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  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores the process by which regulations are formulated at the various levels of government and their impact on business: the regulation of prices, industry concentration and monopoly, safety, environment, energy, and consumer rights. Emphasizes particular industries: transportation, communication, energy, health care, and finance. The overriding objective is to enhance the ability of managers to respond to and deal with government regulation, which today significantly affects virtually every aspect of business.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Retired August 31, 2006. Teaches core principles of business management in the context of the biotechnology industry. Topics include innovation management; intellectual property; strategic entrepreneurship and business planning; capital formation and corporate finance; government regulation; general management; marketing; and mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. Teaches each area as it exists in the unique context of the biotechnology industry. Exposes students to a broad spectrum of business concepts and issues that are common to biotechnology companies and helps create a greater understanding of and appreciation for the business and legal aspects of science, technology, and research in the biotechnology context.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Teaches core principles of business management in the context of the biotechnology industry. Topics include innovation management; intellectual property; strategic entrepreneurship and business planning; capital formation and corporate finance; government regulation; general management; marketing; and mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. Teaches each area as it exists in the unique context of the biotechnology industry. Exposes students to a broad spectrum of business concepts and issues that are common to biotechnology companies and helps create a greater understanding of and appreciation for the business and legal aspects of science, technology, and research in the biotechnology context.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on the leadership role in strategic implementation-usually the most time-consuming and difficult part of the strategic process, requiring leadership from every level of management. Emphasizes how to motivate people to achieve objectives, develop the right culture, enhance core competencies, and create the right structure to support the strategy, ultimately insuring that all elements of the organization are operating to support the strategy implementation process.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines the evolution of the U.S. health-care delivery system from early forms of organized institutional care through the current dynamic and increasingly integrated and managed care systems. Introduces students to the interactions of regulatory, economic, political, and social aspects of the health-care system. Compares current policies and proposals for health reform. Students are asked to analyze the impact and consequences of actions in one era on the structure and function of health-care practice in later years and to project these trends into the future.
  • 3.00 Credits

    xamines how health-care organizations manage their resources and competitive environment to meet the goals of their many stakeholders. Applies three essential elements of strategic decision making- environmental analysis, strategic formulation, and strategy implementation-to the health-care industry.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines how health-care organizations manage their resources and competitive environment to meet the goals of their many stakeholders. Encourages students, through a combination of cases, readings, and project work, to apply three essential elements of strategic decision making-environmental analysis, strategy formation, and strategy implementation-to the health-care industry. Places special emphasis on comparing the health-care industry to other leading industries; identifying specific management tools, activities, and methods from other industries; and applying them to health care. Also emphasizes the impact that creative and effective leadership may have in facilitating strategic and operational changes in health-care delivery.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to the real and complex problems of management and systems change. Student teams work under the supervision of a faculty coordinator, physician-executives, and other administrative personnel on a project designed to further the mission of the specific sponsoring health-care organization. Teams are asked to define and analyze a complex problem in the sponsoring organization with the goal of recommending desired management actions. Successful projects incorporate a detailed understanding of key clinical, economic, social, political, competitive, technological, and organizational variables that impact the project's domain. Includes instruction on project management techniques and communication skills relevant to health-care industry executives while serving as an introductory practice-based educational model consistent with the goals of effective medical and business school learning.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Offers course topics that vary with instructor, with typical issues being current strategic and managerial problems of high-technology industries, the evolution of new industries, such as biotechnology and health care, government regulation as it affects business, the shaping of public policy and its impacts on industry, and a focus on current topics as shaped by the instructor's research interests and writing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on building distinctive new products that can be manufactured at a cost advantage. Examines innovation in software and services. Students are challenged to think (out of the box), to conceive and design products and services that make obsolete the way their own company and its competitors currently do business.
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