Online MBA Degree

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

Electives

6 credits are required as electives, and may be recognized from other approved institutions and organizations allowing for complete customization according to your career goals. Electives can include evidence-based research in health management, global population health, healthcare supply chain management, executive coaching and mentoring, disaster planning, pandemic and crisis management, corporate social responsibility in healthcare and more.

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

You have the option of tailoring your program with specialized study. This 12-credit requirement allows up to 6 credits from other approved institutions and organizations. Courses to be offered by Sauder include:
Healthcare Management and Strategy
Human Resources and Labour Relations in Healthcare
Financial Management in Healthcare
Operations Management and Chain Supply Management in Healthcare
Information Technology and Management in Implications in Healthcare
Leadership I and II: Leading Self and Leading Others
Strategic Marketing for Healthcare Management

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management

After completing the Integrated Core component of the EMBA, you are eligible to receive a Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management. During the Integrated Core you will develop a common foundation and understanding of business and management principles as they relate to the healthcare industry. If you are moving on to complete the entire EMBA you will have the opportunity to look more deeply at complex issues facing healthcare, and continue your skill development. The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management focuses on the following key themes within the healthcare context:
Strategic Management
Strategic Leadership
Financial Management & Accounting
Strategic Marketing
Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources
Managerial Economics
Operations and Logistics
Business Law and Ethics

Executive Client Field Project – Business 564
This is a group project, conducted in self-selected teams for the duration of the program. A senior executive client must be obtained in either a profit-oriented or non-profit organization of appropriate size and complexity. There are deliverables at the end of each term and the international field trip to China is part of this project.

Global Marketing Planning – Business 562
This course will enhance your ability to analyze market opportunities and threats, assess internal capabilities, make tough choices and develop strategic market plans that will help your organization win market leadership in the global marketplace. Topics such as market opportunity assessment, global branding, entering foreign markets, competing with local incumbents, organizing the marketing team and its activities across national borders will be treated within the context of strategic marketing planning. Our focus will be on the process to develop such marketing plans, the content of powerful marketing plans, and the execution of those plans.

Global Environment of Business – Business 560

This course demonstrates the relationships among the major environmental forces, examines the ways in which they differ among nations and over time, and analyzes how they may impact corporate strategies. This course addresses the following five sets of environmental forces: (1) Industry Structure: Responses to strategies of customers, suppliers and competitors, dependence of profitability on unique value-added attributes, and the shift of certain activities to low-wage countries; (2) Macroeconomic variables: Income levels and growth rates, foreign exchange rates, inflation rates, interest rates, and unemployment rates; (3) Political variables: Regulations, financial incentives, taxation, foreign investment restrictions, and international trade and investment agreements; (4) Societal variables: Labour and environmental practices, ethics, corporate social responsibility, Boards of Directors, and demographics; (5) Technological variables: Technological infrastructure and the pace and direction of technological changes, including in particular the Internet and e-business.

Strategic Analysis and Action – Business 558
This course will enhance your capacity to do the job of a general manager/cross-enterprise leader. A general manager in our terminology is someone who leads a multifunctional group (business, division, profit centre, etc.) and is responsible for the strategic performance of that group. The cases and concepts of the course take the total business as the unit of analysis and the general manager of the business as the key actor. The materials encompass a wide range of industries, businesses and issues. Nevertheless, they are integrated through their emphasis on the key general management tasks of: assessing the business’ performance and forecasting its prospects as it is currently being run; identifying the important opportunities and challenges facing the business and setting a course of action for dealing with them; defining capabilities essential for the business’ development and acting to build/acquire them; and, implementing changes, as necessary, in the way that a business is being run or being operated.

Managing Financial Resources – Business 557
This course will enable you to recognize corporate financial problems and opportunities, communicate effectively with finance professionals, and participate fully in the financiallydriven decision making process. The first part of the course is concerned with learning about a corporation from analysis of its financial statements, and forecasting financial performance using pro forma statements. We then focus on major financial decisions— determining the optimum capital structure, measuring and managing financial risk, and planning long-term access to capital for the firm in both debt and equity markets. Lastly, we examine methods of corporate valuation, and explore opportunities to enhance shareholder wealth through corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Winning Through Marketing Management – Business 553
Winning in markets is at the core of business success. Winning means attracting, growing and retaining customers, beating competition, and making money. This is done in a context of dynamic changes related to economic and other dimensions of the situation. This course puts you in the marketing manager’s chair. It exposes you to the decisions such as positioning, and creating customer value. It exposes you to the concepts and tools used to make these decisions such as market segmentation, competitive analysis, and the lifetime value of a customer.

Stakeholder Communication – Business 552
This course will develop your ability to communicate with the wide variety of stakeholders important to your businesses. We will improve your presentation skills, and explore how better to manage written information. We will strengthen your leadership capabilities by building your interpersonal communication skills, including your ability to handle the difficult conversations that occur when talking with angry stakeholders. And we will hone your understanding of the corporate communication process to make you more aware of the centrality of communication to a corporation’s success.