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EWMBA 200C Leadership Communications 1 Haas School of Unit Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 Business Leadership communication is a workshop in the fundamentals of public speaking in today's business environment. Through prepared and Overview impromptu speeches aimed at moving others to action, peer coaching, and lectures, students will sharpen their authentic and persuasive As the second-oldest business school in the United States, the Haas communication skills, develop critical listening skills, improve abilities School of Business at UC Berkeley is one of the world's leading to give, receive, and apply feedback, and gain confidence as public producers of new ideas and knowledge in all areas of business—which speakers. includes the distinction of having two of its faculty members receive the Leadership Communications: Read More [+] Nobel Prize in Economics over the past 20 years. Hours & Format
The school offers outstanding management education to about 2,200 Fall and/or spring: undergraduate and graduate students each year who come from around 4 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week the world to study in one of its six degree-granting programs, and it has 5 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week 40,000 alumni. Additional Details The school's mission is "to develop leaders who redefine how we do business. (http://haas.berkeley.edu/strategicplan/)" The school's Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate distinctive culture is defined by four defining principles: Grading: Letter grade. • Question the status quo Leadership Communications: Read Less [-] • Confidence without attitude • Students always EWMBA 200S Data and Decisions 2 Units • Beyond yourself Terms offered: Not yet offered The objective of this core course is to make students critical consumers Undergraduate Program of statistical analysis using available software packages. Key concepts Business Administration (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/ include interpretation of regression analysis, model formation and testing, degree-programs/business-administration/): BS and diagnostic checking. Data and Decisions: Read More [+] Graduate Programs Hours & Format
Business Administration: Evening and Weekend MBA (http:// Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of guide.berkeley.edu/graduate/degree-programs/business-administration- discussion per week evening-weekend-mba/) Business Administration: Full-time MBA (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ Additional Details graduate/degree-programs/business-administration-full-time-mba/) Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Business Administration: MBA for Executives (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ graduate/degree-programs/business-administration-mba-executives/) Grading: Letter grade. Business Administration: PhD (http://guide.berkeley.edu/graduate/ degree-programs/business-administration-phd/) Data and Decisions: Read Less [-] Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ graduate/degree-programs/financial-engineering/) Select a subject to view courses • Evening and Weekend MBA (p. 1) • Business Administration—MBA (p. 35) • Business Administration—PhD (p. 70) • Business Administration—Undergraduate (p. 81) • Executive MBA (p. 111) Evening and Weekend MBA Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] 2 Haas School of Business
EWMBA 201A Economics for Business EWMBA 202 Financial Accounting 2 Units Decision Making 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Published financial reports provide the most important single set of data This course uses the tools and concepts of microeconomics to analyze on modern organizations. This course is designed to provide a working decision problems within a business firm. Particular emphasis is placed knowledge of accounting measurements which are necessary for a clear on the firm's choice of policies in determining prices, inputs usage, understanding of published financial reports. and outputs. The effects of the state of the competitive environment on Financial Accounting: Read More [+] business policies are also examined. Hours & Format Economics for Business Decision Making: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: Rules & Requirements 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: E204 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week
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Fall and/or spring: Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Financial Accounting: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 203 Introduction to Finance 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Grading: Letter grade. This course will examine the wide menu of available assets, the institutional structure of U.S. and international financial markets, and the Formerly known as: Business Administration E201A market mechanisms for trading securities. Topics include discounting, capital budgeting, historical behavior of asset returns, and diversification Economics for Business Decision Making: Read Less [-] and portfolio theory. Course will also provide introductions to asset pricing EWMBA 201B Macroeconomics in the Global theory for primary and derivative assets and to the principles governing corporate financial arrangements and contracting. Economy 2 Units Introduction to Finance: Read More [+] Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Hours & Format This course builds on the foundations developed in E201A to develop theories of fiscal policy, monetary policy, and other macro-economic Fall and/or spring: policies. Both the issues and the evidence in connection with these 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week policies will be examined. Other topics covered in the course range from 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week the specifics of the U.S. balance of payments situation to the broader problems associated with economic growth and decay in the world. Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Macroeconomics in the Global Economy: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Prerequisites: Business Administration E201A Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format Formerly known as: Business Administration E203 Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Introduction to Finance: Read Less [-] 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration E201B
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EWMBA 204 Operations 2 Units EWMBA 205D Business Communication in Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Diverse Work Environments 1 Unit An introduction to the application of quantitative methods to management Terms offered: Not yet offered decision problems. Topics include linear programming, probability theory, This course focuses on essential communication skills in the decision analysis, regression and correlation, and time series analysis. contemporary knowledge economy, where leaders must create Operations: Read More [+] sustainable settings for productive interaction among people with very Rules & Requirements different backgrounds and experiences. To harness this diversity, leaders must be adept at having difficult conversations, managing Prerequisites: Admission to the program conflict, debating effectively, providing and receiving feedback, mitigating Hours & Format problems associated with stereotypes and biases, and identifying and addressing structural sources of inequity. Students will develop Fall and/or spring: their critical thinking on topics such as identity, relationships across 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week differences, and equality of opportunity and improve their ability to create, 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week work within, and lead diverse teams and global organizations. Business Communication in Diverse Work Environments: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: Grading: Letter grade. 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration E204 Additional Details Operations: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
EWMBA 205 Leading People 2 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 A survey of knowledge about behavior in and of organizations. Covered Business Communication in Diverse Work Environments: Read Less [-] will be issues of individual behavior, group functioning, and the actions of organizations in their environments. Problems of work motivation, task EWMBA 205L Leadership 1 Unit design, leadership, communication, organizational design, and innovation Terms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008 will be analyzed from multiple theoretical perspectives. Implications for The objective of this course is to help students develop an understanding the management of organizations will be illustrated through examples, of their own strengths and weaknesses as leaders and to nurture cases, and exercises. their confidence to envision themselves as, and aspire to be, leaders Leading People: Read More [+] throughout their careers. The course will include four main components: Rules & Requirements 1) 360-degree assessment and an accompanying leadership self- assessment analysis; 2) live cases run by leaders in organizations; 3) Prerequisites: Admission to the program advanced practices about leadership; 4) experiential exercises. Hours & Format Leadership: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade.
Grading: Letter grade. Leadership: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E205
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EWMBA 206 Marketing 2 Units EWMBA 210 Strategy, Structure, and Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Incentives 3 Units Topics include an overview of the marketing system and the marketing Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 concepts, buyer behavior, market research, segmentation and marketing This course uses insights from economics to develop structure, tactics, decision making, marketing structures, and evaluation of marketing and incentives to achieve the firm's goals. It develops a framework performance in the economy and society. for analyzing organizational architecture, focusing on the allocation of Marketing: Read More [+] decision rights, the measurement of performance, and the design of Rules & Requirements incentives. Includes managing the vertical chain of upstream suppliers and downstream distributors, design and operation of incentive and Prerequisites: Business Administration E200 performance management systems, techniques for dealing with Hours & Format informational asymmetries. Strategy, Structure, and Incentives: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements
Summer: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: 201A or consent of instructor
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Grading: Letter grade. Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 207 Ethics and Responsibility in Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Business 1 Unit Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 A study of basic ideas, concepts, attitudes, rules, and institutions in our Strategy, Structure, and Incentives: Read Less [-] society that characterize the legal, political, and social framework within which the system operates. EWMBA 211 Game Theory 1 - 3 Units Ethics and Responsibility in Business: Read More [+] Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Spring 2014, Fall 2012 Rules & Requirements A survey of the main ideas and techniques of game-theoretic analysis related to bargaining, conflict, and negotiation. Emphasizes the Prerequisites: Admission to the program identification and analysis of archetypal strategic situations in bargaining. Goals of the course are to provide a foundation for applying game- Hours & Format theoretic analysis, both formally and intuitively, to negotiation and Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week bargaining; to recognize and assess archetypal strategic situations in complicated negotiation settings; and to feel comfortable in the process of Summer: 4 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week negotiation. Game Theory: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Grading: Letter grade. Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Formerly known as: Business Administration E207 Additional Details
Ethics and Responsibility in Business: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA W211 Game Theory (Online Version) EWMBA 212A Cleantech to Market 3 Units 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015 Terms offered: Spring 2016 In this course, interdisciplinary teams of graduate students work with A survey of the main ideas and techniques of game-theoretic analysis scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and across related to bargaining, conflict, and negotiation. Emphasizes the the UCB campus to commercialize new solar, biofuel, battery, and identification and analysis of archetypal strategic situations in bargaining. smart grid/energy management technologies. Students are drawn from Goals of the course are to provide a foundation for applying game- Business, Engineering, Science, Law, and the Energy and Resources theoretic analysis, both formally and intuitively, to negotiation and Group. Students explore topics such as: Potential application in multiple bargaining; to recognize and assess archetypal strategic situations in markets; alignment with target or desired market(s); distinguishing complicated negotiation settings. This course is taught online. advantages and disadvantages; customer and user profiles; top Game Theory (Online Version): Read More [+] competitors; commercialization and scale-up challenges; relevant Rules & Requirements government policies; revenue potential and cost sensitivities; intellectual property issues; and multiple other related topics. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Evening and Cleantech to Market: Read More [+] Weekend Masters in Business Administration W211 after taking Evening Hours & Format and Weekend Masters in Business Administration 211. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 7-10 hours of web-based lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Online: This is an online course. Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Cleantech to Market: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 212B Legal and Regulatory Grading: Letter grade. Frameworks for Energy and Infrastructure Game Theory (Online Version): Read Less [-] Project Finance 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 EWMBA 212 Energy and Environmental This course will explore the key commercial, legal, economic and policy Markets 3 Units issues affecting the development and financing of infrastructure projects, Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2007 with special emphasis on practical concerns related to investments in Business strategy and public issues in energy and environmental alternative energy and other power generation facilities. These topics markets. Topics include development and effect of organized spot, will be raised in the context of comparative, real-world case studies of futures, and derivative energy markets; political economy of regulation different types of energy and infrastructure projects. and deregulation; climate change and environmental policies related to Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Energy and Infrastructure Project energy production and use; cartels, market power and competition policy; Finance: Read More [+] pricing of exhaustible resources; competitiveness of alternative energy Hours & Format sources; and transportation and storage of energy commodities. Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week Energy and Environmental Markets: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Additional Details
Prerequisites: Business Administration E201A or equivalent Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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Formerly known as: Business Administration E212
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EWMBA 212C Modeling for Energy and EWMBA 215 Business Strategies for Infrastructure Project Finance 1 Unit Emerging Markets: Management, Investment, Terms offered: Prior to 2007 and Opportunities 1 - 3 Units This course compliments the course "Legal and Regulatory Frameworks Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2012 for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance". Where the former focuses This course helps students to study the institutions of emerging markets on the legal and risk framework for project financings, this course is that are relevant for managers, analyze opportunities presented by devoted to the financial and quantitative aspects of project finance. emerging markets, analyze the additional ethical challenges and issues The course focuses on the application of project finance to the power of social responsibility common in emerging markets, and learn to generation industry with a particular emphasis on examples from gas- minimize the risks in doing business in emerging markets. This course is fired, wind and solar technologies. a combination of lectures, class participation, and cases. Modeling for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance: Read More [+] Business Strategies for Emerging Markets: Management, Investment, Hours & Format and Opportunities: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Modeling for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance: Read Less [-] Business Strategies for Emerging Markets: Management, Investment, EWMBA 214 Big Data, Better Decisions 3 and Opportunities: Read Less [-] Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021 EWMBA 217 Topics in Economic Analysis Introduction to advanced methods for data driven decision making in and Policy 0.5 - 3 Units business. This course covers methods designed to provide evidence Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012 for two types of fundamental business issues: (i) forecasting and (ii) Advanced study in the field of economic analysis and policy. Topics will evaluating alternative possible strategies. The course aims to train vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each business leaders to understand the value of data-based decision making, semester. evaluate analytics tools and products, and conduct richer analysis Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read More [+] of randomized and naturally occurring experiments. Topics include Rules & Requirements designing randomized controlled trials in the field, evaluating natural experiments, and machine learning tools for forecasting. The goal of the Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. course is not to train you as a Data Scientist but to be able to read and evaluate empirical/analytic approaches and products. Hours & Format Big Data, Better Decisions: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 2-8 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration 200S Additional Details
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 214 after Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate completing MBA 214. A deficient grade in EWMBA 214 may be removed by taking MBA 214. Grading: Letter grade.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory per week
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Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 219 Health Economics and Policy 3 EWMBA 223 Financial Reporting Analysis for Units Investors 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2006 Students who have taken this course should (i) know and understand Intensive study of the theory and practice of financial accounting. Asset the literature and evidence on key health policy questions (e.g. why do and liability measurement, income determination, financial reporting. we spend so much on health care in the U.S.?), (ii) understand what Financial Reporting Analysis for Investors: Read More [+] constitutes causal evidence on key business and policy questions in Rules & Requirements health care, (iii) be able to design evaluations of business and policy decisions using different Prerequisites: Business Administration E202B and E203 or equivalent data sources and methods, (iv) understand the major health policies Hours & Format in the U.S. and the associated incentives/opportunities (i.e. the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.), and (v) using these tools, be able to evaluate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week companies, policies, entrepreneurial ideas and investment opportunities that can change health and health care in the U.S. and beyond. Additional Details Health Economics and Policy: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade.
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 224A Managerial Accounting 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2012 Grading: Letter grade. Management is dependent on an information system which provides dependable, timely, and relevant information to all decision makers. The Health Economics and Policy: Read Less [-] goal of this course is to identify the information needs of managers and to EWMBA 222 Financial Information Analysis 3 develop the methods by which managerial accountants can provide the necessary data through appropriate budget, cost, and other informational Units systems. Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 Managerial Accounting: Read More [+] Issues of accounting information evaluation with special emphasis on Rules & Requirements the use of financial statements by decision makers outside the firm. The implications of recent research in finance and accounting for external Prerequisites: E204 reporting issues will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on models that describe the user's decision context. Hours & Format Financial Information Analysis: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Formerly known as: Business Administration E202B Grading: Letter grade. Managerial Accounting: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E222
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EWMBA 229 Taxes and Firm Strategy 3 Units EWMBA 232 Financial Institutions and Terms offered: Not yet offered Markets 3 Units This course will cover various topics in personal or corporate taxation or Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 both. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Structure and operation of the Federal Reserve System commercial Taxes and Firm Strategy: Read More [+] bank and non-bank financial institutions. Impact of monetary policy Rules & Requirements and of public regulation. Portfolio composition and market behavior of financial intermediaries. Organization and functions of money markets. Prerequisites: Business Administration E202A and E202B or The structure of yields on financial assets and the influence of financial equivalents intermediaries and monetary policy. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 227B Financial Institutions and Markets: Read More [+] after completing BUS ADM E228. Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Prerequisites: Business Administration E201B and E203 or E230
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: Additional Details 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Formerly known as: Business Administration E232 Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Financial Institutions and Markets: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 227B EWMBA 233 Asset Management 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2010, Fall 2006 Taxes and Firm Strategy: Read Less [-] This course will analyze the role of financial markets and financial institutions in allocating capital. The major focus will be on debt contracts EWMBA 231 Corporate Finance 3 Units and securities and on innovations in the bond and money markets. The Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Summer 2013 10 Week Session functions of commercial banks, investment banks, and other financial Financial policies of firms including asset acquisition and replacement, intermediaries will be covered, and aspects of the regulation of these capital structure, dividends, working capital, and mergers. Development institutions will be examined. of theory and application to financial management decisions. Asset Management: Read More [+] Corporate Finance: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Prerequisites: Business Administration E230 Administration 203
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3-4.5 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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Formerly known as: Business Administration E234 Asset Management: Read Less [-] Corporate Finance: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 9
EWMBA 236A Corporate Risk Management EWMBA 236B Investment Strategies and and Valuation Using Derivatives 2 Units Styles 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2005 Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2009 This course concentrates on topics pertaining to financial risks faced by Introduction to alternative investment strategies and styles as practiced corporations, in particular, the topics of "hedging" and "valuation." The by leading money managers. A money manager will spend approximately course will consider the following type of question. What risks does a half of the class discussing his general investment philosophy. In the firm face? Should it hedge any of these risks? If so, how should the firm other half, students, practitioner, and instructor will explore the investment implement the hedge, i.e., using what instruments, and in what quantity? merits of one particular company. Students will be expected to use the The main tool that the course will make use of is financial derivatives. library's resources, class handouts, and their ingenuity to address a set of An important aspect of the study of derivatives is the valuation method, questions relating to the firm's investment value. which provides an understanding of the market prices and can be used to Investment Strategies and Styles: Read More [+] evaluate investment opportunities, corporate securities, and others. The Rules & Requirements course will consist of a mixture of lectures and case discussions. Corporate Risk Management and Valuation Using Derivatives: Read Prerequisites: Business Administration E203 plus one additional More [+] graduate finance course Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Hours & Format Administration 233 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Formerly known as: Business Administration E239 Grading: Letter grade. Investment Strategies and Styles: Read Less [-] Corporate Risk Management and Valuation Using Derivatives: Read Less [-] EWMBA 236C Global Financial Services 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 Survey of the forces changing and shaping global finance and intermediation, especially the effects of greater ease of communication, deregulation and globalized disciplines expected to continue to be essential to corporate finance and intermediation, e.g., investment analysis, valuation, structured finance/securitization, and derivative applications. The case method is utilized with occasional additional assigned readings and text sources. Global Financial Services: Read More [+] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 236D Portfolio Management 3 Units EWMBA 236F Behavioral Finance 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2007 This course explores the broad range of portfolio management in This course looks at the influence of decision heuristics and biases on practice. The class will examine the assets, strategies, characteristics, investor welfare, financial markets, and corporate decisions. Topics operations, and concerns unique to each type of portfolio. Practitioners include overconfidence, attribution theory, representative heuristic, will present descriptions of their businesses as well as methods and availability heuristic, anchoring and adjustment, prospect theory, strategies that they employ. "Winner's Curse," speculative bubbles, IPOs, market efficiency, limits of Portfolio Management: Read More [+] arbitrage, relative mis-pricing of common stocks, the tendency to trade in Rules & Requirements a highly correlated fashion, investor welfare, and market anomalies. Behavioral Finance: Read More [+] Prerequisites: 203 or consent of instructor Rules & Requirements
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Summer: 8 weeks - 5-14 hours of lecture and 5.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Portfolio Management: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 236E Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value 2 Units Behavioral Finance: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Survey of the day-to-day practices and techniques used in change of EWMBA 236G Designing Financial Models control transaction. Topics include valuation, financing, deal structuring, that Work 1 or 2 Units tax and accounting considerations, agreements, closing documents, Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 practices used in management buyouts, divestitures, hostile takeovers, Spreadsheet financial models are often too big, complicated, and buggy and takeover defenses. Also covers distinctions in technology M&A, to help people. In this course, students learn to design financial models detecting corruption in cross border transaction attempts, and betting on that work because they're small (fit on a screen or two), straightforward deals through risk arbitrage. Blend of lectures, case studies, and guest (involve basic math), clear (a non-MBA can follow them readily), and lectures. fast to build. These simple yet powerful representations of the cash flow Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value: Read More [+] for a new product/deal/venture help people share their vision, recognize Rules & Requirements tradeoffs, brainstorm possibilities, and make decisions. Designing Financial Models that Work: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Rules & Requirements Administration 203 or consent of instructor Prerequisites: 203 or consent of instructor Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 14 weeks - 1-2 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Summer: Additional Details 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 2-3.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 236H Financial Statement Modeling EWMBA 236J Hedge Fund Strategies 3 Units for Finance Careers 1 or 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Summer 2020 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2015 This course combines broad exposure to the many types of hedge funds Financial statement modeling refers to taking historical financial and their strategies, together with hands-on development of unique statements for a specific company, projecting those statements two to investment strategies within student teams. Course content delivered five years into the future, and using the resulting projections for valuation via speakers representing different sectors of the hedge fund industry, and insight into the potential for transactions such as a strategic merger, lectures, readings and individual and team projects. Students also learn an initial public offering, a leveraged recapitalization, or a leveraged about investing in hedge funds, including evaluation of fund performance. buyout. This course teaches this skill set in a way that is simultaneously Concurrently, student teams develop their own investment strategies by high level and hands-on. exploring unique expertise and insights that are resident within the teams, Financial Statement Modeling for Finance Careers: Read More [+] forming original theses on changes and catalysts, incorporating lessons Rules & Requirements from hedge fund speakers, and crafting investment strategies designed to capitalize on the teams’ insights. Prerequisites: 203 or consent of instructor Hedge Fund Strategies: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 14 weeks - 1-2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 8 weeks - 2-3.5 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade.
