iMBA Degree Requirements

Leadership and Teams – BADM 508

• Illinois Component: Develops and integrates fundamental behavioral concepts and theory having administrative applications; initially focuses on the individual decision maker and ultimately includes interpersonal, organizational, and social structures and influences; and develops strategies and methods of research on behavioral applications in business
• Coursera Components: Foundations of Everyday Leadership and Applications of Everyday Leadership
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Managing Organizations – BADM 509 

• Illinois Component: Examines and analyzes the organization as a social system and the impact of its various components on work attitudes and behavior; topics include the development of organizational structures, organizational effectiveness, decision making and policy formulation, leadership, and change.
• Coursera Components: Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organization Structure and Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Strategic Management – BADM 544

• Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.
• Coursera Components: Business Strategy and Corporate Strategy
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Core 1 Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit Hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Statistics Management Decision Making – BADM 572

• Illinois Component: The application of classical and modern statistics for business decision making. The level of the course assumes some prior knowledge of basic statistics as well as facility with elementary calculus.
• Coursera Components: Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making and Inferential and Predictive Statistics for Business
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Microeconomics for Business – ECON 528

• Illinois Component: Microeconomics for professional business students. Shows relevance of value and distribution theories for business managers. Includes demand and supply theory, consumer choice, production and cost theory, industrial structure, and was and capital theory.
• Coursera Components: Firm Level Economics: Consumer and Producer Behavior and Firm Level Economics: Markets and Allocations
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Macroeconomics for Business – ECON 529

• Illinois Component: Development of short run macroeconomic models; analysis of private sector behavior foundations and government policy alternatives; extensions for open economy models and growth models.
• Coursera Components: Country Level Economics: Macroeconomic Variables and Markets and Country Level Economics: Policies, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Performance
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length Core 2

Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit Hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Marketing Management – BADM 520

• Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.
• Coursera Components: Marketing Management I and Marketing Management II
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Process Management – BADM 567

• Illinois Component: Introductory course in decision-making problems in production; includes the theoretical foundations for production management as well as the applications of decision-making techniques to production problems in the firm; and considers production processes, plant layout, maintenance, scheduling, quality control, and production control in particular.
• Coursera Components: Operations Management and Process Improvement
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Managerial Accounting – ACCY 503

• Illinois Component: Introduction to management accounting as part of the firm's information system, in terms of modern cost accounting and budgetary systems for planning and controlling business operations.
• Coursera Components: Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis and Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Core 3 Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Accounting Measurement, Reporting, and Control (Financial Accounting) – ACCY 500

• Illinois Component: A managerial perspective of the nature and role of accounting in organizational measurement, reporting and control processes.
• Coursera Components: Financial Accounting: Foundations and Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Investment Finance I and II – FIN 511

• Illinois Component: Introduction to investment analysis, including the theory and implementation of portfolio theory; empirical evidence on the performance of financial assets; evaluation of portfolio investment strategies; and the extension of diversification to international markets.
• Coursera Components: Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation and Investments II: Lessons and Applications for Investors
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Corporate Finance I and II – FIN 580

• Illinois Component: Provides an understanding of the rich diversity of challenges that confront those creating new enterprises. Students will learn about managing growth while considering business models and cash issues, building the team with organizational and managerial issues
• Coursera Components: Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation and Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risks
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Core 4 Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit Hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Marketing in a Digital World – MBA 541

• Illinois Component: This course will examine how digital tools, such as the Internet, smartphones, and 3-D printing, are revolutionizing the world of marketing by shifting the balance of power from firms to consumers.
• Coursera Component: Marketing in a Digital World
• 2 Credit Hours; 4 Weeks in Length

Digital Marketing Analytics – MBA 542

• Illinois Component: Theory and strategy behind marketing analytics for use in practical application
• Coursera Component: Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Theory and Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Practice
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Digital Media and Marketing – MBA 543

• Illinois Component: Learn the role of digital channels in an integrated marketing campaign and why you need a digital strategy. Interact with the content and learn from a variety of examples.
• Coursera Components: Digital Media and Marketing: Principles and Digital Media and Marketing: Strategies
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Marketing in an Analog World – MBA 544

• Illinois Component: This course will begin with an exploration of the key differences between the Analog and the Digital and then examine four ways in which the Analog World has been affected by the Digital Revolution: Domination, Resistance, Synergy, and Transformation.
• Coursera Component: Marketing in an Analog World
• 2 Credit Hours; 4 Weeks in Length

