The MBA degree provides a firm base in the management disciplines of accounting, economics, finance, marketing, human resource management, quantitative methods and business policy in the foundation and core courses. Later the opportunity to apply the knowledge, tools and techniques of management is provided in a range of capstone and specialization areas, which develops the skills in the specialized areas.
Foundation Courses
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Research Methodology
- Managerial Communication
- Data Analysis and Modeling for Managers I
- Data Analysis and Modeling for Managers II
Core courses
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resource Management
- Financial Accounting
- Management Accounting
- Managerial Finance
- Operations Management
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing Management
Capstone Courses
- Strategic Management
- Business Environment
SPECIALIZATION STREAMS
To specialize in a particular area, students are required to take four courses in the stream, each course being of 3 credits and totaling to 12 credits.
The Specialization Streams Include
- General Management
- Finance
- Marketing
- Information Systems
Electives In General Management Stream
- Human Resource Development
- International Business
- Labor Relations
- Entrepreneurship
- Small Business Management
- Management of Service Organizations
- Comparative Management
- Management of Multinational Enterprises
- Total Quality Management
- Corporate Governance
- Organizational Development & Change
- Independent Study in Management
Electives In Finance Stream
- Investment Analysis
- Corporate Finance
- Derivative Securities and their Applications
- Financial Institutions and Markets
- International Financial Management
- Independent Study in Finance
Electives In Marketing Stream
- Marketing Research
- Consumer Behavior
- Promotion Management
- New Product Development and Management
- International Marketing
- Independent Study in Marketing
Electives In Information Systems Stream
- Information Technologies
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Database Management Systems
- Simulation, Modeling and Analysis
- Data Communication Systems
- Independent Study in MIS
FOUNDATION COURSES
QT 301.3 Data Analysis and Modeling for Managers I
This course introduces statistical ideas as they apply to management problems. Extensive use of computer software replaces much of the standard demand for calculation and frees time for interpretation and evaluation, Specially, this course covers summarizing and describing numerical data, graphical summarization, randomness and variability, sampling, estimation, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
QT 302.3 Data Analysis and Modeling for Managers II
The first part of this course is continuation of Data Analysis and Modeling I and covers correlation, simple and multiple regression analysis, time series analysis and forecasting. The second part of the course trains students to use the some basic tools in Management Science such as linear programming, modeling and analysis, integer programming modeling, network analysis, and decision making. Students are required to use computer software to solve typical problems and analyze outputs.
Mgt 302.3 Managerial Communication
This course id designed to enable the students to communicate effectively as managers. It includes the examination and practice of communication theory, techniques, strategies, and skills that are essential for success in business. Specific topics include communication strategy and analysis, managerial presentation skills, managerial writing corporate communication, and cross-cultural communication. Students deliver a series of presentations and facilitate a series of collaborative role-plays, will receive extensive individual comments from the instructor, peers, video playback and self-analysis for improving their communication skills.
Mgt 308.3 Research Methodology
This course is designed to acquaint students with methods of conducting systematic inquiry in the social sciences, and discuss the considerations which enter every step of the research process. The contents of the course include nature of scientific research, research process, hypothesis development, research design, measurement of variables, data collection methods-interviewing, questionnaire design and administration, sampling technique, statistical method-descriptive and inferential data analysis and interpretation hypothesis testing, format and style of writing the research report. The students are required to write research proposals and brief research reports to sharpen their report writing skills.
Eco 301.3 Microeconomics
The course concentrates on the way that microeconomics may be utilized to enhance decision making within the manager's organization. It covers the basic theory of microeconomics; topics include theory of firm, supply, demand, market price and output, production, cost, simple competitive market equilibrium, simple monopoly, monopolistic market equilibrium, oligopoly, pricing practices, and government regulations.
Core courses
Mgt 303.3 Organizational Behavior
In this course, students learn to analyse human factors of management and to make responsible recommendations in problem settings. Students explore the literature of behavioral science and management, along with class use of cases, simulations, problems and exercises of various kinds. The course treats such topics as individual and group behavior, organizational design, leadership, motivation, communication, and the formulation and implementation of change strategies. It emphasizes current issues in Human Resources Management as well as questions of personal values as these relate to executive life.
