TERM: Spring 07-08

COURSE #:469

SECTION: 61/62

COURSE NAME: Empirical Methods in Strategy

INSTRUCTOR: Dranove

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: None

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: None

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TERM:
Spring  2008

COURSE #: MGMT 440

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME: Human Resources Management

INSTRUCTOR: Jin Li

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:
1: Read ``Setting Hiring Standards,'' Chapter 2 in Personnel Economics, by Edward P. Lazear, 1997.

2: Skim Michael E. Porter, ``What is Strategy?'' Harvard Business Review, November/December 1996.

3: Read Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks and hand in short (one page or less each) answers to these questions.
A. What are the pros and cons of being a ``Nordie?''
B. Would you want to work at Nordstrom? Would your current or most recent employer want to hire a Nordie?
             C. Why did Nordstrom's problems --- coerced underreporting of hours leading to litigation ---
             arise when they did?

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR: Edward Lazear

PUBLISHER John Wiley & Sons

TITLE: Personnel Economics for Managers

ED./DATE: 1st/1997

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TERM: Spring 2007/2008

COURSE #: MGMT 452

SECTION: 61/72

COURSE NAME:
Strategy and Organization

INSTRUCTOR: Marco Ottaviani

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

1. Read the case "Keller Williams Realty" and prepare short answers (around a paragraph) to the case questions posted on the course web site.

1. Do the required reading for the first class.

ATTENDANCE FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? YES

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: No

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TERMSpring 2007-08

COURSE #: 934

SECTION: 91

COURSE NAME:  Managing Turnarounds

INSTRUCTOR: JAMES SHEIN

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: COME TO CLASS WITH AT LEAST ONE SUGGESTED NAME OF A COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION THAT IS OR WAS IN TROUBLE

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: NO

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TERM: SPRING 2007-08

COURSE #: MGMT 941

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME: ISSUES IN AIR TRANSPORTATION

INSTRUCTOR :   PROFESSOR AARON GELLMAN

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read Material listed in Case Packet for the first class

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:  (will be sold in class by the Professor)

AUTHOR:  Matt Andersson

PUBLISHER iUniverse, Inc

TITLE:    The New Airline Code:  Why the Industry Must be Programmed to a Public-Private Integration 

ED./DATE:  2005

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