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During your eMBA@PACE program, you are required to complete nine projects, eight
in teams and the ninth as an individual project of your own choosing incorporating
the knowledge you acquired during the eight modules.
The following podcasts are organized by the first eight modules of your program with some instructions on how to
use the library resources to research information.
MBA 711 Business Analysis
A student project team will study the problem of replacing or developing an organizational
service operation. To solve the problem students are required to research the
operational issues associated with the improved service center. They will be required
to access the existing operation facility and recommend methods to bring the facility
up to specified standards. They will be required to specify necessary technology
and to develop staffing plans that will meet the new operational requirements.
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MBA 712 Business Strategy
A Student project team will develop a business strategy and implementation plan to improve the financial and
operating performance of the firm within 3 to 5 years. Justification for the strategy will include 5-year
industry demand and firm market share projections, pro forma financial statements, and earnings per share
forecasts that will result from the business strategy.
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MBA 713 Global Diversification Strategy
A student project team will develop an analysis of and recommendation for the
impact of a business acquisition, divesture, strategic alliance, or other strategic
initiative on the performance and operations of a global diversified company and
will include financial projections, corporate strategy considerations, and organizational
impacts.
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MBA 714 Operations Management
A student project team will develop a recommendation for improving a complex manufacturing operation. This
recommendation may incorporate make-or-buy decisions, forward or backward integration decisions, continuous or
revolutionary change processes, and redefinition of input or output requirements in terms of cost, quality, and
service. The team will justify its recommendations in terms of the improved capacity, efficiency, effectiveness, or
flexibility of the operation. It will also consider the impact of recommendations on constituencies such as
customers, employees, shareholders, regulators, and host communities.
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MBA 715 Marketing
A student project team will develop a business plan for an existing or new e-commerce business for a service or
product. This project will involve the development of a full scale marketing plan which incorporates all forms
of integrated marketing communication necessary to drive traffic to the Web site and build loyal customers.
Projects may include existing businesses engaged in or interested in building a Web presence with ecommerce or
internet start-ups that require venture capital.
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MBA 716 Corporate Finance
This module is focused primarily on corporate finance, with particular emphasis
on capital budgeting, cost of capital, valuation principles, and statistical analysis.
A project based team will be responsible for analyzing the financial implications
of a new capital expenditure of the firm. The team will be responsible for determining
the financing decision of the firm as well as addressing the effect that the new
capital expenditure will have on firm value. The project will also forecast cash
flows and perform a risk analysis of the firm.
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MBA 717 Managerial Accounting
This module consists of a number of learning exercises, discussion questions,
and a major project. In the project, a team charged with contributing information
and evaluations affecting management's strategic and operational decision making
responsibilities and with suggesting strategic and operational alternatives for
improving the company's efficiency and profitability. The student teams will develop
and implement an activity based cost/management (ABC/M) system for the company's
distribution operations.
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MBA 718 Organizational Behavior and Change
Students teams gather information on large, complex organizations over time to determine how the organizations
have dealt with change in the past and to project what they might do to accommodate, or perhaps even anticipate,
the need for change in the future. This module focuses primarily on the human side of organizations, with
secondary focuses on strategy, marketing, and finance issues.
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