Department: Master of Business Admin

Code Name Description
HCM700 Determinants Indivduals Populations Introduces the social, economic, biological, behavioral, political and racial determinants of health in individuals and populations. Identifies the processes and practices that lead to healthcare inequity and injustice. Explores definitions of health...
HCM701 Hc Informatics, Data, Biostatistics Study of the health informatics domain, including emergence of the discipline, health information systems design and implementation, clinical data standards theory and development, and electronic record integration into the healthcare system. Overvie...
HCM702 Healthcare Ethics Examination of the ethical and social issues surrounding the practice of medicine, the delivery of healthcare across the lifespan and the making and implementation of healthcare practice and policy. Complex socio-medical and medico-legal issues will...
HCM703 Healthcare Policy & Economics Health policy is examined from an economic perspective. Basic economic theories and their relationships to the structure and function of the U.S. healthcare system are explored. Alternative healthcare systems and healthcare reforms are also evaluated...
HCM704 Healthcare Systems Design & Leadership Presents the evolution, structure and current issues in the healthcare system. Examines the unique features of healthcare as a product, and the changing relationships between patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, communities, and gove...
HCM705 Healthcare Finance & Payment Models Presents financial management of healthcare organizations, planning and decision-making in healthcare. Payer-payee models are presented, with emphasis on financing and healthcare reimbursement.
MBA510 Financial Acctg for Managers This course introduces students to the critical concepts and terminology of accounting, often called the language of business. The course includes the financial content typically found in a two-course undergraduate accounting sequence. Prerequisite:...
MBA520 Analytical Skills for Managers Provides background in quantitative methods required for advanced MBA coursework. The course focuses on using mathematical and statistical reasoning and computation to solve organizational problems. Topics include the time value of money, present val...
MBA530 Business Foundations This course provides students with the concepts and tolls to understand businesses and the environments in which they operate in preparation for graduate study in the field. Elements of business environment covered in the course include economics, bu...
MBA600 Leading People in Organizations Provides concepts and best practices for leading individuals and groups toward working more effectively. Central issues include dealing with different personalities, motivating others, using people’s best abilities, and building social influence and...
MBA601 Economic Analysis for Managers Along with MBA 602, this course provides perspectives and tools to enhance managerial problem solving. The course focuses on understanding the economic context in which organizations function and the economic decision tools for bettering firm perform...
MBA602 Managerial Ethics and Decision Making Along with MBA 601, this course provides perspectives and tools to enhance managerial problem solving. The course focuses on understanding the social and operational variables pertinent to making effective choices. Topics include social responsibilit...
MBA610 Managerial Accounting Focuses on using accounting data to make management decisions. Students learn how accounting information is used to plan and control operations. Volume cost-profit analysis, cost estimation, and short and long term financial decisions are studied fro...
MBA611 Managerial Finance Covers basic principles of financial valuation and analysis. Topics include financial statement analysis, working capital management, long-term financing decisions, and capital structure and dividend policy. Prerequisite: MBA 610 and MBA 520 or equiv...
MBA612 Managerial Marketing Employs a case study approach for applying marketing principles to marketing management and strategy. Quantitative and qualitative approaches involve situation analysis, market analysis and targeting, strategic applications, and marketing planning. P...
MBA613 Human Resource Management Provides a strategic perspective on using human resources to increase firm success while improving employee wellbeing. Topics include recruitment, professional development, compensation and benefits, evaluation, and termination. Particular attention...
MBA616 Not-For-Profit Accounting Examines concepts and practices unique to non-governmental and not-for-profit entities. Topics include organization and functions, fund accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, accounting Principles and standards for NPO's, financial controls...
MBA617 Operations Management The Operations Management course provides students with management skills for planning, coordinating, and controlling the people and technology used to provide goods and services. It studies the production of goods and provision of services by an org...
