This 1-credit hour course provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundational principles of business, focusing on how organizations operate, adapt, and thrive in a dynamic global marketplace. Students will explore key domains such as marketing, finance, leadership, operations, and strategy, gaining practical insights into the challenges businesses face and the strategies they use to succeed. The course culminates in a comprehensive company analysis assignment, where students will apply their learning to evaluate a real-world organization's performance and strategic position.

This course provides a hands-on approach to applied research in practice, emphasizing the practical application of research and analytical skills. Students will engage with real-world business challenges, learning to formulate research questions, gather and interpret data, and draw evidence-based conclusions. Through a structured projects, students will develop effective communication skills, presenting insights and recommendations to support strategic business decisions. Designed to strengthen critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, this course prepares students to approach complex business issues with confidence and clarity.

Explores environmental/cultural approach to international marketing and important global marketing trends, including growth/expansion of the world's big emerging markets, rapid growth of middle income market segments, and steady creation of regional market groups. Case studies are used to develop global and strategic thinking in terms of the marketing 4Ps.

This seminar analyzes strategies and strategic responses of individual firms operating internationally. The evolution of global industries, global competition, and global strategies is emphasized throughout. Special emphasis is placed on the cultural differences between countries and their implications for international management efforts.

This seminar builds upon basic macroeconomic principles, applying economic models/theory to the global economies. Global macroeconomics seeks to explain the nature of association among economic forces in markets around the world, such as the impact of the United States fiscal deficit on increased foreign borrowing and forces causing the economic slump in Japan.

This seminar explores differences among economic institutions, policy, and performance in countries around the world and provides information on the methods used to make economic comparisons across countries, examining the relative success or failure of these various economic states. Topics of discussion will revolve around major developments in the world economy.

The course provides exposure to advanced concepts in entrepreneurship with an emphasis on leading entrepreneurship and innovation efforts in organizational enterprise settings. Students are taught to use all functional areas of business to optimize options to expand firm revenue, finance firm growth, and insure long-term sustainable value creation, while avoiding the pitfalls of improvisation that are common in innovative endeavors.

This course builds on the material from Health Care Jurisprudence and from Health Care Contracting and Negotiations. Topics reviewed may include sales, negotiable instruments, the corporation qua corporation, debtor-creditor relations, bankruptcy, real property, and the governmental regulation of business. Case studies will be developed by students and analyzed.

This course will review major ethical theories, principles, decision-making methods, and the relationship between ethics and leadership. Clinical ethics topics will be considered from an organizational perspective, and topics with a more definitive business focus will be addressed. Case studies will be developed, analyzed, and discussed

This course introduces students to the performance of market economies. It addresses market dynamics that affect organizations and management decision-making in order to enhance the ability of the student to understand the context, source, and potential solutions for various problems and opportunities routinely encountered in the practice of management.

The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the environment in which international companies operate. Students will be introduced to the special problems and complexities of operating in the global marketplace, evaluating how and why businesses should explore international opportunities and the country entry strategies to accomplish those goals.