91快活林
Management and Entrepreneurship
Professors Emeriti:听David Caldwell, James Hall, James L. Koch
Michael J. Accolti, S.J. Professor of Leadership: Barry Z. Posner (Department Chair)
Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics:听Manuel G. Velasquez
Naumes Family Professor:听Gregory A. Baker
Keck Foundation Professor: Tammy L. Madsen
Professors:听Gregory A. Baker, Tammy L. Madsen, Barry Z. Posner, Michael Santoro, Manuel G. Velasquez, Jennifer L. Woolley
Associate Professor:听Jo-Ellen Pozner
Assistant Professors:听Andy El-Zayaty, Hooria Jazaieri, Ewan Kingston, Shuqi Li, Shaohua Lu, Andrew McBride, Esther Sackett, Vyas Sreenivas, Adele Xing
Teaching Professors: Fiona Xiaoying Ji, Nydia MacGregor, Sandy Kristin Piderit
Associate Teaching Professors: 听Deirdre Frontczak, Francine Gordon, Long Le
Assistant Teaching Professor: 听Jennifer Merritt
Lecturers:听Vahideh Abaeian, Ihsen Ketata Aref, Phyllis Brock, Sylvia Flatt, Nik Tehrani, Brian Thomas
Dean鈥檚 Executive Professors:听Sarah Cabral, Tim Harris, Anita Lynch
Management and Entrepreneurship Courses
MGMT 3000. Leading People in Organizations
Provides students with theories, frameworks, and empirical research on the topic of leadership and team dynamics to help students enhance their own leadership capabilities听and their ability to perform effectively in teams. Topics include empirically-grounded models of leadership, importance of self-awareness in leadership, discussion and decision-making processes in teams, and team development over time. (4 units)
Prerequisites: None.
MGMT 3050. Strategic Analysis
This course focuses on how听managers position their businesses to develop and sustain an advantage relative to rivals in the face of uncertainty, rapid change, and competition. Strategy involves understanding the utility of different choices and tradeoffs 鈥� choosing what not to do is as important as choosing what to do. As a result, the course covers a variety of tools, frameworks, theories, and concepts for analyzing a firm鈥檚 strategic position and the environment in which it operates听to inform the strategic decision-making process. By听covering the factors that make some strategic positions strong and viable, students will develop the ability to evaluate the effects of changes in resources and听capabilities, industry forces, macro-environmental听forces, and technology on industry structure and firm behavior and, in turn, on a firm鈥檚 opportunities for听creating, capturing and sustaining听a superior strategic position relative to rivals. The course also requires that students integrate and extend the knowledge and skills they have developed throughout their MBA program coursework听(i.e.,听marketing, finance, economics, organizational behavior, ethics, information systems, accounting, etc.) into a 鈥渢otal鈥� business perspective. Analyzing real-world听situations best facilitates this activity; therefore, case analysis plays a prominent听role in the course. 91快活林 will develop skills in听formulating viable and defensible strategies and in evaluating strategic choices and options. (4 units)
Prerequisite: Must complete all core courses excluding MGMT 3060 Business and the Common Good.
MGMT 3052. Leading and Managing Strategic Change
Moving an organization from where it is to where it needs to go is rarely easy, and many strategic change efforts fail. The fast-paced nature of today's competitive environments adds another layer of urgency and complexity. This course is designed to deepen your understanding of the strategic and tactical issues that a leader must prepare for to听initiate and implement strategic change successfully. (2 units)
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
MGMT 3060. Business and the Common Good
This course analyzes the role of modern business enterprise and its leadership in addressing pressing social, ethical, political, and environmental concerns. The course utilizes the common good perspective and framework for analyzing within the context of business decision-making听various听issues facing employees and organizations. The course will grapple head-on with tradeoffs and tensions between competing goods and with both the intended and the unintended consequences (in the short- and long-term) of decisions and actions at the individual, group, organizational, and broader societal level.(4 units)
Prerequisite: Must complete all core courses, excluding ECON 3000 Managerial Economics and OMIS 3252 Operations Management (Starting Winter 2025 known as ISBA 3300).
MGMT 3200. Ethics for Managers.
