22:373:602Management and Public Policy (3) Examines the interaction between public policy and business. Considers the public policy process, including analysis of how issues arise in a pluralistic society. Reviews significant public policy issues, the political process and how it deals with issues, societal value-setting processes, and the means for expressing those values. Covers government-business relationships and the social responsibility of management and the firm. |
22:373:603Technology, Society, and Management (3) Stimulates an awareness of what technology is and does, and how it impinges on institutions and processes in society at large. Identifies and examines interrelationships and reciprocal influences among business corporations, technological developments, political-educational-scientific institutions, and social values and attitudes. |
22:373:604The Rules of the Game in Organizations (3) Examines legal, political, and economic ground rules that influence day-to-day life in organizations. Considers differences in the ground rules and work cultures in different kinds of organizations, such as investment banks, government agencies, universities, old-line corporations, and "new economy" start-ups. Employs game theory to analyze the incentives and likely strategies of members of different kinds of organizations. Discusses competing ideas as to how members of organizations can best achieve their goals given organizational ground rules. Explores arguments for and against changing internal ground rules and external ground rules in areas such as work hours, democratic procedures, and compensation arrangements. |
22:373:606Legal Regulation of Markets (3) Introduces the bodies of law regulating the structure and operation of labor markets, capital markets, and other markets, including civil rights law, labor law, securities law, antitrust law, and intellectual property law. Explores arguments as to the validity of different kinds of regulation of business. Focuses on the issue of whether and how law should impose mandates on market participants against entering into certain kinds of agreements. Discusses trends and likely future directions in the regulation of markets. |
22:373:608Fundamentals of Real Estate (3) Provides an introduction to modern theoretical concepts of real estate. Considers the basic attributes of real estate from freehold and leasehold perspectives, including the nature of real property and the bundle of rights inherent therein, and limitations on and division of the bundle of rights. Emphasis is placed on the creation of value and the market determinants of value. Introduces basic financial analysis of the residential and investment property transaction, descriptions of the legal aspects of the acquisition process, and the financing of the created value by the appropriate markets. Culminates in the basic capital investment discounted cash flow model to determine net present values and internal rates of return, and considers the prioritization of returns to owner/investor versus lender. |
22:373:609Land Use and Urban Development (3) Traces principles of land development in this country from foundations in initial Anglo-Saxon common law, through early concepts of absolute unrestricted freedom of use, to modern principles as embodied in custom, judicial decisions, administrative directives, and legislative enactments. The currently evolved principles of limitation and balance in use with respect to residential, commercial, industrial, and public through planning and zoning are examined. Changing concepts of land use and form of use as dictated by population growth and shift are studied. The importance of agriculture, waterways, transportation routes, and public facilities is considered. Explores the burden and benefits of federal and state and local taxation, police power, and eminent domain. Prerequisite: 22:373:608. |
22:373:610Real Estate Investment (3) Begins with the basic capital investment discounted cash flow model to analyze in depth modern techniques of income property financing, including permanent and interim loans, interest only, accrual and participatory loans, construction financing, etc. Appropriate forms of ownership such as corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures are examined. Considers supporting analysis, particularly lease income and operating cost analysis. Examines primary lending and secondary sources, such as life insurance companies and real estate investment trusts. Develops analysis of current methods of accessing capital markets financing through securitization on the secondary markets. Considers the current real estate investment climate for real estate and non-real estate oriented investors. Prerequisite: 22:373:608. |
22:373:613Business History (3) Surveys American business history from the perspective of the rise of the modern corporation and of professional management. Although its coverage begins with the preindustrial period, it places special emphasis on evaluating particular aspects of the corporate experience useful to contemporary managers in framing strategies and policies to confront current business challenges. Major issues incorporated in the readings, lectures, and case discussions include the dynamics of structural change in industry and commerce, innovation in business organization and management, the relationship of business corporations to the state, and American business competitiveness in a changing global economic order. |
