Business Administration
MBA education has become more critical than ever. Successful employees
now need to understand how to use their personal and professional
skills, how to learn continuously and update their knowledge, and how
to help their organizations meet leadership, management, marketing
and financial challenges in an extremely fast-paced and highly competitive,
complex environment.
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- About the Program
- Format
- Curriculum
- Careers & Outcomes
- Faculty
The MBA program at Holy Names prepares adult learners to deal with dynamic, complex changes
in the working environment in the following ways:
- Extensive preparation in the “core business areas” of accounting, finance, marketing, and
management, as well as ethics and business strategy.
- An in-depth introduction to leading-edge issues such as the quality movement, re-engineering,
mergers, acquisitions, new leadership styles, financial modeling, internet-based
funding, and managing in a global economy.
- An emphasis is placed on ethics and socially responsible decision-making in all courses in
our curriculum. Our classes are designed to help students exercise conscience while making
good organizational decisions.
Individual attention from committed faculty supports students in developing their personal and
professional potential. Courses are taught on weekends to accommodate the needs of working
adults.
- Program can be completed in 12, 18, or 24 months.
- Classes are held every other weekend (Fridays, 7-10 p.m.; Saturdays,
9 a.m.- 12 noon and 1 - 4 p.m.) for 6 class meetings.
- Students can choose 1 or 2 courses a trimester.
- Classes start scheduled five times January, March, May, August, or October.
- Program can begin in January, March, May, August, or October.
- Flexible course scheduling has some courses meeting every week for seven weeks and some every other for 14 weeks
- Students can step in and out of semesters as needed to fit to their personal
needs.
Master of Business Administration
Foundation Courses
- Accounting: one year (BSAD 10, 11, 12)
- Finance: one course (BSAD 129)
- Economics: one year (ECON 1, 2)
- Marketing: one course* (BSAD 160)
General Education Expectations
- Quantitative methods for business or the equivalent (MATH 1)
- Statistics: one course (ECON 15)
- Computer proficiency including Spreadsheets (CSCI 10C)
Core Courses (24 units)
- BSAD 205 Decision Modeling
- BSAD 207 Managerial Accounting
- BSAD 215 International Management
- BSAD 229 Financial Management
- BSAD 230 Advanced Management: Leading Change
- BSAD 251 Corporate Policy and Ethics
- BSAD 260 Marketing Management
- BSAD 295 Strategy in the Global Environment
Concentrations (9 units)
Students will take three courses in one concentration.
Finance
This concentration will support two distinct career paths. Many students are employed by large
corporations and seek additional financial skills that will assist them in improving their performance
and obtaining promotions. Other students work in small businesses or independently and
seek financial skills to achieve and sustain success. Our courses have been recently redesigned to
better prepare our students for the information economy.
- BSAD 236 Intermediate Financial Management
- BSAD 237 Financial Modeling and Forecasting
- BSAD 239 Advanced Financial Management
Management and Leadership
This concentration is for students preparing to move into positions of greater responsibility within
large for-profit companies, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. While considering
new models of organizations and leadership, this concentration focuses upon the development of
personal qualities leaders at all levels need in order to be successful in our fast-paced, rapidlychanging,
complex-knowledge economy.
- BSAD 250 Leadership Development
- BSAD 253 Building Learning Organizations
- BSAD 255 Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Marketing
This concentration will provide students with an extended foundation in marketing and background
in the consumer area of marketing as well as a clear perspective of marketing strategy in
the global environment. Students will be prepared to move into positions offering responsibility
within consumer packaged good firms, business-to-business marketers, not-for-profit firms, and
operations determined to engage in global marketing endeavors.
- BSAD 261 Diverse Consumer Behavior
- BSAD 263 The Global Imperative: Strategic Marketing
- BSAD 265 Marketing Research
Sports Management
This concentration will support students who aspire to have careers in the growing field of sports management, emphasizing the development of effective sports organizations, marketing and financial planning. Students will be prepared to move into careers in school and professional sports, conscious of the ethical issues as well as the skills needed to manage in a variety of educational, non-profit, and professional settings.
- BSAD 270 Sports Governance and Management
- BSAD 271 Sports Marketing Management
- BSAD 272 Sports Finance
Electives (3 units)
Students can select one course from any of the MBA courses or from other Holy Names
University graduate programs.
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Graduates in concentrations in Management, Marketing and Business
Communication develop careers in a variety of areas, including banking
and finance, accounting, insurance, manufacturing, retail, technology,
small business administration, consulting, communications, and
the nonprofit sector (such as health care, education, and government).
They also pursue graduate degrees in business, law, organizational
development, education, communications and public administration.
Marcia Frideger, SNJM, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
Chairperson, Department of Business
510-436-1205
frideger@hnu.edu
James E. Durbin, M.B.A., C.P.A
University of California, Berkeley
Director, MBA Program
Associate Professor of Business
510-436-1622
durbin@hnu.edu
William A. Sadler, Jr., Ph.D.
Harvard University
Professor of Business and Sociology
510-436-1346
sadler@hnu.edu |
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