MBA Essentials

MBA Essentials (Master Degree)

You Will Learn How To

Integrate business management theory with realistic practices
Apply finance and cost accounting techniques to support decision making
Formulate a comprehensive marketing plan
Leverage organisational structures, operations and systems to achieve business objectives
Manage people effectively to maximise organisation performance
Develop business and product strategies that create ongoing competitive advantage

Course Benefits
Understanding the complex factors that drive business is vital for professional and organisational effectiveness and to ensure a competitive edge. This course offers the skills you need to evaluate organisational information and address business challenges. You learn fundamental business concepts and proven management analysis tools typically taught in MBA programmes to guide your analysis, planning, decision and implementation processes.

The courses within MBA Essentials enhance or refresh your skills in the core disciplines of business, providing a solid base of knowledge in business math, calculus, accounting, microeconomics, supply chain management, statistics and finance.

Number of Courses: 7 Number of Hours: 34

Courses include the following subjects:
Accounting
Business Math
Calculus
Finance Essentials
Microeconomics
Statistics

MBA Essentials is a 13-week program that focuses on business principles that are critical to managers�success. Classes are delivered with the very best instruction that teaches managers to capitalize on emerging opportunities. An educational background in business is not expected.

The 13 MBA Essentials sessions cover topics ranging from breakthrough marketing strategies to successfully managing employees to developing competitive advantages.

Whether you are testing the waters in preparation for a complete MBA, want to prepare for an advancement opportunity, or are looking to “sharpen the saw,�the KU MBA Essentials program provides you with the jump-start for a successful future.

This course is a sharply focused overview of the topics that are most commonly covered in U.S.-based MBA programs. Each week of the course provides a highly condensed summary of the major concepts and best practices that are taught in a single course (e.g., accounting, finance, marketing, etc.) in degree-granting programs. With oversight by an NKU professor, the individual modules in the course are taught by a dynamic mix of executives, practitioners and NKU College of Business faculty selected for both their business experience and their outstanding, learner-centered teaching skills.


Intended audience:
This course is designed for people who work full-time and who need to increase their business acumen and build their awareness of emerging issues and management practices. More specifically, it is intended for:

Managers who need to broaden their understanding of how the various functional areas within a business interrelate and how they must be aligned;
Professionals (doctors, attorneys, engineers, nurse-managers, etc.) who are responsible for the management of public or private practices;
Entrepreneurs whose businesses have grown to the point where business and management skills are more important than technical skills; as well as,
Those individuals who are considering making the commitment to an MBA degree program and who, therefore, want to "test the waters."

Learning objectives:
Students who perform at a high level in the course will:

Understand how practitioners in each functional area of business typically think and what they focus upon primarily, the principles or assumptions that guide their decision-making, the language they actually use, and the measures of effectiveness that they should use;
Recognize current best practices in each functional area of business;
Be able to communicate more clearly and work more effectively with colleagues from other functional areas; and,
Be able to apply their newly acquired knowledge to real problems in the business world.

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