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Business Administration

Catalog pages 172-178

Subject abbreviation: BUS The School of Business

Yunzeng Wang, Ph.D., Dean Office, 142 Anderson Hall

  • (951) 827-2932

Undergraduate Business Programs Office 2340 Olmsted Hall

  • (951) 827-4551; fax: (951) 827-5061

business.ucr.edu

Professors

Subramanian ‘Bala’ Balachander, Ph.D. Albert O. Steffey Chair (Marketing) Margaret Campbell, Ph.D. Department Chair, and A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation Endowed Presidential Chair in Business Administration (Marketing) Y. Peter Chung, Ph.D. (Finance) Elodie Goodman, Ph.D. (Operation and Supply Chain Management) Mohsen El-Hafsi, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply Chain Management) Jerayr ‘John’ Haleblian, Ph.D. Associate Dean, and A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation Endowed Presidential Chair in Business Administration (Management) Jean Helwege, Ph.D. A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation Endowed Presidential Chair in Finance (Finance) Thomas Kramer,Ph.D. Associate Dean for the Academic Undergraduate Programs (Marketing) Birendra Mishra, Ph.D. (Accounting) Theodore Mock, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor (Accounting) Ashutosh Prasad, Ph.D. (Marketing) Richard Smith, Ph.D. Philip L. Boyd Chair (Finance) Yunzeng Wang, Ph.D. Dean’s Distinguished Scholar (Operations and Supply Chain Management) Rami Zwick, Ph.D. Associate Dean for the Academic Graduate Programs (Marketing)

Professors Emeriti Bajis M. Dodin, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply Chain Management) Woody Liao, Ph.D. (Accounting) Kathleen Montgomery, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor (Management) Michael Moore, Ph.D. (Accounting) Amnon Rapoport, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor (Management) Waymond Rodgers, Ph.D. (Accounting and Information Systems) David Stewart, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor (Marketing)

Associate Professors Hai Che, Ph.D. (Marketing) Long Gao, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply Chain Management) Michael Haselhuhn, Ph.D. (Management) Hyun ‘Shana’ Hong, Ph.D. (Accounting) Yawen Jiao, Ph.D. (Finance) Boris Maciejovsky, Ph.D. (Management) Marlo Raveendran, Ph.D. (Management) Ashish Sood, Ph.D. (Marketing) Danko Turcic, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply Chain Management) Elaine Wong, Ph.D. (Management) Ivy Zhang, Ph.D. (Accounting and Information System)

Assistant Professors Eric Allen, Ph.D. (Accounting) Alexander Barinov, Ph.D. (Finance) Richard Carrizosa, Ph.D. (Accounting) Mengmeng Dong, Ph.D. (Finance) Mingyu ‘Max’ Joo, Ph.D. (Marketing) Demetrius Lewis, Ph.D. (Management) Haibo Liu, Ph.D. (Management) Adem Orsdemir, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply Chain Management) Charles Zhang, Ph.D. (Marketing)

Assistant Professor of Teaching Neman Desai, Ph.D. (Accounting) Kyle Ingram, Ph.D. (Management) Jonathan Lim, Ph.D. (Marketing) Sanjoy Moulik, Ph.D. (Information Systems) Adrienne Reynolds, Ph.D. (Management) Greg Richey, Ph.D. (Finance) Rich Yueh, Ph.D. (Information Systems)

Lecturers Sean Jasso, Ph.D. (Management and Marketing) Raj Singh, Ph.D. (Management and Marketing)

Majors

The B.S. in Business Administration is a two-year upper-division major offered by the School of Business. Students can enroll in a Pre-Business status and are advised in CHASS during their freshman and sophomore years. The Pre-Business curriculum includes the prerequisites to the major and the college breadth requirements. After admission to the major, students are advised by the School of Business through its Undergraduate Business Programs Office located at 2340 Olmsted Hall. The B.S. degree in Business Administration is conferred by the School of Business.

