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Pass/fail basis only. Prerequisite: Permission of the department head. Students must participate in a competitive application process in order to participate. This cocurricular educational student organization manages a portion of Washington and Lee’s endowment. Students meet in formal and informal sessions conducted by faculty advisers and attend presentations made by outside speakers hosted by the Williams School. The experiential learning that occurs in this setting is grounded in fields such as accounting, economics, and finance, as well as the practice of investments and banking. Culpepper, Schwartz.
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Pass/fail basis only. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Students must participate in a competitive application process in order to participate. This cocurricular student organization provides pro bono consulting services to businesses and not-for-profits. Experiential learning draws from business fields, such as marketing, finance, accounting, e-commerce, database management, business strategy, and human resources. In addition to working on various projects, students gain experience managing the organization. Straughan, Oliver.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing. This course studies the law governing the relations between individuals in day-to-day commerce. The emphasis is on how individuals and firms organize their voluntary agreements in markets, a process governed by the law of contracts. The course covers this process, ranging from the sale of goods, through the securing and payment of debt, to the creation of large corporations. Both the Common Law and the Uniform Commercial Code are analyzed. The course accents procedural and managerial techniques and stresses economic and ethical issues. Writing assignments apply legal theories to literary masterworks and hypothetical situations. Culpepper.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ECON 101 and 102, ACCT 201; INTR 202 or equivalent, and junior standing. An exploration of strategic marketing. The focus of the course is on the analysis of a firm’s current marketing strengths and weaknesses and the development of a strategic plan to capitalize on key opportunities. Topics include environmental analysis, market segmentation, targeting and positioning, and management of the marketing mix. Throughout the course, significant attention is devoted to international issues, the interrelationships between marketing and other disciplines, and the role of ethically and socially responsible marketing. Bower, Simmons, Straughan.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing. A study of management in modern organizations. This course examines the factors which influence individual, group, and firm behavior in the context of the workplace. Topics covered include individual differences, motivation, leadership, business ethics, group behavior, decision making, and organizational design and change. Dean, Garvis, Herbert.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ECON 101 and 102; ACCT 201 and 202; INTR 202 or equivalent; and junior standing. A study of finance from a managerial perspective emphasizing the primary goal of the firm as stockholder wealth maximization. Emphasis is on decisions relating to the acquisition of assets and funds and internal management-financial analysis, planning and control, working capital management, capital budgeting, sources and forms of long-term financing, financial structure and the cost of capital, and valuation. Hoover, Kester, Schwartz.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore or juniors standing, from any major. Does not meet major requirements. Most of the world’s most vexing challenges (e.g., hunger, disease, poverty, energy shortages) are more than just big problems – these are, in fact, truly wicked problems. In 1973, Rittel & Weber outlined the characteristics of these wicked problems, the solutions to which required methods beyond those ascribed to traditional problem solving. The course has been developed to help students learn to (1) identify, understand, and address the characteristics of wicked problems, by (2) applying entrepreneurial methods to start and/or manage an organization designed to dissolve these sorts of problems. Simply put, the purpose of this course is to find a few ways and a few people willing to change the world. Touve.
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3.00 Credits
BUS 301 - Seminar in Organizational Behavior Credits: 3 Prerequisite: BUS 217, at least junior standing, and permission of the instructor. Offered from time to time when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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3.00 Credits
BUS 302 - Seminar in Finance Credits: 3 Prerequisite: BUS 221 and at least junior standing. Offered from time to time when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Topic for Winter 2011:
BUS 302B: Seminar in Finance: Real Estate Finance (3). Prerequisite: ACCT 201 and INTR 202.This course has three main objectives for students: 1) to learn how to value properties and manage a portfolio of real estate. To achieve this objective, students consider valuation techniques in light of the variety of financing alternatives that might be available; 2) to understand the causes and effects of the recent real estate collapse; and 3) f to learn from the advice of practitioners who visit the class. Hoover.
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3.00 Credits
BUS 303 - Seminar in Marketing Credits: 3 Prerequisite: BUS 211, at least junior standing and permission of the instructor. Offered from time to time when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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