Important notes for Spring 2012 registration
- Registration Requests: Please note that the registration process has changed. We will post more detailed instructions on the GradCM Blog shortly before registration for the Spring begins, check back for updates.
- Enrollment Date:Log into Wiser to check your enrollment date, it will be listed on the right hand side of the main landing page Student Service Center. Enrollment date is based on the number of credits you have completed. Students will also receive an email from the Registrar’s Office informing them of their enrollment date.
- Holds: While in Wiser, check that you do not have any holds, you may located the Holds section on the right hand side in Student Service Center. Check before you submit any requests, not doing so will result in slower registration process. Typical holds are Emergency Contact (which will need to be addressed each semester), Bursar’s Office (late fees) or Health Services (Immunization-please click here for more information from Health Services). Holds are placed by other departments. The College of Management cannot remove those holds, students are responsible.
- Late Fees and Deadlines: December 31st is the final day to initiate Spring 2012 registration. If you are not enrolled in a course by this date, you will be charged a $100 late fee.The date is enforced by the Registrar’s Office and cannot be extended.
- Courses in Redwill be assigned a Wiser number shortly, we will update as soon as we have the information. To register for these classes, you will need to wait until they have been assigned a course id #, please check the blog for updates.Scroll down for a course description.
- Courses are listed below, grouped together by department and type to make it easier to search for the classes you are looking for. (Example: CORE, Accounting & Finance, Management & Marketing, and Information Systems & Operations). For descriptions of courses, go to WISER, select Curriculum Management, then select Course Catalog. In the subject area you will list MBA AF, MBAMS, MBAMGT or MSIS in the catalog Nbr you will list a 3 digit number ie: would like to view a course description of MBAMKT 685 Brain of Consumer. In the subject area list MBAMKT, in catalog Nbr list 685, then click search and you will be able to view the description of the course.
Business Core Spring 2012 course offerings
Course # / Title of Course / Professor / Day 7 Time / FunctionalArea / Specializations / WISER # / Pre-requisite / Section #
MBA AF 601 / Economics for Managers / Staff / Tue & Thu
4-5:15pm / CORE / CORE / 6375 / MBAMS 600 / 02
MBA AF 601 / Economics for Managers / Staff / Thursday
6-8:45pm / Core / Core / 6281 / MBAMS 600 / 01
MBA AF 610 / Accounting for Managers / Sally Wright / Monday
6-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 6626 / MBAMS 600 / 02
MBA AF 610 / Accounting for Managers / Sally Wright / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / Core / Core / 6283 / MBAMS 600 / 01
MBA AF 620 / Financial Management / Anette Florczak / ONLINE / Core / Core / 6287 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBA AF 620 / Financial Management / Annette Florczak / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / Core / Core / 6288 / MBA AF 610 / 02
MBAMS 600 / Math Analysis for Managers / Phillip Vaccaro / Thursday
6-8:45pm / Core / Core / 6326 / None / 01
MBAMS 630 / Statistical Analysis for Managers / Eshan Elahi / Sat 9:30am-12:15pm / Core / Core / 6329 / MBAMS 600 / 01
MBAMS 635 / Operations Management / Robert Powers / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / Core / Core / 6327 / MBAMS 630 / 01
MBAMS 640 / Computer Info. Processing / Pratyush Bharati / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / Core / Core / 6328 / None / 01
MBAMGT
650 / Organizational Analysis and Skills / Mary Still / Thursday
6:00-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 5174 / To be taken 1st semester / 01
MBAMGT 650 / Organizational Analysis and Skills / Mary Still / Wednesday
6:00-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 5175 / To be taken 1st semester / 02
MBAMGT 650 / Organizational Analysis and Skills / Pacey Foster / Tuesday
6:00-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 6321 / To be taken 1st semester / 03
MBAMGT
650 / Organizational Analysis and Skills / Marc Lavin / Friday
11am-2:45pm / CORE / CORE / 6596 / To be taken 1st semester / 04
MBAMGT 650 / Organizational Analysis & Skills / Group Meeting / Monday 6-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 5176 / To be taken w/lecture / 01D
MBAMGT