22:373:618Business and the Arts (3) Familiarizes students with nonprofit and specific management challenges; surveys the metropolitan area arts scene through lectures, performances, studio and gallery visits; and examines the critical role played by corporations in support of the arts, and the aim of corporate responsibility for the health of community life. A term paper will be written based on a management project done in cooperation with an area arts nonprofit. |
22:373:619Ethics in Business (3) Covers such topics as free markets and regulation, moral responsibility of senior managers, corporate strategy and stockholder relations, the environment, product safety, employee rights, corporate culture and group think, racial and sexual discrimination, affirmative action, the responsibilities of American companies abroad, and leveraged buyouts. Text, articles, case studies, and fictional works will be employed. |
22:373:620Fund-Raising and Resource Development for Arts Nonprofits (3) Emphasizes extensive research into funding sources; provides extensive experience in the writing of successful grant proposals. Also included are modules on computerized financial and development record keeping, as well as units on the organizational structure supporting the fund-raising effort. |
22:373:621Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry (3) The goal of this course is to help aspiring managers in pharmaceutical firms develop the knowledge and skills to succeed in the contemporary business environment. The course will be case-based and will draw heavily from real life examples. Guest lecturers from leading pharmaceutical companies. Topics covered include regulatory and legal aspects of drug development, concentrating particularly on the process of FDA approval; government intervention in the pharmaceutical market; the impact of managed care; Medicare and Medicaid; the patenting process; global protection of pharmaceutical patents; and price controls and cost containment in foreign countries. Prerequisites: All M.B.A. core courses. |
22:373:622The Health Care Industry and the Role of Pharmaceutical Companies (3) This course will focus on the understanding of the operation of the health care market and its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. Topics include the nature and characteristics of competition among the pharmaceutical companies; regulatory characteristics; the role of patents; brand name versus generic drug; impact of managed care on the pharmaceutical industry; cost and pricing decisions; third party reimbursements for prescription drugs; and responses to competitive pressure through mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring. Prerequisites: All M.B.A. core courses. |
22:373:624Foundations of Entrepreneurship (3) Offers a framework for understanding the entrepreneurial process and exposes the student to problems and issues faced by those who plan to transform opportunity recognition into wealth via opportunity assessment and implementation in the context of uncertainty, ambiguity, and incomplete information. Prerequisite: All M.B.A. core courses. |
22:373:640Special Topics: Global Business, Governments, and Dynamic Competitiveness (3) Examines how governments affect a country`s competitiveness, why governments are increasingly abandoning control approaches for market-based solutions, and what the significant international business implications are. Specific focus is on the telecommunications, the electric/gas, banking, and airline industries presently going through fundamental government-induced, structural changes that have opened up, virtually overnight, $100+ billion industries to international competition. The pharmaceutical industry will also be studied because it is heavily government regulated, is vulnerable to attack from new entrants, and is international in scope. Because of their importance in charting each industry`s dynamic change, joint ventures, alliances, and networks, behaviors will be studied. |
22:373:643Special Topics: Competitive Intelligence and Analysis (3) Designed for students who seek employment in companies under competitive pressure. Teaches the art and science of competitive intelligence, a new corporate function adopted first by Japanese and Korean firms and in the last decade by major U.S. companies. Deals with identifying early market signals signifying a strategic change in the competitive environment. Provides the framework for industry and competitor analysis and examines the various corporate approaches to business intelligence activities. Involves real world intelligence gathering exercises, case analyses and practitioners` guest lectures. Can be used as part of the inter- national concentration. |
22:373:659Intellectual Property Law and Policy (3) In the past decade, intellectual property has received aggressive international legal protection under the Trade Related Aspects of International Property Rights regime (TRIPS), which reproduces American concepts of copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents. This course will explore this emerging framework of intellectual property protection and its relationship to such policy issues as the relationship between biotechnology and food security in developing countries, the protection of living organisms as intellectual property, and issues of biodiversity. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. |
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