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Business courses listed on pp 53-54, 57-62 of Course Bulletin:
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Undergraduate Courses:
BUSMHR 2000 Introduction to International Business
Basic coverage of world trade and investment problems, and introduction to multinational corporation strategies and the various types of environments in which they do business.
BUSMHR 2290 Applied Business Skills and Environment I
Introduces students to the concept of capitalism and the role of business organizations in society.
BUSMHR 2291 Applied Business Skills and Environment II
Enhancement of future business leaders' ability to resolve ethical issues and understand the ethical issues that leaders commonly face.
BUSMHR 2500 Entrepreneurship
Assesses economical, sociological, and psychological foundations of entrepreneurship and its impact on society.
BUSADM 2600 Undergraduate Speaker Series
Alumni from the Fisher College of Business will discuss their specializations, and companies to assist students in making career decisions. Emphasis on networking and business communications.
BUSMHR 3000 Advanced Topics in International Business
Advanced topics in international business including strategy, alliances, and exchange.
BUSMHR 3100 Foundations of Management and Human Resources
The study of human behavior in organizational settings.
BUSMHR 3200 Managing Individuals in Organizations: Organizational Behavior and Human Resources
Principles for managing the performance of individuals and groups in organizations; introduction to organizational behavior theory and its application to staffing, training, compensation, and appraisal.
BUSMHR 3510.01 New Venture Creation
Examines the creation of businesses in the face of uncertainty.
BUSMHR 3520 Leading High Performance Ventures
Focuses on concepts, frameworks, skills, and tools that enable a start-up to become a sustainable enterprise that creates jobs.
BUSMHR 3542 The Accelerator: Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture
Practicum experience for exploring personal entrepreneurship and creating new ventures.
BUSADM 3630.01 Business Industry Cluster
Exploration of current interdisciplinary best business practices in industry. Students will work across business specializations to learn strategy and implementation details from current industry professionals.
BUSMHR 4020 Cross Cultural Management
Basic elements of culture and its impact upon business.
BUSMHR 4021 Institutions of the International Business Environment
Major international institutions and the role they play in international business and commerce.
BUSMHR 4320 Human Resource Management in a Market Economy
Application of economic theory to organizations and labor markets; emphasis on the role of labor market analysis in human resource decision-making.
BUSMHR 4321 International Labor and Human Resource Management
Examination of the human resource challenges that emerge in multi-national organizations; emphasis on issues to be considered when preparing oneself and others for international assignments.
BUSMHR 4322 Human Resource Learning: Training and Development
Introduction to concepts and organization practices associated with designing, implementing, and evaluating different types of employee training and development programs.
BUSMHR 4323 Human Resource Practices and the Law
Review of federal laws and administrative bodies regulating employee management in the workplace; emphasis on gaining practical skills for managing human resource issues legally.
BUSMHR 4324 Staffing: Concepts and Competencies for Acquiring Talent
Introduction to the scientific, legal, and administrative issues associated with the recruitment, hiring, and placement of individuals by organizations.
BUSMHR 4326 Compensation and Benefits Administration
Provides a comprehensive framework and state-of-the art tools for designing compensation systems via assessment of organizational needs, internal and external equity and compensation administration.
BUSMHR 4330 Strategic Human Resource Management
Examination of a strategic perspective for managing employees that emphasizes the use of ethical practices and evaluates how practices fit together with organizational objectives.
BUSMHR 4490 Strategic Management
Introduction to the concepts and analytic tools in the field of strategic management to understand the competitive position of firms.
BUSMHR 4490H Strategic Management
Introduction to the concepts and analytic tools in the field of strategic management to understand the competitive position of firms.
BUSADM 4798 Study Tour: International: Panama
Specific content, location, quarter(s) of offering, and prerequisites vary; contact department office for details. Repeatable for different titled study tours only.
BUSMHR 3890H Honors Seminar- Contract
Seminar on current business topics for students enrolled in the Business Administration Honors Programs. Topics may vary.
Graduate Courses:
BUSMHR 7010 Advanced Topics in Multinational Business
Examination of topics in international business, including the role of cultural and political systems, trade and FDI, and multinational enterprise
BUSMHR 7012 International Strategy
This course helps students to understand how to develop and execute international strategies. Key issues addressed include (a) the competitive rationale for different international strategies, (b) how each major type of international strategy is structured and managed, and (c) how firms can address political and economic risks through appropriate structuring of international investments.
BUSMHR 7013 China and Its Global Implications
Introduction to the historical, economic, cultural, social and geopolitical circumstances of China's rise, and its global business repercussions.
BUSMHR 7016 Social Enterprise in Base-of-the Pyramid Markets
Introduction to the historical, economic, cultural, social and geopolitical circumstances of China's rise, and its global business repercussions.
BUSMHR 7220 Personal Leadership Effectiveness
The ability to successfully execute any project or assignment; attaining mastery in identifying, resolving problems, gaining mastery in causing results in any condition/circumstance.
BUSMHR 7221 Leadership Values and Decision Making
Examines the nature of personal and organizational leadership and the role played by personal values, character and integrity. The topic is addressed through cases, lectures, readings and speakers.
BUSMHR 7222 Advanced Topics in Leadership: Building Your Leadership Legacy
This course enables students to consider how their personal leadership style and effectiveness may impact their professional career goals. A cadre of highly accomplished guest speakers will share their thoughts with the class on leadership philosophy and experiences. Each student will receive personalized feedback on their current leadership effectiveness, and the course culminates with each student preparing and presenting to the class their leadership legacy statement...what they want to be known for at the end of their professional careers.
