600

For graduate students only. This course engages students to understand how people behave in organizations with an emphasis on building a leader's perspective. Students explore models related to organizational behavior, including motivation, communication, culture, and team building.  Students will also examine leadership concepts, including trust, power, diversity, ethics and their own personal leadership style and potential. Through experiential learning, readings and analyses, students develop an understanding of these concepts and how to utilize  this body of knowledge to inspire others to achieve organizational goals. This class begins with an intensive weekend workshop involving a comprehensive business simulation.

This class will expose you to theories and frameworks that will be useful in developing as a manager and leader. Subject areas that will be covered include working with, managing, and leading people on a one-on-one basis, understanding and influencing group behavior and performance, and organizational characteristics that affect behavior.

For graduate students only. This is the capstone course for the MBA. It focuses on business-unit and corporate-level strategy formulation and implementation. Through readings, case analyses and participation in the Strategic Analysis Program (SAP) field study project involving a local organization, students will apply the ideas, tools, concepts and knowledge gained from previous coursework to real-world problems.

This course develops context for social enterprise and nonprofit strategic planning. It includes a historic overview of the innovative development of nonprofit organizations, a study of the environmental elements in society that affect nonprofit organizations, orientation and success, discussion of the role of boards in planning, the means for developing effective partnerships and a template for strategic planning. The course will include an application-oriented capstone exercise.

This course is the final in the four-week course sequence for the Nonprofit Management and Innovation certificate program. The week has two major segments: leadership and innovation. The leadership portion will help students to identify and assess their leadership potential and evaluate team roles and contributions. The second theme of the week, innovation, is designed to help students formulate an understanding of innovation and social entrepreneurship. The capstone project will tie together the two themes by requiring each group to conduct a feasibility study that identifies an innovative idea and develops an implementation plan that conceptualizes the role of strategic leadership.

This course addresses practical skills for global managers by covering broad management issues as applied to specific skill areas. The latter include establishing credibility, building relationships, obtaining information, evaluating people, giving and receiving feedback, training and development, meeting management, sales and marketing, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Beyond such person-to-person skills, global organization development and consulting skill areas such as multicultural team building, knowledge transfer, innovation, and change management are also covered.

International students must consult with the Office of International Programs. May be used to satisfy practicum requirements.

In our globalized economy, every company is influenced by trends in international business. Even small localized companies must acknowledge that employees, customers, vendors, competitors, and prices are subject to pressures from international markets. This course focuses on business-unit and corporate level strategy formulation in a global context.  Readings, cases, and lectures are presented from a senior management point of view and students are expected to demonstrate a cross-functional perspective for thinking strategically about managing organizations across borders.

This course is designed to give students an opportunity to develop personal familiarity with the global environment and some of the issues faced by global managers. Beyond the social and cultural dimensions that the residency explores, the course will focus on developing an increased understanding of global markets, competition and business opportunities.

A course offered at the discretion of the management department. Subject may focus on a topic of current interest in the field, training in a specific area of the field, or a topic that is of interest to a particular group of students.

For graduate students only.