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The "Business and Government Relations" is an alternative to Business Law in satisfying the "legal and political environment of business" requirement. The course is designed to prepare you for the time when you, as a senior manager of a business firm, will find your business activities being partly determined by government policies. Over the course of the semester, you will learn the Skills: to analyze normative arguments about what government and corporate policies ought to be; to analyze positive arguments regarding claims made about the effects of government policies on business; to understand the how and why of government policy-making; and to learn to "forecast" changes in government policy. You will develop Substantive Knowledge: of political institutions, here and abroad; of the effects of differing government policies on national industrial organization; and of the effects of business on government, in the United States and abroad. You will Reflect: on the appropriate role of corporations in the democratic political process; and on how your civic obligations should affect you in your role as a manager. The course readings will compare American political and business institutions with those of other democratic capitalist countries. Formerly offered as MGMT 265.
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Credits: 3
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This course covers the fundamental requirements and processes of new business formation. Students will work in teams to identify an idea for a new venture, explore market and conditions that will surround the new business, and finally plan start-up operations and project financials. In addition, the course examines requirements and characteristics of leadership for organizational start-up, sources of capital, methods of negotiation for capital or strategic alliance, and the fundamentals of good selling. Formerly offered as MGMT 280.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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This course examines a variety of problems in the strategic management of innovation and technology. It asks how and why innovation occurs in an industry, why some innovations rise to dominate others, and how firms develop and implement strategies for innovation and technology. Among the key topics to be explored are how the same technical innovation can either sustain or disrupt existing businesses. We will highlight the specific opportunities and challenges disruptive innovation brings to all aspects of a business, from the strategy making process to organizational structure and from marketing to finance. Case studies from a variety of ânew economyâ and âold economyâ industries serve as the basis for much of the course.
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Credits: 1.5
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Credits: 1.75
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This course presents a broad overview of the business aspects of the American health care system. During the past 200 years American medicine has developed from a beneficent profession and a cottage industry into a trillion dollar conglomerate. This course begins with a historical review from Revolutionary times to the Tax Act of 1954, which may be regarded as the beginning of the modern American health care system. The course then explores the methods that have evolved to finance the American health care system. The functional organization of the health care system, the economics of healthcare, and opportunities in the future for health care are analyzed in turn. Finally the American hospital, its rise and fall as an integral part of the system, is discussed in detail. Students will be asked to give a brief oral and written presentation on an aspect of the American health care marketplace of particular interest to them.
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The purpose of the international macroeconomics module is to introduce you to the systematic analysis of a countryâs macroeconomic situation with a view to helping you assess a countryâs macroeconomic health. We will examine the relationship between the main macroeconomic variables: interest rates, exchange rates, productivity, growth, inflation and unemployment. We will study the determinants of these variables in fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes and examine the roles of fiscal and monetary policy within these regimes. Prerequisite: All preceding required first-year MBA courses.
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This course provides students with managerial perspective on issues that emerge from the conduct of business in diverse economies, political systems, and cultures. Topics include trade, direct investment, and licensing as strategic alternatives for firms. Balance of payments trends and foreign exchange rate movements and their implications for international business management receive attention. The policies of governments and international organizations affecting international business are also discussed. The approach of the course is interdisciplinary and transfunctional. Prerequisites: All preceding required first-year MBA courses.
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Credits: 1.75
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This course offers an introduction to the political economy of international business. In todayâs global economy, firms increasingly rely on non-market strategies to help shape the playing field on which they compete. The aim of this course is to examine how these strategies interact with market ones in a global economy shaped by the âvisible handâ of governments and international institutions. In particular, the course surveys issues from the prevalence of so-called âborder effectsâ (i.e., the way political boundaries impede the flow of commerce) to obligations under the World Trade Organization and the growing number of regional trade agreements (i.e., the North American Free Trade Agreement), and from labor and environmental standards to the strength of intellectual property rights.
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Credits: 1.75
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We have no STRT-571 course description for the 2007-2008 academic year.
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This course provides a broad overview of mergers and acquisitions. This course will provide you with a framework to help you understand the merger and acquisition environment, to analyze M&A transactions, to develop opinions about them, to design M&A proposals, and to think about M&A events critically. The course examines a variety of M&A transactions, including friendly deals, hostiles, leveraged buyouts, mergers of equals, and cross border situations. The course is primarily case based with some lecture. There are two simulation exercises, one involving a friendly merger negotiation, the other a hostile takeover. A major focus is exploring what makes some deals successful and others failures.
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This course provides a broad overview of mergers and acquisitions. This course will provide you with a framework to help you understand the merger and acquisition environment, to analyze M&A transactions, to develop opinions about them, and to think about M&A events critically. The course examines a variety of M&A transactions, including friendly deals, hostiles, and leveraged buyouts. The course is primarily case based with some lecture. A major focus is exploring what makes some deals successful and others failures.
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Students will develop business plans and help with legal, accounting and finance issues to small businesses and non-profits in DC. Targeted business clients will be socially responsible, often women-or minority owned, and committed to stay locally owned.
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Credits: 1.75
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Credits: 1.75
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Credits: 1.75
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Credits: 1.75
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Credits: 1.75
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Credits: 1.75
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The objective of this class is to give you the tools to develop your own game theoretic models. To achieve this I will teach you game theory using a software: Gameplan that you must download before the first class meeting by going to: http://home1.gte.net/vze3hvm3/Georgetown/GUgp27setup.EXE. The software enables you to construct a game theoretic representation of any business situation you might be interested in. Once you have constructed your game, Gameplan obligingly solves it for you. Then it is up to you to interpret the lessons that game theory has to offer. We will spend the first four weeks of the class learning about important game theoretic ideas such as rationality, rational expectations, asymmetric information, credibility of threats and promises, signaling and commitment. These ideas will be illustrated using mini-cases that cover a wide array of situations ranging from inter-personal conflict to market entry. Then we will discuss more complex case studies that you will have prepared in advance. Our case studies cover issues such as perjury, trust in the workplace, employee promotion and firm commitments, and competition over markets. The vast majority of the cases we will look into assume that the players have incomplete information about each otherâs priorities, the timing of each otherâs moves or even the very nature of the game being played. In other words we will be dealing with games of information.
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