Mgt 304.3 Human Resource Management
This course discusses the management of human resources in organizations from a general management perspective and focuses upon how organizations select, train, evaluate, compensate and develop employees. This course emphasizes the application of the current behavioral science theory and research to the management of human resources. Innovative human resource management policies currently being used by organizations are covered, and approximately 20 percent of the course examines these issues in an international context. The course also covers topics such as HRM environment, specific enterprise-related issues such as grievance, discipline, conflict, participation, labor policy, etc.
Acc 301.3 Financial Accounting
This course aims to provide a sound knowledge of basic concepts and techniques in financial accounting. It covers basic accounting principles, recording of business transactions, preparation of financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, fund flow statement) and company accounting.
Acc 3.2.3 Management Accounting
This course deals with control function of accounting. It provides in-depth knowledge and skills in management accounting tools, techniques, and cost concepts for decision making. It includes Cost-Volume-Profit analysis, profit planning and control, budgeting standard costing, responsibility accounting Ratio analysis and management control system.
Fin 301.3 Managerial Finance
The objective of this course is to ensure that all our MBA graduates, even non-finance majors, have the basic understanding of what to look for in making any investment or financing decisions. It covers estimation cash flow, discount rate, and net present value of a project; concept of return risk and their measures; basic portfolio theory; capital asset pricing model and its application; capital budgeting, introduction to options and their application: capital market imperfections and capital structure; financing decisions; and operating and financial leverage.
Mgt 305.3 Operations Management
Managing the effective integration of technology, people and operating systems presents critical challenges to business leaders. Operations management enables to develop the skills and concepts needed ensure ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. This course covers all elements of coherent operating systems; topics include process analysis, project management, statistical quality control, total quality management, inventory theory, lean production, aggregate planning, and technology and operations strategy.
MIS 301.3 Management Information Systems
This course provides the background necessary to make decisions about computer-based information systems and to be an "end-user". Students completing this course will also develop an understanding of how IT affects the basic strategic options available to business enterprise. This course covers planning, outsourcing, implementation and role of IT in corporate strategy; types and importance of MIS, personal MIS, workgroup MIS, enterprise MIS; networking; internet; and special topics e.g., DSS, ES, group DSS, AI, neural networks and fuzzy logic.
MKT 301.3 Marketing Management
The course aims at equipping students to enable them to analyse market strategies and situations and formulate marketing strategies and action plans. It covers marketing process and environment; marketing information systems; marketing research; consumer and buyer behavior, consumer and business markets; market segmentation, targeting and positioning; product life cycles; new product development, life cycle strategies, product strategies relating to product line, mix branding and packaging; service product marketing, pricing approaches and strategies; channel function and design; channel strategies; logistics management; marketing promotion - advertising, personnel selling, sales promotion, and publicity; promotion strategies; and marketing planning and controlling.
CAPSTONE COURSES
MGT 306.3 Strategic Management
The course aims at imparting analytical tools and approaches to strategic management to enable students to formulate and analyse strategies. It covers concepts and importance of objectives. Strategic planning and management; hierarchy of objectives and policies formulation of objectives; strategic management process: scanning of environment; identifying opportunities and threats; assessment of competitive position and environment; analysis of resources, strategic advantages and weaknesses, strategy formulation and choice; alternative strategies; implementation; resource planing, structure, leadership and culture for implementation; and managing and evaluating strategic choice.
Mgt 307.3 Business Environment in Nepal
This course intends to provide students with a review of major macroeconomic concepts and a basic understanding of how the macroeconomic policy decisions, law, political process, and socio-cultural values and beliefs affect the operations of a business enterprise. Topics include a comprehensive review of major building blocks of fiscal and monetary policies, environmental analysis, political, legal, economic (e.g. fiscal, monetary and various sectoral economic polity variables), socio-cultural, technological and global environment of business, political interest group analysis, and regulatory politics. Students working in groups will complete a business paper on environmental analysis.
ELECTIVES
FINANCE SPECIALIZATION
Fin 321.3 Investment Analysis
It covers statistical review of expected value, variance, standard deviation, covariance, correlation, and some statistical distributions; concept of arbitrage, term structure of interest rate and determination of interest rate; portfolio theory and capital market equilibrium; valuation of bonds, stocks, options, convertibles, warrants, future and forward contracts; and capital budgeting decisions under certainty and uncertainty.
