Fully Employed MBA
50 courses · UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026
MGMT FE 200 Thinking Strategically in the Digital Age for Managers
- Units
- 6
Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that a rapidly changing environment poses to the firm’s management and frames them according to Merage’s strategic emphasis on analytical decision making, innovation, and information technology.
MGMT FE 201A Business Analytics: Decision-Making for Managers
- Units
- 4
Methods of statistical inference, emphasizing applications to administrative and management decision problems. Topics include classical estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, correlation, analysis of variance, decision analysis, and forecasting. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 202 Organizational Leadership for Managers
- Units
- 4
Develops a better understanding of individual and group behavior in and across organizations; the frameworks by which to analyze and understand behavior in complex organizations; and enhances the skills required to manage collaboration and lead. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 203A Financial Reporting for Managers
- Units
- 4
Involves the development, analysis, and interpretation of financial accounting information for external reporting purposes. Emphasis on measurement and valuation issues in decision-making problems and cases. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 204A Microeconomics for Managers in the Digital Age
- Units
- 4
Provides basic tools for analyzing economic decisions, the determinants and consequences of market structure and market failure. Topics include demand and supply analysis, production and cost theory, perfect competition, monopoly, and introductory game theory. Evening and weekend course format.
MGMT FE 204B Macroeconomics for Managers
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 204A with a minimum grade of B- or MGMTMBA 204A with a minimum grade of B-
Introduces use of macroeconomic analysis to manage the business cycle for competitive advantage. "Business cycle-sensitive" management is explored within the context of marketing, operations management, HRM, merger and acquisition activity, and capital financing and expenditures. Evening and weekend course format.
MGMT FE 205 Marketing Management
- Units
- 4
Introduction to marketing. Develops familiarity with fundamental concepts, theories, and techniques in marketing and acquaints students with the type of decisions made by marketing managers including customer targeting, product, pricing, placement, promotion, and research. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 207 AI for Managers: Technology, Analytics, and Organizations
- Units
- 4
Focuses on the technological and managerial issues surrounding the development and use of IT in organizations. Examines how technology can be used to execute an organization's business strategy and to enable new, innovative business strategies. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 208 Operational Excellence: Processes, Principles, and Analytics
- Units
- 4
Introduction to strategic and tactical issues in production and operations management. Blend of quantitative and qualitative considerations. Topics include product planning, process design, capacity management, production planning, inventory control, distribution management, just-in-time manufacturing, quality management. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 209A Finance for Managers
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 201A with a minimum grade of B- and MGMT FE 203A with a minimum grade of B- and MGMT FE 204A with a minimum grade of B-
Introduces students to financial theory and concepts. Topics include time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, and capital structure choice. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 209B Investments for Managers
- Units
- 4
Foundations of investment management. Theory and empirical evidence related to portfolio theory, market efficiency, and valuation models for equities, bonds, and options. Emphasis on practical applications, including optimal investment strategies. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 210 Strategy for Managers: Foundations and Dynamics
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 200 with a minimum grade of B- and MGMT FE 202 with a minimum grade of B- and MGMT FE 205 with a minimum grade of B- and MGMT FE 209A with a minimum grade of B-
Provides conceptual frameworks and techniques to analyze and develop firm strategies. Through case analysis and discussion, helps improve strategic thinking by developing frameworks by which to assess, evaluate, and respond to different business situations. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 211 Networks, Platforms, and Ecosystems
- Units
- 4
Focuses on unique strategic issues raised by multi-sided platform businesses that facilitate interaction among different parties. Combining economic theory and case examples to unpack subtle factors making multi-sided businesses different. From value propositions to pricing strategies to design decisions.
MGMT FE 212 Corporate Strategy
- Units
- 4
Examines how firms should assemble resources in-house, ally with partners, or acquire firms to grow and thrive. Learn the tools necessary to develop and evaluate a corporate strategy and to become an effective strategist, consultant, or analyst.
MGMT FE 215 Strategy in a Digital Age
- Units
- 4
Focuses on applying unchanging basic principles of strategy, economics, and organization to digital technologies. Studies historical and contemporary competitive situations to work out key underlying digital mechanisms that shape competition over time.
MGMT FE 217 Competitive Intelligence for Managers
- Units
- 4
Focuses on how to design a competitive intelligence program, which is a core foundation upon which competitive strategies and execution tactics are developed, assessed, and modified. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 219 Practice of General Management
- Units
- 4
Designed to teach the graduating M.B.A. students how the best managers actually manage. Students develop a toolkit of proven concepts and practices that will help them succeed as managers at any level.
