INTRODUCTORY MODULE 
June Intensive Week (76 hours)

The Economic Theory of Organizations (20 hours)
This course addresses the issues related to the scientific problem of how organizations motivate and coordinate the actions of individual human beings. The perspective will be developed from the economic scientific viewpoint. The format of the course will be readings from the literature, lectures, and class presentations. 
The course is taught by Professor Paul Spindt.

Management Theory of Organizations (20 hours)
This course is taught in a Ph.D. seminar style entailing extensive reading in relevant scholarly literature and discussion/debate of those readings. Readings will focus on a broad overview of the classical foundations as well as current research relating to: organizational life cycle, population ecology theory, resource dependency theory,transactions cost theory, structural contingency, I/O–based view, resource-based view and inter-organizational relations (diversification, acquisitions, alliances, etc.).
The course is taught by Professor Robert D. Nixon.

Research Methods in Business (20 hours)
This course will be a survey methods course covering the topics of philosophy of science, theory building, types of research methods, modeling, and measurement. The students will be divided into the finance and management sub-groups for certain portions of the course to emphasize the different research methodologies when appropriate. 
The course is team taught by Professors Michael Burke and Claudiney M. Pereira.

Discussion Leadership and Case Method (8 hours)
This course module is about leadership in general and leading case discussions and the case method. We will use the case method as well as some lectures. The goal of the module is to increase your awareness of and competence in leading case discussions, as well as to increase your knowledge and wisdom concerning leadership, in general, and the role of leadership in organizations. Faculty will be required to prepare a course employing the case method. 
The course is taught by Professor Jeffrey A. Barach.

Applications of Technology in Business Education and Research (8 hours)
This course introduces the participants to the common applications of information technology for teaching and research in business schools. It includes the access of business databases and software packages most commonly used in research and teaching.
The course is taught by Professors Victor J. Cook and Edward C. Strong.

SPECIALTY FIELD MODULES
(144 hours)

Management/OB

Individual Behavior in Organizations (36 hours, Fall)
This course covers the topics of personality, abilities, work attitudes, learning, motivation, job performance, and feedback and rewards. The format of the course will be lectures, assigned readings, and research presentations.
The course is taught by Professor Mike Burke.          

Research Methods (36 hours, Fall)
This is an advanced topics methods course dealing with issues such as met-analysis, multilevel modeling, and structural equations modeling. This course will emphasize applications. (In this course each student will prepare a research project proposal for the program.) 
The course is taught by Professor David Corey.                          

Human Resources (36 hours, Spring)
This course provides the students with an in depth review of the literature on human resource management covering the topics of fit, job analysis, and competency modeling, recruiting and selection, selection, performance appraisal and management, compensation, training, and employee rights and justice. 
The course is taught by Professor Adrienne Colella.

Group and Social Processes (36 hours, Spring)
This course covers the topics of group dynamics, teamwork, group decision making, managing conflict and negotiations, work climate, and leadership. The format of the course will be lectures, assigned readings, and research presentations. 
The course is taught by Professors Adrienne Colella and Angelo DeNisi.   

Marketing

Marketing Theory (36 hours, Fall)
Marketing theory introduces candidates to the diverse marketing issues that organizations face and provides them with an understanding of the various theoretical perspectives that have been applied to understand these issues.  Within the course of the seminar participants will be exposed to fundamental marketing problems that marketing scholars explore.  Through a series of presentations and discussions candidates will gain an understanding on how marketing scholars approach these problems and how new theoretical viewpoints come to life.  They will also be exposed to different research paradigms (experimental, qualitative, econometric modeling, analytical modeling) that marketing scholars employ in an attempt to develop an appreciation of the various ways that marketing knowledge is created.
The course is taught by Professor Victor Cook.

Marketing Strategy Seminar (36 hours, Fall)
This course reviews the current literature covering issues in marketing strategy, marketing modeling, and links between marketing and financial decision making. The course also introduces the faculty to the MARKSTRAT simulation program as both a pedagogical tool for teaching and a research laboratory in marketing strategy. (In this course each student will prepare his or her research project proposal for the program.)
The course is team taught by Professors Victor Cook and Ed Strong.

Research Methods in Marketing (36 hours, Spring)
The course introduces students to qualitative and quantitative methods used to:  (a) understand consumers (e.g., consumer needs, attitudes and behavior); (b) translate these consumer insights into specific marketing strategies (e.g., market entry, segmentation, targeting and positioning) and programs (e.g., pricing, advertising, product development, distribution); (c) structure and manage relationships with supply chain partners to implement these strategies and programs (e.g., channel design, vertical integration, alliances, sales force management, conflict management), and;  (d) measure marketing performance (e.g., brand equity, customer equity, impact on financial market value). 
The course is taught by Professor Manish Kacker.

Consumer Behavior Seminar (36 hours, Spring) 
This course addresses some of the substantive question in marketing including decision making over time, emotion and decision making, the consumer behavior perspective on turnover, sales management and channel management perspective on practical intelligence, how can consumers manage persuasion, and how consumers’ emotional well-being be achieved. 
The course is team taught by Professors L.J. Shrum and Tina M. Lowrey.

Finance/Accounting

Microeconomics (36 hours, Fall)
This course covers the foundations of microeconomic theory and the applications to financial markets. It considers the behavior goals of both producers and consumers and how they interact in markets. The course also covers the applications of game theory to economic and financial decision making and the importance of uncertainty and information for economic efficiency. 
The course is taught by Professor Mark Johnson.

Finance Theory I (36 hours, Fall)
This course is designed to be an introduction to the theory of market equilibrium, and individual and corporate decision-making under uncertainty and information asymmetry. It is also a course in which you will be introduced to some of the modeling tools that are necessary to read and understand the important papers in all areas of Finance. The course is classified into topics that cover the economics of uncertainty and the economics of information. It includes a mathematical analysis of different notions of risk, risk aversion in the context of portfolio choice, an in-depth discussion of portfolio separation, and an analysis of alternative single-period asset pricing models. This is followed by decision-making under limited information, and information asymmetry. You will be exposed to the problems of moral-hazard and adverse-selection, which arise because of contracting under differential incentives or information. (In this course each student will prepare a research project proposal for the program.)
The course is taught by Professor Yufeng Han.

Research Methods in Accounting & Finance (36 hours, Spring)
This course develops the applications of econometrics to financial model testing. The topics include tests of hypotheses within linear models and within systems of equations. Students will read current literature and work through empirical model formulations and the econometrics applications. The emphasis of the course is for testing the theoretical foundations of financial and accounting decision models and market efficiency. 
The course is taught by Professor Rob Hansen.

(Participants pursuing accounting and finance specializations will choose one of the following seminars.)

Finance Theory II (36 hours, Spring)
This course prepares the faculty to write corporate finance papers by studying in detail a few papers from the current literature. The goal is to master these papers completely and then attempt to write their own papers using the techniques learned. This often involves simple extensions of the arguments of the papers studied in-depth. The readings studied in this course are taken from the literature on three topics: imperfect markets and taxes, asymmetric information, and incomplete contracts. 
The course is taught by Professor Tom Noe.

Doctoral Seminar in Accounting Theory (36 hours, Spring)
This course prepares faculty to conduct research in the field of accounting and finance. It is based upon the review of current literature in the field and the replication and critiques of the methodology of several key papers.
The course is taught by Professor Jevons Lee.