Fin 322.3 Corporate Finance
It covers theory of firm, managerial behavior and agency costs; irrelevance of capital structure in perfect market; capital market imperfections - taxes, bankruptcy costs. Information asymmetry, agency costs - and their effect on capital structure; financing decisions in market with asymmetric information; IPO and their underpricing; methods of raising capitals - equity, debt, venture capital, leasing, project financing, convertibles, etc; corporate pay out policy - dividend, share repurchase.
Fin 323.3 Derivative Securities and their Application
The course covers forward and future contracts; options and their valuations; hedging and speculating with forward, futures, options and swaps; and designing and pricing complex financial contracts and financial securities.
Fin 324.3 Financial Institutions and Markets
The objective of this course is to provide students with clear understanding of the basic functions of financial systems and tools to analyze policy decisions affecting the financial systems. It covers functions of the financial systems, the technology used and the need for regulation; interest rates and exchange rates and their determination; understanding of financial intermediaries; payment systems and public policy; insurance industry, their function and regulation; securities markets their functions and regulations; central banks role in providing stability to and enhancing efficiency of the financial system; and money supply and the monetary policy.
Fin 325.3 International Financial Management
The objective of this course is to impart students basic knowledge to understand and analyze foreign exchange market, international trade, international financing and current events in international financial market and topics include structure of foreign exchange market and foreign exchange transactions between the market participants; factors affecting the exchange rates and determination of the exchange rates; foreign exchange risks, their measurement and management; foreign direct investment; financing of international trade; fixed, floating and hybrid exchange rate systems; and analysis of historical and current events of significance e.g. Mexican crisis, East Asian economic crisis, EMU, etc in the international financial market.
Fin 339.3 Independent Study in Finance
A student taking independent study will study a business problem in depth. The topic selected, methods of study, and the credit hours allowed need the approval of the Chairperson. Prerequisite: Permission of the Chairperson and the Head of the Program.
MARKETING SPECIALIZATION
Mkt 321.3 Marketing Research
The course aims at equipping students with skills and knowledge required for conducting market and marketing research. It covers market and marketing research; organization for marketing research; marketing research problems; research process; research design and methods; sample size determination and sampling methods; data collection and collection instruments; data processing, analysis and tools of analysis; parametric and non-parametric tools, factor and discriminant analysis, one tail and two tail test; report preparation and presentation; product research market segmentation research, positioning research, image and identity research, advertising research, sales research; and behavior research.
Mkt 322.3 Consumer Behavior
The course aims at equipping students with skills and knowledge behavior analysis for formulating marketing plans and strategies. It covers analysis of consumer behavior; foundation of consumer behavior, consumer decision process: high-involvement and low-involvement, decisions; consumer motivatives, consumer learning, brand loyalty and brand equity; perceptual process; personality; psychographic analysis; attitude formation and change; group influence on consumer behavior; influence of family reference groups, social class, sub-culture and culture; influence of marketing communications on consumer behavior; information diffusion; and models of consumer behavior.
Mkt 323.3 Promotion Management
The course aims at imparting students with skills and knowledge in designing advertising and promotional strategies. It covers advertising and promotion process; organization for advertising; advertising planning and scheduling, selection of media, media planning; preparation of advertising planning and scheduling, selection of media, media planning; preparation of advertising materials, copy writing, layout planning; print and broadcast advertising; copy testing; production of advertisement; promotion planning and strategies; resource allocation for advertising and promotion; advertising budgeting; and measuring effectiveness of advertising and promotion.
Mkt 324.3 New Product Development and Management
In the competitive and globalized business environment, enterprises have to develop products and services to satisfy the changing needs of the consumers and markets. This course equips the students with the analytical capability to manage an enterprise's product development activities. It also develops the innovative ability of the students. The course includes product life cycle; introduction of new product; analyzing success, failure and potential; adding features, values and services; product testing; new product development strategies; product positioning; introduction of new services; and management of product development. This course is designed mainly to a manager to deal with innovative activities.
Mkt 325.3 International Marketing
The course aims at equipping the students with understanding and analysis capacity of international marketing environment and strategies. It covers international marketing; international marketing environment - economic, cultural,, political, legal, and socio-demographics; marketing research and information system for international marketing; international consumers; international product strategies, international distribution strategies, international pricing strategies, international market positioning and strategies, international promotion strategies; management of foreign trade in Nepal; and international marketing of Nepalese products and services.
