re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

I just received this email in regards to the program :

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On Behalf of the MBA Director:

We are excited to announce several upgrades to our MBA program that will provide students with additional opportunities in pursuit of their graduate degree at LSU Shreveport! Starting in Fall 2017, students have the option to select General Business or one of eight specializations and concentrations to create a customized educational experience.
Check out the list of MBA offerings below, which have both a specialization and concentration option.

Data Analytics
Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise
Finance
Hospitality & Casino Management
Human Resource Management
International Business
Marketing
Project Management

Sample schedules for each specialization/concentration can be found at www.lsus.edu/online-mba and via the MBA Resource Center on Moodle. Students wishing to switch to a different specialization/concentration need to complete the following program change request form: MBAcode/change.request . Our program has more good news to share! We recently received approval for six conferral dates for students earning degrees in an accelerated format. What does this mean for our MBA students? Upon successful completion of MBA degree requirements, our students will be recognized as Master of Business Administration graduates at LSUS earlier than before.

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Also, there's a new course carousel starting in the Spring that's going to screw me with how I have my schedule set up.

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We recently received approval for six conferral dates for students earning degrees in an accelerated format.

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So they will now offer graduation after AP1s as well? Interesting.

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Also, there's a new course carousel starting in the Spring that's going to screw me with how I have my schedule set up.

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Same. I just finished shuffling classes around so I can still graduate when I want to and now I'm thinking of taking FIN 730 in Fall AP2 instead of ISDS 705. Has anyone taken any classes with Daewoung J Choi because they're the teacher for FIN 730 in Fall AP2. All Google / RateMyProfessor searches have turned up nothing.

I'm taking 701 with Vines in Fall AP1. For those that have taken FIN 730 (even with a different professor) should taking 701 make it any easier? Taking a class with a professor I can't find any info on makes me nervous but maybe FIN 701 will help balance that out.

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brentb71

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Thanks for the feedback. I looked at the schedule again and realized I could swap something else I didn't notice so I'll still be taking ISDS 705 this fall. I won't be taking FIN 730 until Fall AP2 of 2018, which should be my last class. Hopefully by then Vines is teaching it or there's more info on Choi and their teaching style.

I had Dr. Bigler for 760. He was great.

I did not receive that email (re: new MBA concentrations), but good to know. I reached out to one of the student coordinators a few weeks ago inquiring about the possibility of a "healthcare management" concentration. Seems like it would be easy with classes since the MHA program is also AACSB accredited. Anybody else interested in healthcare management?

FWIW I wrote my 760 paper on Blockbuster's failure against Netflix (and Redbox to a lesser degree). I basically read through brief histories of both companies and then tried to connect pivotal moments in those histories back to what we covered in the class. My main question I was asking was whether Blockbuster could have survived or whether they were a victim of "environmental determinism," which is a concept y'all have probably covered by now.

I felt really directionless at first too, but having sources I could pull from (and the Blockbuster / Netflix battle has been covered extensively) helped me organize it into a rough outline that I could build on. I ended up with a 100 on the paper, but it certainly wasn't perfect by any means.

I don't know if that helps y'all but I thought I'd share.

Edit: One more thing I'd like to add. I don't know if anyone here is into video games or follows that industry, but my other idea for my paper, which I didn't use, was about the video game retail chain Gamestop and how their business model may be destined to fail because of environmental determinism. The major video game companies are pushing hard for buying directly from them via online stores, bypassing retail chains like Gamestop, and I thought it would be interesting to explore how Gamestop might be able to survive or pivot to something else. I thought it'd be fun to write about but the Blockbuster thing appealed to me more.

Bouncing ideas off my wife like the above 2 topics is how I began narrowing things down.

Does anyone know if MADM 701 with Felice Williams requires the "ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR WILEYPLUS" text that the bookstore mentions?

Thanks

How bad is that course, Wolfpack? That and MKT 701 seem to be the two courses that I'm dreading most

I'll be in ACCT with you but am taking MKT instead of MADM 701. Still don't know how it will be with the new professor. Hoping it's not too rough