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3.00 Credits
Examines opportunities and risks firms face in today's global market. Provides conceptual tools for analyzing how governments and social institutions influence economic competition among firms embedded in different national settings. Public policies and institutions that shape competitive outcomes are examined through cases and analytical readings on different companies and industries operating in both developed and emerging markets.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Provides an integrated approach to understand and analyze the economies and global status of China and India. Focuses both on their similarities and what makes them unique, using a learning model heavily based on class discussions and participation. A select group of students will have the opportunity to travel to China and India where they will undertake lab projects, such as creating business plans or other deliverables for their host companies. 15.012 and 15.223 highly recommended.
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4.00 Credits
Examines innovation in public policy, technology and business models that enable massive-scale improvements in energy efficiency. Explores how they help balance energy supply and demand and prevent unmanageable, irreversible climate change. Students apply analytic methods and design tools to assess strategies to enable energy efficiency. Particular focus on opportunities in US homes and buildings created by utility funding models, carbon cap-and-trade, energy-saving building codes, appliance standards, and green community practices. Limited to 25.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Advanced seminar in the study of international management. Covers major theoretical work and approaches to empirical research in the fields of national business systems and globalization, linking them to the core frameworks of strategy and organization theory. Restricted to doctoral students.
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3.00 Credits
Managerial power and responsibility. Examines conflicts between power and moral responsibility and the contexts for choice in dealing with a number of such problems. Readings are principally "classics" used to illustrate several enduring issues. Restricted to Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.
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3.00 Credits
Explores how we use story to articulate ethical norms. The syllabus consists of short fiction, novels, plays, feature films and some non-fiction. Major topics include leadership and authority, professionalism, the universality of ethical standards, and social enterprise, as well as questions of gender, cultural and individual identity, the balance of family and work life, and the relation of science to ethics. Readings include work by Robert Bolt, Michael Frayn, Timothy Mo, Wole Soyinka, H.D.Thoreau, and others; films include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hotel Rwanda, Motorcycle Diaries, Three Kings, and others. Draws on various professions and national cultures, and is run as a series of moderated discussions, with students centrally engaged in the teaching process.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to ethics in business, with a focus on business management. Over thirteen sessions, students explore theoretical concepts in business ethics, and cases representing the challenges they will likely face as managers. Opportunity to work with guest faculty as well as business and other professional practitioners. Individual sessions take the form of moderated discussion, with occasional short lectures from instructor.
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Group study of current topics related to communication.
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3.00 Credits
Required seminar for Management Science majors to develop the writing, speaking, teamwork, and interpersonal communication skills necessary for managers. Students learn communication principles, strategies, and methods through discussions, exercises, examples, and cases. Assignments include writing memos and business letters, and giving oral presentations in labs outside of class. A major project is the production of a team report and presentation on a topic of interest to a managerial audience. Priority given to Course 15 students.
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