Mkt 339.3 Independent Study in Marketing
A student taking independent study a business problem in depth. The topic selected, methods of study, and the credit hours allowed need the approval of the Chairperson. Prerequisite: Permission of the Chairperson and the Head of the Program.
GENERAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALIZATION
Mgt 321.3 Human Resource Development
This course is designed to provide knowledge of the concept of integrated HRD, contributions of various HRD sub-systems to various dimensions, and principles of designing effective HRD systems. The contents of the course include the concept of HRD and it need, HRD mechanism, HRD as a total system and design and implementation of HRD systems.
Mgt 322.3 International Business
Today's managers cannot ignore the effects of international competition and globalization of economic activity. This course develops the analytical capability and perspectives to manage a firm's interaction with its international environment. Topics include international economic and political developments, the economic and politics of trade, comparative international strategy, foreign exchange and international capital markets comparative business-government relationships in the industrialized world, country risk analysis and country culture analysis. This course is designed from the perspective of a manager who has to deal with such international issues.
Mgt 323.3 Labor Relations
This course will develop an understanding of the concepts and practices in the field of labour relations. With a view to exploring the applicability of these concepts and practices in the Nepalese situation, an attempt will be made to examine the institutional setting in which the concepts have tended to evolve. The course covers topics such as labour relations theories and approaches, environment, actors, trade unionism, wage determination, grievance handling, dispute settlement, workers' participation and labour legislation.
Mgt 324.3 Entrepreneurship
The objective of this course is to prepare students for the possibility of starting their own entrepreneurial ventures. The course includes topics on theories and characteristics of entrepreneurship, environmental conditions, scanning and evaluations, sources and procedure of assistance, market study and production procedure. The course also covers topics such as stages of venture development, pre-launch activities, venture preparation, venture launching, managing the venture, and succession management. This course requires a project work on identifying and planning a venture, which carries 40 percent of the grade.
Mgt 325.3 Small Business Management
The course aims at providing knowledge of the requisites for successful small business management. The overall objective of the course is to develop the students' understanding of the economic, social and political environment within which the small business functions and to provide him with knowledge on how to avoid business failure and build up a highly profitable and growing enterprise. The course contains topics on role and characteristics of small business, planning and organizing procedures and factors, business strategy, organization structure, legal aspects, production, marketing and financial management, and information and control systems.
Mgt 326.3 Management of Service Organizations
This course deals with the development of service packages, yield management, scheduling, queuing, quality measurement, management of professional services such as health care, tax consulting services, travel and tourism, banking, transports in organizations particularly in South Asian region. Field survey of services organizations and projects are the integral part of the course.
Mgt 327.3 Comparative Management
The course deals with analysis of administration variables in organization of differing ownership, purpose and operation functioning in differing economic, political, socio-cultural, and technological environments. The course includes comparative study of various management practices, role of management theories and principles in different management practices with special emphasis on US management, European and Japanese management, study of Japanese culture, social and political and economic environment, management practices and processes, various functions of different types of management through case studies are examined.
Mgt 328.3 Management of Multinational Enterprise
The emphasis of this course is to equip students with tools to effectively and systematically analyse the various facts of the MNCs. It is designed to analyse some of the basic issues related to the formulation and implementation of global strategies. Part of the course is devoted to global strategy formulation. Here the focus is on topics such as strategies intent, core competencies, strategic alliances, value-chain configuration, cross broader mergers and acquisitions, etc. the remainder of the course is devoted to global strategy implementation via structures, systems, people processes and culture.
Mgt 329.3 Total Quality Management
This course examines major issues of TQM, principles and theories, Evaluation of TQM as a separate body of management theory is addressed. The contents of the course also includes Deming's, Juran's and Crosby's TQM principles, leadership information and analysis, JIT, strategic quality planning, employee involvement and empowerment, human resources management in TQM, management pf process quality, quality and operational results, customer focus and satisfaction, buyer-supplier-customer relationship in TQM, TQM models and quality performance management.
Mgt 339.3 Independent Study in Management
A student taking independent study will study a business problem in depth. The topic selected, methods of study, and the credit hours allowed need the approval of the Chairperson. Prerequisite: Permission of the Chairperson and the Head of the Program.
