In the UNC Master of Accounting program, you will have the flexibility to create your own customized coursework that empowers you to build a curriculum that best meets your personal and professional goals. We offer you the opportunity to take a variety of courses focusing on an array of topics including accounting, finance, and business.
Course name: Financial Reporting: MAC 710, 711, and 712
Professor: Jana Raedy, Associate Professor of Accounting and Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting | Faculty Profile
This 3-course series is designed to provide you with an in-depth knowledge of the practice and theory of financial accounting. For each topic, the course covers both the US GAAP reporting requirements and the IFRS reporting requirements. The course also covers the underlying theory and standard-setting decisions that apply to the requirements, along with the judgment and applied financial-accounting research related to each topic.
Skills you’ll gain: Prepare financial statements (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and shareholder equity statements).
Course name: Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling (MAC 707)
Professor: Travis Day, Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship | Faculty Profile
Many employers and recruiters stress the vital importance of advanced spreadsheet modeling skills. This course is designed to be extremely practical, and the skills learned can be put to immediate use in other classes or in the workplace. Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling challenges you to use critical thinking and analysis to find effective solutions to real-life situations. Course topics include an introduction to problem solving and decision making, statistical analysis tools, determining effective data display with charts, and evaluating the financial impact of loans and investments, and more.
Skills you’ll gain: Manage and analyze data effectively, leveraging modeling and visualization tools.
Course name: Accounting Systems Essentials (MAC 716)
Professor: Jana Raedy, Associate Professor of Accounting and Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting | Faculty Profile
Co-lead Professor: Lynn Dikolli, Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
This course is pivotal to understanding the basic accounting system. Accounting Systems Essentials provides an overview of financial accounting and the theory underlying financial reporting. Additionally, the course covers the financial accounting cycle and the underlying systems of the financial reporting process.
Skills you’ll gain: Understand how all aspects of accounting work together to inform business decisions.
Course name: Introductory Finance (MAC 718)
Professor: Jennifer Conrad, Dalton McMichael Distinguished Professor of Finance | Faculty Profile
Co-lead Professor: Paulo Fulghieri, Macon G. Patton Distinguished Professor of Finance | Faculty Profile
Introductory Finance provides you with a good grounding in the basic concepts of finance. This finance-mindset will help you view finance as applied microeconomics in a business context, with value creation as a central concept. You’ll develop skills in financial analysis, planning and decision-making, and an appreciation for decision-making in a complex world. This course introduces the concepts of risk and uncertainty, which are central to an understanding of finance. Finally, Introductory Finance will discuss options, including how they are valued, and consider applications of option valuation.
Skills you’ll gain: Forecast financial performance and perform firm, equity, and market valuations.
Course name: Managerial Accounting (MAC 720)
Professor: Robert Bushman, The Forensic Accounting Distinguished Professor and Area Chair of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Managerial Accounting will provide you with a deep set of concepts and tools that will enhance your effectiveness as managers in your own organizations. This course focuses on enabling managers of complex organizations to effectively exploit information to achieve organizational objectives. The course is designed to develop a sophisticated understanding of the powerful role of management and information systems in supporting decision-making, incentive alignment within an organization and implementation of strategy within an organization.
Skills you’ll gain: Use information systems to implement strategies to store and organize data.
Course name: Auditing and Assurance Services (MAC 730)
Professor: Lynn Dikolli, Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Independent audits of financial information are essential in our capital markets system and to any external user of a company’s financial statements. This introductory course walks students through the what, why, and how of auditing. It aims to balance both auditing theory and practical application of the theory. We explore the critical concepts of risk, evidence and materiality as well as internal controls and audit reporting. You will learn how and when to conduct risk assessments and perform specific audit procedures including how descriptive and diagnostic data analytics can be used on an audit.
Skills you’ll gain: Internal control risk assessment, how to use analytics to identify risks and trends in financial information, how to use critical thinking to evaluate audit evidence, communication and teamwork skills.
