ACT 605
Accounting for Sustainable
Enterprises
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In ACT 605, students learn the basics of U.S. and international financial reporting, accounting issues of nonprofit enterprises, budgeting, and managerial decision-making. In this course students will develop:
• A basic knowledge base of financial accounting systems
• An understanding of the primary financial statements (balance sheet, income statement and statement of
cash flows)
• Proficiency with the basic algorithms for managerial informational needs regarding costing, pricing,
budgeting, and investing to enable planning, managing, and measuring operational, financial, and
sustainability performance |
BUS 601
Quantitative Business Analysis
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In BUS 601, students learn about the quantitative research process, data interpretation and translation, and
model selection and analysis. Student takeaways include:
• A comprehensive decision matrix for model/test identification
• Fundamentals of empirical tests and interpretation
• The “what next” of statistical tests and outcomes
• Using your findings to make decisions and tell stories that enable social responsibility and sustainability |
BUS 620
Leadership and Teams1
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
BUS 620 will help develop the character, knowledge, and competence to be an effective leader and team
member. Specifically, you will develop a greater capacity to:
• Recognize effective leadership and distinguish it from power, coercion, formal authority, and management
• Define the traits that can distinguish sustainability leaders and cultivate these traits into your character
• Enact the leadership behaviors that connect you with employees and peers to build relationships and
produce results
• Navigate the design, development, and performance of teams using shared leadership models
• Develop and articulate compelling visions that maximize empowerment and engagement
• Conceptualize how leadership intersects with strategy and business decision-making
• Reinforce leadership behaviors through organizational cultures and systems.
• Harmonize inclusivity and diversity leadership approaches to employees of different genders, races, and
ages
• Practice geocentric cross-cultural leadership that harnesses cultural diversity in global contexts
• Integrate ethics, morality, and social responsibility into your leadership identity and actions |
BUS 636
Economics of Ecosystems and
Biodiversity
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In BUS 636 students will be introduced to the economic theories and analytical frameworks that are developed
and applied to the use, protection, and management of the natural environment, ecosystems, and biodiversity.
Topics covered in this course include:
• Incentives and decision making
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• Policy analysis
• Ecosystem service valuation
• Natural capitalism protocols
• Corporate responsibility |
CIS 600B
Project Management: Impact
Enterprise
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In CIS 600, students learn proven ways of planning and executing projects that help them finish on time and
under budget, which can be applied directly to sustainability projects and social enterprises. In this course,
students will:
• Understand and apply common project management tools and techniques such as work breakdown
structures, project networks, Gantt charts, critical path analysis, cost estimating, risk planning, PERT
analysis, resource leveling, activity crashing, and earned value management
• Develop project monitoring and change management plans
• Develop appropriate corrective action plans to help salvage a failing project and bring it to a successful
conclusion
• Understand how to manage projects such as new product development and agile software development |
FIN 601
Financial Management and Markets
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In FIN 601, students learn about financial management, investments, markets, and institutions from the public
sector, private sector, and non-profit perspective. Topics covered in this course include:
• Types of ownership and their implications
• Generating pro forma forecasts
• Risk and return relationships
• Estimating incremental cash flows
• Time value of money concepts and applications
• Introduction to business valuation |
MGT 612
Managing in a Global Context
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
MGT612 provides an introduction to global management topics. After taking this course, students will:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the tools and processes required to assess the political economy of the
regions of interest.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between organizational design, HR policies and firm
success in a global context.
• Be familiar with the types of informal and cultural institutions that impact behavior and business practices.
• Be able to apply these concepts to their sustainability and social enterprise projects and for business
decision making |
MGT 663
Strategic Opportunities in Impact
Enterprise
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In MGT 663, students learn foundational knowledge of central sustainability challenges, understand the basic
concepts, approaches, and tools of strategic management, and learn the strategic implications of sustainability
challenges. Topics covered in this course include:
• Introduction to sustainable and social enterprise and environmental responsibility
• Market systems and opportunities
• Tools and techniques utilized by sustainable enterprise
• Fundamentals of business strategy, economic opportunity, and the economics of climate change |
MGT 665
Supply Chain Development and
Management
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In MGT 665 students will learn the development and management of the global supply chain that plans,
sources, makes and delivers an organization's products. Topics covered in this course include:
• Appropriate strategy for delivery of the offering
• Forecasting methods
• Business to Business relationships
• Operations and inventory management
• Purchasing strategy/tactics
• Logistics and transportation strategy/tactics
• Global issues including infrastructure, international trade and risk management |
MKT 601
Marketing for Social Sustainable
Enterprises
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In MKT 601, students learn about customer and stakeholder value creation and capture and marketing ethics
and strategy with emphasis on social and sustainable organizations. Topics covered in this course include:
• The societal role of marketing and its use to consumers at the top and bottom of the economic pyramid,
including socially responsible marketing.
