Online Master of Science in Management

This course delves into the dynamics of managing organizations in complex and rapidly changing environments. Students examine how managers function when faced with complex environments characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and unsustainability.

Through self-development exercises and case studies, students develop skills in communicating and listening, motivation, emotional intelligence, team building, creative problem-solving and decision-making, and negotiation and conflict resolution.

Students will learn to anticipate challenges, adapt strategies, and foster an environment of resilience and innovation, ensuring that organizations can thrive in the face of adversity and rapidly changing circumstances.

This course offers an exploration of financial management focusing on sustainable financial management strategies and practices. It delves into critical financial decisions related to working capital management, financing, capital budgeting, and distribution policy, highlighting their role in creating sustainable firm value.

Through practical sessions, simulations, and illustrative case studies, the course examines the ESG (environmental, social, and governance) issues associated with these financial decisions, equipping students for roles in financial analysis and strategic financial decision-making with a sustainability perspective.

This course uses data analytics to address business challenges. It focuses on essential methods in data analysis, predictive modeling, and strategic decision-making. The course covers the latest advancements and developments in data analytics, equipping students with various methods, tools, and approaches to tackle complex business challenges and meet organizational objectives.

Students will develop skills in identifying and capitalizing on business opportunities through data-driven insights. Practical case studies across various industries and business functions provide managerial insights and recommendations, preparing students to make well-informed decisions and suggestions in diverse business scenarios.

This course focuses on studying cloud-based systems integral to performing and facilitating various business functions across organizations. The course explores the integration of different business domains and contexts, highlighting the effective use of capabilities, features, modules, applications, and functionalities in enterprise systems.

Through in-depth case studies, students will learn how these systems manage critical aspects like data, products, services, personnel, projects, and finances.

The aim is to understand how enterprise platforms are leveraged to effectively meet business needs and achieve strategic and sustainable goals.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of advanced sustainable business practices, with a primary focus on strategic integration of people (social), planet (environmental), prosperity (economic), and participation (governance) principles in organizations across sectors.

The coursework focuses on understanding integrative SDGs, ESG, and DEI management strategies for shared sustainable value creation and sustainability reporting that follows the Global Reporting Initiative and other standards. Students engage with complex case studies, learning to devise and implement responsible and resilient strategies that promote long-term organizational and environmental well-being.

The course also emphasizes stakeholder engagement, transparent reporting, and practical application of sustainability tools to achieve measurable impact.

This course is tailored for aspiring leaders dedicated to ethical and inclusive global change. It emphasizes ethical decision-making and cross-cultural understanding, equipping students with skills to navigate and unite diverse and multi-sector perspectives.

The course focuses on developing leadership mindsets aligned with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles and the global agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Through theoretical and practical learning, this course prepares students to address complex global challenges through innovative, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient solutions that contribute significantly to the betterment of the world.

In this course we first investigate the role of values in guiding the ethics of everyday business decisions. Then we practice living those values as we explore organizational integrity: holistic adherence to stated organizational values (e.g., honesty, innovation, human welfare) that are disseminated to stakeholders.

Organizational values are unique and constitute a central way in which the organization represents its purposes and identity. Students will learn about the structures, processes, and practices that reinforce corporate responsibility and accountability to those values, thereby avoiding organizational misconduct and other unethical behavior.

Students will also grapple with the fact that organizations that appear to maintain integrity and contribute to society often simultaneously engage in unethical behaviors such as data falsification and withholding, bribery, deceptive marketing, financial violations, environmental degradation, wage theft, and other unethical and illegal practices. Students will analyze the inherent tensions these organizations face and the repercussions of their actions on both their immediate stakeholders and the broader community. By examining various industries, we aim to understand the moral and ethical implications of corporate behavior in today’s world.

This course explores multiple forms of intelligence that are important for leadership. Emotional Intelligence is a managerial, personal, and social competency that enables people to work more effectively with feelings — both our own and those of others. Cultural Intelligence is the ability to work effectively with people from other cultures. Social Intelligence refers to skills in managing interpersonal dynamics.

All these abilities can be developed regardless of our initial starting points. Through a variety of pedagogical approaches (self-assessments, case studies, readings, oral and written reflections), students will explore their current intelligences and devise self-development plans for increasing these intelligences. Increasing our personal intelligences enhances leadership capabilities, thereby allowing us to be more effective in organizations.

During the past few years, the world of work has undergone momentous shifts related to how we convene and collaborate. At the onset of the global pandemic, organizations faced the challenge of moving domestic and global employees to virtual working and teaming arrangements. More recently there has been an effort by many organizations to bring employees back to the office and/or establish sustainable hybrid teaming arrangements. This course is intended to prepare students to design, launch, lead, participate in, and evaluate complex and dynamic teams in the current organizational context — including face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid teaming arrangements in both local and global settings. Learning will take place through seminar and team discussions, individual and team reflection, case analysis, experiential exercises, and a team observation project.

Whether you're resolving a conflict with a colleague, striving to come to an environmentally responsible business deal, or advocating for more equitable practices within your organization, the ability to negotiate and navigate critical conversations shapes the decisions that structure our lives, our work, and our societies. In this course, we delve into key concepts and frameworks, including distributive and integrative negotiation approaches, effective communication strategies for navigating challenging discussions, and the ways the broader context can influence these interactions. Through interactive roleplays, students will practice planning and preparing for negotiations, assessing and applying various negotiation strategies and tactics, and engage in self-reflection to refine and adapt their approaches to negotiations and critical conversations.

In a world where technological disruption, shifting demographics, and global dynamics redefine the boundaries of business, the ability to lead and sustain organizational change has never been more vital. However, successful change efforts are dependent on creating new organizational cultures that reflect the capacity for continuous learning. Successful change is also dependent on how leaders and managers leverage the human and social capital within organizations.

