ACCELERATED ONLINE
MBA Program
Our accelerated online MBA program has been developed by a group of distinguished professors and entrepreneurs. It aims to fully equip students with comprehensive tools and hands-on experience for starting, managing and growing a successful business. This 33-credit hour program is designed to be completed in 1 year. It is composed of 9 modular courses.
Each course is 4-week long with synchronous and asynchronous content and activities. Upon the completion of the 9 sequential modules, the program ends with a Capstone hands-on project which is delivered by an elite group of entrepreneurs and executives.
Business Analytics & Data-Driven Decision Making
Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Economics & Market Dynamics
Entrepreneurship & the Creative Mindset
Financial & Managerial Accounting
Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
Marketing & Branding
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
Capstone Project
Business Analytics & Data-Driven Decision Making
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 501: Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making
Module Description
The explosive growth in the amount of data created in the world by humans and machines continues to accelerate. This data deluge coupled with a societal awareness of the strategic value of data, has engendered a global business paradigm shift: the advent of a data-driven business era. In this new data-driven business world, the cards of competition, innovation, and productivity are being reshuffled as business analytics and artificial intelligence are disrupting most industries across the globe and providing new opportunities for successful ventures. This module provides students with the strategic and necessary skillset to become a successful entrepreneur in the domains of big data, data-driven business, business analytics, and artificial intelligence. It enables students to understand the challenges and opportunities that data and artificial intelligence represent in the business world and in our overall society.
Instructor
Kevin Carillo, Ph.D.
Professor of Data Analytics
Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 507: Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Module Description
Digital technologies are playing a transformative role in the modern world. The changes associated with digital innovations such as social media, blockchain technology and smart embedded devices are rapidly disrupting a variety of industries across the globe and challenging institutions, organizational structures, and most importantly, the skill-set needed for successful new ventures. This module focuses on digital business transformation and digital entrepreneurship. It enables students to understand the challenges and opportunities of the dynamic complex and disruptive technological business environment of the digital age.
Instructor
Eusebio Scornavacca, Ph.D.
Professor of Management information systems
Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 503: Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Module Description
This module focuses on essential ethical viewpoints as a foundation and examines specific characteristics of business life through cases and examples. There is not one universal set of ethical behaviors followed in the business community, which is why determining appropriate ethical behavior to maximize profits poses a unique challenge to entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs and managers are faced with daily challenges where individual values conflict with those of teams, organizations, customers, and clients. We will explore the nature of morality and the various normative theories of ethics that touch on business, economics, workplace, and the environment.
Instructor
Mark Salah Morgan, J.D.
Professor of Business Law & Ethics
Economics & Market Dynamics
3 Credit Hours - 4 weeks
MBA 504: Economics and Market Dynamics
Module Description
This module focuses on the application of micro and macroeconomic analyses for formulating and executing entrepreneurial business plans and corporate strategy. Students will learn the role of market structures and dynamics in influencing various market and organizational outcomes.
Instructor
Jason beck, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Entrepreneurship & the Creative Mindset
3 Credit Hours - 4 weeks
MBA 509: Entrepreneurship and the Creative Mindset
Module Description
Entrepreneurship is a crucial skill for the 21st-century manager. This course unleashes students’ creative abilities and channels them toward the development of a real new product or service idea to be introduced in a business context. Students learn how entrepreneurs think and act under uncertainty, assess their own values and means, and begin the process of ideation and feasibility testing for entrepreneurial opportunities.
The module uses an active, experiential learning approach in which students apply a range of practical skills and techniques associated with entrepreneurial action. By focusing on the entrepreneurial mindset and opportunity development, students will generate and refine a business idea and present an individual pitch to their peers. Learning is supported through lectures, case studies, interactive exercises, and reflective assignments.
Instructor
Tiago Ratinho, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Financial & Managerial Accounting
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 506: Financial and Managerial Accounting
Module Description
This course provides an overview of the two broad disciplines of accounting, financial accounting and managerial accounting for entrepreneurship. The first half of the course will focus on financial accounting where the emphasis will be on understanding the information contained in the financial statements and analysis of those statements. The second half of the course will focus on managerial accounting which primarily focuses on how managers and entrepreneurs can use accounting information to assist them in planning, controlling and making decisions.
