Flex Fall Curriculum

The course objective is to facilitate an understanding of the financial reporting process and the importance of financial reporting for well-functioning capital markets. The course prepares students for subsequent MSB courses that presume a basic understanding of how to use financial data. Interviewers for graduate-level positions in all functional areas assume familiarity with and a working knowledge of financial data and financial statements. This is particularly true for those in the investment banking and consulting fields.

Leading Teams for Performance and Impact (LTPI) is a foundational MBA course designed to build the interpersonal, analytical, and behavioral skills required to lead and collaborate effectively in modern organizations. Grounded in behavioral science and enriched through experiential learning, the course emphasizes self-awareness, interpersonal effectiveness, inclusive leadership, and the dynamics of high-performing teams. Rather than relying solely on lectures or case discussions, LTPI engages students in simulations, leadership assessments, reflective exercises, and hands-on team challenges. Students explore team dynamics, including information sharing, decision-making, conflict management, and social influence, all within the context of increasingly global and diverse organizations. Throughout the module, students deepen their understanding of how identity, power, and interpersonal differences shape team culture and performance. Students leave LTPI with a clearer sense of who they are as leaders, how to leverage their strengths, and how to build, motivate, and influence teams for meaningful impact.

Managerial Economics introduces the fundamental concepts of economics—the “mother tongue” of all business. It provides the foundation for understanding a wide range of other business disciplines, including finance, strategy, and operations management. The course equips students with tools to make economically sound business decisions and to understand the conditions that shape profitability across industries. It begins with core economic concepts such as supply and demand, costs, and market equilibrium, and then examines how firms behave under different market structures—from perfect competition to monopoly and oligopoly. It explores how firms set prices, decide when to enter or exit markets, and respond to competitors. The course then introduces game-theoretic reasoning to analyze interactions among firms and concludes by examining relationships along firms’ value chains, as well as sources of market failure and approaches to addressing them. Throughout, students develop the ability to apply economic reasoning to think analytically about real-world business problems and to build a foundation for future coursework in strategic management and related fields.

Statistics is the science and art of extracting useful information from data. It is both Descriptive and Inferential. While the former deals with methods of organizing, summarizing and presenting numerical data, the latter is concerned with methods for making inferences and drawing conclusions about characteristics of a population based on sample information. Business statistics introduces MBAs to concepts, methods, and techniques that are used extensively in business decision-making activities, both in the public and private sectors. The techniques introduced in this course are used in all functional areas of business, including accounting, finance, marketing, production and personnel management. These techniques and methods are tools for analysis, communication, and decision-making in the international business environment. Because the business environment is characterized by uncertainty, statistics also provides business managers with tools necessary to arrive at conclusions and to make decisions in uncertain situations.