Students will interact with top leaders from the private, non-profit, and government sectors in the Sioux Falls region. The leaders will present on topics such as: leadership ethics, the power of diversity and inclusion, starting a business, and non-profit leadership. Students will reflect on the shared leader experiences and will incorporate lessons learned into their own networking and career planning.
Every Fall and Spring
Students will interact with top leaders from the Sioux Falls region. The leaders will present on topics human resources management and interpersonal behavior in organizations. Students will reflect on the shared leader experiences and will incorporate lessons learned into their own networking and career planning.
Every Interim
Students will interact with top leaders from the private, non-profit, and government sectors in the Sioux Falls region. The leaders will present on topics such as: corporate social responsibility, community networking, leadership perspectives from real estate professionals, servant leadership, and ways to nurture a healthy organizational culture. Students will reflect on the shared leader experiences and will incorporate lessons learned into their own networking and career planning.
Every Spring
This course is designed to increase students’ ethical competence and leadership abilities. We will introduce the ethical demands of leadership, the dark side of leadership, and the character and methods to lead effectively, positively, and authentically. Students will explore and apply ethical standards and strategies for sound decision-making and behavior. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will diagnose real-world case studies. Through projects and collaboration, students will build an ethical small group and learn how to create an ethical and inclusive organizational climate.
Every Fall, Spring and Summer
This course is about the design and execution of talent management strategies. Students will learn 1) how to think systematically and strategically about the organization’s human resources, and 2) how to implement talent policies and practices leading to organizational competitive advantage. This course adopts the perspective of an executive and addresses human resource topics from a strategic perspective. Today’s leaders must recognize that the critical source of competitive advantage often comes from an effective system for obtaining, mobilizing, and managing the organization’s people. Students will examine human resources case studies in organization across multiple sectors.
Every Interim, Spring and Summer
This course is designed to enhance leadership skills and the legal literacy of MBA students through selected trials emphasizing key leadership skills and important legal issues and their interrelationship. This relationship will be analyzed through visual and written reproductions of the trials, selected readings, lectures and guest lectures, and student participation through case summaries, journals, class participation and a final paper. This course will help business leaders: a) attain a competitive edge; b) avoid making poor decisions that have legal ramifications; and c) promote long-term success.
Every Fall and Spring
This course will focus on providing students with a framework for a dynamic strategic management approach that will enable students to analyze current situations and forecast future scenarios…using those tools to develop clear strategic plans. This course will explore what it takes to think and act strategically and as part of a team. The course helps students to consider business, corporate, international and entrepreneurial strategies and how they link together into an overall strategic approach. They will also explore what it takes to implement strategy, and what is required from a leadership perspective as well as an organizational structure.
Every Fall and Spring
This course explores the creation, management, and growth of small businesses. It covers the process of idea generation, strategy development, business planning, location identification, financing, talent attraction and retention, marketing, controls, and taxes. Students identify and analyze the necessary qualities and characteristics of the successful entrepreneurial profile. They develop a business plan for a start-up business. Course topics include the basic forms of small business ownership and the necessary financial competencies needed by the entrepreneur. Students will use information, financial estimates and projections, logic, and critical thinking to recognize opportunities and to address small business problems in multicultural, ethical, legal, and competitive environments.
The internship course provides an opportunity for students to participate in a learning experience away from the traditional classroom. Students will work within a local organization(s) so they may participate with various processes, from managerial marketing or accounting, to teams, projects, or business analytics. Students will observe and apply in practice the concepts and theories learned in the classroom. The student will be under the direct supervision of an officer of the cooperating organization and progress will be monitored by the MBA Program Director.
This internship is an opportunity for students to participate in a learning experience away from the traditional classroom. Students will be placed with local organizations so they may work with business procedures and observe decision making processes within business areas aligned with students’ respective career interests. Students will see how concepts and theories learned in the classroom are applied in practice. The student will be under the direct supervision of an officer of the cooperating organization and progress will be monitored by the MBA Program Director.
This is new to the MBA Program.