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 236K Haas Investment Fund 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Grading: Letter grade. Students who elect to continue on to this course from the Hedge Fund Strategies course have the opportunity to proceed from strategy Financial Statement Modeling for Finance Careers: Read Less [-] development into implementation phase, investing capital from a EWMBA 236I Fixed Income 2 Units dedicated fund. Judges for the final pitch in Hedge Fund Strategies allocate capital from the fund based on perceived promise of market- Terms offered: Prior to 2007 beating returns, taken together with perceived risk. The teams refine their This course first surveys the basics of fixed income: terminology, security strategies based on feedback from the judges’ feedback and instructors’ types, debt and money markets. Attention then moves to the valuation guidance, building out their portfolios and managing their strategies over of cash flows, term structure of interest rates and modeling of credit risk. several months. Teams access trading accounts and are responsible for Building on that foundation, the course then examines the key role that their portfolios. fixed income plays in the global financial system, other asset classes Haas Investment Fund: Read More [+] and derivatives. The course is firmly grounded in a quantitative and Hours & Format analytical approach, with each topic placed in the relevant real world context -- for example, the role that high yield securities play in an LBO, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week and negotiation of bond covenants. The course is at the more quantitative end of the MBA curriculum, with a large focus on bond math, including Additional Details duration and convexity. Fixed Income: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Haas Investment Fund: Read Less [-] Additional Details
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EWMBA 236L Private Equity, Leveraged EWMBA 236T Fin Tech 3 Units Buyouts 1 or 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This is a non-traditional finance course that focuses on who gets "rents" This course focuses primarily on leveraged buyouts (LBOs), as the in existing finance markets and the barriers to entry that can be overcome largest category of PE transactions. The study includes the sourcing of by technology. The course covers (i) the basics of the payment system potential acquisitions, analysis of operations and potential improvements, and how it is changing, (ii) how other stores of value embedded in mobile corporate valuation, optimal capital structures, modeling of expected cash technology are used, in both high- and low-income countries, (iii) changes flows and debt repayment, negotiation of purchase price and financing in other financial sectors including advice, banking and insurance, and terms, incentivizing management teams, and eventual monetizing (iv) the potential of cryptocurrencies and the possibilities for disruption investments through M&A or IPOs. These subjects are studied through inherent in an open, consensus ledger (e.g., the BlockChain). Students lectures, interactive discussion, case studies, individual assignments and will learn to make analytical judgments about the benefit that technology especially group projects. The 2-unit section covers a broader spectrum can bring to financial intermediaries. of types of PE transactions and includes guest speakers from the PE Fin Tech: Read More [+] industry, and a more expansive final project. Rules & Requirements Private Equity, Leveraged Buyouts: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration Hours & Format 203 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Private Equity, Leveraged Buyouts: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
EWMBA 236M Turnarounds 2 Units Fin Tech: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Not yet offered This course introduces the world of operational and strategic turnarounds EWMBA 236V New Venture Finance 2 - 3 of troubled and underperforming businesses. It focuses on the leadership Units practices that work in fixing flawed enterprises, from underperforming Terms offered: Prior to 2007 businesses to those on the brink of a death spiral. Most time in the This is a course about financing new entrepreneurial ventures, course is spent learning how to more effectively lead companies that are emphasizing those that have the possibility of creating a national underperforming or in trouble. The course is taught by cases, with the or international impact or both. It will take two perspectives--the view that the best way to learn leadership is by taking the perspective of entrepreneur's and the investor's- and it will place a special focus on the business leaders facing crises that demand new direction. Since a rescue venture capital process, including how they are formed and managed, plan only works if it is embraced, students take various roles in the cases, accessing the public markets, mergers, and strategic alliances. including bosses, subordinates, boards and lenders. New Venture Finance: Read More [+] Turnarounds: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Summer: 1 weeks - 40 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Turnarounds: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 237 Topics in Finance 0.5 - 3 Units EWMBA 246 Project Management 1 - 2 Units Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Fall 2014, Summer 2014 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 10 Week Session The primary objective of this course is to develop the critical skills and Advanced study in the field of Finance. Topics will vary from year to year knowledge needed to successfully pitch and lead projects, and to deliver and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. those projects on time and within budget. The course delves into formal Topics in Finance: Read More [+] planning and scheduling techniques including: project definition, project Rules & Requirements selection, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource Estimation, Critical Path Method (CPM), Pert, Gantt Charts, Resource Constrained Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Scheduling, Project Monitoring and Project Closing. Project Management: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Graduate standing Summer: Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 290P 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week after completing BUS ADM 290L. 8 weeks - 1-5.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Summer: Grading: Letter grade. 2 weeks - 14-30 hours of lecture per week Topics in Finance: Read Less [-] 6 weeks - 5-10 hours of lecture per week EWMBA 240 Decision Models 2 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Survey of the formulation, solution, and interpretation of mathematical models to assist managerial decisions. Emphasis on applications from Grading: Letter grade. diverse businesses and industries, including inventory management, project management, portfolio optimization, revenue management, Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 290P production planning, and others. Three types of models are covered: Project Management: Read Less [-] simulation, dynamic programming, and optimization. Analysis is facilitated by the Excel add-in Analytic Solver Platform. EWMBA 246A Service Strategy 3 Units Decision Models: Read More [+] Terms offered: Fall 2006 Rules & Requirements This course is designed to teach general management principles involved Prerequisites: 203 and 204, or consent of instructor in the planning, execution, and management of service businesses. It covers both strategic and tactical aspects, including the development of Hours & Format a strategic service vision, building employee loyalty, developing customer loyalty and satisfaction, improving productivity and service quality, service Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week innovation, and the role of technology in services. Blend of case studies, group projects, class discussions, and selected readings. Additional Details Service Strategy: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Rules & Requirements
Grading: Letter grade. Prerequisites: 204 or Master of Business Administration 204 or consent of instructor Decision Models: Read Less [-] Hours & Format
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EWMBA 247 Topics in Operations and EWMBA 250 Leading High Impact Teams 2 Information Technology Management 0.5 - 3 Units Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Terms offered: Spring 2015 This course helps students hone and develop the leadership skills Advanced study in the field of Manufacturing and Operations. Topics will needed to lead dynamic, complex, global teams. Globalization, rapid vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each technological change, and a shift towards an innovation-based economy semester. have resulted in more dynamic, distributed, cross-functional, as well Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read as demographically and culturally diverse teams. Students will learn More [+] to create team developmental plans and accountability, coach teams Rules & Requirements through challenges, encourage teams to recognize and avoid bias and misattributions, and lead from a distance and across boundaries. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Leading High Impact Teams: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Leading High Impact Teams: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 251A People Analytics 2 Units Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 247A Terms offered: Not yet offered Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read Students will gain command of the core statistical concepts Less [-] needed to measure and understand measurements of people in organizations. Students learn how to interpret statistics to make critical EWMBA 248A Supply Chain Management 3 recommendations to (or as) senior leaders, and how to tell a compelling Units story using People Analytics data. This involves learning the fundamental tools of analytics (descriptive statistics, correlations, etc.), building and Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 testing HR chat bots, reviewing and conducting randomized experiments, Supply chain management concerns the flow of materials and information interpreting and producing data visualizations, all while accounting in multistage production and distribution networks. This course provides for ethical concerns such as data privacy and biases (human and knowledge of organizational models and analytical decision support algorithmic). tools necessary to design, implement, and sustain successful supply People Analytics: Read More [+] chain strategies. Topics include demand and supply management, Hours & Format inventory management, supplier-buyer coordination via incentives, vendor management, and the role of information technology in supply Fall and/or spring: chain management. 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Supply Chain Management: Read More [+] 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: 204 or Master of Business Administration 204 or equivalent Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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EWMBA 252 Negotiations and Conflict EWMBA 254 Power and Politics in Resolution 2 or 3 Units Organizations 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Spring 2015 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 The purpose of this course is for students to understand the theory and This course will provide students with a sense of "political intelligence." processes of negotiation so that they can negotiate successfully in a After taking this course, students will be able to: (1) diagnose the true variety of settings. This course is designed to complement the technical distribution of power in organizations, (2) identify strategie for building and diagnostic skills learned in other courses in the MBA program. sources of power, (3) develop techniques for influencing others, (4) Negotiations and Conflict Resolution: Read More [+] understand the role of power in building cooperation and leading change Hours & Format in organizations, and (5) make sense of others' attempts to influence them. These skills are essential for effective and satisfying career Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week building. Power and Politics in Organizations: Read More [+] Summer: 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Negotiations and Conflict Resolution: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
EWMBA 253 Decision Making 2 Units Power and Politics in Organizations: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course aims to improve the quality of decisions people make. EWMBA W254 Power and Politics in Students learn to be aware of, and to avoid, common inferential errors Organizations 2 Units and systematic biases in decision making. There are many decision traps Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 that we tend to repeatedly fall into. These traps relate to how we think This course will provide students with a sense of "political intelligence," about risk and probability, how we learn from experience, and how we enabling them to: 1) Diagnose the true distribution of power in make choices. Upon completion, students will have internalized the basic organizations, 2) Identify strategies for building sources of power, 3) principles of decision making and will be able to avoid falling into these Develop techniques for influencing others, 4) Understand the role of traps. The course additionally aims to create a deeper understanding of power in building cooperation and leading change, and 5) Make sense the psychology of decision making, which can create an advantage in of others' attempts to influence them. This is an online course, utilizing negotiations and other interactions through gaining an awareness of the multiple media and providing flexibility in when and how students learn. predictable mistakes of others. Power and Politics in Organizations: Read More [+] Decision Making: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Master of Business Administration 205 Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 7-10 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Decision Making: Read Less [-] Instructor: Anderson
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EWMBA 255 Leadership 1 - 3 Units EWMBA 257 Special Topics in the Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Management of Organizations 0.5 - 3 Units This course will increase your awareness of your own strengths and Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014 opportunities for improvement while gaining an understanding of the Advanced study in the field of Organizational Behavior and Industrial qualities essential to being an extraordinary leader. By the end of the Relations. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the course, we are hoping that you will have: Increased your understanding beginning of each semester. of what distinguishes between more and less successful leaders and Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read More [+] construct a plan for your own development as a leader; sharpened your Rules & Requirements ability to diagnose situations and determine how you can add value; gained experience and confidence in leadership situations, such as Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. dealing with difficult people and inspiring others to accomplish shared team and organizational goals; and developed the ability to accept and Hours & Format leverage feedback and offer useful feedback to others. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Leadership: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week
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Grading: Letter grade. Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read Less [-] Leadership: Read Less [-] EWMBA 258A International Business: EWMBA 256 Global Leadership 3 Units Designing Global Organizations 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 Terms offered: Spring 2008 Key behaviors of successful global leaders are examined based on This course is about flexible organizational designs and adaptive recent research and examples. Blended learning approach enables leadership strategies in global markets. It will be of special interest students to build skills for working effectively with virtual colleagues, to students working in high tech, life sciences and biotechnology, motivating people from different backgrounds, running a global team, telecommunications, management consulting, and financial services. exerting influence without direct authority, integrating a merger or Topics include new trends in global organizational design, leading geo- acquisition, leading a cross-border innovation effort, handling customer dispersed teams of knowledge workers, managing offshore partnerships, or supplier relations, coaching and developing talent, driving a change integrating acquisitions, and executing change with multicultural initiative, and making tough ethical choices. Areas of focus will include knowledge workers. self, team, and organization, with the aim to increase both personal International Business: Designing Global Organizations: Read More [+] awareness and organizational impact in a global context. Rules & Requirements Global Leadership: Read More [+] Prerequisites: 205 Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Global Leadership: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 258P The Science of Productivity EWMBA 260 Customer Insights 3 Units and Performance 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Fall 2006 Terms offered: Not yet offered Examines concepts and theories from behavioral science useful for the This course is an elective designed to help students improve their understanding and prediction of marketplace behavior and demand personal and professional effectiveness using research in cognitive analysis. Emphasizes applications to the development of marketing policy psychology, neuroscience, and physiology. Expect to hear from scientific planning and strategy and to various decision areas within marketing. experts and industry executives. Students will learn habits to help Customer Insights: Read More [+] them accomplish more in fewer hours, choose between conflicting Rules & Requirements priorities, sustain productivity and avoid burnout, and upgrade your Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 or equivalent team’s productivity and performance. This course is built around practical behavior change and is designed to help students navigate our “always Hours & Format on” business culture. Students will leave with a foundation of new habits around productivity and self-care, as well as a personalized action plan to Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week better manage the demands in their lives. The Science of Productivity and Performance: Read More [+] Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Customer Insights: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 261 Marketing Research: Tools and The Science of Productivity and Performance: Read Less [-] Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis 2 - 3 Units EWMBA 259 Becoming a Changemaker 2 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2013 Units This course develops the skills necessary to plan and implement Terms offered: Not yet offered an effective market research study. Topics include research design, This course inspires, trains and equips participants to convert raw psychological measurement, survey methods, experimentation, statistical energy and enthusiasm for creating a better world into real leadership analysis of marketing data, and effective reporting of technical material skills and mindsets which will empower you to create positive change to management. Students select a client and prepare a market research at an individual, organizational and societal level. Anchored in change study during the course. Course intended for students with substantive leadership and bringing together the fields of entrepreneurship, interests in marketing. innovation, leadership & social impact, the course is focused on moving Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and from ideas to action; gaining inspiration from diverse changemakers Analysis: Read More [+] across roles and sectors; learning how to navigate, shape and lead Rules & Requirements change to thrive amidst uncertainty; and helping you become the kind of leader our companies, our communities and our world need right now. Prerequisites: Business Administration 200 or comparable statistical Becoming a Changemaker: Read More [+] course Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Becoming a Changemaker: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E261
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EWMBA 262 Strategic Brand Management 3 EWMBA 263 Marketing Analytics 3 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2007, Spring 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Information technology has allowed firms to gather and process large The focus of this course is on developing student skills to formulate quantities of information about consumers' choices and reactions and critique complete marketing programs including product, price, to marketing campaigns. However, few firms have the expertise distribution, and promotion policies. Case analyses are heavily used. The to intelligently act on such information. This course addresses this course is designed primarily for students who will take a limited number of shortcoming by teaching students how to use customer information advanced marketing courses and wish an integrated approach. to better market to consumers. In addition, the course addresses how Strategic Brand Management: Read More [+] information technology affects marketing strategy. Rules & Requirements Marketing Analytics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Formerly known as: Business Administration E262A Formerly known as: Business Administration E262B Strategic Brand Management: Read Less [-] Marketing Analytics: Read Less [-] EWMBA 262A Brand Manager Boot Camp 3 Units EWMBA 264 High Technology Marketing Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Management 3 Units This course will immerse students in the roles and responsibilities of a Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Students will examine key marketplace High technology refers to that class of products and services which is drivers of B2B and B2C companies and learn how to generate organic subject to technological change at a pace significantly faster than for growth. Emphasis will be placed on practical skills needed to successfully most goods in the economy. Under such circumstances, the marketing execute job responsibilities. Students will explore various product task faced by the high technology firm differs in some ways from the launch strategies and marketing mixes in different country contexts, usual. The purpose of this course is to explore these differences. examine how to use Big Data to generate sales growth, and learn the High Technology Marketing Management: Read More [+] key elements to producing and executing a strategic marketing plan. Rules & Requirements The course uses a combination of lecturer, case studies, and group Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 or equivalent and individual projects. Presentation and writing skills are given extra attention. Hours & Format Brand Manager Boot Camp: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 265 Influencing Consumers 2 - 3 EWMBA 267 Topics in Marketing 0.5 - 3 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Advanced study in the field of Marketing. Topics will vary from year to A specialized course in advertising, focusing on management and year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. decision-making. Topics include objective-setting, copy decisions, media Topics in Marketing: Read More [+] decisions, budgeting, and examination of theories, models, and other Rules & Requirements research methods appropriate to these decision areas. Other topics Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. include social/economic issues of advertising by nonprofit organizations. Influencing Consumers: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Administration 206 or equivalent Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week
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Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 268B International Marketing 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2009 Influencing Consumers: Read Less [-] Provides frameworks, knowledge; and sensitivities to formulate and EWMBA 266 Sales Force Management and implement marketing strategies for competing in the international arena. Regions and countries covered include the Americas, Europe, Japan, Channel Strategy 3 Units China, India, Russia, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Issues covered include Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Summer 2006 10 Week global versus local advertising, international pricing strategies, selecting Session and managing strategic international alliances and distribution channels, The success of any marketing program often weighs heavily upon its managing international brands and product lines through product life co-execution by members of the firm's distribution channel. This course cycle, international retailing, and internatiional marketing organization and seeks to provide an understanding of how the strategic and tactical roles control. of the channel can be identified and managed. This is accomplished, first, International Marketing: Read More [+] through studying the broad economic and social forces that govern the Hours & Format channel evolution. It is completed through the examination of tools to select, manage, and motivate channel partners. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Sales Force Management and Channel Strategy: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 268C Social Media Marketing 1 - 3 EWMBA 269 Pricing 3 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Spring Terms offered: Fall 2014 2014 The course covers the implications of the evolution of communication This three-module course aims to equip students with proven concepts, on marketing strategy in the new landscape where traditional and digital techniques, and frameworks for assessing and formulating pricing media coexist and interact. While advertising spending on traditional strategies. The first module develops the economic and behavorial media has recently declined, increasing amounts are spent online foundations of pricing. The second module discusses several innovative in addition to unpaid media. These new communication channels, pricing concepts including price customization, nonlinear pricing, price however, are presenting significant challenges to marketers in selecting matching, and product line pricing. The third module analyzes the the best strategies to maximize returns. The course covers a number strengths and weaknesses of several Internet-based, buyer-determined of topics including, but not limited to: The differences and interaction pricing models. between traditional and social media; two-sided markets and social media Pricing: Read More [+] platforms; a basic theory of social networks online and offline; consumer Hours & Format behavior and digital media. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Social Media Marketing: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week
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Grading: Letter grade. Pricing: Read Less [-] Social Media Marketing: Read Less [-] EWMBA 271 Tech and the City: How to Get EWMBA 268D Design and Marketing New Urban Innovation Right 2 - 3 Units Products 3 Units Terms offered: Not yet offered This course critically examines how new technologies and business Terms offered: Prior to 2007 models impact cities, and identifies the approaches that produce not only With rapid advancements in materials and technologies, the product the best business outcomes, but also the most equitable and sustainable life cycle is getting shorter and shorter. Consequently, companies outcomes. To begin, we explore what makes cities such compelling need to constantly improve existing products and develop new ones. laboratories for technology innovation, learn from past attempts at “smart This course examines the strategies, processes and methods used by city” interventions, and discuss how technologists can identify more these companies, and the cutting-edge tools and techniques used for effective solutions to today’s urban challenges. We’ll then hear from a new-product development. Readings and guest speakers from both variety of cutting edge practitioners, including venture investors, startup product and services will be used to develop understanding and mastery. founders, government officials, tech journalists and community organizers Upon conclusion, students will be able to identify new market space about the unique opportunities and challenges of building an urban tech opportunities, evaluate qualitative and quantitative research and turn it startup today. into actionable decisions, and develop long-range business plans to meet Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read More [+] both strategic and financial objectives of a new product launch. Hours & Format Design and Marketing New Products: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week
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Grading: Letter grade. Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read Less [-]
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EWMBA 273 Dynamic Capabilities and EWMBA 277 Special Topics in Business and Innovation 2 - 3 Units Public Policy 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 This is a course in strategic management. It draws on a variety of Topics vary by semester at discretion of instructor and by student disciplines and integrates them in the fashion that will generate key demand. Topical areas include business and professional ethics and the insights into how technology can be developed and managed. role of corporate social responsibility in the mixed economy; managing This course will help students acquire and practice concepts and the external affairs of the corporation, including community, government, skills that are relevant to management in a technologically dynamic media and stakeholder relations; technology policy, research and environment. It provides frameworks for intellectual capital management development, and the effects of government regulation of business on in the private sector. technological innovation and adoption. This course is aimed at those interested in working for either large or Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read More [+] small firms in technologically progressive industries, as well as those Rules & Requirements wishing to understand how mature industries can create and respond to innovation. Prerequisites: Business Administration E207 or equivalent, or consent of Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation: Read More [+] instructor Hours & Format Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 277 after Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture per week completing BUS ADM E278.
Additional Details Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate semester.
Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format
Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week EWMBA 275 Business Law: Managing the Summer: 3 weeks - 5-15 hours of lecture per week Legal Environment 3 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2007 A manager must understand the legal environments which impact Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate business and understand how to work effectively with lawyers. This course addresses the legal aspects of business relationships and Grading: Letter grade. business agreements. Topics covered include forms of business Formerly known as: Business Administration E278 organization, duties of officers and directors, intellectual property, antitrust, contracts, employment relationships, criminal law, and debtor- Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read Less [-] creditor relationships including bankruptcy. Business Law: Managing the Legal Environment: Read More [+] EWMBA 280 Real Estate Investment Analysis Rules & Requirements and Sustainability 3 Units Prerequisites: Completion of all core courses or consent of instructor Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2006 Intensive review of literature in the theory of land utilization, urban growth Hours & Format and real estate market behavior; property rights and valuation; residential and non-residential markets; construction, debt and equity financing; Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week public controls and policies. Real Estate Investment Analysis and Sustainability: Read More [+] Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Business Law: Managing the Legal Environment: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration E280
Real Estate Investment Analysis and Sustainability: Read Less [-] 22 Haas School of Business
EWMBA 282 Real Estate Development 3 Units EWMBA 284 Real Estate Investment Strategy Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013 3 Units The interaction of the private and public sectors in urban development; Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2007 modeling the urban economy; growth and decline of urban areas; Analysis of selected problems and special studies; cases in residental selected policy issues: housing, transportation, financing, local and non-residental development and financing, urban redevelopment, government, urban redevelopment, and neighborhood change are real estate taxation, mortgage market developments, equity investment, examined. valuation, and zoning. Real Estate Development: Read More [+] Real Estate Investment Strategy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format
Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of seminar per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade.
Grading: Letter grade. Formerly known as: Business Administration E284
Formerly known as: Business Administration 282 Real Estate Investment Strategy: Read Less [-] Real Estate Development: Read Less [-] EWMBA 287 Special Topics in Real Estate EWMBA 283 Real Estate Finance and Economics and Finance 1 - 3 Units Securitization 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2009, Spring 2008 Topics vary each semester. Topic areas include advanced techniques Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 for real estate financial analysis and structuring and evaluation; the Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of real estate financial securitization of real estate debt and equity; issues in international real analysis, including elements of mortgage financing and taxation. The estate; cyclical behavior of real estate markets; portfolio theory and real course will apply the standard tools of financial analysis to specialized estate asset allocation. real estate financing circumstances and real estate evaluation. Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read More [+] Real Estate Finance and Securitization: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Business Administration E280 and consent of instructor Prerequisites: Business Administration E280; and background in the basics of finance, micro-economics, macro-economics, statistics and Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. quantitative analysis Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 2-6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Formerly known as: Business Administration E283 Formerly known as: Business Administration E281 Real Estate Finance and Securitization: Read Less [-] Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 23
EWMBA 290A Fundamentals of Design EWMBA 290E Innovation Strategies for Thinking 1 Unit Emerging Technologies 2 Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Terms offered: Prior to 2007 The course will introduce the Design Thinking mindset to MBA students Every successful entrepreneurial high tech venture has at its core and support it with tools, processes and strategies to solve business individuals with mastery of two skill sets: marketing and management problems with a non-traditional problem-solving approach. Design expertise, and technological skill. This course is intended to provide the thinking uses quantitative information to inform qualitative decision marketing skills needed for the management of an entrepreneurial high making. Rooted in the formal disciplines of design, the course works technology venture, regardless of whether the individual's "home" skill set with core principles of creativity, discovery, curiosity, deferred judgment, is technical or managerial. We examine in depth successful marketing process discipline and positive human collaboration. Students will gain approaches for entrepreneurial companies as a function of markets experience using the design thinking process through hands-on learning, and technologies. Emphasis is placed on the special requirements for reading and team-based collaborative projects. creating and executing marketing plans and programs in a setting of rapid Fundamentals of Design Thinking: Read More [+] technological change and limited resources. Hours & Format Innovation Strategies for Emerging Technologies: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 2 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Innovation Strategies for Emerging Technologies: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 290H Haas@Work 3 Units Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Terms offered: Fall 2015 class is offered. The primary objective of this course and the associated innovation consulting projects is for students to learn and apply the approaches, Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 200P skills, and behaviors required to successfully initiate and drive innovation in a complex organization. Students taking the course will use concepts Fundamentals of Design Thinking: Read Less [-] and tools from several other Haas courses, including Economic Analysis EWMBA 290B Biotechnology Industry for Business Decisions, Strategic Leadership, Leading People, Finance, and Problem Finding Problem Solving. As important, the student teams Perspectives and Business Development 2 are expected to deliver the highest quality work and deliverables, genuine Units insights, innovative solutions, and real value on mission-critical client Terms offered: Prior to 2007 projects. This course is designed to examine the strategic issues that confront Haas@Work: Read More [+] the management of the development-stage biotech company, i.e., after Hours & Format its startup via an initial capital infusion, but before it might be deemed successful, or otherwise has achieved "first-tier" status. The intention is Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week to study the biotech organization during the process of its growth and Additional Details maturation from an early-stage existence through "adolescence" into an early-stage existence. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Biotechnology Industry Perspectives and Business Development: Read More [+] Grading: Letter grade. Rules & Requirements Haas@Work: Read Less [-] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 290I Managing Innovation and EWMBA 290S Strategy for the Information Change 3 Units Technology Firm 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course is designed to introduce students to the innovation process This course is a strategy and general management course for students and its management. It provides an overview of technological change and interested in pursuing careers in the global information technology links it to specific strategic challenges; examines the diverse elements of industry. Students are taught to view the IT industry through the eyes of the innovation process and how they are managed; discusses the uneasy the general manager/CEO (whether at a start-up or an industry giant). relationship between technology and the workforce; and examines They learn how to evaluate strategic options and their consequences, challenges of managing innovation globally. how to understand the perspectives of various industry players, and how Managing Innovation and Change: Read More [+] to anticipate how they are likely to behave under various circumstances. Hours & Format These include the changing economics of production, the role network effects and standards have on adoption of new products and services, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week the tradeoffs among potential pricing strategies, and the regulatory and public policy context. Additional Details Strategy for the Information Technology Firm: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Hours & Format
Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Formerly known as: Business Administration E274 Additional Details
Managing Innovation and Change: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 290K Innovation in Services and Grading: Letter grade. Business Models 2 Units Strategy for the Information Technology Firm: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course examines services innovation, first covering key concepts, EWMBA 290T Special Topics in Innovation including how services innovation differs from product innovation, the role and Design 0.5 - 3 Units of openness in services, the role of business models, and co-creation. Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 The course then introduces several tools and frameworks to apply those Advanced study in the fields of innovation and design. Topics will vary concepts to specific services situations. These include process design, from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each process mapping and improvement, business models, co-creation, and semester. platform innovation. Special Topics in Innovation and Design: Read More [+] Innovation in Services and Business Models: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Instructor: Chesbrough Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Innovation in Services and Business Models: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Special Topics in Innovation and Design: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 25
EWMBA 290V Corporate Strategy in EWMBA 291D Data Visualization 1 - 2 Units Telecommunications and Media 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2010 Terms offered: Fall 2013 This course exposes the problems of poor data presentation and This course is intended for students who wish to gain better introduces design practices necessary to communicate quantitative understanding of one of the most important issues facing management business information clearly, efficiently, and powerfully. This course today--designing, implementing, and managing telecommunication identifies what to look for in the data and describes the types of graphs and distributed computer systems. The following topics are covered: and visual analysis techniques most effective for spotting what is a survey of networking technologies; the selection, design, and meaningful and making sense of it. management of telecommunication systems; strategies for distributed Data Visualization: Read More [+] data processing; office automation; and management of personal Hours & Format computers in organizations. Fall and/or spring: Corporate Strategy in Telecommunications and Media: Read More [+] 2 weeks - 8-15 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Business Administration 204 Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Data Visualization: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 291F Audience-Focused Grading: Letter grade. Communication 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Corporate Strategy in Telecommunications and Media: Read Less [-] Students will learn to identify and present from their strengths; utilize EWMBA 291C Active Communicating 1 Unit techniques to understand and address their audience's overt and hidden agendas; determine what is pertinent in their presentations, and what Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 should be left out; present information tailored to a specific audience's This course develops the basic building blocks of impactful way of understanding, and thus answer the audience's unspoken communication--e.g., concentration, energy, voice, physical questions; analyze, receive and offer constructive feedback; use their expressiveness, spontaneity, listening, awareness, and presence--by bodies and breath to give themselves more presence and power; drawing upon expertise from theater arts. Active, participatory exercises communicate to groups via video-conference; and demonstrate a level allow for the development and embodiment of effective communication of mastery of presentation skills by exuding confidence, presence, and skills. Class readings, lectures, and discussions address participants' influence through strategic, audience-focused communication. specific workplace applications. Audience-Focused Communication: Read More [+] Active Communicating: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week Summer: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 8 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Audience-Focused Communication: Read Less [-] Active Communicating: Read Less [-] 26 Haas School of Business
EWMBA 291I Improvisational Leadership 1 EWMBA 291R Building Trust-Based Unit Relationships 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This class explores the broad principles of improvisation, a performing The objective of this course is to help students become better leaders by art form that has developed pedagogical methods to enhance individual strengthening their ability to build trust-based relationships with others spontaneity, listening and awareness, expressive skills, risk-taking, and such as direct reports, supervisors, peers and customers. The course one’s ability to make authentic social and emotional connections. The draws appropriate links back to Leadership Communications and forward ultimate aim of the course is to help students develop an innovative and to Applied Innovation. Students will (i) debrief their experience of putting improvisational leadership mindset, sharpening in-the-moment decision learning from Leadership Communications into action in their workplace; making and the ability to quickly recognize and act upon opportunities (ii) practice various approaches to honing their empathy, including the when presented. In practical terms, this course strives to enhance use of insightful questions rather than assertions as the basis for a students’ business communication skills and increase both interpersonal dialogue with others; and (iii) learn a simple peer coaching model that intuition and confidence. they will use in between face-to-face sessions with their classmates. Improvisational Leadership: Read More [+] Building Trust-Based Relationships: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements
Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration 200C Summer: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 6 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Improvisational Leadership: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 291L Leader as Coach 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Building Trust-Based Relationships: Read Less [-] This course focuses on the art and science of coaching including theory and practice. The curriculum will cover theory and practice for three EWMBA 291S Storytelling for Leadership 1 aspects of the coaching process – knowledge-based (information Unit and skills), motivation-based (inspiration and passion), and strategy- Terms offered: Prior to 2007 based (communication and integration). The curriculum will focus on This course provides students with personal leadership development primary coaching skills, tools, processes and behaviors that a coach through the ability to tell "Who Am I" leadership journey stories, for use uses. In addition, participants will learn facilitation skills as the preferred in the business context. For leaders, whose job it is to manage change, methodology in achieving successful coaching programs. Course the approach to storytelling facilitates learning and is a vehicle to assist participants will have the opportunity to utilize this material in practice others in overcoming obstacles, generating enthusiasm and team work, coaching sessions with supervision and feedback from peers and the sharing knowledge and ultimately leading to build trust and connection. instructor. This course give strategies, skills and practices for the three elements Leader as Coach: Read More [+] of telling powerful leadership stories: Story Content, Story Structure and Hours & Format Story Delivery. The course is highly interactive. Storytelling for Leadership: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Leader as Coach: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 291T Topics In Managerial EWMBA 292B Nonprofit Boards 1 Unit Communications 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 The purpose of this class is to acquaint Evening & Weekend Master of This course will provide the student with specialized knowledge in some Business Administration students, many of whom will be asked to serve area of managerial communications. Topics include multimedia business on nonprofit boards throughout their careers, with the nonprofit sector presentations, personal leadership development, diversity management, and the roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards. Students will learn and making meetings work. Topics will vary from semester to semester. why nonprofit boards exist, how they are structured, how they differ from Topics In Managerial Communications: Read More [+] corporate boards, what their legal responsibilities are, how boards and Rules & Requirements chief executives relate to each other, and how boards contribute to the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Nonprofit Boards: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Summer: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 8 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Nonprofit Boards: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration 291B EWMBA 292C Strategic and Sustainable Topics In Managerial Communications: Read Less [-] Business Solutions 1 - 3 Units EWMBA 292A Strategy and Leadership for Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010 Social Impact 2 or 3 Units This course explores the concept and practice of corporate sustainability (CS) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a series of Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2006 lectures, guest speakers, and live consulting projects focused on CS This course prepares students conceptually and practically to create, and CSR challenges facing actual companies. The course provides the lead, and manage nonprofit organizations. Focuses on the centrality tools and experiences that sustainable management practitioners can of the mission, governing board leadership, application of strategy utilize as a part of their value-creating strategies. Viewing CS and CSR and strategic planning, and strategic management of issues unique from a corporate strategy perspective enables students to understand to or characteristic of the sector: performance measurement, program how considerations of social impact can, in fact, support core business development, financial management, resource development, community objectives, core competencies, and bottom-line profits. relations and marketing, human resource management, advocacy, and Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions: Read More [+] management. Hours & Format Strategy and Leadership for Social Impact: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 10 weeks - 1.5-4.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 292F Strategic Financial EWMBA 292ID Impact Startup Disco 1 Unit Management of Nonprofit Organizations 1 Terms offered: Not yet offered Unit This is a short, high-octane course for students interested in meeting other innovators and getting hands-on experience developing a new Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2007 impact startup concept. All “social and environmental” impact themes The course focuses on financial management issues faced by board are welcome. The course is inspired by other “hackathon” and startup members and senior and executive managers in nonprofit organizations. weekend formats. A structured roadmap helps guide students through a Students learn tools and techniques for effective planning and budgeting sprint formation and ideation process. All students will be asked to submit and how to control, evaluate and revise plans. Use and development an idea during the week prior to the class. After a peer vote selects the of internal and external financial reports are studied with an emphasis top ideas, teams are organically formed during the first session. At the on using financial information in decision making. Tools and techniques end of the course, each team will present their validated concept and of financial statement analysis, interpretation, and presentation are their next steps plan to a panel of impact venture experts. practiced. Impact Startup Disco: Read More [+] Strategic Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations: Read More Hours & Format [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 1 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Administration 203, financial experience, or equivalent Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Summer: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Impact Startup Disco: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 292J Haas Sustainable Investment Fund 2 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Prior to 2007 In this course, students manage a real investment fund ($3 million +) Strategic Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations: Read Less focused on both social and financial returns. Through the Fund, students [-] have the opportunity to test the investment and corporate responsibility EWMBA 292I Social Investing--Recent principles they have learned in the classroom, and to experience the complexities, challenges, and rewards of the investing world. Students Findings in Management and Finance 1 Unit have primary responsibility for investment decisions, including conducting Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013 their own research on funds and companies’ environmental, social This course introduces the field of social investment. The use of ESG and governance (ESG) performance. Students receive guidance from (environmental, social, and governance) criteria is becoming increasingly both faculty advisors and an advisory board. The faculty advisors prevalent among both high net worth individuals and institutions. Many provide regular input on portfolio management, understanding portfolio ethical and religious traditions advocate altruism and community- performance and ESG investing. mindedness in all dealings, while some economic and financial theorists Haas Sustainable Investment Fund: Read More [+] argue for a narrow focus on risk and reward, with little regard for the Rules & Requirements impact of decisions on stakeholder groups or the environment. Social Investing--Recent Findings in Management and Finance: Read Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 6 units. More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Additional Details 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Haas Sustainable Investment Fund: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Kurtz
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EWMBA 292K Food Innovation Studio 2 Units EWMBA 292N Topics in Social Sector Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Leadership 1 - 3 Units Students will identify and solve novel and pressing challenges in the Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013 broader food-system; develop insights into the systemic interdepencies Advanced study in the field of Social Sector Leadership. Topics will that impact personal health and planetary sustainability; and work vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each to conceive, test and launch high impact, market-based solutions. semester. The course emphasizes mission-driven business designs that create Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read More [+] positive social impact. Human-centered design, lean-launch, rapid Hours & Format prototyping, business model development, venture formation and venture pitch-presentation are blended into an accelerated experiential Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week learning program. The course attracts leading food industry leaders and entrepreneurs as guest speakers and mentors. The actual course topics Additional Details and projects are originated and chosen by student teams. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Food Innovation Studio: Read More [+] Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade.
Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read Less [-] Additional Details EWMBA 292R Business and Natural Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Resources 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2007 Grading: Letter grade. This course incorporates business and sustainability aspects into the field of natural resource management. Using economic and ecological Food Innovation Studio: Read Less [-] concepts, students will solve practical problems in this field. The course EWMBA 292M Social Impact Metrics 2 Units covers relevant theories and frameworks for assessing natural resource management, ecosystems services, economic valuation, climate change Terms offered: Spring 2005 and water, corporate carbon footprint, forestry management, and To provide an overview of the real world challenges of measuring impact strategies to add value through corporate sustainability. The course in the social sector, this course will delve into the metrics challenges emulates the assessment and decision making processes that are the facing four nonprofit organizations selected as “clients”. Students norm in this field. Students will improve their decision making process will apply frameworks and approaches from the course to help these related to natural resources and their understanding of how those nonprofits address the specific metrics problems they have identified decisions influence competitive advantage in business. and improve their performance. Students will have the opportunity to Business and Natural Resources: Read More [+] work directly with executives of the nonprofit organizations during the Hours & Format course, and to present their metrics solutions to the nonprofit cancer organizations, each of whom have all received grants from Amgen to Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week implement the metrics solutions proposed by the student teams. Social Impact Metrics: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 292M after completing EWMBA 292M. A deficient grade in EWMBA 292M may Grading: Letter grade. be removed by taking EWMBA 292M. Business and Natural Resources: Read Less [-] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Social Impact Metrics: Read Less [-] 30 Haas School of Business
EWMBA 292S Social Sector Solutions 3 Units EWMBA 293 Individually Supervised Study Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2012 for Graduate Students 1 - 5 Units The purpose of this course is to develop students' skills and knowledge Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 in problem solving, management consulting, and nonprofit organizations. Individually supervised study of subjects not available to the student in Instruction covers frameworks for problem solving, senior management the regular schedule, approved by faculty adviser as appropriate for the consulting, and assessing nonprofit organizations. The course includes student's program. an assignment to a consultation team that works with a select nonprofit Individually Supervised Study for Graduate Students: Read More [+] client to help them succeed in an entrepreneurial venture. A partnership Rules & Requirements with a professional management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, the course includes experienced McKinsey consultants coaching each of Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. the student teams. Social Sector Solutions: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Social Sector Solutions: Read Less [-] class is offered. EWMBA 292T Topics in Socially Responsible Individually Supervised Study for Graduate Students: Read Less [-] Business 0.5 - 3 Units EWMBA 293C Curricular Practical Training Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 Internship 0.0 Units Advanced study in the field of Socially Responsible Business. Topics will Terms offered: Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Summer 2010 10 Week vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Session semester. This is an independent study course for international students doing Topics in Socially Responsible Business: Read More [+] internships under the Curricular Practical Training program. Requires a Rules & Requirements paper exploring how the theoretical constructs learned in MBA courses Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. were applied during the internship. Curricular Practical Training Internship: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Summer: 8 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week
Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details
Topics in Socially Responsible Business: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Instructor: Gent
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EWMBA 295A Entrepreneurship 3 Units EWMBA 295C Opportunity Recognition: Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon The development of creative marketing strategies for new ventures, Valley 2 - 3 Units as well as the resolution of specific marketing problems in smaller Terms offered: Not yet offered companies which provide innovative goods and services. Emphasis is on This course is intended to provide the core skills needed for the decision making under conditions of weak data, inadequate resources, identification of opportunities that can lead to successful, entrepreneurial emerging markets, and rapidly changing environments. high technology ventures, regardless of the individual's "home" skill set, Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] whether technical or managerial. We examine in depth the approaches Rules & Requirements most likely to succeed for entrepreneurial companies as a function Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 of markets and technologies. Emphasis is placed on the special requirements for creating and executing strategy in a setting of rapid Hours & Format technological change and limited resources. This course is particularly suited for those who anticipate founding or operating technology Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week companies. Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3-4.5 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week
Formerly known as: Business Administration E295 Additional Details
Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
EWMBA 295B Venture Capital and Private Grading: Letter grade.
Equity 3 Units Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Valley: Read Less [-] This is an advanced case-based course intended to provide the background, tools, and themes of the venture capital industry. The course EWMBA 295F The Lean Launch Pad 2 Units is organized in four modules of the private equity cycle: (1) fund raising Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009 -- examines how private equity funds are raised and structured, (2) This course provides real world, hands-on learning on what it’s like to investing -- considers the interactions between private equity investors actually start a high-tech company. This class is not about how to write a and the entrepreneurs that they finance, (3) exiting -- examines the business plan. It’s not an exercise on how smart you are in a classroom, process through which private equity investors exit their investments; or how well you use the research library to size markets. And the end and (4) new frontiers -- reviews many of the key ideas developed in the result is not a PowerPoint slide deck for a VC presentation. And it is most course. definitely not an incubator where you come to build the “hot-idea” that you Venture Capital and Private Equity: Read More [+] have in mind. This is a practical class: Our goal, within the constraints of Rules & Requirements a classroom and a limited amount of time, is to create an entrepreneurial Prerequisites: 295A and 234 recommended experience for you with all of the pressures and demands of the real world in an early stage start up. Hours & Format The Lean Launch Pad: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Graduate standing Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Venture Capital and Private Equity: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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EWMBA 295I Entrepreneurship Workshop for EWMBA 295N Media: New and Otherwise 1 Startups 2 Units Unit Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This workshop is intended for students who have their own experimental This course provides students with an overview of the media business venture project under development. The business concept may be in and how it is changing — from startups to global conglomerates. It the startup mode or further along in its evolution. The pedagogy is one addresses the economics of media organizations (and industries), of guided entrepreneurship where students, often working in teams, their organizational structures, cultures, brands, and approaches. undertake the real challenges of building a venture. Students must be Some of the questions discussed include: (1) How do traditional media willing to discuss their projects with others in the workshop, as group address changing technologies; (2) How is the media business driven deliberation of the entrepreneurial challenges is a key component of the by metrics and data; (3) How is it driven by artistic creativity; (4) Are class. media companies too big? Are they too small? Students will develop and Entrepreneurship Workshop for Startups: Read More [+] present competitive strategies for media companies, hear from guest Hours & Format speakers, and discuss the transformations happening in media. Media: New and Otherwise: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Entrepreneurship Workshop for Startups: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
EWMBA 295M Business Model Innovation Media: New and Otherwise: Read Less [-] and Entrepreneurial Strategy 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 EWMBA 295S Entrepreneurial Strategy 2 The course teaches how to characterize and analyze business models Units and how to efficiently construct and test new business models. The Terms offered: Prior to 2007 course examines businesses across industries and phases of a firm's Students learn about the key strategic choices that shape whether growth. Critical entrepreneurial strategies are illuminated for new companies deliver real value to stakeholders. They are taught to ventures or in building a new enterprise inside a corporation. The organize the strategic choices into four different strategy “playbooks” course provides students with the skills and knowledge to rapidly assess that they can use to systematically consider alternate strategies for a and shape business models to their advantage in constructing new startup, and the core elements needed to make these strategies work: enterprises. Intellectual Property Strategy, Disruptive Strategy, Value Chain Strategy, Business Model Innovation and Entrepreneurial Strategy: Read More [+] and Architectural Strategy. Students must (a) analyze cases, thinking Hours & Format systematically through what they would do if they were a founder or early- employee in the protagonists’ shoes; (b) engage in class discussions, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week treating the classroom as a laboratory; and (c) formulate a real strategic plan for a final strategy assignment. Summer: 10 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture and 3.5 hours of lecture per Entrepreneurial Strategy: Read More [+] week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Instructor: Charron Grading: Letter grade. Business Model Innovation and Entrepreneurial Strategy: Read Less [-] Entrepreneurial Strategy: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 33
EWMBA 295T Topics in Entrepreneurship 0.5 EWMBA 296C Introduction to Coding for - 3 Units MBAs 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Advanced study in the field of entrepreneurship. Topics will vary from This course helps MBA students communicate more effectively with year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. technical colleagues by understanding the basics of the programming Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] world. Students learn industry standard vocabulary, tools, and processes Rules & Requirements used by developers. As an introductory course, it focuses on breadth instead of depth providing a foundation for learning the core topics critical Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. to a career in technology. The course is a mixture of in-class lectures, quizzes, readings, and online tutorials. Each session introduces a new Hours & Format topic, with depth added in readings and reinforced through quizzes and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week assignments. The material is introduced cumulatively and the pace is specifically tuned for beginners. The course is aimed at non-technical Summer: students with no prior coding experience. 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week Introduction to Coding for MBAs: Read More [+] 8 weeks - 1-5.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Additional Details class is offered. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 296 Special Topics in Business Introduction to Coding for MBAs: Read Less [-] Administration 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2016, Fall 2015 EWMBA 297A Healthcare in the 21st Century Advanced study in various fields of business administration. Topics will 3 Units vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Terms offered: Prior to 2007 semester. This course gives a systematic overview of the U.S. health care system Special Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+] by providing students with an understanding of its structure, financing, Rules & Requirements and special properties. Applies social science theory, disciplinary Prerequisites: Graduate standing contributions, and research findings to the understanding of health care delivery problems; examines current courses of data about health status, Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. health services use, financing, and performance indicators; analyzes the larger management and policy issues that drive reform efforts. Hours & Format Healthcare in the 21st Century: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements
Summer: 8 weeks - 2-6 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Master's level accounting and finance
Additional Details Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Hours & Format
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week class is offered. Additional Details
Special Topics in Business Administration: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 297D Trends in Biotech and Pharma EWMBA 298X EWMBA Exchange Program 1 - 1 Unit 15 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2014 This course is designed to provide students with insights into the biotech/ Students who participate in one of the Haas School's domestic or pharma industry and the challenges and opportunities it faces; exposure international exchange programs receive credit (usually 12 units) at Haas to the deliberations around pricing a new drug and creating access for the set of courses that they successfully complete at their host school. strategies; the opportunity to analyze relevant cases that will highlight the The courses that the students take at the host school are subject to real-world impact of select trends on the industry; and insights into how review by the EWMBA Program office to ensure that they match course larger healthcare management and policy issues interact with biopharma, requirements at the Haas School. seeking to both advance efforts to reform the U.S. health care system EWMBA Exchange Program: Read More [+] and change how innovators engage with key stakeholders. Rules & Requirements Trends in Biotech and Pharma: Read More [+] Hours & Format Prerequisites: Successful completion of all core courses; good academic standing Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-15 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Summer: Trends in Biotech and Pharma: Read Less [-] 6 weeks - 2.5-37.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 1.5-29 hours of lecture per week EWMBA 298S Seminar in International Business 2 or 3 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Spring 2014, Summer Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 2013 10 Week Session This course involves a series of speaker and seminar-type classes in Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. preparation for a two-week study tour of a specific country or region. Participants will visit companies and organizations and meet with top- EWMBA Exchange Program: Read Less [-] level management to learn about the opportunities and challenges of operating in a specific country or region. Evaluation is based on student EWMBA 299 Strategic Leadership 2 Units presentations, participation, and a research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Seminar in International Business: Read More [+] Course covers core topics in strategy, including selection of goals; Hours & Format the choice of products and services to offer; competitive positioning in product markets; decisions about scope and diversity; and the design Summer: 8 weeks - 4-5.5 hours of fieldwork and 4-5.5 hours of fieldwork of organizational structure, administrative systems, and other issues of per week control and internal regulation. Strategic Leadership: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Prerequisites: 201A
Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format
Seminar in International Business: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: La Blanc
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EWMBA 299B Global Strategy and EWMBA 299E Competitive Strategy 1 - 3 Multinational Enterprise 2 or 3 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 Identifies the management challenges facing international firms. Examines optimal production and pricing policies for firms in competitive Attention to business strategies, organizational structures, and the environments; optimal strategies through time; strategies in the presence role of governments in the global environment. Special attention to of imperfect information. How differing market structures and government the challenges of developing and implementing global new product policies (including taxation) affect output and pricing decisions. Social development strategies when industrial structures and government welfare implications of decisions by competitive firms also explored. policies differ. Efficacy of joint ventures and strategic alliances. Competitive Strategy: Read More [+] Implications for industrial policy and global governance. Rules & Requirements Global Strategy and Multinational Enterprise: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Business Administration E201A, E201B, E204
Prerequisites: All core courses Hours & Format
Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Additional Details 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Formerly known as: Business Administration E286 Grading: Letter grade. Global Strategy and Multinational Enterprise: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E210 EWMBA 299C Corporate-Level Strategy 2 Units Competitive Strategy: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Prior to 2007 EWMBA 299M Marketing Strategy 3 Units This course is for students who intend to lead, consult to, or sell a Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 business to a multi-business enterprise. The course focuses on the Strategic planning theory and methods with an emphasis on customer, development and execution of an enterprise, division or operating competitor, industry and environmental analysis and its application to unit strategy for an entity that competes in multiple segments. In strategy development and choice. which businesses and markets, and in what stages of the value chain, Marketing Strategy: Read More [+] should the organization operate? How should it enter new businesses? Rules & Requirements Should it exit any of its current businesses? What capabilities does the organization have, and how well do they enhance the competitiveness of Prerequisites: Business Administration E202B, E203, E205, E206 its individual businesses? How should the larger entity organize to realize the highest potential value from the combination of businesses? What Hours & Format contractual structure maximizes the enterprise value? Corporate-Level Strategy: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Rules & Requirements Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of seminar per week
Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration Additional Details 299 Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration E267 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Marketing Strategy: Read Less [-] Additional Details Business Administration—MBA Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 200C Leadership Communications 1 EWMBA 201A Economics for Business Unit Decision Making 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Leadership communication is a workshop in the fundamentals of public This course uses the tools and concepts of microeconomics to analyze speaking in today's business environment. Through prepared and decision problems within a business firm. Particular emphasis is placed impromptu speeches aimed at moving others to action, peer coaching, on the firm's choice of policies in determining prices, inputs usage, and lectures, students will sharpen their authentic and persuasive and outputs. The effects of the state of the competitive environment on communication skills, develop critical listening skills, improve abilities business policies are also examined. to give, receive, and apply feedback, and gain confidence as public Economics for Business Decision Making: Read More [+] speakers. Rules & Requirements Leadership Communications: Read More [+] Hours & Format Prerequisites: E204
Fall and/or spring: Hours & Format 4 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Leadership Communications: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 200S Data and Decisions 2 Units Formerly known as: Business Administration E201A Terms offered: Not yet offered Economics for Business Decision Making: Read Less [-] The objective of this core course is to make students critical consumers of statistical analysis using available software packages. Key concepts EWMBA 201B Macroeconomics in the Global include interpretation of regression analysis, model formation and testing, Economy 2 Units and diagnostic checking. Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Data and Decisions: Read More [+] This course builds on the foundations developed in E201A to develop Hours & Format theories of fiscal policy, monetary policy, and other macro-economic Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of policies. Both the issues and the evidence in connection with these discussion per week policies will be examined. Other topics covered in the course range from the specifics of the U.S. balance of payments situation to the broader Additional Details problems associated with economic growth and decay in the world. Macroeconomics in the Global Economy: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Rules & Requirements
Grading: Letter grade. Prerequisites: Business Administration E201A
Data and Decisions: Read Less [-] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration E201B
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EWMBA 202 Financial Accounting 2 Units EWMBA 204 Operations 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Published financial reports provide the most important single set of data An introduction to the application of quantitative methods to management on modern organizations. This course is designed to provide a working decision problems. Topics include linear programming, probability theory, knowledge of accounting measurements which are necessary for a clear decision analysis, regression and correlation, and time series analysis. understanding of published financial reports. Operations: Read More [+] Financial Accounting: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Admission to the program Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: Additional Details 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Financial Accounting: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 203 Introduction to Finance 2 Units Formerly known as: Business Administration E204 Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 This course will examine the wide menu of available assets, the Operations: Read Less [-] institutional structure of U.S. and international financial markets, and the market mechanisms for trading securities. Topics include discounting, EWMBA 205 Leading People 2 Units capital budgeting, historical behavior of asset returns, and diversification Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 and portfolio theory. Course will also provide introductions to asset pricing A survey of knowledge about behavior in and of organizations. Covered theory for primary and derivative assets and to the principles governing will be issues of individual behavior, group functioning, and the actions corporate financial arrangements and contracting. of organizations in their environments. Problems of work motivation, task Introduction to Finance: Read More [+] design, leadership, communication, organizational design, and innovation Hours & Format will be analyzed from multiple theoretical perspectives. Implications for the management of organizations will be illustrated through examples, Fall and/or spring: cases, and exercises. 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Leading People: Read More [+] 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Admission to the program Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: Grading: Letter grade. 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration E203 Additional Details Introduction to Finance: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 205D Business Communication in EWMBA 206 Marketing 2 Units Diverse Work Environments 1 Unit Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Terms offered: Not yet offered Topics include an overview of the marketing system and the marketing This course focuses on essential communication skills in the concepts, buyer behavior, market research, segmentation and marketing contemporary knowledge economy, where leaders must create decision making, marketing structures, and evaluation of marketing sustainable settings for productive interaction among people with very performance in the economy and society. different backgrounds and experiences. To harness this diversity, Marketing: Read More [+] leaders must be adept at having difficult conversations, managing Rules & Requirements conflict, debating effectively, providing and receiving feedback, mitigating Prerequisites: Business Administration E200 problems associated with stereotypes and biases, and identifying and addressing structural sources of inequity. Students will develop Hours & Format their critical thinking on topics such as identity, relationships across differences, and equality of opportunity and improve their ability to create, Fall and/or spring: 9 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week work within, and lead diverse teams and global organizations. Business Communication in Diverse Work Environments: Read More [+] Summer: 7 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details
Fall and/or spring: Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade.
Additional Details Marketing: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 207 Ethics and Responsibility in Grading: Letter grade. Business 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Business Communication in Diverse Work Environments: Read Less [-] A study of basic ideas, concepts, attitudes, rules, and institutions in our society that characterize the legal, political, and social framework within EWMBA 205L Leadership 1 Unit which the system operates. Terms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Ethics and Responsibility in Business: Read More [+] The objective of this course is to help students develop an understanding Rules & Requirements of their own strengths and weaknesses as leaders and to nurture their confidence to envision themselves as, and aspire to be, leaders Prerequisites: Admission to the program throughout their careers. The course will include four main components: 1) 360-degree assessment and an accompanying leadership self- Hours & Format assessment analysis; 2) live cases run by leaders in organizations; 3) Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week advanced practices about leadership; 4) experiential exercises. Leadership: Read More [+] Summer: 4 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Formerly known as: Business Administration E207 Grading: Letter grade. Ethics and Responsibility in Business: Read Less [-] Leadership: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 39
EWMBA 210 Strategy, Structure, and EWMBA W211 Game Theory (Online Version) Incentives 3 Units 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 Terms offered: Spring 2016 This course uses insights from economics to develop structure, tactics, A survey of the main ideas and techniques of game-theoretic analysis and incentives to achieve the firm's goals. It develops a framework related to bargaining, conflict, and negotiation. Emphasizes the for analyzing organizational architecture, focusing on the allocation of identification and analysis of archetypal strategic situations in bargaining. decision rights, the measurement of performance, and the design of Goals of the course are to provide a foundation for applying game- incentives. Includes managing the vertical chain of upstream suppliers theoretic analysis, both formally and intuitively, to negotiation and and downstream distributors, design and operation of incentive and bargaining; to recognize and assess archetypal strategic situations in performance management systems, techniques for dealing with complicated negotiation settings. This course is taught online. informational asymmetries. Game Theory (Online Version): Read More [+] Strategy, Structure, and Incentives: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Evening and Prerequisites: 201A or consent of instructor Weekend Masters in Business Administration W211 after taking Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Administration 211. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 7-10 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Strategy, Structure, and Incentives: Read Less [-] Game Theory (Online Version): Read Less [-] EWMBA 211 Game Theory 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Spring 2014, Fall 2012 EWMBA 212 Energy and Environmental A survey of the main ideas and techniques of game-theoretic analysis Markets 3 Units related to bargaining, conflict, and negotiation. Emphasizes the Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2007 identification and analysis of archetypal strategic situations in bargaining. Business strategy and public issues in energy and environmental Goals of the course are to provide a foundation for applying game- markets. Topics include development and effect of organized spot, theoretic analysis, both formally and intuitively, to negotiation and futures, and derivative energy markets; political economy of regulation bargaining; to recognize and assess archetypal strategic situations in and deregulation; climate change and environmental policies related to complicated negotiation settings; and to feel comfortable in the process of energy production and use; cartels, market power and competition policy; negotiation. pricing of exhaustible resources; competitiveness of alternative energy Game Theory: Read More [+] sources; and transportation and storage of energy commodities. Hours & Format Energy and Environmental Markets: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Business Administration E201A or equivalent Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Game Theory: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration E212
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EWMBA 212A Cleantech to Market 3 Units EWMBA 212C Modeling for Energy and Terms offered: Fall 2015 Infrastructure Project Finance 1 Unit In this course, interdisciplinary teams of graduate students work with Terms offered: Prior to 2007 scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and across This course compliments the course "Legal and Regulatory Frameworks the UCB campus to commercialize new solar, biofuel, battery, and for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance". Where the former focuses smart grid/energy management technologies. Students are drawn from on the legal and risk framework for project financings, this course is Business, Engineering, Science, Law, and the Energy and Resources devoted to the financial and quantitative aspects of project finance. Group. Students explore topics such as: Potential application in multiple The course focuses on the application of project finance to the power markets; alignment with target or desired market(s); distinguishing generation industry with a particular emphasis on examples from gas- advantages and disadvantages; customer and user profiles; top fired, wind and solar technologies. competitors; commercialization and scale-up challenges; relevant Modeling for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance: Read More [+] government policies; revenue potential and cost sensitivities; intellectual Hours & Format property issues; and multiple other related topics. Cleantech to Market: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Modeling for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 214 Big Data, Better Decisions 3 Cleantech to Market: Read Less [-] Units EWMBA 212B Legal and Regulatory Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Introduction to advanced methods for data driven decision making in Frameworks for Energy and Infrastructure business. This course covers methods designed to provide evidence Project Finance 1 Unit for two types of fundamental business issues: (i) forecasting and (ii) Terms offered: Prior to 2007 evaluating alternative possible strategies. The course aims to train This course will explore the key commercial, legal, economic and policy business leaders to understand the value of data-based decision making, issues affecting the development and financing of infrastructure projects, evaluate analytics tools and products, and conduct richer analysis with special emphasis on practical concerns related to investments in of randomized and naturally occurring experiments. Topics include alternative energy and other power generation facilities. These topics designing randomized controlled trials in the field, evaluating natural will be raised in the context of comparative, real-world case studies of experiments, and machine learning tools for forecasting. The goal of the different types of energy and infrastructure projects. course is not to train you as a Data Scientist but to be able to read and Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Energy and Infrastructure Project evaluate empirical/analytic approaches and products. Finance: Read More [+] Big Data, Better Decisions: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements
Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration 200S Additional Details Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 214 after Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate completing MBA 214. A deficient grade in EWMBA 214 may be removed by taking MBA 214. Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory per week
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EWMBA 215 Business Strategies for EWMBA 219 Health Economics and Policy 3 Emerging Markets: Management, Investment, Units and Opportunities 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2012 Students who have taken this course should (i) know and understand This course helps students to study the institutions of emerging markets the literature and evidence on key health policy questions (e.g. why do that are relevant for managers, analyze opportunities presented by we spend so much on health care in the U.S.?), (ii) understand what emerging markets, analyze the additional ethical challenges and issues constitutes causal evidence on key business and policy questions in of social responsibility common in emerging markets, and learn to health care, (iii) be able to design evaluations of business and policy minimize the risks in doing business in emerging markets. This course is decisions using different a combination of lectures, class participation, and cases. data sources and methods, (iv) understand the major health policies Business Strategies for Emerging Markets: Management, Investment, in the U.S. and the associated incentives/opportunities (i.e. the ACA, and Opportunities: Read More [+] Medicare, Medicaid, etc.), and (v) using these tools, be able to evaluate Hours & Format companies, policies, entrepreneurial ideas and investment opportunities that can change health and health care in the U.S. and beyond. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Health Economics and Policy: Read More [+] Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Business Strategies for Emerging Markets: Management, Investment, and Opportunities: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 217 Topics in Economic Analysis Health Economics and Policy: Read Less [-] and Policy 0.5 - 3 Units EWMBA 222 Financial Information Analysis 3 Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012 Advanced study in the field of economic analysis and policy. Topics will Units vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 semester. Issues of accounting information evaluation with special emphasis on Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read More [+] the use of financial statements by decision makers outside the firm. The Rules & Requirements implications of recent research in finance and accounting for external reporting issues will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on models that Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. describe the user's decision context. Financial Information Analysis: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2-8 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade.
