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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

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

ii)

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

• graduate management admission test

(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

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

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.

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?

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

Integrative Case Day

Course introduction

Outline connections with other

courses

Integrative Case Day

Course introduction

Outline connections with other courses

Introduction to purpose of course

Case analysis

Course introduction

Human decision making traps

Process model of decision making

Course introduction

Human decision making traps

Process model

of decision making

Distributions

Histograms in Excel

Importing data into SAS

Gap analysis: Statistical hypothesis

testing

Gap analysis I: Statistical hypothesis testing

Hypothesis testing in EXCEL

Hypothesis testing in SAS ENTERPRISE

Guide

Gap analysis II: Bayesian reasoning and

evidence

Bayesian networks

Root Cause Analysis I: Basic linear

regression

Root Cause Analysis I: Basic linear

regression

Scatterplots

Correlation

Regression in EXCEL

Regression in SAS ENTERPRISE GUIDE

Root Cause Analysis II: Multiple

regression

Root Cause Analysis II: Multiple regression

Multiple regression

Stepwise regression

Transformations

Data mining

Understanding data

Fundamental

of SQL and data

warehousing

Root Cause Analysis III: Data mining

Contingency tables

Statistical tests of independence

Classification tree construction using

KNIME

Objectives and Trade-offs: Stated and

Swing weights and multi-criteria

<s-

Evaluation of Alternatives:

Monte Carlo simulation

Decision trees

Final Exam

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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and signature by the faculty graduate studies committee, this form should be forwarded to the Dean of Graduate Studies

for approval by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee (SGSC). SGSC will forward the approval to Senate for information.

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