Instructor
Robert Felix, Ph.D.
Professor of Accounting
Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 508: Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
Module Description
Leading ventures and organizational dynamics require a deep understanding of organizations and the contexts in which they operate. It has become clear that this role, due to the rapid pace of change in the contexts in which organizations operate, is increasingly complicated. Therefore, it becomes imperative to have the tools that can support us in reading organizational dynamics. In this sense, this course aims to analyze how to lead ventures and organizational dynamics by distinguishing between three levels of analysis: 1) macro, i.e., the organization; 2) meso, i.e., work teams; 3) micro, i.e., the individuals.
Instructor
Massimiliano Pellegrini, Ph.D.
Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Marketing & Branding
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 502: Marketing and Branding
Module Description
This module aims to provide knowledge and skills on marketing strategy for entrepreneurs using the marketing mix, in an integrated and current perspective of Product, Price, Distribution, and Communication. Develop a practical vision of marketing and branding strategies development in a real context. Particular focus will be given to marketing elements related to startups.
Instructor
Lilian Carvalho, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 505: Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
Module Description
In today’s increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, making better strategic decisions is a crucial skill. This course addresses the fundamentals of strategic management and entrepreneurial strategy through current case studies, short lectures, and class discussions. To succeed in any corporate or entrepreneurial settings, managers and entrepreneurs must develop responsible strategic thinking by adequately performing a strategic analysis, formulating strategic choices, and successfully implementing their plans to gain and sustain competitive advantage.
Instructor
Ghassan Yacoub, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategic Management
Capstone Project
6 Credit Hours - 6 Weeks
MBA 510: Capstone Project
Module Description
“This course is structured as a follow-up to the Entrepreneurship and Creative Mindset and designed to get students to apply entrepreneurial thinking to entrepreneurial doing. Working in teams, they will refine selected business ideas and engage in extensive field research, including customer interviews and mentor feedback. Throughout the course, they will tackle key strategic, marketing, financial, operational, and human resource questions that shape the viability of their ventures.
Using tools such as the Lean Startup methodology, business model canvas, storytelling, and pricing strategy frameworks, students will iteratively design, test, and present their venture. The capstone culminates in a final group pitch supported by a professional slide deck. As in the previous module, learning will be supported through lectures, case studies, live feedback sessions, and hands-on project work.”
Professors of Practice
Financial & Managerial Accounting
Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
Marketing & Branding
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
Entrepreneurship and the Creative Mindset
Economics and Market Dynamics
Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making
Capstone Project
Financial & Managerial Accounting
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 506: Financial and Managerial Accounting
Module Description
This course provides an overview of the two broad disciplines of accounting, financial accounting and managerial accounting for entrepreneurship. The first half of the course will focus on financial accounting where the emphasis will be on understanding the information contained in the financial statements and analysis of those statements. The second half of the course will focus on managerial accounting which primarily focuses on how managers and entrepreneurs can use accounting information to assist them in planning, controlling and making decisions.
Instructor
Robert Felix, Ph.D.
Professor of Accounting
Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 508: Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
Module Description
Leading ventures and organizational dynamics require a deep understanding of organizations and the contexts in which they operate. It has become clear that this role, due to the rapid pace of change in the contexts in which organizations operate, is increasingly complicated. Therefore, it becomes imperative to have the tools that can support us in reading organizational dynamics. In this sense, this course aims to analyze how to lead ventures and organizational dynamics by distinguishing between three levels of analysis: 1) macro, i.e., the organization; 2) meso, i.e., work teams; 3) micro, i.e., the individuals.
Instructor
Massimiliano Pellegrini, Ph.D.
Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Marketing & Branding
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 502: Marketing and Branding
Module Description
This module aims to provide knowledge and skills on marketing strategy for entrepreneurs using the marketing mix, in an integrated and current perspective of Product, Price, Distribution, and Communication. Develop a practical vision of marketing and branding strategies development in a real context. Particular focus will be given to marketing elements related to startups.
