Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the Student Link for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• QST MS 739: Client Consulting Project C
  The project uses a mentored team structure to analyze, investigate and deliver value for a company client. The focus will be on identifying challenges and opportunities for organizational change and identifying key recommendations for leadership into an uncertain future.
• QST MS 741: Business Context and Strategy
  This course introduces students to issues associated with formulating and implementing business strategy. It draws on findings from various academic disciplines (e.g., economics, organization theory, sociology, accounting, and management policy) to build a fundamental understanding of how and why some firms achieve and sustain superior performance. Readings and cases lead towards understanding of the underlying economics affecting a firm's external and internal environments and the implications of these fundamental factors for affecting the practice of strategy design. The course is designed to challenge students both inside and outside of the classroom. A business simulation provides a key experiential means for students to apply strategy concepts to the operations of a virtual business
• QST MS 742: Financial Reporting and Analysis
  "If you can measure it, you can manage it" is an axiom of management. Accounting is the language of business measurement, the means by which business describes what they do, why they do it, and the value that it generates. In this course, you will be introduced to this language via financial statements: corporate reports, balance sheets, earnings and cash flow analyses, along with CVP-based analysis and decision making.
• QST MS 743: Quantitative Methods for Management Decisions
  This course introduces students to statistics and probability, the means by which we analyze customers, markets, firms, industries...any and all aspects of the business experience. The goal is to teach students tools and techniques for analyzing data with an appreciation for the theory underpinning such analyses. How do we collect and analyze data in an unbiased manner?
• QST MS 744: People, Teams, and Organizations
  During MSMS MOD 1 of the Career and Executive Skills class, students with start with career exploration where they develop a better understanding of their skills, interests, and values. After conducting a number of in class exercises students have a better understanding of themselves and will start exploring various career options. In addition, students will finalize their Questrom School of Business approved MSMS resume.
• QST MS 745: Career and Executive Skills A
  This course focuses on the strategy and tactics of assessing individuals' professional fit, pursuing career opportunities, and managing the process of finding a job. Emphasis will be on understanding individual strengths and weaknesses, taking inventory of work style (MBTI), writing resumes, creating career profile, networking, and interviewing.
• QST MS 746: Managing Operations
  Operations Management is concerned with the efficient and effective transformation of inputs into outputs. Some examples of inputs are materials, labor, land, capital, time, information and management. Outputs include products, services or information that customers need. Value is added only when the output meets the needs of customers, both internal and external. This course includes process analysis and improvement, inventory and supply chain management, and operations strategy. Process analysis comprises skills and techniques that enable managers to design and manage work processes within the organization to achieve both efficient use of resources and effective performance outcomes. Inventory and supply chain management elevates process analysis to an inter-firm level, enabling managers to deliver better services more quickly and at lower cost. Operations strategy links the value-adding activities of the organization to its overall strategy.
• QST MS 747: Project Management and Control
  In this course, students will learn how to use the concepts, tools and techniques of project management in order to successfully manage projects. System development project failures are generally failures of management, not failures of technology. Good management, along with an understanding of the appropriate use of technology, is therefore essential. Students will learn how to apply the concepts, tools and techniques of project management in today's dynamic, digital business environment, where projects must be brought to completion under increasingly compressed timeframes and where decisions must be made under conditions of uncertainty
• QST MS 748: Career and Executive Skills B
  During MOD 2 of the MSMS program, students will be researching and validating different job targets, which include job function, industry, and location. Students will be introduced to a Targeted Search Plan (TSP), a project management document for the job search. Once students have validated their job targets they will develop a target list of companies and develop a list of strategic contacts. Students will also learn the foundations of networking and they will customize their LinkedIn profile to reflect their career goals.
• QST MS 751: Corporate Strategy and Decision-making
  This course introduces students to issues associated with formulating corporate strategy. It draws on findings from various academic disciplines (e.g., economics, organization theory, sociology, accounting, and management policy) to build a fundamental understanding of how firms choose the businesses in which they operate, considerations for geographic expansion, and how technology interplays with strategy. Readings and cases lead towards understanding the underlying economics affecting a firm's external and internal environments and the implications of these fundamental factors for affecting the practice of strategy design. The course is designed to challenge students both inside and outside of the classroom, and to inform their consulting project.
