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BUSI 605 Culture,
Ethics & Communication
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(Required core course.) Provides an opportunity for student
discussion, debate, and dramatization of topics relating to ethics,
corporate social responsibility, and culture relevant to the current
business environment. Such issues are brought to life through a project
relating to corporate social responsibility, guest speakers, role-plays,
and student-created dramatic performances. |
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BUSI660 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
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Provides an introduction to important tools and skills necessary to create and
grow a successful new venture. Integrates research findings from a range of different
practical and intellectual perspectives, including psychology, sociology, economics,
strategic management, and history into practical, hands on lessons for an entrepreneur.
Class projects provide the foundations for new, real businesses. |
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BUSI661 Creativity for Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
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Examines the concept of creativity as it applies in today's and tomorrow's complex
business environment. An overview of the cognitive foundations of creativity, examines
many of the preconceived notions about creativity in business and discusses multiple
ways in which creativity can help business leaders and entrepreneurs to succeed.
Topics include creativity techniques for groups and individuals, creativity as a
foundation to recognize business opportunities and develop innovative products and
services, selecting ideas and making them stick, mental and organizational obstacles
to creativity as well as an overview of electronic tools to increase creative capability.
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BUSI665 Integration and Teams |
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Provides students with the concepts, frameworks, tools and skills necessary for
thinking and working in an integrative fashion across functional areas of a
business in a team based environment.
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BUSI667 Cross-Cultural Communication and Teamwork
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Provide managers a sound basis for developing such competencies. Specifically,
students develop an understanding of key cultural differences, and how these differences
influence the management of individuals, groups, and organizations |
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BUSI670 (758R-Spring ‘09) Corporate Social
Responsibility and Ethics
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This course examines the various expectations for socially responsible business
conduct. Such expectations include sustainability, stability, and the ethical
and legal expectations of different corporate constituencies. The course
considers the role of individual managers and offers them specific frameworks
and techniques for integrating social responsibilities and more traditional
business concerns into business strategies which provide sustainable competitive
advantages. Specific topics include the expectations of shareholders, employees,
customers and governments as well the relationships between businesses and the
natural environments and communities in which they operate. |
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BUSI673 International Economics for Managers
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Focuses on understanding critical aspects of the global business environment
that influence firm decisions and behavior. Globalization is present in market competition,
capital markets, and managerial talent as evidenced by free trade areas and economic
unions forming, the volatility in global financial markets, and the continued rise
of transnational firms. With globalization, the challenge for firms is to acknowledge,
understand and act when appropriate—to act by sourcing, lobbying, and relocating
value chain activities internationally. |
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BUSI681 Managerial Economics and Public Policy
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Basic microeconomic principles used by firms, including supply and demand, elasticities,
costs, productivity, pricing, market structure and competitive implications of alternative
market structures. Market failures and government intervention. Public policy processes
affecting business operations. |
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BUSI683 Global Economic Environment
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Relationship between national and international economic
environments. Determinants of output, interest rates, prices and
exchange rates. Analysis of effect of economic policies (fiscal,
monetary, trade, tax) on the firm and the economy. |
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BUSI691
Integrative Business Plan Competition |
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Designed to inspire and enable students to develop new business
products, services, processes and management models. Three-person teams
create a business plan to commercialize an innovation and submit the
plan to the MBA business plan competition. The plan can involve creation
of independent ventures or ventures within an established business. s |
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BUSI758R
Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics |
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BUMO758D Social Entrepreneurship
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This course is about using entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative responses
to social problems. Entrepreneurs are particularly good at recognizing opportunities,
exploring innovative approaches, mobilizing resources, managing risks, and building
viable enterprises. These skills are just as valuable in the social sector as they
are in business. Social entrepreneurship applies to both profit and non-profit firms
who have programs designed to create social value. |
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BULM758F Economics of Sustainable Development
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Firms are increasingly confronted by issues of sustainability, whether via demand
side or social pressures, a quest for superior and sustained performance or a need
to comply with regulation. Sustainability issues facing firms are multi-faceted
and, in most cases, without clear strategic solutions. The goal of this course is
to better understand the issues of sustainability in a series of different contexts.
Within each context, we examine the underlying market failures that lead to sub-optimal
social outcomes along with commonly employed economic solutions to these problems.
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