Master of Business Administration – Finance

This dynamic 7-week MBA course helps you take your problem-solving skills to the next level by immersing you in real-world, open innovation “wicked” challenges, to build advanced critical thinking, agility, storytelling, and emotional intelligence skills essential for today’s business landscape. Through creative frameworks, experiential projects and hands-on teamwork, you’ll learn to diagnose and overcome cognitive biases, synthesize diverse thinking strategies, and communicate solutions with power and clarity no matter what type of audience you are targeting.

This 7-week MBA course equips students with a practical framework for developing emotional intelligence as a key leadership skill. Based on Daniel Goleman’s four-domain model, the course explores twelve core competencies including self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, adaptability, and inspirational leadership. Students examine the neuroscience of emotional responses—such as the amygdala hijack—and learn strategies for resilience and emotional agility. Drawing on research from thought leaders like Carol Dweck, Susan David, and Brené Brown, the curriculum emphasizes growth mindset, psychological safety, and authentic leadership. Through a mix of theory and experiential learning, students engage in self-assessments, case studies, role-play, and reflective exercises to build skills in empathy, active listening, feedback delivery using the SBI model, and managing difficult conversations. The course fosters executive presence and influence, preparing students to lead with emotional intelligence in complex organizational settings.

This 7-week MBA course provides a comprehensive exploration of resilience, agility and chaos management including the critical role of understanding and responding to failure within the unpredictable landscape of modern business. Students will learn to analyze the causes and consequences of failure, develop strategies for organizational learning from setbacks, and cultivate individual and collective resilience in the face of chaos. They will learn practical frameworks, tools, and strategies to navigate uncertainty, embrace change, and cultivate resilient organizations. Through a blend of theoretical concepts, case studies, and hands-on assignments, participants will develop the leadership capabilities necessary to not only survive but thrive amidst adversity in complex and unpredictable environments.

In this course, you’ll discover how successful companies thrive in a complex world. We'll see how marketing, economics, and operations all work together to attract and keep customers. You will learn the practical skills to analyze what customers really want, what your rivals are doing, and what your company can actually deliver. Your challenge will be to use this comprehensive view to build and execute smart, powerful strategies that work in the real world.

In this course, you’ll explore what it really takes to lead with integrity in a complex business world. We’ll look at how ethics and law, organizational behavior, and leadership work together to shape effective decision making. You’ll develop practical skills in critical thinking, emotional intelligence, communication, and influence, all while strengthening your leadership agility. Each week, you’ll engage in online discussions, multimedia storytelling, and applied projects designed to help you connect concepts to real organizational challenges. Along the way, you’ll learn to evaluate ethical dilemmas, understand and influence behavior in organizations through authentic leadership, and apply adaptive strategies that drive meaningful, positive change. Your challenge will be to bring all of these perspectives together and use them to lead with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Financial Intelligence is designed to build students’ ability to understand, interpret, and apply core finance and accounting concepts used in modern business decision-making. This course provides a practical foundation in the language of business using finance, financial accounting, and managerial accounting, thereby equipping students with the tools needed to evaluate organizational performance, support strategic choices, and participate confidently in managerial discussions involving the numbers.

This course develops the ability to make high-impact strategic decisions using data, analytics, and AI tools—while maintaining human judgment and ethical awareness. Students learn how to interpret complex data environments, design decision frameworks, and balance quantitative evidence with managerial intuition when facing ambiguity and trade-offs. Applying data-driven reasoning, systems thinking, and strategic judgment to organizational decisions.

MBA 650 is the culminating experience of the Haile MBA. In this intensive 7-week consulting engagement, you will work in teams to diagnose, analyze, and solve real strategic problems for real organizations in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region and beyond. You will function as a professional consulting team—scoping a problem, conducting research and analysis, interviewing stakeholders, generating insights, and delivering evidence-based recommendations directly to executives.

This course develops the analytical and strategic skills needed to make informed investment decisions in modern financial markets. Students learn how securities are valued, how risk is measured and managed, and how portfolios are constructed to achieve financial objectives. Integrating financial theory with real-world data, cases, and simulations, the course emphasizes decision-making under uncertainty, portfolio design, and performance evaluation. Students apply quantitative tools and managerial judgment to evaluate assets, construct portfolios, and communicate investment strategies effectively.

Prerequisite: FIN 620 or department approval. In-depth exploration of the impact that globalization brings to capital budgeting, dividend analysis, capital structure, risk/return analysis, costs of capital, valuation issues, leasing, basic financial forecasting and institutional structures for finance. Component course in MBA Finance Stack.

This course goes into more depth on topics covered in MBA605, introduces new concepts, uses cases to show how finance theory is used in practice, explains how Excel is used to analyze financial problems, and gives you practice making presentations. After completion of the course, the student will understand the advanced finance concepts and learn how to apply finance theory into real world application.