The online MBA from Pace focuses on the core areas of focus in business such as: business economics, marketing performance, operations management, strategy, and analytics. Additionally, students in the program can select an HR Management, Corporate Finance, Marketing Management, or Business concentration. Through hands-on training, you will learn the latest management techniques, gain insight into the global market, and learn how to analyze and apply new business methods.
Professionals who graduate from Pace can excel as they confidently navigate the multifaceted world of business with ease.
“I am a professional ballet dancer for New York City Ballet and we perform six days a week making traditional educational schedules and formats impossible. The Pace experience differs because it is extremely interactive. I was constantly in communication with my fellow classmates or my professor.”
Emily Kitka, ’22 oMBA
Curriculum
The MBA requires the completion of 10 required courses. Students who pursue the Business concentration will complete 3 Lubin 600-level electives (39 credit hours), and those who choose the Corporate Finance, HR Management, or Marketing Management concentration will pick 3 electives from select options. Additional elective courses will be offered in future semesters. Students can work with their advisor to determine the most appropriate electives for their course of study. Below are the courses and their descriptions.
Course Descriptions
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This course introduces students to economic concepts relevant to managerial decisions and the global economic environment in which firms operate. Key topics include demand and supply, elasticity, marginal analysis, market structures, economic growth and productivity, income determination, fiscal and monetary policy, and international trade and monetary systems. Students will acquire skill in applying economic concepts to complex business situations, learn to analyze economic policy issues and how these issues influence firm decision-making, and enhance their ability to analyze and communicate complex economic data.
This course provides a graduate-level overview of financial accounting principles. Accounting is the language of business. Companies communicate their performance to investors, creditors, and government agencies using information generated by accounting systems.
Gain a complete understanding of how marketing integrates within the business environment including small businesses and large enterprises. Examine the marketing function from idea generation of a product/service enhancement or new product development to defining its place in the consumer or business market. Learn what market research tools and techniques to use to identify challenges in positioning products and creating advertising and promotion strategies that help the marketer position for success. Learn what it takes to successfully manage a marketing operation including the decisions regarding product, pricing, promotion, distribution, and customer relationship marketing decisions.
This course introduces students to the financial system and presents fundamental financial concepts, such as the time value of money, the relationship between risk and return, security valuation, and the financing of firms. Students will learn how the governance of corporations affects their operation and what managers and security-holders need to do to create value for themselves and for their organizations. They will be able to manipulate valuation formulas, interpret a firm’s financial statements, and understand the basics of how to best raise funds to finance different kinds of projects and companies.
This course covers statistical and business analytics tools useful for making effective managerial decisions in a disorganized and uncertain environment in all functional areas of business. Students learn the essential statistical topics of description, probability, inference and regression, and how to apply them using Microsoft Excel. They learn how to choose appropriate statistical methods in realistic business contexts and how to interpret and effectively communicate results. Students also learn how to use data visualization tools, pivot tables and charts, data tables, linear programming models, and Monte Carlo simulation.
This course delves into design, management, and improvement of the operations function for ongoing products and services, and all of the coordinated activities required to ensure the success of a project. Students learn from lectures, case studies, and experiential exercises on how to develop operations strategy, improve process flows, manage capacity and congestion, improve quality, and manage the global supply chain. Students also learn how to plan, organize, schedule, and monitor project implementation. Topics include forecasting, process flow analysis, inventory control, quality control, supply chains, project planning, and project scheduling using PERT/CPM.
Students are taught to understand the complex process of matching employees to tasks and initiatives, managing talent, leading and motivating individuals and the workforce, understanding culture and its impacts, and establishing productive relationships with those with whom the manager has no formal authority such as peers and those senior to them. From the leadership perspective, it is about getting things done while maintaining employee satisfaction, morale, and productivity, and knowing when to make decisions on one’s own and when to involve staff. From the organizational perspective, it provides theories and research that will help a manager understand why employees do what they do, including the why of individual, group, and organizational reactions to initiatives and change, and how to manage these dynamic processes.
This course explores the impact of cutting-edge technologies on organizations. Technology innovations such as Blockchain, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and automation continue to disrupt the business landscape in industries from financial services to fashion. These technologies are changing operations, management, and supply chain management. In order to become an effective manager and leader in this turbulent environment, it is important to understand these new technologies and the innovation process to better manage organizations in industries facing disruption.
In this course, you will learn about global business, ethics, social responsibility, and legal systems. Business in the global environment is comprised of many factors: the parts played by governments, international institutions, regulations, world monetary and trade systems, global ethics, social responsibility, cultural diversity, differences in opportunities, environmental concerns, economic development, technology, economy, and education among others. The course discusses the conflicts among corporate beneficiaries and socially responsible corporate responses.
This course explores the role of managers in making the strategic decisions of organizations. Managers determining and achieving objectives and formulating and implementing corporate and business strategy in a global environment. Provides comprehensive frameworks for identifying, evaluating, and recommending how a firm structures its relationship to its environment to create value and achieve performance. Recognizes that successful managers not only determine what organizations should do but also focus on and motivate behavior for doing it. Integrates the knowledge, skills, and attitudes acquired in other courses and in prior experience to develop practical general management policies. This capstone course includes a significant project or paper.
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Introduces selected advanced topics in financial management. Topics include: investment and financial decisions in perfect markets under certainty and uncertainty, single- and multi-period valuation models, implications of imperfect capital markets, capital asset pricing model, applications of portfolio theory.
Surveys the financial environment, goals, and problems of the multinational corporation. Analyzes the financial opportunities and risks resulting from business operations in differing political, economic, and monetary systems. Topics include: balance of payments accounting and analysis techniques, the evolution of the international monetary system with special emphasis on current issues, foreign exchange rate determination and forecasting, foreign exchange risk and exposure management techniques, environmental risk management. Covers special topics in international finance such as working capital management strategies, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and optimal financial structure.