Course name: Federal Income Tax (MAC 745)
Professor: Courtney Knoll, Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Associate Dean of the Master of Accounting Program and Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center | Faculty Profile
Are you curious about the U.S. tax system and the tax treatment of common business and personal activities, such as compensating employees with stock options, disposing of assets, saving for retirement, investing in securities and real estate, owning or selling a home, and paying for education? This course introduces the federal income tax system and laws applicable to both businesses and individuals. Federal Income Tax discusses fundamental concepts such as sources of tax law, tax rate structures and fairness, as well as specific elements of the U.S. tax system.
Skills you’ll gain: Learn the tax rules necessary to compute taxable income and compute the after-tax cost of expenditures.
Course name: Professional Communication for Accountants (MAC 775)
Professor: Patricia Harms, Clinical Professor of Management and Corporate Communication | Faculty Profile
In the global world of business, soft skills are essential. Professional Communication for Accountants offers customized instruction in small sections to heighten your sense of self-awareness in various interpersonal settings and upgrade effectiveness in interacting with individuals or small groups. You will benchmark your individual communication skills—writing, interpersonal, and presentation—and, in an experiential setting, apply practical strategies to strengthen the skills they need to refine. Course topics include professional writing, interpersonal communication, presenting, communication strategy, and persuasion and influence.
Skills you’ll gain: Finetune the communication skills you’ll need as an accountant or finance professional.
Course name: Leadership: Ethics, Professionalism and Team Building in Today’s Diverse Business Environment (MAC 776)
Professor: Jana Raedy, Associate Professor of Accounting and Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting | Faculty Profile
This course discusses the level of diversity that exists in today’s business environment and prepares you to navigate a complex workplace professionally. The course focuses on developing the skills necessary to lead, manage, and practice professional behavior, including professional communication, and leading with intelligence. You will complete a self-assessment, which we debrief, and then leverage in team building exercises. The focus on team building continues throughout the coursework in the first term.
Skills you’ll gain: Lead, manage, and inspire individuals working across diverse, cross-functional teams.
Course name: Applied Financial Reporting (MAC 778)
Professor: Jana Raedy, Associate Professor of Accounting and Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting | Faculty Profile
What does it take to prepare a company’s financial reports? This course is designed to provide a capstone to the financial reporting sequence and primarily focuses on an applied financial reporting project. The project allows you to integrate topics from the program into the preparation of one company’s financial reports.
Skills you’ll gain: Work through the transactions, both simple and complex, for a business entity including elements such as revenue recognition, inventory, pensions, leases and the tax provision. Based on this in-depth accounting for one company, prepare a full set of financial statements.
Course name: Strategic Cost Accounting (MAC 888)
Professor: Robert Bushman, The Forensic Accounting Distinguished Professor and Area Chair of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Develop a deeper understanding of the powerful role of cost allocation systems in supporting decision-making and incentive alignment within an organization. Strategic Cost Accounting focuses on enabling managers of complex organizations to effectively exploit information to achieve organizational objectives. The main objective is to provide you with a deep set of concepts and tools that will enhance their effectiveness as managers in their own organizations in terms of understanding the impact of various decisions on the profitability of divisions, products and customers in a variety of contexts.
Skills you’ll gain: Apply cost allocation systems to support decision-making and incentive alignment.
Course name: Data Analytics for Accountants (MAC 854)
Professor: Wendell Gilland, Associate Professor of Operations and Assistant Dean of the Evening MBA and Weekend Executive MBA Programs | Faculty Profile
How do you apply data to make business improvements? The modern business environment is saturated by massive amounts of real-time data. One of the important challenges facing all business professionals is to take data and transform it into useful information. We will apply the Ernst & Young four-part Analytics Mindset Framework to ask the right questions; extract, transform and load relevant data; apply appropriate data analytic techniques; and interpret and share the results with stakeholders.
Skills you’ll gain: Manage and analyze data effectively, leveraging modeling and visualization tools.
Course name: Advanced Auditing (MAC 830)
Professor: Lynn Dikolli, Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Advanced Auditing will enhance your knowledge and skills with respect to selected topics in financial statement auditing and assurance services. The course concentrates on developing your professional skepticism and judgment skills as well as your critical thinking skills through the exploration of special topics such as auditing inventory, management estimates and fair value measurements. This course also introduces students to assurance services beyond audits of historical financial statements, such as SOC (System and Organization Controls) reporting and Sustainability reporting.