• QST MS 752: Communicating in Business
  This course emphasizes the development of executive communication skills, written and verbal, including presentation logic and flow (inductive and deductive), style (physical position, posture, eye contact), and voice (volume and pace). Included in communication effective means of 360 degree feedback, given and received, to develop personal skills and skills of our peers, managers, and those who we manage. Written communication of emails, memos, and reports.
• QST MS 753: Negotiation and Conflict Management
  This course explores the skills strategies and tactics of both collaborative and competitive negotiations. In addition, we look at team negotiations, multi-party negotiations, agency, stakeholder analysis, preparation, and conflict resolution. The course is largely experiential, and involves individual introspection, one-on-one interactions with others, group exercises, and class discussion
• QST MS 754: Corporate Finance
  Continues to introduce the basic principles, methods, and challenges of modern finance. Covers topics such as cost of capital, capital structure, agency theory, equity issuance, debt issuance, and performance measurement. The material is examined from the perspective of students preparing to use finance theory as managers, to support decision making, capital allocation and planning, and to measure, evaluate, and reward performance. Emphasizes the relationships between finance theory and other organizational activities (such as operations, marketing and project management).
• QST MS 755: Career and Executive Skills C
  During MOD 3 of the MSMS program, students will began reaching out to their strategic contacts to start conducting informational conversations. This will help students learn more about the job functions and industries that they are interested in pursuing while building their network. Students will also develop their interviewing skills as their learn how to master common interview questions as well as behavioral interview questions. Students will have a chance to practice their skills in class and they will have an opportunity to do a mock interview.
• QST MS 756: Leadership and Change Management
  The focus of this course is on leadership from a variety of perspectives: organizational leadership in the external environment, as well as leadership at the top, middle, and lower levels inside organizations. We look leadership from a behavioral, emotional intelligence, and situational point of view, developing students' awareness, mindset, and skills in the process. In addition, we explore the challenges, theories, and skills of change management.
• QST MS 757: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  This course introduces students to the innovation processes, such as design thinking, and various types and models of innovation. Students will learn current approaches to developing value for innovators, companies, societies, and economies through entrepreneurship. The course will explore various contexts for innovation and entrepreneurship, including new ventures, mature companies, and foreign market entry.
• QST MS 758: Special Topics
  Based on a survey of the student cohort, current and emerging topics most relevant to MSMS students will be presented. Given student backgrounds and career interests, topics such as Lean Six Sigma and Social Media Marketing, in addition to critical managerial topics such as Ethics, are presented.
• QST MS 759: Career and Executive Skills D
  During MOD 4 of the MSMS program, students will learn techniques for evaluating job offers and negotiating salaries. Additionally, students will learn techniques and skills for being successful in their first job after graduating from their master's program. Students will learn strategies for managing their reputation and establishing critical relationships both vertically and horizontally within the organization. Credits: 1.5
• QST OB 221: The Dynamics of Leading Organizations
  This is an experiential learning-based course that studies what people think, feel and do in organizational settings, focusing on individual, interpersonal, group and organizational processes. The primary objective is to help students understand and manage organizational dynamics as effectively as possible. This is done through: analysis of readings; reflecting on hands-on, real-time experiences in organizations and in teamwork here; practice opportunities in class sessions, creative applications and team exercises; and papers written by students and teams. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration.
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• QST OB 441: Human Resource Management
  Required for Organizational Behavior concentrators. Introduces students to the field of human resource management (HRM). Emphasizes the strategic importance of effective human resource management to the success of any organization. Specific topics covered include: job design and workforce planning, recruiting and selection, training and development, performance management and rewards, employee and labor relations, and retention. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which organizations' strategies and practices around these issues contribute to the strategic objectives of the organization. Individual and group projects enable students to develop skills in making decisions from both the human resource manager's and the general manager's perspectives.

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