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The core curriculum, required for all MBA-GM students, focuses on business analysis and leadership skills, analytical tools and grounding in key emerging business areas. |
Core Course Descriptions
Includes:
- Foundations: Mandatory one-week course for all incoming students, including the part-tiime evening program, covering key aspects of leadership, team building, motivation, ethics, cross-cultural communication, self-assessment and opportunities to explore career management and job search strategies. During Foundations Week, students join learning groups that interact on-and off-campus. This enhances teamwork and provides a living global experience in which you interact with students from all over the world.
- Foundational global courses: Emphasis on business analysis and leadership skills, tools for macro-environmental analysis and grounding in important emerging business areas.
- Thunderbird Global Experience: Two-week courses at international locations during which you meet business leaders of international organizations. You also have the opportunity to examine and discuss management problems through a local and global perspective.
- Global Enterprise: Preparatory course on intra-entrepreneurship, innovation and global citizenship -- key drivers in a competitive global society that relies on innovation for marketplace success.
- Global Business Plan/Integrative Experience: An experience that allows you to use the functional knowledge and skills you've learned to develop viable business plans. If you choose not to complete a business plan, you may complete a capstone course that integrates the functional areas of business.
The complete core course list includes:
- Foundations
- International Political Economy
- Fundamentals of Accounting
- Financial Accounting & External Reporting
- Managerial Decision-making
- Fundamentals of Finance
- Financial Management
- Global Financial Management
- International Economics
- Data Analysis
- Global Operations Management
- Managing Projects
- Competing Through People
- Competing Through Strategy
- Global Marketing
- Regional Business Environment: Asia, Europe, Latin America or North America
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- Global Negotiations (Traditional Program only)
- Global Strategy
- Global Leadership
In the Accelerated Program, the accounting, finance, data analysis, Competing Through People and Competing Through Strategy courses are provided in a compressed format. The remaining courses are the same in both programs.