Study MBA in USA at Walsh College

Walsh College’s mission is to provide a transformative business and technology education that combines theory, application, and professional experience to prepare graduates for successful careers. This curriculum is designed by leading experts and practicing industry professionals at Walsh College and Great Lakes. It is specifically curated to cover a range of business skills—starting from the fundamentals and progressing to more complex, hands-on applications.

Year 1

Marketing Management

As an introductory course, Marketing Management will highlight the role of marketing in organizations today—how it is harnessed to achieve corporate objectives by analyzing market environments; consumer behavior and segmentation, targeting, and positioning strategies. In this course, we embark upon the task of building value propositions around the marketing mix elements of product, price, place, and promotion. We will look at how all this converges to the evolution and design of marketing strategies aimed at creating a competitive advantage for the marketer. We will also look at the marketing strategies of digital and service marketing.

Financial Accounting & Decision-Making

It fosters a robust conceptual grasp of Financial Statements and diverse cost management approaches, enabling learners to enhance business decisions. Topics covered include accounting basics, Financial Statement types and applications, Consolidated Financial Statements, various financial analysis techniques, Ratio Analysis for Performance Evaluation, real-life standardized Financial Statement Analysis, and industry-specific examples.

Oral Communication

The Oral Communication course seeks to equip learners with public speaking and presentation skills. It helps them hone their communication skills, so that they can present their thoughts and ideas with impact. Learners will sharpen their interpersonal skills in both oral and written communication, learn to think critically, develop structured content and present it effectively. The course further helps them with creating effective documents that may be read in absentia, such as reports and proposals.

Statistical Methods in Decision-Making

Problems in business contain a great degree of quantitative elements in the form of facts and figures. It is essential for managers to carry out data analysis and interpretation for effective decisions. In this context, they need to prepare quantitative arguments to justify their decisions. This course focuses on statistical methods for accomplishing the same. Participants will learn how to collect, analyze, and interpret data correctly. Through datasets and case-lets, they will be shown how to derive meaningful insights out of data and present it visually to others. The concepts and methods of statistics, including Variability, Randomness, and Distributions will be introduced in this course.

Microeconomics

This course covers economic theory and decision science tools to help learners tackle intricate business choices within functional domains like Marketing, Finance, and Human Resources. Learners will delve into factors shaping demand and supply, comprehend consumer behavior and Utility Maximization, optimize production within input limitations, assess cost dynamics over time, discern firm pricing and production decisions amid competition.

Organizational Behavior

This social science course provides learners with the tools needed to understand and evaluate individual, group, and organizational processes. They will also gain an appreciation of the relevance of Organizational Behavior to the practice of human resource management. It also helps learners develop an understanding of how and why people behave in an organization, and emphasizes the manager’s role in nurturing and maintaining positive and successful Organizational Behavior in his/her department, division, or organization.

Cost & Management Accounting

Learners delve into cost components, their significance, informed costing, managerial decisions and budgeting components. Through a comprehensive curriculum, participants acquire a profound understanding of financial aspects and cost management strategies, empowering them to make informed and effective business choices.

Human Resource Management

This course is an overview of the field of Human Resources Management, including a historical perspective of HR, strategies for designing HR activities, and the roles and responsibilities of HR professionals. The HRM course prepares learners to make the connection between people and strategy. It focuses on the emerging human resource competencies and skills needed to navigate the evolving human resources field, including the transformational impact of technologies such as AI and Big Data.

Production & Operations Management

This course focuses on cultivating a robust grasp of Operations & Supply Chain Management for adept business decision-making. It covers India’s GDP impact, Operations Management’s relevance, operational strategies, Capacity Planning, Layout, and Scheduling. Additionally, it delves into Supply Chain Management essentials, evolution, Demand Forecasting techniques, Procurement, Sourcing, Inventory Management, Logistics Management’s significance, Supply Chain Drivers, Performance Measurement, and recent trends. Learners will comprehend these aspects to navigate complex business challenges effectively. Through this comprehensive curriculum, participants will emerge equipped with a thorough understanding of Operations & Supply Chain Management and its pivotal role in modern business landscapes.

Business Analytics

Learners will perform basic operations related to data analysis, learn how to read, explore and visualize data, and work with data frames and different Pandas Libraries. They will be able to recognize why Time Series Data requires special techniques for analysis, describe components of a Time Series, identify and estimate Time Series components and learn the application of simple methods for Time Series Forecasting.