Grading: Letter grade. Formerly known as: Business Administration E222
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EWMBA 223 Financial Reporting Analysis for EWMBA 229 Taxes and Firm Strategy 3 Units Investors 3 Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2006 This course will cover various topics in personal or corporate taxation or Intensive study of the theory and practice of financial accounting. Asset both. Topics will vary from semester to semester. and liability measurement, income determination, financial reporting. Taxes and Firm Strategy: Read More [+] Financial Reporting Analysis for Investors: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Business Administration E202A and E202B or Prerequisites: Business Administration E202B and E203 or equivalent equivalents
Hours & Format Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 227B after completing BUS ADM E228. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Summer: Financial Reporting Analysis for Investors: Read Less [-] 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week EWMBA 224A Managerial Accounting 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2012 Additional Details Management is dependent on an information system which provides Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate dependable, timely, and relevant information to all decision makers. The goal of this course is to identify the information needs of managers and to Grading: Letter grade. develop the methods by which managerial accountants can provide the necessary data through appropriate budget, cost, and other informational Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 227B systems. Managerial Accounting: Read More [+] Taxes and Firm Strategy: Read Less [-] Rules & Requirements EWMBA 231 Corporate Finance 3 Units Prerequisites: E204 Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Summer 2013 10 Week Session Financial policies of firms including asset acquisition and replacement, Hours & Format capital structure, dividends, working capital, and mergers. Development of theory and application to financial management decisions. Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Corporate Finance: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Prerequisites: Business Administration E230
Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format
Formerly known as: Business Administration E202B Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Managerial Accounting: Read Less [-] Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration E234
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EWMBA 232 Financial Institutions and EWMBA 236A Corporate Risk Management Markets 3 Units and Valuation Using Derivatives 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Terms offered: Fall 2005 Structure and operation of the Federal Reserve System commercial This course concentrates on topics pertaining to financial risks faced by bank and non-bank financial institutions. Impact of monetary policy corporations, in particular, the topics of "hedging" and "valuation." The and of public regulation. Portfolio composition and market behavior of course will consider the following type of question. What risks does a financial intermediaries. Organization and functions of money markets. firm face? Should it hedge any of these risks? If so, how should the firm The structure of yields on financial assets and the influence of financial implement the hedge, i.e., using what instruments, and in what quantity? intermediaries and monetary policy. The main tool that the course will make use of is financial derivatives. Financial Institutions and Markets: Read More [+] An important aspect of the study of derivatives is the valuation method, Rules & Requirements which provides an understanding of the market prices and can be used to evaluate investment opportunities, corporate securities, and others. The Prerequisites: Business Administration E201B and E203 or E230 course will consist of a mixture of lectures and case discussions. Corporate Risk Management and Valuation Using Derivatives: Read Hours & Format More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements
Additional Details Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Administration 233 Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format Formerly known as: Business Administration E232 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Financial Institutions and Markets: Read Less [-] Additional Details EWMBA 233 Asset Management 2 or 3 Units Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2010, Fall 2006 This course will analyze the role of financial markets and financial Grading: Letter grade. institutions in allocating capital. The major focus will be on debt contracts and securities and on innovations in the bond and money markets. The Corporate Risk Management and Valuation Using Derivatives: Read Less functions of commercial banks, investment banks, and other financial [-] intermediaries will be covered, and aspects of the regulation of these institutions will be examined. Asset Management: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Administration 203
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3-4.5 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 236B Investment Strategies and EWMBA 236D Portfolio Management 3 Units Styles 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2009 This course explores the broad range of portfolio management in Introduction to alternative investment strategies and styles as practiced practice. The class will examine the assets, strategies, characteristics, by leading money managers. A money manager will spend approximately operations, and concerns unique to each type of portfolio. Practitioners half of the class discussing his general investment philosophy. In the will present descriptions of their businesses as well as methods and other half, students, practitioner, and instructor will explore the investment strategies that they employ. merits of one particular company. Students will be expected to use the Portfolio Management: Read More [+] library's resources, class handouts, and their ingenuity to address a set of Rules & Requirements questions relating to the firm's investment value. Prerequisites: 203 or consent of instructor Investment Strategies and Styles: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format
Prerequisites: Business Administration E203 plus one additional Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week graduate finance course Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Portfolio Management: Read Less [-] Additional Details EWMBA 236E Mergers and Acquisitions: A Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Focus on Creating Value 2 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Survey of the day-to-day practices and techniques used in change of Formerly known as: Business Administration E239 control transaction. Topics include valuation, financing, deal structuring, tax and accounting considerations, agreements, closing documents, Investment Strategies and Styles: Read Less [-] practices used in management buyouts, divestitures, hostile takeovers, EWMBA 236C Global Financial Services 3 and takeover defenses. Also covers distinctions in technology M&A, detecting corruption in cross border transaction attempts, and betting on Units deals through risk arbitrage. Blend of lectures, case studies, and guest Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 lectures. Survey of the forces changing and shaping global finance and Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value: Read More [+] intermediation, especially the effects of greater ease of communication, Rules & Requirements deregulation and globalized disciplines expected to continue to be essential to corporate finance and intermediation, e.g., investment Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business analysis, valuation, structured finance/securitization, and derivative Administration 203 or consent of instructor applications. The case method is utilized with occasional additional assigned readings and text sources. Hours & Format Global Financial Services: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value: Read Less [-] Global Financial Services: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 45
EWMBA 236F Behavioral Finance 1 - 3 Units EWMBA 236H Financial Statement Modeling Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2007 for Finance Careers 1 or 2 Units This course looks at the influence of decision heuristics and biases on Terms offered: Summer 2020 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2015 investor welfare, financial markets, and corporate decisions. Topics Financial statement modeling refers to taking historical financial include overconfidence, attribution theory, representative heuristic, statements for a specific company, projecting those statements two to availability heuristic, anchoring and adjustment, prospect theory, five years into the future, and using the resulting projections for valuation "Winner's Curse," speculative bubbles, IPOs, market efficiency, limits of and insight into the potential for transactions such as a strategic merger, arbitrage, relative mis-pricing of common stocks, the tendency to trade in an initial public offering, a leveraged recapitalization, or a leveraged a highly correlated fashion, investor welfare, and market anomalies. buyout. This course teaches this skill set in a way that is simultaneously Behavioral Finance: Read More [+] high level and hands-on. Rules & Requirements Financial Statement Modeling for Finance Careers: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 203 Prerequisites: 203 or consent of instructor Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 14 weeks - 1-2 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 5-14 hours of lecture and 5.5 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details 8 weeks - 2-3.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture per week
Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details
Behavioral Finance: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 236G Designing Financial Models Grading: Letter grade. that Work 1 or 2 Units Financial Statement Modeling for Finance Careers: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Spreadsheet financial models are often too big, complicated, and buggy EWMBA 236I Fixed Income 2 Units to help people. In this course, students learn to design financial models Terms offered: Prior to 2007 that work because they're small (fit on a screen or two), straightforward This course first surveys the basics of fixed income: terminology, security (involve basic math), clear (a non-MBA can follow them readily), and types, debt and money markets. Attention then moves to the valuation fast to build. These simple yet powerful representations of the cash flow of cash flows, term structure of interest rates and modeling of credit risk. for a new product/deal/venture help people share their vision, recognize Building on that foundation, the course then examines the key role that tradeoffs, brainstorm possibilities, and make decisions. fixed income plays in the global financial system, other asset classes Designing Financial Models that Work: Read More [+] and derivatives. The course is firmly grounded in a quantitative and Rules & Requirements analytical approach, with each topic placed in the relevant real world context -- for example, the role that high yield securities play in an LBO, Prerequisites: 203 or consent of instructor and negotiation of bond covenants. The course is at the more quantitative end of the MBA curriculum, with a large focus on bond math, including Hours & Format duration and convexity. Fall and/or spring: 14 weeks - 1-2 hours of lecture per week Fixed Income: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 2-3.5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fixed Income: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 236J Hedge Fund Strategies 3 Units EWMBA 236L Private Equity, Leveraged Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Buyouts 1 or 2 Units This course combines broad exposure to the many types of hedge funds Terms offered: Prior to 2007 and their strategies, together with hands-on development of unique This course focuses primarily on leveraged buyouts (LBOs), as the investment strategies within student teams. Course content delivered largest category of PE transactions. The study includes the sourcing of via speakers representing different sectors of the hedge fund industry, potential acquisitions, analysis of operations and potential improvements, lectures, readings and individual and team projects. Students also learn corporate valuation, optimal capital structures, modeling of expected cash about investing in hedge funds, including evaluation of fund performance. flows and debt repayment, negotiation of purchase price and financing Concurrently, student teams develop their own investment strategies by terms, incentivizing management teams, and eventual monetizing exploring unique expertise and insights that are resident within the teams, investments through M&A or IPOs. These subjects are studied through forming original theses on changes and catalysts, incorporating lessons lectures, interactive discussion, case studies, individual assignments and from hedge fund speakers, and crafting investment strategies designed to especially group projects. The 2-unit section covers a broader spectrum capitalize on the teams’ insights. of types of PE transactions and includes guest speakers from the PE Hedge Fund Strategies: Read More [+] industry, and a more expansive final project. Hours & Format Private Equity, Leveraged Buyouts: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Hedge Fund Strategies: Read Less [-] Private Equity, Leveraged Buyouts: Read Less [-] EWMBA 236K Haas Investment Fund 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 EWMBA 236M Turnarounds 2 Units Students who elect to continue on to this course from the Hedge Terms offered: Not yet offered Fund Strategies course have the opportunity to proceed from strategy This course introduces the world of operational and strategic turnarounds development into implementation phase, investing capital from a of troubled and underperforming businesses. It focuses on the leadership dedicated fund. Judges for the final pitch in Hedge Fund Strategies practices that work in fixing flawed enterprises, from underperforming allocate capital from the fund based on perceived promise of market- businesses to those on the brink of a death spiral. Most time in the beating returns, taken together with perceived risk. The teams refine their course is spent learning how to more effectively lead companies that are strategies based on feedback from the judges’ feedback and instructors’ underperforming or in trouble. The course is taught by cases, with the guidance, building out their portfolios and managing their strategies over view that the best way to learn leadership is by taking the perspective of several months. Teams access trading accounts and are responsible for business leaders facing crises that demand new direction. Since a rescue their portfolios. plan only works if it is embraced, students take various roles in the cases, Haas Investment Fund: Read More [+] including bosses, subordinates, boards and lenders. Hours & Format Turnarounds: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 1 weeks - 40 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Haas Investment Fund: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 236T Fin Tech 3 Units EWMBA 237 Topics in Finance 0.5 - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Fall 2014, Summer 2014 This is a non-traditional finance course that focuses on who gets "rents" 10 Week Session in existing finance markets and the barriers to entry that can be overcome Advanced study in the field of Finance. Topics will vary from year to year by technology. The course covers (i) the basics of the payment system and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. and how it is changing, (ii) how other stores of value embedded in mobile Topics in Finance: Read More [+] technology are used, in both high- and low-income countries, (iii) changes Rules & Requirements in other financial sectors including advice, banking and insurance, and (iv) the potential of cryptocurrencies and the possibilities for disruption Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. inherent in an open, consensus ledger (e.g., the BlockChain). Students Hours & Format will learn to make analytical judgments about the benefit that technology can bring to financial intermediaries. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week Fin Tech: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration 8 weeks - 1-5.5 hours of lecture per week 203 Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Topics in Finance: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 240 Decision Models 2 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 Fin Tech: Read Less [-] Survey of the formulation, solution, and interpretation of mathematical models to assist managerial decisions. Emphasis on applications from EWMBA 236V New Venture Finance 2 - 3 diverse businesses and industries, including inventory management, Units project management, portfolio optimization, revenue management, production planning, and others. Three types of models are covered: Terms offered: Prior to 2007 simulation, dynamic programming, and optimization. Analysis is facilitated This is a course about financing new entrepreneurial ventures, by the Excel add-in Analytic Solver Platform. emphasizing those that have the possibility of creating a national Decision Models: Read More [+] or international impact or both. It will take two perspectives--the Rules & Requirements entrepreneur's and the investor's- and it will place a special focus on the venture capital process, including how they are formed and managed, Prerequisites: 203 and 204, or consent of instructor accessing the public markets, mergers, and strategic alliances. New Venture Finance: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Summer: 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week Decision Models: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 295D
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EWMBA 246 Project Management 1 - 2 Units EWMBA 247 Topics in Operations and Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Information Technology Management 0.5 - 3 The primary objective of this course is to develop the critical skills and Units knowledge needed to successfully pitch and lead projects, and to deliver Terms offered: Spring 2015 those projects on time and within budget. The course delves into formal Advanced study in the field of Manufacturing and Operations. Topics will planning and scheduling techniques including: project definition, project vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each selection, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource Estimation, semester. Critical Path Method (CPM), Pert, Gantt Charts, Resource Constrained Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read Scheduling, Project Monitoring and Project Closing. More [+] Project Management: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Prerequisites: Graduate standing Hours & Format Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 290P after completing BUS ADM 290L. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week
Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Summer: Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 2 weeks - 14-30 hours of lecture per week 6 weeks - 5-10 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade.
Additional Details Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 247A
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 248A Supply Chain Management 3 Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 290P Units Project Management: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 Supply chain management concerns the flow of materials and information EWMBA 246A Service Strategy 3 Units in multistage production and distribution networks. This course provides Terms offered: Fall 2006 knowledge of organizational models and analytical decision support This course is designed to teach general management principles involved tools necessary to design, implement, and sustain successful supply in the planning, execution, and management of service businesses. It chain strategies. Topics include demand and supply management, covers both strategic and tactical aspects, including the development of inventory management, supplier-buyer coordination via incentives, a strategic service vision, building employee loyalty, developing customer vendor management, and the role of information technology in supply loyalty and satisfaction, improving productivity and service quality, service chain management. innovation, and the role of technology in services. Blend of case studies, Supply Chain Management: Read More [+] group projects, class discussions, and selected readings. Rules & Requirements Service Strategy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 204 or Master of Business Administration 204 or equivalent Prerequisites: 204 or Master of Business Administration 204 or consent of instructor Hours & Format
Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade.
Grading: Letter grade. Supply Chain Management: Read Less [-]
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EWMBA 250 Leading High Impact Teams 2 EWMBA 252 Negotiations and Conflict Units Resolution 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Terms offered: Fall 2015, Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Spring 2015 This course helps students hone and develop the leadership skills The purpose of this course is for students to understand the theory and needed to lead dynamic, complex, global teams. Globalization, rapid processes of negotiation so that they can negotiate successfully in a technological change, and a shift towards an innovation-based economy variety of settings. This course is designed to complement the technical have resulted in more dynamic, distributed, cross-functional, as well and diagnostic skills learned in other courses in the MBA program. as demographically and culturally diverse teams. Students will learn Negotiations and Conflict Resolution: Read More [+] to create team developmental plans and accountability, coach teams Hours & Format through challenges, encourage teams to recognize and avoid bias and misattributions, and lead from a distance and across boundaries. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Leading High Impact Teams: Read More [+] Summer: 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Negotiations and Conflict Resolution: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Leading High Impact Teams: Read Less [-] EWMBA 253 Decision Making 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 EWMBA 251A People Analytics 2 Units This course aims to improve the quality of decisions people make. Terms offered: Not yet offered Students learn to be aware of, and to avoid, common inferential errors Students will gain command of the core statistical concepts and systematic biases in decision making. There are many decision traps needed to measure and understand measurements of people in that we tend to repeatedly fall into. These traps relate to how we think organizations. Students learn how to interpret statistics to make critical about risk and probability, how we learn from experience, and how we recommendations to (or as) senior leaders, and how to tell a compelling make choices. Upon completion, students will have internalized the basic story using People Analytics data. This involves learning the fundamental principles of decision making and will be able to avoid falling into these tools of analytics (descriptive statistics, correlations, etc.), building and traps. The course additionally aims to create a deeper understanding of testing HR chat bots, reviewing and conducting randomized experiments, the psychology of decision making, which can create an advantage in interpreting and producing data visualizations, all while accounting negotiations and other interactions through gaining an awareness of the for ethical concerns such as data privacy and biases (human and predictable mistakes of others. algorithmic). Decision Making: Read More [+] People Analytics: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. People Analytics: Read Less [-] Decision Making: Read Less [-] 50 Haas School of Business
EWMBA 254 Power and Politics in EWMBA 255 Leadership 1 - 3 Units Organizations 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 This course will increase your awareness of your own strengths and This course will provide students with a sense of "political intelligence." opportunities for improvement while gaining an understanding of the After taking this course, students will be able to: (1) diagnose the true qualities essential to being an extraordinary leader. By the end of the distribution of power in organizations, (2) identify strategie for building course, we are hoping that you will have: Increased your understanding sources of power, (3) develop techniques for influencing others, (4) of what distinguishes between more and less successful leaders and understand the role of power in building cooperation and leading change construct a plan for your own development as a leader; sharpened your in organizations, and (5) make sense of others' attempts to influence ability to diagnose situations and determine how you can add value; them. These skills are essential for effective and satisfying career gained experience and confidence in leadership situations, such as building. dealing with difficult people and inspiring others to accomplish shared Power and Politics in Organizations: Read More [+] team and organizational goals; and developed the ability to accept and Hours & Format leverage feedback and offer useful feedback to others. Leadership: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Power and Politics in Organizations: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA W254 Power and Politics in Leadership: Read Less [-] Organizations 2 Units EWMBA 256 Global Leadership 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 This course will provide students with a sense of "political intelligence," Key behaviors of successful global leaders are examined based on enabling them to: 1) Diagnose the true distribution of power in recent research and examples. Blended learning approach enables organizations, 2) Identify strategies for building sources of power, 3) students to build skills for working effectively with virtual colleagues, Develop techniques for influencing others, 4) Understand the role of motivating people from different backgrounds, running a global team, power in building cooperation and leading change, and 5) Make sense exerting influence without direct authority, integrating a merger or of others' attempts to influence them. This is an online course, utilizing acquisition, leading a cross-border innovation effort, handling customer multiple media and providing flexibility in when and how students learn. or supplier relations, coaching and developing talent, driving a change Power and Politics in Organizations: Read More [+] initiative, and making tough ethical choices. Areas of focus will include Rules & Requirements self, team, and organization, with the aim to increase both personal Prerequisites: Master of Business Administration 205 awareness and organizational impact in a global context. Global Leadership: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 7-10 hours of web-based lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Online: This is an online course. Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade.
Grading: Letter grade. Global Leadership: Read Less [-]
Instructor: Anderson
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EWMBA 257 Special Topics in the EWMBA 258P The Science of Productivity Management of Organizations 0.5 - 3 Units and Performance 1 Unit Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014 Terms offered: Not yet offered Advanced study in the field of Organizational Behavior and Industrial This course is an elective designed to help students improve their Relations. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the personal and professional effectiveness using research in cognitive beginning of each semester. psychology, neuroscience, and physiology. Expect to hear from scientific Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read More [+] experts and industry executives. Students will learn habits to help Rules & Requirements them accomplish more in fewer hours, choose between conflicting priorities, sustain productivity and avoid burnout, and upgrade your Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. team’s productivity and performance. This course is built around practical behavior change and is designed to help students navigate our “always Hours & Format on” business culture. Students will leave with a foundation of new habits Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week around productivity and self-care, as well as a personalized action plan to better manage the demands in their lives. Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week The Science of Productivity and Performance: Read More [+] Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 4 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read Less [-] Additional Details EWMBA 258A International Business: Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Designing Global Organizations 3 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Spring 2008 The Science of Productivity and Performance: Read Less [-] This course is about flexible organizational designs and adaptive leadership strategies in global markets. It will be of special interest EWMBA 259 Becoming a Changemaker 2 to students working in high tech, life sciences and biotechnology, telecommunications, management consulting, and financial services. Units Topics include new trends in global organizational design, leading geo- Terms offered: Not yet offered dispersed teams of knowledge workers, managing offshore partnerships, This course inspires, trains and equips participants to convert raw integrating acquisitions, and executing change with multicultural energy and enthusiasm for creating a better world into real leadership knowledge workers. skills and mindsets which will empower you to create positive change International Business: Designing Global Organizations: Read More [+] at an individual, organizational and societal level. Anchored in change Rules & Requirements leadership and bringing together the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership & social impact, the course is focused on moving Prerequisites: 205 from ideas to action; gaining inspiration from diverse changemakers across roles and sectors; learning how to navigate, shape and lead Hours & Format change to thrive amidst uncertainty; and helping you become the kind of Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week leader our companies, our communities and our world need right now. Becoming a Changemaker: Read More [+] Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
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EWMBA 260 Customer Insights 3 Units EWMBA 262 Strategic Brand Management 3 Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Fall 2006 Units Examines concepts and theories from behavioral science useful for the Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 understanding and prediction of marketplace behavior and demand The focus of this course is on developing student skills to formulate analysis. Emphasizes applications to the development of marketing policy and critique complete marketing programs including product, price, planning and strategy and to various decision areas within marketing. distribution, and promotion policies. Case analyses are heavily used. The Customer Insights: Read More [+] course is designed primarily for students who will take a limited number of Rules & Requirements advanced marketing courses and wish an integrated approach. Strategic Brand Management: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 or equivalent Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Formerly known as: Business Administration E260 Grading: Letter grade. Customer Insights: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E262A
EWMBA 261 Marketing Research: Tools and Strategic Brand Management: Read Less [-] Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis 2 - 3 Units EWMBA 262A Brand Manager Boot Camp 3 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2013 Units This course develops the skills necessary to plan and implement Terms offered: Prior to 2007 an effective market research study. Topics include research design, This course will immerse students in the roles and responsibilities of a psychological measurement, survey methods, experimentation, statistical Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Students will examine key marketplace analysis of marketing data, and effective reporting of technical material drivers of B2B and B2C companies and learn how to generate organic to management. Students select a client and prepare a market research growth. Emphasis will be placed on practical skills needed to successfully study during the course. Course intended for students with substantive execute job responsibilities. Students will explore various product interests in marketing. launch strategies and marketing mixes in different country contexts, Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and examine how to use Big Data to generate sales growth, and learn the Analysis: Read More [+] key elements to producing and executing a strategic marketing plan. Rules & Requirements The course uses a combination of lecturer, case studies, and group and individual projects. Presentation and writing skills are given extra Prerequisites: Business Administration 200 or comparable statistical attention. course Brand Manager Boot Camp: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Brand Manager Boot Camp: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E261
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EWMBA 263 Marketing Analytics 3 Units EWMBA 265 Influencing Consumers 2 - 3 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2007, Spring 2007 Units Information technology has allowed firms to gather and process large Terms offered: Prior to 2007 quantities of information about consumers' choices and reactions A specialized course in advertising, focusing on management and to marketing campaigns. However, few firms have the expertise decision-making. Topics include objective-setting, copy decisions, media to intelligently act on such information. This course addresses this decisions, budgeting, and examination of theories, models, and other shortcoming by teaching students how to use customer information research methods appropriate to these decision areas. Other topics to better market to consumers. In addition, the course addresses how include social/economic issues of advertising by nonprofit organizations. information technology affects marketing strategy. Influencing Consumers: Read More [+] Marketing Analytics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 Administration 206 or equivalent
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Grading: Letter grade. Influencing Consumers: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E262B EWMBA 266 Sales Force Management and Marketing Analytics: Read Less [-] Channel Strategy 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Summer 2006 10 Week EWMBA 264 High Technology Marketing Session Management 3 Units The success of any marketing program often weighs heavily upon its Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 co-execution by members of the firm's distribution channel. This course High technology refers to that class of products and services which is seeks to provide an understanding of how the strategic and tactical roles subject to technological change at a pace significantly faster than for of the channel can be identified and managed. This is accomplished, first, most goods in the economy. Under such circumstances, the marketing through studying the broad economic and social forces that govern the task faced by the high technology firm differs in some ways from the channel evolution. It is completed through the examination of tools to usual. The purpose of this course is to explore these differences. select, manage, and motivate channel partners. High Technology Marketing Management: Read More [+] Sales Force Management and Channel Strategy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format
Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 or equivalent Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Hours & Format Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 267 Topics in Marketing 0.5 - 3 Units EWMBA 268C Social Media Marketing 1 - 3 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014 Units Advanced study in the field of Marketing. Topics will vary from year to Terms offered: Fall 2014 year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. The course covers the implications of the evolution of communication Topics in Marketing: Read More [+] on marketing strategy in the new landscape where traditional and digital Rules & Requirements media coexist and interact. While advertising spending on traditional media has recently declined, increasing amounts are spent online Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. in addition to unpaid media. These new communication channels, Hours & Format however, are presenting significant challenges to marketers in selecting the best strategies to maximize returns. The course covers a number Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week of topics including, but not limited to: The differences and interaction between traditional and social media; two-sided markets and social media Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week platforms; a basic theory of social networks online and offline; consumer Additional Details behavior and digital media. Social Media Marketing: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Hours & Format
Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week
Topics in Marketing: Read Less [-] Additional Details EWMBA 268B International Marketing 3 Units Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2009 Grading: Letter grade. Provides frameworks, knowledge; and sensitivities to formulate and implement marketing strategies for competing in the international arena. Social Media Marketing: Read Less [-] Regions and countries covered include the Americas, Europe, Japan, China, India, Russia, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Issues covered include EWMBA 268D Design and Marketing New global versus local advertising, international pricing strategies, selecting Products 3 Units and managing strategic international alliances and distribution channels, Terms offered: Prior to 2007 managing international brands and product lines through product life With rapid advancements in materials and technologies, the product cycle, international retailing, and internatiional marketing organization and life cycle is getting shorter and shorter. Consequently, companies control. need to constantly improve existing products and develop new ones. International Marketing: Read More [+] This course examines the strategies, processes and methods used by Hours & Format these companies, and the cutting-edge tools and techniques used for Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week new-product development. Readings and guest speakers from both product and services will be used to develop understanding and mastery. Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Upon conclusion, students will be able to identify new market space opportunities, evaluate qualitative and quantitative research and turn it Additional Details into actionable decisions, and develop long-range business plans to meet both strategic and financial objectives of a new product launch. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Design and Marketing New Products: Read More [+] Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format
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EWMBA 269 Pricing 3 Units EWMBA 273 Dynamic Capabilities and Terms offered: Spring 2015, Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Spring Innovation 2 - 3 Units 2014 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This three-module course aims to equip students with proven concepts, This is a course in strategic management. It draws on a variety of techniques, and frameworks for assessing and formulating pricing disciplines and integrates them in the fashion that will generate key strategies. The first module develops the economic and behavorial insights into how technology can be developed and managed. foundations of pricing. The second module discusses several innovative This course will help students acquire and practice concepts and pricing concepts including price customization, nonlinear pricing, price skills that are relevant to management in a technologically dynamic matching, and product line pricing. The third module analyzes the environment. It provides frameworks for intellectual capital management strengths and weaknesses of several Internet-based, buyer-determined in the private sector. pricing models. This course is aimed at those interested in working for either large or Pricing: Read More [+] small firms in technologically progressive industries, as well as those Hours & Format wishing to understand how mature industries can create and respond to innovation. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation: Read More [+] Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
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Pricing: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EWMBA 271 Tech and the City: How to Get Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation: Read Less [-] Urban Innovation Right 2 - 3 Units EWMBA 275 Business Law: Managing the Terms offered: Not yet offered Legal Environment 3 Units This course critically examines how new technologies and business Terms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2007 models impact cities, and identifies the approaches that produce not only A manager must understand the legal environments which impact the best business outcomes, but also the most equitable and sustainable business and understand how to work effectively with lawyers. This outcomes. To begin, we explore what makes cities such compelling course addresses the legal aspects of business relationships and laboratories for technology innovation, learn from past attempts at “smart business agreements. Topics covered include forms of business city” interventions, and discuss how technologists can identify more organization, duties of officers and directors, intellectual property, effective solutions to today’s urban challenges. We’ll then hear from a antitrust, contracts, employment relationships, criminal law, and debtor- variety of cutting edge practitioners, including venture investors, startup creditor relationships including bankruptcy. founders, government officials, tech journalists and community organizers Business Law: Managing the Legal Environment: Read More [+] about the unique opportunities and challenges of building an urban tech Rules & Requirements startup today. Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Completion of all core courses or consent of instructor Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 277 Special Topics in Business and EWMBA 282 Real Estate Development 3 Units Public Policy 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 The interaction of the private and public sectors in urban development; Topics vary by semester at discretion of instructor and by student modeling the urban economy; growth and decline of urban areas; demand. Topical areas include business and professional ethics and the selected policy issues: housing, transportation, financing, local role of corporate social responsibility in the mixed economy; managing government, urban redevelopment, and neighborhood change are the external affairs of the corporation, including community, government, examined. media and stakeholder relations; technology policy, research and Real Estate Development: Read More [+] development, and the effects of government regulation of business on Rules & Requirements technological innovation and adoption. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Prerequisites: Business Administration E207 or equivalent, or consent of Hours & Format instructor Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 277 after completing BUS ADM E278. Additional Details
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester. Grading: Letter grade.
