This course provides a holistic overview of business for new management majors or students from other majors. Principles of marketing, finance, operations, accounting, and human resources are taught in the perspective of an integrated business strategy and are illustrated by lively examples from videos, case studies, guest speakers, and field trips. (4 units)

Effective communicators are skilled both at informing and inspiring other people. This course provides instruction and practice in making oral and written presentations based on the principle that ideal communication is a frictionless flow that nourishes both sender and receiver. Topics include word processing and presentation software; library and Internet research skills; oral presentations; writing letters, reports, proposals, and manuals; and the principles of ideal communication. (4 units)

In this course, students will be introduced to the operation of market-based economies. The course aims at providing an understanding of the market system as a means of fulfilling people’s desires at both the microeconomic level of individual markets and the macroeconomic level of a nation. Microeconomic topics include consumer demand for products, cost of production, and competitive and non-competitive product markets. Macroeconomic topics include GDP and other measures of national economic performance, economic growth, business cycles, unemployment, inflation, money and banking. Also, the students will be introduced to the inefficiencies in the market system, and the different kinds of government intervention used to correct imbalances. (4 units)

Ideal for both Business and Sustainable Living students, this course shows how creating an environmentally sustainable operation can provide opportunities for increasing profits. Using case studies, students learn how to apply the core principles of sustainability in agriculture, business, manufacturing, government and other activities, so that it is both profitable and benefits the environment. The course is project-based and covers sustainability in all areas of society from both the local and global perspectives. The role of ISO 14001, responsible investing, and organizations like Green Peace, in the transition to sustainable living, will be made clear. Students will interact with city and industry leaders and managers to create budget and return-on-investment projections for transformation to sustainable practices. (4 units)

Statistics is one of the basic quantitative tools available to every business manager. Powerful techniques based on the underlying orderliness of Nature equip students with skills to solve a variety of important business and economic problems. Topics include probability, descriptive statistics, sampling, statistical estimations, correlation and regression. (4 units) Prerequisite: MATH 161

The course has a practical focus on career discovery and implementation. In the framework of Maharishi’s Consciousness-Based principles for success, students consider their own skills, abilities, and objectives, and learn to design a career that utilizes their talents and creativity for maximum effectiveness, achievement, and evolution. They design an action plan to implement their career goals, and then work with the best Internet resources to research occupational interests, business and service organization profiles, and industry trends. Students learn networking strategies, including interviews, and using the telephone and Internet for extending their professional networks. They also develop scripts for introducing themselves and describing their achievements and capabilities with confidence in various formats, writing about themselves in the cover letter, resume, and portfolio, and speaking about themselves and what they can offer to potential colleagues, funding agencies and employers. (variable credit)

Expansion of consciousness gives rise to an appreciation of the finest qualities of those around us, and we develop a natural graciousness. But in order to feel confident that we are not inadvertently making someone uncomfortable, we need to master the basic rules of etiquette. In this global age students need to understand the differences in etiquette they may encounter as their professional lives bring them into contact with other cultures. This course will explore the laws of nature underlying courteous behavior revealed by Maharishi Vedic Science. It will also cover rules of etiquette that apply in everyday interactions, special occasions, the workplace, entertaining and traveling in the United States and in other countries. Students will have an opportunity to practice what they learn not only in role-play, but also by actually preparing for and hosting a formal meal for their classmates.

Tools for accessing, organizing, and expressing knowledge in every discipline. This course is designed to provide students with a basic and comprehensive level computer literacy that will enhance their college studies and serve as a foundation for more specific computer skills that their field of specialization may demand. This will be a hands-on course in which students work with a full range of software and hardware to ensure basic competency to create multi-media presentations, web sites, word processing, spreadsheets, web-based scholar level research and effective electronic communications. Topics will vary to ensure current content in the latest techniques and tools of the evolving social web. In addition to the hands on experience, students will learn enough about personal computer history, hardware, and terminology to be an intelligent consumer of computer hardware and software. Class size may be limited. (2 units)

