Juris Doctor & MBA

Pre-Fall

Fall Semester, Module 1

Fall Semester, Module 2

Spring Semester, Module 1

The optional global immersion experience takes place during spring break between modules 1 and 2. This experience can serve as your elective course, replacing the elective in Summer Module 2.

Spring Semester, Module 2

Summer, Module 2

Total: 37 Credit Hours

BADM 7020 – Managerial Statistics
A significant challenge facing managers is the interpretation of vast amounts of data generated in the world of business today. This course offers a framework for using statistics to analyze problems and interpret data. A major focus includes data analysis, statistical models, design, and analysis of experiments and basic probabilities to make appropriate inferences and sound decisions in uncertain conditions. This course introduces several analytical methods with a mix of data preparation and modeling techniques to solve managerial problems.

BADM 7030 – Financial Accounting
Financial statements are fundamental data for all organizations. This course explores the principles and practices of financial accounting by studying concepts and processes that underlie corporate financial statements. A major course goal includes analyzing corporate financial statements for financial reporting processes and firm performance. Topics include ethical responsibility to consumers of corporate financial information and financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and statement of cash flow.

BADM 7060 – Elements of Cost Management
Managerial accounting helps stakeholders evaluate internal economic conditions and make organizational decisions to improve performance. It also provides an important toolkit for developing a competitive advantage by understanding a firm’s cost structure. This course examines cost accounting and management practices, emphasizing methods to determine the cost structure and its impact on pricing decisions and firm profitability.

BADM 7070 - Understanding Behavior in Organizations
Rooted in psychology and social psychology, organizational behavior seeks to understand, explain, predict, and influence the behavior of individuals and groups. This course focuses on three key dynamics that affect individual and group behavior within organizations: individual, interpersonal, and collective dynamics. Through this focus, three central goals emerge:

• To understand and analyze why and how people - individually and collectively - do the things they do at work.
• To apply these OB concepts to real-world challenges and problems in working with others.
• To enhance managerial and leadership potential.

BADM 7090 – Financial Management
Finance is the study of acquiring and allocating financial resources and determining how to create wealth and value for managers, financial analysts, stockholders, and creditors, among other key stakeholders. This course explores core ideas and principles that underlie modern finance theory and opportunities to apply theory to financial decision-making. The course also examines the role of corporate financial policy, including functions of capital markets and financial institutions, cost of capital, cash flow projections, capital management, and dividend policy, among other related areas.

BADM 7100 – Marketing Management
Marketing generates and grows demand for an organization’s brands, products, and services. This course explores the concepts and tools of marketing and related business functions to create and deliver value to customers and stakeholders. It examines real-world marketing problems and offers learning frameworks to apply decision tools for marketing analysis. Important topics include marketing strategy, consumer behavior, customer value analysis, market opportunities, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services.

BADM 7190 – Strategic Management
A strategy is an integrated set of choices about how an organization will achieve its mission and objectives – a plan for how to compete. An organization’s strategy must permeate all departments and functional areas. This course explores how an organization achieves and sustains a high level of success (competitive advantage) and the general manager’s role in this process. The course also examines contemporary approaches to developing and maintaining a competitive advantage in global competition. Topics include competition for competence, strategy, and technology, managing home and host government relations, cooperative strategy, strategic alliances, organizational innovation, and managing global strategic change.

BADM 7200 – Economic Environment of the Firm
Business decisions related to production, employment, and investment depend much on the general course of the economy. This course develops a framework to analyze how changes in economic policies affect key economic variables, such as GDP, the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, interest rates, and exchange rates. This course will also examine market characteristics and economic environments in which businesses operate and analyze firm behavior in response to changes in demand and cost conditions.

BADM 7601 – Leadership Essentials
Leadership is a broad concept with different meanings and varying interpretations, yet it is one of the most critical functions affecting the success (and failure) of individuals, organizations, and businesses. This course will focus on leadership as an essential practice for professionals at all levels, irrespective of title, and explore the contemporary skills needed for personal and professional success. This course integrates applied learning activities, robust discussions, critical self-reflection, and peer collaboration projects to help you explore, experience, practice, and advance your skills as an effective, agile leader within today’s dynamic and diverse business environments.

BADM 7160 – Negotiations
Business success requires collaboration and agreement with other people. To achieve that end, negotiation skills are necessary. Success also requires heightened sensitivity to potential ethical issues. This course is designed to enable students to become more effective negotiators and ethical decision-makers through exposure to theory and sound practice tenets.

BADM 7270 – Digital Marketing
The proliferation of the internet, social media, and mobile channels are revolutionizing marketing techniques worldwide. Leveraging digital media becomes increasingly important in the dawning post-pandemic marketplace. This course is intended to provide students with cutting-edge expertise to keep pace by focusing on the internet, social media, and mobile marketing techniques. By the end of the term, students acquired the knowledge, skills, and experience to conduct a marketing campaign in each of these cutting-edge mediums.

