TERM: Winter 2007/2008

COURSE #: MGMT 452

SECTION: 61

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.

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TERM: WINTER 2007-08

COURSE #:  MGMT 452

SECTION:  91

COURSE NAME:  STRATEGY & ORGANIZATION

INSTRUCTOR:  SCOTT SCHAEFER

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  READ LINCOLN ELECTRIC CASE

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

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

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TERM: WINTER 2007-08

COURSE #:  463

SECTION:  61

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?:  REQUIRED

AUTHOR:

Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro

PUBLISHER:

Harvard Business School Press

TITLE:

Information Rules

ED./DATE:

1998

TERM: WINTER

2007-08

COURSE #: MGMT 911

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME: Strategic Dilemmas in Business Design

INSTRUCTOR: GRAY and JACOBS

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Do assigned readings in Case Packet

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No): YES except with the approval of faculty

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

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TERM: WINTER 2007-08

COURSE #: MGMT 913

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME:  Corporate Governance

INSTRUCTOR: Don Jacobs

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

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Do assigned readings in Case Packet

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No): YES except with approval of faculty

1. TEXT - Required or Recommended?:

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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, 2008.  To access the student background & expectations survey online, please click here.

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?:

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