Illustrates how to achieve a high level of coordination and initiative within a diversified entity, demonstrate the inherent challenges in building a network rather than a firm even when all involved have a common objective, and evaluates a strategy in creating value for customers and capturing valu...
Demonstrates the business, operations, and employee relations strategies and practices that support “high road” businesses and what makes a collective action by employees successful.
Demonstrates how an organization, with the right leadership, can effect change with little or no power.
Illustrates the utility of business practices in the society at large while helping students see beyond the cliché that “the business of business is business”, explores the relation of management principles to nonbusiness goals, and demonstrates the art of preparing for a turnaround.
Introduces students to differing views between actuaries and economists on pension fund liability valuation, and how these views can create conflicts of interest, and invites thinking about how they might practice values-based leadership in a business setting.
The World Climate Simulation is a group role playing simulation of the international climate change negotiations. This exercise provides participants the chance to explore the risks of climate change and the challenges of negotiating international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions....
Engages students in what it means to act ethically in today’s business world, drives understanding that decisions are strongly influenced by broader factors such as culture, organizational design, and decision-makers’ values, and, introduces critical thinking about ethical dilemmas and how to voice ...
Engages students in opportunities and challenges of driving social media strategy for an organization with different brands and stakeholders.
Encourages debate among students about the increasingly complex relationship between business and government and the degree to which one influences the other for good and ill.