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Summer: 3 weeks - 5-15 hours of lecture per week EWMBA 283 Real Estate Finance and Securitization 3 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of real estate financial analysis, including elements of mortgage financing and taxation. The Grading: Letter grade. course will apply the standard tools of financial analysis to specialized real estate financing circumstances and real estate evaluation. Formerly known as: Business Administration E278 Real Estate Finance and Securitization: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read Less [-] Prerequisites: Business Administration E280; and background in the EWMBA 280 Real Estate Investment Analysis basics of finance, micro-economics, macro-economics, statistics and and Sustainability 3 Units quantitative analysis Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2006 Intensive review of literature in the theory of land utilization, urban growth Hours & Format and real estate market behavior; property rights and valuation; residential Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week and non-residential markets; construction, debt and equity financing; public controls and policies. Additional Details Real Estate Investment Analysis and Sustainability: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 284 Real Estate Investment Strategy EWMBA 290A Fundamentals of Design 3 Units Thinking 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2007 Terms offered: Not yet offered Analysis of selected problems and special studies; cases in residental The course will introduce the Design Thinking mindset to MBA students and non-residental development and financing, urban redevelopment, and support it with tools, processes and strategies to solve business real estate taxation, mortgage market developments, equity investment, problems with a non-traditional problem-solving approach. Design valuation, and zoning. thinking uses quantitative information to inform qualitative decision Real Estate Investment Strategy: Read More [+] making. Rooted in the formal disciplines of design, the course works Rules & Requirements with core principles of creativity, discovery, curiosity, deferred judgment, process discipline and positive human collaboration. Students will gain Prerequisites: Consent of instructor experience using the design thinking process through hands-on learning, reading and team-based collaborative projects. Hours & Format Fundamentals of Design Thinking: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Grading: Letter grade. Summer: 2 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration E284 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 287 Special Topics in Real Estate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Economics and Finance 1 - 3 Units Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2009, Spring 2008 class is offered. Topics vary each semester. Topic areas include advanced techniques for real estate financial analysis and structuring and evaluation; the Formerly known as: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm. 200P securitization of real estate debt and equity; issues in international real estate; cyclical behavior of real estate markets; portfolio theory and real Fundamentals of Design Thinking: Read Less [-] estate asset allocation. Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read More [+] EWMBA 290B Biotechnology Industry Rules & Requirements Perspectives and Business Development 2 Prerequisites: Business Administration E280 and consent of instructor Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. This course is designed to examine the strategic issues that confront the management of the development-stage biotech company, i.e., after Hours & Format its startup via an initial capital infusion, but before it might be deemed Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week successful, or otherwise has achieved "first-tier" status. The intention is to study the biotech organization during the process of its growth and Summer: 8 weeks - 2-6 hours of lecture per week maturation from an early-stage existence through "adolescence" into an early-stage existence. Additional Details Biotechnology Industry Perspectives and Business Development: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Rules & Requirements Grading: Letter grade. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Formerly known as: Business Administration E281 Hours & Format Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 290E Innovation Strategies for EWMBA 290I Managing Innovation and Emerging Technologies 2 Units Change 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2007 Every successful entrepreneurial high tech venture has at its core This course is designed to introduce students to the innovation process individuals with mastery of two skill sets: marketing and management and its management. It provides an overview of technological change and expertise, and technological skill. This course is intended to provide the links it to specific strategic challenges; examines the diverse elements of marketing skills needed for the management of an entrepreneurial high the innovation process and how they are managed; discusses the uneasy technology venture, regardless of whether the individual's "home" skill set relationship between technology and the workforce; and examines is technical or managerial. We examine in depth successful marketing challenges of managing innovation globally. approaches for entrepreneurial companies as a function of markets Managing Innovation and Change: Read More [+] and technologies. Emphasis is placed on the special requirements for Hours & Format creating and executing marketing plans and programs in a setting of rapid technological change and limited resources. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Innovation Strategies for Emerging Technologies: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Formerly known as: Business Administration E274 Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Managing Innovation and Change: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Innovation Strategies for Emerging Technologies: Read Less [-] EWMBA 290K Innovation in Services and Business Models 2 Units EWMBA 290H Haas@Work 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Fall 2015 This course examines services innovation, first covering key concepts, The primary objective of this course and the associated innovation including how services innovation differs from product innovation, the role consulting projects is for students to learn and apply the approaches, of openness in services, the role of business models, and co-creation. skills, and behaviors required to successfully initiate and drive innovation The course then introduces several tools and frameworks to apply those in a complex organization. Students taking the course will use concepts concepts to specific services situations. These include process design, and tools from several other Haas courses, including Economic Analysis process mapping and improvement, business models, co-creation, and for Business Decisions, Strategic Leadership, Leading People, Finance, platform innovation. and Problem Finding Problem Solving. As important, the student teams Innovation in Services and Business Models: Read More [+] are expected to deliver the highest quality work and deliverables, genuine Hours & Format insights, innovative solutions, and real value on mission-critical client projects. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Haas@Work: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Instructor: Chesbrough Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Innovation in Services and Business Models: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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EWMBA 290S Strategy for the Information EWMBA 290V Corporate Strategy in Technology Firm 3 Units Telecommunications and Media 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Fall 2013 This course is a strategy and general management course for students This course is intended for students who wish to gain better interested in pursuing careers in the global information technology understanding of one of the most important issues facing management industry. Students are taught to view the IT industry through the eyes of today--designing, implementing, and managing telecommunication the general manager/CEO (whether at a start-up or an industry giant). and distributed computer systems. The following topics are covered: They learn how to evaluate strategic options and their consequences, a survey of networking technologies; the selection, design, and how to understand the perspectives of various industry players, and how management of telecommunication systems; strategies for distributed to anticipate how they are likely to behave under various circumstances. data processing; office automation; and management of personal These include the changing economics of production, the role network computers in organizations. effects and standards have on adoption of new products and services, Corporate Strategy in Telecommunications and Media: Read More [+] the tradeoffs among potential pricing strategies, and the regulatory and Rules & Requirements public policy context. Strategy for the Information Technology Firm: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Business Administration 204 Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Strategy for the Information Technology Firm: Read Less [-] Corporate Strategy in Telecommunications and Media: Read Less [-] EWMBA 290T Special Topics in Innovation EWMBA 291C Active Communicating 1 Unit and Design 0.5 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 This course develops the basic building blocks of impactful Advanced study in the fields of innovation and design. Topics will vary communication--e.g., concentration, energy, voice, physical from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each expressiveness, spontaneity, listening, awareness, and presence--by semester. drawing upon expertise from theater arts. Active, participatory exercises Special Topics in Innovation and Design: Read More [+] allow for the development and embodiment of effective communication Rules & Requirements skills. Class readings, lectures, and discussions address participants' specific workplace applications. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Active Communicating: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
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EWMBA 291D Data Visualization 1 - 2 Units EWMBA 291I Improvisational Leadership 1 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2010 Unit This course exposes the problems of poor data presentation and Terms offered: Prior to 2007 introduces design practices necessary to communicate quantitative This class explores the broad principles of improvisation, a performing business information clearly, efficiently, and powerfully. This course art form that has developed pedagogical methods to enhance individual identifies what to look for in the data and describes the types of graphs spontaneity, listening and awareness, expressive skills, risk-taking, and and visual analysis techniques most effective for spotting what is one’s ability to make authentic social and emotional connections. The meaningful and making sense of it. ultimate aim of the course is to help students develop an innovative and Data Visualization: Read More [+] improvisational leadership mindset, sharpening in-the-moment decision Hours & Format making and the ability to quickly recognize and act upon opportunities when presented. In practical terms, this course strives to enhance Fall and/or spring: students’ business communication skills and increase both interpersonal 2 weeks - 8-15 hours of lecture per week intuition and confidence. 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture per week Improvisational Leadership: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format
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Data Visualization: Read Less [-] Additional Details EWMBA 291F Audience-Focused Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Communication 1 Unit Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Students will learn to identify and present from their strengths; utilize Improvisational Leadership: Read Less [-] techniques to understand and address their audience's overt and hidden agendas; determine what is pertinent in their presentations, and what EWMBA 291L Leader as Coach 1 Unit should be left out; present information tailored to a specific audience's Terms offered: Prior to 2007 way of understanding, and thus answer the audience's unspoken This course focuses on the art and science of coaching including theory questions; analyze, receive and offer constructive feedback; use their and practice. The curriculum will cover theory and practice for three bodies and breath to give themselves more presence and power; aspects of the coaching process – knowledge-based (information communicate to groups via video-conference; and demonstrate a level and skills), motivation-based (inspiration and passion), and strategy- of mastery of presentation skills by exuding confidence, presence, and based (communication and integration). The curriculum will focus on influence through strategic, audience-focused communication. primary coaching skills, tools, processes and behaviors that a coach Audience-Focused Communication: Read More [+] uses. In addition, participants will learn facilitation skills as the preferred Hours & Format methodology in achieving successful coaching programs. Course participants will have the opportunity to utilize this material in practice Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week coaching sessions with supervision and feedback from peers and the instructor. Additional Details Leader as Coach: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Audience-Focused Communication: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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EWMBA 291R Building Trust-Based EWMBA 291T Topics In Managerial Relationships 1 Unit Communications 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 The objective of this course is to help students become better leaders by This course will provide the student with specialized knowledge in some strengthening their ability to build trust-based relationships with others area of managerial communications. Topics include multimedia business such as direct reports, supervisors, peers and customers. The course presentations, personal leadership development, diversity management, draws appropriate links back to Leadership Communications and forward and making meetings work. Topics will vary from semester to semester. to Applied Innovation. Students will (i) debrief their experience of putting Topics In Managerial Communications: Read More [+] learning from Leadership Communications into action in their workplace; Rules & Requirements (ii) practice various approaches to honing their empathy, including the use of insightful questions rather than assertions as the basis for a Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. dialogue with others; and (iii) learn a simple peer coaching model that Hours & Format they will use in between face-to-face sessions with their classmates. Building Trust-Based Relationships: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration 200C Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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Fall and/or spring: 6 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration 291B
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Grading: Letter grade. Social Impact 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2006 Building Trust-Based Relationships: Read Less [-] This course prepares students conceptually and practically to create, lead, and manage nonprofit organizations. Focuses on the centrality EWMBA 291S Storytelling for Leadership 1 of the mission, governing board leadership, application of strategy Unit and strategic planning, and strategic management of issues unique Terms offered: Prior to 2007 to or characteristic of the sector: performance measurement, program This course provides students with personal leadership development development, financial management, resource development, community through the ability to tell "Who Am I" leadership journey stories, for use relations and marketing, human resource management, advocacy, and in the business context. For leaders, whose job it is to manage change, management. the approach to storytelling facilitates learning and is a vehicle to assist Strategy and Leadership for Social Impact: Read More [+] others in overcoming obstacles, generating enthusiasm and team work, Hours & Format sharing knowledge and ultimately leading to build trust and connection. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week This course give strategies, skills and practices for the three elements of telling powerful leadership stories: Story Content, Story Structure and Additional Details Story Delivery. The course is highly interactive. Storytelling for Leadership: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Strategy and Leadership for Social Impact: Read Less [-] Additional Details
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EWMBA 292B Nonprofit Boards 1 Unit EWMBA 292F Strategic Financial Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012 Management of Nonprofit Organizations 1 The purpose of this class is to acquaint Evening & Weekend Master of Unit Business Administration students, many of whom will be asked to serve Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2007 on nonprofit boards throughout their careers, with the nonprofit sector The course focuses on financial management issues faced by board and the roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards. Students will learn members and senior and executive managers in nonprofit organizations. why nonprofit boards exist, how they are structured, how they differ from Students learn tools and techniques for effective planning and budgeting corporate boards, what their legal responsibilities are, how boards and and how to control, evaluate and revise plans. Use and development chief executives relate to each other, and how boards contribute to the of internal and external financial reports are studied with an emphasis effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. on using financial information in decision making. Tools and techniques Nonprofit Boards: Read More [+] of financial statement analysis, interpretation, and presentation are Hours & Format practiced. Summer: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 8 hours of lecture per week Strategic Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Prerequisites: Evening and Weekend Masters in Business Administration 203, financial experience, or equivalent Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format Nonprofit Boards: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week EWMBA 292C Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions 1 - 3 Units Summer: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010 Additional Details This course explores the concept and practice of corporate sustainability (CS) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a series of Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate lectures, guest speakers, and live consulting projects focused on CS and CSR challenges facing actual companies. The course provides the Grading: Letter grade. tools and experiences that sustainable management practitioners can Strategic Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations: Read Less utilize as a part of their value-creating strategies. Viewing CS and CSR [-] from a corporate strategy perspective enables students to understand how considerations of social impact can, in fact, support core business EWMBA 292I Social Investing--Recent objectives, core competencies, and bottom-line profits. Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions: Read More [+] Findings in Management and Finance 1 Unit Hours & Format Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013 This course introduces the field of social investment. The use of ESG Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week (environmental, social, and governance) criteria is becoming increasingly prevalent among both high net worth individuals and institutions. Many Summer: 10 weeks - 1.5-4.5 hours of lecture per week ethical and religious traditions advocate altruism and community- mindedness in all dealings, while some economic and financial theorists Additional Details argue for a narrow focus on risk and reward, with little regard for the Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate impact of decisions on stakeholder groups or the environment. Social Investing--Recent Findings in Management and Finance: Read Grading: Letter grade. More [+] Hours & Format Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
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Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Kurtz
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EWMBA 292ID Impact Startup Disco 1 Unit EWMBA 292K Food Innovation Studio 2 Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This is a short, high-octane course for students interested in meeting Students will identify and solve novel and pressing challenges in the other innovators and getting hands-on experience developing a new broader food-system; develop insights into the systemic interdepencies impact startup concept. All “social and environmental” impact themes that impact personal health and planetary sustainability; and work are welcome. The course is inspired by other “hackathon” and startup to conceive, test and launch high impact, market-based solutions. weekend formats. A structured roadmap helps guide students through a The course emphasizes mission-driven business designs that create sprint formation and ideation process. All students will be asked to submit positive social impact. Human-centered design, lean-launch, rapid an idea during the week prior to the class. After a peer vote selects the prototyping, business model development, venture formation and top ideas, teams are organically formed during the first session. At the venture pitch-presentation are blended into an accelerated experiential end of the course, each team will present their validated concept and learning program. The course attracts leading food industry leaders and their next steps plan to a panel of impact venture experts. entrepreneurs as guest speakers and mentors. The actual course topics Impact Startup Disco: Read More [+] and projects are originated and chosen by student teams. Hours & Format Food Innovation Studio: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 1 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Food Innovation Studio: Read Less [-] Impact Startup Disco: Read Less [-] EWMBA 292M Social Impact Metrics 2 Units EWMBA 292J Haas Sustainable Investment Terms offered: Spring 2005 Fund 2 Units To provide an overview of the real world challenges of measuring impact Terms offered: Prior to 2007 in the social sector, this course will delve into the metrics challenges In this course, students manage a real investment fund ($3 million +) facing four nonprofit organizations selected as “clients”. Students focused on both social and financial returns. Through the Fund, students will apply frameworks and approaches from the course to help these have the opportunity to test the investment and corporate responsibility nonprofits address the specific metrics problems they have identified principles they have learned in the classroom, and to experience the and improve their performance. Students will have the opportunity to complexities, challenges, and rewards of the investing world. Students work directly with executives of the nonprofit organizations during the have primary responsibility for investment decisions, including conducting course, and to present their metrics solutions to the nonprofit cancer their own research on funds and companies’ environmental, social organizations, each of whom have all received grants from Amgen to and governance (ESG) performance. Students receive guidance from implement the metrics solutions proposed by the student teams. both faculty advisors and an advisory board. The faculty advisors Social Impact Metrics: Read More [+] provide regular input on portfolio management, understanding portfolio Rules & Requirements performance and ESG investing. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EWMBA 292M Haas Sustainable Investment Fund: Read More [+] after completing EWMBA 292M. A deficient grade in EWMBA 292M may Rules & Requirements be removed by taking EWMBA 292M. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 6 units. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Social Impact Metrics: Read Less [-] Haas Sustainable Investment Fund: Read Less [-] 64 Haas School of Business
EWMBA 292N Topics in Social Sector EWMBA 292S Social Sector Solutions 3 Units Leadership 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2012 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013 The purpose of this course is to develop students' skills and knowledge Advanced study in the field of Social Sector Leadership. Topics will in problem solving, management consulting, and nonprofit organizations. vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Instruction covers frameworks for problem solving, senior management semester. consulting, and assessing nonprofit organizations. The course includes Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read More [+] an assignment to a consultation team that works with a select nonprofit Hours & Format client to help them succeed in an entrepreneurial venture. A partnership with a professional management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week the course includes experienced McKinsey consultants coaching each of the student teams. Additional Details Social Sector Solutions: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 292R Business and Natural Resources 1 Unit Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Spring 2007 Social Sector Solutions: Read Less [-] This course incorporates business and sustainability aspects into the field of natural resource management. Using economic and ecological EWMBA 292T Topics in Socially Responsible concepts, students will solve practical problems in this field. The course covers relevant theories and frameworks for assessing natural resource Business 0.5 - 3 Units management, ecosystems services, economic valuation, climate change Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 and water, corporate carbon footprint, forestry management, and Advanced study in the field of Socially Responsible Business. Topics will strategies to add value through corporate sustainability. The course vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each emulates the assessment and decision making processes that are the semester. norm in this field. Students will improve their decision making process Topics in Socially Responsible Business: Read More [+] related to natural resources and their understanding of how those Rules & Requirements decisions influence competitive advantage in business. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Business and Natural Resources: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week
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Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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EWMBA 293 Individually Supervised Study EWMBA 295A Entrepreneurship 3 Units for Graduate Students 1 - 5 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 The development of creative marketing strategies for new ventures, Individually supervised study of subjects not available to the student in as well as the resolution of specific marketing problems in smaller the regular schedule, approved by faculty adviser as appropriate for the companies which provide innovative goods and services. Emphasis is on student's program. decision making under conditions of weak data, inadequate resources, Individually Supervised Study for Graduate Students: Read More [+] emerging markets, and rapidly changing environments. Rules & Requirements Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Prerequisites: Business Administration E206 Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of independent study per week Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Grading: Letter grade.
Individually Supervised Study for Graduate Students: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration E295 EWMBA 293C Curricular Practical Training Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] Internship 0.0 Units EWMBA 295B Venture Capital and Private Terms offered: Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Summer 2010 10 Week Equity 3 Units Session Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 This is an independent study course for international students doing This is an advanced case-based course intended to provide the internships under the Curricular Practical Training program. Requires a background, tools, and themes of the venture capital industry. The course paper exploring how the theoretical constructs learned in MBA courses is organized in four modules of the private equity cycle: (1) fund raising were applied during the internship. -- examines how private equity funds are raised and structured, (2) Curricular Practical Training Internship: Read More [+] investing -- considers the interactions between private equity investors Rules & Requirements and the entrepreneurs that they finance, (3) exiting -- examines the Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. process through which private equity investors exit their investments; and (4) new frontiers -- reviews many of the key ideas developed in the Hours & Format course. Venture Capital and Private Equity: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week Rules & Requirements
Summer: 8 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week Prerequisites: 295A and 234 recommended
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Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Additional Details
Instructor: Gent Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
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EWMBA 295C Opportunity Recognition: EWMBA 295I Entrepreneurship Workshop for Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Startups 2 Units Valley 2 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2007 Terms offered: Not yet offered This workshop is intended for students who have their own experimental This course is intended to provide the core skills needed for the venture project under development. The business concept may be in identification of opportunities that can lead to successful, entrepreneurial the startup mode or further along in its evolution. The pedagogy is one high technology ventures, regardless of the individual's "home" skill set, of guided entrepreneurship where students, often working in teams, whether technical or managerial. We examine in depth the approaches undertake the real challenges of building a venture. Students must be most likely to succeed for entrepreneurial companies as a function willing to discuss their projects with others in the workshop, as group of markets and technologies. Emphasis is placed on the special deliberation of the entrepreneurial challenges is a key component of the requirements for creating and executing strategy in a setting of rapid class. technological change and limited resources. This course is particularly Entrepreneurship Workshop for Startups: Read More [+] suited for those who anticipate founding or operating technology Hours & Format companies. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3-4.5 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week Entrepreneurship Workshop for Startups: Read Less [-] Additional Details EWMBA 295M Business Model Innovation Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate and Entrepreneurial Strategy 2 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 The course teaches how to characterize and analyze business models Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon and how to efficiently construct and test new business models. The Valley: Read Less [-] course examines businesses across industries and phases of a firm's growth. Critical entrepreneurial strategies are illuminated for new EWMBA 295F The Lean Launch Pad 2 Units ventures or in building a new enterprise inside a corporation. The Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009 course provides students with the skills and knowledge to rapidly assess This course provides real world, hands-on learning on what it’s like to and shape business models to their advantage in constructing new actually start a high-tech company. This class is not about how to write a enterprises. business plan. It’s not an exercise on how smart you are in a classroom, Business Model Innovation and Entrepreneurial Strategy: Read More [+] or how well you use the research library to size markets. And the end Hours & Format result is not a PowerPoint slide deck for a VC presentation. And it is most definitely not an incubator where you come to build the “hot-idea” that you Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week have in mind. This is a practical class: Our goal, within the constraints of Summer: 10 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture and 3.5 hours of lecture per a classroom and a limited amount of time, is to create an entrepreneurial week experience for you with all of the pressures and demands of the real world in an early stage start up. Additional Details The Lean Launch Pad: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Prerequisites: Graduate standing Grading: Letter grade.
Hours & Format Instructor: Charron
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EWMBA 295N Media: New and Otherwise 1 EWMBA 295T Topics in Entrepreneurship 0.5 Unit - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012 This course provides students with an overview of the media business Advanced study in the field of entrepreneurship. Topics will vary from and how it is changing — from startups to global conglomerates. It year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. addresses the economics of media organizations (and industries), Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] their organizational structures, cultures, brands, and approaches. Rules & Requirements Some of the questions discussed include: (1) How do traditional media address changing technologies; (2) How is the media business driven Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. by metrics and data; (3) How is it driven by artistic creativity; (4) Are Hours & Format media companies too big? Are they too small? Students will develop and present competitive strategies for media companies, hear from guest Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week speakers, and discuss the transformations happening in media. Media: New and Otherwise: Read More [+] Summer: Hours & Format 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 1-5.5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Grading: Letter grade. class is offered.
Media: New and Otherwise: Read Less [-] Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] EWMBA 295S Entrepreneurial Strategy 2 EWMBA 296 Special Topics in Business Units Administration 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2016, Fall 2015 Students learn about the key strategic choices that shape whether Advanced study in various fields of business administration. Topics will companies deliver real value to stakeholders. They are taught to vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each organize the strategic choices into four different strategy “playbooks” semester. that they can use to systematically consider alternate strategies for a Special Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+] startup, and the core elements needed to make these strategies work: Rules & Requirements Intellectual Property Strategy, Disruptive Strategy, Value Chain Strategy, and Architectural Strategy. Students must (a) analyze cases, thinking Prerequisites: Graduate standing systematically through what they would do if they were a founder or early- employee in the protagonists’ shoes; (b) engage in class discussions, Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. treating the classroom as a laboratory; and (c) formulate a real strategic Hours & Format plan for a final strategy assignment. Entrepreneurial Strategy: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Summer: 8 weeks - 2-6 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Grading: Letter grade. class is offered.
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EWMBA 296C Introduction to Coding for EWMBA 297D Trends in Biotech and Pharma MBAs 2 Units 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course helps MBA students communicate more effectively with This course is designed to provide students with insights into the biotech/ technical colleagues by understanding the basics of the programming pharma industry and the challenges and opportunities it faces; exposure world. Students learn industry standard vocabulary, tools, and processes to the deliberations around pricing a new drug and creating access used by developers. As an introductory course, it focuses on breadth strategies; the opportunity to analyze relevant cases that will highlight the instead of depth providing a foundation for learning the core topics critical real-world impact of select trends on the industry; and insights into how to a career in technology. The course is a mixture of in-class lectures, larger healthcare management and policy issues interact with biopharma, quizzes, readings, and online tutorials. Each session introduces a new seeking to both advance efforts to reform the U.S. health care system topic, with depth added in readings and reinforced through quizzes and and change how innovators engage with key stakeholders. assignments. The material is introduced cumulatively and the pace is Trends in Biotech and Pharma: Read More [+] specifically tuned for beginners. The course is aimed at non-technical Hours & Format students with no prior coding experience. Introduction to Coding for MBAs: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Trends in Biotech and Pharma: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate EWMBA 298S Seminar in International Grading: Letter grade. Business 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Spring 2014, Summer Introduction to Coding for MBAs: Read Less [-] 2013 10 Week Session EWMBA 297A Healthcare in the 21st Century This course involves a series of speaker and seminar-type classes in preparation for a two-week study tour of a specific country or region. 3 Units Participants will visit companies and organizations and meet with top- Terms offered: Prior to 2007 level management to learn about the opportunities and challenges of This course gives a systematic overview of the U.S. health care system operating in a specific country or region. Evaluation is based on student by providing students with an understanding of its structure, financing, presentations, participation, and a research paper. and special properties. Applies social science theory, disciplinary Seminar in International Business: Read More [+] contributions, and research findings to the understanding of health care Hours & Format delivery problems; examines current courses of data about health status, health services use, financing, and performance indicators; analyzes the Summer: 8 weeks - 4-5.5 hours of fieldwork and 4-5.5 hours of fieldwork larger management and policy issues that drive reform efforts. per week Healthcare in the 21st Century: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Additional Details
Prerequisites: Master's level accounting and finance Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Grading: Letter grade.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 298X EWMBA Exchange Program 1 - EWMBA 299B Global Strategy and 15 Units Multinational Enterprise 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2014 Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 Students who participate in one of the Haas School's domestic or Identifies the management challenges facing international firms. international exchange programs receive credit (usually 12 units) at Haas Attention to business strategies, organizational structures, and the for the set of courses that they successfully complete at their host school. role of governments in the global environment. Special attention to The courses that the students take at the host school are subject to the challenges of developing and implementing global new product review by the EWMBA Program office to ensure that they match course development strategies when industrial structures and government requirements at the Haas School. policies differ. Efficacy of joint ventures and strategic alliances. EWMBA Exchange Program: Read More [+] Implications for industrial policy and global governance. Rules & Requirements Global Strategy and Multinational Enterprise: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Successful completion of all core courses; good academic standing Prerequisites: All core courses
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Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-15 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Summer: Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate 6 weeks - 2.5-37.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 1.5-29 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade.
Additional Details Formerly known as: Business Administration E286
Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Global Strategy and Multinational Enterprise: Read Less [-]
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. EWMBA 299C Corporate-Level Strategy 2 Units EWMBA Exchange Program: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Prior to 2007 EWMBA 299 Strategic Leadership 2 Units This course is for students who intend to lead, consult to, or sell a business to a multi-business enterprise. The course focuses on the Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 development and execution of an enterprise, division or operating Course covers core topics in strategy, including selection of goals; unit strategy for an entity that competes in multiple segments. In the choice of products and services to offer; competitive positioning in which businesses and markets, and in what stages of the value chain, product markets; decisions about scope and diversity; and the design should the organization operate? How should it enter new businesses? of organizational structure, administrative systems, and other issues of Should it exit any of its current businesses? What capabilities does the control and internal regulation. organization have, and how well do they enhance the competitiveness of Strategic Leadership: Read More [+] its individual businesses? How should the larger entity organize to realize Rules & Requirements the highest potential value from the combination of businesses? What Prerequisites: 201A contractual structure maximizes the enterprise value? Corporate-Level Strategy: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Evening/Weekend Masters in Business Administration 299 Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Fall and/or spring: Grading: Letter grade. 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Instructor: La Blanc 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
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EWMBA 299E Competitive Strategy 1 - 3 PHDBA 219S Research Seminar in Economic Units Analysis and Policy 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Examines optimal production and pricing policies for firms in competitive The research seminar presents new research on economics applied to environments; optimal strategies through time; strategies in the presence business management issues. of imperfect information. How differing market structures and government Research Seminar in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read More [+] policies (including taxation) affect output and pricing decisions. Social Rules & Requirements welfare implications of decisions by competitive firms also explored. Competitive Strategy: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Business Administration E201A, E201B, E204 Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 1.5 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Summer: Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Research Seminar in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read Less [-] 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of lecture per week PHDBA 229A Doctoral Seminar in Accounting Additional Details I 3 Units Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 A critical evaluation of accounting literature with emphasis on seminar Grading: Letter grade. contributions. Topics covered include research methodology in accounting, the private and social value of information. Formerly known as: Business Administration E210 Doctoral Seminar in Accounting I: Read More [+] Competitive Strategy: Read Less [-] Rules & Requirements EWMBA 299M Marketing Strategy 3 Units Prerequisites: Business Administration 202A or equivalent, and Economics 201A-201B Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 Strategic planning theory and methods with an emphasis on customer, Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for 229A after taking competitor, industry and environmental analysis and its application to 239A. strategy development and choice. Marketing Strategy: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Business Administration E202B, E203, E205, E206 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of seminar per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Formerly known as: Business Administration 223A Subject/Course Level: Eve/Wknd Masters in Bus. Adm./Graduate Doctoral Seminar in Accounting I: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration E267
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PHDBA 229B Doctoral Seminar in Accounting PHDBA 229D Doctoral Seminar in Accounting II 3 Units IV 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2013, Spring 2011 A critical evaluation of recent accounting literature involving empirical Exploration of issues related to the internal accounting systems research. of large firms. The first part of the course focuses on the theory of Doctoral Seminar in Accounting II: Read More [+] mechanism design, while the second part applies this theory to a variety Rules & Requirements of managerial accounting questions. Doctoral Seminar in Accounting IV: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Business Admimistration 202A or equivalent, and Rules & Requirements Economics 201A-201B Prerequisites: Business Administration 202A or equivalent, and Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Economics 201A-201B
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
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Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 223B Formerly known as: Business Administration 223D
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting II: Read Less [-] Doctoral Seminar in Accounting IV: Read Less [-] PHDBA 229C Doctoral Seminar in Accounting PHDBA 229S Research Seminar in III 3 Units Accounting 2 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2018 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 A critical evaluation of recent accounting literature with emphasis on Advanced study in the field of Accounting. Topics will vary from year to financial accounting. year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. Doctoral Seminar in Accounting III: Read More [+] Research Seminar in Accounting: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Business Administration 202A or equivalent, and Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Economics 201A-201B Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Grading: Letter grade. Research Seminar in Accounting: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration 223C
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PHDBA 239B Continuous Time Asset Pricing PHDBA 239DB Corporate Finance Theory 1.5 3 Units Unit Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018 Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017 This course covers topics in dynamic asset pricing, portfolio choice Study of the financial decisions made by firms and the effect of such and general equilibrium theory in a continuous time setting. The first decisions on observables. These can include debt/equity ratios, dividend part of the course covers basic mathematical and statistical results. policies, or the cross section of returns. In addition, corporate finance Finance results that have been developed in continuous times include considers conflicts of interest between shareholders and managers and the intertemporal CAPM, corporate securities and default risk, the term between different financial claimants. structure of interest rates. In addition, results are developed on non-time Corporate Finance Theory: Read More [+] additive utility. Rules & Requirements Continuous Time Asset Pricing: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate course in contract or game theory recommended Prerequisites: 239A Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade. Corporate Finance Theory: Read Less [-] Continuous Time Asset Pricing: Read Less [-] PHDBA 239E Dynamic Game Theory and PHDBA 239DA Market Microstructure 1.5 Unit Applications 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 Introduction and guide to issues in empirical asset pricing. Students This course focuses on repeated games and optimal mechanism design, learn key features of asset-price behavior and study how researchers with an emphasis on dynamics. The course presents a mix of pure theory test various theoretical models from finance and economics, focusing and applications from many economics-related fields, particularly finance, on advantages and disadvantages of research designs. Intuition behind macroeconomics and bargaining. practical econometric tools is developed and applied to asset-pricing Dynamic Game Theory and Applications: Read More [+] questions. By critically evaluating research, students determine which Hours & Format characteristics of an empirical paper influence the finance profession. Market Microstructure: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: Graduate course in contract or game theory recommended Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade.
