TERM: WINTER

 2007

COURSE #:MGMT468

SECTION: 91

COURSE NAME: Managerial Leadership

INSTRUCTOR: Harry Kraemer, former  Chairman and CEO of Baxter International, Inc.; Executive Partner for Madison Dearborn Partners; Clinical Professor of Mgmt and Strategy

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

   1.Read the first three chapters of  “Authentic Leadership”.

   2.Read the first two chapters of “Good to Great”.

   3.Please identify two individuals  you believe are  outstanding leaders. Be prepared to discuss your choices and rationale.

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR: William George

PUBLISHER Jossey-Bass

TITLE: Authentic Leadership

ED./DATE: First; 2003

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?: Required

AUTHOR: Jim Collins

PUBLISHER: Harper Business

TITLE: Good To Great

ED./DATE: First; 2001

 

TERM: Winter 2007

COURSE #: MGMT 452

SECTION: 62/63

COURSE NAME:

Strategy and Organization

INSTRUCTOR: Yuk-fai Fong

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

1.             Study the Nordstrom Case and pay special attention to the following questions:

1.        What is Nordstrom’s strategy?  Generally speaking, is putting the salespeople on commission consistent with this strategy?

2.        What problems is Nordstrom experiencing in the case?  In your opinion, what are the underlying causes of these problems?

3.        Over the years, many of Nordstrom’s competitors have experimented with Nordstrom-like personnel strategies.  Why don’t all of Nordstrom’s competitors change their sales compensation policies?

2.             Do the required reading for the first week.
 

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: No.

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

 

TERM:

WINTER

COURSE #:

460

SECTIONS:

61

COURSE NAME:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY

INSTRUCTOR:

ALBERTO SALVO

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

YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

FIRST READING BY FRANKEL IN CASE PACKET

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

NO

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

 

COURSE #:

MGMT-911-0

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME: Strategic Dilemmas in Business Design

INSTRUCTOR:  Don Jacobs

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  YES

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:
   

 

COURSE #:

MGMT 913-A

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME: Corporate Governance

INSTRUCTOR:  Don Jacobs

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  YES

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:
   

 

COURSE#:MGMT927

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME:  Family Enterprises: Issues and Solutions

INSTRUCTOR:  John L. Ward, PhD

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

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

·         Please read the Keystone Case (A) for class discussion.

·         Please complete course survey on the Blackboard System and return it before January 1, 2007.

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:

o        Family Business.  New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

o        Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters from Family Business Owners to Their Successors. Marietta, Georgia: Family Enterprise Publishers, 2002.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

 

Winter: 2007

COURSE #: 924

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME: Consulting Frameworks and Practice

  

INSTRUCTOR: Russell Roberts

  

CASEPACK (YES or NO?): Yes

  

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Assignment for the First Night of Class

Read and give thought to the assigned readings in the class syllabus for the first night of class.   Be prepared to utilize the framework Rasiel explains in Part One of “The McKinsey Way”.

You must have your laptop with you ready for Web access on the first night of class.  Your web browser can be in any form other than Netscape 7.0, in order to connect with the MBUU Motors Consulting Scenario.

  

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED

  

AUTHOR: Charles J. Fombrun and Mark D. Nevins

PUBLISHER: Pearson Prentice Hall

  

TITLE: The Advice Business: Essential Tools and Models for Management

ED./DATE: 2004

  

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED

  

AUTHOR: Rasiel, Ethan M.

PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill

  

TITLE: The McKinsey Way

ED./DATE: Feb. 1999

  

3.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED

  

AUTHOR: Bossidy Larry and Ram Charan

PUBLISHER: Crown

  

TITLE: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

ED./DATE: 1st / June 2002

  

4.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED

  

AUTHOR: Bennis, Warren

PUBLISHER: Perseus

  

TITLE: On Becoming a Leader

ED./DATE: 2nd / Aug. 1994

  

5.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED

  

AUTHOR: Collins, Jim

PUBLISHER: Harper Collins

  

TITLE: Good to Great

ED./DATE: 1st / Oct. 2001

  
         

 

TERM:

WINTER 2007

COURSE #:

MGMT 463

SECTION:

61

COURSE NAME:

MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

INSTRUCTOR:   

SCOTT STERN

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No): 

YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

q       Please read the course syllabus and come to class prepared to ask questions about it.

q       Please complete the following readings, and think about the questions below:

1.       Moore, Geoffrey.  Crossing the Chasm.  Chapters 1 and 2 only

q       After you do the first set of readings listed above, please think about the following questions, and be prepared to discuss them in class. (These are not to be turned in, so you do not need to write up answers.)

1.       Moore claims that the key challenge in managing innovation is the ability to understand how strategy must respond to the staging and timing of technology diffusion.  What do you think are some other unique aspects to innovation management and strategy?

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

YES

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

REQUIRED

AUTHOR:

Moore, Geoffrey

PUBLISHER

HarperCollins

TITLE:

Crossing the Chasm

ED./DATE:

2002, Revised Edition

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

REQUIRED

AUTHOR:

Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian

PUBLISHER:

Harvard Business School Press

TITLE:

Information Rules:  A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

ED./DATE:

1999

 

TERM: Winter 2006-07

COURSE #MGMT 452

SECTION:  61

COURSE NAME:  Strategy & Organization

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Kathryn E. Spier

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Download the syllabus from the course website and complete the readings for the first class.

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

AUTHOR:  

PUBLISHER  

TITLE

ED./DATE:  

2. TEXT – Required or Recommended?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE: