Courses
GMGT-590 Operations Management (3)
This course focuses on the problems facing managers in the areas of producing goods and services. Topics include total quality, productivity, and competitiveness; product and technology (process) design and selection; planning and controlling of production and service systems; capacity planning, facility location, and layouts; inventory and supply chain management; and project and service scheduling. Students will be introduced to the use of quantitative and qualitative techniques, such as decision-making and problem-solving tools for operations managers. The course requires an applied team project. Students should have satisfied GMGT 576 prior to registering for GMGT 590.
Attributes: TGMB
Pre-requisites: -
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management Graduate -Level: Practice Doctorate, GraduateGMGT-612 Self-Managed Teams (3)
Deals with the design and functioning of teams in organizations. Team design, including analysis of technology and corresponding roles, work group structure, process, and managerial style, utilizes a socio-technical systems perspective. Attention given to processes in cross-functional teams and application of the concepts by means of a real-life project.
Attributes: TGMBGMGT-615 Corp Governance & Deviance (3)
This course aims to pull back the covers on how decisions at the top of the organization are made, why they are made and in some instances why they are either wrong, unethical or illegal. Weekly, the Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg chronicles the noble as well as the selfish, unethical and illegal actions of companies and their executives. There is a constant power struggle between the interests of the shareholders, hedge funds, activist investors, the regulators, boards of directors and executives as to the control, direction and survival or corporations. The professor, with direct personal and research experience with these actors, will lead the students in examining the structural and behavioral aspects of the shareholder/board/executive/manager relationships in the context of cases and current events. The online sessions will be thought provoking, case based and provide a backdrop for the interactive, current affairs based dynamic in class sessions. The students can expect to gain insight into the complexities and structures of corporate decision making and how that affects a very important cultural institution – the modern American corporation.
Students who earned credit for GMGMT 671 or 672 with this title may not earn credit for this course.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-616 Executive as Leader (3)
A practical exploration of “Preparing to Be a Leader”. We begin with the challenge of learning how to lead oneself-the first step in learning how to lead others, and then examine in depth how leaders actually think and perform in their role. The course also explores tools and strategies that will be useful for the executive who seeks to be effective in the role of leader with an introductory foundation on such topics as Building the High Performance Organization, The Two Page Strategic Planning Tool, Co-Active Coaching Techniques, Codes of Conduct, one-to-one?s, Role Descriptions/ Performance Goals / Learning Plans, Casting, How to Frame, Board of Advisors, Metrics, The Great Game of Business-Employees as Owners and The Leader?s Vision will be covered. This course will provide a launch pad for students to begin gaining a competitive advantage in their careers.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-617 Org Behavior in HR Mgmt (3)
This course introduces students to psychological and sociological issues of working in organizations i.e., what and how people think and interact with each other in organizations characterized by divergent demographics, attitudes, motivations, and stresses. The course will examine issues of communicating and working in organizational teams, managing conflict, power and politics, and managing changes in organizations in response to internal and environmental changes. The course will also focus on the key issues relate to management of a key organizational resource; i.e., talent and human resources.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-628 IT Strategy (3)
This course is designed to help students increase their knowledge about the opportunities and the pitfalls associated with IS/IT. The lectures, readings, online discussions, and case studies will introduce students to a number of key concepts and timely issues related to IS/IT applications in organizations. Specific topics to be addressed include strategic role of IS/IT and competitiveness; business process reengineering and IT; Internet and electronic commerce; data and knowledge management; legal, ethical, social, and political impact of IT; and IT security. Issues in the integration of information technology in the social climate of business organizations are addressed from domestic and international perspectives.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-638 Managerial Economics (3)
This course systematically analyzes consumer and business decision-making within the sphere of microeconomics. The methodological approach is the time-honored progression of micro-theoretical topics with case studies or other data as a means of verifying such theories. Topics include a review and rigorous extension of supply and demand analysis and the theories of consumer and firm behavior. The neoclassical viewpoint will be used as the guiding paradigm to address individual and collective behavior in the market. A number of market structures are considered as an important determinant of consumer, firm, and market behavior. Additionally, students are introduced to game theory as an effective modeling template. Two- and three-player games are developed and used to model the complex interdependent interactions between economic agents and policymakers. The essence of the course is to employ modern economic methodology as a logical way of answering the economic questions most important to consumers, firms, the market, and public policy.
Attributes: TGMB
Pre-requisites: GMGT-576 C AND GMGT-580 C
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-641 Project Mgmt (3)
The course introduces modern tools and techniques for planning, scheduling, reporting, controlling and managing business related projects. The project life cycle is analyzed and concepts in project planning using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) will be discussed, project team roles and responsibilities, budgeting, resource allocation and task scheduling using Gantt charts and network diagrams will be introduced. Project status reporting, project control and communication issues will be covered. Students will use MS Project software to plan and monitor a project.. Formerly titled: Process & Project Management
Students with credit for GMGT 683 and/or 684 may not earn credit for GMGT 641.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-642 European Bus Perspective (3)
The course will focus on the European Union, its history and financial markets including international taxation and accounting standards. At the end of the semester each student will participate in a twelve-day excursion to Europe.