BADM 7270 – Entrepreneurship
Principles of thinking like an entrepreneur and planning for new product/service success by understanding the value proposition and what customers really want. This is accomplished by implementing proven techniques used in the creation of the Business Model Canvas. This course will focus on the entrepreneurial mindset and the challenges facing those who want to create their own business. Topics during this course include value mapping, visual thinking, customer discovery, business model design, and small business management, among other related areas.

BADM 7270 – Healthcare Policy and Analysis
This course examines the health policy process in the formulation-implementation-evaluation framework. The political, economic, and legal aspects of health policy issues will be covered. Students will analyze the case of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) to recognize the impact of PPACA on citizens, businesses, and institutions.

BADM 7270 – Healthcare Quality Management
This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and the tools necessary to conduct and lead quality management initiatives in healthcare organizations. Students will be introduced to the theoretical aspects of quality management; the measures of quality assessment; the patient safety tools; the external and internal forces that drive quality improvement; and the evaluation of quality management initiatives in healthcare organizations.

BADM 7270 – Leadership and Governance in Healthcare
This course is designed to provide the students with the tools and competencies necessary in participating and leading quality improvement initiatives in healthcare organizations. Students are introduced to the philosophical and theoretical underpinning of quality improvement in healthcare, the measures of quality assessment, various risk management and patient safety tools commonly used in quality improvement initiatives, and the external and internal forces that drive quality improvement in healthcare.

BADM 7270 – Project Management for the Agile Leader
This course is non-industry specific and includes a thorough understanding of using agile as a practical and valuable tool as a business leader. The course explores how agile should work, how to avoid pitfalls, and the importance of scaling an agile transformation successfully across the organization and enterprise. Moreover, we will seek to learn the significance of balancing operations and driving innovation in the unpredictable and customer-focused digital age. We will also explore the challenges, opportunities, and interpersonal dynamics affecting our capacity as agile business leaders and teammates.

BADM 7401 – Cybersecurity
The ability to create a secure organizational environment is a growing challenge confronting today’s modern organization. As the security threats facing companies change to be more sophisticated, management can no longer hope to secure their enterprise without a systematic plan. Effective enterprise security management requires participation from all the stakeholders in the organization, embedding planning for security into the firm’s culture, and practicing for the persistent threats facing the firm. While most managers view cybersecurity and the corresponding threats is strictly an IT problem, the reality is that cybersecurity threats are a joint problem between the business and IT that requires commitment, understanding, and training in all aspects of the organization. This course is designed to teach all managers how to create a response to cybersecurity threats from an integrated perspective that will enable a firm to be secure in the modern era.

BADM 7402 – Artificial Intelligence for Business
How to embrace and utilize the power of artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing challenge confronting today’s modern organization. As this technology becomes more commonplace and powerful, management can no longer afford to neglect the potential of this innovation to transform how we do business. This course is meant for students who want to learn the basics of AI and how AI can be applied to business. We will go through the mathematical and programming background of how AI algorithms work and look at how AI is being applied within the modern enterprise through examples of use cases where AI produced measurable ROI. We will conclude by building an AI solution that has business value by going through the “concept to implementation” process. This course teaches all managers to apply AI within a business to enable a firm to deliver on the promise of this innovative technology.

BADM 7403 – Cloud Strategy
The era of cloud computing is now upon us. As the need for organizational flexibility and decentralization of business decisions has evolved, so has the need for computing resources to be available on-demand in a scalable environment to enable the platformed economy. The cloud is being adopted in organizations of all sizes and industries. With it has come the need for every business executive and manager to understand how to create a cloud strategy. By the end of the course, students should be able to discuss frameworks and strategies for the cloud, management, and administration of the cloud, different vendor options for the cloud, and how to integrate the cloud into the organization. They will also communicate technology cloud strategies concisely to a general business audience.

BADM 7501 – Cyber Security Risk Management
Cybersecurity frameworks; cybersecurity governance; cybersecurity and privacy regulations; intrusion techniques; cybersecurity incident response reports; National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) methodology for IT system risk assessments, NIST assessment methodology.

BADM 7502 – Information Systems Security
Networking technology basics; Information Systems Life Cycle; Information assets; business continuity and disaster recovery plans; IS audit standards; IT governance; IT auditing software tools (Excel, ACL, IDEA, etc).

BADM 7503 – Advanced Topics in Cyber Security Risk Management

ISDS 7301 – Descriptive Analytics
Data warehousing; use of big data in business; storage and retrieval of data in business; descriptive analytics for business; business intelligence tools.

ISDS 7302 – Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics in business; business cases in predictive analytics; data mining use in business; industry solutions for predictive analytics.

ISDS 7303 – Analytic Methods
Advanced analytics in business; designed experimentation; regression trees; causal inference; uplift models.