MBA701 Entrepreneurship Looks at the challenges of establishing, owning, and managing a small business. Students learn methods of identifying new business opportunities, planning for and organizing a business; marketing its good and/or services; and financial planning and c...
MBA702 Business Law Provides knowledge of business law needed to make informed and effective business decisions. Emphasis is on legal issues important to managers for identifying and controlling risk. Topics include contracts, torts, the Uniform Commercial Code, credito...
MBA707 Negotiations & Conflict Resolution Deals with productivity managing conflicts to help build effective teams within and among organizations. Focuses on tactics, strategy, process, and methods of managerial negotiations with individuals and groups to optimize performance. Prerequisit...
MBA708 International Business Management & Strategy Provides an overview of strategic decisions facing international firms and relevant variables in their decision-making. Particular attention is paid to management and environmental settings of multinational enterprises, including organizational, poli...
MBA722 Information Technology for Managers Provides skills for choosing effective strategies and tools for information management. The course uses a hands-on approach to defining, analyzing, and, solving day-to-day management problems using information technology. Topics include hardware, sof...
MBA730 Services Marketing Examines marketing challenges faced by organizations providing services, and strategies to enhance their marketing success. Particular attention is paid to public sector and not-for-profit organizations. The course focus includes positioning services...
MBA739 Not-For-Profit Organizations Focuses on management of not-for-profit enterprises under circumstances of increasing competition for funding and greater pressure to show efficiency and effectiveness. The course uses case studies to examine issues of organizational structure and de...
MBA740 Social Enterprise Management Introduces students to the application of entrepreneurship to the advancement of social change within organizations that have a double bottom line: creating tangible social value as well as financial return. Students will use cases and examination of...
MBA741 Governmental Relations This course is designed to help not-for-profit managers learn how to engage the public sector effectively. Through applied research and case study, students will acquire a wide range of knowledge and action skill in such diverse areas as improving pe...
MBA743 Leadership for Strategic Decision Makers Decision making is a key aspect of leadership. This course helps the aspiring leader to first understand his or her own attributes and how they "fit" into an organizational team. That knowledge will be used to discern and discuss decision making i...
MBA744 Acctg Info for Strategic Decision Makers Use of accounting data to make management decisions.  Students will learn how accounting information is used to make strategic management decisions.  Cost-Volume-Profit analysis, cost estimation, budgeting, short and long term financial decisions...
MBA745 Economics for Strategic Decision Makers This course provides MBA students the economic tools and techniques useful for business decision-making. This course is an application of microeconomics and macroeconomics analysis to business decisions in production costs, demand and supply, mark...
MBA746 Business Analytics for Strategic Decisio This course the modern combination of Operations Research and Management Information Systems. Operations Research grew up in the twentieth century and became very mathematically sophisticated. MIS also began in the latter part of the twentieth ce...
MBA747 Marketing for Strategic Decision Makers In this course students will focus on the importance of companies being market-driven and customer-centric improving their ability to make decisions including segmentation and target marketing, product/brand positioning and the development of the...
MBA748 International Field Experience The International Field Experience is an engaged learning course that will allow students to apply skills and knowledge learned in their MBA program in an adventurous, cross cultural setting. Students will be challenged to analyze, synthesize and...
MBA749 Finance for Strategic Decision Makers This course analyzes how managers evaluate investment projects and arrange for financing these investments. It provides students with an analytical framework to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a company and to assess the effectiveness o...
MBA752 Financial Analysis & Applications Corporate financial management is taught through case analysis of current financial problems in business. Management of cash, receivables inventories, long and short term investment, alternatives and capital sources, capital budgeting, return on inve...
MBA754 Investment Management Provides a comprehensive overview of investment management and analytic tools for evaluating investment opportunities. Topics include analysis and valuation of equity securities, fixed income securities and financial derivatives, measurement of risk...
MBA761 Leading Organizational Change Provides concepts and skills needed to lead change and development efforts at individual, team, and systems levels. Focus is given to diagnosis of organizational events and creation of interventions to improve them. Emphasis is on using consulting mo...
