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MBA 55000 - Tools for Success (0)
A mental boot camp geared towards supporting success throughout the Alyeska U modules. Students will establish or refresh their abilities to read critically, manage their time, conduct research, and write cogent and compelling documents. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 60100 - Designs and Principles of Research (3)
A specific review of quantitative and qualitative research methods will be conducted in preparation of a thesis research proposal. Current literature review and investigative techniques will be practiced to secure relevant information for a proposed thesis topic. The written and oral presentation of both the research proposal and final thesis will be practiced for the effective communication of issues. A formal oral Thesis Proposal Presentation is a deliverable. This course entails the development of the student’s Thesis research proposal and positions the work of the investigation to begin at the completion of this course. Offered Spring.
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MBA 60203 - Effective Communication (1)
The ability to communicate clearly is critical. This class will focus on interpersonal communication in dyads, small groups, and between groups. Students will learn how to organize points, summarize, support and present information and utilize visual tools. Meeting management, individual and group dynamics, virtual/distance communication and different communication styles will be addressed. The ground work for writing case analyses will be established. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 60300 - Metrics and Risk Management (1)
Supporting a call for action, managing change, or implementing and measuring strategic goals requires a sound understanding of business metrics. Students will learn the fundamentals of basic financial reporting, accountability and financial stewardship. Capital and operational finance will be introduced. Day-to-day budget management will be examined and linked to broader organizational metrics. Students will examine organizational/divisional/departmental metrics for monitoring and improving performance as part of case analysis. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 60404 - Building Organizational Capabilities for Change (1)
Improved performance, including efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability, is a goal for most organizations. Students will learn the fundamentals of organization culture including subcultures and divergent or parallel cultures of owner/parent organizations. Building on knowledge of individual and group dynamics and utilization of metrics, models of high performance will be examined. Students will consider known metrics as the foundation for planning and managing change as a part of their case analysis. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 60501 - Leading Effective Organizations (1)
Making change happen requires leadership at all levels of an organization. Students will learn about the fundamentals of leadership and teamwork. Team and group leaders must be able to communicate the need for change based on known metrics linked to organizational goals. Leaders at all levels need to effectively engage teams and individuals for ideas and decisions. Students will consider plans for communicating, deploying and evaluating change as part of their case analysis. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 60601 - Decision Making and Risk Analysis (1)
Strategy communicates organizational direction and coordinates divisional and departmental operations. Students will learn about planning at an organizational level including modeling uncertainty and forecasting for decision making. This will be linked to department level planning, management and operations. Identifying and analyzing risk will be introduced. Offered Fall.
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MBA 60910 - ANCSA History and Context (1)
The Alaska Native land claims movement of the 1960s, the resulting legislation, and how Alaska Natives have implemented the legislation will be examined. The unique roles and responsibilities of Alaska Native Corporations and their shareholders will be analyzed. Firsthand accounts from Native leaders will be featured.
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MBA 60920 - Leadership Styles and Effective Communication (1)
Leadership of Alaska Native Corporations depends on the development and succession of talented future leaders. This course examines various dimensions associated with leadership, awareness and development of personal leadership style, the role of communication in successful leadership, and the application of leadership theory and communication in the challenges of leading diverse organizations.
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MBA 60930 - Leading Your Human Resources (1)
Growth and sustainability of Alaska Native Corporations depends on the recruitment and retention of talented employees and appropriate planning for generational replacement of key personnel. Employees need to be managed in an ethical and effective manner in order to promote the interests of the organization. This course examines various dimensions associated with recruiting, managing, retaining, and compensating employees – including legal, ethical, and strategic issues.
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MBA 60940 - Metrics for Monitoring & Improving Performance (1)
High performing organizations require building and maintaining an appropriate organizational culture. This course presents models for accomplishing this and explores issues associated with subcultures, divergent or parallel cultures of owner/parent organizations, decision making, conflict, and collaboration. These lessons will be applied to the context in which Alaska Native Corporations operate.
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MBA 60950 - Budgeting and Planning for Sustainability and Growth (1)
Financial accounts record critical information about past organizational performance as well as forming the basis for future expectations. This course explores the basic financial statements – income statements, balance sheets, and budgets. It explains the relationships between these and their appropriate uses for reporting information and forming and implementing strategic plans.
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MBA 60960 - Federal Government Contracting (1)
Rights afforded to Alaska Native Corporations through the SBA 8(a) program will be analyzed. The Federal Acquisition Regulations, Davis-Bacon and Service Contract Acts, and other laws and regulations governing Alaska Native Corporation’s in Federal Government Contracting will be examined. Current Alaska Native Corporation Executives will be featured.
