Professional MBA

ACC 801 Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis – 3 Credit

This course introduces the concepts, principles, and standards of financial reporting. It emphasizes how financial data is reported and its impact on the decisions of external users. Topics covered include financial statements, the accounting recording process, sales revenue, receivables, inventory, fixed assets, debt and equity financing, cash flow, EBIT, EBITDA, and financial statement analysis.

BAN 800 Fundamental Statistical Methods for Decision Making - 1.5 Credit

This course covers basic statistics tools and concepts to teach students how to apply statistical analysis to managerial decisions. By requiring hands-on statistical analysis using MS Excel, the course also aims to develop the students’ data analysis skills. Descriptive statistics, statistical significance, hypothesis testing and linear regression topics are covered and their applications for a variety of business decision are discussed.

FIN 802 Principles Of Finance – 3 Credit

This course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of financial management. Financial concepts are examined from both managerial and entrepreneurial perspectives, with a focus on local and global applications. Topics include the use of accounting data, financial analysis, planning, time value of money, project evaluation, risk-return relationship, capital structure, asset and firm valuation, risk management, and financial derivatives.

MGMT 801 Global Business Context – 1.5 Credit

This topic examines the relationship between globalization and the world of business and management. Topics include human resources and product management strategies of international businesses, changing consumer behaviors, global information technology, finance and capital markets, impacts on macroeconomic balance, the global trade and investment environment, economic growth, agreements such as the EU, GATT, and NAFTA, and the relationship between globalization and modernization.

MGMT 808 Ethics in Business – 1.5 Credit

This course explores ethical perspectives and reasoning in the business world, aiming to enhance our moral inquiry capacity and sensitivity to unethical practices. Ethical dilemmas are addressed by examining the philosophical foundations of economic theory and management science. Additionally, topics such as social responsibility, ethical investment, corporate governance, ethical codes, professional ethics, and the future of market societies are analyzed.

MGMT 811 Business Simulation – 1.5 Credit

The aim of this course is to enable students to integrate and apply the knowledge and experience they have gained throughout the program in a team-based computer simulation. Participants manage production, marketing, and finance functions together while tracking their success in target markets by comparing it with competitors. At the end of the performance evaluation process, their managerial skills are assessed.

MGMT 814 Economics for Managers – 1.5 Credit

The aim of this course is to introduce students to fundamental economic concepts and the economic reasoning methods used by economists. The course focuses on the market economy and the decision-making problems faced by firms.

MKTG 801 Marketing Management – 3 Credit

Marketing management provides businesses with a creative thinking and strategic decision-making process, enabling them to deliver products and services to customers in physical or virtual environments. It explores strategies to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in globalized markets. By leveraging psychology, sociology, and economics, it develops strategies for effectively building and maintaining customer relationships.

OPIM 801 Operations and Supply Chain Management   – 3 Credit

This course focuses on the development, production, and distribution processes of goods and services in businesses. The aim is to understand business operations and develop effective solutions to decision-making problems. Topics include operations strategy, process design and improvement, quality, capacity and supply chain management, as well as the operational similarities and differences across various industries.

ORG 801 Organizational Behavior and Leadership – 3 Credit

Organizational Behavior and Leadership is a course that examines human behavior, thoughts, emotions, and behavioral patterns within institutions. It covers topics such as motivation, decision-making, leadership, corporate culture, communication, conflict, power, team processes, change, and structure. Organizational behavior emphasizes the importance of awareness and the development of managerial skills for becoming an effective leader.

The following list of electives is provided here to give candidates some idea about the type of courses offered in the program. Although the actual list of courses may vary every year, the provided list is mostly made up of courses that are offered regularly.

BAN 802 Data-driven Decision Making - 1.5 Credits

As the second of the two-course series that start with BAN 900 or BAN 800, this course continues the coverage of basic probability and statistics tools/concepts to teach students how to apply these for managerial decisions. By requiring hands-on analysis using MS Excel, the course also aims to develop the students’ data analysis skills. Emphasis placed on the applications of these tools and techniques for a variety of business decisions.

FIN 806 Behavioral Finance - 1.5 Credits

Behavioral finance combines psychological theories with economic and financial principles to explain the factors influencing financial decisions. While neoclassical economists assume that individuals act rationally, this is not always the case in real life. Behavioral finance examines market inefficiencies, misinterpretation of information, biases, and perceptual errors. The CFA curriculum emphasizes behavioral finance. This course explores irrational investor behaviors and the psychological biases that affect financial decision-making.

FIN 899 Wealth Management  -  1.5 Credits

The course emphasizes the practical aspects of financial portfolio management. It aims to develop students' understanding of portfolio management by engaging them in real-life problem-solving throughout the course. Topics include the investment decision-making process, investment policy statement, individual and institutional portfolio management, capital market expectations, asset allocation, and the technical and practical principles of portfolio management activities.

MGMT 816 Sustainability Transformation - 3 Credits

The course aims to accelerate the business world’s transition to sustainable development through action-oriented, interdisciplinary, and applied approaches. It offers a critical perspective by examining the intersections of sustainable development, markets, and business organizations from a multi-stakeholder viewpoint. Topics include the re-conceptualization of a firm's purpose, governance impacts, the transformation of financial markets, and transformative networks.

