Electives

You'll be prepared for a range of careers and cultivate your ability to deal effectively with the challenges of a continually changing, increasingly competitive global business environment. Through our core and elective courses, you'll build a foundation of knowledge and skills.

Sample Electives Overview*

*Electives are subject to change. The electives below are a sampling of previously offered electives. For a list of current electives offered, visit our course catalog.

Technology Finance & Valuation

Venture capital finance and the related practice of research and development finance. Application of finance tools and framework to the world of venture capital and financing of projects in high-growth industries.

Financial Statement Analysis

Studies how investors, creditors, others use accounting and other information in making rational investment, lending decisions. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of financial information in a variety of contexts. Where applicable, recent research in finance and economics is discussed.

Product Management

Overview of the requirements, issues, and tools involved in marketing of products and services via lectures, case studies, and a hands-on, quarter-long competitive simulation.

Management of Innovation 

Focuses on the management of technology-based innovation, including the impact of new technologies on industries, dominant designs, incremental and transformative innovations, and the life-cycle of products. Examines the organization of highly innovative firms, and the relationship of core competencies to both innovation and rigidity. Addresses the relationship of innovation to management practices such as leadership, competitive strategic planning and teamwork by using cases and field studies. Students perform an innovation audit of an area firm.

Negotiation in Organizations

Designed to help students develop the ability to effectively negotiate in a competitive business environment. Focuses on negotiation skill-building in the areas of individual conflict management, team management, performance appraisal, corporate impression management and inter-organizational project management.

New Product Development

Why do some companies consistently outperform other companies in developing successful new products and services? Why do so many new products fail in the marketplace? This course introduces students to the major activities involved in developing new products and services. Emphasis is on learning practical skills and techniques that can help students be successful in a product development environment. As part of the course, students may work on a new product development project.

Digital Marketing

Course equips students for a career in digital marketing and social media. Topics include online advertising, search engine optimization, interactive marketing, online privacy issues, e-commerce, social influence, social network theory, measurement of social influence and integrating social and traditional media.

Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

Introduces popular machine learning methods to address big data problems businesses face. It covers topics in clustering, association rules for market basket analysis, classification, numeric prediction, model evaluation, etc. This course provides an entry point for students to use Python to apply machine learning models to analyze various types of data.

Fundamentals of Applied AI

Provides students with a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts and structure of AI applications. We focus on the pillars of the frontier in AI developments so students can navigate any current and future AI application space We take you from basic architectural foundations to agent-based AI ensemble applications, something that most likely becomes applications standard only in 1.5 years from now.