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Combines theory and practice as it seeks to unravel for students mysteries that cloud perceptions of market activities. Many investors have lost faith in traditional investing philosophies; yet, investing remains an essential activity in a modern productive economy. Even with the recent market turnaround, investors remain uncomfortable returning to former methods. Chipping, a modern investing theory, approaches the market from a new direction and offers investors a new way to invest. Seeks to give students greater personal confidence about the stock market and a better understanding of the market's underpinnings. Students read _Chipping: How to Survive Market Turbulence and Hit a Hole-in-One_ and are assigned the task of developing an investment portfolio in the first ten trading days after the first week's class session.
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Designed to focus on residential real estate investing, especially as a homeowner. In the last decade, the residential real estate market has been the best investment for individual investors. In the Greater Boston metropolitan area, the return on housing has significantly outpaced the national average that brought the median sale price of single-family homes to $415,800 by the third quarter of 2002. Investments made in a personal residential property easily become the largest investment for a household; therefore, investors should understand the process and valuation of residential real estate investing. Introduces the analytical process of investing in the housing market, including the analysis of current market conditions, mortgage financing, and valuation. Offers students a hands-on experience of investing through a simulated investment project.
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Takes two of the best and most-played intellectual board games, chess and Go, and exposes the student to a study of the relationship between intellectual games and business strategy. Using games as a metaphor to study business behavior and business strategy is quite common, though typically done at a superficial level. Provides students with the opportunity to learn how to play Go; to understand its strategic and tactical thinking; and to compare chess, Go, and business strategy. Studies Microsoft's tactics and strategy as viewed from tactical and strategic principles learned from the games.
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Discusses current issues in electronic marketing/ e-business. Explores recent trends such as continuing e-business and Internet marketing activities beyond the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Examines how firms currently use the Internet to improve marketing strategy and enhance customer relationships. Investigates the role of trust in Internet marketing strategies and identifies factors that influence customer perceptions of trust. Presents ways in which trust can be built in e-business relationships with customers and business partners.
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Examines conflicts over control and governance of the corporation from a finance perspective. These conflicts often precipitate dissident shareholder actions such as proxy fights, hostile takeover attempts, and securities litigation, each of which are key concerns of top-level managers. Because stock market prices are critical to understanding virtually all conflicts regarding corporate control, part of this course covers efficient market theory and the assumptions that underlie it. The final part of the course focuses on using principles developed in the first part to analyze issues surrounding actual proxy fights, court cases, hostile takeovers, and current public policy debates. Includes specific issues of current interest: poison pills, dead hand provisions, executive salaries, and binding proxy votes.
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Focuses on a variety of important managerial issues in Latin America. Familiarizes students with economic, cultural, and political issues that are somewhat unique to the countries that comprise Latin America. Emphasizes international strategic maneuvering within Latin America. Geared toward the development of a more in-depth understanding of the issues that international managers face when expanding operations into this part of the world. Specific topics include economic development; cultural and historical perspectives of select countries (probably Chile, Ecuador, and Honduras); corruption patterns; strategies for entering certain markets; the political/legal dimension; and language/dialect differences.
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Traces the evolution of Russia's business conditions from the economic reforms introduced by President Gorbachev in the mid-1980s to those currently being implemented by President Putin. The Russian business landscape underwent dramatic changes during the country's transition from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy. The decade of wild capitalism is over and President Putin's top priorities are economic growth, investment, and entry into the World Trade Organization. Emphasizes the current economic and business environment, including reforms and legislation in taxation, corporate governance, and investment opportunities. Draws course materials primarily from publications on Russian management, including case studies of U.S. and Russian companies, empirical studies of the business environment and managerial decision making, and analyses of the progress in corporate governance and protection of shareholders' right
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Focuses on understanding the nature of conflict, mostly interpersonal conflict, and provides practice in dealing with conflict situations. Conflict is an inevitable,, ubiquitous, and necessary part of organizational life, but there is also much evidence that conflict often produces harmful results. This one-credit course seeks to give students the skills to make sure conflict results in a positive outcome. Given the current business trends toward workforce diversity, globalization, and flatter decentralized organizations, how managers form different organizations and how cultures deal with conflict are increasing predictors of organizational success.
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Uses a one-day crash course format to look at the current state of affairs to understand what is happening in retailing today. Analyzes why some of the age-old leaders are failing, which retailers are succeeding and why, and the impact (or lack thereof) of e-retailing on the industry-and, more important, the lessons e-retailing have taught us. Seeks to give students a clearer and deeper understanding of what it takes to succeed in retailing today and why so many historical retailers seem unable to make the transition. Focuses on marketing orientation and positioning in the marketplace, as opposed to a traditional retail operations focus. Students apply these concepts to a separate retailer, critically assessing this retailer's performance and future potential.
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Explores the challenges associated with planning, organizing, operating, and controlling in a project environment. Projects are unique, onetime occurrences and, as such, require different managerial perspectives. Examines skills and techniques essential to project management. Combines class discussion with hands-on work in the computer lab.
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