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3.00 Credits
This course helps students develop an awareness and realistic understanding of the process of new venture formation. The course studies the risks and issues involved in starting a business, explores the role of the entrepreneur in the economy and society, and examines characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and new businesses. Prerequisite: MGT 1015.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory analysis of the critical issues confronting multinational corporations today from a managerial point of view. Barriers to the effective conduct of business in foreign countries will be discussed through a combination of lectures, reading, and cases. Prerequisite: MGT 1015.
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3.00 Credits
This course will increase students' awareness of workforce diversity as both a challenge and opportunity for contemporary managers. Topics to be covered include demographic trends in the U.S. various models for understanding the importance of managing diversity, the differences between affirmative action and managing diversity, identity issues, real cultural differences vs. stereotyping, individual responses to diversity, organizational strategies for managing diversity and promoting positive organizational change, challenges inherent in managing diversity, and potential outcomes of successful diversity management.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the question, "Does business have a social responsibility?" The examination of variousinternal and external stakeholders of the contemporary business organization. The course exposes students to some of the ethical dilemmas confronted by employees in the workplace, and serves to help students enhance their skills in resolving these types of dilemmas. Does not satisfy GER philosophy requirement.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to study the nature of conflict and to develop analytical and practical skills for reaching more effective agreements. This course is designed for students to observe and to learn experientially through the use of role-playing exercises, in-class discussions, lectures, videos and case analyses. The course explores conflict and negotiation in a variety of contexts, and it draws on game theory, social cognition and social psychology of persuasion to enhance your negotiation skills and to increase your confidence as a fair and principled negotiator.
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3.00 Credits
An integrative practicum course in which students either individually or in teams undertake a management consulting/intervention project in an organization under the direction of a faculty member. Students are responsible for assessing organizational needs, collecting and interpreting relevant data, developing solutions, and presenting their projects. To be taken Senior year. Prerequisites: Capstone course in management, MGT 2005, 2015, Senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to increase students' knowledge and skills concerning effective leadership. Through a seminar format we will employ a historical perspective to investigate different approaches, models and contexts to leadership. We will then explore the contemporary role of leadership in work organizations. Through workshops, we will develop skill competencies critical to effective leadership. Students will have an opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to a leadership experience they design and implement themselves.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the field of social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is the use of entrepreneurial business skills for the explicit pursuit of creating innovative solutions to social problems. In both non-profit and for-profit ventures, organizations engaged in social entrepreneurship act as agents of social; change, creating large-scale social change in the communities or around the world with a heightened sense of accountability to the constituencies they served and the outcomes created by their efforts. Topics covered will include assessment of opportunities, different business models used in the social sector, acquiring resources required for a new social venture, and the tradeoffs between social and financial returns on investment. Prerequisites: MGT 1005 & 1015, MKT 1015, FIN 1345.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys and analyzes the legal issues faced by new entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms. The course covers issues facing the entrepreneur including: leaving your current employer, structuring the ownership of the new company, and obtaining appropriate legal, accounting and insurance advice. A number of issues facing entrepreneurial firms are covered, including: liabilities and insurance, raising capital, contracts and leases, licensing, intellectual property, human resource matters, e-commerce and the sale of goods and services, outsourcing, global entrepreneurship, changing between private and public ownership, and other relevant topics. Prerequisites: MGT 1005 & 1015, MKT 1015, FIN 1345.
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6.00 Credits
Permission of Department chair required.
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