650 / Organization Analysis and Skills / Group Meeting / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 5179 / To be taken w/lecture / 04D
MBAMGT 650 / Organization Analysis and Skills / Group Meeting / Sat 11:00am-1:45pm / CORE / CORE / 11245 / To be taken
w/lecture / 03D
MBAMKT 670 / Marketing Management / Raymond Liu / Monday
6-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 6485 / None / 02
MBAMKT 670 / Marketing Management / Ron Vining / online / CORE / CORE / 6294 / None / 01
Accounting and Finance Spring 2012 course offerings
Course # / Title of Course / Professor / Day 7 Time / FunctionalArea / Specializations / WISER # / Pre-requisite / Section #
MBA AF 611 / Intermediate Acct / Kun Yu / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / ACCT & FIN / ACCT & FIN / 6618 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBA AF 612 / Cost Accounting / Holly Johnston / Monday
6-8:45pm / ACCT / ACCT / 6284 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBA AF 613 / Federal Tax Planning / Linda Chen / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / ACCT / ACCT / 6877 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBA AF 614 / Financial & Mngrl Auditing / Thomas Hogan / Thursday
6-8:45om / ACCT / ACCT / 6285 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBAAF 615 / International Accounting / Mark Radding / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / ACCT / ACCT
International Mgt / 6282 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBA AF 616 / Finc’l Statement Analysis / Kiran Verma & James Grant / Thursday
6-8:45pm / ACCT/FIN / ACCT/FIN / 6286
6627 / MBA AF 610
MBA AF 611 / 01/02
MBA AF 617 / Mgt Accounting & Control / Kiran Verma / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / ACCT / ACCT / 6819 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBA AF 618 / Accounting Info. Systems / Surjit Tinaikar / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / ACCT/IS / ACCT/IS / 6376 / MBA AF 610 / 01
MBA AF 623 / Financial Modeling / Lucia Silva-Gao / Thursday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN / 6484 / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF 624 / Managing Mutual Funds / Doto / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN / 5171 / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF 626 / International Financial Mgt / Martin Konan / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN
International Mgt / 6629 / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF 627 / Health System Financial Mgt / Kiran Verma / Tue & Thu
4-5:15pm / FIN / FIN
HCM / 6820 / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF 628 / Portfolio Analysis Investment Mgt / Zaur Rzakhanov / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN / 6630 / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF 630 / Int’l Economy and Business / Lal Chugh / Thursday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN
International Mgt / 8055 / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF
634 / Risk Management / Zaur Rzakhanov / Monday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN / 8056 / MBA AF 620, MBA AF 625, MBA AF 628 / 01
MBA AF 635 / Mergers & Acquisitions / James Grant / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN / 8057 / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF 691 / Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis / Yong-Chul Shin / Monday
6-8:45pm / ACCT / ACCT / 6079 / MBA AF 611 & final semester for MSA students / 01
MBA AF 697 / Grad Student Managed Fund / Atreya Chakraborty / Monday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN / TBD / Permission from instructor / 01
MBA AF 697 / Global Financial Crisis / James Grant / Monday
6-8:45pm / FIN / FIN, Int’l Mgt / TBD / MBA AF 620 / 01
MBA AF 699 / MTO / Atreya Chakraborty / Mon & Wed
4-5:15pm / Varies / Varies / TBD / Permission from instructor / 01
Management and Marketing Spring 2012 course offerings
Course # / Course title / Professor / Day/Time / Functional area / Specialization / WISER # / Pre-requisite / Section #MBAMGT 654 / Compensation and Benefits / Arthur Bowes / Saturday
9am-11:45am / MGT / HR / 12172 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 660 / Business & Its Environment / Nardia Haigh / Tue & Thu
4-5:15pm / CORE / CORE / 6322 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 660 / Business & Its Environment / Stephan Manning / Monday
6-8:45pm / CORE / CORE / 6598 / MBAMGT 650 / 02
MBAMGT 664 / Legal Environment of Business / Thomas Jones / Thursday
6-8:45pm / MGT / HR / 11237 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT
664 / Legal Environment of Business / Thomas Jones / Sat 9:30am-12:15pm / MGT / HR / 11238 / MBAMGT 650 / 02
MBAMGT 668 / Real Estate & Eco Development / Chris Steele / Monday
6-8:45pm / MGT, MKT, FIN / MKT, FIN / 7057 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 669 / Entrepreneurship Practicum / Daniel Phillips / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / MGT / ENT / 7573 / Permission from instructor / 01
MBAMGT 675 / Managing in the Global Economy / Mohsin Habib / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / MGT / International Mgt / 6323 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 677 / International Perspectives / David Levy / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / MGT / International Mgt / 11240 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 678 / Environ. Mgt & Implemen. & Ops / Marc Fournier / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / MGT, OPS / ENV, OPS, International Mgt. / 7142 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 681 / Health System & Public Policy / Arthur Bowes / Monday
6-8:45pm / MGT / HCM, HR, NP / 6324 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 687 / Non Profit Management / Marc Lavine / Thursday
6-8:45pm / MGT / NP / 11662 / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 689 / Strategic Management / Staff / Monday
6-8:45pm / CAPSTONE / CAPSTONE / 6325 / Final Semester / 01
MBAMGT 689 / Strategic Management / Varghese George / Saturday
1-3:45pm / CAPSTONE / CAPSTONE / 6870 / Final Semester / 02
MBAMGT 697 / Special Topics: Clean Tech Entrepreneurship / Benyamin Lichtenstein / Thursday
6-8:45pm / MGT, MKT / ENV, ENT, MKT / TBD / MBAMGT 650 / 01
MBAMGT 698 / Practicum / Juan Evereteze / Saturday
9:30-12:15pm / VARIES / VARIES / 6124 / None / 01
MBAMKT 671 / Market Research / Raymond Liu / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / MKT / MKT / 7574 / MBAMKT 670 / 01
MBAMKT 673 / Marketing Communications / Werner Kunz / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / MKT, COM / MKT / 6295 / MBAMKT 670 / 01
MBAMKT 674 / International Marketing / Leon Zurawicki / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / MKT / MKT, International Mgt / 6296 / MBAMKT 670 / 01
MBAMKT 685 / Brain of the Consumer / Leon Zurawicki / Monday
6-8:45pm / MKT / MKT / 12626 / MBAMKT 670 / 01
MBAMKT 692 / New Product Development / Paul Delvy / Thursday
6-8:45pm / MKT / MKT / 7189 / MBAMKT 670 / 01
MBAACM
681 / Analytical Writing for Managers / Giargiari / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / COM / HR / 6633 / None / 01
Information Systems and Operations Management Spring 2012 course offerings
Course # / Course title / Professor / Day/Time / Functional area / Specialization / WISER # / Pre-requisite / Section #MBAMS 655 / Simulations Modeling & Analysis / Staff / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / OPS / OPS / 8065 / None / 01
MSIS 610 / Innovation in IT / Ricardo Checchi / Thursday
6-8:45pm / IS / IS / 6591 / MBAMS 640 / 01
MSIS 613 / Information Security / Ramakrishna Ayyagari / Thursday
6-8:45pm / IS / IS / 7956 / MBAMS 640 / 01
MSIS 616 / IT for Quality & Control / Praytush Bharati / Monday
6-8:45pm / IS / IS / TBD / MBAMS 640 / 01
MSIS 617 / Supply Chain Management / Seyed Ehsan Elahi / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / IS, OPS, MKT / IS, OPS, MKT, International Mgt / 7009 / MBAMS 640 / 01
MSIS 630 / Project & Change Management / Staff / Tuesday
6-8:45pm / IS, OPS / IS, OPS / 8059 / MBAMS 640 / 01
MSIS 670 / Enterprise Business Intelligence / Noushin Ashrafi / Online / IS / IS, BI / TBD / MBAMS 640 / 01
MSIS 697 / Special Topics: Healthcare Operations Mgt / Matthew Sweeny / Saturday
11am-1:45pm / OPS, MGT / OPS, HCM / TBD / MBAMS 635 / 01
MSIS 697 / Special Topics:
Information Storage / Paul Delvy / Wednesday
6-8:45pm / IS / IS / TBD / MBAMS 640 / 01
Course descriptions that you may not find on the website
MBA AF 697 Special Topics: Graduate Student Management Fund
The course is designed to give the students a hands-on experience at performing investment research, investing money and managing a portfolio prior to entering the work force. Students are expected to generate investment ideas, research investment opportunities and make buy/sell/hold recommendations based on their analysis. The course will also provide an opportunity for students to work closely with money managers from Boston’s Financial services industry via the Student Managed Fund’s advisory board .The overall mission of the Student Managed Investment Fund is to provide real-world portfolio management and is highly recommended for MSF students.