This course is an introduction to business ethics that focuses specifically on the kinds of ethical issues that managers typically encounter. Course topics include the psychological factors that influence moral decision-making, normative approaches for dealing with ethical issues in management, and the application of these concepts to cases describing real-life听ethical dilemmas managers have faced in various听organizational and environmental settings. (2 units)
Prerequisites: None.
MGMT 3504. Innovation in Silicon Valley
The course focuses on the skills, practices, and processes for evaluating and managing technology and innovation in fast-paced听environments. 91快活林 learn to apply human-centric design thinking to the innovation decision-making听processes. The course delivery is informed by foundational and emerging empirical work in innovation. The content complements that in other elective courses (product marketing, product development, intellectual property, small business entrepreneurship) and core courses in strategy. (4 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3512. Leadership of Dynamic Organizations
The course Investigates and examines the priorities of exemplary leaders. Emphasizes developing a conceptual understanding of the leadership process and building leadership skills that help to inspire change in organizations. Classes are often experiential and highly reflective, and assignments include written and video case studies. Some team assignments may be made. (4听units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3516. Organizational Politics
Explores the use of influence and political skills in leadership and organizational decision-making. Emphasizes innovation and the politics of change.听(2听units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3526. Strategic Talent Management
Focuses on the strategic role of talent management, especially (1) designing and managing the human context of organizations; (2) talent selection, development, and deployment; and (3) developing organizational execution capabilities by ensuring the right people are in the right positions in organizations. Analytical topics include business strategy and environment, linking human resource (HR) management to strategy and performance, employee engagement, HR strategy, and forces and trends driving HR strategy.听(2听units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3538. Leading Teams and Projects
This course focuses on building and leading project teams in dynamic environments. The course covers tools and concepts to manage teams and project teams, including some听project management听skills. 91快活林 will assess team composition and team dynamics, and learn to intervene when conflict is unhealthy. Key practices for project planning, monitoring,听and controlling听are examined, including an examination of common sources of project risks. (4 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3542. Management Consulting
This course is designed for students interested in learning about consulting, and it includes听tools and techniques to gain a consulting mindset. 听The course requires students to complete a series of case readings, assignments, classroom discussions, and a team project. 听91快活林 will be able to understand the consulting process from sourcing and starting engagements to closure and follow-up听engagements. 听Further, with the help of some practical execution in the classroom, 听students will also learn how to manage client needs and situations, articulate听client needs in a succinct proposal, plan听and execute听consulting assignments, manage听client interactions and, in the process, learn to leverage some common frameworks for consulting. (4 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3544. Strategic Business Negotiations
This course examines听the process and theory of negotiating so the student can negotiate successfully in various听settings. This class covers a broad spectrum of negotiation problems that organizational leaders and everyday actors face. We consider that while a leader needs analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to problems, a broad array of social persuasion skills is necessary听to get these solutions accepted and implemented. This class gives students practical听analytical frameworks and develops their influence skills through experiential negotiation exercises.听(4听units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3545. Healthcare Management and Innovation
This course examines management challenges and innovation in diverse healthcare industry segments, including healthcare providers, information systems, insurance, medical research, and government. The course will focus not solely on the U.S. but also on healthcare in other developed and developing economies. We will dive deeply into healthcare innovation in Silicon Valley and worldwide and examine various public and private efforts to make healthcare systems more efficient, ethical, effective in serving unmet healthcare needs, and creative in developing new healthcare therapies and business models. The approach will be highly practical and hands-on and draw heavily from case studies and other examples from the healthcare industry. (4 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3546. Spirituality and Business Leadership
This course examines the relationship between fulfilling business leadership and individual spirituality. It draws from contemporary literature, research, and classical wisdom to address the challenges facing modern business leaders. By referencing both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, the course explores how the absence of spiritual integration can contribute to leadership derailment. Additionally, it introduces practical spiritual disciplines鈥攕uch as prayer and meditation鈥攄esigned to fit the demanding schedules of business professionals and leaders. The course is inclusive and respectful of all religious traditions, as well as those who do not follow a specific tradition.听(4 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3548. Social Benefit Entrepreneurship