MGMT FE 220 Organizational Change in a Digital World for Managers
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 202 with a minimum grade of B- or MGMTMBA 202 with a minimum grade of B-
Focuses on the implementation of change. Identifies the features of successful changes in organizations of varying sizes and configurations, with an emphasis on the reasons why individuals resist or embrace change. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 222 Performance Management in 21st Century Organizations
- Units
- 4
The key to sustained competitive advantage in a 21st century organization. Performance management is all about aligning employee attitudes and behaviors with firm goals and performance.
MGMT FE 223 The Future of Work: Analyzing Organizations
- Units
- 4
Analyzing the work that organizations do, looking for the "knowns" and “unknowns” then using variables that are clearest to draw firmer conclusions, while drawing weaker best possible guesses for those that are less clear, understanding the boundaries they represent.
MGMT FE 225 Negotiations For Managers
- Units
- 4
Using a combination of theory and practice via negotiation simulations, students expand their repertoire of negotiating skills and develop their ability to analyze different negotiation situations and contexts. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 227 Global Negotiations
- Units
- 4
Emphasizes economic, political, social, and cultural environments of international business negotiations. Topics include self-assessment/analysis, environmental analysis, international team building, negotiation processes and strategies, resources, skills, pre-negotiation preparations, agreements, and post-contract negotiations. Specific emphasis is placed on cross-cultural problem-solving.
MGMT FE 231A Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation for Managers I
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 203A with a minimum grade of B- or MGMTMBA 203A with a minimum grade of B-
Develops skills essential to using financial statements for business analysis by examining financial information quality, profitability and risk analysis, earnings management, revenue recognition, asset recognition and valuation, and how financial reporting is related to the business environment and managerial incentives.
MGMT FE 231B Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation for Managers II
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 203A with a minimum grade of B- or MGMTMBA 203A with a minimum grade of B-
Focuses on the financial statement analysis of liabilities and stockholders' equity. Topics include forecasting financial statements, earnings-based valuation models, accounting analysis of mergers and acquisitions, leases, bankruptcy prediction, and derivatives. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 245 FinTech and the Digital Economy
- Units
- 4
Provides working knowledge of the role of IT-enabled innovation in financial markets to help students acquire an understanding of broad economic issues that are of wide applicability in many areas of FinTech. Both qualitative analysis and quantitative applications are explored.
MGMT FE 246A Real Estate Investment
- Units
- 4
Provides a survey of basic real estate valuation and investment, including institutions that govern the operation of the market, decisions to purchase, rehabilitate, develop, and dispose of real estate projects. Lectures, discussion, case studies, and presentations by outside speakers included.
MGMT FE 246C Real Estate Capital Markets
- Units
- 4
Understanding the four sectors of real estate capital markets: pubic debt, private debt, public equity, private equity; estate investment, key players, investment types drive capital solutions, underwriting strategies, and vehicle structuring, debt versus equity source characteristics and implications for returns.
MGMT FE 247 Venture Capital and Private Equity for Managers
- Units
- 4
Geared to students who are seeking a career in finance and/or in working with venture capital firms, private equity/buyout firms, investment banks, commercial lenders, mezzanine fund investors, corporate finance, and entrepreneurial firms.
MGMT FE 251A Marketing Research for Managers
- Units
- 4
Qualitative and quantitative marketing techniques that generate customer insights. Discusses problem formulation, data collection, statistical analyses, formulating managerial recommendations, implementation, and how research is used by companies. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 253 Micromarketing with Digital Footprints
- Units
- 4
How businesses use digital footprints from household data and point-of-purchase data to customize product offerings and delivery, store locations, advertising, and promotions to households and neighborhoods with the highest market potential. Hands-on experience with Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping software.
MGMT FE 255 Business to Business Selling and Sales Management
- Units
- 4
Sales is the interpersonal process where the needs of the buyer are uncovered and satisfied, to the long-term benefit of both parties. Students explore sales force management and personal selling in a dynamic, digital environment.
MGMT FE 259 Strategic Brand Management for Managers
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 205 with a minimum grade of B- or MGMTMBA 205 with a minimum grade of B-
Addresses important branding decisions faced by organizations. A computer simulation allows students hands-on experience in making decisions about their brand and seeing the results of those decisions. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 261 Applied Game Theory
- Units
- 4
Equips students with quantitative and analytical tools to navigate strategic business interactions. Topics include decision-making in interdependent situations, predicting outcomes, and applying game theory concepts to real-world business challenges for strategic insights.