ISDS 7304 – Visual Analytics
Data analytics; value proposition of data in business; advanced business intelligence; data visualization; dashboards in business.

This specialization is designed for students interested in careers in business analytics and data analytics.

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization. Those adding a fourth course can qualify for a Graduate Certificate in Analytics.

• ISDS 7301 Descriptive Statistics
• ISDS 7302 Predictive Analytics
• ISDS 7303 Analytics Methods
• ISDS 7304 Visual Analytics

Potential Career Paths

Data analyst, business analyst, statistician, market research analyst

This specialization equips students with the skills and knowledge required to drive key business strategies through information technology, focusing on cloud computing, cybersecurity, AI strategy, policies, programs, and governance that organizations should use to stay relevant.

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization. Those adding a fourth course can qualify for a Graduate Certificate in Emerging Information Technologies.

• BADM 7050 Information Systems
• BADM 7401 Cybersecurity
• BADM 7402 Artificial Intelligence for Business
• BADM 7403 Cloud Strategy

Potential Career Paths

Database administrator, AI/machine learning engineer, cloud computing engineer

This specialization is designed to help you build the tools and experiences needed to start your own business or a career in venture capital, private equity, or small business.

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization.

• ENTR 4113 Small and Family Business Management
• ENTR 4114 Franchising Management
• ENTR 4120 Social Entrepreneurship
• ENTR 7111 Entrepreneurship Management
• BADM 7270 Entrepreneurial Consulting

Potential Career Paths

Entrepreneurship, small business ownership, product development

This specialization is designed to prepare students for a career in corporate finance, financial management, investment banking, or venture capital. Students will learn how individuals, businesses, and organizations acquire and utilize capital.

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization.

• FIN 7310 Real Estate Financial Decisions
• FIN 7400 Financial Risk Management
• FIN 7633 Financial Markets
• FIN 7719 Advanced Financial Information
• FIN 7740 Venture Capital
• FIN 7826 Investment Analysis & Portfolio Theory

Potential Career Paths

Financial analyst, financial manager, CFO, accounting manager, corporate controller

The healthcare management specialization helps students develop their business and leadership skills to manage and learn about critical issues in the rapidly growing healthcare industry.

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization.

• ECON 4421 Healthcare Economics
• BADM 7700 Healthcare Leadership & Governance
• BADM 7270 Healthcare Policy & Analysis
• BADM 7702 Healthcare Quality Management

Potential Career Paths

Healthcare consultant, health services manager, healthcare administrator

Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic approach to managing an organization’s employees. Additionally, HRM is the organizational function that deals with compensation, hiring, performance management, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, communication, administration, and training.

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization.

• MGT 4322 Employee Selection and Placement
• MGT 4523 Legal Issues in Human Resource Management
• BADM 7160 Negotiation, Persuasion, & Influence
• PADM 7912 Public Personnel Policy
• BADM 7900 Human Factors in Business and Industry

Potential Career Paths

Human resources manager, employee relations manager, compensation/benefits analyst

Internal auditing is a risk assurance and consulting function that serves an organization through operation, compliance, and financial evaluations. Internal audit is a multidisciplinary profession, and the LSU Center for Internal Auditing & Cybersecurity Risk Management seeks students from backgrounds as varied as engineering, finance, information systems, management, marketing, accounting, economics, public administration, and non-business areas. 

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization.

• ACCT 4237 Governance, Risk, and Controls
• ACCT 7233 Operational Auditing
• ACCT 7232 Case Studies in Internal Auditing
• ACCT 7234 Operational Auditing

Potential Career Paths

Internal auditor, finance director, controller, financial analyst

Students who pursue the management consulting specialization will learn how to serve as advisors to firms and offer solutions to improve organizational performance based on a detailed analysis of existing organizational strategy and resources in human capital, technical, and financial areas. Students will apply themselves in real-world, hands-on, project-based experiences to gain insight into the broadest sub-industry in the consulting field.

• ISDS 4141 Data Mining (or Analytics curriculum)
• BADM 7160 Negotiations
• BADM 7600 Consulting Field Project

Potential Career Paths: strategy consulting, financial consulting, operations consulting

With sports growing as an industry, this specialization is designed for students who wish to pursue a career in the sports business industry. This specialization concentrates on business applications, focusing on sports finance, marketing, and negotiations, as well as economics and organizational behavior in sports.

Choose three of the following course options for the specialization.

• ECON 4290 Sports Economics
• BADM 7160 Negotiations
• BADM 7270 Sports Business
• BADM 7270 Digital Strategies in NIL
• BADM 7270 Personal Branding in Sports
• BADM 7270 Professional Communications
• KIN 7516 Organizational Behavior in Sports

Potential Career Paths

Sports agent, business manager, marketing manager, human resources manager