Skills you’ll gain: Build a framework for assessing risk and apply solutions based on best practices.
Course name: Applied Audit (MAC 833)
Professor: Lynn Dikolli, Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Applied Audit gives you an opportunity to experience working completing an audit engagement with an engagement team. You are assigned as the audit senior to a fictional audit client and you must apply the knowledge gained in MAC 730 and MAC 830 as you work through the entire audit process, from planning the engagement to drafting the final audit report. Your team will also present your findings to the client’s Audit Committee.
After completing this simulation, you will be able to follow detailed audit programs, gather and evaluate audit evidence and prepare a well-documented and cross-referenced audit file containing lead sheets and supporting workpapers. You will also have developed your time and project management, communication and critical thinking skills.
Skills you’ll gain: Time management, project management, communication and critical thinking skills (particularly around evidence evaluation).
Course name: Interpreting Financial Statements and Disclosures (MAC 887)
Professor: Jana Raedy, Associate Professor of Accounting and Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting | Faculty Profile
It is imperative for business professionals, particularly those in accounting and finance functions, to understand financial statements. We use publicly available sources of information to better understand companies and further your understanding of financial statements and footnote disclosures. This course is perfect for you if you’re planning a career in public accounting, financial management, investment banking, credit analysis, security analysis, or consulting.
Skills you’ll gain: Master all aspects of financial accounting and reporting.
Course name: Tax Research (MAC 840)
Professor: Courtney Knoll, Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Associate Dean of the Master of Accounting Program and Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center | Faculty Profile
Learn how to provide tax insight and advice that helps business leaders make better, more fully informed decisions and properly report the results of their activities. Tax Research introduces you to the source materials, tools, and the methodologies necessary for conducting tax research. Primarily through hands on practice, you will learn to identify relevant tax issues, locate and evaluate sources of tax authority, and effectively communicate conclusions and recommendations.
Skills you’ll gain: Identify tax issues and locate and analyze tax authority.
Course name: International Tax (MAC 841)
Professor: Courtney Knoll, Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Associate Dean of the Master of Accounting Program and Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center | Faculty Profile
Help stakeholders navigate the complexity of the rapidly evolving multinational tax environment. International Tax introduces you to the U.S. income tax laws that apply to multinational transactions. In this class, you will learn about how the US tax law and its vast treaty network address the double-tax problem and the income-shifting incentives taxpayers can face when operating in the US and a foreign country. Topics include jurisdiction, source of income, foreign tax credit, participation exemption, Subpart F, BEAT, GILTI and PFIC anti-avoidance regimes, FDAP withholding, and a variety of other US tax provisions unique to multinational transactions.
Skills you’ll gain: Manage the US tax implications of multinational inbound and outbound transactions.
Course name: Taxation of Flow-Through Entities (MAC 842)
Professor: Karen Trott, Professor of the Practice
Are you interested in learning how to advise on entity selection during start-up or expansion phases and help structure M&A transactions? Taxation of Flow-Through Entities provides in-depth knowledge of federal income tax law as it pertains to partnerships and partners and S-corporations and their shareholders. Topics include formation of the partnership, basis calculations, loss limitations, operations and special allocations, transactions between partners and the partnership, sale of a partnership interest and distributions. This course is ideal if you are planning on a career in taxation.
Skills you’ll gain: Tackle complex tax issues, including the taxation of partnerships, S corporations, C corporations, and their owners.
Course name: Taxes and Business Strategy (MAC 746)
Professor: Edward Maydew, David E. Hoffman Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Senior Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center | Faculty Profile
You’ll gain a fundamental understanding of tax planning over the life cycle of a firm in Corporate Tax Strategy. This course will make extensive use of real transactions to illustrate the impact of tax planning on earnings and cash flow. The course will cover how to decide which organizational form to use, how to form a company and raise capital, operate a company, compensate employees, make distributions to owners, engage in mergers and acquisitions, and liquidate a company.
Skills you’ll gain: Confidently navigate frequent changes to corporate tax codes to assess implications and strengthen the position for your company.