This course introduces students to social entrepreneurship as a movement in which organizations are expected to be responsible, sustainable, and scalable. 听Organizations 鈥� including but not limited to nonprofits, for-profits, social businesses, government agencies, and startup ventures 鈥� have shown both the capability to lead the movement, as well as 鈥渕uddling鈥� the movement. Through readings, case study analysis, and intrapreneurship, students are tasked to engage in the movement based on where they are, both academically and professionally. 91快活林 via the course鈥檚 portfolio project can design how they manage and lead in the social entrepreneurship movement. Emphasizing entrepreneurial mindsets and combinatorial innovation, students will design and develop new or existing products and services for their current or future employers. Leveraging entrepreneurial competencies and toolsets, students will develop their management leadership in maximizing and scaling the 3 Ps: profits, people, and planet .(4听units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT听3549. Legal Fundamentals for Entrepreneurs
This course introduces students to fundamental legal issues typically encountered by entrepreneurs and startup companies. These include restrictions arising when leaving a current employer, selecting the best company structure and ownership, raising money and securities regulation, human resources concerns, contracts and leases, liability relating to the sale of goods and services, operational liability, intellectual property, creditor鈥檚 rights,听and bankruptcy, and others. (4听units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3550. IP Strategies for Tech Start-Ups
Identifying and managing听intellectual property (IP) assets is a significant strategic tool for every management level. 听This course is designed to demystify intellectual property rights in technology companies and give students a working understanding of IP rights relevant to technology, particularly 听start-up technology companies. (2听units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3551. Coaching for Leadership Development
The focus of this course is on improving the students鈥� own leadership competencies as well as developing the skills required to coach others in developing their leadership abilities. 听91快活林 will build their facility and acumen in using a leadership operating system through lectures, fieldwork, experiential exercises, readings, and reflective essays. The course provides a systematic opportunity to practice and receive feedback on their leadership behaviors through instrumented 360-degree feedback and听peer coaching. 听The course is particularly relevant for those students who wish to broaden and build upon the knowledge and applications they were exposed to in MGMT 3000. (2 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3552. Corporate Governance For Executives and Entrepreneurs
The course is designed to assist students in developing and practicing the skills necessary to establish and support proper and effective corporate governance, including distinctions between public and private organizations,听with special attention to the roles and functions of the Board of Directors. The course explores several important topics related to current businesses (for example, mergers and acquisitions, global operations, and corporate culture). Particular emphasis will be placed on guiding senior executives, whether in start-up or established firms, on the various roles and responsibilities of critical resources at the different stages of company development. (2 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations, MKTG 3000 , ACTG 3000 Financial Accounting, FNCE 3000 Financial Management, and ISBA 3300 Operations Management
MGMT 3553. Data + Digital Transformations For Business Managers
This course equips MBA students with the skills to leverage data technologies strategically across various business functions, enhancing decision-making and competitive positioning in any sector. It focuses on the foundational understanding of data technologies and听the interpersonal dynamics of data leadership, preparing students to influence and drive transformation within their organizations effectively. Through case studies, students will learn how to navigate and resolve leadership and interpersonal challenges, such as securing buy-in for innovative new data-driven approaches such as AI, thereby integrating effective data strategy with comprehensive business leadership. (4 units).
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3554. Developing Your Creative Mindset
Creativity is key for innovation, problem-solving, and critical thinking. While some see it as a gift limited to a few, research shows it鈥檚 a skill anyone can develop. In this course, we鈥檒l dive into the essentials of creativity, explore different models, and uncover what fuels and hampers it. Through theory, practical exercises, and real-world examples, we鈥檒l cultivate a creative mindset. You鈥檒l compare creative styles, apply tools and techniques, and gain confidence to generate innovative solutions individually and within teams. Together, we鈥檒l make creativity accessible to all, equipping you with the skills to thrive in 迟辞诲补测鈥檚 dynamic business environment. (4 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3555. Sustainability in the Evolving Business Landscape
This multidisciplinary course examines business鈥� critical role in addressing 迟辞诲补测鈥檚听societal challenges and develops students鈥� ability to integrate sustainability into their functional expertise. This course builds a foundational understanding of business sustainability, enabling students to apply a sustainability lens to business decisions. It is oriented around the following questions:
- What is 鈥渟ustainability鈥� in the current business context?
