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3.00 Credits
Technologies and concepts for next generation knowledge management and web e-business, including semantic web and web services. Business applications for use in the next two to seven years, including: e-commerce, marketing, finance, trust/security, health/biomedical, mobile. Strategic impacts and entrepreneurial opportunities. Core skills for identifying and evaluating technologies and their business potential, and for managing innovative IT-dependent projects. Overall emphasis on business process automation and e-services.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Examines the evolution from Web 2.0, with its emphasis on interactivity through online collaboration and sharing among users (primarily through social networking sites, wikis and communication tools), to Web 3.0, which focuses on high proactivity, transforming the Web into a database, and the leveraging of artificial intelligence technologies, such as the Semantic Web. Introduces Management 3.0 and the range of new Web technologies, applications, and business opportunities and challenges that it supports. Includes case studies, industry and academic speakers, discussion of basic principles, and a team project.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of the underlying economics of information with management implications. Studies effects of digitization and technology on industry, organizational structure, and business strategy. Examines pricing, bundling, and versioning of digital goods, including music, video, software, and communication services. Considers the managerial implications of social networks, search, targeted advertising, personalization, privacy, network externalities, open source, and alliances. Discusses key principles. Includes case studies, industry speakers, and a team project.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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6.00 Credits
Addresses key sustainability challenges faced by business and society. Explores alternative ways to view organizations that draw attention to cross-boundary interdependencies and help leaders at all levels develop their capacity to collaborate for systemic change. Develops skills to help students surface and reflect on mental models and practices that keep organizations stuck in unproductive system dynamics. Weaves together theory, experiential practices, assignments, guest speakers, and an immersive project experience that focuses on systems change.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Designed to help students understand how top performing firms use information technology (IT) to distinguish themselves from their competitors. Explores how firms manage, use, and invest in IT to execute and define business strategy in a digital economy. Includes case studies about firms using IT to enhance competitiveness, with executives from these firms responding to student observations. Student teams work on consulting projects for companies, such as Bank of America, ExxonMobil, PepsiCo, and State Street.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Builds upon relevant economic theories and methodologies to analyze the changes in organizations and markets enabled by IT, especially the internet. Typical perspectives examined include industrial organization and competitive behavior, price theory, information economics, intangible asset valuation, consumer behavior, search and choice, auctions and mechanism design, transactions cost economics and incomplete contracts theory, and design of empirical studies. Extensive reading and discussion of research literature aimed at exploring the application of these theories to business issues and challenges raised by the internet and related technologies. Primarily for doctoral students.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Examines the assumptions, concepts, theories, and methodologies that inform research into the social aspects of information technology. Extensive reading and discussion of research literature aimed at exploring micro, group, and macro level social phenomena surrounding the development, implementation, use and implications of information technology in organizations. Primarily for doctoral students.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Explores critical issues of communications and connectivity of global and internet-based information systems from strategic, technical, and organizational perspectives. Strategic connectivity: globalization and integration of information, competitive forces, interlinked value chains. Physical connectivity: protocols and technologies of local-area and wide-area, and internet communications networks. Logical connectivity: distributed databases, data extraction from web sites, semantic web, semantic reconciliation among heterogeneous sources. Organizational connectivity: loosely coupled organizations, development of standards, motivating strategic alliances.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
Presentations by faculty, doctoral students, and guest speakers of ongoing research relating to current issues in digitization, technology and the changing economics of work, as well as discussions of key research papers in the field. Specific topics determined by the interest of participants and by new and important directions in digitization, information technology and information economics. Background readings, regular assignments and active participation by students expected. Preference to doctoral students.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
One of three alternative courses (15.615, 15.616, and 15.617) each designed to provide managers with the solid foundation in business law needed to exercise judgment and leadership when confronting a broad range of complex law-sensitive issues. Topics vary from year to year but typically include organizing a new company, venture capital, contracts, liability, employment, intellectual property, business disputes, managerial and corporate crime, taking a company public, selling a business, and bankruptcy and reorganization. Focuses on US law but includes comparisons to other systems.
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Prereq: None
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