MBA762 Project Management Provides perspectives and processes use in effective project management from conception through evaluation. Employs hands-on learning to prepare students to develop project planning and oversight systems, identify and implement best practices, and es...
MBA763 Professional Development This graduate level seminar focuses on developing participants’ self-knowledge, professional perspectives, and personal skills for personal and professional success. Emphasizes tools for effective self-management and career charting. Topics include t...
MBA764 Strategic Issues: Philanthropy Examines planning and development of funding acquisition and use of not-for-profit organizations. Enables students to construct funding strategies to improve organizational performance, solicit support from donors, and demonstrate effectiveness to ke...
MBA770 Accounting Information Systems Helps participants design, analyze, and use accounting information systems. Provides conceptual frameworks for understanding information systems as well as practical experience in using real-world accounting information software. Emphasis is on syste...
MBA776 Advanced Financial Accounting Provides advanced study of concepts and issues in financial accounting. Topics include business combinations and consolidations, inter-company transactions, partnership accounting, and international accounting. Accounting concentration students only.
MBA778 Corporate & Partnership Taxation Examines tax laws and regulations as applied to formation, operation, dissolution of corporations and partnerships. Emphasis on conducting research related to complex tax issues. Accounting concentration students only.
MBA779 Advanced Accounting Theory Provides advanced study of conceptual framework of financial accounting emphasizing theoretical concepts, accounting standards, and procedures. Focuses on sources of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including industry pronouncements, opinion...
MBA780 Special Topic: Selected topics may be offered on any aspect of business. Topics will be announced. Examples of current special topic offerings include: Fraud and Forensic Accounting, Cross-Cultural Management, Leaders in Practice, Family Business Management, Risk...
MBA786 Island Business Aina This course provides a strategic perspective on living systems and the relationship between ecology and effective business practice in island environments. The principles of the Ahupua’a system are introduced and used as a framework for examining iss...
MBA787 Island Business, Maka'ainana This course provides a strategic perspective on human systems and the relationship between community and effective business practice in island environments. Hawaiian cultural beliefs and practice are introduced and used as a framework for examining r...
MBA788 Island Business and Kuleana This course provides a strategic perspective on the role of business in fostering a healthy island economy. Both macroeconomic and microeconomic variables are considered. Focus is on the economy as a support for community and ecological sustainabi...
MBA789 Island Business and Po'okela This course provides strategic perspective and tactical guidance for leading effectively in island organizations. Focus is given to issues of personal presence and capacities related to facilitating the effectiveness of people, projects, and whole bu...
MBA798 Internship Professional internship is provided with guidance of a faculty member. Arrangements for a supervised internship are made through the MBA Program Office.
MBA799 Directed Study: Individualized study on a chosen subject under supervision of a faculty member. Participation in directed study is arranged through the MBA Program Office.
MBA800 Strategic Management This capstone course gives students an opportunity to experience the many demands and managerial complexities placed on top managers. The course helps students integrate and apply what they have learned in functional business courses, as well as gain...
STM601 The S&t Endevor Presents historical, contemporary and futurist perspectives on domains sciences, the role of technology in society, impacts on the natural world. Reviews the connectivity between economics, science and technology, and prosperity.
STM602 Data Visualization & Analytics Presents R and Python-based basic data analytics, reviews statistical underpinnings of data presentation and interpretation. Familiarizes students with the data science lifecycle, and explore the use of data to support all aspects of business develop...
STM603 Reg & Legal Environment Intellectual property protection, regulatory and legal frameworks for entrepreneurship and start-ups are reviewed. The ecosystem of enabling organizations and initiative for start-ups are presented and case studies will develop real-world connections...
STM604 Technology Commercialization The process of technology commercialization ideation to tech transfer will be reviewed in stages and as a continuum. Processes and decision-making paradigms appropriate to each stage will be reviewed and students will develop a commercialization stra...