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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of definitions, frameworks and perspectives regarding the role of business in society. The goal is to understand the history and the theoretical perspectives that underpin arguments for responsible business and will aid students in: 1) analyzing the relationships between various stakeholders 2) better understanding the policy and governance context 3) identifying appropriate programs and 4) exploring and building the business case for sustainability and social justice.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Managerial Economics is designed to provide an introduction to the traditional field of microeconomics as it applies to business decisionmaking. Topic covered include: supply and demand theory; production theory; profit maximization; firm structure; types of markets, pricing strategies, and the economics of information. As an addition to the traditional MBA economic curriculum, this course will also consider how neo-classical economics fails to adequately incorporate ecological constraints into models and assumptions, and will suggest ways that traditional economic theory can better include these constraints. To this end, the course will also cover: market failure; the steadystate economy; natural capital; economics and entropy; and optimal scale. The course includes a one-unit survey of introductory economics.
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3.00 Credits
This is the introductory course of the College's unique human dimension of business education. The course begins by asking the fundamental human question, "Who am I?" The design isstructured to combine experiential learning with theoretical knowledge, leading to practical application. Because this course operates as both an introduction and survey of the human dimension in business education, a number of leading business practitioners "present" to the class and ongoingfacilitation connects the learning experiences and supports the development of the cohort's learning community. Ongoing reflection journals and integrative term papers and projects supplement the student's lived experience. Students will explore their life calling. Topics include transformative learning; diversity consciousness; personal mastery and coaching; creativity; cooperative inquiry; selfawareness through personality exploration; and daily orientation practice and its application to business and organizational life.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course begins with a survey of the finance area, including financial ratios; management of current assets and liabilities; liquidity; long-term capital; rate of return and net present value. The focus then moves to developing the necessary skills to be an effective financial manager. These skills include analysis of cash flow; financial planning and forecasting; and risk assessment and management. Students will explore decisionmaking through the capital asset pricing model, as well as construct and utilize pro forma financial statements, and assess the feasibility of projects and capital budgeting. The course will address the skills needed to be a persuasive oral and written communicator of corporate financial information. Socially responsible investment (SRI) models and the relationship between human, natural and financial capital will be examined.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course presents cutting-edge ideas on how strategy is evolving and the implications for socially and environmentally engaged management. Through considering classical approaches to strategy (such as resource-based views of the firm that capture capability logic), modern approaches (such as hyper-competition and high-velocity perspectives that embody guerrilla logic), and emerging approaches (such as eco-systemic and chaos theory-based views that incorporate a complexity logic), the course covers traditional, mainstream and progressive perspectives on strategic management. As a whole, it provides conceptual tools and practical methodologies for catalyzing organizational transformation based on a strategic, systemic and sustainable appreciation of change. The knowledge, skills and attitudes developed throughout the course focus on consideration of the emerging trends and new areas of opportunity to be taken into account in developing strategies and designing processes and structures in sustainable organizations of the 21st century.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course aims to introduce a framework for marketing management and the implications for sustainability. Managerial Marketing is an integrative course and builds on previous MBA course work, particularly Principles of Sustainability, Human Dimensions of Leadership, Strategic Management and Managerial Economics. The course is structured around three interconnected dimensions: Marketing (concepts, strategies and tools), Sustainability and the Pathfinder Pragmatic Inquiry.
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3.00 Credits
(3 units) The evolving principles of sustainable management will be leveraged to explore the creation and development of sustainable products and services. The course merges theory and practice, investigates the linkages between products and services, examines historic, current, and future examples of sustainable products and services, and guides students toward practical tools of inquiry and application that will serve them in their careers in sustainable management. The final course outcomes are professional-quality group projects to be published (or be deemed publishable by Presidio faculty) in a major trade or academic journal.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
"Culture, Values and Ethics" builds upon thepersonal development and experiential work done in the human dimension of sustainable management during the first year of course work. Topics for study include: impact of societal issues on sustainable management; stakeholder identification and analysis; ethical issues between organizations, people, cultures and the natural world; and key issues of social responsibility with particular emphasis on how these topics enhance commercial success.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of strategic, tactical, and operational issues facing service and manufacturing companies. Major topics include process analysis, quality management, just-in-time production, supply chain management, service systems management, and operations strategy. These issues are explored through lectures, case studies, and videos pertaining to a broad spectrum of industries, with a special focus on companies who are implementing sustainability initiatives in their operations. Includes one-unit survey of production/operations management.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
To integrate the skills and knowledge accumulated over the two years of the Sustainable Management MBA, students examine and use the Natural Capitalism Group taxonomy for guiding organizations to a more sustainable future. Calling on the four strands of coursework, money, markets, people and sustainability, students explore the step-by-step process for transforming a company, both internally and externally.
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