A number of different topics in management are offered under this course number. Consult the Schedule Planner for current course offerings. Prerequisites vary depending on the topic and instructor requirements. Cross-listed with MGMT 4950. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Supervised experiences involving the application of concepts and skills in an employment situation. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Environment is foundational to sustainability, but sustainability, as described in this course, is much more than a focus on mitigating climate change. This course is an introductory exploration of a variety of key sustainable business concepts and issues. We will discuss the concepts of compliance, greening business, regeneration, and other contemporary sustainable business concepts and frameworks. The issues we will discuss range from environment and climate action, biodiversity, energy, transportation, the built environment and urbanism, community well-being, poverty alleviation, responsible consumption and production, water scarcity and quality, and more. Students conduct a sustainability impact project (e.g. reduce energy, water, waste, emissions, etc.) during the semester at the individual scale, and discuss how to scale this up to the corporate scale. Cross-listed with SUSB 6000

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBC within the Business School.

Join your classmates in an international travel study course to understand the business operations of another culture. Cross-listed with MGMT 4028. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Restricted to graduate students and graduate non-degree seeking students.

Additional Information: Global Education Study Abroad.

This course has two objectives: (1) to understand the impact of cultural differences in the management of people in multinational firms; and (2) to compare and contrast critical human resource issues in the contexts of domestic and international operations. Topics include recruitment, staffing, training, performance appraisal, compensation, and labor and management relations in markets around the world. (This course qualifies as an international elective for the MS in International Business program). Cross-listed with INTB 6040.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA or NBD within the Business School.

This class focuses on empowering women to develop their leadership potential through an immersive syllabus designed to build confidence, cultivate leadership skills, and access a network of influential business professionals. Students will actively engage with mentors, industry leaders, and peers in collaborative workshops, in-class learning experiences and lectures, and in an end of semester retreat. Participants will develop an understanding of gender equity dynamics, emotional intelligence, and problem-solving strategies that are essential in today's complex business landscape. The course is designed to equip students—women, men, and non-binary—to become powerful allies and sponsors who can collectively and effectively address workplace challenges. By combining theoretical knowledge with practical skill-building and direct professional exposure, students gain a comprehensive toolkit for navigating and transforming business environments. Cross-listed with BUSN 4100.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The course focuses on the tasks and skills of a leader that are important for leading organizational change. Topics include: diagnosing problems, creating urgency, building the change team, creating a vision, implementing change strategies, sustaining the momentum and making change stick. These tasks and skills are studied in various change contexts.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Examines how to design organizations within the context of environmental, technological, and task constraints. The emphasis is on learning how to recognize and correct structural problems through the analysis of existing organizations in which the students are involved.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Focuses on the management of human resources in organizations. Oriented toward the practical application of human resources management principles in areas such as: equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, human resources planning, recruitment, staffing, benefits and compensation, labor relations, training, career management, performance management, and occupational health and safety.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA or NBD within the Business School.

Gain strategy experience collaborating with and consulting to Senior Executives of a client company. This is a hands on, project-based course. Students will analyze a strategic initiative as defined by and with the organization’s leadership and provide their client with research, insights and actionable strategic ideas.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Concerned with the development of a general management perspective in establishing the strategic direction for an enterprise. Students gain an understanding of strategy formulation and implementation within the context of the global environment. Cross-listed with BUSN 6710.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restricted to graduate students majoring in Management and Organization (ORMG) or Sustainable Business (SUSB) only.

This course explores the many aspects of Talent Management including strategic talent planning, recruiting and acquisition, employee development, performance management, engagement and retention, succession planning, and compensation, with a strong focus on recruitment and acquisition. The course demonstrates how each aspect of Talent Management is interdependent. Cross-listed with MGMT 4420

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Demonstrates the importance of aligning training initiatives to business strategy, while considering learning theories and learner preferences. Students practice planning, designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating a training course. Cross-listed with MGMT 4430.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Focuses on the design and implementation of human resources management systems to assess and enhance employee performance. Areas of study include performance measurement, rater training, goal setting and feedback. Cross-listed with MGMT 4440

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Develop and administer pay systems considering economic and social pressures, traditional approaches and strategic choices in managing compensation. Current theory research and practice. Students design a compensation strategy and a system that translates that strategy into reality. Cross-listed with MGMT 4450.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Managing talent-organization and deployment-and connections between talent and strategy in organizations. Rooted in a systematic, logical approach that challenges traditional ideas. Stresses the logical connections between progressive HR practices and firm performance and the use of data to demonstrate financial impact of the connections.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Current topics in management will be occasionally offered. Consult the 'Schedule Planner' for specific offerings or contact an advisor for information. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

