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Andrew E. Honeycutt, DBA
President, Anaheim University
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Dr. Andrew E. Honeycutt, President of Anaheim University, is the recipient of a Harvard University Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree in Marketing and a Boston University Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Organizational Behavior. Dr. Honeycutt has served as Dean of the School of Business and Management and Director of the Economic Research and Development Center at the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Dean of the College of Business and Technology of Argosy Univ...
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Dean, Akio Morita School of Business
Dr. Robert Robertson holds a Ph.D. in Management and Organization (Stirling University, Scotland); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy, Post-Doctoral Professional Certificate, International Business and Leadership (Argosy University); Post Graduate Diploma in International Management-China (University of London); Master of Studies in Law (Vermont Law School); Master of Public Administration (Dalhousie University, Canada); a Master of Arts (Eastern Kentucky University) and a Bachelor of Science (East Tennesse...
Learn MoreKwok Shum, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Akio Morita School of Business
Director, Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute
Professor
After earning a Stanford University Master of Science in Engineering degree, Dr. Kwok Shum received his Ph.D. in Management of Technology from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Dr. Shum’s research and teaching interests lie in new technologies, renewable energy industry and deployment, the business of renewable energy and clean technologies. Dr. Shum has taught at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and conducted workshops for the Clinton Foundation’s C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Hong Kong Baptist University. He has served as a Reviewer for...
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Holding a George Washington University MS in Structural Engineering and a University of Sao Paolo Ph.D. in Sciences and Technology, Dr. Carlos Tasso Eira De Aquino is an accomplished senior executive and educator combining over 25 years of experience in leadership and scholarship in Business, Education, IT, and Engineering. In his executive career, he has been strategically building, managing and guiding diverse teams to solve complex, systemic problems. As an educator, he has taught, developed and supervised, and published relevant research and scholarship. In that area, he is adept at dev...
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Professor
Dr. E. Vince Carter is a Professor at the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business and Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute. Vince’s teaching approach develops learning blueprints to align structured Green Marketing skills with creative knowledge discovery. This dialectical dynamic embraces the spirit of Kisho Kurokawa’s design philosophy of symbiosis for The Age of Life. Dr. Carter is a nationally recognized marketing educator, as well as an experienced researcher, consultant, and community volunteer. After graduating with Dean’s List Honors from the Columbia Business School MBA program...
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Professor
Dr. Robert Diotalevi, Esq., LL.M., is serving in his 17th year as Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. He was the founding Legal Studies Program coordinator. He has been a lawyer for 33 years as a member of the Massachusetts and Florida bars. He possesses 4 degrees and has been internationally published with over 80 manuscripts in print. In 2009 Dr. Diotalevi had a book published by Cengage. It is entitled “The Florida Paralegal.” As an academician since 1985 he has instructed over 400 courses. Dr. Diotalevi was a professional broadca...
Learn MoreMariah Jeffery, Ph.D., CSCP
Professor
Dr. Mariah Jeffery holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and is an APICS Certified Supply Chain Practitioner. She has extensive industry experience, consulting on supply chain management and data analytics for Fortune 500 clients, including IBM, Coca-Cola, General Motors, and the United States Postal Service. Dr. Jeffery has expertise in decision analysis, inventory management, predictive analytics, supply chain management and design, logistics, data analytics, operational research and forecasting, stat...
Learn MoreTamara Myatt, Ph.D.
Professor
Holding a Ph.D. and Masters in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University, Tamara Myatt has spent more than a decade transforming the professional and educational lives of young and disadvantaged people in some of the poorest and most dangerous regions of the world, championing the causes of women, and orchestrating locally and globally scaled initiatives in the business sphere. The specialized focus of her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development was in in women’s entrepreneurship in regions of war. She is currently pursuing advanced studies/research in entrepr...
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Chris Raymond, Ph.D.
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Dr. Christopher Raymond earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later completed an international MBA from École National des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France. After earning his MBA, Dr. Raymond became an economics lecturer in the Management School at Imperial College, London. While there, he also served as Deputy Director of their Executive MBA program.
In 1996, after five years in London, Dr. Raymond moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked as a senior financial analyst and chief economist. In 2009, Dr. Raymond left the private sector and returned to academics, first in Thailand, and later in Cambodia. Dr. Raymond has been at the American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) since 2015, teaching courses in finance, accounting, economics and statistics.
