Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
http://www.alaskapacific.edu

Certificate of Graduate Studies in Telecommunications Management

This certificate program is designed for students who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge of telecommunications but do not wish to take all of the courses in business administration that are required for the Masters of Business Administration in Telecommunications Management (MBATM) degree. Requirements for admission to the Certificate program are the same as those for the degree program......
 

The Executive MBA in Information and Communication Technology (MBAICT) combines an understanding of converged information and communication technologies with the ability to develop and analyze appropriate business strategies and public policies for this sector. Two key principles underlie the curriculum. First, convergence has blurred the historic boundaries that once separated telecommunicatio......
 

Health Services Administration is a new concentration within the MBA program at APU. This program builds foundational, analytical, and integrated knowledge of the health care industry. The program is aimed at current and future managers in organizations involved with providing health care services, major customers of health care providers, and entities involved with developing and implementing ......
 

This certificate program is designed for students who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge of entrepreneurship but do not wish to take all of the courses in business administration that are required for the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree. The certificate is awarded to those students who complete the requirements in recognition that they have attained an advanced level of ......
 

Alaska Pacific University offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA), a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Health Services Administration (MBA/HAS), an Executive MBA in Information and Communication Technology (MBAICT) and a Master of Global Finance (MGF). All four of these options provide the student with the management skills necessary to operate successfully at t......
 

This course is designed to review, compare, and contrast prevailing theories of counseling, to practice some of the basic methods of counseling, and to develop skills necessary to enhance the counseling relationship. Emphasis is upon communication, self-awareness of one’s own behavior and its effect upon others, and the development of one’s ability to accurately interpret the behavior......
 

Innovation in the information and telecommunications industry is a complex process that requires a constant stream of new ideas, technical competence, appropriate organizational design, and "public places" that facilitate the collaboration and discourse. Disruptive innovations pose challenges for existing market leaders, while incremental innovations appear to evade the grasp of marke......
 

Rapid technological change, high investment costs, unique product life cycles, and the central role played by intellectual property all pose strategic marketing challenges to the information and communication sectors. Topics studied include: information society demand drivers, customer value expectations, the global networked society, convergence, patent and copyright issues, and evaluation of ......
 

The Telecommunications Act of 1996, along with parallel international legislation and continued evolution of domestic and international policies, form the basis for this course. Topics reviewed include: obligations and rights of common carriers; universal service in the information age; market entry and exit; pricing rules; network access by consumers, competing providers, and information provi......
 

This is a 100% practical, lab-based course offered in summer to help students gain hands-on experience in applying the basic concepts of equity securities selection and modern portfolio theory by managing a real-life, institutional caliber equity portfolio. ...
 

Course will cover return concepts, policy statements, investment alternatives and historic returns, efficient markets theory, Markowitz mean/variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model and extensions, asset pricing theory, portfolio strategies, and performance evaluation. Management of the student fund is an integral part of the class....
 

A survey introducing students to domestic and global financial markets, how they developed and how they are likely to change in the near future. An overview that examines variety and differences among financial instruments and a review of how they are valued and traded. ...
 

Students will gain knowledge of financial and economic needs and processes within the organization, including financial needs and sources of funds, behavior of the economy, institutional structures and markets, internal financial decision making, performance and risk management and measurement....
 

Examines theory and techniques of corporate financial management as applied to health services providers and insurers including time value of money, capital budgeting techniques, cost flow analysis, capital structures planning, mergers and acquisitions, managed care financing, contract negotiation, and capital acquisition and investment analysis....
 

An experiential course that enables the student to examine several leadership styles, traits, and behaviors. The student will also discover a variety of group creative problem-solving techniques and processes. The students will examine their leadership role within a team-building environment. Students participate in class exercises and in an outdoor experiential lab environment. ...
 

Focus on understanding the legal environment in which managers and executives operate, including broad legal principles involving corporate legal issues. ...
 

This is a spreadsheet-based course in building decision models and simulating the uncertainty inherent in decision-making. It will build on basic statistical concepts in developing random simulations. Spreadsheet tools for conducting simulation analyses will be covered. Integration of data, modeling, and presentation of results will be stressed. ...
 

An intermediate level course in statistics covering a review of point and interval estimation type I and II errors and hypothesis testing, with an extension to the analysis of simple survey designs, followed by a rigorous development of simple and multiple regression, elementary ANOVA, discrete data analysis, and nonparametric methods. Students will learn to work with the MINITAB statistical pa......
 

Fundamental theories, concepts, and techniques of marketing applied to the distinctive properties of health care services. Emphasizes the role of marketing in aligning organizational capacity and health care needs; market analysis and planning; strategic marketing management; tactical marketing mix design; developing and managing new services and systems of delivery. ...
 

Covers the various impacts of the expanded use of the Internet on marketing. Includes the effects of Internet characteristics (connectivity, interactivity, and essentially unlimited information capacity, together with non-geographically contained reach) on the function of current marketing media, evaluation of web page design criteria, and the relation of the Internet to other aspects of the Ma......
 

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