The 12 MBA credits include the following courses:

This course targets key aspects of business communication: persuasive presentation skills, writing skills and listening skills. Bu the end of this course, tyou will improve your ability to "sell" yourself and your ideas to others, develop a more effective and adaptable communication strategy, enhance their credibility and align their objectives with those of the audience, perfect your ability to grab and retain adudience interest and understanding through how you structure what you say, and improve your nonverbal skills so that both your body language and you vocal traits align with the image you seek to project.

This course provides an understanding of the entrepreneurial process and overall concepts concerning strategy development and implementation. It begins with a perspective of the entrepreneur and covers areas such as starting a venture, financing options, managing and growing the business and finally harvesting strategies. The student will integrate concepts in management, finance, law, and marketing, and develop an overall strategic outlook.

The ability to negotiate successfully rests on a combination of analytical and interpersonal skills. This course presents a toolbox of analytical and process frameworks, strategies, and skills that can be used to better analyze negotiations, prepare more systematically and engage more strategically. Rhetoric, persuasion techniques and other interpersonal skills will be covered.

Students will be introduced to various models exploring ecreativity and the work place. Students will work with executives and engage in discussions on the issues of creative thinking, as well as interacting with artists both in class and at the studios to help understand how artistically creative people approach their art and craft. This course work will provide students with a much asked for component of management - the ability to think and utilize creativity in practical ways.

This course is designed to provide students with ideas, information, and insights that pertain to women and diversity in leadership. Women have unique challenges as leaders and managers, and this course will provide tools for modern women executives to meet these challenges and succeed in the business world.

This course will cover issues specific to women business leaders such as conflict management, negotiation and persuasion, mentoring structures, crisis communication, and organizational change. Other topics will include implicit and explicit attitude toward female authority in the workplace; implicit social cognition; attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes, etc.

This coure will develop and understanding of the key issues managers need to master in order to manage the interface between people and organizations. This course begins with a focus on the individual within the organization, then progresses to a broader focus on the organization as a whole, and organizational culture.

This course provides an intellectual framework in which to consider the ways society and organizations affect an individual's and corporation's ethical decision making. Students apply ethical decision tools to the numerous moral challenges confronting them in their professional careers. The global context of ethical decision making is examined.

In this course the student will develop conceptual, ethical, and practical skills for managing people through the understanding of, and effective use of HR systems including compensation packages, feedback loops, assessment measures etc. In addition, ethical, legal and strategic issues concerning diversity, international HR challenges as well as domestic situations will be examined.

The goal of this course is to provide students with the tools and concepts from managerial economics that practicing managers can and do use. Drawing on issues in both microeconomics and macroeconomics, fundamental principles are applied to business decision-making.

This course covers basic questions concerning sustainability and the challenges in reconciling free-market capitalism with the need for more sustainable business practices. Among topics covered will be: the need to translate real-world sustainability challenges into future business opportunities, and the economic moral challenges involved with the creation of a sustainable world.

This course will provide an introduction to the history, structure and current issues in the United States' health care system. The interrelationships of the major stakeholders in the system, including providers, patients and payors, will be examined in detail. Particular attention will be given to the influence of legislative bodies, lobbyists and regulatory agencies.

This course will engage students in active discovery of risk management principles. It will focus on the ways in which businesses and society assess, control, and transfer risk. This process, known as the risk management process, is becoming an increasingly important tool in the management of busines and personal financial health. Prerequisite(s): BUS506, BUS509

This course provides an advanced overview and theoretical understanding of the common elements and differences that shape leadership and public policy issues in the private, voluntary, and public sectors. Students will learn how institutions and processes of management and governance in each sector, shape the development of its leaders and their role.

CWE Kauffman FastTrac® program (2 credits)

Kauffman FastTrac is a nationally renowned, hands-on learning program designed to help entrepreneurs hone the skills needed to create, manage, and grow successful businesses. Tracks include helping the entrepreneur or intrapreneur understand current business challenges and how to develop the knowledge and skills needed to improve business performance. This program is 30 hours over 10 weeks.

Admission to the CWE Breakfast Series (1 credit)

The Women Business Leaders Breakfast Series features prominent regional women business leaders speaking on a variety of progressive business topics such as innovative entrepreneurship, strategic business growth, unique marketing strategies, and logistical business planning. Roundtable discussions follow each Breakfast Series and will be facilitated by CWE faculty and include participation by women business leaders within the Pittsburgh region. Sessions are held the second Friday of each month from September through June.

Business Golf Workshop (1 credit)

The game of golf can be a primary source of building your client base and even expanding networking opportunities. This distinctive and popular workshop will teach you proper course etiquette, how to conduct business on the golf course, short-game techniques, how to play in a company outing, and much more. Each entering CEWL cohort will be assigned a program advisor from CWE. Women business leaders will also function as mentors/coaches to each participant.