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Professor
With both a Ph.D. and MBA in Strategy, Enterprise & Innovation from the University of Portsmouth, Dr. Stavros Sindakis has made significant contributions to these fields through his research and publications on entrepreneurship and business innovation including his books Entrepreneurial Rise in Southeast Asia, and Analytics, Innovation and Excellence-Driven Enterprise Sustainability, with his third in progress. Dr. Stavros Sindakis is an educator, advisor, mentor and innovator in the fields of business innovation, management, entrepreneurship, and service design and development. As an educator, he has taught in several different countries at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and held a variety of advisory and mentoring positions for students and faculty at numerous schools including the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs and Laureate Online Education.
Learn MoreBarbara Son, Ph.D.
Professor
Holding a Ph.D. in Urban Business Economics from Portland State University, and a Masters in Urban Affairs with a concentration in Technology, Business, Economics, and Public Administration from Boston University, Dr. Barbara Son is well-experienced in the field of online education and has taught global management at Boeing in Long Beach, DBA at University of Sarasota/Argosy University, MBA at Pepperdine University, operations management at California State University, Northridge, and entrepreneurship and economics at California State University, Los Angeles, as well as served as a site rev...
Learn MoreJohn Wang, Ph.D.
Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Professor
Dr. John Wang is Chair of the Anaheim University Institutional Review Board and a Professor for the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business. He received a scholarship award to complete his Ph.D. in Business Administration at Temple University in 1990, after earning his M.S. in Systems Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. In addition to his roles at the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business, Dr. John Wang is a professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at Montclair State University. Dr. Wang received his tenure in 1997 and was promoted...
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President Emeritus
Professor
Dr. Hartley's background is a combination of education, private sector work, teaching and consulting. Holding a bachelor's degree, three master's degrees, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, University of California at Berkeley and University of Wisconsin respectively, Dr. Hartley has had a variety of jobs from administrative manager of the R&D division of a Fortune 500 company to the executive training program of Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, in addition to owning and operating an art gallery. Dr. Hartley has had an extensive career in higher education, teaching in...
Learn MoreCaryn Callahan, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Holding a Harvard University Ph.D. in East Asian Languages in Civilizations with a specialization in Japan and an MBA specializing in Finance-Accounting from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Caryn Callahan is a former Vice President and International Equity Analyst for Merrill Lynch Japan as well as Financial Analyst for W.R. Grace & Co.. A professor of Anaheim University's Akio Morita School of Business, Dr. Callahan has also taught courses in Corporate Finance, International Business, Organizational Behavior, and Management at Chaminade University in Hawaii. Dr. Ca...
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Overview
About the Online Diploma in Sustainable Management
- Each term is 6 weeks in length, and you may enroll in new courses every 6 weeks.
- Learn to be fiscally, socially and environmentally responsible
- Complete 4 specialized courses in Sustainable Management:
- Sustainable Enterprise Development and Leadership
- Triple Bottom Line Accountability and Management
- Green Marketing and Environmental Product Design/Recycling
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics
- Choose 2 elective courses:
- International Marketing
- International Management
- International Human Resource Management
- International Accounting
- International Finance
- International Economics
Objectives
Upon completion of the Diploma in Sustainable Management program, students will be able to:
Conduct a detailed literature review in sustainability using relevant bibliographical resources from print and online resources;- Explain current conceptual and theoretical trends, issues and concerns in the field of sustainability;
- Describe current research issues and concerns in the field of sustainability;
- Discuss significant research findings in the field of sustainability;
- Master analytical tools for decision making in a complex business world of issues and problems pertaining to sustainability;
- Discuss with an in-depth understanding the functional fields of business and their interrelationships incomplex organizations as they deal with issues of sustainability;
- Identify the skills of leadership, teamwork and supervision necessary to move organizations into a decision-making framework necessary to deal with organizations impact on a variety of ecosystems;
- Demonstrate effective oral and written communication, presentation, and critical thinking skills necessary to convey the importance of sustainability to various stakeholders;
- Use technology as a tool in the effective management of organizational resources;
- Use applied quantitative and behavioral tools of business analysis and decision-making to understandan organization s impact on a variety of ecosystems;
- Describe the ethical considerations in decision-making within the business world as they pertain to thenecessity of developing sustainable operations;
- Devise and implement appropriate strategies for their own ongoing professional development in the fieldof sustainable management.
Curriculum
Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute Online Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Management
The AU Online Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Management is comprised of 6 intensive 6-week courses. Complete 4 specialized courses and 2 elective courses. The program can be completed in 36 weeks from anywhere in the world.
| Specialized Courses | ||
| BUS 535 | Triple Bottom Line Accountability and Management | 3 units |
| BUS 545 | Green Marketing and Environmental Product Design / Recycling | 3 units |
| BUS 555 | Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics | 3 units |
| BUS 565 | Sustainable Enterprise Development and Leadership | 3 units |
| Elective Course (Choose 2 International Business courses) | ||
| BUS 510 | International Economics | 3 units |
| BUS 520 | International Human Resource Mgmt | 3 units |
| BUS 530 | International Accounting | 3 units |
| BUS 540 | International Marketing | 3 units |
| BUS 550 | International Management | 3 units |
| BUS 560 | International Finance | 3 units |
| TOTAL UNITS | 18 units | |
Course Schedule
Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Management Course Schedule
Live online webcam seminars are 120 minutes; the first hour is led by an expert speaker and the final hour is for professor-led discussion. All times are California/Pacific Time. Please note the schedule is subject to change.
