Shanxi-Utah Business Education Alliance Program Class Guide

SHANXI-UTAH BUSINESS EDUCATION ALLIANCE PROGRAM

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SHANXI-UTAH BUSINESS EDUCATION ALLIANCE PROGRAM The Shanxi-Utah Business Education Alliance Program focuses on the fundamentals of business management.

Develop your business management skills and receive a certificate that gives you a glimpse into the MBA programs at the University of Utah. As the workplace continues to shift and change over time, this program will provide you with the tools to be prepared for the future. Grow your career by learning finance, accounting, statistics, and economics. These notions will build your confidence in discussing financial decisions, leading a productive team, and developing a strategy that will change your business’s trajectory. In addition, it will provide you with the skillset to grow and develop as a leader and be more confident in making decisions at work.

Taught by five prestigious University of Utah David Eccles School of Business faculty members, this program will provide you with the essential leadership skills you need to advance your career knowledge of core principles of business.

Logistics:

Format Online modules

Time 5 hrs per module

Access On Demand

Personal Impact:

Organizational Impact:

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I want to better understand what is being discussed in meetings I attend

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We want to build business basics within our organization

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I want to become a more decisive leader and create value in my workplace

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We want to expand our early-career leaders’ knowledge of business

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I am early in my career and want to expand my knowledge and understanding of business

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We want to inspire leaders to create value in our teams and organization

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I need to gain business fundamentals to advance in my organization

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We aspire to create a culture of continued learning in our workplace

Who Needs This Class This course is ideal for those who wish to gain insight into business essentials and walk away with research-backed strategies and skills to immediately implement in any organization.

Modules Gain insight into business essentials, and walk away with research-backed strategies and skills to implement immediately in our following foundational classes: Unit 1: Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization Presenting Faculty | Don Wardell, Ph.D. This hands-on course will use Microsoft Excel to build spreadsheet models that include key performance indicators linked to variables under the decision makers’ control. We will then use Excel’s Solver tool to find the solution that optimizes the key performance indicator. Finally, we will apply the techniques to applications in various functions of a business.

Unit 2: The Value of Economics: How (& How Well) Do Markets Work?

Presenting Faculty | Scott Schaefer, Ph.D. In this class, we tackle some big questions: What is value? What is the role of markets in creating value?

How do prices guide the behavior of companies and individuals? The answers will give insight into the role of business in a free enterprise economy and the conditions under which markets serve people’s interests.

Unit 3: Operations Management and Leading Change Presenting Faculty | Manu Goyal, Ph.D. Matching supply with demand is a challenge for firms: excess supply is costly; inadequate supply irritates customers. This course will explore how firms organize their operations to deliver products to the right customers at the right time.

Unit 4: Finance and Accounting for Decision-Making Presenting Faculty | Brian Cadman, Ph.D. Using an example of a small business, we will learn how to create and evaluate a budget and raise money for organizations. We will then learn how to account for operations, assess performance, and consider investing in growth.

Unit 5: Making Strategic Business Decsions Presenting Faculty | Bonita Austin, MBA This course will teach you to look for strategic problems and opportunities to decide which ones you should tackle. You will learn how to structure problems, get to the underlying cause, and choose alternatives.

THE ECCLES DIFFERENCE The David Eccles School of Business enrolls about 6,000 students in its eight undergraduate majors, four MBAs, seven other specialized graduate programs, one Ph.D. program, and executive education curricula. It is also home to seven institutes and centers that support an ecosystem of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, including the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, Ken C. Gardner Policy Institute, Sorenson Impact Center, and more.

Our faculty members boast impressive professional and educational backgrounds and hold Ph.D.s from esteemed universities including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School.

TAKE THE NEXT STEP Telephone: (801) 587-7273 Email: ExecEd@Utah.edu Website: ExecEd.Utah.Edu Registration: Eccles.Secure.Force.com/ExecEdApplication 1731 E Campus Center Drive Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Building, GARFF 4340 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

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