The program is accredited by the AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Admission A limited number of students are accepted into the Business Administration major, cho- sen according to overall GPA. Students must apply for the major when they have complet- ed not fewer than 75 and not more than 100 quarter units of college work. Final acceptance into the major is based on completion of all prerequisites and breadth requirements within a 100-quarter-unit limit, a GPA of 2.50 or above in major prerequisites, and cumulative GPA of at least 2.70. (Students who have not complet- ed the foreign language breadth requirement, ENGL 001C, or one Social Science course of their breadth requirement, may be accepted into the program, but they must complete the requirement before graduation.) Exceptions to the 100-quarter-unit maximum must be requested by petition.

UCR Students (excluding Pre-Business students) interested in changing major to Business Administration will be admissible to the Business Preparatory (BSPR), (which is not a major in UCR, but a holding group of transfer students who appear to be qualified for ad- mission into business administration, but have some deficiencies which need to be completed before admission into business administra- tion) status only if they can complete their deficiencies in breadth and/or major prerequi- sites within one quarter (the first quarter after admission into Bus-Preparatory).

The same rule will apply to students transfer- ring in from a community college or a four- year school. In the event these students fail to meet this one quarter requirement, they will not be admitted into the BSPR category, and will be advised to find another major at UCR.

Students are encouraged to participate in at least one internship during their junior or senior year. Students interested in international business are encouraged to participate in Education Abroad, which has programs affiliated with more than 150 institutions in 35 countries worldwide. For details, visit Education Abroad at ea.ucr.edu or call (951) 827-4113.

Outstanding academic achievement is recog- nized by the awarding of the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key to a graduating senior. Other awards, presented on an annual basis, include the Bank of America Business Leaders Scholar- ship, Deloitte and Touche Scholarship, Gordon Blunden/Provident Savings Bank Business Scholarship, and the Ernst & Young Scholarship. Graduating seniors are also eligible for the School of Business Award for Academic and Service Excellence, and also the School of Business Concentration Area Awards, which recognizes the student with the best overall performance in each concentration area.

Each Spring, the top 10% of juniors and seniors in the Business Administration program are invited to join Beta Gamma Sigma, the only international honors society recognized by AA- CSB International. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB Iner- national. New Members are recognized by an official induction ceremony led by the Dean of the School of Business in the Spring quarter.

University Requirements

See Undergraduate Studies section.

College Requirements

Students must fulfill all breadth requirements of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences or the Intersegmental General Edu- cation Transfer Curriculum prior to transferring to the UC.

Major Requirements

The following are requirements leading to the B.S. degree in Business Administration. At least 50 percent of business course requirements must be completed at UCR.

Business Administration Major

  • 1. Preparation for Business Administration

major (7 courses [at least 27 units])

Major prerequisites (non-BUS courses may be used to satisfy breadth require- ments for the School of Business):

(1) BUS 010

(2) BUS 020

(3) ECON 002

(4) ECON 003

(5) CS 008

(7) MATH 022

The major requirements for the B.S. in Business Administration are as follows:

  • 2. Upper-division major requirements

(19 courses [at least 77 units])

Core courses (at least 11 courses [at least 44 units]):

ECON 102/ECON 103, BUS 100W, BUS 101, BUS 102, BUS 103, BUS 104/STAT 104, BUS 105, BUS 106/ECON 134, BUS 107, BUS 108, BUS 109

Concentration (At least 20 units): Students in the Business Administration major (BSAD) will be required to declare a concentration at least three quarters prior to graduation, provided they be allowed to change their concentra- tion, if justified. The Office of Undergraduate Business Programs will manage the process. Students can declare one concentration.

Choose five courses from one of the concentrations listed below. Courses completed to meet core requirements may not be used to meet concentration requirements. Accounting and Auditing: BUS 154, BUS 160/ ECON 160, BUS 161, BUS 162/ECON 162, BUS 165A, BUS 165B, BUS 165C, BUS 166, BUS 167, BUS 168A, BUS 168B, BUS 169A, BUS 169B, BUS 170

Business Analytics: BUS 124A, BUS 125, BUS 130, and at least two of the following: BUS 119, BUS 123, BUS 124B, BUS 129, BUS 136, BUS 173

Finance: BUS 132, BUS 134, BUS 136 and at least two of the following: BUS 131, BUS 135, BUS 137, BUS 138, BUS 139, BUS 140E, BUS 141, BUS 142, BUS 147