The downsizing, restructuring, and re-engineering so prevalent in U.S. industries and companies have strongly affected the job and career market. Every individual must sharpen his/her competencies and skills in order to compete effectively in the changing job market. This course is designed to assist students in understanding and operating in this difficult job market. Using many of the concepts that organizations use in their strategy formulation process, and coupled with individual techniques and skills proven effective in job searches and career planning, this course prepares students to deal with the issues involved in finding a job and pursuing a career.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Examines the challenges faced by visionary leaders and the approaches used by these individuals (creation, articulation, and implementation of vision) to transform organizations. Participants utilize these approaches employed by effective leaders to develop plans for their own organizational success. Group experiences, applied readings, and videos are used to clarify the opportunities available.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Designed as a seminar in negotiation and conflict management. Students will practice and develop negotiation and conflict management skills as they use them to craft deals and resolve differences. Students will learn how negotiation and conflict management strategies and tactics vary depending on the situation encountered.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Competitive performance in a global economy requires continuous innovation and new business growth. The creation and development of new ventures is a primary strategy for internally-generated growth. Managing innovation and new ventures requires attitudes, knowledge, and practices different from those usually required for the management of mature business units. This course provides the perspective, knowledge, and specific skills required for successful entrepreneurial management.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Instruction in the design and practice of leadership development. Case studies of effective organizations will be examined and a variety of assessment and development activities will be completed as part of the course. Students will learn how to develop others while experiencing the development techniques first hand.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

The objective of this course is to provide an opportunity for the in-depth examination of an actual management problem in a local organization. Much like an independent study conducted under faculty guidance, each student will execute a unique project suited to his or her interests. Priority is given to MGMT students.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

This course considers a variety of key management functions that are needed for sustainability-oriented businesses. The course considers effective organizational design and the power of smart, hardworking employees. Other topics that will be discussed include social entrepreneurship and the importance of teams and diversity for innovation. The basics of strategic management are introduced and used in accompaniment with visionary and ethical leadership as well as change management. In addition, corporate social responsibility is introduced with sustainability marketing to maintain a strong, positive reputation for a company. Cross-listed with SUSB 6821.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Covers business ethics and corporate social responsibility in the global contexts of employment, marketing, product liability, the environment and other areas. Students compare ethical theories, including utilitarianism, Kantian, Rawlsian, stockholder, stakeholder and social contract and apply some or all of these theories to actual and hypothetical case studies. The doctrine of corporate social responsibility is defined and explored and diverging views of corporate social responsibility are discussed. Examples of how corporate social responsibility can increase a company's goodwill and net income are analyzed. Cross-listed with SUSB 6822.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

This course examines the negative impact of a rapidly growing global economy on the natural and human environment. It shows that the need to create a more sustainable global economy represents a huge opportunity for business and how sustainability-based strategies drive innovation, competitive advantage and improved financial performance. It will examine both environmental aspects of sustainability like green supply chains, lifecycle analysis, energy and water efficiency, as well as initiatives that nurture and enhance the value of our human resources such as community development, employee and customer relations, employee wellness, telecommuting, and other stakeholder engagement in sustainability.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Gain practical, hands-on experience with aspects of sustainable business and/or corporate social responsibility. Work with a local company/non-profit/or government organization under the direction of an executive to conduct a sustainability-focused project which is important to the organization’s sustainability initiative. Cross-listed with MGMT 4824.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of MGMT 6000 or SUSB 6000 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with the NBA sub-plan within the Business School.

Today’s businesses need transformative leaders who can design and lead adaptable organizations to thrive in rapidly changing social, political, economic, and environmental conditions. Learn and apply sustainability, resilience, and leadership concepts. This course also develops transformative leadership skills to become an agent of change to create enduring solutions to sustainability challenges. Cross-listed with SUSB 6825.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA or NBD within the Business School.

This course will introduce the following environmental sustainability concepts and theories within a business context: business impact on the environment, the tragedy of the commons, systems thinking, context-based sustainability, environmental governance and stewardship, water resource management and sustainability, corporate water strategy and disclosure, and environmental stewardship and collaboration. The course culminates with the development of a corporate water or sustainability strategy for a business. Cross-listed with SUSB 6826.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Global climate change poses existential threats to cities, ecosystems, businesses, and humanity. This course will build the knowledge and skills necessary to help companies develop and implement a climate transition plan to drawdown carbon emissions while building a thriving business in the process. We will review climate change basics, the business risks of a changing climate, relevant government regulations and standards, cutting-edge climate solutions, conduct a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, and learn how companies are measuring, monitoring, offsetting, and disclosing their carbon emissions. Cross-listed with INTB 6870, SUSB 6870.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

This course is designed as a speaker series of sports and entertainment industry elite focusing on: industry trends, strategic planning, managing revenue streams, managing media, managing for effectiveness, managing post-merger integration, leadership and leading change.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Provides an overview of major legal issues in the sports and entertainment industries. Students develop the skills required to negotiate contracts in these industries. Topics include contracts with athletes (agency, player and sponsorship), stadium financing and sports franchises, labor law and collective bargaining agreements, entertainment contracts in the music, film and live theater fields and copyright, trademark and tort law principles in the sports and entertainment industries.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Through 2 weeks of visiting organizations and talking with industry elite in London a broader perspective on the Sports and Entertainment Industry is gained. Students will be asked to do advanced reading, participate in discussions, keep a journal and write a reflection paper at the end of the experience. Site visits (to be confirmed) include: Arsenal Football Club, Premier League, the O2 Arena, NHL and NBA regular season games in London, 2012 Olympics Committee, Formula One, Hollywood Studio-International Finance Office, Theatre, Lord's Cricket Ground, All England Lawn Tennis Club/Wimbledon and the office of the Minister of Sport. Cross-listed with MGMT 4834, MKTG 4834, and MKTG 6834.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Typically Offered: Summer.

Instructor approval required. Allowed only under special and unusual circumstances. Regularly scheduled courses cannot be taken as independent study. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

Additional Information: Report as Full Time.