- How does it impact capital, product, and labor markets?
- How are businesses incorporating it into their management cadence?
- How should you integrate it into your professional skill set?
Armed with these fundamentals, students should feel empowered and energized to delve further into aspects of business sustainability, such as sustainable investing, social entrepreneurship, inclusive leadership, corporate ethics, and, in the future, sustainability accounting, sustainable marketing, sustainable supply chains, and public policy. (4 units) Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3556. Sustainability in Action: On-Site Visits
This experiential course offers students a hands-on opportunity to explore how leading companies integrate sustainability into their business operations, strategies, and culture. Through guided visits to organizations across various industries, students will engage with executives, sustainability officers, and operational teams to understand real-world applications of sustainable practices.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3565. Cultivating Inclusive Leadership
This class will be covering sensitive topics. 91快活林 who enroll should be ready to embrace opportunities to engage in challenging and possibly tricky听conversations. In today's interconnected world, leveraging diversity's power is a fundamental skill for aspiring leaders. 91快活林 will learn actionable strategies to increase diversity, improve equity, and create inclusive workplaces. Research has shown that diverse perspectives can drive innovation, foster financial growth, and align organizations with the needs of their customers if the environment is inclusive. One of the most significant barriers to inclusion is unconscious bias. Through candid discussions and reflective exercises, students are encouraged to confront their biases and assumptions, fostering a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by underrepresented groups in the workplace. 91快活林 should be ready to embrace opportunities to engage in thought-provoking conversations. (2 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT 3695. Global Business Perspectives
Through company sites and cultural visits, students learn to appreciate how business operates outside of the United States. Class sessions, pre-work, and project presentations bracket country visits. Content varies based on the expertise of the faculty and the country visited. Past locations include Germany, France, China, New Zealand, Brazil, and India. (4 units)
Open to MBA students only. 91快活林 must have completed three听full terms of their MBA program and a GPA of 3.0 or higher. 91快活林 are required to fill out an application to be enrolled in this course. This course requires an additional travel fee to be enrolled. 听Prerequisite: None.
MGMT听3704. Women in Leadership
This course presents the best practices of successful women technology leaders. It features a series of in-depth discussions and case studies where experts share the principles upon which they have created their businesses. Includes topics on vision, value creation, branding, product development and testing, recruitment and team building, management, financing, communication skills, networking, exit strategy, and social impact. (2 units)
Open to MBA students only. Prerequisite: None.
MGMT 3799. Managing Transitions
This is a 2-unit credit course that prepares students for the career transitions they will encounter once they complete听91快活林鈥檚 MBA program. This highly relevant course concentrates on the skills students require to succeed early in their careers. The course focuses on situations where students can gain the best approaches to bolster their 鈥淔irst 90 Days鈥� in a new position. The course covers transitions between a current company and a new one. 91快活林 will learn how to work with different generations in the workforce听and gain insights into different work styles. 听Topics such as leveraging听social media to attain the desired career and developing a career path are covered. The lessons learned will apply听to transitions throughout the students鈥� careers. (2 units)
Open to MBA students only. Prerequisite: None.
MGMT 3802. Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Innovation
This course looks at the practice of business innovation and entrepreneurship, emphasizing听how entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, communicate ideas, innovate, develop products, and build organizations. 听This course provides students with the skills, tools, and mindsets to enable them to discover other people's problems upon which entrepreneurial ventures may be built and to use their own creativity to generate solutions to these problems. 听The techniques and skills apply to both start-ups and established ventures. 听This introductory course is听intended to provide a foundation regarding the role of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs in society and economy. As such, this class will explore what entrepreneurship means from several angles, including how a person can be entrepreneurial in their own life - right now. This is an energized course about discovering entrepreneurship in and out of the firm.听(4 units)
Prerequisites: MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT XXXX. Sports Management & Leadership* ( 2 units)
Prerequisites: 听Open only to MS Sports Business students who have completed MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
MGMT XXXX. Sports Law & Personnel Management* (2 units)
Prerequisites: 听Open only to MS Sports Business students who have completed MGMT 3000 Leading People in Organizations.
*Course titles are subject to change