Information Systems: BUS 110, BUS 125, BUS 128, BUS 163, BUS 171, BUS 172, BUS 173, BUS 174, BUS 175, BUS 179, BUS 198i

Management: BUS 120, BUS 121, BUS 143, BUS 144, BUS 145, BUS 146, BUS 147, BUS 148, BUS 149, BUS 150, BUS 154, BUS 155, BUS 156, BUS 157, ANTH 105/BUS 158, BUS 163, BUS 173, BUS 177

Marketing: BUS 111, BUS 112, BUS 113, BUS 114, BUS 115, BUS 116, BUS 117, BUS 118, BUS 119, BUS 151, BUS 152, BUS 159, BUS 164

Operations and Supply Chain Management: BUS 123, BUS 124A, BUS 124B, BUS 125, BUS 126, BUS 127/STAT 127, BUS 128, BUS 129, BUS 130, BUS 173

An additional 3 courses (at least 12 units) of Business Administration elective courses from BUS 110-BUS 199H, excluding BUS 190. Courses completed to satisfy the five-course concen- tration requirement may not be used to meet this requirement. Related courses outside of Business Administration may be approved to satisfy their requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean or Director of Undergradu- ate Business Programs.

Minor

Students declaring a minor in Business Administration will petition the Undergrad- uate Business Programs Office at least three quarters prior to graduation. That office will publicize the deadlines each quarter to all colleges and major departments.

Prerequisites for the minor in Business Administration are as follows: Three lower-division courses (14 units) (must be completed with no grade lower than “C”): BUS 020, ECON 003, STAT 008

Additionally, students need to complete four upper-division courses as follows, depend- ing on the minor of their choice, the general business minor or any of the eight functional business minors (16 units):

General Business: Four core courses from the following list: BUS 103, BUS 104/STAT 104, BUS 106/ECON 134, BUS 107, BUS 108

Accounting:

  • b) Two additional upper-division Business

Administration accounting courses se- lected from the following: BUS 161, BUS 165B, BUS 165C, BUS 168A, BUS 168B, BUS 169A, BUS 169B, BUS 170 Business Analytics:

  • b) Two additional upper-division business

analytics courses selected from the fol- lowing: BUS 119, BUS 123, BUS 124B, BUS 125, BUS 129, BUS 130, BUS 136, BUS 173

Finance:

  • b) Two additional upper-division Business

Administration finance courses select- ed from the following: BUS 131, BUS 134 (highly recommended), BUS 135, BUS 136 (highly recommended), BUS 137, BUS 138, BUS 139, BUS 140E, BUS 141, BUS 142, BUS 147.

Information Systems:

  • b) Three additional upper-division

Business Administration information systems courses selected from the following: BUS 110, BUS 125, BUS 128, BUS 163, BUS 166, BUS 171, BUS 172, BUS 173, BUS 174, BUS 175, BUS 179

Management: Organizational Behavior/Human Resources:

  • b) Two additional upper-division Business

Administration organizational behavior or human resources courses selected from the following: BUS 121, BUS 143, BUS 144, BUS 145, BUS 149, BUS 156, BUS 157, BUS 177

Management: Strategy and Entrepreneurship:

  • b) Two additional upper-division Business

Administration courses selected from the following: BUS 120, BUS 121, BUS 143, BUS 144, BUS 145, BUS 147, BUS 148, BUS 149, BUS 150, BUS 154, BUS 155, BUS 156, BUS 157, BUS 159, BUS 163, BUS 173

Marketing:

  • b) Three additional upper-division

Business Administration marketing courses selected from the following: BUS 111, BUS 112, BUS 113, BUS 114, BUS 115, BUS 116, BUS 117, BUS 118, BUS 119, BUS 151, BUS 152, BUS 159, BUS 164

Operations and Supply Chain Management:

  • b) Two additional upper-division Business

Administration operations and supply chain management courses selected from the following: BUS 123, BUS 124A (highly recommended), BUS 124B, BUS 125, BUS 126, BUS 127/STAT 127, BUS 128, BUS 129 (highly recommended), BUS 130, BUS 173

Courses