Financial Management

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of Business Finance, focusing on effective decision-making. It covers financial tools, Capital Budgeting, NPV, IRR, Cash Flow Estimation, Working Capital, Expected Returns, Security Markets, Capital Structure, Dividends, Project Financing, and Company Valuation. Learners acquire skills to evaluate finance options, make astute capital decisions, calculate present value, and analyze investment returns. They explore Securities Sales, Debentures, Institutional Roles, and Capital Structure Determinants. The curriculum delves into Dividend Policies, Project Financing Techniques, and methods for valuing companies. Upon completion, learners will possess a robust knowledge of financial aspects that are crucial to strategic business choices.

Strategic Management

This course focuses on cultivating a robust conceptual grasp of Strategy Management for adept business decision-making. It covers the strategic management process, adapting to changing business environments, fundamental principles, and tools. Learners analyze real-world strategy creation and implementation experiences, competition using internal and external analyses, case comprehension and presentation, strategic company analysis, and defending organizational strategic positions. Upon completion, participants gain comprehensive insights into Strategic Management’s intricacies, be able to navigate complex business landscapes effectively and make informed strategic decisions.

Capstone Project

Learners will experience end-to-end problem solving using a combination of tools and techniques learnt in the program. They will also learn the practical implementation of these techniques, while choosing the one which gives the most appropriate results for decision-making in business. They will understand the trade-offs that need to be made when solving a problem in real-life. Additionally, they will develop better presentation and report writing skills.

Year 2

Legal Essentials for Business Success

This course is a comprehensive overview of the legal environment of business. Students learn the basics of American and international law. Topics include constitutional and administrative law, contracts, commercial transactions, employment law and other governmental regulations, environmental protection and property. Students will also discuss the formation of business organizations for conducting both domestic and international business.

Organizational Resilience Framework

Successful firms prepare for adversity and are proactive and flexible if a crisis occurs. This course introduces the scholar to the importance of building resiliency, methodology, and business readiness into today’s modern organization. An awareness of the need to anticipate, prepare for, react to, and adapt to changes that are both sudden as well as incremental is emphasized. Leaders must be prepared to be resistant to failure while simultaneously positioning the organization to react strategically and methodically if faced with a disruption or disaster.

Specializations to choose from

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Organizational Resilience Framework

Organizational resilience prepares the enterprise to endure difficult or challenging times. Leadership is integral in ensuring a company’s resilience because ultimately, responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the leader. Flexibility, integrity, problem solving, crisis management, and identifying opportunities fall squarely on the humans within the organization and the individual(s) who lead them.

Principles of Data Analytics

This course provides an overview of the knowledge that students gain successfully completing the MSDA degree curriculum. Each weekly session’s materials focus on one aspect of data analytics. The course acts as a roadmap with respect to an overview of the data analytic skill sets that students need to earn an MBA degree.

Prescriptive Analytics

This course exposes the student to prescriptive analytics. It is used as a method in identifying competitive advantages in the enterprise by identifying the optimal solution. The students will learn how prescriptive analytics is used in business analytics and decision making. Students will explore optimal decision-making models to identify optimal solutions. Topics such as simulation modeling and multi-criteria decision-making are introduced. They will also work on transforming findings into actionable next steps in effective decision-making using prescriptive analytic techniques.

Organizational Resilience Framework

Organizational resilience prepares the enterprise to endure difficult or challenging times. Leadership is integral in ensuring a company’s resilience because ultimately, responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the leader. Flexibility, integrity, problem solving, crisis management, and identifying opportunities fall squarely on the humans within the organization and the individual(s) who lead them.

Fundamentals of Cybersecurity

An exploration of the components of a comprehensive information systems security infrastructure including such critical areas as planning and administration of security, the security program, access control and network security measures, Internet and e-commerce security issues, physical protection of computing facilities, and the legal and regulatory aspects of information security. Students will learn how to protect an organization from computer crime and potentially malicious behavior, and to ensure confidentiality, availability and data integrity through several hands-on case studies. Students will review the eight domains of ISC2 CISSP.

Governanace, Risk and Compliance

This course examines the triad of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) as an essential framework for the management of information technology with business. Governance describes the overall management approach through which senior executives direct and control the entire organization. IT governance is part of overall governance and focused on determining how best to use technology to support business goals. Risk management comprises a set of processes, tools and techniques to assist the organization in identifying and prioritizing its key assets, identifying risks, qualitatively and quantitatively assessing those risks, and determining mitigation strategies. Compliance refers to the responsibility of organizations and their technology departments to comply with internal and external requirements.