BUSO714 International Business (2 credits)
PTMBA Equivalent: BUSI761
Provides a broad look at issues that global organizations face across the enterprise. The course explores international marketing, finance, management and organizational behavior strategies. Students taking the course receive a global business perspective.
BUSO706 Organizational Change (2 credits)
PTMBA Equivalent: BUMO720
Develops the fundamental knowledge and skills of students who plan to work with organizations as change agents, whether internally or externally as outside consultants. This course draws on literatures from organizational behavior, organizational change and development, organizational structure, human resource management and strategic management to identify and understand critical factors and underlying processes that drive for and against organizational change. This course also provides students with useful models, tools, and skills for leading and managing organizational change effectively.
BUSO758C Corporate Venturing (2 credits)
PTMBA Equivalent: BUMO758P
This course explores the skills, techniques, and strategies that are required to instill entrepreneurial behavior and subsequent venture activity in established and large organizations.
The class explorers current concepts on how organizations “venture” by creating new businesses within their organization and how these organizations find and groom individuals to take on the role of “Intrapreneurs”, the corporate equivalent of the entrepreneurs. Students are encouraged to bring their experiences with the organizations they are currently with or have been to contribute to discussions on various aspects of Corporate Venturing.
At the core of the assignments is a real-life effort to describe, define and structure a corporate venturing process for an organization of the student’s choosing (mostly their current organization). A carefully crafted team project put students in charge of creating a real-life venture for an organization to apply concepts and learning in parallel to the class process. The class will also discuss and explore the obstacles that organizations typically face when trying to become more “intrapreneurial” and why intrapreneurs are still a rare but sought-after breed of employee.
BUSO758E: Sustainability: Economics and Strategy (2 Credits)
Firms are increasingly confronted by issues of sustainability, whether via demand side or social pressures (e.g., through changing consumer preferences or pressure from NGOs), a quest for superior and sustained performance or a need to comply with regulation. Sustainability issues facing firms are multi-faceted and, in most cases, without clear strategic solutions. While it appears that firms must choose between sustainability and short-term profitability, in many cases sustainability related solutions can improve firm profitability.
The goal of this course is to better understand the overarching issues of sustainability, consider them in a series of industry specific examples and highlight market based solutions to these problems. Within each context, we examine the underlying market failures that lead to sub-optimal social and/or environmental outcomes along with commonly employed economic solutions to these problems. This course is designed to give you tools for solving sustainability related problems for both for profit and not for profit companies.