Additional fees apply.
Attributes: TGMB ZEXL ZRES ZTRA
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-643 Quant Mthd/Intro Analytics (3)
This course prepares students to use basic statistics and data analytics techniques to make decisions in the business environment. Students use the statistical program R to examine and graphically represent data, use data analytics techniques to explore the underlying structures of data, and to apply those techniques to relevant business problems. Subjects taught in the course include statistics and probability, data visualization, hypothesis testing, and multiple types of regression models.
Attributes: NLIB TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-644 Better Thinking (3)
How many times have you heard that critical thinking is an important life skill, or professional skill? Here is a class that is entirely devoted to teach you how to think about your thinking. We explore how to be able to cut through false facts (fake news?), misleading numbers, and all the other intentional (and unintentional) methods that exist to prevent you from clearly stating a problem and arriving at a logical conclusion. You learn about many of the biases in your thinking that many of us share and how we can neutralize and overcome these biases – we are fighting thousands and even millions of years of evolution on this one. In the end, you gain an enhanced ability to effectively interact with your personal and professional environment.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-645 Negotiations&Mediation (3)
This is a course that is focused on practice. There is theory exposure in this course but the emphasis is on the preparation for, conduct of and analysis of negotiation scenarios and individual student’s participation therein.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-646 Intrntl Financl Actg Rprtg (3)
The overriding purpose of this course is to examine International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the anticipated convergence of U.S. GAAP to IFRS. The course addresses current topic areas in financial accounting and reporting including key IFRS/U.S. GAAP differences. The course includes a series of classroom debates concerning current and controversial issues in financial accounting and reporting. Major topic areas include leases, financial instruments, impairments, revenue recognition, business combinations, and the first time adoption of IFRS. Students with credit for GMGT 562 may not earn credit for GMGT 646.
Attributes: TGMB ZEXL ZRES
Pre-requisites: GMGT-573 C OR (ACCT-101 C AND ACCT-102 C)
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-647 Advanced Topics in Fed Tax (3)
This course addresses advanced topics in individual, corporate, and partnership taxation. Specific topics covered include taxation of property transactions, including capital gains and losses, Section 1231 gains and losses, and Section 1031 exchanges; taxation of corporations and the tax implications of corporate distributions and corporate organization; and an examination of partnership taxation, including the tax implications of contributions to a partnership and distributions by a partnership. Students will learn these topics through study of the Internal Revenue Code and through examination of the relevant tax reporting forms issued by the Internal Revenue Service.
NOTE: Completion of ACCT 311 Introduction to Federal Taxation or equivalent with a grade of C or higher is required prior to registration.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Level: GraduateGMGT-648 Acct & Bus Analytics (3)
A study of the structure and application of tools, technologies, and models for analyzing, designing, and implementing accounting information systems. The course also enables the student to learn the concepts surrounding Information Technology (IT) auditing and how the IT audit is integrated with the financial audit process. Using the Control Objectives for Information and related Technologies (COBIT) methodology, the student will execute an IT audit and learn to identify, evaluate, document, and provide recommendations to improve IT controls which include program change management, logical/physical security, computer operations, and application/automated controls.
Formerly titled: Accounting Information Systems
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Level: GraduateGMGT-649 Commercial Law & Resp (3)
This course examines specific areas of law as they relate to business. Topics include negotiable instruments; the banking system; secured transactions, debt collection; bankruptcy; corporate acquisitions and takeovers; corporate dissolution; investor protection; antitrust law, real property; personal property (including bailments); sales and lease contracts; ethics; and professional liability. These topics will be examined through study of relevant statutes, case law, and legal filings with government bodies such as the U.S. Federal Court and the New York Secretary of State, as well as a survey of recent current events. In addition to a midterm and final examination, students will be expected to research a particular area of interest covered in the course and write a research paper. Students with credit for GMGT 559 may not earn credit for GMGT 649.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-651 Nonprofit Management (3)
The Nonprofit Management course critically examines issues that nonprofit organizations face today. The course will focus on providing excellent service efficiently while maintaining accountability. Topics to be covered include: an overview of the nonprofit sector from a historical context, government interaction, opportunities for growth (social entrepreneurship), the new nonprofit leader (volunteer and staff), surviving in a stagnant economy, and other recent trends. This course is aimed at students who are interested in employment in nonprofit organizations as well as students who are serving on, or interested in serving on, nonprofit governance boards.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-671 Special Topics I (3)
Fall 2022 Topic:
GMGT 671 01 Topic: Performance Management
An organization?s ability to achieve its mission, vision and strategic goals is largely dependent on how well each individual employee performs. However, organizations often struggle to maximize employee performance while also maintaining employee morale and motivation high. The purpose of this course is to discuss, investigate and analyze the key elements of successful employee performance management systems in order to properly measure and improve employee performance. Students in this course will gain a theoretical and conceptual understanding of key factors involved in assessing performance of employees, including strategic goal setting, measurement of employee performance, and effective delivery of performance feedback. This course also includes practical application of the concepts and tools discussed in class through case studies and group projects.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Level: GraduateGMGT-672 Special Topics II (3)
Summer 2022 topics:
GMGT 672 Section 56 Leading Upstate NY Bus Agility
Attributes: TGMB ZEXL
Inspiring stories of leaders during a pandemic. This series of seminars features interviews with regional business leaders who have quickly adapted and innovatively shifted their business strategies and operations to respond to challenges and seized opportunities of doing business during a pandemic. Leaders from across different industries share how they are keeping their businesses operational, keeping their employees safe and motivated, and even developing new products while driving community-mindedness to new heights. Industries include manufacturing, health care, sports, distribution, service providers and education.
