TERM: WINTER 2008-09

COURSE #:  MGMT 431

SECTION: 72

COURSE NAME: Business Strategy

INSTRUCTOR:  Jennifer Brown

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: 1. Purchase Case Packet.   2. Download syllabus from my blackboard website and read the materials for the first class. 

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR:  Besanko, Dranove, Shanley and Schaefer

PUBLISHER  Wiley

TITLE: Economics of Strategy

ED./DATE: 4th Edition

TERM: WINTER 2008-09

COURSE #: MGMT 452

SECTION: 61, 71

COURSE NAME:  Strategy & Organization

INSTRUCTOR: Niko Matouschek

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Do the reading for the first session specified in the case packet and watch the video posted on my Blackboard site.

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR: Roberts, John

PUBLISHER Oxford University Press

TITLE: The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth

ED./DATE: 2007, paperback

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?: N/A

AUTHOR: N/A

PUBLISHER: N/A

TITLE: N/A

ED./DATE: N/A

TERM: WINTER 2007-08

COURSE #:  463

SECTION:  61 and 71

COURSE NAME:
Management of Technology

INSTRUCTOR:
Professor Scott Stern

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:
CLASS 1. Course Overview: Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

Rosenberg, N. (1996). “Uncertainty and Technological Change,” in (Eds), Landau,
Taylor and Wright, The Mosaic of Economic Growth, Stanford University Press.

Please come prepared to discuss the reading

What are the key strategic challenges in using technological innovation as the basis for
competitive advantage? What firms have been able to secure extraordinary returns from
technological innovation? Why do you think these firms have been able to prosper?  Rosenberg
highlights the importance of uncertainty in the process of technological change. What
managerial challenges (and opportunities) arise in the face of inherent uncertainty?

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:   REQUIRED

AUTHOR:
Geoffrey Moore

PUBLISHER
Harper Business

TITLE:
Crossing the Chasm

ED./DATE:
2002

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:  RECOMMENDED

AUTHOR:
Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro

PUBLISHER:
Harvard Business School Press

TITLE:
Information Rules

ED./DATE:
1998