Course name: Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions (MAC 713)
Professor: C.J. Skender, Clinical Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Evaluate any company or target using valuation approaches to implement a successful M&A strategy. Study advanced topics in financial accounting specifically devoted to business combinations. This course focuses on the mechanics of underlying mergers and acquisitions, and the related reporting and disclosure issues for complex corporate organizations.
Skills you’ll gain: Work with mergers and acquisitions and issues faced by conglomerates and subsidiaries.
Course name: Financial Statement Analysis (MAC 714 on-campus, MAC 873 online)
Professor: John Hand, Robert March and Mildred Borden Hanes Distinguished Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Financial Statement Analysis (FSA) provides an applied perspective on analyzing financial statements. You’ll learn how to provide targets and formulate strategies to achieve profitability, margin, equity valuation, and ROI success. This course will help you discern what economic events happened from the accounting reports. This process necessarily immerses you in business and will give you a Partner-type perspective on accounting. On-campus format only. See course MAC 873 for on-campus equivalent.
Skills you’ll gain: Analyze financial statements and disclosures (balance sheets and profit-and-loss, cash flow, and shareholder equity statements).
Course name: Interpreting Financial Statements and Disclosures (MAC 887)
Professor: Jana Raedy, Associate Professor of Accounting and Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting | Faculty Profile
It is imperative for business professionals, particularly those in accounting and finance functions, to understand financial statements. We use publicly available sources of information to better understand companies and further your understanding of financial statements and footnote disclosures. This course is perfect for you if you’re planning a career in public accounting, financial management, investment banking, credit analysis, security analysis, and consulting.
Skills you’ll gain: Master all aspects of financial accounting and reporting.
Course name: Corporate Tax Strategy (MAC 746)
Professor: Edward Maydew, David E. Hoffman Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Senior Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center | Faculty Profile
You’ll gain a fundamental understanding of tax planning over the life cycle of a firm in Corporate Tax Strategy. This course will make extensive use of real transactions to illustrate the impact of tax planning on earnings and cash flow. The course will cover how to decide which organizational form to use, how to form a company and raise capital, operate a company, compensate employees, make distributions to owners, engage in mergers and acquisitions, and liquidate a company.
Skills you’ll gain: Perform corporate tax research and planning.
Course name: Data Visualization (MAC 853)
Professor: Wendell Gilland, Associate Professor of Operations and Assistant Dean of the EMBA and Weekend MBA Programs | Faculty Profile
The modern business environment is powered by data. In this course, you explore, extract, and explain valuable insights from data to meet the needs of their organization. Data Visualization will equip you with tools and techniques within a productive framework that can be applied to a wide range of industry issues. You will manage multiple datasets, perform exploratory analysis, and visualize relationships between macro trends, drawing from tax, audit, and financial reporting scenarios while creating interactive reports and dashboards.
Skills you’ll gain: Manage and analyze data effectively, leveraging modeling and visualization tools.
Course name: Fair Value Methods and Reporting (MAC 857)
Professor: Jeffery Abarbanell, Associate Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Fair value measurement necessitates auditors, tax professionals, lawyers, investors and corporate managers to combine knowledge of accounting principles and rules with accepted methodologies used in business valuation to determine the worth of an entity’s assets and liabilities. You will learn the conceptual underpinnings of the Income, Market and Cost approaches to valuation as well as common industry practices and techniques with which accounting practitioners must be familiar to advance in their careers.
Skills you’ll gain: Forecast financial performance and perform firm, equity, and market valuations.
Course name: Business Valuation MAC (857B)
Professor: Jeffery Abarbanell, Associate Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
What is the economic value of a business? Valuation is undertaken in a variety of business, legal, governmental and tax contexts. It is widespread in both public and private companies, partnerships, trusts and estate and many other entities. However, the meaning of value is not fixed within or consistent across all these contexts. Business Valuation examines various standards of value, beginning with their theoretical and empirical foundations, and continues the analysis through real world case studies that a student will likely encounter in their career.
Skills you’ll gain: Forecast financial performance and perform firm, equity, and market valuations.