Restrictions: Including: -Level: GraduateGMGT-673 Valuation (3)
The course is an in-depth study of the valuation of privately-held business. Students learn the four elements of a valuation report, study macro- and micro-economic factors that affect valuation, perform detailed financial statement analysis using liquidity, leverage and profitability ratios and other accounting data and perform valuations using a variety of income, market and asset-based techniques. Students employ undergraduate business concepts such as cost of capital, discounted cash flow and SWOT analysis.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-680 Marketing Concept&Strategy (3)
There are many indications that marketing thought and practice have now moved into a new era. The fundamental premise underlying current marketing strategy is that customers are the starting point in successful business strategy formulation. In this course, we discuss how companies become market driven and display proficiency in skills related to the formulation of marketing strategies that are customer-focused and competitive. In this course, students will have an opportunity to develop these skills by applying marketing strategy concepts and methods in case studies, simulations, experiential exercises, and a comprehensive term project.
Attributes: TGMB ZCIV
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management Graduate, Management -Level: GraduateGMGT-681 Capstone:Bus Strtgy&Policy (3)
This course is a field experience where students demonstrate competencies required by the business world. Every semester, a set of managerial problems from local enterprises is gathered by the course supervisor. Each problem is formulated similar to a consulting project and then solved by student teams for the client. The experience is designed to accommodate the specific aspects of each project. With its encompassing nature, this is a capstone course that entails crafting a well-conceived diagnostic and solutions to real-life problems.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-682 Financial Management II (3)
This course provides students with an opportunity to develop an understanding of financial and accounting issues that confront managers. Topics to be addressed include accounting and financial reporting (Sarbanes-Oxley); financial analysis; financial modeling and valuation; global financial and accounting systems and risk management; and mergers and acquisitions. Accounting standards and financial theories relating to these topics are reviewed, discussed, and analyzed. The case method will be implemented throughout this course. While the basic skills and tools of financial and accounting management are relied upon, the real cases offer an exposure to advanced and complex problems that challenge managers in the corporate world. Formerly titled: Integ Adv Fin & Acct Anlys
Attributes: TGMB
Pre-requisites: -
Restrictions: Including: -Level: GraduateGMGT-685 Leadership Development (3)
The course takes a hands-on approach to areas of leadership functioning such as developing emotionally intelligent behaviors and relationships; team building and team learning; overcoming resistance to change; reframing leadership dilemmas; ethical decision-making; and practicing transactional and transformational leadership. Students have the opportunity to test and assess their capabilities in a safe and supportive learning environment. In addition, there is a workplace experiential learning component enabling students to evaluate their leadership practice in an authentic setting.
Attributes: TGMB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Management GraduateGMGT-695 Accounting Theory/Research (3)
The course addresses the accounting concepts and principles that underlie current U.S. financial accounting and reporting requirements, as well as accountants? ethical and professional responsibilities needed to ensure that accounting reports are accurate and complete. Case analysis and class discussion are the primary pedagogies of instruction. The course addresses advanced topics in financial reporting and accounting and focuses on both controversial and complex corporate reporting issues. Although some emphasis will be placed on the analysis, interpretation, and use of accounting data, the accountant?s reporting function to external users (investors and creditors) will be prioritized. This course is the capstone course in the MBA Accounting Concentration and includes a significant culminating experience. This experience requires students to consider an important current accounting issue that has both theory and practice dimensions. Students will work in teams, make a group presentation, and turn in a research report.
NOTE: Completion of ACCT 304 Advanced Financial Accounting or equivalent with a grade of C or higher is required prior to registration.
Attributes: TGMB ZEXL
Restrictions: Including: -Level: GraduateGMGT-697 Tax Challenge (3)
Each fall a team of accounting students is chosen to represent the college at the Tax Challenge. Team members meet during the months of August, September, and October, and November to prepare for the competition, which is usually held on a weekend in the beginning of November. This course may be used to satisfy the accounting elective in the MBA accounting concentration. Permission of the instructor is required to register.
Attributes: TGMB