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  • 88 260: Organizations

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Even in a "market" economy, the preponderance of economic activity is carried out through firms and other organizations. The course begins by examining economic theories of the firm, and explores some of the canonical questions, such as why are their firms, how the separation of ownership and control of a firm shapes decision making, what determines the boundary between organizations and markets (e.g., make-or-buy decisions), what types of firms are most innovative, and how new technologies affect organizational structure. A second set of issues concerns how various organizational forms motivate, or fail to motivate, employees. The central concepts will be fleshed out by examining business firms, as well as not-for-profit enterprises, political parties, and government agencies.
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  • 88 302: Behavioral Decision Making

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Behavioral decision making is the study of how people make decisions, in terms that can eventually help them to make better decisions. It draws together research from psychology, economics, political science, and management, among other fields. It has applications that range from managing potentially hazardous technologies, to involving patients more fully in the choice of medical procedures, to the design of computer-interactive systems. The course covers behavioral theories of probabilistic inference, intuitive prediction, preference, and decision making. Topics include heuristics and biases in inference and prediction, risk perceptions and attitudes, strategies for combining information from different sources and dealing with conflicting objectives, and the roles of group and emotional processes in decision making. The course emphasizes the mutually reinforcing relationship between theory and application.
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  • 88 326: Theories of International Relations

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course has three major dimensions. Assumptions and propositions of the leading theories of international relations will be reviewed. This course also seeks to ensure that students clearly understand how newer theoretical approaches to the study of international relations build upon or depart from classical theories. Finally, theories will be tested against the historical record by examining major policy decisions and events such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War, and the current war against global terror.
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  • 88 341: Organizational Communication

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Much of the work in groups and organizations consists of communication. You communicate to get information that will be the basis of decisions, to provide a vision for the people who work for and with you, to coordinate activity, and to sell yourself and your work. The goal of this course is to identify sources of communication problems within an organization and ways to overcome them. To do this requires that we know how communication normally works, what parts are difficult, and how to fix it when it goes wrong. The focus of this course is on providing you with a broad understanding of the way communication operates within dyads, work groups, and organizations. This course is not a practicum in public speaking or writing, although you will get some experience writing, speaking, and managing impressions. Rather the intent is to give you theoretical and empirical underpinnings for the communication you will undoubtedly do when you return to work. Readings come from both the research and the managerial literatures. Among the topics considered are managerial communication, persuasion and conformity, self presentation and person perception, social networks. Cases and group projects give you an opportunity to apply what you've learned.
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  • 88 345: Perspectives on Industrial Research and Development

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Incandescent and fluorescent electric lights; nylon and Kevlar?, the atomic bomb; the transistor and integrated circuits; Post-it? notes; Teflon?; Silly Putty?; GameBoys?; and biopharmaceuticals (from Viagra? and Levitra? to Paxil? and Enbrel?), among a panoply of other consumer and industrial goods, are all products that emerged from organized industrial research and development (R D) programs. The beginnings of this new institution in the late 19th century, its rapid rise in the first third of the 20th century, its flourishing in the middle third of the 20th century, and its decline and reorganization in the last decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century are the principal focus of this advanced reading seminar. What factors led to the establishment of modern R D? Why did industrial R D laboratories appear in the US and other industrialized nations? How did their creation change the character of science, technology, and business? How did the institutionalization of R D affect the work of individual inventors, engineers, and scientists? Does big business now dominate R D in the United States, or does ?the little guy? (including university-based 'start ups?) still play an important role in technological innovation? What about the interaction of universities and industrial R D programs? How has industrial R D been ?managed?? How has federal science and technology policy affected industrial RD ? With the globalization of business, is industrial R D also becoming global, and if so, how does industrial R D work on a global scale? Why did the last decade of the 20th century see the decline or disappearance of numerous prestigious industrial research organizations? What is the future of industrial R D in the 21st century? These are some of the questions explored in this course, which is open to serious students from all colleges.
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  • 88 357: Comparative Foreign Policy: China, Russia, and the US

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The purpose of this course is to compare and analyze the Foreign Policies of China, the United States and the former Soviet Union. The first section of the course will be geared to analyzing the foreign policies of the three major powers since World War II until today. The second section will be devoted to analyzing major foreign policy problems and the position that China, the US, and the former Soviet Union had, or have, in relation to those problems. Among the issues discussed will be the Arms Race, Nuclear Proliferation, the conflicts in the Middle East, the end of communism, and the war in Afghanistan.
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  • 88 359: Globalization

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Globalization entails an erosion of the national borders and the expansion of trade and technology. In this course we will aanalyze the political and economic implications of the process of globalization and its impact on Developed and Less Developed Countries. Among the issues discussed will be the increased power of Transnational Corporations and Nongovernmental organizations as well as the power of International Organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF. The course will also focus on the impact of globalization on poverty and wealth across the world.
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  • 88 360: Behavioral Economics

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course introduces students to behavioral economics, an emerging subfield of economics that incorporates insights from psychology and other social sciences into economics. We will examine evidence on how human behavior systematically departs from the standard assumptions of economics, and then investigate attempts by behavioral economists to improve economic analyses.
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  • 88 362: Diplomacy and Statecraft

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course introduces students to the fundamental principles of the art of statecraft; major concepts and theories of diplomacy; and the main tools of diplomatic practice and key venues in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Students will examine the relationship between diplomatic and military power; the use of economic measures; the role of public diplomacy; and the challenges of multilateral negotiations. Contemporary global issues such as the responsibility to protect, conflict resolution and UN peacekeeping will be explored through focused case studies of Liberia, Darfur and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • 88 365: Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Economics has up to now been the social science that has been most broadly and deeply involved in public policy. With its rational choice perspective, the economic perspective has tended to favor certain types of policies ? namely those that enhance the efficiency of market mechanisms and lower the cost of information. In this course we will spend the first several classes reviewing the assumptions, implications for public policy and limitations of the rational choice perspective. The remainder of the course will then be devoted to examining different public policy issues, including saving, health care, crime and drug abuse, through the competing lenses of traditional and behavioral economics.
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