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MBA 60970 - Evaluating Options: Valuation, Risk Management & Diversification (1)
Corporations are continually involved in undertaking or terminating a variety of projects. Some may be individual new business opportunities, while others may mergers or acquisitions of new businesses. Underlying the financial impact of any such endeavor requires methods to value businesses or business opportunities. This course presents a number of valuation methodologies and illustrates how they may be used in the development and implementation of corporate strategies.
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MBA 60980 - Strategy Development and Implementation (1)
Strategic planning requires the ability to understand the corporation’s current state within its present environment to help prepare a course for the future. This course will introduce the concepts of strategy development and implementation with a focus on planning for future possibilities, managing risk and developing organizational capabilities for change.
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MBA 60990 - Working Effectively with Boards of Directors (1)
Boards of Directors have critical roles. From the hiring of corporation leaders to the approval of strategic direction and disbursement of dividends. Leaders of Alaska Native Corporations (ANC) must understand the complex and often nuanced relationships between boards, themselves, and the corporations they lead. This course examines those relationships and provides ANC leaders with the information and skills to work successfully with their boards.
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MBA 61000 - Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting (3)
Governmental and not-for-profit entities utilize special accounting rules and procedures. This course involves the study and research of these special accounting rules and reporting practices set forth by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and other professional accounting organizations. Prerequisite: Advanced undergraduate accounting course or equivalent. Offered as needed.
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MBA 61100 - Accounting for Executive Action (3)
Systems and procedures for budgeting and control, including cost and profit planning, responsibility accounting, cost behavior patterns, operating and capital budgeting, and accounting data for decision making. Prerequisite: Introductory course(s) in accounting or equivalent. Offered as needed.
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MBA 61600 - Fundamentals of Financial Instruments & Institutions (1)
This course will familiarize students with the fundamental concepts, models and theories of financial markets, instruments and institutions. Students will be provided a basic survey of (a) the nature and forms of financial markets; (b) the financial instruments available for investing, financing operations and managing various kinds of financial risk and the markets which trade these instruments; and (c) the role and operation of financial institutions and regulatory bodies. Offered Fall.
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MBA 61700 - Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC/LEAD) (3)
This course is limited to those individuals within the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s LEAD program. By permission of instructor only. Prerequisite: LEAD Program Participation. Offered as needed.
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MBA 61800 - Financial Statement Analysis (3)
This course will introduce students to the financial statements, accounting concepts and principles used in the measurement and reporting of results, and analysis of financial statements using ratios. Comprehensive study of the 10K statement, analysis of 10-year trend of financial results, benchmarking and industry comparisons, Altman’s Z score, transparency, and indications of earnings manipulations using real life case studies are included. Prerequisite: Basic competency in excel, foundational knowledge in accounting (undergraduate), or advisor/instructor permission. Offered Summer/Fall.
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MBA 62100 - Organizational Behavior (3)
Focus on individuals and groups within organizational systems including organizational dynamics, behavior, design, and other factors impacting organizational success. Offered Spring.
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MBA 62300 - Valuation (2)
This course will examine a variety of valuation methodologies, including income approaches, asset-based approaches, and market approaches. Specific focus will be on the discounted cash flow analysis and selection of appropriate discount rates. Students will examine concrete valuation cases to put valuation theory into practice. The course will address both public and privately held companies. Prerequisite: MBA 61600 . Offered Spring.
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MBA 62400 - Managerial Economics (3)
This course will familiarize students with the fundamental concepts, models and theories of economics with a focus on their relevance to business decision making. The interaction of information, economic incentives and market competition and how these interact to determine prices, products available, profits, and patterns of trade and organization will be explored. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand how basic economic reasoning can lead to improved managerial decisions. Offered Summer.
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MBA 62500 - Organization Development (3)
An examination of the theory and practice of change processes in organizations, this course will pay special attention to the planning and management of change. Globalization, technological advances and community expectations all impact the nature of work and how organizations are designed. Students will examine the constraints and opportunities of sustainability in organizations and the roles leaders play in fostering innovation, and determining the timing and rate of growth. Offered Fall.
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MBA 62700 - Entrepreneurship (3)
This course immerses students in the dynamic, cash driven environment of the entrepreneur by studying case histories of lifestyle ventures, smaller profitable ventures, and fast-growth ventures. This comprehensive course focuses on new venture management and the process of developing strategies and plans for successful entrepreneurial operations. Offered Spring.
