- Teacher: Bill Chen
This is an On-Line MBA Class
- Teacher: Meskerem Tadesse
- Teacher: Chi Sheh
Application of scientific methods, techniques, and tools to provide optimum solutions to problems involving the operation of systems. Focuses on analysis and solution of managerial decision-making problems. Major topics include data visualization, descriptive data mining, statistical inference, linear regression, and time series analysis.
Course Objectives
· Able to Describe the challenges of big data and its relevance in business
· Able to apply basic data analytics tools to various areas in business
· Able to apply big data on regression and optimization models
- Teacher: Bill Chen
Introduces foundation concepts of information systems (IS) in business; technologies such as hardware, software, database, networks; business applications such as Internet, Intranet, Extranet, electronic business/ commerce; and the IS development life cycle.
As the past 20 years have shown, Internet creates both treasure and tumult. These disruptions aren’t going away and will almost certainly accelerate, impacting organizations, careers, and job functions throughout your lifetime. It’s time to place Internet technology at the center of the management information systems roadmap to be successfully managing a digital firm.
Course Objectives
Students will analyze and incorporate an understanding of the various roles and tasks of the Management Information Systems manager.
• Thrives in an Internet Technology-Rich business world.
• Surveys technological and organizational techniques of the computer hardware, software, networking & data.
• Practices information systems project in a life cycle that progresses in stages from analysis to implementation and maintenance.
• Able to identify and review the information system risks, ethical behaviors and social responsibility issues in managing the information system functions.
- Teacher: Stephen Wu
Surveys international trade theory, commercial trade policy, international finance, & open-economy macroeconomics. Discusses international flow of goods, services, assets, & payments & regulating policies. Evaluates government policies & current trends.
- Teacher: Wuu-Long Lin
There are two course texts:
Michael J. Worth, Nonprofit Management, Principles and Practice;
Sage Publisher, 6th Ed. ISBN-13 9781483375991
Peter F. Drucker, Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices; HarperCollins, ISBN-13 978-0887306013
- Teacher: Stephen O'Sullivan
Reviews relevant philosophies; discusses ethics from different religious perspectives, particularly humanistic Buddhism, & emphasizes how such philosophy & ethics can be effectively used in modern organizations & management.
Why This is Important?
How can you be an ethical corporate citizen in an increasingly complex, multiple-stakeholder world?
This is the most pressing question facing businesses today, small and large, local and global. Business Ethics is a thorough yet accessible exploration of the main ethical theories and how these apply to the major stakeholders facing this question.
- Teacher: Murray Johannsen