesdays, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Technology and Operations Management provides a foundation for understanding the role of production and delivery capabilities in creating business value. While the disciplines of strategy and marketing deal with choosing the best approaches to the right markets (the what), operations focuses on developing and managing processes for serving those markets (the how). This course provides an in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of transforming inputs into outputs and explores the interdependence of strategies, processes, technologies, and people.

Paul Myers Professor: Paul Myers
Time: Thursdays, 1:00 - 4:00pm

This course examines the essential concepts of and current challenges in organizational governance as well as the legal and ethical responsibilities of both managers and directors. Using the case format, the course employs concepts and techniques from the core MBA curriculum to analyze business and stakeholder issues and recommend action steps.

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