Instructor
Lilian Carvalho, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 505: Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
Module Description
In today’s increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, making better strategic decisions is a crucial skill. This course addresses the fundamentals of strategic management and entrepreneurial strategy through current case studies, short lectures, and class discussions. To succeed in any corporate or entrepreneurial settings, managers and entrepreneurs must develop responsible strategic thinking by adequately performing a strategic analysis, formulating strategic choices, and successfully implementing their plans to gain and sustain competitive advantage.
Instructor
Ghassan Yacoub, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategic Management
Entrepreneurship and the Creative Mindset
3 Credit Hours - 4 weeks
MBA 509: Entrepreneurship and the Creative Mindset
Module Description
Entrepreneurship is a crucial skill for the 21st-century manager. This course unleashes students’ creative abilities and channels them toward the development of a real new product or service idea to be introduced in a business context. Students learn how entrepreneurs think and act under uncertainty, assess their own values and means, and begin the process of ideation and feasibility testing for entrepreneurial opportunities.
The module uses an active, experiential learning approach in which students apply a range of practical skills and techniques associated with entrepreneurial action. By focusing on the entrepreneurial mindset and opportunity development, students will generate and refine a business idea and present an individual pitch to their peers. Learning is supported through lectures, case studies, interactive exercises, and reflective assignments.
Instructor
Tiago Ratinho, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Economics and Market Dynamics
3 Credit Hours - 4 weeks
MBA 504: Economics and Market Dynamics
Module Description
This module focuses on the application of micro and macroeconomic analyses for formulating and executing entrepreneurial business plans and corporate strategy. Students will learn the role of market structures and dynamics in influencing various market and organizational outcomes.
Instructor
Jason beck, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 503: Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Module Description
This module focuses on essential ethical viewpoints as a foundation and examines specific characteristics of business life through cases and examples. There is not one universal set of ethical behaviors followed in the business community, which is why determining appropriate ethical behavior to maximize profits poses a unique challenge to entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs and managers are faced with daily challenges where individual values conflict with those of teams, organizations, customers, and clients. We will explore the nature of morality and the various normative theories of ethics that touch on business, economics, workplace, and the environment.
Instructor
Mark Salah Morgan, J.D.
Professor of Business Law & Ethics
Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 507: Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Module Description
Digital technologies are playing a transformative role in the modern world. The changes associated with digital innovations such as social media, blockchain technology and smart embedded devices are rapidly disrupting a variety of industries across the globe and challenging institutions, organizational structures, and most importantly, the skill-set needed for successful new ventures. This module focuses on digital business transformation and digital entrepreneurship. It enables students to understand the challenges and opportunities of the dynamic complex and disruptive technological business environment of the digital age.
Instructor
Eusebio Scornavacca, Ph.D.
Professor of Management information systems
Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making
3 Credit Hours - 4 Weeks
MBA 501: Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making
Module Description
The explosive growth in the amount of data created in the world by humans and machines continues to accelerate. This data deluge coupled with a societal awareness of the strategic value of data, has engendered a global business paradigm shift: the advent of a data-driven business era. In this new data-driven business world, the cards of competition, innovation, and productivity are being reshuffled as business analytics and artificial intelligence are disrupting most industries across the globe and providing new opportunities for successful ventures. This module provides students with the strategic and necessary skillset to become a successful entrepreneur in the domains of big data, data-driven business, business analytics, and artificial intelligence. It enables students to understand the challenges and opportunities that data and artificial intelligence represent in the business world and in our overall society.
Instructor
Kevin Carillo, Ph.D.
Professor of Data Analytics
Capstone Project
6 Credit Hours - 6 Weeks
MBA 510: Capstone Project
Module Description
“This course is structured as a follow-up to the Entrepreneurship and Creative Mindset and designed to get students to apply entrepreneurial thinking to entrepreneurial doing. Working in teams, they will refine selected business ideas and engage in extensive field research, including customer interviews and mentor feedback. Throughout the course, they will tackle key strategic, marketing, financial, operational, and human resource questions that shape the viability of their ventures.
Using tools such as the Lean Startup methodology, business model canvas, storytelling, and pricing strategy frameworks, students will iteratively design, test, and present their venture. The capstone culminates in a final group pitch supported by a professional slide deck. As in the previous module, learning will be supported through lectures, case studies, live feedback sessions, and hands-on project work.”