Business economics focuses on the principles governing the dynamics of markets and industries as well as those governing the behavior of the broader national and global economic environment. It examines principles of economic decision-making, and optimal use of economic resources. The most precious resource of every nation is its people, every one of whom has infinite creativity inherent within. Topics include the dynamics of market supply and demand, industry structure and competition, the economics of business strategy, money and interest rates, and the international economy and exchange rates. Students apply the principles to case studies and complete an industry analysis for the business plan. (4 units)

Marketing is the process of creating exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives. Topics include consumer behavior, market research, market segmentation, competitive positioning and strategy, advertising, pricing, distribution and channel management, selling techniques and sales force management, and new product development. Students conduct an industry analysis and write the marketing section for their business plan. (4 units)

Through its conceptual framework, accounting provides organizational feedback loops for planning, implementation, and control. Continued organizational success depends upon the clarity of awareness of both the accountant and the decision maker. Topics include the conceptual framework of accounting; interpretation and analysis of financial statements; cash flow statement; budgeting and financial control; cost-volume-profit analysis; standard costing and variance analysis; responsibility accounting; and the behavioral implications of management accounting systems. Students create a master budget and a sequenced break-even analysis for their business plan. (4 units)

Law is a tool of progress. Law establishes the body that is the business and enables business people to communicate frictionlessly, to manage the relationships between all participants, and to avert any problems before they occur. A business is then able to maintain progress for itself and for society. Topics include contracts, torts, and agency law; property, including intellectual property; employment issues; and global business law. Students determine and complete the form of business organization, necessary employment agreements, necessary property agreements, and a financing plan for their business plan. (4 units)

People are an organization’s most important asset. Success comes from organizing and managing people to produce the products and services that customers value. This course exposes students to the full array of human resource functions: human resource planning, recruitment and selection, training, performance management, compensation, and upholding employer/employee rights and responsibilities. The students become familiar with the role of the human resource department in designing human resource systems, the critical role line managers and supervisors play in using these systems effectively to attract, retain, and motivate employees, and how the principles of Maharishi Vedic Science uniquely support and enhance these systems. Students also prepare a comprehensive human resource section for their business plan. (4 units)

Financial management provides an intelligent direction to the flow of funds for maximizing firm value. This course introduces techniques and concepts necessary to effectively manage the financial resources of any organization in order to achieve strategic goals. Topics include the time value of money, stock and bond valuation, risk and return, capital investment decisions, analysis of financial statements, financial forecasting, working capital management, the investment banking process, and the sources of funding for a business. Students develop capital requirements, plan the raising of capital, and develop a cash flow plan for their business plan. (4 units)

Principles of management, marketing, finance, operations, and accounting are taught from the perspective of starting a new business with an integrated business strategy. Students articulate their personal and business goals and produce an initial business plan. (4 units) Prerequisite: MGT 200

This capstone course enables entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs to dynamically integrate the knowledge of the Entrepreneurship Module in the creation of their business plan to manifest their intention. Students evaluate sample business plans, review and give feedback on classmates’ business plans, and revise and present their own business plan to faculty and mentors. (4 units)

This course covers the theory and practice of performance improvement in both large and small organizations in the manufacturing and service sectors so that they operate in accordance with all the laws of nature. The focus will be on using lean thinking to transform every activity in an organization to deliver customer value. Students will explore how to extend the principles, rules and tools of lean thinking to achieve improvement in quality, reduction of costs, and maintenance of customer delight. The course uses a combination of interactive classroom instruction and project-based learning. Students will apply their growing creativity to help business processes align with Nature's law of least action to produce sustainable organizations that are green and lean.

An understanding of the principles of human behavior at the individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels of analysis is critical to successful planning, organizing, and implementation by any manager. This course explores the dynamics of individual and group achievement from the perspectives of both skills and theory. Topics include general management theory, leadership, delegation and coordination, planning and problem-solving, organizational structure, and organizational change. (4 units)