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MBA 62800 - E-Business (3)
The subject of E-Business is an exciting and cutting edge component of entrepreneurial studies. This course is designed to educate the student to the level whereby he or she will be able to plan for and implement an e-business start-up or be able to lead the transition team of a traditional bricks and mortar business that is expanding to include e-business solutions in its business strategy. Offered Spring.
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MBA 63100 - Human Resource Management (2)
Strategic planning, development, and management of human resource capital focusing on both human and regulatory issues within the organization. Title VII, labor relations, task and work analysis, performance management, compensation, and other HRM topics examined as they affect supervisors and managers. Offered Fall.
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MBA 63200 - The Business of Entertainment (3)
This course would examine the business economics, financing, production, and marketing of entertainment in the United States and overseas including: movies, music, television programming, broadcasting, cable, casino gambling and wagering, publishing, performing arts, sports, theme parks, and toys and games. This course would also explore the economics of networks and advertising including policy implications and box-office behavior. Offered Summer.
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MBA 63500 - Health Services Finances (3)
An examination will be offered of the challenges of how the US health service systems function financially including private, insurance coverage, and publicly funded programs that interface with non-profit, private, and governmental service organizations. Contractual negotiations that build the relationships among doctors, laboratories, clinics, and hospitals, utilization review, coding, and billing will be discussed. The Stark law and Anti-kickback Safe Harbors legislation will be brought into the discussion of the financial limitations placed on some health service entities. Prerequisites: MBA 61600 and MBA 61800 . Offered Summer.
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MBA 63600 - Health Service Systems & Policies (3)
Examines the structures, functioning, and financing of the US Health services system. Emphasizes foundational concepts of health and illness; health care cost; quality, access, and utilization; workforce; competition in health care markets; and supplier, provider, and payer effectiveness and efficiency. Investigates consumer behavior, determinants of demand for health services, determinates of costs in health care organizations, the roles of competition and regulation, insurance, financing, and looks at alternative approaches applied in other nations. Reviews the current information management systems that are used to coordinate services and administrate the various components of health services systems. Offered Fall.
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MBA 63800 - Health Services Current Topics (3)
Analyzes current information and management systems including workforce planning and productivity, financial planning and monitoring, quality assurance, staffing and scheduling, administrative information systems, patient care systems, and legal/regulatory requirements for security and confidentiality. Evaluates alternative uses of computer technology in health services including telehealth and electronic patient records. Tracks and provides supportive materials to address dynamic shifts in contemporary health service administration and in such requirements as the Stark Law, Anti-kickback Safe Harbor, Medicare, and Medicaid legislation. Offered Spring.
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MBA 63900 - Health Services Evaluation & Outcomes (3)
Offers quantitative methods in health services management to allow the administrator to evaluate programs and services for their effectiveness and efficiencies. Topics include: cost-benefit analysis, activity analysis, outcome assessment, designing of program evaluations, and reporting results. Tools will be provided to measure the magnitude of problems posed by different diseases, determine what health services are affected by the problems, and identify ways to eliminate or mediate the conditions while improving prevention and treatment. Prerequisites: MBA 61800 , MBA 62400 , and MBA 65200 . Offered Summer.
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MBA 64000 - Quality Management Practices (3)
Practical applications of major quality management systems and models focusing on the integration of a number of models and approaches in order to ensure successful implementation.
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MBA 64200 - Marketing and Social Media (3)
This course develops the techniques and strategies for marketing in a global and technologically changing environment. It examines the traditional areas of planning, pricing, promotion, and product and brand management. It also includes the impacts of social media and globalization on the development of marketing strategy. Included are understanding the possibilities and challenges raised by new distribution channels, customer feedback loops, customer/employee/owner loyality mechanisms, and overall strategy development and communications processes with increasingly technologically mediated organizations. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 64400 - Health Services Ethical & Legal Issues (3)
Explores the laws that govern US health services systems and the inherent ethical issues involved in its delivery and development. Opportunities to gain certification for Institutional Review Board membership. Review of key laws governing health services practices including ERISA, COBRA, ADA, HIPAA, Medicare, Medicaid, Stark, antitrust, fraud, and abuse. Offered Fall.
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MBA 65200 - Intermediate Statistics for Management (3)
An intermediate level course in statistics covering a review of point and interval estimation type I and II errors and hypothesis testing, with an extension to the analysis of simple survey designs, followed by a rigorous development of simple and multiple regression, elementary ANOVA, discrete data analysis, and nonparametric methods. Students will learn to work with the MINITAB statistical package and other spreadsheet programs. Offered Spring.