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Instructor: Fuchs
Additional Details Dynamic Game Theory and Applications: Read Less [-]
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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PHDBA 239FA Asset Pricing Theory 3 Units PHDBA 239FD Empirical Corporate Finance 3 Terms offered: Not yet offered Units Asset pricing and portfolio choice in partial equilbrium and asset pricing Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 in General Equilibrium. Specifically, static and intertemporal theories of This course provides a theoretical and empirical treatment of the core choice under risk and uncertainity and portfolio choice. Includes two- topics in corporate finance including internal corporate investment; fund separation, Capital Asset Pricing Model, and the Arbitrage Pricing external corporate investment (mergers and acquisitions); capital Theory. In a General Equilibrium framework, it covers the notion of structure and financial contracting; bankruptcy; corporate governance. complete markets and welfare theorems. Also, some macro-asset pricing Empirical Corporate Finance: Read More [+] models are developed in addition to an analysis of incomplete markets. Rules & Requirements Asset Pricing Theory: Read More [+] Hours & Format Prerequisites: ECON 240A-240B or equivalent
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Credit Restrictions: Students who have passed ECON 234C are not eligible to also receive credit for passing ECON C234C. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Formerly known as: Ph.D. in Business Administration 239A Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Asset Pricing Theory: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. PHDBA 239FC Empirical Asset Pricing 3 Units Instructor: Malmendier Terms offered: Not yet offered Also listed as: ECON C234C Introduction and guide to issues in empirical asset pricing. Students learn key features of asset-price behavior and study how researchers Empirical Corporate Finance: Read Less [-] test various theoretical models from finance and economics, focusing on advantages and disadvantages of research designs. Intuition behind PHDBA 239S Research Seminar in Finance 2 practical econometric tools is developed and applied to asset pricing - 4 Units questions. By critically evaluating research, students determine which Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 characteristics of an empirical paper influence the finance profession. Advanced study in the field of Finance. Topics will vary from year to year Empirical Asset Pricing: Read More [+] and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. Rules & Requirements Research Seminar in Finance: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate level econometrics recommended Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Formerly known as: Ph.D. in Business Administration 239C Research Seminar in Finance: Read Less [-] Empirical Asset Pricing: Read Less [-] 74 Haas School of Business
PHDBA 249A Doctoral Seminar in Operations PHDBA 249C Doctoral Seminar in Management I 2 Units Management III 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2011 Terms offered: Spring 2014 Advanced study in the field of Operations Management with an emphasis Advanced study in the field of operations management with an emphasis on the interface between Operations Management and Marketing. on the role of rational consumer behavior. Specific topics will vary year to Specific topics will vary from year to year. year. Doctoral Seminar in Operations Management I: Read More [+] Doctoral Seminar in Management III: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 201A; Industrical Engineering and Operations Prerequisites: Indrustial Engineering and Operations Research 262A, Research 262A; 263A; 250, 253 or 254 263A, 250 or 253 or 254, and Economics 201A
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format
Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Grading: Letter grade.
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Doctoral Seminar in Management III: Read Less [-] Doctoral Seminar in Operations Management I: Read Less [-] PHDBA 259A Research in Micro- PHDBA 249B Doctoral Seminar in Operations Organizational Behavior 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 Management II 2 Units Review of the research literature of micro-organizational behavior, Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2011 including its social psychological and psychological foundations. Advanced study in the field of Operations Management with an emphasis Topics include: job design, work attitudes, organizational commitment, on the interface between Operations Management and Marketing. organizational culture, control and participation in organizations, Specific topics will vary from year to year. creativity, personality, socialization leadership, industrial organization Doctoral Seminar in Operations Management II: Read More [+] psychology. Rules & Requirements Research in Micro-Organizational Behavior: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Economics 201A; Industrical Engineering and Operations Research 262A; 263A; 250, 253 or 254 Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format
Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Grading: Letter grade.
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Formerly known as: Business Administration 254A
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PHDBA 259B Research Seminar in Macro- PHDBA 259E Research Seminar in Behavioral Organizational Behavior 3 Units Science 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017 Terms offered: Fall 2020 Review of the research literature of macro-organizational behavior, Advanced study in the field of behavioral science. Topics will vary from including its sociological and economic foundations. Topics include: year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. social networks, organizational culture, status hierarchies, social Research Seminar in Behavioral Science: Read More [+] influence, innovation and organizational diversity. Rules & Requirements Research Seminar in Macro-Organizational Behavior: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor semester.
Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of colloquium per week
Additional Details Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 254B Research Seminar in Behavioral Science: Read Less [-] Research Seminar in Macro-Organizational Behavior: Read Less [-] PHDBA 259S Research Seminar in PHDBA 259C Research Workshop on Macro Management of Organizations 2 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Organizational Behavior 3 Units Advanced study in the field of Management of Organizations. Topics will Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2005, Spring 2003 vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Review of the research literature of macro-organizational behavior, semester. including its sociological and economic foundations. Topics include: Research Seminar in Management of Organizations: Read More [+] social networks, organizational culture, status hierarchies, social Rules & Requirements influence, innovation and organizational diversity. Research Workshop on Macro Organizational Behavior: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Additional Details Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Research Seminar in Management of Organizations: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
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PHDBA 269A Seminar in Marketing: Buyer PHDBA 269C Seminar in Marketing: Behavior 3 Units Marketing Strategy 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2014 Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016 Advanced topics seminar intended principally for Ph.D. students but open Advanced topics seminar intended principally for Ph.D. students but open to advanced MBA students. to advanced MBA students. This section will focus on marketing theory Seminar in Marketing: Buyer Behavior: Read More [+] and the development of marketing thought. (Course offered alternate Rules & Requirements years.) Seminar in Marketing: Marketing Strategy: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Rules & Requirements
Hours & Format Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Formerly known as: Business Administration 269A Grading: Letter grade.
Seminar in Marketing: Buyer Behavior: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration 269C
PHDBA 269B Seminar in Marketing: Choice Seminar in Marketing: Marketing Strategy: Read Less [-] Modeling 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019 PHDBA 269D Special Research Topics in Advanced topics seminar intended principally for Ph.D. students but open Marketing 3 Units to advanced MBA students. Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Seminar in Marketing: Choice Modeling: Read More [+] Review of special research topics in marketing not ordinarily covered in Rules & Requirements BA 269A, 269B, 269C. Content varies from year to year. (Course offered alternate years.) Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Special Research Topics in Marketing: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Formerly known as: Business Administration 269B Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Seminar in Marketing: Choice Modeling: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 269D
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PHDBA 269E Seminar in Marketing: PHDBA C270 Workshop in Institutional Behavioral Science 4 Units Analysis 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2020 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Advanced study in the field of behavioral science. Topics will vary from Fall 2013 year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. This seminar features current research of faculty, from UC Berkeley and Seminar in Marketing: Behavioral Science: Read More [+] elsewhere, and of advanced doctoral students who are investigating Rules & Requirements the efficacy of economic and non-economic forms of organization. An interdisciplinary perspective--combining aspects of law, economics, and Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. organization--is maintained. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, bureaus, and Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same the supporting institutions of law and politics all come under scrutiny. The semester. aspiration is to progressively build toward a new science of organization. Workshop in Institutional Analysis: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of colloquium per week Prerequisites: Economics 100 or 101; Business Administration 110 or Additional Details equivalent; or consent of instructor
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Hours & Format
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Seminar in Marketing: Behavioral Science: Read Less [-] Additional Details PHDBA 269S Research Seminar in Marketing Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate 2 - 4 Units Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Advanced study in the field of Marketing. Topics will vary from year to Also listed as: ECON C225 year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. Workshop in Institutional Analysis: Read Less [-] Research Seminar in Marketing: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements PHDBA 279A Political Economy: Frameworks Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 Hours & Format Surveys recent literature on public decision-making in government institutions, emphasizing a systematic framework for evaluating questions Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week of public policy formation. Explores the new institutionalism in political Additional Details science, applies the methods of rational choice theory to political problems, and links relevant theoretical and empirical literatures in Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate economics and political science. Considers implications of public choice for corporate strategy and business-government relations. Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Political Economy: Frameworks: Read More [+] Research Seminar in Marketing: Read Less [-] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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PHDBA 279B The Political Economy of PHDBA 279D Economic Institutions in Capitalism 3 Units Historical Perspective 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Comprehensive introduction to historical development of contemporary This course develops the proposition that institutions have pervasive capitalism. Class will (1) compare the "classics" in political economy ramifications for understanding economic organization. A comparative and their alternative explanations of markets, politics, class, and culture institutional approach is employed whereby the transaction is made the in industrial development; (2) provide an overview of the history of basic unit of analysis and alternative modes of organization are assessed the United States economic system and business institutions; and (3) with respect to their comparative contracting properties. examine competing theories of the corporation. Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective: Read More [+] The Political Economy of Capitalism: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: This course is not eligible for credit for students who Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor have completed ECON 224A.
Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade. Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 279B Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective: Read Less [-] The Political Economy of Capitalism: Read Less [-] PHDBA 279E Political Economy, Institutions, PHDBA 279C Corporate Strategy and and Business 3 Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Technology 3 Units This graduate course in political economy addresses the interactions Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 among citizens, profit-maximizing firms and a vast class of non-market The course has two broad objectives: 1) providing an overview of agents, such as governments, public administration and regulatory important work (mainly empirical) in the economics of technological institutions. The class emphasizes the operative implications of non- change and technology policy; and 2) analyzing the role of technological market institutions in affecting and constraining firm strategy and and organizational innovation in firm strategy and performance. individual behavior. Topics and cases cover economic and political Corporate Strategy and Technology: Read More [+] institutions, economic policy, lobbying, clientelism, bureaucracy, Rules & Requirements regulation, antitrust, activism and the media. We corroborate the analytical framework with real-world applications, ranging from the US Prerequisites: Ph.D. student standing or consent of instructor historical experience to cross-country comparisons, to develop insight in Hours & Format interpreting fundamental politico-economic constraints. Political Economy, Institutions, and Business: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Formerly known as: Business Administration 279C Grading: Letter grade.
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PHDBA 279S Research Seminar in Business PHDBA 289A Doctoral Seminar in Real Estate and Public Policy 2 - 4 Units 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Advanced study in the field of Business and Public Policy. Topics will Doctoral real estate seminar, covering topics related to real estate vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each investment, finance, and market analysis. The course is rigorous and semester. technical, applying financial and economic analysis to the subject areas Research Seminar in Business and Public Policy: Read More [+] of real estate finance, urban real estate economics, and real estate Rules & Requirements evaluation. Doctoral Seminar in Real Estate: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements
Hours & Format Prerequisites: Ph.D. equivalents of micro and macro economics, finance/or accounting, statistics and econometrics Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Additional Details Research Seminar in Business and Public Policy: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate PHDBA C279I Economics of Innovation 3 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015 Formerly known as: Business Administration 289A Study of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property, including the industrial organization and performance of high-technology industries Doctoral Seminar in Real Estate: Read Less [-] and firms; the use of economic, patent, and other bibliometric data for the analysis of technical change; legal and economic issues of intellectual PHDBA 289S Research Seminar in Real property rights; science and technology policy; and the contributions of Estate 2 - 4 Units innovation and diffusion to economic growth. Methods of analysis are Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 both theoretical and empirical, econometric and case study. Advanced study in the field of Real Estate. Topics will vary from year to Economics of Innovation: Read More [+] year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. Rules & Requirements Research Seminar in Real Estate: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements
Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Also listed as: ECON C222 Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Economics of Innovation: Read Less [-] Research Seminar in Real Estate: Read Less [-] 80 Haas School of Business
PHDBA 297A Research and Theory in PHDBA 297T Doctoral Topics in Business Business: Economics and Management Administration 0.5 - 3 Units Science 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Not yet offered Advanced study in the field of Business Administration. Topics will The course begins with individual decision making under uncertainty, vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each and goes on to cover game theory, including both static and dynamic semester. games with perfect, imperfect, and incomplete information. The course Doctoral Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+] also covers market equilibrium with uncertainty and imperfect information, Rules & Requirements including topics such as signalling, screening, adverse selection, and Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. moral hazard. Research and Theory in Business: Economics and Management Science: Hours & Format Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week
Credit Restrictions: Course is required for first year students in Additional Details accounting, finance, and management science. Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Hours & Format Grading: Letter grade. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Doctoral Topics in Business Administration: Read Less [-] Additional Details PHDBA 299A Individual Research in Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate Business Problems 12.0 Units Grading: Letter grade. Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Spring 2011 Formerly known as: Business Administration 292A Individual Research in Business Problems: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Research and Theory in Business: Economics and Management Science: Read Less [-] Prerequisites: PhD student standing and consent of instructor PHDBA 297B Research and Theory in Credit Restrictions: Forty-five hours of work per unit per term. Business: Behavioral Science 3 Units Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 The focus is upon defining a research problem, designing and employing Hours & Format specialized techniques to solve the problem. Topics will include concepts of causality, analysis of variance; experimental design; survey research; Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0-12 hours of independent study per observation and multivariate analytical techniques. week Research and Theory in Business: Behavioral Science: Read More [+] Summer: Rules & Requirements 6 weeks - 0-20 hours of independent study per week Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor; previous work in 8 weeks - 0-24 hours of independent study per week statistics and probability theory Additional Details
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Hours & Format Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Individual Research in Business Problems: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 292B
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PHDBA 375 Teaching Business 3 Units PHDBA 602C Curricular Practical Training Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Internship 0.0 Units This course will cover the broad range of knowledge and skills necessary Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 to teach in top business schools. Teaching business effectively requires This is an independent study course for international students doing a myriad of pedagogical styles and techniques, as well as the confidence internships under the Curricular Practical Training program. Requires and preparation necessary to convey the course material. This course a paper exploring how the theoretical constructs learned in academic seeks to prepare doctoral students for careers as faculty in business courses were applied during the internship. schools, giving them the insight and experience that will make their first Curricular Practical Training Internship: Read More [+] courses successful ones. Students will learn effective teaching strategies Rules & Requirements by observing faculty mentors, reading pedagogical texts, and openly discussing the challenges and rewards of business instruction with Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. experienced faculty and graduate student instructors. Teaching Business: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 10 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Professional Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate course for teachers or prospective teachers examination preparation Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Teaching Business: Read Less [-] Curricular Practical Training Internship: Read Less [-] PHDBA 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Business Administration—Undergraduate Students 1 - 8 Units Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to UGBA C5 Introduction to Entrepreneurship 2 provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for Units the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. degree. Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018 Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+] This course offers students a taste of what it’s really like to start a Rules & Requirements business. In addition to learning key foundational entrepreneurial concepts such as idea generation & evaluation, customer & product Prerequisites: Graduate standing development, creating a business model, fundraising, marketing, and scaling & exiting a business, students will also hear from successful Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence entrepreneurs who share their perspectives and best practices. Students requirements for doctoral degree. will apply core concepts by working in teams to evaluate and select a Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 16 units. venture idea that they will then develop throughout the semester. Introduction to Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5-45 hours of independent study per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate examination preparation Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Also listed as: L & S C5
Formerly known as: Business Administration 602 Introduction to Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-]
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UGBA 10 Principles of Business 3 Units UGBA 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 This team-taught course provides an introduction to the study of the The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new modern business enterprise. It consists of four modules, the order of students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty which may vary from semester to semester, and an online business member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all simulation that runs during most of the semester. The four modules campus departments, and topics vary from department to department cover: Finance & Accounting, Marketing, Operations & Sustainability, and and semester to semester. Leadership. In addition to lectures and the simulation, students attend Freshman Seminars: Read More [+] discussion section each week. Rules & Requirements Principles of Business: Read More [+] Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Hours & Format discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the Formerly known as: Business Administration 10 instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Principles of Business: Read Less [-] Freshman Seminars: Read Less [-] UGBA C12 The Berkeley Changemaker 2 UGBA 39AC Philanthropy: A Cross-Cultural Units Perspective 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018 Spring 2021 This class will compare and contrast the variety of gift giving and Berkeley Changemaker impact occurs across many fronts: scientific, sharing traditions that make up American philanthropy. Both the cultural artistic, social, and entrepreneurial. This course helps students identify as antecedents and their expression in this country will be explored from five a Berkeley Changemaker and learn the critical thinking, communication, ethnic and racial groups: Native American, European American, African and collaboration skills to become one. Combining disciplines across American, Hispanic American, and Asian American. The goal is to gain UC Berkeley, the course also helps launch the Berkeley Discovery arc. a greater understanding of the many dimensions of philanthropy as it is Students develop their own leadership styles and discover how they can practiced in the United States today. create and lead diverse teams to act upon the world. Values in Berkeley’s Philanthropy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective: Read More [+] DNA like Questioning the Status Quo and going Beyond Yourself support Hours & Format students in leading from whatever position they occupy, preparing them Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week to leave their mark on campus, in their communities, or beyond. More at: http://changemaker.berkeley.edu. Additional Details The Berkeley Changemaker: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of web-based lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of web-based lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration 39AC 6 weeks - 5 hours of web-based lecture per week 8 weeks - 4 hours of web-based lecture per week Philanthropy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective: Read Less [-]
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Alternative to final exam.
Also listed as: L & S C12
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UGBA 39E Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - UGBA 88 Data and Decisions 2 Units 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 The goal of this connector course is to provide an understanding of how Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the data and statistical analysis can improve managerial decision-making. opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a We will explore statistical methods for gleaning insights from economic group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in and social data, with an emphasis on approaches to identifying causal all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and relationships. We will discuss how to design and analyze randomized from semester to semester. experiments and introduce econometric methods for estimating causal Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] effects in non-experimental data. The course draws on a variety Rules & Requirements of business and social science applications, including advertising, management, online marketplaces, labor markets, and education. This Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores course, in combination with the Data 8 Foundations course, satisfies the statistics prerequisite for admission to Haas. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Data and Decisions: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: One semester of Calculus (Math 16A or Math 1A). Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week Also, this is a Data Science connector course and may only be taken Additional Details concurrently with or after completing Computer Science C8/Statistics C8/ Information C8 Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Hours & Format
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required. Additional Details Formerly known as: Business Administration 39 Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read Less [-] Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Miller
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UGBA C95B Introduction to the UGBA 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units Biotechnology Field and Industry 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014 Terms offered: Spring 2019 Organized group study on topics selected by lower division students This course offers an introduction to the field of biotechnology and will under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the Haas School of cover the history of the field, its impact on medicine and society, key Business faculty. methodologies, important therapeutic areas, and the range of career Directed Group Study: Read More [+] options available in the biopharmaceutical industry. In addition to lectures Rules & Requirements on innovation and entrepreneurship, students will hear from lecturers Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to with expertise ranging from molecular biology to clinical trial design and Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. interpretation. Several case studies of historically impactful scientists, entrepreneurs, and biotherapeutic companies will be presented. Students Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. will work in teams to create and develop novel biotechnology company ideas to present in class. Intended for students interested in the Biology Hours & Format +Business program. Introduction to the Biotechnology Field and Industry: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per Hours & Format week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Alternative to final exam. Formerly known as: Business Administration 98
Instructors: Kirn, Lasky Directed Group Study: Read Less [-]
Formerly known as: Molecular and Cell Biology C95B/Undergrad. UGBA 100 Business Communication 2 Units Business Administration C95B Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Theory and practice of effective communication in a business Also listed as: MCELLBI C75 environment. Students practice what they learn with oral presentations and written assignments that model real-life business situations. Introduction to the Biotechnology Field and Industry: Read Less [-] Business Communication: Read More [+] UGBA 96 Lower Division Special Topics in Rules & Requirements Business Administration 1 - 4 Units Prerequisites: Restricted to Undergraduate Business Administration Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Majors Only Study in various fields of business administration for lower division students. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the Hours & Format beginning of each semester. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Lower Division Special Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate
Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Business Communication: Read Less [-] Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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UGBA 101A Microeconomic Analysis for UGBA 101B Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions 3 Units Business Decisions 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session Session Economic analysis applicable to the problems of business enterprises Analysis of the operation of the market system with emphasis on with emphasis on the determination of the level of prices, outputs, and the factors responsible for economic instability; analysis of public inputs; effects of the state of the competitive environment on business and business policies which are necessary as a result of business and government policies. fluctuations. Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions: Read More [+] Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 1, Mathematics 1A or 16A, Statistics W21, or Prerequisites: Economics 1, Mathematics 1A or 16A, Statistics W21, or equivalents equivalents
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 101A after Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 101B completing ECON 100A, ECON 101A, BUS ADM 110, ENVECON 100, after completing ECON 100B, ECON 101B, BUS ADM 111, IAS 107, or BUS ADM S110, IAS 106, or POLECON 106. A deficient grade in POLECON 107. A deficient grade in UGBA 101B may be removed by UGBA 101A may be removed by taking POLECON 106, ECON 100A, taking ECON 100B, ECON 101B, IAS 107, or POLECON 107. ECON 101A, ENVECON 100, IAS 106, or POLECON 106. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required, with Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. common exam group.
Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration 111
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UGBA 102A Financial Accounting 3 Units UGBA W102A Financial Accounting 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First Session 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session The identification, measurement, and reporting of financial effects The identification, measurement, and reporting of financial effects of events on enterprises, with a particular emphasis on business of events on enterprises, with a particular emphasis on business organization. Preparation and interpretation of balance sheets, income organization. Preparation and interpretation of balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows. statements, and statements of cash flows. Financial Accounting: Read More [+] Financial Accounting: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Course not open for credit for students who are Credit Restrictions: Course not open for credit for students who are taking or have completed Undergraduate Business Administration taking or have completed Undergraduate Business Administration 102A. W102A. Hours & Format Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of web-based lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Online: This is an online course.
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per Additional Details week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Additional Details Undergraduate
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate Financial Accounting: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. UGBA 103 Introduction to Finance 4 Units Financial Accounting: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session UGBA 102B Managerial Accounting 3 Units Analysis and management of the flow of funds through an enterprise. Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Cash management, source and application of funds, term loans, types Session and sources of long-term capital. Capital budgeting, cost of capital, and The uses of accounting systems and their outputs in the process of financial structure. Introduction to capital markets. management of an enterprise. Classification of costs and revenue on Introduction to Finance: Read More [+] several bases for various uses; budgeting and standard cost accounting; Rules & Requirements analyses of relevant costs and other data for decision making. Managerial Accounting: Read More [+] Prerequisites: 101A Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: 102A Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Hours & Format discussion per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Summer: discussion per week 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Introduction to Finance: Read Less [-]
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UGBA 104 Introduction to Business Analytics UGBA 105 Leading People 3 Units 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session Session A general descriptive and analytical study of organizations from the This course provides an introduction to several quantitative methods behavioral science point of view. Problems of motivation, leadership, used to facilitate complex decision-making in business, with applications morale, social structure, groups, communications, hierarchy, and in many different industries, at different levels in the organization, and control in complex organizations are addressed. The interaction among with different scopes of decisions. The power of the methods covered technology, environment, and human behavior are considered. Alternate in this class is further enhanced by implementing them in spreadsheet theoretical models are discussed. software, which allows complex problems to be approached and solved in Leading People: Read More [+] a straightforward and understandable manner. Rules & Requirements Introduction to Business Analytics: Read More [+] Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Undergrad. Rules & Requirements Business Administration 105 after completing Business Administration Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B or 16B, Statistics W21, or equivalents 150 or S150.
Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture and 1.5-0 hours of laboratory per week discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of laboratory per Summer: week 6 weeks - 4-8 hours of lecture and 4-0 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 3-6 hours of lecture and 3-0 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Introduction to Business Analytics: Read Less [-] Leading People: Read Less [-] UGBA 106 Marketing 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session The evolution of markets and marketing; market structure; marketing cost and efficiency; public and private regulation; the development of marketing programs including decisions involving products, price, promotional distribution. Marketing: Read More [+] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Marketing: Read Less [-] 88 Haas School of Business
UGBA 107 The Social, Political, and Ethical UGBA 118 International Trade 3 Units Environment of Business 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week This course will develop models for understanding the economic causes Session and effects of international trade, will investigate the effects of economic Study and analysis of American business in a changing social and policies that inhibit trade, and will examine the political economy of trade. political environment. Interaction between business and other institutions. By integrating the findings of the latest theoretical and empirical research Role of business in the development of social values, goals, and national in international economics, this course help students learn how to explore priorities. The expanding role of the corporation in dealing with social the current political debates in the U.S. and elsewhere regarding the problems and issues. benefits and costs of international trade. The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business: Read More [+] International Trade: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Prerequisites: Undergraduate Business Administration 101A or discussion per week equivalent
Summer: 6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Undergraduate per week Business Administration 118 after taking Economics 181 or Economics C181/Environmental Economics and Policy C181. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business: Read Less [-] week UGBA 117 Special Topics in Economic Additional Details Analysis and Policy 1 - 4 Units Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017 Undergraduate A variety of topics in economic analysis and policy with emphasis on current problems and research. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Special Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements International Trade: Read Less [-]
Prerequisites: 101A-101B or equivalents
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 119
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UGBA 120AA Intermediate Financial UGBA 120B Advanced Financial Accounting Accounting 1 4 Units 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 This Course introduces the student to concepts, theory and applications Continuation of 120A. Sources of long term capital; funds statements, of financial accounting. The topics covered include accrual accounting financial analysis, accounting for partnerships, consolidated financial concepts, financial statement analysis, inventory valuations, capital statements, adjustments of accounting data using price indexes; assets and their corresponding depreciation and impairment. Attention accounting for the financial effects of pension plans; other advanced is given to examples on current reporting practices and to the study accounting problems. of reporting requirements promulgated by the Financial Accounting Advanced Financial Accounting: Read More [+] Standards Board (“FASB”) with comparison to the International Rules & Requirements Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”). Intermediate Financial Accounting 1: Read More [+] Prerequisites: UGBA 120AA and 120AB are recommended Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: 102A Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Hours & Format discussion per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per discussion per week week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per Additional Details week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Additional Details Undergraduate
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate Advanced Financial Accounting: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. UGBA 121 Federal Income Tax Accounting 4 Intermediate Financial Accounting 1: Read Less [-] Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 UGBA 120AB Intermediate Financial Determination of individual and corporation tax liability; influence of Accounting 2 4 Units federal taxation on economic activity; tax considerations in business and Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 investment decisions. This course expands students’ knowledge of the concepts, theory, and Federal Income Tax Accounting: Read More [+] application of financial accounting. It continues the technical accounting Rules & Requirements sequence, which also includes UGBA 120AA, Intermediate Accounting 1 and UGBA 120B, Advanced Financial Accounting. Topics include an in- Prerequisites: 102A (120AA recommended) depth treatment of the financing elements of the balance sheet and the Hours & Format income statement, as well as a detailed examination of the statement of cash flows. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Intermediate Financial Accounting 2: Read More [+] discussion per week Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per Prerequisites: UGBA 102A is required. UGBA 120AA is recommended week
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ discussion per week Undergraduate
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. week Federal Income Tax Accounting: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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UGBA 122 Financial Information Analysis 4 UGBA 123 Operating and Financial Reporting Units Issues in the Financial Services Industry 3 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Units Session Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 This course is designed to: 1) develop basic skills in financial statement This course examines how accounting in the financial services industry analysis; 2) teach students to identify the relevant financial data used in – banking, insurance, investment industry, and real estate – actually a variety of decision contexts, such as equity valuation, forecasting firm- operates. Students learn about underwriting and pricing in each sector, level economic variables, distress prediction and credit analysis; 3) help investment processes and controls, incentive-based profit sharing, risk students appreciate the factors that influence the outcome of the financial management, and the factors that contribute to profitability. Students reporting process, such as the incentives of reporting parties, regulatory learn what financial statements reveal about estimates companies rules, and a firm's competitive environment. make regarding liabilities and, more generally, what they reveal about Financial Information Analysis: Read More [+] how companies deal with uncertainty associated with predicting and Rules & Requirements measuring financial results. Students examine the controversy over employing Fair Value Accounting across sectors and learn about other Prerequisites: 120AA sector-specific accounting requirements. Hours & Format Operating and Financial Reporting Issues in the Financial Services Industry: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Rules & Requirements discussion per week Prerequisites: Students are encouraged to complete UGBA 102A or Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per to possess a basic understanding about how financial statements are week prepared
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Financial Information Analysis: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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UGBA 125 Ethics in Accounting 3 Units UGBA 127 Special Topics in Accounting 1 - 4 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 Units This course focuses on ethics related to the accounting for and reporting Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 of financial statements and related financial information, and touches on A variety of topics in accounting with emphasis on current problems and the ethics of tax preparers. It is taught within the context of the American research. Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), as well as broader Special Topics in Accounting: Read More [+] ethical concepts. This course fulfills the accounting ethics education Rules & Requirements requirement of the California Board of Accountancy, needed for a California CPA license. The course covers (i) theories and rules and (ii) Prerequisites: At the discretion of the instructor the application of these theories and rules to case studies drawn from real life. Students are taught not only to identify the risks of fraud, but also Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. how an organization’s culture and structure might be altered to reduce Hours & Format the risks. Ethics in Accounting: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of Hours & Format discussion per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture and 0-2.5 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Ethics in Accounting: Read Less [-] Special Topics in Accounting: Read Less [-] UGBA 126 Auditing 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 UGBA 128 Strategic Cost Management 3 Concepts and problems in the field of professional verification of financial Units and related information, including ethical, legal and other professional Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 issues, historical developments, and current concerns. Managerial accounting is a company's internal language and is used for Auditing: Read More [+] decision-making, production management, product design and pricing, Rules & Requirements performance evaluation and motivation of employees. The objective Prerequisites: 120AA (120AB and 120B recommended) of the course is to develop the skills and analytical ability of effectively and efficiently use managerial accounting information in order to help a Hours & Format company achieve its strategic and financial goals. Strategic Cost Management: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of Rules & Requirements discussion per week Prerequisites: 102B Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate
Auditing: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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UGBA 131 Corporate Finance and Financial UGBA 132 Financial Institutions and Markets Statement Analysis 3 Units 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Terms offered: Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 First Session 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 First 6 Week Session This course will cover the principles and practice of business finance. Organization, behavior, and management of financial institutions. Markets It will focus on project evaluation, capital structure, and corporate for financial assets and the structure of yields, influence of Federal governance. Firms' policies toward debt, equity, and dividends are Reserve System and monetary policy on financial assets and institutions. explored. The incentives and conflicts facing managers and owners are Financial Institutions and Markets: Read More [+] also discussed. Rules & Requirements Corporate Finance and Financial Statement Analysis: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 101A-101B, and 103
Prerequisites: 103 Hours & Format
Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Formerly known as: Business Administration 132
Formerly known as: Business Administration 134 Financial Institutions and Markets: Read Less [-]
Corporate Finance and Financial Statement Analysis: Read Less [-] UGBA 133 Investments 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer UGBA 131A Corporate Strategy and 2021 Second 6 Week Session Valuation 3 Units Sources of and demand for investment capital, operations of security Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019 markets, determination of investment policy, and procedures for analysis The course is designed to cover advanced corporate finance issues. of securities. Its purpose is two-fold. First, it will help students develop a tool-box, Investments: Read More [+] both conceptual and quantitative, to address real-world corporate Rules & Requirements financial issues that they will likely use immediately in any finance-related Prerequisites: 103 career. Second, the course is designed to give the “the big picture,” i.e., sharpen understanding of how corporate financial strategy helps Hours & Format increase a firm’s value in a dynamic environment. The course examines qualitative factors that help determine financial strategy, including the Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of costs of financial distress and the value of financial flexibility, as well discussion per week as quantitative techniques, such as option pricing, that will be helpful in various analyses. Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per Corporate Strategy and Valuation: Read More [+] week Rules & Requirements Additional Details
Prerequisites: Undergraduate Business Administration 103 Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Hours & Format Undergraduate
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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UGBA 134 Introduction to Financial UGBA 136F Behavioral Finance 3 Units Engineering 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 Terms offered: Spring 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session This course provides students with an introduction to the application This course explores why markets are sometimes inefficient. We consider of mathematics and statistics in the field of finance. It consists of three the role that investors’ heuristics and biases play in generating mispricing integrated modules: 1) an introduction to the quantitative foundations in financial markets. We also explore how various trading frictions limit of finance, using calculus, linear algebra, statistics and probability; 2) the ability of arbitrageurs to reduce mispricing. Finally, we look at the extension into financial theory as it relates to asset pricing, fixed income, influence of market inefficiencies on corporate decisions. derivatives, structured finance and risk management; and 3) application Behavioral Finance: Read More [+] and implementation of these foundational tools and theory through Rules & Requirements software like Excel to build basic quantitative financial models (touching Prerequisites: 103 on programming). The goal is to use financial models that can guide business and financial decisions. Hours & Format Introduction to Financial Engineering: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Prerequisites: UGBA 103 Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Behavioral Finance: Read Less [-]
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. UGBA 137 Special Topics in Finance 1 - 4
Introduction to Financial Engineering: Read Less [-] Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall UGBA 135 Personal Financial Management 2 2020 Units A variety of topics in finance with emphasis on current problems and research. Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Special Topics in Finance: Read More [+] Survey of major life financial decisions (e.g., career choice, consumption Rules & Requirements versus saving, investments, mortgages, insurance) and how decision- making biases (e.g., overconfidence, present bias, limited attention) Prerequisites: 103 can lead to suboptimal choice. The course draws on research from economics, psychology, and sociology. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Personal Financial Management: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate
Instructors: Odean, Selinger Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Personal Financial Management: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration 139 Special Topics in Finance: Read Less [-] 94 Haas School of Business
UGBA 141 Production and Operations UGBA 146 Project Management 2 Units Management 2 - 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2017 6 Week Session, Fall 2005 A survey of the concepts and methodologies for management control The primary objective of this course is to develop the critical skills and of production and operations systems. Topics include inventory control, knowledge needed to successfully pitch and lead projects, and to deliver material requirements planning for multistage production systems, those projects on time and within budget. The course delves into formal aggregate planning, scheduling, and production distribution. planning and scheduling techniques including: project definition, project Production and Operations Management: Read More [+] selection, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource Estimation, Rules & Requirements Critical Path Method (CPM), Pert, Gantt Charts, Resource Constrained Scheduling, Project Monitoring and Project Closing. Prerequisites: 104 or equivalent, or consent of instructor Project Management: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week Additional Details
Summer: 6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-2.5 hours of discussion Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ per week Undergraduate
Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Project Management: Read Less [-] Undergraduate UGBA 147 Special Topics in Operations and Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Information Technology Management 1 - 4 Formerly known as: Business Administration 142 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring Production and Operations Management: Read Less [-] 2021 A variety of topics in manufacturing and information technology with UGBA 143 Game Theory and Business emphasis on current problems and research. Decisions 3 Units Special Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2010 Read More [+] This course provides an introduction to game theory and decision Rules & Requirements analysis. Game theory is concerned with strategic interactions among players (multi-player games), and decision analysis is concerned with Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. making choices under uncertainty (single-player games). Emphasis is Hours & Format placed on applications. Game Theory and Business Decisions: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B or 16B, Statistics 21, or equivalent Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Undergraduate discussion per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Special Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Read Less [-] Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Game Theory and Business Decisions: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 95
UGBA 150 Leading High Impact Teams 3 UGBA 151A People Analytics 2 Units Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Terms offered: Not yet offered This course focuses on measuring and analyzing the costs and benefits This course helps students hone and develop the leadership skills of human capital investments by providing students with the ability to needed to lead dynamic, complex, global teams. Globalization, rapid develop, analyze and use information to assess and measure employee technological change, and a shift towards an innovation-based economy and organizational performance. The course will show participants how have resulted in more dynamic, distributed, cross-functional, as well to develop and make critical recommendations on such information as demographically and culturally diverse teams. Students will learn to senior management, as well as helping to increase their presence to create team developmental plans and accountability, coach teams and credibility with key decision makers. On successful completion, through challenges, encourage teams to recognize and avoid bias and students will have the skills necessary to formulate both qualitative and misattributions, and lead from a distance and across boundaries. quantitative recommendations for key management decisions affecting Leading High Impact Teams: Read More [+] employees. Hours & Format People Analytics: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Leading High Impact Teams: Read Less [-] People Analytics: Read Less [-] UGBA 151 Management of Human Resources 3 Units UGBA 152 Negotiation and Conflict Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Resolution 3 Units The designs of systems of rewards, assessment, and manpower Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week development. The interaction of selection, placement, training, personnel Session evaluation, and career ladders within an on-going organization. Role The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and processes of the staff manager. Introduction of change. Implications of behavioral of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings. It is designed to research for management problems and policies. be relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems faced by Management of Human Resources: Read More [+] managers and professionals. By focusing on the hehavior of individuals, Rules & Requirements groups, and organizations in the context of competitive situations, the course will allow students the opportunity to develop negotiation skills Prerequisites: 105 experientially in useful analytical frameworks (e.g.- simulations, cases). Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: 105
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Formerly known as: Business Administration 151 Undergraduate
Management of Human Resources: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 152
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Read Less [-] 96 Haas School of Business
UGBA 154 Power and Politics in UGBA C155 Leadership: Purpose, Authority, Organizations 3 Units and Empowerment 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall Terms offered: Summer 2021 10 Week Session, Summer 2020 10 Week 2020 Session This course will provide students with a sense of "political intelligence." The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding After taking this course, students will be able to: (1) diagnose the true of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. distribution of power in organizations, (2) identify strategies for building It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership sources of power, (3) develop techniques for influencing others, (4) skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, understand the role of power in building cooperation and leading change case studies, class discussions, and lectures. in organizations, and (5) make sense of others' attempts to influence Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read More [+] them. These skills are essential for effective and satisfying career Rules & Requirements building. Power and Politics in Organizations: Read More [+] Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA C155 Hours & Format after completing UGBA W155. A deficient grade in UGBA C155 may be removed by taking UGBA W155. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week Summer: 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of web-based lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Power and Politics in Organizations: Read Less [-] Also listed as: UGIS C151 UGBA 155 Leadership 3 Units Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2020, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session UGBA W155 Leadership: Purpose, Authority, The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. and Empowerment 3 Units It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership Terms offered: Prior to 2007 skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding case studies, class discussions, and lectures. of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. Leadership: Read More [+] It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership Rules & Requirements skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, case studies, class discussions, and lectures. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 155 Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read More [+] after completing UGBA W155. A deficient grade in UGBA 155 may be Rules & Requirements removed by taking UGBA W155. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA W155 Hours & Format after completing UGBA 155. A deficient grade in UGBA W155 may be removed by taking UGBA 155. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Summer: 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of web-based lecture per week Additional Details Online: This is an online course. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Additional Details
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Leadership: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Mulhern
Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 97
UGBA 157 Special Topics in the Management UGBA 160 Customer Insights 3 Units of Organizations 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Consumer behavior is the study of how consumers process information, A variety of topics in organizational behavior and industrial relations with form attitudes and judgments, and make decisions. Its study is critical emphasis on current problems and research. to understand how consumers think and behave, which is critical for Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read More [+] a company wishing to develop a customer focus. Given how different Rules & Requirements people are, it is amazing how similarly their minds work. Consumer psychology is the systematic study of how consumers perceive Prerequisites: 105 information, how they encode it in memory, integrate it with other sources of information, retrieve it from memory, and utilize it to make decisions. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. It is one of the building blocks of the study of marketing and provides the student with a set of tools with diverse applications. Hours & Format Customer Insights: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: 106
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Formerly known as: Business Administration 159 Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read Less [-] Undergraduate UGBA 159 Becoming a Changemaker 2 Units Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Terms offered: Fall 2021 Customer Insights: Read Less [-] This course inspires, trains and equips participants to convert raw energy and enthusiasm for creating a better world into real leadership UGBA 161 Market Research: Tools and skills and mindsets which will empower you to create positive change Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis at an individual, organizational and societal level. Anchored in change leadership and bringing together the fields of entrepreneurship, 3 Units innovation, leadership & social impact, the course is focused on moving Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017 from ideas to action; gaining inspiration from diverse changemakers Information technology has allowed firms to gather and process large across roles and sectors; learning how to navigate, shape and lead quantities of information about consumers' choices and reactions change to thrive amidst uncertainty; and helping you become the kind of to marketing campaigns. However, few firms have the expertise leader our companies, our communities and our world need right now. to intelligently act on such information. This course addresses this Becoming a Changemaker: Read More [+] shortcoming by teaching students how to use customer information Hours & Format to better market to consumers. In addition, the course addresses how information technology affects marketing strategy. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Prerequisites: 106 Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Becoming a Changemaker: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis: Read Less [-] 98 Haas School of Business
UGBA 162 Brand Management and Strategy 3 UGBA 164 Marketing Strategy 3 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019 Terms offered: Fall 2020, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Spring This course specifically addresses how to deal with competition. 2020 Additionally, marketing managers usually have to make decisions with This course is an introduction to product management in marketing incomplete or unreliable information. In “Marketing Strategy” students consumer and industrial goods and services. The course will cover learn how firms develop plans that can be updated in light of changing analysis of market information, development of product strategy, circumstances. The course covers the following topics: Market size programming strategy, and implementation. estimation; Competitor identification and analysis; Internal analysis; Brand Management and Strategy: Read More [+] Alternative business models; Risk identification, assessment and Rules & Requirements management using scenario planning; Handling unknown futures using sensitivity analysis; Price setting dynamics; Competitive tactics. The Prerequisites: 106 course utilizes a combination of lectures and cases. There are group presentations (self-selected teams) and some group projects. Hours & Format Marketing Strategy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: 106 Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details
Formerly known as: Business Administration 162 Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Brand Management and Strategy: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. UGBA 162A Product Branding and Branded Entertainment 2 Units Marketing Strategy: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 As consumers demand information and products tailored specifically UGBA 165 Advertising Strategy 3 Units to their individual needs, brands strive to create alternative advertising Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First methods to build lasting relationships and retain “top of mind” status. 6 Week Session, Fall 2019 Smart consumers, especially those in niche markets, have dismissed Basic concepts and functions of advertising in the economy; consumer traditional avenues of sponsorship and product placement. Course motivation; problems in utilizing advertising and measuring its explores how and why brand executives across multiple industries are effectiveness. leveraging entertainment to connect with niche markets. It educates Advertising Strategy: Read More [+] students about how marketers develop creative and entertaining ways to Rules & Requirements connect with multi-hyphenate customers. Course culminates in a Creative Prerequisites: 106 Pitch, based on a case study, and a Client Presentation where students present marketing campaigns to industry executives. Hours & Format Product Branding and Branded Entertainment: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Formerly known as: Business Administration 165
Product Branding and Branded Entertainment: Read Less [-] Advertising Strategy: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 99
UGBA 167 Special Topics in Marketing 1 - 4 UGBA 171 Tech and the City: How to Get Units Urban Innovation Right 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018 Terms offered: Not yet offered A variety of topics in marketing with emphasis on current problems and This course critically examines how new technologies and business research. models impact cities, and identifies the approaches that produce not only Special Topics in Marketing: Read More [+] the best business outcomes, but also the most equitable and sustainable Rules & Requirements outcomes. To begin, we explore what makes cities such compelling laboratories for technology innovation, learn from past attempts at “smart Prerequisites: 106 city” interventions, and discuss how technologists can identify more effective solutions to today’s urban challenges. We’ll then hear from a Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. variety of cutting edge practitioners, including venture investors, startup Hours & Format founders, government officials, tech journalists and community organizers about the unique opportunities and challenges of building an urban tech Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week startup today. Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read More [+] Summer: Hours & Format 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 169 Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read Less [-] Special Topics in Marketing: Read Less [-] UGBA C172 History of American Business 3 UGBA 169 Pricing 3 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019 This three-module course aims to equip students with proven concepts, This course will examine selected aspects of the history of American techniques, and frameworks for assessing and formulating pricing business. Included will be discussions of the evolution of the large strategies. The first module develops the economics and behavorial corporation, the development of modern managerial techniques, and the foundations of pricing. The second module discusses several innovative changing relationship of business, government, and labor. pricing concepts including price customization, nonlinear pricing, price History of American Business: Read More [+] matching, and product line pricing. The third module analyzes the Hours & Format strengths and weaknesses of several Internet-based, buyer-determined Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week pricing models. Pricing: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Additional Details Instructor: Rosen
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Formerly known as: American Studies C172, Business Administration Undergraduate C172
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Also listed as: AMERSTD C172
Pricing: Read Less [-] History of American Business: Read Less [-] 100 Haas School of Business
UGBA 173 Competitive Strategy 3 Units UGBA 175 Legal Aspects of Management 3 Terms offered: Fall 2021 Units This course draws upon theories and frameworks from industrial Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 organization economics, game theory, and resource-based views to An analysis of the law and the legal process, emphasizing the nature and address the unique challenges confronted by senior executives of functions of law within the U.S. federal system, followed by a discussion organizations. The focus is strategies for competitive advantage at an of the legal problems pertaining to contracts and related topics, business organizational level. Topics include industry and competitor analysis, association, and the impact of law on economic enterprise. horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm, strategic positioning, Legal Aspects of Management: Read More [+] internal competencies, and dynamic capabilities. Hours & Format Competitive Strategy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Prerequisites: 101A or equivalent Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Summer: 3 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration 175 Additional Details Legal Aspects of Management: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate UGBA 176 Innovations in Communications and Public Relations 2 Units Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Instructor: Metzler This course introduces students to public relations and how it is used by companies, non-profits and individuals to build and support their brands Formerly known as: Undergrad. Business Administration 115 through innovative communication techniques. Students will hear from and have direct access to entrepreneurs and established executives who Competitive Strategy: Read Less [-] share insights on how they've used creative public relations campaigns and communications skills to create attention and value for their brand UGBA 174 Leading Strategy Implementation or avoid it in a crisis. They also learn to work in teams crafting effective 3 Units media responses for an existing company needing real help now (not Terms offered: Fall 2021 a case study). The semester ends with each student applying this Class format consists of lectures, experiential exercises, student technique to create their own personal brand that they can refine as they presentations, and case discussions. This course will cover the concepts prepare to move into the workforce. and techniques required for successful implementation of business Innovations in Communications and Public Relations: Read More [+] strategies with a particular focus on the role of effective leadership in Hours & Format leading strategic change. Leading Strategy Implementation: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 174 after Additional Details completing BUS ADM 190. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Hours & Format Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Summer: 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of lecture per week Innovations in Communications and Public Relations: Read Less [-] Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: Undergrad. Business Administration 119
Leading Strategy Implementation: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 101
UGBA 177 Special Topics in Business and UGBA 179 International Consulting for Small Public Policy 1 - 4 Units and Medium-Sized Enterprises 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 A variety of topics in business and public policy with emphasis on current By exploring the intersection of global business, entrepreneurship, and problems and research. consulting, this course provides an understanding of how decision- Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read More [+] makers in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can develop the Rules & Requirements frameworks necessary for making decisions about how to venture across borders in pursuit of economic opportunities in today's hypercompetitive Prerequisites: 107 global business environment. In addition to the technical analysis of cases, there is a strong emphasis on how to create a new service Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. company, market and sell to potential clients, manage client relationships, Hours & Format and leverage financial and human resources in a service setting. International Consulting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Read Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Additional Details
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Formerly known as: Business Administration 179 Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read Less [-] International Consulting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Read UGBA 178 Introduction to International Less [-] Business 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall UGBA 180 Introduction to Real Estate and 2020 Urban Land Economics 3 Units A survey involving environmental, economic, political, and social Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 constraints on doing business abroad; effects of overseas business The nature of real property; market analysis; construction cycles; investments on domestic and foreign economies; foreign market mortgage lending; equity investment; metropolitan growth; urban land analysis and operational strategy of a firm; management problems and use; real property valuation; public policies. development potential of international operations. Introduction to Real Estate and Urban Land Economics: Read More [+] Introduction to International Business: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Economics 1, Mathematics 16A or 1A, or equivalents Prerequisites: Undergraduate Business Administration 101A-101B or equivalents Hours & Format
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Business Administration 178 after completing Business Administration Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week 188. A deficient grade in Business Administration 188 may be removed by taking Undergraduate Business Administration 178. Additional Details
Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Formerly known as: Business Administration 180 Additional Details Introduction to Real Estate and Urban Land Economics: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Introduction to International Business: Read Less [-] 102 Haas School of Business
UGBA 183 Introduction to Real Estate UGBA 187 Special Topics in Real Estate Finance 3 Units Economics and Finance 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009 Real estate debt and equity financing; mortgage market structure; effects A variety of topics in real estate economics and finance with emphasis on of credit on demand; equity investment criteria; public policies in real current problems and research. estate finance and urban development. Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read More [+] Introduction to Real Estate Finance: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Prerequisites: 180 Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Formerly known as: Business Administration 183 Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read Less [-] Introduction to Real Estate Finance: Read Less [-] UGBA 190C Collaborative Innovation 4 Units UGBA 184 Urban and Real Estate Economics Terms offered: Spring 2020 3 Units This is a project-based course in collaborative innovation where students Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 experience group creativity and team-based design by using techniques This course examines how market forces influence the development from across the disciplines of business, theater, design, and art practice. of cities and the development and pricing of real estate assets. Topics Students will leverage problem framing and solving techniques derived include city formation; city size; land rent and land use; the operation of from critical thinking, systems thinking, and creative problem solving residential, commerical and industrial property markets; and the impacts (popularly known today as design thinking). The course is grounded in a of government policies, including the provision of public services, the brief weekly lecture that sets out the theoretical, historical, and cultural imposition property taxes and fees, transportation pricing and investment, contexts for particular innovation practices, but the majority of the class and land use regulations. involves hands-on studio-based learning guided by an interdisciplinary Urban and Real Estate Economics: Read More [+] team of teachers leading small group collaborative projects. Rules & Requirements Collaborative Innovation: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: A background in microeconomics and basic calculus is preferable. Please contact the instructor if you are unsure about your Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 190C after preparation for this course completing ART 100, or THEATER 100. A deficient grade in UGBA 190C may be removed by taking ART 100, or THEATER 100. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Urban and Real Estate Economics: Read Less [-] Instructor: Beckman
Collaborative Innovation: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 103
UGBA 190D Innovation and Design Thinking UGBA 190T Special Topics in Innovation and in Business 2 Units Design 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 The goal of this course is to equip students with innovation skills and Advanced study in the fields of innovation and design that will address practices. This is a learn-by-doing lab. Students learn research methods, current and emerging issues. Topics will vary with each offering and will ethnography, analysis and synthesis, reflective thinking, scenario be announced at the beginning of each term. creation, ideation processes, rapid prototyping cycles and designing Special Topics in Innovation and Design: Read More [+] experiments, iterative design and how to tell the story of “Never Before Rules & Requirements Seen” ideas. Class time is spent using hands-on innovation and human- centered design practices. Teams present work for critique and iterative Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. development. The course features short lectures, guest talks, campus- Hours & Format based fieldwork, site visits, research and readings. Projects will be launched in the sessions and each team will be coached and mentored. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Innovation and Design Thinking in Business: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Innovation and Design Thinking in Business: Read Less [-] Special Topics in Innovation and Design: Read Less [-] UGBA 190S Strategy for the Information UGBA 191C Communication for Leaders 2 Technology Firm 2 - 3 Units Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Fall 2016, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 This course is a strategy and general management course for students Second 6 Week Session interested in pursuing careers in the global information technology This course is a workshop in the fundamentals of public speaking skills industry. Students are taught to view the IT industry through the eyes of in today's business environment. Each student will give speeches, the general manager/CEO (whether at a start-up or an industry giant). coach, and debate each other, and take part in a variety of listening and They learn how to evaluate strategic options and their consequences, other communication exercises. The course focuses on authenticity, how to understand the perspectives of various industry players, and how persuasion, and advocacy. to anticipate how they are likely to behave under various circumstances. Communication for Leaders: Read More [+] These include the changing economics of production, the role network Hours & Format effects and standards have on adoption of new products and services, the tradeoffs among potential pricing strategies, and the regulatory and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of public policy context. discussion per week Strategy for the Information Technology Firm: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture and 3.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Communication for Leaders: Read Less [-]
Strategy for the Information Technology Firm: Read Less [-] 104 Haas School of Business
UGBA 191I Improvisational Leadership 3 UGBA 191P Leadership and Personal Units Development 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 This class explores the broad principles of improvisation, a performing This course is highly interactive and challenges you to explore questions art form that has developed pedagogical methods to enhance individual central to your own leadership journey. The ultimate aim of the class is spontaneity, listening and awareness, expressive skills, risk-taking, and to help you develop a lifelong leadership development practice, where one’s ability to make authentic social and emotional connections. The continuous personal growth is valued and actively pursued. ultimate aim of the course is to help students develop an innovative and Leadership and Personal Development: Read More [+] improvisational leadership mindset, sharpening in-the-moment decision Hours & Format making and the ability to quickly recognize and act upon opportunities when presented. In practical terms, this course strives to enhance Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week students’ business communication skills and increase both interpersonal Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week intuition and confidence. Improvisational Leadership: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Additional Details Leadership and Personal Development: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ UGBA 192A Leading Nonprofit and Social Undergraduate Enterprises 3 Units Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 This course prepares students conceptually and practically to found, lead, Improvisational Leadership: Read Less [-] and manage organizations in the nonprofit sector. The course focuses on mission and theory of change (strategy), role of the board in governance, UGBA 191L Leadership Communication 1 managing and marketing to multiple constituencies, role of advocacy in Unit meeting mission, leadership styles and managing organizational culture, Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019 resource development (philanthropy), nonprofit financial management, Leadership Communication is a workshop in the fundamentals of public managing for impact, HR management (volunteering), and cross-sector speaking in today's business environment. Through prepared and alliances. impromptu speeches aimed at moving others to action, peer coaching, Leading Nonprofit and Social Enterprises: Read More [+] and lectures, students will sharpen their authentic and persuasive Rules & Requirements communication skills, develop critical listening skills, improve abilities to give, receive, and apply feedback, and gain confidence as public Prerequisites: 101A or equivalent speakers. Hours & Format Leadership Communication: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. instructor when the class is offered. Alternative to final exam. Formerly known as: Business Administration 115 Leadership Communication: Read Less [-] Leading Nonprofit and Social Enterprises: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 105
UGBA 192AC Social Movements and Social UGBA 192E Social Entrepreneurship 2 Units Media 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017 This course is designed to provide broad exposure to the theories and This course provides a survey of innovative social movements and their activities of social entrepreneurship. The inquiry is grounded in real-world complex relationships to social media technologies. It will examine the examples that illustrate the topics and stimulate thinking, discussion, and evolution from pre-social-media to present-day mobilizing strategies and learning. Working in groups, students develop a business plan or pitch the interplay between explicitly policy- and advocacy-focused approaches deck for a social enterprise that addresses an issue that is of interest/ and related efforts rooted in music, visual arts, popular culture and concern to the student team. Students with preexisting social enterprise celebrities. The course will place into comparative relief the discourses ideas or plans that they would like to further develop and refine are of explicitly racially- or ethnically-defined movements and movements welcomed and encouraged to use this class project as an opportunity to that mobilize based on other, sometimes overlapping categories of do so. marginalization including class, immigration status, gender identity and Social Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] occupational category. Hours & Format Social Movements and Social Media: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Undergraduate Social Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Instructor: David Harris UGBA 192G Strategic Approaches for Global Social Impact 2 Units Social Movements and Social Media: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Prior to 2007 The main objective of this course is to help students become effective UGBA 192B Strategic Philanthropy 2 Units practitioners in global development and understand career options in Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 the global social sector. The course aims to (i) analyze the historical, This course teaches students the concepts and practices of effective sociological and statistical underpinnings of the major issues in global philanthropy. It offers students the experience of studying relevant development (conflict, food security, human rights, poverty, health and theories and frameworks for assessing potential grant recipients and education), (ii) understand what various organizations can contribute a real-world grant making experience in which they complete a series to each issue (government agencies, multilateral institutions, private of nonprofit organizational assessments and then make actual grants foundations, NGOs, and private sector companies and entrepreneurs), totaling $10,000 to a limited number of organizations. Students learn and (iii) design and analyze approaches to addressing these issues. about the evolution of the philanthropic sector from traditional entities, Strategic Approaches for Global Social Impact: Read More [+] such as private, corporate and community foundations, to an array of new Hours & Format funding intermediaries, technology-driven philanthropies, open source platforms, “impact” investors, and venture philanthropy partnerships. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Strategic Philanthropy: Read More [+] Hours & Format Additional Details
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Strategic Approaches for Global Social Impact: Read Less [-]
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Strategic Philanthropy: Read Less [-] 106 Haas School of Business
UGBA 192H Managing Human Rights in UGBA 192L Applied Impact Evaluation 2 Business 2 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course, one of the first of its kind offered at a business school, This course covers the methods and applications of impact evaluations, will prepare students for the growing field of practice at the intersection which is the science of measuring the causal impact of a program or of business and human rights. Students will gain an overview of the policy on outcomes of interest. At its essence, impact evaluation is international human rights framework and global business and human about generating evidence on which policies work, and which don’t. rights standards and guidelines; analyze the ways in which companies This subject matter should appeal to three main audiences: (1) those can impact human rights, and to assess the degree to which companies in decision-making positions, such as policy makers and business are and should be responsible for human rights impacts; learn to leaders, and need to consume the information generated from impact manage a company’s human rights impacts as corporate human rights evaluations to make informed evidence-based decisions, (2) project managers, external consultants, or civil society advocates; and practice managers, development practitioners and business managers who the communication skills necessary to successfully address human rights commission impact evaluations and (3) researchers who actually design issues within a complex multinational corporation. and implement impact evaluations. Managing Human Rights in Business: Read More [+] Applied Impact Evaluation: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Managing Human Rights in Business: Read Less [-] Applied Impact Evaluation: Read Less [-] UGBA 192ID Impact Startup Disco 1 Unit UGBA 192MC Management Consulting Skills Terms offered: Not yet offered for Social Impact 2 Units This is a high-octane, single weekend course (plus one intro day) for Terms offered: Fall 2021 students interested in meeting other innovators and getting hands-on This course provides a basic understanding of what consultants do experience developing a new impact startup concept. All “social and and how they do it, and how consulting skills can be applied to thorny environmental” impact themes are welcome. The course is inspired by problems of social impact. Students will: 1) gain a broad understanding other “hackathon” and startup weekend formats. A structured roadmap of the management consulting industry, the various consulting models, helps guide students through a sprint formation and ideation process. and how consultants can generate value for their clients in the social All students will be asked to submit an idea during the week prior to sector; 2) learn and practice structured approaches to problem solving the class. After a peer vote selects the top ideas, teams are organically used by leading management consultancies; and 3) understand other formed during the first session. At the end of the course, each team will skills required in management consulting for social impact – such present their validated concept and their next steps plan to a panel of as communicating persuasively and managing projects and client impact venture experts. relationships – as well as some of the ethical issues that consultants Impact Startup Disco: Read More [+] often face working in the social sector. Hours & Format Management Consulting Skills for Social Impact: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 1 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: Additional Details 12 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Impact Startup Disco: Read Less [-] Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.).
