| source University of Texas at Austin (X) |
level Graduate (24) |
department Business Administration (X) |
Restricted to first-year students in the MBA program. Technical architecture, including hardware/software platforms, operating systems, networking and the Internet; development strategies; and management issues for the introduction of new technology. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Restricted to second-year students in the MBA program. Financial information regarding revenue, cost, and assets, with an emphasis on the interpretation of numbers to derive well-informed management decisions. Covers the role of taxes in business strategy. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Introduction to the structure and use of mathematical models and methods for analyzing managerial decision problems. Development and application of modeling concepts and skills underlying the analytical techniques used to solve such problems. Introduction to a range of computers, and use of the latest in computer-based decision support systems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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An introduction to the issues and decisions involved in the production of goods and services. Focuses on designing, operating, controlling, and improving the systems that accomplish production. For 280N, four lecture hours a week for half a semester; for 380N, three lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered on the letter-grade basis only. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Microeconomic and macroeconomic forces that influence an organization’s decisions: interest rates, business cycles, financial systems, input demand and supply, industry factors, market structure, and externalities. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Restricted to first-year students in the MBA program. Issues surrounding career planning, including exploration and implementation. Professional development issues, including self-assessment. One and one-half lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered on the credit/no credit basis only. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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An introduction to the marketing perspective on strategy development and to the elements of marketing analysis. Includes the functional decision areas of the marketing manager, such as products and product lines, pricing policies, branding, promotion and advertising, and channels of distribution, and how organizations use these components to create, capture, and sustain value for the firm. For 281T, four lecture hours a week for half a semester; for 381T, three lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered on the letter-grade basis only. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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The conceptual and operational relationship of planning and control with management and accounting information systems. Topics include data collection and analysis for short-range and long-range organizational decisions. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Only one of the following may be counted: Business Administration 382T, 380E, Accounting 329, 359, 387 (Topic 1: Introduction to Managerial Accounting ), 287 (Topic 5: Performance Management and Control ). Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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The information needs of capital market participants in a dynamic and complex socioeconomic system; emphasis on interpretation, measurement, and disclosure of economic events. For 284T, four lecture hours a week for half a semester; for 384T, three lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered on the letter-grade basis only. Accounting 381 and Business Administration 284T, 384T may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Concepts and techniques employed in investment decision making, working capital management, and financing the activities of a business. For 285T, four lecture hours a week for half a semester; for 385T, three lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered on the letter-grade basis only. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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A unified approach to basic concepts in collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, emphasizing capabilities of different statistical methods and business applications. Students use statistical software packages. For 286T, four lecture hours a week for half a semester; for 386T, three lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered on the letter-grade basis only. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Examination of relationships between public and private institutions, with emphasis on the legal constraints on managerial decision making. Two lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Restricted to first-year students in the MBA program. Designed to help students develop a general management orientation. Subjects include the role of the general manager, formulating business and corporate-level strategy, managing strategic change, strategy implementation, and developing general managers. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Business Administration 388T and Management 385 (Topic 49: Strategic Management ) may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Development of the general areas of theory most central to dealing with the varieties of social/psychological behavior of direct import to the administrator and manager. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Provides a broad familiarity with the latest advances in the fundamental concepts and terminology of computer architecture and software. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business and to the concentration in information systems management.
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The use of decision support systems and database management concepts in an organization for information management and processing by mainframe and personal computer. One or three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Mainframe and microcomputer software used to illustrate prototyping and computer-assisted analysis. Use of cognitive modeling and the basic models and concepts of human information processing to improve the practice of requirements definition. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business and to the concentration in information systems management.
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Specification, design, implementation, and testing of information systems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Management and use of information in organizations, including database management, analytical approaches for effective information management, and organizational issues. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Functional aspects of data communications, computer networks, and distributed information systems, using campus computers and the network systems available in the classroom. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the McCombs School of Business.
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Conference course in any of the areas offered by the McCombs School of Business. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. With consent of instructor, some topics may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Designed to provide students at the high-intermediate level of English proficiency with communication skills beyond pronunciation and grammatical accuracy. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, admission to a doctoral program in the McCombs School of Business, and consent of instructor.
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Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master’s degree under the report option. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered on the credit/no credit basis only. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in business administration, completion of the core courses for the degree, and consent of the supervising professor and the graduate adviser.
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Teaching in the McCombs School of Business for two semesters under the close direction of the course instructor or supervisor; weekly group meetings with the instructor, individual consultations, and reports throughout the teaching period. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, approval of the department chair and the dean, and appointment as a teaching assistant.
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