TERM: WINTER 2009-10

COURSE # 463`

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME:  Management of Technology

INSTRUCTOR: Greenstein

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No):  y

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   Crossing the Chasm

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):  y

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR: Moore

PUBLISHER  Harper Business Press,

TITLE: Crossing the Chasm

ED./DATE: 2002

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR: Shapiro and Varian

PUBLISHER: Harvard Business School Press

TITLE: Information Rules

ED./DATE: 1998

TERM: WINTER 2009-10

COURSE #  MGMT 431

SECTION:   71

COURSE NAME:   Business Strategy

INSTRUCTOR: Craig Garthwaite

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No):    Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   

1. Purchase case packet
2. Download PDF of articles from Blackboard site
3. Read the following:

M. Porter, "What is Strategy?" Harvard Business Review, Vol. 74, Nov/Dec 1996, p. 61-78.

C. Oster, “How AIG Wagered on a Maverick in the Bail Bonds Business and Lost,” Wall
Street Journal, April 10, 2001

BDSS, p. 1-7 (4e: 1-8);  p. 362-373 (4e: 346-358)

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):  

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  David Besanko et al.

PUBLISHER   Wiley

TITLE: Economics of Strategy

ED./DATE:   Fifth Edition

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

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TERM: WINTER 2009-10

COURSE #
MGMT-431-0

SECTION:
72

COURSE NAME:  
Business Strategy

INSTRUCTOR:Jeroen Swinkels

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No): Yes 

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   Please see case packet or Blackboard site

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):  Yes

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR:  Besanko, Dranove, Shanley, Shaeffer

PUBLISHER:  Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons  

TITLE: Economics of Strategy

ED./DATE: 5th ed. / 2010

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

AUTHOR:

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TERM: WINTER 2009-10

COURSE #: MGMT 452

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME:  Strategy and Organization

INSTRUCTOR: Yuk-fai Fong

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No):  YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   

Read the case “The Lincoln Electric Company” and prepare for the following questions:
1.             What is Lincoln Electric’s strategic position? Is LE’s strategy a sensible one?
2.             What are the key components in LE’s human resources policies?
3.             How are employees’ bonuses at LE determined?
4.             Would LE’s system withstand the recession in the early 1980’s?
5.             Assess LE’s ability to develop overseas manufacturing capacities.

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):  NO

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: NO

AUTHOR:

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2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

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TERM: WINTER 2009-10

COURSE #
MGMT927

SECTION:
81

COURSE NAME:  
Family Enterprises: Issues and Solutions

INSTRUCTOR:
John L. Ward

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No):
Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   (All items listed below are included in the Course Case Pack)

• Please read the Keystone Case (A) for first class discussion.
• Please complete the course survey on the Blackboard System and return it before Jan 1, 2010 or click here to complete.

Case(s)

• Keystone Case (A) 

Readings

• “Code of Conduct (for a family firm),” John L. Ward, June 19, 2001.
• “In Praise of the Family Firm,” The Economist, March 9, 1996, p.5.
• “What Makes a Family Business Different?” John L. Ward, September 15, 1998, pp.1-2.
• “Best of the Best,” Newsweek International, April 12, 2004, pp. 42-45.
• “Family Business Letters,” compilation of four personal letters, total of 9 pp., from:
• Family Business.  New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters from Family Business Owners to Their Successors. Marietta, Georgia: Family Enterprise Publishers, 2002.
•  “Report on Interests of Kellogg Alumni from Family Businesses” a running tally tabulated by the Kellogg Center for Family Enterprises

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):  
No

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

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TERM: WINTER 2009-10

COURSE # MGMT 913-A

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME    Corporate Governance

INSTRUCTOR: Don Jacobs

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No):  No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   Readings on Blackboard

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):  Yes

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

AUTHOR:

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2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

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TERM:   Winter 2010

COURSE :  MGMT 911

SECTION:

COURSE NAME:  Strategic Dilemmas in Business Design

INSTRUCTOR:   Doug Gray and Donald P. Jacobs

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No):  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:   Reading

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):  Yes

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: Recommended

AUTHOR:   Articles by several authors

PUBLISHER  

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

AUTHOR:

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