Academic Catalog 2022-23

MBA 5443 Innovation & Design Thinking

Equips students with the knowledge and tools to engage in innovation activities to advance business goals in today’s global environment. Students will be focused on developing creative thinking skills, with an emphasis on problem solving via human-centered design thinking. Human-centered design thinking is a method of innovation that assesses problems and explores solutions given various time, resource, and technological constraints. The focus of this course is learning to explore and reframe problems with a goal of generating solutions or alternative approaches to those already in existence, while simultaneously learning to build, lead and nurture an innovative and sustainability-oriented culture in organizations. This course is only available for graduate students enrolled in the Barowsky School of Business or 4+1 business majors with Program Director approval.

Credits

3.00 units