Graduate Diploma students complete 4 sustainable management courses and 2 elective courses.
All online class times are California/Pacific Time. Please note that California observes Daylight Savings Time each year from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
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Tuition & Fees
Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Management Program Fees
Affordable Pay-As-You-Learn System: Pay for only one course at a time.
| Application and Registration Fees | |
|---|---|
| Application Fee (Non-refundable after 7 days) |
$ 75 |
| Registration Fee (Non-refundable after 7 days) |
$100 |
| STRF Fee* (non-refundable, CA residents only) | $0 |
| Per Course Fees | |
| Tuition Fee ($375 per credit x three credits) |
$1,125/course taken |
| Records Fee | $ 200 / term |
| Per Course Fee Total: | $1,325 |
| Additional Fees | |
| Estimated Textbook Fees | $ 400 |
| Transfer Credit Fee | $ 75/course (Optional) |
| Original Transcript | No cost |
| Each Additional Transcript Copy | $ 25 |
| End of Program Fees | |
| Replacement Diploma | $ 200 (Optional) |
| Replacement Cover | $ 100 (Optional) |
| Course Completion Letter | $ 35 (optional) |
| Diploma Program Total | $8,525* |
Note: A student can plan on approximately $400 in textbook purchases during the program. A textbook list may be found in the online resources of the student website. Real-time classes do not require specific materials beyond what is already supplied for the course.
**Assumes completion in six terms.
The above itemizes all of the fees and charges for which the student is responsible. The refund policy may be found in the Policies & Procedures section.
*Student Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF): The Student Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF) is administered by the California BPPE and applies only to California residents. The STRF fee is currently zero ($0) per one thousand dollars ($1,000) of institutional charges The State of California established the Student Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF) to relieve or mitigate economic loss suffered by a student in an educational program at a qualifying institution, who is or was a California resident while enrolled or was enrolled in a residency program, if the student enrolled in the institution, prepaid tuition, and suffered an economic loss. Unless relieved of the obligation to do so, you must pay the state-imposed assessment for the STRF, or it must be paid on your behalf, if you are a student in an educational program, who is a California resident, or are enrolled in a residency program, and prepay all or part of your tuition. You are not eligible for protection from the STRF and you are not required to pay the STRF assessment, if you are not a California resident, or are not enrolled in a residency program.
Each course is US$1,125 for tuition excluding books, materials, and other costs listed above. Students must pay the required tuition fee prior to commencing their next course. The student is not required to pay this tuition fee until the student wishes to register for his or her next course.
Tuition may be paid on a course-by-course basis.
Students interested in inquiring about non-interest-bearing monthly payment plan options should e-mail registrar @ anaheim.edu
Students may make payment by check, credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover), money order, or bank transfer (the student is responsible for any transactions fees imposed by the institution).
Please e-mail registrar @ anaheim.edu for information on how to make payments.