• Creating value based on consumer wants and needs.
• Marketing strategy and product positioning
• Sophisticated marketing research tools that help us understand why and how people buy, as well as allow
us to make predictions of demand |
BUS 641
Financial Markets and Investments
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
In BUS 641, students learn about the operation of financial markets, techniques for security valuation, and
portfolio management. Topics covered in this course include:
• Private equity market participants and key institutional features of the industry.
• How private equity funds are raised, structured, and financed, and strategies to mitigate risk and add
value.
• Corporate finance and investments concepts, models, and tools to analyze private equity investments.
• Common negotiable terms in private equity deals and evaluate the tradeoffs. |
BUS 687
Internship
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
The Impact MBA Corporate Sustainability Fellowship is a 3 credit, 400 hour required component of the
corporate sustainability track in the Impact MBA program. The Fellowship component of the Impact MBA
allows students to gain professional experience in the field of sustainability, apply what they have been
learning to help an organization improve and develop new competencies and programs, and explore future
career options for after graduation. BUS 687 spans the second semester, summer, and final semester of the
Impact MBA program. Students will:
• Work with primarily Colorado-based businesses to identify, analyze, and address sustainability issues
within their firm.
• Work on challenges such as pollution prevention, strategic analysis, market assessment, waste reduction,
energy use reduction, materials waste, ROI assessment, or adoption of firm-wide sustainability measures.
• Provide analysis, recommendations, waste savings calculations, ROI analysis, and begin implementation
of recommendations throughout the duration of the fellowship. |
MGT 476
Negotiations and Conflict
Management
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
MGT 476 provides the principles and practices of negotiation and conflict management including bargaining as
a social and managerial activity. Additionally, the course provides students with insight into their own conflict
and negotiation styles. Special emphasis is given in the areas of interpersonal and intergroup conflict, in
addition to interpersonal influence and compliance gaining techniques and the tactics and strategies involved
with improved bargaining and negotiation. |
MKT 664
Design Thinking for Sustainable
Enterprise
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
MKT 664 prepares students to generate sustainable business models and craft ambitious next steps for their
venture practicum. Students will:
• Understand the design thinking approach and its capacity for enhancing routine innovation and value
creation in business and society
• Understand how marketing strategy and consumer insight drive innovation.
• Practice using the tools of design thinking and creative market research to develop plans for addressing
target customer needs via a sustainable venture.
• Develop interdisciplinary skills and mindsets for successful innovation and teaming.
• Build confidence and expertise with creative, analytical, and critical design tools. |
ESS 524
Foundations for Carbon/Greenhouse
Gas Management
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
ESS 524 covers the foundations for understanding greenhouse gas emissions management and accounting.
Topics covered in this course include:
• Accounting framework understanding
• Sources of GHG emissions (why we create emissions)
• GHGs are embedded in the larger carbon and nitrogen cycles
• Strategies for GHG reduction |
BUS623 Building and Leading
Exceptional Teams
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
BUS623 explores factors that contribute to exceptional organizational teams with an emphasis on effective
and ineffective leadership. From the shop floor to the boardroom, organizations are increasingly leveraging
teams and place a premium on effective leadership to garner the synergistic benefits that are assumed to
accrue from the use of such teams. Examine effective teamwork and leadership and survey current trends and
developments in theory and practice. Course objectives include:
• Expose students to current thinking and research regarding the study and practice of teamwork and
leadership.
• Gain a deeper understanding of human behavior in the workplace – particularly within the context of
organizational teams.
• Study characteristics of effective and ineffective leadership to assist students in generating their own
“ideal” leadership model |
CIS600A Project Management:
Information Technology
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
CIS600A addresses the strategic role and management of information technology and software development
projects. Cannot be taken in addition to CIS 600b. |
