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Online MBA Curriculum

The first and only business program in the country with a focus on responsible business, CSUMB's remote MBA curriculum offers students a chance to encounter in-depth study, group projects, global perspectives, and sophisticated technologies while viewing all facets of business administration through the 5-point lens of Profit, People, Planet, Ethics, and Equity.

Our Online MBA courses provide students with the professional business competencies valued by employers in today's global marketplace.

Responsible Business: Your Key to Business Success

Our Responsible Business website contains innovative, progressive readings and videos that each of our online business MBA students will have access to familiarize themselves with Responsible Business and the Quintuple Bottom Line: profit, people, planet, ethics, and equity.

Created by CSUMB faculty and industry subject matter experts, these articles and videos highlight the important role of Responsible Business in the world. Frequently updated, these links within the courses ensure that students are studying up-to-date examples of companies' success stories.

With a strong focus on quantitative skills, each of our remote MBA courses has been mapped to professional competencies identified by your instructor. Throughout the program, students will have an opportunity to demonstrate their achievement of these competencies.

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Graduate with Our Responsible Business Curriculum

Profit

Explore tools and concepts that will help you design responsible operations while facilitating your organization's financial long-term success.

People

Become a "corporate diplomat," able to engage a multiplicity of stakeholders in a constructive dialogue to build compromise on complex issues.

Planet

Understand how responsible businesses work to minimize the environmental impact of their own operations and their supply chain.

Ethics

Discover how to maintain a high ethical standard in your dealings with colleagues and other businesses.

Equity

As a responsible leader, learn how to treat all stakeholders fairly.

Experiential Learning Opportunities: Gain Real World Responsible Business Experience.

CSUMB’s Online MBA program takes learning beyond the online classroom by incorporating a series of unique experiential educational opportunities that prepare students for real world business management and leadership.

Business Simulations

Build practical skills in our online business simulations that put you in the shoes of a manager.

International Consulting Experience

Our virtual consultancy experience is dedicated to resolving economic disparities and empowering communities to reduce inequalities. Students team up to help local entrepreneurs and small businesses in a developing country resolve current, real-world challenges related to microfinance, marketing, and business plans.

Responsible Business Capstone

An in-depth multi-week experience that will enable you to integrate and apply the knowledge you have acquired in all previous courses, including an assignment in our BUS 694 course, (Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship), to create a start-up social-venture proposal with social impact.

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Getting Your MBA Online: Course Structure

The Online Master of Business Administration curriculum consists of 30 units delivered in sequence across 11 individual courses. Students take one course at any one time with their cohort. Individual courses are five weeks long. You can complete the program and earn your MBA degree in as few as 16 months.

The University accepts credit for transfer into the program. Students who have completed coursework in another regionally accredited graduate program with a grade of B or better can apply for transfer credit. Credit is granted when the coursework for which credit was earned is deemed to align with the course content, assessments, objectives, and outcomes of one of the courses listed below. A maximum of 9 units can be transferred into the MBA program.

BUS 601: Responsible Business Communication (2 units)

The course fosters proficiency in business writing/speaking with emphasis on grammar, sentence structure, critical thinking (thought formation), information literacy, and presentation skills. Assignments introduce responsible business concepts and communication in real-world business situations, and they enable students to strengthen their ability to write and speak effectively in the workplace.

BUS 606: Decision-Making Methods for Managers (2 units)

In this course, students will get exposure to and practice the use of quantitative tools for aiding managerial decision-making in the corporate and public sectors. Students will be introduced to several quantitative models proven effective in solving classes of business problems. Students will also become proficient in the use of Excel for managerial decision-making.

BUS 625: Organization and Responsible Leadership (3 units)

Students analyze organizational effectiveness using theories of leadership, management, and organizational behavior. Students study leadership in a responsible business context. Students reflect upon their own leadership styles and those of other leaders to determine how to shape their own management practice to improve their effectiveness.

BUS 648: Accounting for Managers (2 units)

Introduces financial and managerial accounting as tools for responsible managers. Students learn to read, understand, and interpret financial statements as they evaluate organizations’ liquidity, profitability, and leverage. Students learn to use internal reports, budgets, and other accounting information to plan and control operations and make both tactical and strategic decisions.

BUS 652: Financial Management (3 units)

Students will learn about the time value of money, project, and security valuation. They will develop both the skills necessary to make financial decisions and the ability to understand their impact on a responsible business and its stakeholders. This course will introduce and reinforce high-level financial concepts and principles that will serve as a foundation for financial management decisions.

BUS 662: Marketing Management (3 units)

Students apply marketing frameworks to develop integrated marketing strategies that leverage market opportunities or address identified problems. Students make responsible marketing decisions based on analyses of target markets while considering contexts and elements of the marketing mix to offer value to customers.

BUS 671: Operations and Supply Chain Management (3 units)

This course reviews operations strategies in a global environment for optimal allocation of resources (material and personnel) by firms to gain competitive advantage in the delivery of products (goods and services). Students will develop the ability to forecast demand and manage projects, inventory, revenue, supply chain risks, capacity planning, and procurement.

BUS 633: Information Systems and Business Analytics (3 units)

An executive perspective of IS to explore the emerging technologies that inform enterprises’ strategic needs. Focus is on understanding business analytics and its role in managing processes, resources, and people. This course reinforces the role of business analytics for creating a culture of data-driven decision-making and also addresses ethical and data governance issues in embedding analytics.

BUS 682: Global Sustainable Business (3 units)

In this course, you will gain an understanding of today’s global economy and the people, institutions, and environmental elements that underlie international and global commerce. You will expand your ability to manage diversity and national differences. You will learn how to manage a responsible firm’s quintuple bottom line in a global context of interconnectedness.

BUS 694: Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship (3 units)

This course addresses the formulation and implementation of a responsible business strategy to create, sustain, and renew competitive advantage for both established firms and startups. As an application of the concepts, students will design and validate innovative business models.

BUS 698: Applied Business Strategy Capstone (3 units)

As an experiential learning exercise, students will integrate knowledge gained in earlier courses and apply it to run a virtual company in a simulated market competition. Students will conduct environmental analysis and business planning, manage their corporate performance, and consider ethical implications of their business decisions.

Interested in a CSUMB Online MBA?

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Application Deadline

July 1st

Fall 2023 Term

Aug

Next Start

August 21st