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Meet the Experts
Meet Marketing Expert Philip Kotler
Meet Hideo Morita, Son of Sony Founder Akio Morita
Meet Nissan/Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn
Meet BodyGlove Co-Founder Bob Meistrell
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Where Graduates Work
Anaheim University MBA students and graduates are speaking the Global Business Language of multinational companies:
| 3M | Enterprise Florida | National Basketball Association (NBA) |
| Accenture | Ericsson | Nissan |
| Accrediting Bureau of Health Education | Exxon Mobil | Nokia Siemens |
| Agfa-Gevaert | Fidelity Investments | Nokia Technologies |
| All Nippon Airways (ANA) | Fujitsu | Nomura Research Institute |
| Asahi Newspaper | Fujitsu Semiconductor | Nomura Securities |
| Audi | GE Consumer Finance | Novartis Pharma |
| Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) | GE Healthcare | Oracle |
| Bank of Japan | Goldman Sachs | Pacific Gas and Electric Company |
| Barclay’s Investment Bank | Hewlett-Packard | Pearson Publishing |
| Bayer Medical | Hitachi | Pioneer Corporation |
| BearingPoint | HMV | Quintiles |
| Beckman Coulter | Hokkaido Prefectural Government | Rakuten |
| Bosch Rexroth Corporation | Honda Electron | Recruit |
| British Airways | Hyatt Hotels | Samsung Electronics |
| British Telecom | IBM | Sanofi Aventis |
| Canon | Intel | SAP |
| Cisco Systems | KDDI | Schlumberger |
| Citigroup | Kirin Brewery Company | Seiko Epson |
| City of Atlanta | Kubota Corporation | Shinsei Bank |
| Cox Communications | Kyocera-Maruzen | Siemens Healthcare |
| Daiichi Sankyo | LaCoste & Aigle Japan | SMBC Trust Bank |
| DB Schenker | Lenovo | Southern California Edison |
| Dell | Macmillan Publishing | Sony |
| Deutsche Bank | Marubeni | Sony Mobile Communications |
| Deutsche Securities | McDonald's | Stahl Thyssenkrupp |
| Dow Chemical | Mercedes Benz Finance | Sumitomo Corporation |
| Dow Jones Intl. | Merrill Lynch | ThermoFisher Scientific |
| Dun & Bradstreet | Michelin | Toyota |
| EDS | Microsoft | UBS |
| Embassy of Australia | Mitsubishi Electric | Unisys |
| Embassy of Canada | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Volkswagen Investment Co. |
| Embassy of Haiti | Mitsui Chemicals | Water Corporation |
| Embassy of the Philippines | Morgan Stanley | Zurich Insurance Company |
| Embassy of Zimbabwe |
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Entrance Requirements
An application for a Sustainable Management Diploma must include the following:
- Application form
- Application fee ($75)
- One recent color photograph (digital is okay)
- A scan of a current, government-issued photo ID
- Current resume
- Official undergraduate transcripts from an accredited institution recognized by the US Department of Education and/or CHEA, or by the government of the country in which the degree was awarded, in a sealed envelope from the awarding institution with an overall GPA of no less than 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or equivalent from non-USA Institutions.
( Note: If the university does not routinely issue transcripts in English, original language records must be submitted with official English translations. We will accept translations issued by the university or by the following professional translation services: Accredited Language Services; Berlitz; Liaison Linguistics; Josef Silny & Associates; American Evaluation & Translation Services (AETS); and Education Evaluators International. Translations must be exact and complete versions of the original records.)
Non-native English speakers must demonstrate college-level proficiency by providing original documentation in one of the following ways:
- Degree from an accredited institution where English is the primary language of instruction.
- Transcript from an accredited institution indicating completion of at least 30 semester hours of credit where the language of instruction was English (“B” average)
- Transcript from an accredited institution indicating a “B” or higher in an English composition class.
- A minimum TOEFL score of 530 PBT / 197 CBT/ 71 iBT.
- A minimum TOEIC score of 800.
- A minimum IELTS score of 6.5.
- A minimum PTE (Pearson Test of English Academic Score Report) of 50.
- A minimum BULATS Level 3 (60), accepted only for Cultura Inglesa in Brazil.
- A minimum grade of Level 3 on the ACT COMPASS’s English as a Second Language Placement Test.
- A minimum grade of Pre-1 on the Eiken English Proficiency Exam.
- A minimum B2 English proficiency level identified within the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) Standards and assessed through various ESOL examinations, including the University of Cambridge.
Once your application materials have been approved, you will need to submit an Enrollment Agreement and tuition payment to complete the enrollment process.
Internet Access: All students are required to have access to a computer equipped with Internet access capabilities.
Entrance Examination: There is no entrance examination required for admission to Anaheim University.
Transfer Credits: Anaheim University will accept up to two graduate semester classes or 6 units awarded by another institution toward a Masters in Entrepreneurship; International MBA, Diploma or Certificate; and Sustainable Management MBA, Diploma or Certificate at Anaheim University. The entering student will be required to clearly demonstrate the equivalency of a transfer course through relevant documents (syllabus, catalog, course outline) and justify its acceptance through petition. No course will be considered for transfer with a grade lower than a “B” or its equivalent. Petitions are directed to the specific Dean for the affected program. There is a fee of $75 per course of credit transferred, and the overall program cost will be adjusted to reflect credit for the approved class(es). All petitions for transfer credit must be submitted as part of the student’s initial application to the University. Credits awarded as part of another degree will not be accepted for transfer.
Prior Experiential Credit: Anaheim University will not extend experiential credit to any student.
We currently do not accept students who reside in Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, American Samoa, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Guam, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, N. Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Wisconsin, and Wyoming due to regulatory matters. For more information, please call our Vice President of Administrative Affairs at 714-772-3330
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The steps below are general guidelines for joining a program at Anaheim University. Just complete the following steps and, if approved, become part of Anaheim University's global community within 2 weeks.
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