MGMT FE 264 Business Transformation for Managers
- Units
- 4
Explores proactive and reactive business transformation strategies through case studies and team-based projects. Students apply core MBA principles to financial, strategic, cultural, product, brand, and digital transformations, culminating in a Board of Directors presentation on a recommended transformation plan.
MGMT FE 273 Machine Learning Analytics for Managers
- Units
- 4
Introduces methods to mine data repositories for business intelligence to facilitate analytical decision-making. Topics include clustering for market segmentation; association rules to discover relationships between different purchase decisions; Naive-Bayes classification techniques for decision-making using decision-trees. Evening or weekend format.
MGMT FE 278 Data and Programming for Analytics
- Units
- 4
Challenges and teaches students to handle data that come in a variety of forms and sizes. Guides students through the whole data management process, from initial data acquisition to final data analysis.
MGMT FE 279 Digital Strategies and Markets
- Units
- 4
Examines how online social media are impacting organizations and markets. Topics include collective intelligence, online social influence, social networks, and social media monetization. The target audience consists of students interested in IT consulting, competitive strategy, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
MGMT FE 281 Analytical Decision Models for Managers
- Units
- 4
An introduction of analytics tools for decision making. Topics include linear and non-linear optimization and simulation models. Excel Solver is used as the optimization tool and Risk Solver Platform is used as the simulation tool. Evening or weekend.
MGMT FE 286 Operations in Service Industries
- Units
- 4
Analyzes processes from a wide array of services to examine process structure, information and information and technology requirements, performance, and support of business objectives. Case intensive; cases include hotel, airline, E-commerce, fast food, entertainment, banking, and health care.
MGMT FE 287 Project Management
- Units
- 4
Examines the fundamental components of project management and its role in the modern corporation. Emphasis is on how to initiate, implement, control, and terminate a project. Use of computer package for project management.
MGMT FE 288 Predictive Analytics
- Units
- 4
Deals with predicting entities, such as demand for a product or service (forecasting) and predicting membership of known groups (classification). Blends methodologies of forecasting and data mining and focuses on the application of these methods to managerial problems and decision-making.
MGMT FE 290 Special Topics in Business
- Units
- 2-4
Studies in selected areas of Business. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
MGMT FE 292 Business Law for Managers
- Units
- 4
Detailed study from a business viewpoint of contract theories, assignments, delegation of duties, third-party beneficiary contracts, defenses to consensual contracts, types of conditions, methods of excusing conditions, remedies, and types of damages. Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 293 Information, Communication, and Coordination: Practicum for Analyzing Organizations
- Units
- 4
Use of contextual inquiry and ethnographic methods to assess real world contexts. Exploring culture, power, physical layout, and the role of artifacts in information flow, communication practices, and coordination through qualitative fieldwork in an organization.
MGMT FE 294 Edge for Managers
- Units
- 4
Explores the crucial roles of external forces: globalization, technology, shifting demographics - as transformative catalysts for change - opening markets, erasing boundaries, and transforming industries. Prepares future business leaders to innovate and successfully compete.
MGMT FE 295A Introduction to Global Business for Managers
- Units
- 1
Fundamentals of global strategy, economics, and financial issues. Topics include global manager’s environment, global strategy, impact of national culture on business systems, strategies and practices, foreign direct investment, corporate governance, human resources, and international marketing. Evening and weekend course format.
MGMT FE 295B Global Business for Managers
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- MGMT FE 295A with a minimum grade of B
Emphasizes and reinforces international perspectives contained in the FEMBA curriculum by providing a week-long intensive seminar abroad in the second year. Scholars and business people from the host country instruct FEMBA students in specially designed class sessions and company visits. Materials Fee
MGMT FE 296 Executive Leadership
- Units
- 6
Provides perspectives on leadership. Helps students answer three questions: Where am I currently as a leader? What tools can I use to improve my leadership? What is my plan for the future as a leader? Evening or weekend course format.
MGMT FE 298 Merage Consulting Projects for Managers
- Units
- 4
Provides students the opportunity to put into practice concepts, skills, and tools acquired in other parts of the MBA program. Seminars augment internship experiences with analyses of relevant administrative issues.
MGMT FE 299 Individual Directed Study
- Units
- 1-8
Individual study under the direction of a selected faculty member.