Andersen MBA Online Courses Developed with ETS
First offered to students in Summer 2022, the Masagung Graduate School of Management has launched the Enterprise MBA program in partnership with Educational Technology Services.
Eligible employees from Andersen — the leader in tax, valuation, financial advisory, and related consulting services — are able to complete a fully-funded Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in three to five years with participation in courses delivered online and asynchronously. Three trimesters of courses are offered each year, and given Andersen's tax-centered business, outside of the busy tax seasons between March 1 and April 15, and between September 1 and October 15.
Faculty from the School of Management work in tandem with an assigned instructional designer and AV multimedia developer as part of the ETS Online Course Design Program. The program builds online readiness among faculty through cohort-based, immersive, hands-on experience. Faculty are introduced to online learning best practices, innovative use of technology, and institutional quality standards for course design across all delivery formats.
Enterprise MBA program requirements on the USF Catalog »
Courses Offered
MBAX 6000: Leadership Communication
Course Developer & Instructor: Linda Henderson, Professor Emerita
Course Developed: Spring 2023
Course First Offered: Summer 2023
Explores effective ways to communicate across different constituencies and organizational levels while recognizing the social contexts and implicit assumptions that influence forms of expression. Students identify traits for communication competency and emotional intelligence and rehearse basic rhetorical skills and communication techniques.
MBAX 6001: Business Analytics
Course Developers & Instructors: Tom Grossman, Professor; Vijay Mehrotra, Professor
Course Developed: Spring 2023
Course First Offered: Summer 2023
This course will prepare you to be an effective analyst in a business setting. You will learn to integrate data, judgment and managerial knowledge in the form of a high-quality analytical spreadsheet model, and to analyze that model to quantify the financial and operational implications of managerial choices. You will learn to make sense of large datasets, and to communicate actionable managerial insights. We will operate in a business context where productivity, accuracy, and stewardship of spreadsheet model assets are always kept in mind.
MBAX 6003: Ethical Decision Making
Course Developer & Instructor: Kim Connor, Professor
Course Developed: Summer 2022
Course First Offered: Summer 2022
In this course we will learn to practice moral decision making by assessing personal and organizational ethical climates and their philosophical foundations and cultures. We will recognize the major theoretical systems that shape western ethical thought and conclude with an intensive case study and student-led presentations on current moral dilemmas in the workplace.
MBAX 6004: Financial Accounting
Course Developer & Instructor: Fernando Comiran, Associate Professor
Course Developed: Fall 2022
Course First Offered: Spring 2023
Accounting is the “language of business”. It is a measuring process that communicates, in financial terms, the activities of a business in order to aid decision makers. Financial accounting focuses on the accounting information for decision makers outside the organization (i.e. investors, creditors, regulatory agencies, etc.). The key product of this process is a complete set of financial statements and related footnotes. This course is designed as an overview of financial accounting in order to introduce and expand your understanding of accounting information, its framework (and data limitations), and how this information relates to the business decision-making process.
MBAX 6005: Financial Management
Course Developer & Instructor: John Gonzales, Assistant Professor
Course Developed: Spring 2023
Course First Offered: Summer 2023
In this course you will be introduced to the key foundational elements of Finance including: present value, future value, equilibrium rate of return, overall market interest rates and risk analysis for financial investments. You will examine specific applications related to fixed-income securities (bonds), the bond market, equities (stocks) and the stock market. You will also analyze important issues and decision-making techniques for financial management within a typical corporation. Key topics include the cost of capital, capital budgeting, determining the mix of debt and equity in financing the corporation (the capital structure) and corporate valuation.
MBAX 6006: Building & Leading Effective Teams
Course Developers & Instructors: Allegra Chen-Carrel, Assistant Professor; Zach Burns, Assistant Professor
Course Developed: Fall 2022
Course First Offered: Fall 2022
Examines and applies frameworks for understanding the contexts of tam operation, management of team development, and the deploying of leadership behaviors that enable high performance in organizations. This course is designed to improve your effectiveness as both a contributor and a leader within organizational team settings. Learning in this course is accomplished through engagement with assigned readings, reflective writing, case analysis, field research, and in-class activities.
MBAX 6007: Business Modeling & Design Ideation
Course Developer & Instructor: Tom Maier, Associate Professor
Course Developed: Fall 2022
Course First Offered: Spring 2022
This experiential learning based course focuses on systems and design thinking in the context of projects that are designed and executed by fast-forming teams, which are typical of the modern tech business enterprise with respect to organizational change, business modeling and strategy implementation. Emphasis is placed on real-world business processes; project management and team dynamics studied through the context of open systems theory and design thinking. Topics covered include: team formation, goal identification, ideation processes, story boarding, sketching ideas, system design and client based systems mapping, and project execution.
MBAX 6009: Strategic Management
Course Developer & Instructor: Roger (Rongxin) Chen, Professor
Course Developed: Summer 2023
Course First Offered: Fall 2023 (planned)
This course uses integrative and multi-disciplinary approaches to discuss cutting edge strategic management knowledge. In the course, you will apply strategic management concepts and principles to real businesses. You will use different tools and frameworks to conduct industry, corporate and business level strategic analyses. Since strategy is an integrative discipline, it is by design that some of the topics discussed in this class overlap with the materials you have learned in other classes. Such overlapping is to help you integrate different knowledge and to improve your understanding of the subject.
MBAX 6417: Leading Organizational Change and Development
Course Developer & Instructor: Richard Stackman, Professor and Associate Dean
Course Developed: Summer 2023
Course First Offered: Fall 2023 (planned)
Explores the theory behind and dynamics of organizational change management processes. Students investigate best practices related to developing, implementing, and managing large and small scale change initiatives as an internal change agent and as an organizational development consultant. The course blends both theory and practice in understanding change management models; generating and evaluating change management tactics, and leading organizational change efforts.