Earning Criteria

• Leadership Assessment & Development: In today’s increasingly complex and fast-paced environment, it is essential to know yourself well, to manage yourself well and to be adept at working effectively with a wide range of people. The overarching objectives of this course are to broaden and deepen self-awareness in preperation to be an effective leader and life-long learner.
• Probability Statistics & Quantitative Methods helps students acquire and/or refresh the following statistics, mathematics, and computer skills that are essential for success in the core courses of the MBA program:In probability and statistics, the following three primary areas are covered - Descriptive Statistics: summarizing and explaining data.Probability: modeling randomness and variability using probability ideas.Sampling: mean, standard deviation, and the role of the Central Limit Theorem.
• Digital Innovation in Healthcare explores the role of digital technology in creating new digitally enabled services in the healthcare sector. Students engage with senior leaders to learn how digital technology is being operationalized in the real world while examining core principles surrounding the identification and implementation of digital innovation.
• Accounting for Managers introduces management students to accounting’s role in business administration. Students learn that accounting is not math, truth, or putting numbers into boxes. Instead, students learn that accounting is an imprecise language used to send and receive information about economic performance.
• Statistics and Decision Modeling helps students become competent analysts by providing them with the ability to use—and to communicate with those who use—certain quantitative approaches to help make informed decisions for your organizations. A secondary objective is to provide them with the quantitative knowledge and skills that are needed in other MBA courses. The two groups of quantitative techniques are statistics and decision modeling.
• Managing People and Organizations: In today’s complex fast-paced environment, it’s critical to be able to optimize organizational performance. All organizations (corporations, non-profits, government) aim to achieve some goal or objective (e.g., increase shareholder value, meet a patient need, provide a service, create value for stakeholders, make a positive social impact). This course is designed to enhance the ability to make well-reasoned decisions about managing people and organizations.
• Culture in Healthcare Organizations focuses on organizational culture as it affects health care delivery in large hospital systems. It draws on the expertise and experience of the Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth, U.H., and VA Hospital to examine factors in organizational culture that can improve (or worsen) intended healthcare outcomes. Each of the 4 institutions has a unique culture. Comparing and contrasting them allows students to understand the “best of each”
• Regulatory Issues in Healthcare provides and overview of key areas health law at level important to managers in healthcare related organizations. The topical areas covered include (1) the history, structure, financing, and operation of the U.S. medical system; (2) legal and ethical rules and regulations governing physicians and other health care professionals; the patient-physician relationship; institutional providers of care such as hospitals, nursing homes, and laboratories; and drug and devi
• Financial Management introduces students to multiple concepts in Corporate Finance with the aim of providing principles and tools that enable you to make managerial decisions that increase the firm’s value. The course will begin by building a foundation in understand the time value of money and its many applications, and then move on to various tools used to evaluate sound investment decision making.
• Economics for Managers offers an introduction to the theories, principles, and applications of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics topics include supply and demand, market failures, theory of the firm, market structure, pricing strategies, strategic decision-making, and decision-making under uncertainty. Macroeconomics topics include international trade, business cycles, economic policies, economic growth, and inequality.