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1.00 Credits
Exposes students to the business rationale for using agile principles. Discusses the philosophies and culture that need to beincorporated into the agile business. Presents the core foundation of agility and a model for developing an agile business.
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Examines the question of whether multinational companies who discover, develop, patent, and market medicines to treat AIDS have a legal, ethical, or business obligation to make those drugs affordable for sick and dying people in Africa and other developing countries. Includes concepts of fiduciary duty, stakeholders, and corporate social responsibility in the framework.
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1.50 Credits
Explores the current economic and financial crisis by examining the numerous and complex interdependencies that exist in the world's economies. Focuses on the market forces and outcomes that arise from decisions by individuals, businesses, and governments, with emphasis on the role of finance. History provides an extensive list of market and institutional failures-financial and otherwise-from which, through better understanding, we emerge stronger and more successful. With this in mind, together we will have an opportunity to analyze where we are, how we got here, and where we may be headed
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ocuses on one of the answers to why some organizations are more effective than others-organization design. Addresses what the components of an organization are (e.g., the work, the structure, the reward system, the renewal systems, etc.); some of the design choices of each component; and the impact of organizational design on organizational effectiveness. Uses a variety of instructional techniques, including small-group discussion, case studies, videos, and lecture /discussion, and is highly interactive.
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1.00 Credits
Provides an overview of both the pervasiveness and the causes of fraud/white-collar crime in our society; examines the types of fraud and fraud schemes that affect business enterprises; explores methods of fraud detection, investigation, and prevention; and helps increase one's ability to recognize potential fraud and develop a "fraud-risk-management" philosophy. Fraud and abuse can be categorized into employee fraud (misappropriation of assets) and management fraud (fraudulent financial reporting). Occupational fraud and abuse cost U.S. organizations an estimated $400 billion annually. The average organization loses more than $9 a day per employee. Approximately 6 percent of total annual revenue of businesses is lost to employee fraud alone. Although employee fraud occurs more often, management fraud is four times more costly. Recent corporate scandals support these statistics
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1.00 Credits
Focuses on current international business ethics topics and ethical decision making with an eye toward the global business arena. Includes both theoretical and practical approaches that should facilitate a deeper understanding of the moral issues that managers face today. Covers moral philosophy perspectives, the legal dimension, ethical issues in business, developing an effective ethics program (and a code of ethics), and international and cross-cultural business ethics. Emphasizes recent research findings and salient examples from industry in order to create a current and colorful view of the state of business ethics. Discusses and debates controversial issues, such as insider trading and child labor, from a variety of perspectives.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2004; replaced by CBA G252. Combines two approaches to help students develop skills in cross-cultural management-short stories from around the world paired with readings in international management. Doing business internationally requires a broad set of managerial skills and a clear understanding of other cultures. Using the instructor's edited book, _Management Across Cultures: Insights from Fiction and Practice,_ as a text, topics covered include culture shock, repatriation, the meaning of work and personal values, power and authority, and building an international team. Uses the management readings as an analytical framework to discuss the stories.
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1.00 Credits
Looks at e-business and the new economy after the dot-com crash. The idea of the "new economy" is being promoted widely but few people know clearly what is meant, how much (or little) empirical support there is for this notion, or what it means in practical business terms. This course covers the following subjects: the new economy and how much empirical support there is for it; the dot-com crash; the essentials of e-business; the e-business experience-what works and what doesn't; the e-economics of the new economy; impacts on business in the futur
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1.00 Credits
Explores current industry best practices in conducting quantitative surveys using the Internet. The Internet has transformed how marketing research is conducted and reported and offers the promise of better, faster, and cheaper collection and delivery of survey data and findings. Includes an overview of the online research market, best practices in online research, and online reporting and analysis.
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1.00 Credits
Offers practical insights on how to predict two important economic and financial variables; namely, exchange rates and stock market indices. Discusses the latest findings from specialist academic journals, which form the underpinnings of the different forecasting techniques. Examines exchange rates and stock markets separately and considers different approaches to forecasting these variables. Pays particular attention to the developments in these markets in the late 1990s and implications of these for forecasting equity returns.
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