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3.00 Credits
Legal, regulatory and public policy issues related to e-commerce/e-business, the Internet, and information technology are explored through an analytic, critical thinking approach. Topics include: e-contracts, digital signatures, B2B and B2C agreements; ownership, protection, and exploitation of intellectual capital including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets; regulatory issues; ISP and Web site liability including defamation; copyright infringement, securities regulation, and criminal acts; policy issues including privacy, security and encryption, and obscene materials. Global e-commerce will be explored. When Offered: Fall term. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
A macro approach to understanding organizations. Topics include organizational design, contingencies of design, organizational processes, such as culture, environmental interfaces and influences, information processing approaches to design, decision making, and organizational change and development. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Issues and forces of the environment of business including social and cultural, public policy and legal, technological, economic, physical, and international. Changing environment and pressures upon business. Managerial ideology and practices. Values and ethics. Technology: history of innovation, productivity, assessment, societal effects. Business and government relationships; legal framework of business. Corporate governance and management. Relations with the various constituencies of the business firm. Students enrolled in the full-time MBA program cannot use this course on the Plan of Study. When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to enable the technically oriented manager to select projects of value to the organization, develop a project plan including staffing, perform a risk analysis on the project, and successfully execute the project. Students, working alone or in teams, practice the project management process by planning a current project in the area of new product development, process reengineering, information systems or any other project with business implementation. When Offered: Fall term. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Covers the skills and techniques in effective communications in organizations, including defining the problem and purpose of the communications, the audience, and the intended result. Introductory communications theory is covered; the focus is primarily on written communications, but limited coverage is given to oral techniques, visual representations, and the like. Students prepare and are critiqued on various forms of communications in organizations. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
This practicum provides students with the opportunities to put their knowledge to work in a field project in their area of concentration, including entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, information systems, production and operations management, environmental management policy. Projects are conducted in collaboration with companies in the Rensselaer Incubator Center, the Technology Park, and the Capital Region. Project teams make presentations before a panel. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: all first year MBA courses and faculty adviser approval. Credit Hours: 3 to 6
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the empirical issues of academic research in different business disciplines. It broadly encompasses a number of key research topics emphasizing the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical frontiers. The course will concentrate on the use of statistical approaches relevant for engaging in empirical research. Overall, the course attempts to develop skills such as synthesizing research, developing research designs, building theories, and using appropriate empirical methodology and techniques. When Offered: Fall term. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses primarily on empirical issues in academic research. Students will learn to use theoretical and empirical skills acquired in previous courses and seminars in developing research in general, and academic papers in particular, in their respective fields. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Empirical Issues in Management Research. When Offered: Spring term. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Understand how ideas become real products. Concepts and tools that enable business and engineering leaders to jointly make sound technology/business decisions will be taught and exercised in the context of a project that will enhance the chances of success of a New Venture business. Topics: Off-line Invention vs. Disciplined Product Realization Processes, Project Funding Decisions for New Venture and Established Firms, Customer Contract, Technical Risk Management, Quality and Management of Variability, World-class design, Value Engineering, Sourcing Components and Technology, Product Reliability, Testing and Product Launch Decisions. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: undergraduate degree in any engineering field or MGMT 6050 or equivalent. Undergraduates who have completed the engineering capstone course or an equivalent experience for business students may also be admitted with the instructor's permission. When Offered: Spring term. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
The objectives of this beginning doctoral course are to introduce students to social science theory development, expose students to a broad array of research techniques, and help students design research programs and write about them. We review the underpinnings of scientific theory and a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Drawing on their own interests, students write one research proposal and two research papers illustrating the application of two different research methodologies. When Offered: Spring term annually . Credit Hours: 3
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