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Undergraduate Management Courses:
Management 100 Leadership & Communication in
Groups Management 101 Introduction to Management
Management 104 Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
Management 111 Multinational Management
Management 205 Multinational Corporate Strategies
Management 208 Globalization and International Political Economy
Management 209 The Political
Environment of the Multinational Firm
Management 211 Competitive Strategy
Management
212X Societal Wealth Venturing
Management 214 Market
Dynamics and Technical Change
Management 223 Business Strategy and Policy
Management 225X American Business History
Management 230 Entrepreneurship
Management 231 Entrepreneurship & Venture Initiation
Management 233 Strategies & Practices of
Family-Controlled Companies Management 234 International Comparative Management
Management 235 Technological Innovation &
Entrepreneurship
Management 237 Management of Technology
Management 238 Organizational Behavior
Management 239 Organization Design
Management 240 Group Dynamics
Management 242 Corporate Governance
Management 244 Personnel Management
Management 247 The Law at Work: Employment Law for Managers
Management 249 Corporate Development: Mergers and Acquisitions
Management 251 Consulting to Growth Companies
Management 253 Creating, Managing and Presenting the Arts
Management 255 Community Reinvestment
Management 264 Venture Capital & Entrepreneurial Management
Management 282 Strategic Implementation
Management 288 Governance and Management of Chinese Firms
Management 291 Negotiations
Management 353,
Wharton Field Challenge
To view most current syllabus or the syllabus of a
specific instructor, please see the
Course
Schedule.
Undergraduate
Management Major Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Prerequisites: None
Description: As a Wharton undergraduate,
you are in a position to become a future business leader. Management 100 is
designed to increase your understanding of leadership and communication in teams
and to help you build skills that are necessary for professional success. You
will study literature on leadership, management communication, and group
dynamics and also complete a field project, an integral part of the course. Your
field project provides the context in which you will develop as a leader,
practice communication skills, learn about the nature of group work, and enhance
your sensitivity to community issues. Management 100 will enrich your Wharton
experience by providing many opportunities for interaction with peers, advanced,
students, alumni, faculty, and the community.
Format: Lectures, team meetings, and
breakouts. The teaching method is highly interactive and experiential; students
participate in simulations, discussions, and roleplays.
Requirements: Students will complete a
field project, contribute to class discussion, engage in several reflective
writing assignments, and deliver project team presentations.
Link to
Wharton Leadership Ventures.
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course addresses
contemporary management challenges stemming from changing organizational
structures, complex environmental conditions, new technological developments and
increasingly diverse workforces. It highlights critical management issues
involved in planning, organizing, controlling and leading an organization This
course will help you understand some of the issues involved in both managing and
being managed and equip you to become more effective contributors to
organizations that you join. The course is targeted to underclassmen and is a
prerequisite for most management courses.
Format: The course will cover several
topics in management, organization and strategy. Each topic will span one or two
weeks. Topics will include combinations of the following areas: organizational
structure, organizational culture, strategy, interorganizational relationships,
job design, groups, reward systems, work force composition, power and politics,
social responsibility, organizational change, organizational decision-making,
business history. The professor will cover an overview of the topic with
frameworks and examples in the lecture and the teaching assistant will lead a
case discussion that integrates these frameworks in the recitation.
Requirements: Midterm and final
examinations, written assignments, group write-up and associated oral
presentations, and class participation.
Link to Mgmt 101 Permit Policy

Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: The focus of Management 104
is the economic and institutional constraints on organizations in the
formulation and implementation of human resources management policies and
strategies in the United States and, as appropriate, internationally. The
specific constraints discussed are labor markets (external and internal), labor
laws (governing employment policies and employee relations), and labor unions. Particular attention is paid to the relationship of
these constraints to the competitiveness of American enterprise in the global
economy.
Format: Varies (see instructor).
Requirements: Class attendance, midterm
and final examinations, and written reports as designated by individual
instructors.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: Multinational management is
the study of the international corporation and the global political and economic
environment. This course provides an introduction to the more advanced
offerings. It covers the historical origins of the multinational corporation,
the economics of trade, investment in the world economy, and the policies and
behavior of governments and international organizations. We place considerable
emphasis in understanding the national and historic origins of the international
firm, as well as on current issues regarding emerging economies and shifts in
the political economy of global markets..
Format: A combination of lectures, cases,
and discussions of readings.

