Curriculum - Management of Technology, MS

The eMOT 36 credit curriculum consists of 24 credits of core courses and 12 credits of elective courses. To give students greater flexibility in choosing electives, the program has both full-semester courses that are 3.00 credits each and half-semester courses (marked with **) that are 1.50 credits each. Students may substitute one full-semester elective with two half-semester electives or vice-versa.

Core Courses

First Semester

MG 6013 Organizational Behavior, Credits: 3.00
MG 6093 Accounting & Finance, Credits: 3.00
MG 8653 Managing Technological Change & Innovation, Credits: 3.00

Second Semester

MG 6083 Economics, Credits: 3.00
MG 6933 Information Technologies, SysteMS and Management in Organizations, Credits: 3.00
Full-Semester Elective

Third Semester

MG 6073 Marketing, Credits: 3.00
MG 9501 Mot Capstone-1, Credits: 1.50
Full-Semester Elective

Fourth Semester

MG 7953 Global Innovation, Credits: 3.00
MG 9511 Mot Capstone-2, Credits: 1.50
Full-Semester Elective
Half-Semester Elective

KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE eMOT PROGRAM:*

• Provides knowledge to manage technologyintensive corporations.
• Focuses on strategic implications of technology and innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Encompasses innovation management in all modern technology arenas such as financial and professional services, media/entertainment, bio-medical /Pharma / chemical, new materials, IT and telecommunications.
• Deals with the impact of technology and innovation throughout an enterprise.
• Addresses physical, digital (including Internet-based) and mobile innovation.
• Enables key transition from technologists to high-level, effective technology managers.
• Assumes a global perspective.
• Explores and develops new business models based upon technology-enabled innovation.

In the eMOT curriculum, even traditional subjects such as finance, operations management and marketing are taught with technology-enabled-innovation issues in mind. Subjects, concepts and issues directly related to technology management and accessing innovative capabilities that form the eMOT Program core include:

eMOT CONCENTRATIONS

Elective courses are grouped into five different areas of interest referred to as concentrations:

• The Management of Technology (eMOT) business-driven base-program concentration trains technology-based professionals to lead and oversee the process of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship ? what we call i2e.

• The Management of Technology In Financial Services (MOTIFS) concentrationallows finance professionals to convert their understanding of information technology and innovation into high-level managerial decisions and strategies.

• The Management of Technology In Media And Entertainment (MOTIME) concentration teaches managers in the media sector to leverage a firm?s competencies and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

• The Management of Technology In Retailing (MOTIR) concentration helps retailing managers translate a keen understanding of information technology, ebusiness, and technological innovation into effective managerial decisions and strategies.

• The Management of Technology In Bio-Pharma (MOTIBP) concentration gives BioPharma managers the skills to address risk management, lead project teams toward new innovation, and concentrate a firm?s resources on improving internal processes.

SUGGESTED FULL-SEMESTER ELECTIVE COURSES GROUPED BY CONCENTRATION

All full-semester elective courses are 3.00 credits. All eMOT students may, with the written permission of the Program Director, substitute any of the following courses for any full-semester elective:

MG 8573 Managing Cleantech & Renew Energy Innovation, Credits: 3.00 
MG 8783 Cloud Computing: Principles, Economics, Technology and Management Practice, Credits: 3.00 
MG 9683 Internship and Action Learning, Credits: 3.00 

All eMOT students may take full-semester electives from any of the following concentration areas:

Second semester:

MG 6703 Operations Management For Knowledge-Based Enterprises, Credits: 3.00 

Third semester:

MG 7743 Advanced Trends in Technology Management & Innovation, Credits: 3.00 

Fourth semester:

MG 8203 Project Management, Credits: 3.00 

MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY IN FINANCIAL SERVICES (MOTIFS)

Second semester:

MG 7963 Modern Financial Institutions and Their Competitive Environment, Credits: 3.00

Third semester:

MG 6043 Innovation Mgmnt in Money, Banking, & Fin Markets, Credits: 3.00

Fourth semester:

MG 7983 Managing Technological Innovation and Emerging Technologies in Financial Services, Credits: 3.00

MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT (MOTIME)

Second semester:

MG 6753 Media Entertainment Sector: Struct, Org, Mgmt, Credits: 3.00 

Third semester:

MG 6763 Managing Emerging Technologies in the Media and Entertainment Sector, Credits: 3.00

Fourth semester:

MG 6773 Advcd Trends in Inno and Tech in Media and Entrnmt Sector, Credits: 3.00 

MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN RETAILING (MOTIR)

Second semester:

MG 7653 The Retailing Industry: Structure, Org and Mgmt, Credits: 3.00

Third semester:

MG 7663 Managing Tech Inno and Emerging Tech in Retailing Industry, Credits: 3.00

Fourth semester:

MG 7671 Global Retailing and Supply Chain Management, Credits: 1.50

MG 7881 Modern Supply Chain Management: Integration Through Technology, Credits: 1.50 

MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY IN BIO-PHARMA (MOTIBP)

Second semester:

MG 7713 The Bio-Pharma Sectors: Struc, Org and Mgmt, Credits: 3.00 

Third semester:

MG 7723 Managing Tech Inno and Emgng Tech in Bio-Pharma Sector, Credits: 3.00

Fourth semester:

MG 7733 Services Innovation, Credits: 3.00

HALF-SEMESTER ELECTIVE COURSES

All half-semester elective courses are 1.50 credits. All eMOT students may take any of the following half-semester electives.

MG 7811 Selected Topics in Networking and Information Technologies, Credits: 1.50 
MG 7841 Negotiation in Technology-Intensive Sectors, Credits: 1.50
MG 7851 Leadership, Credits: 1.50
MG 7861 High-Technology Entrepreneurship, Credits: 1.50 
MG 7871 Introduction to Managing Intellectual Property, Credits: 1.50
MG 7891 Special Elective Topics, Credits: 1.50
MG 7971 Financing For Value Creation, Credits: 1.50
MG 9501 Mot Capstone-1, Credits: 1.50
MG 9511 Mot Capstone-2, Credits: 1.50

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