MGMT 821 Business and Society – 1.5 SU Credits

This course aims to strengthen your understanding of business and its representations in recent sociological theories. More specifically, t will introduce the students to the interaction between business and social change and transformation in connection with the shifts in modernity.

MGMT 824 Negotiation Skills – 1.5 SU Credits
Negotiation skills are a crucial component of managerial abilities. This course focuses on developing negotiation skills, enabling participants to act more consciously and competently in challenging situations. Additionally, it provides opportunities to recognize negotiation settings in daily life and improve these skills. The course is based on discussion and role-playing methods, allowing participants to engage in active negotiations.

MGMT 857 Leadership and Meaning Management – 1.5 SU Credits

This course examines leadership as a situated organizational practice rather than a set of individual traits or generic skills. It focuses on what leaders actually do when working through others to shape direction, build alignment, and mobilize action under constraint and competing pressures. Students learn to read what a situation demands rather than fall back on a fixed style; to work with interests, alliances, and resistance instead of against them; to use narrative and framing to create shared direction; and to build and use influence across people they do not control. These capacities come together in leading change under uncertainty, the course's central concern. Cases, exercises, and structured reflection on participants' own situations turn each idea into transferable practice.

MGMT 865 AI for Executives – 1.5 SU Credits

This course provides Executive MBA and MBA students with a strategic, technical, and organizational understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its transformative potential in modern enterprises. Participants will explore the foundations of AI, key methodologies including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and generative AI, as well as the rise of agentic AI systems. Through an integrated approach combining theory, case studies, and practical examples, students will learn how AI technologies have evolved, how they operate, and how they are applied across industries such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and services. Beyond the technical aspects, the course emphasizes AI's crucial role in enterprise strategy, data governance, and digital transformation. Students will engage with frameworks for AI maturity, ethical AI governance, and responsible deployment, while also examining leadership mindset, organizational models, and change management challenges essential for successful AI adoption. The course equips future leaders to make informed decisions, evaluate AI opportunities, and lead their organizations in leveraging AI for innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

MGMT 878 Personal Branding – 1.5 SU Credits

In today’s global and competitive job market, it’s not enough to have strong technical and cognitive skills. How individuals present and position themselves also plays a key role in their career success. A well-prepared résumé is important, but professional presence, digital visibility, and the ability to tell your personal story matter just as much. This Personal Branding course helps participants identify their unique strengths, values, and career goals and communicate them in a clear and strategic way. It aims to support individuals in building a strong and authentic personal brand that sets them apart in their professional lives. In today’s digital world, tools like social media, LinkedIn, and AI-powered platforms are essential in managing and growing a personal brand. That’s why personal branding is becoming one of the must-have skills for modern professionals.

MGMT 896 Managerial Skills Development – 1.5 SU Credits

Managerial Skills Workshop is a series of seminars and hands-on activities designed to develop various team and professional skills of the MBA students to support them as they embark on their careers.

MKTG 804 Digital Marketing Strategy – 1.5 SU Credits

This course focuses on how brands can reach consumer networks, build strong customer relationships and influence the digital pathway to purchase. Applying a digital marketing strategy in five steps, the course aims to provide practical examples on how products, ideas and behaviors spread and become popular. Digital advertising mix channels will be introduced and its principles will be covered. Finally, measurement and monitoring of digital marketing activities and agile marketing elements and their effects will be discussed.

MKTG 807 Sales Management – 1.5 SU Credits
The Sales Management course aims to examine the effectiveness of the sales force and its role in marketing efforts. It helps students understand the impact of marketing. Course objectives include teaching the sales process, the relationship between sales and marketing, sales force structure, customer relationship management (CRM), technology usage, and the selection, training, motivation, and compensation of sales representatives.

MKTG 814 AI-Enable Marketing Solutions – 1.5 SU Credits

AI-Enabled Marketing Solutions is a hands-on course in which students take real marketing problems and transform them into practical deliverables — such as interactive dashboards, working applications, data-driven content, or other AI-supported solutions. Throughout the course, students develop the critical judgment to determine where AI genuinely adds value, where simpler methods are more appropriate, and where no effective solution yet exists. Rather than focusing on today's AI tools alone, the course emphasizes transferable problem-solving skills and ways of thinking that will remain valuable as AI continues to evolve. No coding experience is required.

MKTG 819 Trade and B2B Marketing – 1.5 SU Credits
This course focuses on the characteristics and methods of B2B marketing. B2B marketing requires reaching a limited number of customers in large batches and with long cycle times. Topics include industry-based marketing approaches, the use of Unique Buying Propositions (UBP) instead of Unique Selling Propositions (USP), and relationship marketing. Additionally, the processes of winning and losing bids, a long-term perspective, and commercial marketing will be discussed.

MKTG 823 International Marketing – 1.5 SU Credits
The International Marketing course introduces graduate students to the fundamentals of the global business world and prepares MBA students for complex challenges they may face. The course aims to provide knowledge on strategic marketing practices. It examines how companies from Japan, the U.S., and Europe operate in international markets, as well as firms in emerging economies.

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