This course delves into the theory and practice of organizational change, equipping students with the frameworks, strategies, and tools needed to navigate transformation in today’s fast-paced environment. Emphasizing both strategic planning and human dynamics, the course examines how change unfolds across individual, team, and organizational levels.

This course is designed to improve your effectiveness as a manager and leader by introducing you to frameworks for understanding organizations and organizational processes. Organizations have been studied from the perspective of several social science disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, and political science. The field on which this course is based, organizational behavior, draws from all these disciplines and applies the insights derived from the pertinent research. This course will feature both foundational and contemporary research and explore how this evidence can be used to improve management and leadership effectiveness within modern, real-world contexts. Lessons will feature case analysis and discussion, situational roleplay, simulation, and other active learning approaches.

This course explores how hybrid business models — such as B Corps, social enterprises, and benefit corporations — integrate purpose and profit to create meaningful social and environmental impact. Students will learn to critically assess and design impact strategies using tools and frameworks central to Impact Measurement and Management (IMM), including IRIS+, SROI, SDGs, Theory of Change, and ESG metrics. Students will build practical IMM competencies through real-world case studies and hands-on assignments to evaluate impact, align stakeholder goals, and support mission-driven decision-making in business practices across sectors and diverse legislative contexts.

This course provides students with an understanding of the iterative and phasic nature of management theory and practices. By fostering an understanding of how managerial initiatives are created and enacted, students will be better able to source, evaluate, and adapt emerging concepts from across the field. This permits students an opportunity to be early adopters of innovative and emergent management practices while ensuring their efforts are rooted in the tenets of managerial rigor, utility, and applicability.

This course delves into the multifaceted world of social entrepreneurship and ecopreneurship, highlighting innovative approaches to tackle social and environmental issues. It explores the creation of sustainable business models and the processes of innovation that drive societal change. The course emphasizes systemic solutions that contribute to the social and circular economies.

Students engage with real-world examples of innovative practices and are guided to design their own solutions using a hybrid approach combining Design Thinking and the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP).

This course equips students with critical competencies in open and frugal innovation, sustainability-focused solutions, human-centered design, and complex problem-solving, essential for addressing modern-day sustainability challenges.

This course investigates the critical role of technology, including digital solutions and data analytics, in achieving sustainability goals. It examines cutting-edge technologies such as Blockchain, AI, and IoT applications in sustainability.

It emphasizes data-driven decision-making and analytics for enhancing the impact of sustainable initiatives internationally and across diverse industry sectors. Students study various cases of technology integration and innovation that lead to significant sustainability outcomes, focusing on solutions that leapfrog traditional methods.

This course bridges the concepts of resilience — the capacity to recover from disturbances and maintain functionality in the face of change — with regenerative sustainability, which focuses on systems that restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy and materials.

Students learn from cutting-edge theories and real-world applications for impactful strategies enhancing green infrastructure, promoting biodiversity conservation, and fostering robust community involvement.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of sustainable development through the lens of ethics and human rights. It examines the responsibilities of different sectors in adhering to a human rights-based approach and the business imperative to respect Indigenous rights and the “protect, respect, and remedy” framework.

International case studies are reviewed, focusing on the rights of nature, animals, and future generations, and how these rights influence business operations within various legal contexts.

This course is designed to enhance students’ strategic communication skills for effective stakeholder engagement in sustainability contexts. Students learn how to write compelling sustainability narratives for diverse audiences, including investors, customers, employees, and the community. It covers best practices and reporting tools such as UNGC Communication on Progress (CoP), the BIA assessment for B-Corps, the STARS reporting for AASHE, and Sharing in Progress (SiP) for PRME.

Students will learn to communicate complex sustainability issues effectively, strengthening stakeholder relationships and driving sustainable corporate strategies.

This course delves into specific sustainable finance innovative approaches, with a focus on the principles and practices of impact investing. It covers strategies for investments that yield social and environmental impact and examines the role of finance in driving sustainable innovation.

The course goes beyond ESG factors, exploring real-world cases of microfinance and community impact investing with the measurable outcomes.

This course focuses on the technical aspects of sustainability reporting, providing aspiring chief sustainability officers and sustainability professionals with an in-depth understanding of various reporting frameworks and regulations.

This course covers essential metrics and standards in sustainability reporting, including detailed examinations of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and other emerging standards. Through case analyses and practical exercises, students will become proficient in the nuances of these frameworks, understanding how to effectively utilize them in real-world corporate contexts.

The course aims to equip students with the expertise needed to navigate the complex landscape of sustainability reporting, ensuring they can accurately reflect a company’s sustainability performance and compliance with global standards.

This course marks the beginning of the capstone sequence in the MIM program, focusing on developing sustainable business solutions. It challenges students to critically engage with existing literature and field practices, fostering an in-depth understanding of sustainable business approaches.

Leveraging the design thinking methodology, the course emphasizes creative and analytical skills to design innovative, sustainable solutions. Students will develop their own concepts, integrating sustainability with systemic innovation, preparing them for the complexities of real-world environmental and social challenges.

The concluding course of the MIM program builds upon the innovative concepts developed in "Solution Project Ideation." Students are tasked with transforming their sustainable solution ideas into comprehensive business plans.

The course covers advanced aspects of business analysis, strategic planning, and presentation skills. The ultimate goal is to equip students to craft detailed, viable business plans and effectively communicate them, showcasing their potential for sustainable impact in the business world.

The program culminates with a capstone presentation, allowing students to exhibit their mastery in sustainable business solution design to a panel of experts.