Course name: Leadership and Managerial Skills (MAC 862)
Professor: Sreedhari Desai, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Crist W. Blackwell Scholar | Faculty Profile
Business organizations are people working together to reach goals they couldn’t reach alone. Leadership and Managerial Skills aims to help you develop the knowledge and hone the skills that are essential to manage your own behavior and to lead the behavior of others. You will tie concrete organizational situations utilizing real-world examples, cases, and simulations, to the essential, scientifically supported principles of effective management.
Skills you’ll gain: Execute efficiently, by implementing initiatives, monitoring success, and coordinating with key stakeholder groups.
Course name: Managing Workplace Diversity (MAC 863)
Professor: James Johnson Jr., William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center | Faculty Profile
Increase your appreciation of your own cultural values; heighten your sensitivity to the unique characteristics of other groups; and thereby enhance your ability to manage people of diverse backgrounds in Managing Workplace Diversity. This course is designed to improve your awareness of the importance of effectively managing workplace diversity, not only as a social or moral goal, but also as a sound business practice and enlightened self-interest.
Skills you’ll gain: Manage workplace dynamics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Course name: Gender at Work (MAC 864, on-campus format only)
Professor: Sharon Cannon, Clinical Professor of Management and Corporate Communication | Faculty Profile
Gender topics impact every employee, organization, and industry. In Gender at Work, you’ll not only explore the timely and complicated topics, but you’ll also understand how and why they affect you, your teams, and business. From personal, organizational, leadership, and management perspectives, you will discuss and analyze workplace gender topics and situations. You will think critically about gender to become more sophisticated leaders and help organizations address the effects of gender-related topics.
Skills you’ll gain: Manage workplace dynamics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Course name: Governmental Accounting (MAC 871)
Professor: Gregory Allison, Teaching Professor; Secretary, School of Government Foundation Board of Directors | Faculty Profile
Gain a working knowledge of the unique terminology and reporting structure employed in fund accounting and the role it plays in the fiscal management of state and local governmental entities. Governmental Accounting addresses the government-wide and fund financial statements reporting requirements. You will be able to understand the application of fund accounting principles, as well as the terminology and reporting techniques employed in the public sector environment.
Skills you’ll gain: Master governmental and fund accounting principles and reporting requirements.
Course name: Transactional Law for Accountants (MAC 872)
Professor: Tamara Barringer, Clinical Associate Professor of Legal Studies | Faculty Profile
This course focuses on the tools of commercial transactions, such as contracts, agency, secured transactions, and negotiable instruments. Students gain skills used in banking, mergers, acquisitions and other complex commercial transactions. The course includes a study of the formation of and liabilities resulting from contracts under both the Uniform Commercial Code and the common law. The course also includes a brief introduction to the legal system for aspiring accountants, including the structure and function of our legal system with an overview of civil courts, particularly focused on the management of business and tax liability.
Skills you’ll gain: Tools related to and used in a transactional accounting tax practice. Auditors also find the course useful in determining treatment of such items as secured transactions, breached contracts, and negotiable instruments in financial reporting. Students report that this course is very helpful in preparing for the C.P.A. exam.
Course name: Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (MAC 873)
Professor: Jeffery Abarbanell, Associate Professor of Accounting | Faculty Profile
Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation (FSAV) provides an applied perspective on analyzing financial statements. Strong FSAV skills will help you better understand firms’ financial statements, disclosures, business decisions and strategies, and help you value firms. Using applied business cases, in-class mini-lectures, and out-of-class recorded maxi-lecture videos, FSAV teaches you to appreciate the business drivers of accounting; analyze managed financial statements; analyze firm performance; analyze revenues, expenses & assets; analyze credit risk and the likelihood of financial distress; sensibly forecast financial statements; and sensibly value a firm. FSAV immerses you in business and provides you an applied, Partner-type perspective on accounting. On-campus format only. See course MAC 873 for on-campus equivalent.
Skills you’ll gain: Analyze financial statements and disclosures (balance sheets and profit-and-loss, cash flow, and shareholder equity statements) and appreciate how such analysis improves the quality of business decisions.
Course name: Securities Regulation and Business Entity Choice (MAC 874)
Professor: Tamara Barringer, Clinical Associate Professor of Legal Studies | Faculty Profile
Any organization that raises capital risks serious federal and state securities regulation violations. Businesses rely on accountants to help them manage these risks. Transactional accountants who focus their practice in tax or advisory identify when their clients, whether a corporation, limited liability company, or other entity, are required to make these filings. Auditors then prepare many of the complex Securities and Exchange Commission securities regulation filings for both closely held and publicly traded organizations.
