MBA FOUNDATIONS CERTIFICATE: YOUR ACCESS TO BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
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THE VALUE OF THE MBA FOUNDATIONS CERTIFICATE
MBA Foundations focuses on the fundamentals of business management. Develop your business management skills and receive a certificate that gives you a glimpse of what an MBA from the University of Utah would look like. As the workplace continues to shift and change over time, this program will give you tools to be prepared for the future. Grow your career by learning concepts in finance, accounting, statistics, and economics. These notions will build your confidence in discussing financial decisions, inspiring and leading a productive team, and developing a strategy that will change your business’s trajectory. This program will provide you with the skillset to grow and develop as a leader and be more confident to make decisions at work.
Taught by seven prestigious David Eccles Business School faculty members, this program will provide you with the essential leadership skills you need to advance your career knowledge of core principles covered in business. You can complete this program at your own pace, anytime and anywhere with an internet connection.
Why Get Your MBA Foundations Certificate?
Participants who complete the MBA Foundations certificate will receive a $500 scholarship applicable towards the tuition of any of the four MBA programs at the University of Utah.*
* To qualify for the scholarship, participants must apply for the MBA program and be admitted. The scholarship is eligible for up to 18 months after completing the MBA Foundations certificate.
I Need This Program Because:
• I want to advance my career, but I am not ready for an MBA
• I want to better understand what is being discussed in meetings I attend
• I want to become a more decisive leader
• I want to create value in my workplace
• I am early in my career and I want to expand my knowledge and understanding of business
My Organization Needs This Program Because:
• We want to build business basics within our organization
• We need want to expand our early-career leaders’ knowledge of business
• We want to inspire leaders to create value in our teams and organization
• We aspire to create a culture of continued learning
MBA Foundations: Your Access to Business Essentials
Gain insight into business essentials, and walk away with research-backed strategies and skills to implement immediately in our following foundational classes:
Speaking to Inspire - Online
Presenting Faculty | Georgi Rausch, Ph.D.
In this course, we will learn how to develop, write, and present an inspirational speech. As a leader, people will be looking to you to guide them through challenging organizational changes and unfamiliar new projects.
Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization - Online
Presenting Faculty | Don Wardell, Ph.D.
In this hands-on course, we will use Microsoft Excel to build spreadsheet models that include key performance indicators linked to variables under the decision makers’ control. We will then use Excel’s Solver tool to find the solution that optimizes the key performance indicator. We will apply the techniques to applications in various functions of business.
The Value of Economics: How (and How Well) Do Markets Work? - Online
Presenting Faculty | Scott Schaefer, Ph.D.
In this class, we tackle some big questions. What is value? What is the role of markets in creating value? How do prices guide the behavior of companies and individuals? The answers will give insight into the role of business in a free enterprise economy and the conditions under which markets serve people’s interests.
Know your Impact: Leading Self, Others, and Organizations - Online
Presenting Faculty | Glen Kreiner, Ph.D.
Leading is hard work, whether it is leading a team, an organization, or even yourself. This course focuses on leadership processes that researchers and practitioners have shown to be effective. We take a positive, mindful approach to leadership that helps students learn best practices they can apply at work, home, and the community.
Operations Management and Leading Change - Online
Presenting Faculty | Manu Goyal, Ph.D.
Matching supply with demand is a challenge for firms: excess supply is costly, inadequate supply irritates customers. In this course, we will explore how firms organize their operations to deliver products to the right customers at the right time.
Finance and Accounting for Decision-Making - Online
Presenting Faculty | Brian Cadman, Ph.D.
Using an example of a small business, we will learn how to create and evaluate a budget and raise money for organizations. We will then learn how to account for operations, assess performance, and consider investing in growth.
Making Strategic Business Decisions - Online
Presenting Faculty | Bonita Austin, MBA
This course will teach you where to look for strategic problems and opportunities and decide which ones you should tackle. You will learn how to structure problems, get to the underlying cause, and choose alternatives.
THE ECCLES DIFFERENCE
The David Eccles School of Business enrolls about 6,000 students in its eight undergraduate majors, four MBAs, seven other specialized graduate programs, one Ph.D. program, and executive education curricula. It is also home to seven institutes and centers that support an ecosystem of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, including the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, Ken C. Gardner Policy Institute, Sorenson Impact Center, and more.
Our faculty members boast impressive professional and educational backgrounds and hold Ph.D.s from esteemed universities including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School.
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Telephone: (801) 587-7273
Email: ExecEd@Utah.edu
Website: ExecEd.Utah.Edu
Registration: Eccles.Secure.Force.com/ExecEdApplication
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