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MEMORANDUM
ATTENTION
FROM
RE:
Senate
Wade Parkhouse, Dean of Graduate
Studies
Beedie School of Business
DATE
No.
7 February 2013
GS2013.04
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For information:
Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of4 February 2013, SGSC approved the following
curriculum revision:
Effective Date is Fall 2013
Beedie School of Business
a) Master of Business Administration
1.
Changeof program requirements to 56 units from 55
2. Change of units from 2 to 3: BUS 706-3 Data and Decisions
Removal of requirement of passport style photograph
Change of courses eligible for waivers in the GDBA program
Removal of BUS 704 Leadership and Groups
Addition of BUS 707 Business Ethics
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iii) Addition of BUS 719 Managing People
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
ENGAGING THE WORLD
GS2013.04
SFU
BEEDIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Memo
To: Wade Parkhouse, Dean of Graduate Studies
From: Colleen Collins, Associate Dean, Graduate Programs
Date: January 16, 2013
Re: MBA Program Calendar Changes
The SFU MBA Program would like to request the following changes:
• Change the credits for BUS 706 Data and Decisions from 2 credits to 3 credits
o Please see attached for justification of changes from Academic Chair, Dr.
David Hannah
• Changes to the courses eligible for waivers for graduates of the GDBA program
o Removal of BUS 704 Leadership and Groups
o Addition of BUS 707 Business Ethics and BUS 719 Managing People
• Change the program requirements to a minimum of 56 units (currently they must
complete 55 units).
•
The following calendar changes:
From:
Application
Students can apply online at Simon Fraser
University's online graduate studies application for
admission, found at www.sfu.ca/dean-
gradstudies/future/application process.
Admission is based on the following.
• MBA program application essay found at
http://www.beedie.sfu.ca/mba.
• official undergraduate transcripts mailed
directly from the granting institution
•
a resume
• three confidential letters of reference mailed
sent
directly from the referees, preferably
To:
Application
Students can apply online at Simon Fraser
University's online graduate studies application
for admission, found at www.sfu.ca/dean-
gradstudies/future/application process.
Admission is based on the following.
•
MBA program application essay found at
http://www.beedie.sfu.ca/mba.
•
official undergraduate transcripts mailed
directly from the granting institution
•
a resume
• three confidential letters of reference
sent directly from the referees, preferably
from supervisors or former professors
from supervisors or former professors
• graduate management admission test
• graduate management admission test
(GMAT) results
(GMAT) results
• applicants whose primary language is not
• applicants whose primary language is
English, or whose previous education was
not English, or whose previous education
conducted in another language, must
was conducted in another language,
submit evidence of satisfactory completion
must submit evidence of satisfactory
of a standardized English test that is
completion of a standardized English test
acceptable to the University (see graduate
that is acceptable to the University (see
general regulation 1.3.12).
graduate general regulation 1.3.12).
•—a rooont paooport stylo photograph
• interview (shortlisted candidates only)
•
interview (shortlisted candidates only)
Program Requirements
Program Requirements
Students must maintain a minimum 3.0 grade
Students must maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point
point average (GPA) (B average) and complete
average (GPA) (B average) and complete a
a minimum of 56 units from the following list
minimum of §§ 56 units from the following list
including a comprehensive examination (BUS
including a comprehensive examination (BUS 718).
718).
• BUS 702 Marketing Management (3)
•
BUS
702 Marketing Management (3)
• BUS 703 Managerial Economics (3)
•
BUS 703 Managerial Economics (3)
• BUS 704 Leadership and Groups (3)
•
BUS 704 Leadership and Groups (3)
• BUS
705 Financial/Managerial Accounting
•
BUS
705 Financial/Managerial
(3)
Accounting (3)
•
BUS 706 Data and Decisions (2) (3)
• BUS 706 Data and Decisions (3)
• BUS 707 Business Ethics (2)
• BUS 707 Business Ethics (2)
• BUS
708 Financial Management (3)
•
BUS 708 Financial Management (3)
•
BUS 709 Managing Information (3)
•
BUS 709 Managing Information (3)
• BUS 710 Managing Global Enterprises (3)
• BUS 710 Managing Global Enterprises
•
BUS 711 Negotiation and Conflict
(3)
Resolution (3)
•
BUS 711 Negotiation and Conflict
•
BUS
712 Managing a Globalized Workforce
Resolution (3)
(2)
• BUS 712 Managing a Globalized
• BUS 714 Entrepreneurship (3)
Workforce (2)
•
BUS 715 Operations Management (3)
• BUS 714 Entrepreneurship (3)
• BUS716Sustainability(3)
• BUS 715 Operations Management (3)
• BUS 718 Business Strategy (3)
• BUS716Sustainability(3)
• BUS 719 Managing People (3)
•
BUS 718 Business Strategy (3)
• BUS 720 Special Topics in Business
• BUS 719 Managing People (3)
Administration (2)
•
BUS 720 Special Topics in Business
• BUS 721 Special Topics in Business
Administration (2)
Administration (3)
•
BUS 721 Special Topics in Business
• BUS 722 Special Topics in Business
Administration (3)
Administration (4)
• BUS 722 Special Topics in Business
• BUS 723 Introduction to Managerial
Administration (4)
Thought (2)
•
BUS 723 Introduction to Managerial
• BUS 724 Organizational Analysis (2)
Thought (2)
• BUS 725 Cross Cultural Experience (2)
•
BUS 724 Organizational Analysis (2)
• BUS 726 Business Innovation and
•
BUS 725 Cross Cultural Experience (2)
Creativity (2)
•
BUS 726 Business Innovation and
• BUS 727 MBA Internship (0) or
Creativity (2)
£
• BUS 728 Research Internship * (0)
• BUS 729 Comprehensive Examination (2)
*for
students entering the PhD program
Students receiving waivors for completion of a
graduate diploma in business administration
complete'30 units.
