Donald D. Conant, Ph.D., M.B.A.

             

School of Business

 
  Business Administration  
  BA350, BA435  
     
  MBA Program  
  MBA605, MBA610, MBA630  
     
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Here you will find information about the courses Dr. Conant teaches in the School of Business at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington

 
     
     
   
     
  Jon, Jez (Josh's wife), Josh, Emi, Don  
     
  Dr. Conant has a PhD in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He has taught at Saint Martin's University since 2003. He is the General Manager of a local steel products manufacturing company while serving as visiting assistant professor to the School of Business.

Prior to coming to Saint Martin's Dr. Conant worked for 10 years in Europe in both the profit and non-profit sectors. He was an adjunct lecturer for eight of those years at what is now a college of the Free University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Conant serves as a member of the Worker Retraining and Advisory Committee at Centralia College. He is a member of the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange Board, the Executive Committee of the Association of Washington Businesses (AWB), the Board of Directors of the AWB, and serves as chairperson of the AWB Health Care Reform Committee.

He teaches the following courses at Saint Martin's.

 
     
 
BA 350 Business and Society (3)
Students gain an understanding of the interrelationships between business decisions and society's goals.
 
BA 435 Corporate Finance (3)
Develops analytical and decision-making skills in analyzing and solving complex financial problems facing organizations.
 
MBA 605 Advanced Quantitative Systems for Management (3)
This course covers concepts of statistical decision theory, sampling, forecasting, linear programming and other stochastic and deterministic models applied to managerial problems.
 
MBA 610 Seminar in Research Methods (3)
This course provides detailed instruction regarding the preparation of the proposal for the master's thesis or project.
 
MBA 630  Entrepreneurship (3)
This course provides a framework for understanding human and organizational issues underlying creative and entrepreneurial success..