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Course Criteria
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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 most subjects covered in 15.615, some at a quicker pace, with extra attention to the legal frameworks of transnational business, cutting-edge technologies and products, and restructuring and repositioning major corporations. May appeal to students interested in strategic management and consulting.
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Prereq: None
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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 most subjects covered in 15.615, some at a quicker pace, with extra attention to mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and private equity, the regulation of financial service providers, and legal risks associated with innovative financial products and services. May appeal to students interested in finance.
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Prereq: None
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2.00 Credits
Introductory examination of the US law of intellectual property, with emphasis on patents and copyrights, and a brief look at trademarks and trade secrets. Includes comparisons of what can and cannot be protected, what rights the owner does and does not obtain, and how these rights come into being. Highlights issues relating to information technology, biogenetic materials, and business methods. Readings include judicial opinions and statutory material. No listeners.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the relationship between law and technological change, and the ways in which law, economics, and technological change shape public policy. Areas addressed include how law can be used to influence and guide technological change; responses of the legal system to environmental, safety, social and ethical problems created by new or existing technology; how law and markets interact to limit or encourage technological development; and how law can affect the distribution of wealth and social justice. Topics covered include genetic engineering; telecommunications; industrial automation; the effect of health, safety, and environmental regulation on technological innovation; the impacts of intellectual property law on innovation and equity; pharmaceuticals; nanotechnology; cost/benefit analysis as a decision tool; public participation in governmental decisions affecting science and technology; and law and economics as competing paradigms to encourage sustainability. Open to freshmen and sophomores with permission of instructor.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
The Schumpeterian notion of technological innovation as "the engine of growth" is being challenged as the globalization of trade is increasingly seen as the driving force of industrial economies. With the establishment of the World Trade Organization implementing the GATT, NAFTA, and other trading regimes, serious questions have been raised concerning the effects of global trade on sustainability, which must be viewed broadly to include not only a healthy economic base, but also a sound environment, stable employment, adequate purchasing power, distributional equity, national self-reliance, and maintenance of cultural integrity. Subject explores the many dimensions of sustainability and the use of national, multinational, and international political and legal mechanisms to further sustainable development. Open to freshmen and sophomores with permission of instructor.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Design and execution of human resource management strategies. Two central themes: How to think systematically and strategically about aspects of managing the organization's human assets, and what really needs to be done to implement these policies and to achieve competitive advantage. Adopts the perspective of a general manager and addresses human resource topics (including reward systems, performance management, high-performance human resource systems, training and development, recruitment, retention, equal employment opportunity laws, work-force diversity, and union-management relationships) from a strategic perspective.
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Prereq: 15.311
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4.00 Credits
Discusses how work, careers, and organizations are changing and the leadership skills required of professionals in contemporary organizations and society. Topics include the changing nature of work and careers, the role of knowledge in organizations and the economy, work-family integration, negotiations and conflict management, teamwork, leadership, and the management of diversity. Classes involve simulations, cases and negotiation exercises. Students develop a personal leadership and career development plan and work in teams to conduct an action-research project on campus related to one of the subject's topics.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Provides understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings. Designed for relevance to the broad spectrum of bargaining problems faced by the manager and professional. Allows students an opportunity to develop negotiation skills experientially and to understand negotiation in useful analytical frameworks. Emphasizes simulations, exercises, role playing, and cases. Undergraduates may register for this subject provided they are ready to participate with the intensity expected for a grad H-level subject
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Presents negotiation theory - strategies and styles - within an employment context. Special emphasis on sources of power in negotiation. Covers conflict management as a first party and as a third party (third-party skills include helping others deal directly with their conflicts, mediation, investigation, arbitration, and helping the system itself to change as a result of a dispute). Special cases include abrasiveness, dangerousness, racism, sexism, whistleblowing, and ethics. Simulations of difficult situations such as cross-cultural mentoring and an emergency. One double class. Requires a commitment to attend all classes. Undergraduates may register for this subject provided they are ready to participate with the intensity expected for a grad H-level subject.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Examines the historical evolution and current human and organizational contexts in which scientists, engineers and other professionals work. Outlines major challenges facing the management profession. Uses interactive exercises, simulations and problems to develop critical skills in negotiations, teamwork, and leadership. Focuses on practical application of these skills in a professional context. Introduces concepts and tools to analyze work and leadership experiences in internships, school activities, and fieldwork. Preference to Management minors and other undergraduates not majoring in Management Science.
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Prereq: None
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