Prerequisites: MGMT 100, MGMT 101 & MGMT
111.
Description: This course focuses on the
creation of competitive advantage in the multinational firm. It examines the
nature of global competition by exploring the characteristics of global versus
non-global industries and firms. We also explore different types of
international strategy and structure and examine the specific challenges of
managing in multiple countries and markets. Finally, we consider the strategic
allocation of resources along the value chain and the role of strategic
alliances as a crucial element of an effective global strategy.
Format: Lectures and case discussion.
MGMT 208, Globalization and
International Political Economy
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description:
Globalization and International Political Economy is an upper
level undergraduate course designed to provide the
background necessary to understand globalization and the changes taking place in
the international political-economy. The course objective is to help students
develop a conceptual framework that will provide an understanding of the current
international political-economic environment, provide a basis for thinking about
the fundamental changes which are now taking place, and to build a solid
foundation to which new material can be added throughout the students' careers.
Format: Class discussions will be
interactive and structured to encourage maximum student participation.
Requirements: Take home mid-term exam, a final course paper of 10-15 pages
and two shorter (1-2 page papers) dealing with the
readings for the day. Participation will be
important and count for a non-trivial portion of the grade.

Prerequisites: For Wharton students: MGMT
100, MGMT 101 & MGMT 111 (recommended); For College students: A familiarity with
international political economy.
Description: This course explores the
intersection of international strategy and international relations to help
students to identify and introduce sustainable and profitable business
strategies in sectors with a history of or strong potential for ongoing
political intervention. We will examine the identity, background, incentives and
operations of relevant national and international political actors; and the
process by which they generate policies that can adversely or favorably
influence firm profitability. Corporations whose success depends crucially on a
sophisticated analysis of the contending forces in the geopolitical arena and an
ability to influence policy outcomes will serve as examples of the first-order
strategic importance of incorporating the political environment in multinational
strategy formulation.
Requirements: Several short case write-ups,
midterm exam and final project. Class participation is critical.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101; some
knowledge of microeconomics is suggested.
Description: This is an advanced course in
competitive strategy. The course will apply the tools of industrial organization
economics and game theory to examine the strategic decisions that managers make.
We will examine those decisions concerning pricing, capacity investment,
advertising, new product introductions, and research and development. Emphasis
will be placed on the strategic interaction among rival sellers. In particular
we will look at the various methods of entry deterrence and strategic
commitment. The course will attempt to integrate traditional economic models
with case study materials.
Format: The course will be discussion- oriented and based largely on case materials and mini-lectures.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 100 & MGMT 101; Junior or Senior standing recommended.
Description:
The basic thesis of this course is that many societal problems, if attacked entrepreneurially,
create opportunities for launching businesses that simultaneously generate profits and alleviate
the societal problem. This approach generates societal wealth as well as entrepreneurial wealth.
The course is distinguished from public sector initiatives to address social problems, and also
from "social entrepreneurship" programs where social wealth creation is a by-product rather than
the target of the entrepreneurial effort. Student teams are expected to develop a plan to launch
a societal wealth generating business. The preference is for them to begin the course with already
conceived ideas for entrepreneurial solutions to social problems. They may also join a team to work
on a project proposed by a student who already has a business idea.
Format and Requirements: Lecture, classroom participation, live case studies
(presentations of students' own work), interim assignments, and final business plan.
Special Note: MGMT230 and MGMT212x apply a common theoretical framework to businesses with differing
value propositions; therefore, students should not plan a course of study to include both courses.
MGMT 214, Market
Dynamics and Technical
Change
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101; Students need to have taken
a first college course in economics. Knowledge of multivariate calculus and of
basic linear algebra is helpful but not essential.
Description: This course applies tools of
economic analysis to develop an understanding of the processes of economic
change in a market system. It examines the role of business firms as creators of
economically valuable knowledge, and the relationships between firms and their
market environments. Explicit attention to the dynamics of these relationships
is a distinctive feature of the course. The intention is to give the student a
good feel for “how the system works,” i.e., for the key issues and shaping
mechanisms in a market system undergoing change. Among the specific topics are
linear programming analysis of the firm, organizational knowledge, industry
evolution, information economics, and capturing the gains from innovation. The
course emphasizes quantitative understanding and uses computer simulation and
optimization techniques to promote that understanding. MGMT 214 is designed
primarily for students who are not economics majors. It is not appropriate as
the exclusive preparation in intermediate microeconomics for an economics
major, or for any student who intends to do further work in economic theory at
more advanced levels. There is definitely an overlap in content with other
courses in intermediate microeconomics, or managerial economics. Nevertheless,
the treatment is sufficiently distinctive to make it complementary to those
other treatments for a student who is particularly interested economic change,
or is otherwise interested in acquiring a broader view of economics.
Format: Lectures and class
discussions, with study questions and small exercises playing an
organizing role in the latter.

Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101;
seniors and juniors that have completed introductory courses in finance,
marketing, and accounting.
Description: This course encourages
students to analyze the problems of managing the total enterprise in the
domestic and international setting. The focus is on the competitive strategy of
the firm, examining issues central to its long- and short-term competitive
position. Students act in the roles of key decision-makers or their advisors and
solve problems related to the development or maintenance of the competitive
advantage of the firm in a given market. The first module of the course develops
an understanding of key strategic frameworks using theoretical readings and
case-based discussions. Students will learn concepts and tools for analyzing the
competitive environment, strategic position and firm-specific capabilities in
order to understand the sources of a firm's competitive advantage. In addition,
students will address corporate strategy issues such as the economic logic and
administrative challenges associated with diversification choices about
horizontal and vertical integration. The second module will be conducted as a
multi-session, computer-based simulation in which students will have the
opportunity to apply the concepts and tools from module 1 to make strategic
decisions. The goal of the course is for students to develop an analytic tool
kit for understanding strategic issues and to enrich their appreciation for the
thought processes essential to incisive strategic analysis. This course offers
students the opportunity to develop a general management perspective by
combining their knowledge of specific functional areas with an appreciation for
the requirements posed by the need to integrate all functions into a coherent
whole. Students will develop skills in structuring and solving complex business
problems.
Format: Discussions and lectures.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: This course examines how the
kind of firms in which most Wharton students will spend the next stage of their
careers came to be as they are today. At a superficial level, the course's
objectives are descriptive and narrative. Its deeper purpose is to give students
some idea of how to think about the future evolution of firms and industries.
The course will discuss the historical development of the business enterprise as
an institution. It will also cover the evolution of competition and strategy and
of corporate finance. The focus will be on American developments, since many of
the innovations took place here; but there is scope for comparison with
institutions in Japan and the leading European economies if there is student
interest. The course will certainly consider issues arising in a number of
different management disciplines and show off their interrelationships.
Format: Readings will be predominantly
cases and other primary-source materials. We may also make use of slide shows
and videos. Occasional sessions will of necessity be lectures, but the
instructor intends that the main teaching format be case-type discussion. The
general pedagogical approach is to put the student into the position of great
business decision-makers of the past. We try to assess, in class, whether the
decisions the made were reasonable and sound given the information and
opportunities they had and where, in hindsight, wisdom actually lay.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 100 & MGMT 101; Completion of all Business Fundamental courses and second semester sophomore standing.
Ideally, you will also have mastered the concepts of Business Policy.
Description: MGMT 230 integrates the
material introduced in core courses and applies it to the design and evaluation
of new ventures. The purpose of this course is to explore the many dimensions of
new venture creation and growth and to foster innovation and new business
formations in independent and corporate settings. The course addresses both a
theoretical perspective on venture initiation and the application of writing an
actual business plan.
Format:
In this course you are asked to get out of the habit of being a receiver of ideas, facts,
concepts and techniques, and get into the habit of generating ideas, identifying problems,
analyzing and evaluating alternatives and formulating workable action plans, thus putting
textbook knowledge into practice. Students will get this hands-on experience in the following
ways: a) Through the formation and ongoing work of venture teams that will design a comprehensive
business development plan for a particular start-up company. Teams are expected to utilize the
tools and analytical approaches discussed in class to their venture. b) Through lectures and
class discussions that are designed to familiarize students with the many dimensions of
entrepreneurship and new venture initiation. Class format varies throughout the course:
in some class sessions, there will be a lecture on specific topics; other sessions will
consist of case discussions of a particular topic or a discussion of the business concepts
that students are developing. Guest speakers also lead and participate in some class sessions.
Requirements:
Team term project to create a full business plan for a new venture. There
will be a number of individual and team assignments. Class participation
constitutes a significant part of the overall grade.
Materials: Required coursepack and
recommended supplemental textbooks.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 100 & MGMT 101; Junior or Senior standing recommended
.
Description:
This course is designed for those persons who desire to understand the distinct strategies and practices of family-controlled
companies and family wealth management. It will focus on shareholder decision making; financial and market
driven options for long-run competitiveness, organizational structures and management team issues; strategic
planning from a resource-based perspective; transition planning for the corporate entity, wealth, leadership
and relationships; family dynamics and communication issues; and leadership empowerment. The course in intended
for those who plan to consult or provide professional services to family-controlled companies and for those
planning a career in a family firm.
Format:
The class is structured around topical lectures with frequent utilization of case studies requiring active
participation in class discussions, as well as on-site and off-site project work time, submission
of several written case studies, and a term research project.
Requirements: Participation in class case
discussions, written case assignments and term project.
Materials: Required text, coursepack
and supplemental recommended reading.
Prerequisites: Wharton students: MGMT 100
& MGMT 101, familiarity with topics in MGMT
111; SAS/Engineering students: Coursework in comparative and international
politics and economics.
Description: This is essentially a course
in comparative national environments for business and how aspects of these
environments impact on the firm. The course examines a number of institutions
and phenomena in various countries. Issues range from language, religion, gender
and ethnicity to legal systems, financial markets and corporate governance. The
lectures draw on ideas from history, geography, sociology, political science and
economics to inform our analyses. The lectures and cases range over both
developed market economies and emerging economies.
Format: The format of the course is
lecture with case discussion, group and individual short papers and quizzes on
the readings.

Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101; open
to juniors and seniors in Engineering, Applied Science, and Wharton; others only
with special permission. All students must receive instructor's permission.
Description: The focus of this course is
on analysis of the issues and options which must be faced in developing a new
technological venture. Particular attention is directed to the identification of
technology-based venture opportunities, evaluation of technical feasibility and
commercial potential, and planning for successful commercialization.
Format: Course work includes lectures,
case discussions, and group projects.
Requirements: Case studies, two projects
and a final presentation.
Materials: Required text and coursepack.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101;
limited to Management and Technology students.
Description: This course examines the
innovative process within technology-based organizations and the range of
internal and external forces which impact on technological innovation and
growth. Emphasis is placed on managerial initiatives which can influence the
nature and rate of technological development. Technological innovation and
change, technology forecasting and assessment, R&D management, technical
planning and organizational models are among the topics to be considered.
Format: In addition to lectures and case
sessions, guest speakers from industry will discuss technology and innovation
management issues.
Requirements: Written case
analysis, two research projects and class participation.

Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: Management 238 is the
standard undergraduate course in organizational behavior. The course deals
essentially with the management of people at work. It examines the individual
employee in his organizational environment, as well as the organization itself.
Topics range from motivation, leadership, groups all the way to organization
structure, culture, human resources and organizational change. The course
develops some themes in which these topics become relevant – for example, the
networking organization and diversity at the workplace.
Format: The emphasis of the course will be
on understanding and diagnosing management problems and management requirements of formal
organizations and social movements, and applying leadership concepts to the
management of large organizations.
Requirements: Students should expect to
conduct a group project involving actual field work and might be asked to give a
presentation in class.
Materials:
Required readings and a coursepack.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description:
We are born
in and spend much of our lives in organizations. From families to schools to
athletic teams and jobs, organizations play a central role in our experience.
And this is especially so as we pursue careers. Few of us have the luxury of
working as a lone artist unfettered by an organization’s demands and
restrictions. At times we are grateful to organizations for their services and
protection. At other times we hate them being unfeeling and inflexible
bureaucracies. In this course we shall examine how organizations are structured
with a particular emphasis on businesses and not-for profit organizations for
which most of us will work. How can they be structured so that they are
effective and efficient? And how can we personally survive in them when they
are less than we might want?
Format:
This course
covers specific activities typically associated with the practice of P/HRM:
staffing, the assurance of equal employment opportunity, compensation and
employee relations. The final section of the course comprises customized
readings and programs for study based on student interest. These modules include
interactions with practitioners where possible.
Materials: Coursepack.

