The Duke Goethe Executive MBA curriculum offers a rigorous general management education, designed to broaden participants' knowledge, experience, and skill sets. The curriculum builds from foundational business courses to functional courses to integrative courses. It contains eleven core courses, six elective courses and one integrative capstone course. The core courses provide for a solid foundation in general management, develop the ability to think strategically, and strengthen essential leadership skills. The set of elective courses allows various concentrations according to participants' needs. Students are exposed to global perspectives and use state-of-the-art interactive technology and in the process develop professional and personal relationships with their classmates.
* You will have class everyday during this period—including the weekend.
**Operations Management is a four-day weekend course.
***Directly proceeds graduation weekend at Duke University. Lodging and related costs associated with graduation are not covered within the tuition.
Term 1
MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS explores individual, group and organizational behavior. It asks how individuals make important strategic decisions for their firm and what problems they face in doing so.
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING looks closely at financial reporting to shareholders from the perspective of the basic accounting model with inter-country variations. It also covers measurements of items included in balance sheets, income and cash flow statements.
Term 2
GLOBAL FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT examines
the implications of modern financial theory for various decisions
faced by corporate financial officers. Case analysis allows
students to apply their knowledge of theory and evidence
to real-world situations.
GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT provides economic intuition and skills necessary to intelligently make decisions in rapidly changing business environments. It teaches the tools to critically evaluate and interpret articles in the popular financial press, to identify core macroeconomic ideas and to understand current global economic issues.
Term 3
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS examines market behavior and focuses on the actions and reactions of businesses and consumers under a variety of market conditions. The impact on production and consumption in perfect competition, monopolies and oligopolies is analyzed.
DECISION MODELS enhances the student's ability to solve complex management problems and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, with competing objectives, accommodating complicated constraints through the use of formal modeling and quantitative analysis.
Term 4
STATISTICAL MODELS begins
with a firm grounding in basic probability models. This course
develops analytical tools for interpreting data and making
predictions.
MARKETING MANAGEMENT provides
an overview of topics such as product management, pricing,
advertising and communications, marketing research and channels
of distribution. Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding
of the underlying forces that influence marketing decisions,
including consumer behavior, competitive marketing activity
and organizational considerations.
Term 5
CORPORATE STRATEGY addresses
the general manager's challenge to make sound strategic decisions
under uncertain, ambiguous and dynamic conditions. Students
focus on functional area integration, leadership and implementation.
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING focuses on the use of accounting information for decision making, costing and performance evaluation within the organization. The course introduces tools for estimating the cost and profitability of products, services and customers.
Term 6
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT concerns the production and delivery of goods and services. It encompasses designing the product and its accompanying production process, acquiring and organizing the necessary resources and planning and executing production.
Elective
Elective
Term 7
Elective
Elective
Term 8
Elective
Elective
CAPSTONE COURSE provides an opportunity
to integrate concepts and material from earlier courses.
Using computer-based simulation that emphasizes many key
issues involved in global competition. Student teams develop
and implant strategic plan for their "companies".
These are examples of the types of electives offered. They
may vary from year to year.
LEADERSHIP
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
POWER AND POLITICS
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
ADVANCED
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
VENTURE CAPITAL AND PRIVATE
EQUITY
INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT
UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING PEOPLE
IN ORGANIZATIONS
CORPORATE
FINANCE AND VALUATION
CORPORATE
RESTRUCTURING
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
NEW VENTURE MANAGEMENT
DYNAMICS
OF BARGAINING