Focus Area Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit Hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Strategic Innovation – MBA 551

• Illinois Component: Drawing from many of collective research in disruptions, this course will offer a set of frameworks, tools, and concepts in order to manage the unique challenges and develop innovative strategies while managing disruptive innovations so as to achieve leadership positions.
• Coursera Components: Strategic Innovation: Building and Sustaining Innovative Organizations and Strategic Innovation: Managing Innovation Initiatives
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Fostering Creative Thinking – MBA 552

• Illinois Component: Understand how to work effectively with other people to generate, evaluate, and pitch creative ideas so audiences are more likely to accept them.
• Coursera Components: Creativity Toolkit I: Challenging Perspectives and Creativity Toolkit II: Creative Collaboration
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Entrepreneurship: From Startup to Growth – MBA 553

• Illinois Component: Provides an understanding of the rich diversity of challenges that confront those creating new enterprises. Students will learn about managing growth while considering business models and cash issues, building the team with organizational and managerial issues.
• Coursera Components: Entrepreneurship I: Laying the Foundation and Entrepreneurship II: Preparing for Launch
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Focus Area Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit Hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Global Business Horizons – MBA 546

• Illinois Component: This course focuses on understanding subsistence marketplaces and designing business solutions for the billions of people living in poverty in the global marketplace. To develop understanding of subsistence marketplaces, we use exercises to enable participants to view the world from the eyes of subsistence consumers and entrepreneurs, facilitate bottom-up understanding generated by participants, and provide insights from extensive research
• Coursera Components: Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces and Sustainable Business Enterprises
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Global Impact – MBA 547

• Illinois Component: Enables students to understand how globalization changes consumers at a psychological level, and provides tools for imbuing brands with cultural meanings that can resonate with global consumers. Examines the ethical bases of corporate decision making using critical ethical analysis, educate and create sensitivity about ethical issues in business.
• Coursera Components: Global Impact: Cultural Psychology and Global Impact: Business Ethics
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Global Strategy – MBA 548

• Illinois Component: Understand the forces of globalization and the importance of cross-cultural management in the relationship of a multinational organization; how firms adapt to, react towards, and shape the global economy.
• Coursera Components: Global Strategy I: How the Global Economy Works and Global Strategy II: Doing Business in the Global Economy
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Focus Area Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit Hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Introduction to Business Analytics with R – MBA 561

• Illinois Component: This course examines how the various styles of analytics, the differences between basic business intelligence and more advanced forms of analytics, data visualization methods and metrics design, a discussion of analytics collaboration, governance, and ethics. Students learn about how analytics is and can be used to optimize supply chains, improve sales and marketing, and improve talent effectiveness, financial performance, and IT operations.
• Coursera Components: Introduction to Business Analytics with R
• *The MOOC for MBA 561 will be revised for Spring 2021. It is recommended you wait to complete this MOOC until after these revisions have been completed.
• 2 Credit Hours; 4 Weeks in Length

Introduction to Business Analytics: Communicating with Data – MBA 562

• Illinois Component: Introduction to the science of business analytics while casting a keen eye toward the artful use of numbers found in the digital space.
• Coursera Components: Introduction to Business Analytics: Communicating with Data
• 2 Credit Hours; 4 Weeks in Length

Data Toolkit: Business Data Modeling and Predictive Analytics – MBA 563

• Illinois Component: Students will gain an understanding of the basic methods of business analytics by working with different tools and data sets. The course will emphasize applications over the mathematics of the methods. Students will get to apply methods using JMP, a menu driven software.
• Coursera Components: Data Modeling and Regression Analysis in Business and Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Applying Analytics Across Business Functions – MBA 564

• Illinois Component: Reviews applications of analytics and the changes that analytics can bring to the specific functional division of the firm. The main theme of this course is that subject matter expertise matters to framing the correct data problem, collecting data, analysis, performance metrics, and operationalization. The overview in each area will be followed by an in-depth project-based application and analysis exercise.
• Coursera Components: Applying Data Analytics in Finance and Applying Data Analytics in Marketing
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Focus Area Capstone – MBA 590

• 0 Credit Hours; 2 Weeks in Length

Program Capstone – MBA 591

• 0 Credit Hours; 4 Weeks in Length