Program Design

The M.Sc. program in Management is designed to produce graduates who have an academically more in-depth, rigorous training in their chosen management field than is normally the case either for B. Comm. (Hons.) graduates or MBA graduates from most typical North American MBA programs. In addition, the program seeks to develop strong research skills for the graduates in order to meet the needs of employers as well as to more effectively prepare Master's students for doctoral work.

Students will spend at least the first year of their program in full-time residence. During this time, they will acquire substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in their chosen area of specialization and supporting area through graduate course work in the Asper School of Business and in related faculties in the University.

The program offers specialization in the areas of:

• Marketing
• Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Theory, Human Resource Management, Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Small Business
• Supply Chain Management
• Actuarial Mathematics

Degree Requirements

Students will be required to complete 18 credit hours plus a thesis/practicum . This minimum will include:

• At least 6 credit hours of required graduate-level courses in area of specialization;
• Up to 12 credit hours of optional courses (subject to the approval of the Asper School Graduate Research Programs Committee);
• Thesis/practicum.
• There will be no foreign language requirement for this program.

Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Theory, Human Resource Management, Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Requirements:

1. Either of the Ph.D. GMGT 7740 Organizational Theory or Ph.D. GMGT 7410 Organizational Behaviour seminars (these are offered in alternate years) (3 credit hours)
2. GMGT 7540 Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods or the MBA course GMGT 7080 Research Methods course, or an equivalent graduate level course in quantitative methods from another faculty (general graduate level methods courses are offered annually in Nursing, Social Work, Psychology, and Sociology - see Graduate Program Office for a listing of these courses) (3 credit hours)
3. Optional (additional), but encouraged: a second research methods course (quantitative or qualitative -- Nursing, Social Work, Psychology and Sociology offer qualitative methods on an annual basis -- see Graduate Program Office for a listing of these courses), or either a statistics or econometrics course.
4. Optional (additional), but encouraged: the Ph.D. philosophy of science course PHDM 7110 Doctoral Seminar in Management (offered in alternate years) or a related course of advanced theory in philosophy, sociology, psychology, or economics, preferably with a philosophy of science content (Sociology and Psychology offer these at the graduate level annually; Economics offers a six credit hour honours course annually -- see Graduate Program Office for a listing of these courses ).
5. Two optional (additional) courses, subject to approval (must be of direct relevance to chosen area of specialization, from within or outside of the Faculty -- see Graduate Program Office for a listing of these courses)
6. Master's thesis.

Faculty members currently supervising MSc students in Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Theory, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy are:

Dr. Hari Bapuji
Dr. Sue Bruning
Dr. Parshotam Dass
Dr. Nathan Greidanus
Dr. Sandy Hershcovis
Dr. Nick Turner
Dr. Zhenyu Wu

Marketing

Requirements:

1. Required: any six credit hours from the following:
   1. MKT 7100 Readings in Marketing  (3 credit hours);
   2. MKT 7110 Doctoral Seminar in Marketing  (3 credit hours);
   3. MKT 7120 Ph.D. Seminar in Buyer Behaviour  (3 credit hours) or
   4. MKT 7230 Seminar in Consumer Behaviour  (3 credit hours).
2. Required: six credit hours of research methods coursework (quantitative or qualitative – graduate level coursework is available at Asper, and in Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology -- see Graduate Program Office for a listing of these courses). One of these courses should provide a breadth of methods and techniques and the other should involve statistical analyses.
3. Additional six credit hours subject to approval (must be of direct relevance to chosen area of specialization, from within or outside of the Faculty -- see Graduate Program Office for a listing of these courses)
4. Master's thesis.

Dr. Namita Bhatnagar
Dr. Ed Bruning
Dr. Fang Wan
Dr. Kelley Main

Supply Chain Management

Requirements:

1. Minimum of 18 credit hours - at least six credits must be at the 7000 level 
2. Nine credit hours consisting of SCM 7010 Advanced Seminar in Supply Chain Management,GMGT 7080 Research Methods, and OPM 6090 Production Management. 
3. Nine credit hours of additional courses, subject to the approval of the student's advisor and relevant to the chosen area of specialization, drawn from MBA courses and elective courses from Agribusiness, Civil Engineering, Geography, etc... 
4. Master's thesis.

Faculty members currently supervising MSc students in Supply Chain Management are:

Dr. Paul Larson
Dr. Barry Prentice

Actuarial Mathematics

Requirements:

At least 6 credit hours will be required from:
1) ACT 7540-Advanced Topics in Actuarial Mathematics
2) ACT 7300 -Seminar in Actuarial Science (new course – see enclosed course introduction)
3) ACT 7100 Actuarial Practice I (new course – see enclosed course introduction)
4) ACT 7200 Actuarial Practice II (new course – see enclosed course introduction)

And up to 12 credit hours of courses will be required from the following options:

1) ACT 7050 Readings in Quantitative Methods
2) STAT7310 Research Tools for Statistics
3) ABIZ 7410 Risk Management
4) FIN 6072 Corporate Finance
5) other 7000 level courses relevant to the Actuarial Mathematics specialization (eg. Finance, Investments, etc…), subject to the approval of the student’s advisory committee

A thesis is also required in this stream.

Faculty members involved in supervising MSc students in Actuarial Mathematics are:

Dr. Jeffrey Pai
Dr. Rui Zhou - rui.zhou@ad.umanitoba.ca
Dr. Xuemiao (Samuel) Hao
Dr. Lysa Porth - lysa.porth@ad.umanitoba.ca
Dr. Xikui Wang - xikui_wang@umanitoba.ca
Dr. Milton Boyd - milton.boyd@ad.umanitoba.ca