In this course, students study the complicated mosaic of rules known as federal securities regulation—from insider trading to crowdfunding. Critical to this study is also an understanding of the business entities, business creation, capital fundraising, distributions to shareholders, and various business reorganization, such as mergers, acquisitions, dissolution.
Skills you’ll gain: Understanding of complex federal and state securities regulation. How distributions (dividends) are regulated known as “legal accounting”. Knowledge of various business entities—corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies (LLC’s), limited liability partnerships (LLP’s), and limited partnerships. Legal requirements for mergers, acquisitions, dissolution, and other fundamental organizational changes. Students report that this course is very helpful in preparing for the C.P.A. exam.
Course name: Negotiations (MAC 880/822, on-campus format only)
Professor: Sreedhari Desai, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Crist W. Blackwell Scholar | Faculty Profile
Gain a broad intellectual understanding of the concepts that are central to negotiation, and develop a toolkit of useful negotiation skills, strategies, and approaches in Negotiations. These abilities and approaches, when mastered, can significantly improve your chances of success in a negotiation. Through hands-on, in-class activities, and personalized feedback, you will be challenged to think creatively, and to develop confidence in using the negotiation process as an effective means for deal-making and for resolving conflicts.
Skills you’ll gain: Improve your negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
Course name: Modeling (MBA 705)
Professor: MAC Faculty
Build your skills both in developing models and interpreting the output of these decision tools. Modeling will provide you exposure to several different modeling techniques that are used in Operations Management. Although the emphasis of this course is on operations, the tools that discussed will have practical applications in a wide variety of functional areas, including marketing, finance and human resource management.
Skills you’ll gain: Use modeling in practical applications to make more informed business decisions.
Course name: Strategic Economics (MBA 775)
Professor: Yunzhi Hu, Assistant Professor of Finance | Faculty Profile
Learn to think like an economist by tackling the subjects of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Explore the causes of market demand and supply and how economists model markets, examine prediction markets and production and cost analysis, and learn how firms manage in competitive and monopolistic environments. Strategic Economics studies strategic firm behavior, including basic game theory, entry and deterrence, collusion and cooperation, and bargaining.
Skills you’ll gain: Execute financial decisions that incorporate key economic principles.
Course name: Derivatives (MBA 783)
Professor: Andreas Stathopoulos, Term Assistant Professor of Finance | Faculty Profile
Apply the financial concepts of derivatives to different business settings, from capital budgeting to risk management. Topics covered include no-arbitrage-based pricing; binomial option pricing; the Black-Scholes model; practical issues with Black-Scholes model; the pricing of futures and forwards; hedging with derivatives; portfolio insurance; equity and debt as options; and real options.
Skills you’ll gain: Understand derivative securities, including the structure and pricing of option, futures, and forward contracts.
Course name: Leading and Managing (MBA 801, on-campus format only)
Professor: Sreedhari Desai, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Crist W. Blackwell Scholar | Faculty Profile
Cope with the increasingly dynamic and complex global business environment by improving leadership and management skills. Leading and Managing covers and applies a variety of core concepts and theories from sociology, psychology, and organizational science. You will gain awareness of their strengths as a leader and a manager, and areas where they need additional development; to build a professional development plan, a critical step in improving your ability to manage and lead themselves and others.
Skills you’ll gain: Identify your strengths and opportunities and create a professional development plan.
Course name: Leading in the Middle (MBA 823)
Professor: Mark McNeilly, Professor of the Practice of Marketing | Faculty Profile
Rarely does one start out at the top. Leading in the Middle focuses on how to get things get done within organizations as a middle manager. Learn how to implement decisions and initiatives within the broader organizational context. To do this, it is critical to understand how organizations do their work, so that the student knows how to effectively engage various systems and people to accomplish what’s needed.
Skills you’ll gain: Execute efficiently, by implementing initiatives, monitoring success, and coordinating with key stakeholder groups.
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