Lang MBA Program Overview
Future You is a Responsible Business Leader.
The Lang MBA is an intensive and flexible graduate program delivered in two formats to fit your learning needs. The 2-year online program is ideal for professionals working in a wide range of industries seeking to advance their careers. The 1-year in-person MBA is ideal for recent graduates seeking to rapidly develop their competencies for the employment market.
- 1
- Introduction to the MBA course
- 2
- 3.5-week courses
- 9
- 7-week courses
- 2
- elective courses or major research project
Program Overview
Students complete 6.0 credits:
- Introduction to the MBA
- MBA Core courses:
- Two 0.25-credit course delivered over 3.5 weeks each
- Nine 0.5-credit courses delivered over 7 weeks each
- Two 0.5-credit elective courses OR 1.0 credit Major Research Project
Lang Leadership Conference
A career-defining experience where you learn from world-class faculty, alumni and experts in business and sustainability. The Lang Leadership Conference brings some of the brightest minds from around the world to share their experiences and insight for you to enhance your leadership abilities.
Network and collaborate with your cohort who work in a diverse mix of sectors and leadership positions. You not only learn new strategies and skills needed for your career progression, you make connections with your classmates, alumni and faculty that will last a lifetime.
Lang MBA Courses
BUS*6060 - Introduction to the MBA: This course provides an introduction to the Master of Business Administration program, including an overview of the program learning outcomes, academic and professional expectations, and learning environment. Students participate in professional development activities such as workshops and keynote addresses related to contemporary business issues.
BUS*6140 - Foundations of Human Resource Management: This course examines the essential human resource management functions of planning, staffing, employee development, compensation, health and safety, labour relations, and legal compliance, in a variety of organizational settings.
BUS*6180 - Financial and Managerial Accounting: This course emphasizes the gathering and use of financial information to facilitate effective financial and management decisions. Cases are used to approach the subject from the perspective of the user of accounting information rather than that of the supplier.
BUS*6200 - Financial Management: The course takes the viewpoint of the senior financial officer of a commercial enterprise. The focus is on the management of cash, accounts receivable, inventories and capital assets, as well as on the sourcing of funds through short-term liabilities, long-term and owners' equity.
BUS*6440 - Business Analytics: In this course, students learn how to analyze and visualize statistical data to make evidence-based business decisions. Students will work with data using established statistical techniques to generate findings and interpret and communicate those findings to make practical managerial decisions.
BUS*6700 - Strategic Management: An integrative course which draws together the conceptual theories and models of the graduate program core. Utilizes conceptual, analytical, problem identification, and problem-solving skills.
BUS*6790 - Operations Management: This course applies operations research theory and practices to management problem solving and decision-making. The focus is on modeling service and product delivery systems and major emphasis is placed on managerial problems in food and agribusiness organizations.
BUS*6850 - Marketing Strategy: An advanced course in marketing and consumption, students will explore topics including marketing theories, models, and specific subsets of marketing such as pricing, consumer and industrial-buyer behaviour, distribution, services, and service-delivery concepts. Students will be expected to identify and prioritize strategic marketing challenges and objectives and understand the importance of market intelligence and core competencies of the organization to develop a successful marketing strategy, recommend and justify competitive marketing strategies, design and critique marketing tactics that are consistent with an organization’s marketing strategy. As marketing principles are not unique to any industry, students enrolled in sustainable commerce, agribusiness & hospitality, food and tourism will participate in the same concept discussions and work on same case studies.
LEAD*6200 - Leadership of Organizational Change: This course studies the role of leadership in the management of change within an organization and the changes required of management. The course examines the development of trust, the building of organizational loyalty, and motivation and inspiring of high performance teams.
BUS*6300 - Business Practices for Sustainability: This course focuses on exploring critical managerial and strategic issues related to sustainability and aims to introduce students to emerging concepts linking organizational strategies and sustainability principles. It explores how managers can integrate consideration of the environment and society into business strategies and practices for competitive advantage and create environmental, social and economic value.