Graduate diploma in business administration
graduates may apply for course waivers for BUS
702, 703, 704, 705, 706,
707,
708, 719. A minimum
3.0 CGPA in that diploma program is required.
.
BUS 727 MBA Internship (0) or
• BUS 728 Research Internship * (0)
•
BUS 729 Comprehensive Examination
(2)
*for
students entering the PhD program
Graduate diploma in business administration
graduates may apply for course waivers for BUS
702, 703, 705, 706, 707, 708, 719. A minimum
3.0 CGPA in that diploma program is required.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Dr. Colleen Collins
Associate Dean, Segal Graduate School
Beedie School of Business
Simon Fraser University
778-782-5195
Justification for expansion of Business 706 (Data and Decisions)
from 2 credits to 3 credits
One ofthe foundation courses in the Beedie School of Business Full-Time MBA program is Data
and Decisions. This course has two key purposes. The first is to provide students with a solid
foundation in statistics and business analytics; the second is to help students learn how to make
effective decisions. At present, Dataand Decisions is a half course, taking place over six sessions.
The feedback from students and instructors is that this is not enough time to achieve the purposes
of the course. To illustrate, one student commented that the course was "just getting to the good
stuff' when it ended.
We would therefore like to expand the course from a half course to a full course. This change
will have three advantages:
1. Additional time can be spent on conventional andemergingtechniques from the field of
business analytics. This will help ensure that our students have more than just a cursory
understanding ofthis important technical material.
2. Better integration with Bus 707: Ethical Decision Making. The current half course does
not permit a full discussion
ofthe role of objectives and trade-offs in decision-making. A
full course would permit coverage of analytic techniques for including non-quantitative
objectives and constraints. Specifically, this would permita fuller integration ofthe
technical material from this course and the ethical and other qualitative issues raised in
Bus 707.
3. Better understanding of data. Data is a critical enabler of business analytics, visualization
and evidence-based decision making. However, many students lack an understanding of
the technological infrastructure for creating and organizing data. The full course includes
a session on topics such as query languages, data warehousing, and multi-dimensional
data.
Overall, the result of moving from a half-course to a full-course would be to give students a
broader and fuller understanding
ofbusiness analytics and its potential role within managerial
decision making.
In the
MBA program, half courses are two credits and full courses are three credits, meaning that
this change would result in a tuition increase of $607.70 (current per credit tuition fee).
Course Description:
The graduates of MBA programs are expected to be masters of a well-defined set of financial and
analytical skills. In this course, students will acquire skills and knowledge in data analysis and
statistics, and will also learn a contextual framework to apply their skills and knowledge to real-
world problems. This will be accomplished in two ways:
1.The course considers analytic tools within the broadercontext of a decision-making
methodology. Statistical tools are introduced according to their potential role in a standardized
process model of decision-making and problem solving.
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2. The course emphasizes hands-on problem solving using sophisticated decision making tools.
The decision problems addressed in the course are sufficiently large and complex that solution by
hand (or even with general-purpose tools such as Excel) is generally impractical. As a result,
students must draw on state-of-the art business analytics tools. The theory part of the course
arises from this hands-on experience. That is, once we have useful results, it is natural to ask:
Where did these come from? How does the software do this? What are the limitations ofthe
approach?
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Comparison of the Existing Course and the Proposed Full-Credit Course
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Existing Half-Course
Proposed Full Course
Exercise
Session
Topic
Session
Topic
1
Integrative Case Day
Course introduction
Outline connections with other
courses
1
Integrative Case Day
Course introduction
Outline connections with other courses
Introduction to purpose of course
Case analysis
2
Course introduction
Human decision making traps
Process model of decision making
2
Course introduction
Human decision making traps
Process model
of decision making
Distributions
Histograms in Excel
Importing data into SAS
3
Gap analysis: Statistical hypothesis
testing
3
Gap analysis I: Statistical hypothesis testing
Hypothesis testing in EXCEL
Hypothesis testing in SAS ENTERPRISE
Guide
4
Gap analysis II: Bayesian reasoning and
evidence
Bayesian networks
4
Root Cause Analysis I: Basic linear
regression
5
Root Cause Analysis I: Basic linear
regression
Scatterplots
Correlation
Regression in EXCEL
Regression in SAS ENTERPRISE GUIDE
5
Root Cause Analysis II: Multiple
regression
6
Root Cause Analysis II: Multiple regression
Multiple regression
Stepwise regression
Transformations
Data mining
7
Understanding data
Fundamental
of SQL and data
warehousing
8
Root Cause Analysis III: Data mining
Contingency tables
Statistical tests of independence
Classification tree construction using
KNIME
9
Objectives and Trade-offs: Stated and
Swing weights and multi-criteria
<s-
Evaluation of Alternatives:
Monte Carlo simulation
Decision trees
Final Exam
10
11
12
revealed preference
Evaluation of Alternatives I: Monte Carlo
simulation
Evaluation of Alternatives II: Decision tree
analysis
Final Exam
decision making
Monte Carlo simulation using @RlSK
Decision tree analysis using
PRECISIONTREE
*Half courses in the MBA program have six sessions and full courses have twelve. In the current course the instructor has chosen tohave seven
sessions because he felt the course needed to cover more material.
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