Fall 2014
Course Listings (Westchester)
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Core Courses
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Course Description:
Organizations of all types face significant challenges. These include the difficulty of coping with highly dynamic business environments, the complexity of managing global enterprises, how to shape a healthy corporate culture, managing politics and conflict between individuals and organizational units, motivating a highly mobile and every changing workforce, managing and harnessing intellectual capital, and so on. Such challenges and how organizational leaders can deal with them are the subject of this course. The course has two major components. The first is "macro" in nature. It focuses on organizational level issues, such as how an organization should be designed to best achieve its goals, and how culture and control affect organizational dynamics. The second part is more "micro" in nature. It focuses on employee-related challenges, such as how to get things done in politically sensitive environments, evaluate and reward people, and manage teams. The macro component is concerned with overall organizational performance, while the micro component is concerned with managing individual and group effectiveness. And leadership is the linking pin that connects these two.
This course will introduce you to central theories and frameworks in management and organizational behavior, and will help you to understand how to apply those theories and frameworks to understand and address organizational challenges and problems. An understanding of organizations and their management is important for anyone who plans to work within an organization, as career success hinges on one's ability to accurately read and respond to the organizational context within which one operates. The course will also give you an opportunity to reflect on the skills that are required for being a better manager and leader.
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91 |
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6:00 pm
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09/22-12/15 |
Milliken,F |
New Fall Langone-BROWN |
Equivalencies:
COR9-GB.2307 ( B09.2307 ) -
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Course Description:
Accounting reports are an important means of communication with investors. This course focuses on the development, analysis and use of these reports. It provides an understanding of what these reports contain, what assumptions and concepts accountants use to prepare them, and why they use those assumptions and concepts.The course uses simple examples to provide students with a clear understanding of accounting concepts. It stresses the ability to apply these concepts to real world cases, which by their very nature are complex and ambiguous. In addition to text-oriented materials, the classes also include cases so that students can discuss applications of basic concepts, actual financial reports, and articles from newspapers. In addition to traditional introductory topics other topics may include mergers and acquisitions, purchase and pooling, free cash flow and financial statement analysis.
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91 |
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6:00 pm
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09/17-12/17 |
Shalev,R |
New Fall Langone-BROWN |
Equivalencies:
COR9-GB.2301 ( B09.2301 ) -
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Course Description:
We use the tools of international macroeconomics to explore the economic environment facing firms operating around the globe. Central issues include the role of economic policy and institutions in the performance of firms and nations; economic indicators and forecasting; employment and unemployment; interest rates, inflation, and monetary policy; global trade in goods and capital; foreign exchange rates; and emerging market crises. These issues are considered from the perspectives of both firms and countries.
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91 |
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6:00 pm
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09/22-12/15 |
Cooley,T |
Westchester |
Equivalencies:
COR1-GB.2113 ( B01.2113 ) -
COR1-GB.2123 ( B01.2123 ) - Global Business Environment I
COR1-GB.2125 ( B01.2125 ) - Global Business Environment II
COR9-GB.2317 ( B09.2317 ) -
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Course Description:
This course serves as an introduction to operations, viewed from the perspective of the general manager, rather than from that of the operations specialist. The coverage is very selective; the course concentrates on a small number of themes from the areas of operations management and information technology that have emerged as the central building blocks of world-class operations. It also presents a sample of key tools and techniques that have proven extremely useful. The topics covered are equally relevant to the manufacturing and service sectors.
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91 |
W
6:00 pm
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09/17-12/17 |
Nayyar,P |
Westchester |
Equivalencies:
COR1-GB.2114 ( B01.2114 ) -
COR9-GB.2314 ( B09.2314 ) -
Management and Organizations
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Course Description:
This course considers the way political processes and power structures influence decisions and choices made within and by organizations. It analyzes the sources, distribution, and use of influence in relation to resource allocation, organizational change and performance, management succession, procedural justice, policy formulation, and social movements within organizations. It develops skills in diagnosing and using power and politics in organizational settings. A basic assumption underlying the course is that managers need well-developed skills in acquiring and exercising power to be effective. The course is designed to (1) improve students' capacity to diagnose organizational issues in terms of their political dimensions and (2) enhance their effectiveness in their jobs and careers as a result of that improved capacity.
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91 |
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6:00 pm
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09/18-12/18 |
Kabaliswaran,R |
Westchester |
Pre/Corequisite:
Co-requisite -
COR1-GB.1302 ( B01.1302 ) - Leadership in Organizations
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Equivalencies:
MGMT-GB.3165 ( B65.3165 ) - Power and Professional Influence
Specializations:
Leadership and Change Management
Management
Non-Credit Courses
Operations Management
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Course Description:
This course introduces the basic principles and techniques of applied mathematical modeling for managerial decision making. Students learn to use some of the more important analytic methods (e.g., spreadsheet modeling, optimization, Monte Carlo simulation) to recognize their assumptions and limitations and to employ them in decision making. Students learn to: Develop mathematical models that can be used to improve decision making within an organization, Sharpen their ability to structure problems and to perform logical analyses, Translate descriptions of decision problems into formal models and investigate those models in an organized fashion, Identify settings in which models can be used effectively, and apply modeling concepts in practical situations, Strengthen their computer skills, focusing on how to use the computer to support decision making. The emphasis is on model formulation and interpretation of results, not on mathematical theory. This course is aimed at M.B.A. students with little prior exposure to modeling and quantitative analysis, but it is appropriate for all students who wish to strengthen their quantitative skills. The emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, operations, and marketing.
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91 |
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6:00 pm
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09/23-12/16 |
Juran,D |
Westchester |
Pre/Corequisite:
Pre-requisite -
COR1-GB.1305 ( B01.1305 ) - Statistics and Data Analysis
Pre-requisite -
COR1-GB.2314 ( B01.2314 ) - Operations Management
Specializations:
Business Analytics [formerly Data, Models&Decisions]
Financial Systems&Analytics
Supply Chain Management&Global Sourcing
Management of Technology&Operations
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