Many businesses are striving to improve their social and environmental performance as well as their economic performance and are driven to apply sustainability strategies and principles into their strategic action, and are increasingly applying strategic management tools to incorporate considerations of sustainability into decision-making and operations. While some businesses incorporate sustainable practices due to an ethical conviction to do well for society and the environment, most are motivated to address pressures from stakeholders such as regulators, shareholders, customers, communities and competitors, and to exploit knowledge and experience for long term competitive advantage. Businesses and their leaders are addressing sustainability generally for reputational reasons, to cut their cost and for sustained competitive advantage. Industries are also recognizing the need to become sustainable to respond to the global environment and the changing needs of their constituents.
This course aims to introduce students to sustainability topics to increase their knowledge of strategies related to corporate sustainability and business practices to align the corporation with sustainable commerce.
BUS*6500 - Governance for Sustainability: This course introduces MBA students to the rise of environmentalism and state-led environmental management, and the more recent emergence of environmental governance as made evident by the growing authority of non-state actors (e.g., ENGOs, business associations, etc.) and the use of new mechanisms of management (e.g., voluntary standards, third party certification, etc.). These core topics are presented as both opportunities and challenges for private firms such as climate-related disasters and fisheries decline. Students will critically evaluate past and contemporary environmentalism, and approaches to environmental governance and creatively conceive of alternative governance approaches that are consistent with the interests of sustainable commerce. This course provides students with an opportunity to conceptualize environmental issues, various governance strategies and the competing agendas that seek to address them.
BUS*6070 - Topics and Analysis in Sustainability: This course provides an introduction to the Master of Business Administration program, including an overview of the program learning outcomes, academic and professional expectations, and learning environment. Students participate in professional development activities such as workshops and keynote addresses related to contemporary business issues.
BUS*6600 - Sustainable Value Creation: This course is designed to provide an introduction to the relevance of sustainability as a strategic framework for driving value creation and to enhance critical thinking skills that will enable students to more effectively identify and formulate strategic sustainability initiatives for organizations.
BUS*6190 - Cyberpreneurship: This course merges the disciplines of entrepreneurship and cybersecurity with a focus on the process of generating and launching new cybersecurity sensitive or dependent ventures. Students learn to assess cybersecurity market opportunities, develop a startup plan, assess risks and ethical considerations and effectively communicate ideas to ensure the success of new ventures.
BUS*6220 - Special Topics in Management Issues: An advanced course for those specializing in management, marketing or organizational behaviour. Deals with current and future topics, trends and problems in the industry, strategic planning, and the integration of management, marketing, and organizational behaviour.
BUS*6230 - Special Topics in Business: An advanced course for those specializing in organizational behaviour. Deals with in-depth analysis of industry organizational behaviour, management of current and future problems, reorganizations, corporate cultures, multi-cultural organizations, and ethics.
BUS*6400 - Canadian Business Law: This course provides an introduction to Canadian business law and an understanding of legal principals as they apply to business organizations. After reviewing basic foundational concepts and sources of law in Canada, students will undertake a more in-depth review of practical legal issues and solutions that arise in various business environments. Topics include contracts, torts, employment law, class action and conflict resolution.
BUS*6450 - Global Business Today: This course will survey the key issues related to doing business internationally including the cultural context for global business, cross border trade and investment, ethics, the global monetary system, foreign exchange challenges and effectively competing in the global environment.
BUS*6590 - Organizational Theory and Design: Core concepts in organizational theory and their interrelationships as well as concepts such as group decision making and intragroup and intergroup dynamics are explored.
MGMT*6130 - The Creative Process of Innovation: This course is focused on the creative process of innovation required to effectively engage in problem solving and opportunity creation toward organizational and societal flourishing. Students will develop both a theoretical understanding and the practical skills to engage in creative experimentation for novel idea generation.
MGMT*6180 - Entrepreneurship for Innovators: A course of directed study involving selected readings and analyses in developing knowledge areas which are applicable to entrepreneurship, business planning, and new venture creation. At the end of this course, students will be able to develop a business plan including a financial plan and assessments of a new venture and prepare and present a business pitch for the entrepreneurial venture.
MGMT*6400 - Project Management: This course provides students with an understanding of the concepts, principles, and practices for project management. It introduces an understanding and appreciation of the importance of managing projects, project teams, the project management systems and tools, the various components of the project management process, and professional codes of conduct and ethics. The emphasis is on the techniques most frequently used in the context of, both internal and external organizational roles of a project manager.