MBA AF 697 Special Topics: Global Financial Crisis
Coming soon, check back for updates
MBA AF 699 Master’s Thesis Option
Students that enrolled in MBA AF 697 Research Colloquium during the Fall 2011 semester will now move on and enroll in the 2nd part MBA AF 699 Master’s Thesis Option. Students will work with their assigned advisor over the next 2-3 semesters. Upon completion of their research, students will be assigned a letter grade, defend their thesis; receive thesis research distinction on their transcript and a certificate from the Graduate College of Management.
MBAMGT 687 Non Profit Management
Nonprofit organizations aim to improve society while facing similar management challenges to any organization as they provide valued goods or services. This sector includes colleges and universities, hospitals and social service entities, human rights and global justice interests, arts organizations, social enterprises and more. Despite the overall economic downturn, the nonprofit sector continues to grow (it is the fastest growing part of the U.S. economy). This course provides an opportunity to explore general management issues in a nonprofit context and to gain an understanding of critical issues and trends specific to nonprofits. Instructor: Prof. Marc Lavine
MBAMGT697 Clean-Tech Entrepreneurship
CleanTech is now one of the largest sectors for venture investment, indicating the potential for economic growth in this technology innovation space. The growth in this area is primarily driven by investments in energy, with substantial investments in water, transportation, advanced materials, and manufacturing processes. Clean technologies have the opportunity to deliver dramatic improvements in resource efficiency and productivity, creating more economic value with less energy, materials, and toxicity. This course will focus on value creation, with emphasis on how strategic business drivers (e.g. regulation, subsidy, and market valuation) influence innovation and investment, and how entrepreneurial businesses are responding to these drivers. A team-based project will focus on applying and integrating organizational, strategic, finance, and marketing tools to assess and formulate entrepreneurial business opportunities.
MSIS 697 Healthcare Operations Management
In its groundbreaking report, Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), the Institute of Medicine highlighted the need for more attention to care processes and a systems approach to healthcare delivery. This course is designed to explore the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain in bringing the concepts, practices and tools of operations management to the healthcare industry. In addition to covering the basics of operations management students in this course will explore the significant environmental trends in the healthcare industry through a series of case studies to develop an understanding of strategic operations management and its integration into processes in the healthcare industry.
MSIS 697 Information Storage
This course helps you understand the activities and the relationships between data, information and knowledge that is created, stored, protected and optimized for access with the latest storage and communication technologies. The course focuses on the combined network and storage architectures required to provide solutions to today’s needs and provide the ability to scale rapidly to meet the expanded needs of future applications in the cloud computing era. The course addresses questions such as; how to architect and select an optimal storage network, how to determine and select the correct size and type of storage, how to define and apply the best storage configuration to protect users data, how to ensure data storage and accessibility align with the business continuity plan, how to select the best techniques for facilitating backup and recovery of lost or corrupted data, how to provide local and remote data replication to meet the government requirements for security of financial data, how to provide optimized Return On Investment using computer virtualization and how to monitor, report and manage large amounts of data over time.
MSIS 670 Enterprise Business Intelligence
The course is a combination of conceptual perspective of BI and technology to support it. Students are encouraged to participate in weekly discussion and post questions, answers, comments, ideas on discussion board. A number of e-publications on BI are provided and students are required to read them and write a short term paper on any topic related to BI that interests them. Weekly quizzes guarantees that students read the chapters in the book. A group project assigned where students need to apply the concepts and technology learned in the course to a real world situation. Exercises on the BI software are graded to ensure that students upon completing this course are fairly competent about using at least one such software.