This course uses an integrated framework to explore the implications of financial decisions such as working capital management, capital structure, and financial risk management for non-financial business decisions. Tools such as the Porter model, Dupont Analysis, and game theory are used to show how finance theory can be used to craft strategy in operational domains such as marketing, human resource management, supply chain management, and competitive positioning.
This course introduces students to the field of behavioral finance and economics. It will discuss behavioral aspects of the decision making of professional investors, traders, strategy consultants, as well as senior managers in the corporate world, NGOs, and academia. The course will emphasize behavioral biases and their impact on decision making. In addition, the course will explore how behavioral theories could explain market anomalies, such as excess volatility.
Introduces the American legal system with particular emphasis on the relationship of law to business, including the development of law, the judicial system, contracts, agency, negotiable instruments, partnerships, corporations, and government trade and labor regulation.
Explains how to apply concepts and techniques from the behavioral sciences (psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and marketing research) to marketing management. Case studies are used to develop application skills.
Examines the use of research as a tool for decision-making. Topics include: defining information needs, value of information, scientific method, exploratory research, questionnaire construction, sample design, field work, editing, tabulation, report writing, and presentation.
Examines how to develop and market new products and services. Students learn all aspects of this important activity. Case studies are used extensively. Students create complete programs for new products or services.
Explains the responsibilities of the product (brand) manager with a focus on planning. Covers control systems, problems encountered during execution of plans, and contingency plans. Students are required to prepare workable marketing plans.
Rapid changes in communications technology and the globalization of markets have changed the way marketers plan and manage innovation. Communities of customers now play a much larger role in shaping innovation strategy and execution. Reflecting recent changes in how consumers interact with companies, this course focuses on topics such as engaging customers through the innovative use of technology, understanding consumers’ group interactions that may affect their decision making processes as well as their perceptions of the value of products, services, and brands. Special emphasis is placed on the dynamic methods of interaction with customers that optimize product development, distribution and alternative selling methods. This course integrates quantitative analyses, case studies, and/or team projects to show how theory can be applied in real time problem-solving within a fiercely competitive marketplace.
Directs students towards an international perspective of the human resource management (HRM) function. Students will examine the unique demands of global firms and their consequential impact on strategic human resource management issues. Specific focus will be on the need for localization of practices in different countries/regions yet necessity of integration for consistency in the organization. International HRM practices arising from cross-border alliances, joint ventures, and international acquisitions will be compared for their efficacies in a variety of situations. Prerequisites: MGT 680 with minimum grade of C.
Introduces students to the effects of employment dynamics, union organization and representation, collective bargaining and negotiation, grievance and arbitration processes, labor laws and governmental agencies regulating labor practices, and EEO/AA/ADA issues on labor-management relations in the public and private sectors of the workplace.
Equips students with quantitative analytics to evaluate and improve the performance of the human resources function, human resources practices, and the talent that exists within the human resource function. Students will learn how to systematically collect, analyze, and interpret quantitative data to improve human resources decision making. Topics include fundamentals of HR Analytics, HR information systems and data, HR analytical techniques, scenario modeling, predictive analytics, and HR scorecards. This course also provides knowledge of popular analytical tools to identify, evaluate, and resolve HR issues.
Provides an in-depth analysis of the key themes and emerging topics faced by global enterprises when dealing with HRM issues in Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.
Provides an in-depth analysis of the key themes and emerging topics faced by global enterprises when dealing with HRM in North America, Europe, and Latin America.
Examines important topics related to managing talent, including employees categorized as high potentials, A players, and Stars. Focuses on how organizations attract, develop, retain, and mobilize talent, and how the talent management function can facilitate a variety of organizational goals. Topics include talent identification, talent pools, critical jobs, succession planning, executive compensation, leadership development, high-performance work systems, and more.
Focuses on the development and maintenance of effective personnel policy in the modern organization. Topics include methods and techniques of job analysis, manpower planning, recruiting and selection, training and development, compensation, performance appraisal, and legal guidelines and compliance requirements. Stresses application of personnel management to achieving overall organizational goals.
Develops competence in planning and conducting research into organizational problems and in interpreting and using research to help achieve managerial objectives. Covers research tools used by practitioners in organizational development and human resources management, including the conceptual foundations of scientific research, research design and methodology, data collection, analysis and reporting, application of research findings, and social and legal aspects of organizational research. Prerequisites: MBA 620 and MBA 646 with a minimum grade of C, or MBA 670 and MBA 628 with a minimum grade of C.
Examines the concepts, problems, issues, and practices involved in training and developing the human resources of organizations, with an emphasis on the development of managers. Through exercises, cases, and projects, students will assess training and development needs, identify training objectives, design and develop training programs, plan program delivery, and evaluate the effectiveness of training programs.
Examines techniques for assessing the current performance and future potential of workers and managers in organizations, and explores methodologies to forecast the potential of new job candidates. Provides both theory and practice supporting modern approaches to the design and administration of compensation systems for workers, professionals, and managers.
Equips students with a strategic perspective in the recruitment and staffing functions of an organization. Students will examine critical recruitment and staffing issues and the means to address them. Topics include the strategic impact of staffing decisions, the legal environment of staffing, job analysis, external and internal recruitment and staffing processes, selection decisions, and retention and staff-flow management.
Examines selected topics in management. Contact the Department for specific topic selections. Prerequisites: MBA 620 or MBA 670 with a minimum grade of C.
Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, students prepare a research document addressing an organizational problem. The project includes collection of appropriate information and primary data, analysis and evaluation of findings, and a final presentation of conclusions and recommendations.
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