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MBA 65300 - Spreadsheet Modeling and Simulation (3)
This is a spreadsheet-based course in building decision models and simulating the uncertainty inherent in decision-making. It will build on basic statistical concepts in developing random simulations. Spreadsheet tools for conducting simulation analyses will be covered. Integration of data, modeling, and presentation of results will be stressed. Offered Fall.
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MBA 66300 - Business Ethics (3)
This course explores the ethical traditions of business including: the relationship between capitalism, corporations, and ethics; issues of justice and economic distribution; the relationship between business ethics and the environment; and ethical issues and current challenges in the workplace. Students will learn how to spot potential ethical issues before they become problems. Offered Fall.
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MBA 66400 - Leadership (3)
An experiential course that enables the student to examine several leadership styles, traits, and behaviors. The student will also discover a variety of group creative problem-solving techniques and processes. The students will examine their leadership role within a team-building environment. Students participate in class exercises and in an outdoor experiential lab environment. Offered Summer.
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MBA 66500 - Negotiation and Decision Making (3)
Introduces the theory and practice of negotiations. The course also covers major topics in decision making, including the psychological biases and factors relevant to decision-making under uncertainty. This course covers various types of negotiations, the negotiation process, and decision processes. Students will participate in several simulations and learn how to prepare for both negotiations and decisions, and assess the outcomes. Offered Fall.
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MBA 67000 - Corporate Finance (3)
Students will gain knowledge of financial and economic needs and processes within the organization, including financial needs and sources of funds, behavior of the economy, institutional structures and markets, internal financial decision making, performance and risk management and measurement. Offered Fall.
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MBA 67500 - Investments (4)
Course will cover return concepts, policy statements, investment alternatives and historic returns, efficient markets theory, Markowitz mean/variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model and extensions, asset pricing theory, portfolio strategies, and performance evaluation. Management of the student fund is an integral part of the class. Prerequisite: MBA 65200 or permission of instructor. Offered Spring.
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MBA 67600 - Risk Management & Derivatives (2)
This course will serve as an introduction to risk management using financial tools. Students will learn about the derivative instruments available, how they are traded and valued, and techniques for using these instruments to manage different kinds of balance sheet and corporate risk. . Prerequisites: MBA 65300 is suggested, but not required. Offered Spring.
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MBA 68000 - Directed Study (1-3)
Individual study in a given field under the guidance of a faculty member. Offered as needed.
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MBA 68300 - Fund Management Practicum (1)
This is a 100% practical, lab-based course offered in summer to help students gain hands-on experience in applying the basic concepts of equity securities selection and modern portfolio theory by managing a real-life, institutional caliber equity portfolio. This course can be taken up to 3 times for credit. Offered Spring.
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MBA 68500 - Internship (1-6)
Practical work experience or experiential opportunity in a given area of concentration under the guidance of a faculty member and on-site supervisor. Completion of a written report or document. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69000 - Seminar (1-3)
Small group meets with faculty member for in-depth study and discussion of particular topics. Appropriate course descriptions published when offered. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69200 - Special Topics (1-3)
Examination or study of a special topic or area. Course description published when offered. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69300 - Special Finance Topics (2)
Special topics offered depending on demand and program development, these topics will include: The Art of Trading, Options, Derivatives and Futures, Pensions, Commodities, and Managing the Student Fund. Prerequisite: MBA 65200 . Offered as needed.
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MBA 69500 - Research Project (3)
Undertaking of major research project under guidance of a faculty member. Involves in-depth study of a specific area. Quantitative or qualitative research methods are used in the completion of the project. Prerequisite: Recommend course in design and principles of research. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69600 - Current Topics in Business (1-4)
These courses will examine a variety of current business issues. Each course will be taught by a leading authority on a subject relevant to evolving business challenges. These include entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities, integration of different functional areas of business, global business developments, and other leadership issues for a rapidly changing business environment. May be taken multiple times with different topic names.
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MBA 69700 - Capstone Course (3)
Integration and application of the skills learned in competitive strategy, finance, human resource management, marketing, accounting, operations management, and other functional areas through an interactive management simulation conducted in teams. Prerequisites: Completion of at least six (6) MBA or MCT courses representing a cross section of functional management disciplines or instructor permission. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 69900 - Thesis (3-6)
Compilation, evaluation, interpretation, writing, and oral presentation of significant research in a business or management area. Research proposal and final product must be approved by the thesis committee. Prerequisite: Recommend course in design and principles of research. Offered as needed.
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