Description: This
course is designed to develop students' skills in
effectively designing, leading and consulting to teams in
organizations. This will be a highly interactive course with emphasis on
class participation and experiential learning. One of the goals of this
course is to
provide both the conceptual
understanding and the behavioral skills required to implement
strategies. To this end, class sessions will make use of a variety of
approaches to teaching and learning, including the case method,
simulation exercises and lectures. We will cover topics such as leading
groups, group formation and socialization, diversity, creativity, group
problem solving and decision making, conflict and knowledge sharing.
Students will leave this class with knowledge of how to most effectively
lead a team as well as how to be an effective team member. [NOTE:
Instructors may have different objectives for this course. Please see
individual instructors' syllabi for further clarification.]
Description:
How firms are controlled? Who actually runs the corporation – and to what ends?
Depending on who you talked to, you might think that firms were run by three different groups of people:
their investors; their senior managers; and their boards of directors. Each of these groups has an
important role to play in setting the goals and managing the performance of the firm. This course
explores those roles, and their implications for firm behavior. By examining these questions, we understand:
- The tools available to investors to protect their interests. While we might often assume that firms exist to serve shareholders, that isn’t always the case. We will examine the theory and practice about the kinds of rights investors have to protect their holdings. Understanding these rights is critical to professional investors, be they fund managers or venture capitalists.
- How critical decisions are made - such as hiring and firing CEOs or selling the firm. These decisions often trigger significant conflicts among the interests of major decision-makers. We understand the roles that each of them play in determining the fate of the firm.
- The legal rights and responsibilities of shareholders, directors and managers. Recent years have seen many cases of individuals ignoring their responsibilities – and paying the price. We detail the accountability of each of the participants to the firm.
- The role of corporations in society.
[See
LGST
208]
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: This course explores the role
of mergers and acquisitions and alternative methods of corporate development in
advancing the strategies of operating business. Emphasis is on the way companies
use acquisitions to alter business mixes; seize opportunities in new products,
technologies and markets; enhance competitive positioning; adjust to changing
economics, and promote value-creating growth. Although the course will emphasize
strategic acquisitions, it also will explore leveraged buy-outs and hostile
financial acquisitions as well as their influence on corporate buyers.
Format: The course covers the entire range
of the M&A process – from the decision to acquire through selection of targets,
pricing, valuation, and post-merger integration among other areas. It also
examines major external influences such as the mergers and acquisitions market
(the market for corporate control), macro-economic drivers of acquisitions,
taxes, and regulatory factors.
Requirements: The evaluation of students'
work will be based on participation in team exercises, classroom participation,
and a final paper.

Prerequisites: MGMT 100 &
MGMT 101; Junior or Senior standing
recommended.
Description:
This course offers students a unique opportunity to develop consulting skills and entrepreneurial expertise by
working as consultants to thriving entrepreneurial ventures in the Philadelphia area.
This capstone course combines both fieldwork and class work and allows students to apply knowledge
and skills acquired through other course work to real world issues that must be addressed by
operating companies. An understanding of characteristics producing rapid entrepreneurial
growth and skills related to effective communication and management of a business relationship are emphasized.
Format: Team term consulting assignment,
lectures, case analyses, and small group discussions.
Requirements:
Case reports, analyses, and discussions.
Materials:
Articles, cases and other
readings.
MGMT 253, Creating, Managing and
Presenting the Arts

[Cross-listed with THAR 280]
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: A study of the creation and
presentation of art (e.g., theater, film, music, dance, painting and sculpture),
the cultural context of creativity and the management of individual and
institutional performance and exhibition. A combination of lectures by
instructors and practitioners, case studies and consulting projects with local
institutions will illustrate the relationship between creativity and
presentation.
Requirements: Papers, proposal, term
project.

