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4.00 Credits
SMG LA 245. Takes a closer look at the legal issues surrounding businesses, from purchasing contracts, rights and responsibilities for breaches of those contracts, commercial financing, the Uniform Commercial Code, bankruptcy, products liability, real estate and more. The emphasis is on understanding legal issues as a component of good business planning. Group work to draft contracts and leases and negotiate terms. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
consent of instructor. 2 cr or 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
SMG FE 323, SMG IS 323, SMG MK 323, SMG OM 323, senior standing. This course provides students with a powerful set of tools which will prepare them to analyze, formulate, and implement business unit and corporate-level strategy with the aim of attaining sustainable competitive advantage. MG 422 adopts the perspective of the general manager, challenging student knowledge in each functional area in the effort to create integrative strategies that serve the needs of shareholders, as well as other stakeholders inside and outside the company. The course includes conceptual readings, which elucidate the fundamental concepts and frameworks of strategic management, as well as case analyses, which enable students to apply their knowledge to real-world situations and managerial decisions. The class culminates with a final project, which requires student teams to perform a complete strategic analysis on a public company, considering its industry environment and dynamics, its strategic positioning and internal resources, and proposing a course of action for the firm to respond to its strategic challenges. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
SMG FE 323, SMG IS 323, SMG MK 323, SMG OM 323 (offered in London). This course aims to present an understanding of those changing political, economic, legal, and labor environments. It will raise key questions and issues facing European businesses today and those wishing to do business in the European "single market;" account for and evaluate some of the strategic and operational responses to Europe's evolving environment, including the Euro; the development of a European central bank (ECB), bank for reconstruction and development (EBRD), other institutions and a prototyp e "Constitutio n;" and the expansion of the membership of the EU, looking towards eastern and southern Europe. Case studies and site visits will serve to highlight both similar and different cultural norms and economic orientations between Europe and the USA. 4
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4.00 Credits
SMG FE 323, SMG IS 323, SMG MK 323, SMG OM 323, and senior standing. Required for Entrepreneurship concentrators. Addresses the specifics of planning a business startup or expanding and altering an existing small business, including the feasibility of ideas, market definition, management, and operations and financing requirements. This is a hands-on, experiential learning course requiring integration of previous coursework into a coherent, realistic business plan. Helps students assess and develop their own particular idea and to consider the appropriateness for them of entrepreneurship as a career choice. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
SMG FE 323, SMG IS 323, SMG MK 323, SMG OM 323. Required for Entrepreneurship concentrators. Designed to help students understand the intricacies of running a small company. The course addresses the major problem areas in smaller companies, including valuation, negotiation, deal structure, personnel and compensation, and marketing and financing. Exposes students to a wide range of business activities, emphasizing significant differences between large and small enterprises. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
SMG FE 323, SMG IS 323, SMG MK 323, SMG OM 323. Explores the opportunities and challenges confronting established enterprises as they seek to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation. This spirit is particularly important in an increasingly dynamic business climate, as these enterprises strive to implement new technologies and take advantage of global opportunities. The course will also focus on issues of implementation in large firms, including the tradeoffs associated with modifying practices that have been effective historically, but may not be best suited to new initiatives. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
SMG AC 222 and SMG OB 221. This course will introduce students to the structure, scope, and scale of the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and the inter-relationship of the nonprofit, business, and government sectors. We will investigate the major nonprofit sub-sectors such as health, education, arts, environment, religious institutions, international nongovernmental organizations, social services, and philanthropic organizations (such as foundations). Following this overview we will narrow our focus to the specific application of management topics in the sector including effective board governance, executive leadership, human resources management (including the management of volunteers), operations, resource development (fundraising), marketing, and nonprofit financial management. Class format combines lectures, case studies, student projects, guest speakers from the field, and discussion. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
SMG FE 323, SMG IS 323, SMG MK 323, SMG OM 323. This class builds upon the core course in strategic management by considering the special strategic implications of competing in high-technology environments. The course examines winner-take-all industries in which firms compete fiercely to have their product chosen as the dominant standard, and industries where success is determined not only by a product's features and price, but also by the availability of complementary products and well-chosen alliances. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
SMG FE 323, SMG IS 323, SMG MK 323, SMG OM 323. This course is designed for students who may at some point be interested in pursuing managerial careers in the international entrepreneurial sector, and covers the development of skills to identify, evaluate, start, and manage ventures that are international in scope. Over the course of the semester, the class will ?ravel to more than fifteen countries on five continents, and analyze operations at each stage of the entrepreneurial process. The course will cover market entry, forming alliances, negotiations, managing growth and cross-border financing. Support from local governments, and the cultural, ethical, legal, and human resource issues facing the entrepreneur will also be touched upon. 4 cr.
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