Management Consulting Skills for Social Impact: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 107
UGBA 192N Topics in Social Sector UGBA 192S Business and Sustainability 2 Leadership 1 - 5 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018 Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First Advanced study in the field of social sector leadership that will address 6 Week Session current and emerging issues. Topics will vary with each offering and will This course—a mixture of lectures, readings, business cases and be announced at the beginning of each term. corporate speakers—uses theory, frameworks, tools and business Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read More [+] cases to teach students how to systematically evaluate and implement Rules & Requirements sustainability strategies that also maintain or maximize financial returns. Students are taught to identify opportunities to create business Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. value from environmental and social challenges, and to evaluate the competitive implications related to sustainability initiatives. What Hours & Format type of long-term strategies can organizations set to simultaneously Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-5 hours of lecture per week foster sustainable development strategy and sound financial practice? How should decision makers make trade-offs between these two Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-12.5 hours of lecture per week organizational objectives? When is “sustainability” also “good business”? Business and Sustainability: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ UGBA 192P Sustainable Business Consulting Undergraduate Projects 3 Units Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018 Discuss the field of strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) Business and Sustainability: Read Less [-] through a series of lectures, guest speakers, and projects. The course will examine best practices used by companies to engage in socially UGBA 192T Topics in Responsible Business responsible business practices. It will provide students with a flavor of 1 - 4 Units the complex dilemmas one can face in business in trying to do both Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 "good for society" and "well for shareholders." It looks at CSR from a Advanced study in the field of corporate social responsibility that will corporation perspective, and how this supports core business objectives, address current and emerging issues. Topics will vary with each offering core competencies, and bottom-line profits. and will be announced at the beginning of each term. Sustainable Business Consulting Projects: Read More [+] Topics in Responsible Business: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Summer: Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week Sustainable Business Consulting Projects: Read Less [-] 8 weeks - 2-8 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Topics in Responsible Business: Read Less [-] 108 Haas School of Business
UGBA C192R Business, Sustainability, and UGBA 193C Practical Training 0.5 Units Society 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 10 Week Terms offered: Summer 2021 8 Week Session Session, Summer 2012 10 Week Session As corporations have grown in influence, concerns over their impact A structured reflective experience on the applied aspects of Business on people and the planet have also grown, pushing sustainability, Administration in a professional off-campus environment. The self- corporate social responsibility, and the wider impact of business into selected experience from a CPT employer is designed to provide the spotlight. This course focuses on business ethics, supply chains, students with opportunities to make connections between the theory and resource constraints, labor issues, innovation, and environmental practice of academic study and the practical application of that study externalities, as well as the internal challenges, competitive pressures, in a real world setting. This applied course is intended for students to external stakeholders, and other issues that businesses must consider enhance their academics through their experience with the experiential while trying to act responsibly. learning activity of their choice. Business, Sustainability, and Society: Read More [+] Practical Training: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same Additional Details semester.
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Hours & Format Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required, with common exam group. Summer: 6 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week
Instructor: Rochlin Additional Details
Also listed as: ENE,RES C192 Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Business, Sustainability, and Society: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. UGBA 193B Energy & Civilization 4 Units Alternative to final exam. Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Practical Training: Read Less [-] Energy is one of the main drivers of civilization. Today we are at the precipice of what many hope will be a major paradigm shift in energy UGBA 193I Business Abroad 4 - 6 Units production and use. Two transitions are needed. On the one hand, we Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 must find ways to extend the benefits of our existing energy system to Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session the impoverished people living in the developing world while continuing This course includes both formal learning in lectures, experiential to provide these benefits to the people of the developed world. On the learning, and action research through site visits abroad. Students and other hand, we must completely overhaul the existing system to fight instructor will visit with international companies and/or organizations to climate change and other forms of air and water pollution. Are these learn about the business opportunities and challenges of operating in a shifts truly within our reach? Can we achieve both simultaneously? If so, specific country or region. Evaluation is based on student participation, how? This Big Ideas course will grapple with these questions using an presentations, and a research paper. Country and business industry interdisciplinary systems approach. focus may vary from term to term depending upon the instructor. Energy & Civilization: Read More [+] Business Abroad: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students who take UGBA 193B will not receive Prerequisites: To be determined by instructor depending on topic credit for L&S 126. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Summer: 5 weeks - 16-25 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate
Energy & Civilization: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Business Abroad: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 109
UGBA 194 Undergraduate Colloquium on UGBA 195B Startup and Small-Business Business Topics 1 Unit Consulting 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Terms offered: Fall 2021 This is a speakers series course designed to give students insights from This course is designed to provide students with an understanding practitioners into complex issues facing American business leaders. of the concepts and principles for consulting with startups and small Each week a guest speaker will discuss an issue related to a particular businesses. Students will work in self-created teams of 3-4 and can either theme, ranging from corporate governance to the social responsibilities of bid for projects provided by the instructor, or source their own project so business. Students will be challenged to synthesize, question, and extend long as it fits the course criteria. Course time will include guest lecturers those insights under the guidance of the instructor. and consulting skills workshops. Student teams will be expected to meet Undergraduate Colloquium on Business Topics: Read More [+] together and with the client outside of class time. Rules & Requirements Startup and Small-Business Consulting: Read More [+] Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate
Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Startup and Small-Business Consulting: Read Less [-] Undergraduate UGBA 195P Entrepreneurship: How to Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required. Successfully start a New Business 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018 Undergraduate Colloquium on Business Topics: Read Less [-] This course explores and examines key issues facing entrepreneurs and their businesses. It is intended to provide a broad spectrum of UGBA 195A Entrepreneurship 3 Units topics across many business disciplines including accounting, finance, Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019 marketing, organizational behavior, production/quality, technology, etc. Do you have an idea for a new business, but want to learn how to Students will acquire a keen understanding of both the theoretical and more fully develop this idea? Would you like to receive funding for your real world tools used by today's entrepreneurial business leaders in business idea, but lack a framework to ask for capital? This course takes achieving success in today's global business environment. students through the new venture process using a business plan as Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully start a New Business: Read More the main deliverable. A well-written business plan sets key milestones [+] and indicates the resources needed to achieve them, in an increasingly Hours & Format complex business environment. Through the planning process that tightly links market and financial planning a business plan creates a set Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week of standards to which investors and teammates can evaluate actual Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week performance, laying the foundation for an “operating plan” once the business is launched. Additional Details Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Additional Details Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully start a New Business: Read Less Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ [-] Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] 110 Haas School of Business
UGBA 195S Entrepreneurship To Address UGBA C195C Life Sciences, Business, and Global Poverty 3 Units Entrepreneurship Capstone Course 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 Terms offered: Not yet offered This course examines whether and how entrepreneurial ventures can Blended lecture / Project-based course where student teams build out meaningfully address global poverty vs. more traditional approaches a business plan for a mock biotech company, demonstrating advanced such as foreign aid, private philanthropy or corporate social responsibility knowledge in therapeutics and business development. Throughout initiatives. Combining lectures, case studies, and interviews with social the course student teams will work toward a final project in which they entrepreneurs, it explores poverty and entrepreneurship before focusing will identify and present a technology overview, disease overview and on their intersection in various bottom-of-pyramid markets, from health, explanation of unmet need, a development plan, a commercialization housing, and education to energy, agriculture, and finance. plan, risk mitigation strategy, and financials. Class will include field trips, Entrepreneurship To Address Global Poverty: Read More [+] guest lectures, and a pitch competition with prize. Hours & Format Life Sciences, Business, and Entrepreneurship Capstone Course: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements
Additional Details Prerequisites: Students must be in their fourth and final year of the Life Sciences, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program in order to enroll in Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ this class Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Entrepreneurship To Address Global Poverty: Read Less [-] Additional Details UGBA 195T Topics in Entrepreneurship 1 - 3 Units Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Undergraduate Courses of this kind will cover issues in entrepreneurship that either Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. appeal to a specialized interest by type of firm being started (e.g., new ventures in computer software) or in the aspect of the entrepreneurial Instructors: Schaletzky, Dillin process being considered (e.g., new venture funding). The courses typically will be designed to take advantage of the access offered by the Also listed as: MCELLBI C175 University and the locale to knowledgeable and experienced members of the business community. Life Sciences, Business, and Entrepreneurship Capstone Course: Read Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] Less [-] Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 111
UGBA 196 Special Topics in Business UGBA 199 Supervised Independent Study Administration 1 - 4 Units and Research 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 Study in various fields of business administration. Topics will vary from Enrollment restrictions apply. year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+] Special Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Prerequisites: Upper division standing Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Summer: Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Additional Details 8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate
Formerly known as: Business Administration 196 Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Special Topics in Business Administration: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Business Administration 199 UGBA 198 Directed Study 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read Less [-] Organized group study on topics selected by upper division students under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the Haas School of Executive MBA Business faculty. Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] Directed Study: Read More [+] XMBA 200C Leadership Communication 2 Rules & Requirements Units Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session Leadership Communication is a workshop in the fundamentals of public Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to speaking in today's business environment. Through prepared and Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. impromptu speeches aimed at moving others to action, peer coaching, and lectures, students will sharpen their authentic and persuasive Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. communication skills, develop critical listening skills, improve abilities to give, receive, and apply feedback, and gain confidence as public Hours & Format speakers. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per Leadership Communication: Read More [+] week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 6 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/ Summer: 6 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate exam not required. Grading: Letter grade. Formerly known as: Business Administration 198 Leadership Communication: Read Less [-] Directed Study: Read Less [-] 112 Haas School of Business
XMBA 200S Data and Decisions 2 Units XMBA 201B Global Economic Environment 2 Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2006 10 Week Units Session, Summer 2005 10 Week Session Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 The objective of this core course is to make students critical consumers This core course addresses the determination of economic concepts and of statistical analysis using available software packages. Key concepts financial practices at work in the global economic environment. Topics include interpretation of regression analysis, model formation and testing, include long-run productivity and growth, short-run economic fluctuations and diagnostic checking. in both closed and open economies, exchange rates and the balance Data and Decisions: Read More [+] of payments, the natural rate of unemployment, and the causes and Hours & Format consequences of inflation. The instructor will draw examples from a number of countries and a variety of economies to illustrate theoretical Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week concepts. Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Global Economic Environment: Read More [+] Hours & Format Additional Details Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 10 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Additional Details Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Formerly known as: Business Administration 200S Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Data and Decisions: Read Less [-] Global Economic Environment: Read Less [-] XMBA 201A Managerial Economics 2 Units Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2005 10 Week XMBA 202 Financial Accounting 2 Units Session Terms offered: Not yet offered This course uses the tools and concepts of microeconomics to analyze This course examines accounting measurements for general-purpose decision problems within a business firm. Particular emphasis is placed financial reports. An objective of the course is to provide not only a on the firm's choice of policies in determining prices, inputs usage, working knowledge but also a clear understanding of the contents of and outputs. The effects of the state of the competitive environment on published financial statements. business policies are also examined. Financial Accounting: Read More [+] Managerial Economics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for XMBA 202A after Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week completing BUS ADM 202A.
Summer: 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Additional Details
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate class is offered. Grading: Letter grade. Managerial Economics: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives 202A
Financial Accounting: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 113
XMBA 203 Finance 2 Units XMBA 205 Creating Effective Organizations 2 Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 Units This core course examines the wide menu of available assets, the Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2009 institutional structure of U.S. and international financial markets, and the This core course surveys knowledge about behavior of organizations market mechanisms for trading securities. Topics include discounting, and in organizations. The course will include study of the issues of capital budgeting, historical behavior of asset returns, and diversification individual behavior, group functioning, and the actions of organizations and portfolio theory. The course will also provide introductions to asset in their environments, and analysis from a number of theoretical pricing theory for primary and derivative assets and to the principles perspectives of such problems as work motivation, task design, governing corporate financial arrangements and contracting. leadership, communication, organizational design, and innovation. The Finance: Read More [+] class will explore the implications for the management of organizations Hours & Format through examples, cases, and exercises. Creating Effective Organizations: Read More [+] Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 10 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: 200S Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Hours & Format Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week class is offered. Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 10 hours of lecture per week Finance: Read Less [-] Additional Details XMBA 204 Operations Management 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate This core course provides students with an understanding of the basic issues involved in managing a manufacturing-based business and Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the introduces them to the tools that are available to deal with these issues. class is offered. Students will also learn pertinent fundamental concepts in management Formerly known as: Business Administration 205 science that are applicable to other functional areas. Operations Management: Read More [+] Creating Effective Organizations: Read Less [-] Rules & Requirements XMBA 206 Marketing 2 Units Prerequisites: 200S Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2009 10 Week Session Hours & Format This core course provides an overview of the marketing system and the marketing concept, buyer behavior, market research, segmentation, Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 10 hours of lecture per week marketing decision-making, marketing structures, and evaluation of marketing performance in the economy and society. Additional Details Marketing: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Prerequisites: 201A or equivalent Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Hours & Format
Operations Management: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 10 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Marketing: Read Less [-] 114 Haas School of Business
XMBA 209 Competitive and Corporate XMBA 212 Energy and Environmental Strategy 2 Units Markets 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This is a core course designed to introduce managers to the processes Business strategy and public issues in energy and environmental involved in industry and market analysis, the development of a business markets. Topics include development and effect of organized spot, strategy, competitive positioning, planning, and the implementation of an futures, and derivative energy markets; political economy of regulation integrated business program. Students will consider competing strategies and deregulation; climate change and environmental policies related to as companies aim to achieve their own goals and objectives, often at the energy production and use; cartels, market power and competition policy; expense of their rivals, from the perspective of a general, enterprise-level pricing of exhaustible resources; competitiveness of alternative energy manager charged with overall responsibility for a company's performance sources; and transportation and storage of energy commodities. in a variety of competitive and corporate contexts. Energy and Environmental Markets: Read More [+] Competitive and Corporate Strategy: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Business Administration 201A or equivalent Prerequisites: 201A or equivalent Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 10 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Energy and Environmental Markets: Read Less [-]
Competitive and Corporate Strategy: Read Less [-] XMBA 217 Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy 1 - 3 Units XMBA 211 Game Theory 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Advanced study in the field of economic analysis and policy. Topics will Game Theory: Read More [+] vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Hours & Format semester. Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: Hours & Format 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 6-18 hours of lecture per week Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 2-6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Game Theory: Read Less [-] Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 115
XMBA 231 Corporate Finance 2 Units XMBA 236M Turnarounds 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Not yet offered This course will study the principles underlying alternative financial This course introduces the world of operational and strategic turnarounds arrangements and contracts and their application to corporate financial of troubled and underperforming businesses. It focuses on the leadership management. In particular, it will examine the impact of incentive, moral practices that work in fixing flawed enterprises, from underperforming hazard, and principal-agent problems, that arise as a consequence of businesses to those on the brink of a death spiral. Most time in the asymmetric information, government intervention, managerial incentives course is spent learning how to more effectively lead companies that are and taxes, on financial decisions regarding capital budgeting, dividend underperforming or in trouble. The course is taught by cases, with the policy, capital structure and mergers. view that the best way to learn leadership is by taking the perspective of Corporate Finance: Read More [+] business leaders facing crises that demand new direction. Since a rescue Hours & Format plan only works if it is embraced, students take various roles in the cases, including bosses, subordinates, boards and lenders. Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Turnarounds: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 1 weeks - 40 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Corporate Finance: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. XMBA 236E Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value 2 Units Turnarounds: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011 Survey of the day-to-day practices and techniques used in change of XMBA 236V New Venture Finance 2 Units control transaction. Topics include valuation, financing, deal structuring, Terms offered: Prior to 2007 tax and accounting considerations, agreements, closing documents, This is a course about financing new entrepreneurial ventures, practices used in management buyouts, divestitures, hostile takeovers, emphasizing those that have the possibility of creating a national and takeover defenses. Also covers distinctions in technology M&A, or international impact or both. It will take two perspectives--the detecting corruption in cross border transaction attempts, and betting entrepreneur's and the investor's--and it will place a special focus on the on deals through risk arbitrage. Blend of lecture, case study, and guest venture capital process, including how they are formed and managed, lectures. accessing the public markets, mergers, and strategic alliances. Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value: Read More [+] New Venture Finance: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format
Prerequisites: XMBA 203 or consent of instructor Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Hours & Format Summer: 3 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Summer: 3 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Additional Details Grading: Letter grade.
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Formerly known as: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm. 295D
Grading: Letter grade. New Venture Finance: Read Less [-]
Mergers and Acquisitions: A Focus on Creating Value: Read Less [-] 116 Haas School of Business
XMBA 237 Topics in Finance 0.5 - 3 Units XMBA 252 Managerial Negotiations 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2011 10 Week Advanced study in the field of finance. Topics will vary from year to year Session, Summer 2010 10 Week Session and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. A study of the negotiations process, including negotiations among buyers Topics in Finance: Read More [+] and sellers, managers and subordinates, company units, companies Rules & Requirements and organizational agencies, and management and labor. Both two- party and multi-party relations are covered. Course work includes Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. readings, lectures, and discussion of case material and simulations of Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same real negotiations. A key focus of this course is the role of third parties in semester. resolving disputes. Managerial Negotiations: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 10 hours of lecture Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week per week
Additional Details Summer: 10 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Topics in Finance: Read Less [-] Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. XMBA 247 Topics in Operations and Managerial Negotiations: Read Less [-] Information Technology Management 1 - 3 Units XMBA 253 Decision Making 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Advanced study in the field of manufacturing and operations. Topics will This course aims to improve the quality of decisions people make. vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Students learn to be aware of, and to avoid, common inferential errors semester. and systematic biases in decision making. There are many decision traps Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read that we tend to repeatedly fall into. These traps relate to how we think More [+] about risk and probability, how we learn from experience, and how we Rules & Requirements make choices. Upon completion, students will have internalized the basic principles of decision making and will be able to avoid falling into these Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. traps. The course additionally aims to create a deeper understanding of the psychology of decision making, which can create an advantage in Hours & Format negotiations and other interactions through gaining an awareness of the Summer: 3 weeks - 5-10 hours of lecture per week predictable mistakes of others. Decision Making: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Formerly known as: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm. 247A Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read Additional Details Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Decision Making: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 117
XMBA 255 Leadership 2 Units XMBA 267 Special Topics in Marketing 0.5 - 3 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Units In this advanced elective course, students analyze recent literature Terms offered: Prior to 2007 and developments related to such topics as organization development, Advanced study in the field of Marketing. Topics will vary from year to environmental determinants of organization structure and decision- year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. making behavior, management of professionals, management Special Topics in Marketing: Read More [+] in temporary structures, cross-cultural studies of management Rules & Requirements organizations, and industrial relation systems and practices. Leadership: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester. Prerequisites: 205 or equivalent Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Instructor: Rasmussen
Leadership: Read Less [-] Special Topics in Marketing: Read Less [-] XMBA 257 Special Topics in the Management XMBA 277 Special Topics in Business and of Organizations 1 - 3 Units Public Policy 0.5 - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Analysis of recent literature and developments related to such topics as Topics vary by semester at discretion of instructor and by student organization development, environmental determinants of organization demand. Topical areas include: business and professional ethics and the structure and decision-making behavior, management of professionals role of corporate social responsibility in the mixed economy; managing and management in temporary structures, cross-cultural studies of the external affairs of the corporation, including community, government, management organizations, and industrial relations. media and stakeholder relations; technology policy, research and Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read More [+] development and the effects of government regulation of business on Rules & Requirements technological innovation and adoption. Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Rules & Requirements
Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same Summer: 3 weeks - 7-15 hours of lecture per week semester. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read Less [-] 118 Haas School of Business
XMBA 290P Applied Innovation 2 Units XMBA 291L Leader as Coach 1 Unit Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 We are in the midst of a digital transformation that is changing how This course focuses on the art and science of coaching including theory industries work and how we will live and work. Responding to this and practice. The curriculum will cover theory and practice for three massive change requires that we learn approaches to framing and aspects of the coaching process – knowledge-based (information solving problems different from the analytical approaches most of us have and skills), motivation-based (inspiration and passion), and strategy- learned and practiced in our careers. Enter design thinking. Designers based (communication and integration). The curriculum will focus on have long practiced immersion in ambiguous situations, imagining and primary coaching skills, tools, processes and behaviors that a coach conceptualizing alternative futures, and learning through experimentation uses. In addition, participants will learn facilitation skills as the preferred and failure. This course teaches students new ways of collecting data methodology in achieving successful coaching programs. Course to characterize a problem space, enabling them to frame and reframe participants will have the opportunity to utilize this material in practice problems, generate a range of possible solutions, and then gather coaching sessions with supervision and feedback from peers and the feedback to assess those solutions. instructor. Applied Innovation: Read More [+] Leader as Coach: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 1 weeks - 30 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week
Additional Details Summer: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Additional Details
Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Instructor: Beckman Grading: Letter grade.
Applied Innovation: Read Less [-] Leader as Coach: Read Less [-] XMBA 290T Topics in Innovation and Design XMBA 291R Building Trust-Based 1 - 3 Units Relationships 1 Unit Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Spring 2014, Summer Terms offered: Prior to 2007 2011 10 Week Session The objective of this course is to help students become better leaders by Advanced study in the fields of innovation and design. Topics will vary strengthening their ability to build trust-based relationships with others from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each such as direct reports, supervisors, peers and customers. The course semester. draws appropriate links back to Leadership Communications and forward Topics in Innovation and Design: Read More [+] to Applied Innovation. Students will (i) debrief their experience of putting Rules & Requirements learning from Leadership Communications into action in their workplace; (ii) practice various approaches to honing their empathy, including the Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. use of insightful questions rather than assertions as the basis for a dialogue with others; and (iii) learn a simple peer coaching model that Hours & Format they will use in between face-to-face sessions with their classmates. Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 5-10 hours of lecture per week Building Trust-Based Relationships: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Summer: 3 weeks - 5-10 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives 200C Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 6 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Topics in Innovation and Design: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Building Trust-Based Relationships: Read Less [-] Haas School of Business 119
XMBA 291T Topics in Managerial XMBA 293 Individual Supervised Study for Communications 1 - 3 Units Graduate Students 1 - 6 Units Terms offered: Fall 2012, Summer 2011 10 Week Session Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020 Second 6 Week This course will provide the student with specialized knowledge in some Session area of managerial communications. Topics include multimedia business Individually supervised study of subjects not available to the student in presentations, personal leadership development, diversity management, the regular schedule, approved by faculty adviser as appropriate for the and making meetings work. Topics will vary from semester to semester. student's program. Topics in Managerial Communications: Read More [+] Individual Supervised Study for Graduate Students: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Prerequisites: Consent of supervising faculty
Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Summer: 3 weeks - 5-10 hours of lecture and 5-10 hours of lecture per Hours & Format week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Summer: 8 weeks - 2-12 hours of independent study per week Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Topics in Managerial Communications: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. XMBA 292T Topics in Social Sector Individual Supervised Study for Graduate Students: Read Less [-] Leadership 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 XMBA 295A Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advanced study in the field of Social Sector Leadership. Topics will 2 Units vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each Terms offered: Summer 2010 10 Week Session, Summer 2008 10 Week semester. Session, Summer 2006 10 Week Session Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read More [+] The development of creative marketing strategies for new ventures, Rules & Requirements as well as the resolution of specific marketing problems in smaller Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. companies which provide innovative goods and services. Emphasis is on Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same decision making under conditions of weak data, inadequate resources, semester. emerging markets, and rapidly changing environments. Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 2-4.5 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 10 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade. Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read Less [-] Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Read Less [-] 120 Haas School of Business
XMBA 295T Special Topics in XMBA 298A International Business 2 Units Entrepreneurship 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2010 Course will focus on the challenges, opportunities, and risks of doing Advanced study in the field of entrepreneurship. Topics will vary from business in emerging market economies. The course is designed to year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. enhance students' ability to start, manage, lead, and invest in companies Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read More [+] operating in emerging markets and to respond to new competitors from Rules & Requirements emerging markets. Emerging markets are home to nearly 80% of the world's population and are expected to account for half of global GDP Prerequisites: All core courses or equivalents growth over the next 25 years. International Business: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 10 weeks - 1.5-4.5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. International Business: Read Less [-] Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-] XMBA 296 Special Topics in Business Administration 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Fall 2014, Summer 2014 10 Week Session Advanced study in various fields of business administration. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester. Special Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 10 weeks - 1.5-4.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Masters in Bus. Adm. for Executives/Graduate
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Special Topics in Business Administration: Read Less [-]