MGMT 255, Community
Reinvestment
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101,
course in Finance strongly recommended.
Description:
This course is about business
and economic development in lower income, and often economically distressed,
high-risk locations in urban, metropolitan areas. It is also about public
policies, programs, and public/private partnerships that can best support
investment and entrepreneurship in such areas. This course will give students an
overview of economic inequality in urban settings, and the opportunity to think
about such areas in a new way -- as a potential, promising location for a
successful business start-up, acquisition, joint venture, investment, or
expansion. The course will discuss how to promote investment entrepreneurial
actions, and creative development in communities that have experienced
structural dislocation, long term stagnation, and chronic underperformance,
economic deterioration, and under investment. This course offers an opportunity
to develop and practice consulting skills, and to complete a research project,
or an internship with a local community development organization. You will have
the opportunity to produce findings and recommendations that can be implemented,
and might make a lasting, tangible difference in growth of jobs and income in
distressed urban areas. The tools we study can be applied to many situations
where there is chronic under investment or disinvestment, such as manufacturing
facilities leaving a community with no businesses to replace them.
Format:
See instructor.
Requirements: See instructor.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101; Junior or Senior standing
recommended.
Description:
This course focuses on venture capital management issues in the context of a high-growth potential start-up company.
The course is motivated by rapid increases in both the supply of and demand for private equity over the past two decades.
The topic is addressed from two distinct perspectives: issues that relate to the demand for private equity and
venture capital (the entrepreneur’s perspective) on the one hand, and issues that relate to the supply of
capital (the investor’s perspective) on the other. As well, we will address management issues that relate
to how the VC and the entrepreneur work together once an investment has been made, compensation issues and
governance issues in the privately held venture capital backed companyFormat: Case/discussion format,
supplemented by lectures and guest speakers.
Materials:
Required coursepack and
supplemental recommended reading.

Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: This course is directed
toward the attainment of three interdependent objectives: 1) to develop an
understanding of strategy implementation in complex organizations, 2) to
understand how organizational planning, design, control, and human resource
decisions are interdependent and critical to successful implementation, and 3)
to develop a sensitivity to the "realities" of strategy implementation in
"real-world" organizations. Consideration of theories of implementation is not
sufficient; it is necessary also to see strategy implementation as a process of
change that, to be successful, must take a number of factors into consideration.
These include how decisions affect individuals in organizations and their
consequent commitment to implementation efforts. To meet these objectives,
emphasis will be on lectures, class discussions, and case studies as the
instructional techniques.
Format: Lectures will both focus on, and
act as supplements to, the required readings. Cases will be used where
appropriate to provide real-world applications of the theories presented or to
integrate a number of important variables in an analysis of strategy
implementation in an organization.
Requirements: Participation in class
discussion, final exam and case assignments.
Materials: Coursepack.
MGMT 288,
Governance and Management of Chinese Firms
[Cross-listed with MGMT 788]
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: This course provides an
examination of some of the largest business firms in the Peoples Republic of
China, acquainting students with the governance and management (both management
structure and management teams) of some of the largest and best known Chinese
firms. Students will also become acquainted with the capabilities and
liabilities of Chinese firms and their strategic options. Tools needed to assess
the investment potential of Chinese firms will be provided, and students will
have an opportunity to do original research on issues of governance and
management of Chinese firms.
Requirements: Participation in class
discussion, reaction papers and a group report.
Materials: Case studies and other
materials.

MGMT 291, Negotiations
[Cross-listed with LGST 206 /
OPIM 291]
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 & MGMT 101.
Description: This course includes not only
conflict resolution but techniques which help manage and even encourage the
valuable aspects of conflict. The central issues of this course deal with
understanding the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations in conflict
management situations. The purpose of this course is to understand the theory
and processes of negotiations as it is practiced in a variety of settings. The
course is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of problems that are
faced by the manager and professional including management of multinationals,
ethical issues and alternative dispute resolutions.
Format: Negotiation exercises, lectures
and
class discussions.
Requirements: Class participation, group
project, individual projects.
Prerequisites:
Application process - Junior or Senior status with a minimum
of 3.0 GPA.
Description: This
1 c.u. course is unique since there are no classroom
meetings, all meetings are held in the professor's office in
small groups of 4 to 6. Student teams work with faculty and
host managers to construct innovative solutions to real-time
issues. Solutions are integrative and cross-functional in
nature. The course encourages creative thinking and uses
cutting-edge ideas like game theory, measuring changes to
brand equity, and non-market cap equity indexing. An
emphasis is placed on teaching students how to frame
unstructured business so as to convince others.
Format ::
Teams (4-6 members) meet with faculty on a weekly basis (30
- 45 minutes). There
will also be 3- 5 meetings with Host managers. In addition
to meeting with their Faculty Head, students are given
access to "area of expertise" faculty. These faculty
members are chosen based on their prime research areas.
Students are given access to the most up-to-date models and
information.
Requirements:
Weekly
team meetings with faculty project head and a final
PowerPoint report and presentation.
Materials:
None.

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