Johnson Elective Course Matrix
Johnson Graduate School

Johnson Elective course Matrix • 2025-26

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Type Of CourseCourseFallSpringAsset Management/Investment ResearchBrand ManagementConsulting & StrategyCorporate FinanceData Modelling & AnalyticsEmerging MarketsEntrepreneurship & InnovationInvestment BankingLeadership & EthicsPrivate Equity & Venture CapitalSustainable Global EnterpriseTechnology Product Management
AccountingNBA 5000 Intermediate Accounting**
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NBA 5010 Taxes & Business Strategy
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NBA 5020 Managerial Accounting and Reporting I: Fundamentals of Cost Analysis**
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NBA 5025 Managerial Accounting and Reporting II: Costing Systems to Support Strategy
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NBA 5040 Federal Income Taxation of Real Estate Ventures
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NBA 5060 Financial Statement Analysis**
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NBA 5090 Advanced Financial Statement Analysis**
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NBA 5110 Financial Modeling**
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NBA 5350 Federal Income Taxation of Corporations & Shareholders**
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NBA 5355 Federal Income Taxation of Flow Through Entities, Estates & Trust**
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NBA 5531 Federal Income Taxation
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NBA 5940 Mergers and Acquisitions — Accounting, Modeling & Evaluations of Deals**
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CommunicationNBA 5670 Management Writing
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NBA 5680 Management Presentations
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NBA 5682 Interpersonal Communications
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NBA 5685 Courageous Communication
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NBA 6682 Crisis Communication for Business Leaders
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EntrepreneurshipNBA 5075 BR Ventures (BRV)**/***
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NBA 5305 Entrepreneurial Finance: Valuation and Term Sheet Design
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NBA 5380 The Business Idea Factory
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NBA 5640 The Business of Entrepreneurship
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NBA 5645 Dilemmas in Founding New Ventures
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NBA 6029 Leading Agile Innovation
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NBA 6195 Commercializing & Capitalizing Tough Tech
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NBA 6230 Actualizing Your Startup — Part I**
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NBA 6330 Actualizing Your Startup — Part II**
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Family BusinessNBA 5820 Leaders in Family Enterprise Practice and Theory
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NBA 6720 Managing Family and Privately Held Firms
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FinanceNBA 5120 Applied Portfolio Management
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NBA 5220 Equity Investment Research and Analysis
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NBA 5250 Cayuga Fund Equity Analyst**/***
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NBA 5370 Intensive Private Equity Practicum
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NBA 5390 Profiles in Leadership
NBA 5420 Investment and Portfolio Management**
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NBA 5430 Financial Markets and Institutions
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NBA 5540 International Finance**
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NBA 5550 Fixed Income Securities and Interest Rate Options**
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NBA 5580 Corporate Financial Policy**
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NBA 5590 The Venture Capital Industry and Private Equity Markets**
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NBA 5650 Corporate Governance
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NBA 5980 Behavioral Finance
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NBA 6060 Evaluating Capital Investment Projects**
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NBA 6560 Valuation Principles**
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NBA 6575 Sustainability and Equity Investing
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NBA 6730 Derivatives Securities Part I**
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NBA 6740 Derivatives Securities Part II**
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NBA 6880 Corporate Bankruptcy and Restructuring**
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NMI 5065 SIE Exam Prep
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Management & OrganizationsNBA 5035 Philanthropic Leadership
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NMI 5040 Johnson Leadership Fellows***
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NMI 5090 Big Red Microenterprise
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NBA 5140 Ethics and Corporate Culture*
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NBA 5180 Design and Innovation**
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NBA 5260 Leaders in Emerging Markets
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NBA 5710 Cornell Management Simulation**
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NBA 5885 Advanced Critical Thinking for Business Leaders
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NBA 6030 Strategies for Sustainability
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NBA 6130 Topics in Leadership: Women in the Workplace*
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NBA 6190 Leaders in Sustainable Global Enterprise
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NBA 6320 Core Leadership Skills for a VUCA World
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NBA 6370 Current Global Issues for Business: the US, Europe, China, and Emerging Markets**
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NBA 6380 Finance & Sustainable Global Enterprise Colloquium
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NBA 6540 Power and Influence in Organizations*
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NBA 6650 The Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation**
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NBA 6820 Negotiation Essentials
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NBA 6870 Leading Across Differences
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MarketingNBA 5365: Money and Relationships
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NBA 6045 Innovation and New Product Management
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NBA 6090 Digital Marketing**
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NBA 6200 Marketing Research**
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NBA 6260 Consumer Behavior
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NBA 6290 Marketing on the Edge: Beyond the Brief
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NBA 6340 Customer Analytics and Strategy**
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NBA 6390 Data Driven Marketing**
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NBA 6620 Brand Management
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NBA 6630 Managerial Decision Making
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NBA 6920 AI Applications for Business
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NBA 6925 Advanced AI Applications for Business
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NBA 6930 Strategy and Tactics of Pricing**
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Strategy & EconomicsNBA 5245 Introduction to Macroeconomics**
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NBA 5255 Geoeconomics: Where Macroeconomics & International Finance Meet Geopolotics
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NBA 5615 Digital Platform Strategy**
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NBA 5790 Applied Principles of Business Strategy**
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NBA 6050 Strategy Formulation and Competitive Analysis
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NBA 6392 Data-Driven Decision Making
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NBA 6530 Strategic Alliances
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NBA 6935 Managerial and Employee Biases in Pricing & Incentives
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NBA 6950 Game Theory and Business Strategy**
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International Study TripsNBA 5920 Experience in International Management
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NBA 5925/5926 Johnson Experiential Leadership Expedition
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Areas of Focus

Deepen your learning with an area of focus by taking a minimum of 9 credits from a given column. Please note:

  1. If a course was required for your immersion, you cannot use it toward an area of focus
  2. A course can be applied toward a maximum of two areas of foci
  3. Only one Communications course can count toward a given area of focus

*These courses count toward the Leadership and Ethics requirement. Each student must take one course from this menu.

**These courses are Management Science courses and count toward the credits needed for the STEM MBA

***These courses require an application/selection process.

All courses subject to change. New courses are regularly added.

Updated March 2026