BUSMHR 7223 Advanced Topics in Leadership Effectiveness: Implementation
This course addresses strategy from the perspective of what are the requirements to effectively execute strategy. No matter how effective the strategy is, it will fail without successful execution. The course considers three dimensions of successful strategy execution: 1.building a simple, actionable strategic plan, 2.gaining organizational alignment behind the strategic priorities, and 3.ensuring successful execution based on organizational culture and capabilities.
BUSMHR 7224 Organizational Turnarounds
Studies of Leaders and Case studies of organizational turnarounds. Topics include reasons for organizational failure, preparing yourself for new assignments, 5 stages of a Turnaround, importance of mission/vision/strategy and brand, why turnarounds are so hard, and dealing with stakeholders.
BUSMHR 7225 Crisis Leadership
Studies of leaders and organizations facing crises to understand how to be successful in handling such challenges. Topics include enterprise risk management, the role of a board vs. role of management, public relations do’s and don’ts, core leadership principles and why they matter, dealing with outside stakeholders including customers.
BUSMHR 7226 Foundations of Transformative Leadership
Focuses on the context in which people engage in leading and practicing effective leadership and how they change their context.
BUSMHR 7230 Developing High Performance Teams
Groups and teams are becoming a way of life in organizations. However, myths and misconceptions about teams abound and often stand in the way of effective teamwork. The purpose of this course is to teach the theory and processes of group and team behavior so that you can successfully manage groups and work effectively in a variety of group settings. The course is intended for students who seek greater understanding of teams and who wish to increase their competence in managing and working effectively in these contexts.
BUSMHR 7231 Building Professional Services
Product-centric companies—starting with those in the technology space—have increasingly added service businesses over the past decade. With global competition on the product side making their output commodities, services are seen as the avenue of growth. This course presents innovative ideas for building professional service businesses in organizations. Fundamental issues surrounding the growth and management of a service business, as well as best practices, strategies, market trends/service capabilities, and myths about profit margins/growth, are discussed. Finally, the cultural issues facing service businesses operating within product companies provide a rich context for these enterprises.
BUSMHR 7232 Leading and Managing Change
The issues and challenges of successfully leading and managing organizational change. Design and implementation of change, with emphasis primarily on successful implementation.
BUSMHR 7240 Managerial Negotiations
Exploration of the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflicts and their resolution.
BUSMHR 7241 Advanced Managerial Negotiation
This course builds on MHR 7240 to explore the dynamics of more complex negotiations: team negotiations, multiparty deals, power and coalition dynamics, and negotiating from positions of weakness.
BUSMHR 7241 Advanced Managerial Negotiation
This course builds on MHR 7240 to explore the dynamics of more complex negotiations: team negotiations, multiparty deals, power and coalition dynamics, and negotiating from positions of weakness.
BUSMHR 7242 International Negotiations
This course builds on MHR 7240 to explicitly explore how cultural dynamics affect negotiation processes. Readings, cases and role playing scenarios.
BUSMHR 7304 Talent Management
Overview of concepts, practices, issues and learnings related to strategically managing talent to develop global organizational capability and meet strategic business goals and objectives. Topics covered include linking human capital/talent management initiatives to strategic organizational objectives; setting a strategic and contextual framework through the use of vision, mission, values, competencies and culture; talent acquisition (recruiting, selection and staffing); performance management; leadership development; and team effectiveness and team building.
BUS MHR 7307 Performance Management
Measure & develop performance of individuals & groups & align performance with organization's strategic objectives; methods, theories, research findings, issues regarding employee performance in organizations .
BUSMHR 7309 Strategic Management of Human Assets
Theory and research regarding teamwork and leadership, to enhance understanding/build skills in team leadership, membership, change and followership.
BUSMHR 7335 Managing Diversity
Best practices and innovative ideas in managing diversity, the impact of diversity within and outside the organization, and how diversity creates value for an organization.
BUSMHR 7412 Competitive Analysis
Tools to identify, parse, and analyze the economic and market data necessary to complete a comprehensive strategic analysis of business competition. Application of major steps in industry analysis, competitive positioning, capability analysis, competitor analysis, and some private equity valuation.
BUSMHR 7413 Advanced Strategic Analysis
Advanced analysis focusing on competitive dynamics between close competitors as well as changes in the environment. Advanced Strategic Analysis provides students with a strategic perspective on management in complex, knowledge-intensive, and dynamic environments. The course introduces new tools and frameworks to consider how to evaluate highly uncertain investment proposals and whether and how to capture value from intangible, knowledge-based assets.
BUSMHR 7414 Vertical Integration and Diversification
A study of corporate strategies, actions firms take to gain competitive advantages: strategies studied will include vertical integration, outsourcing and firm performance. Course introduces the concepts associated with transaction cost economics, resource based view, and real options as applied to vertical integration and diversification decisions.
BUSMHR 7415 Corporate Diversification
A study of corporate strategies, actions firms take to gain competitive advantages: strategies studied will include corporate diversification and mergers and acquisitions.
BUSMHR 7420 Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Development
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can provide significant opportunities for value creation as well as destruction. While some firms have been able to consolidate their position among competitors and achieved growth and profitability using M&A, others have achieved disastrous results. But research and experience has revealed that success and failure are not random events, but rather based on specific strategic choices made by the decision makers of firms. This course presents the opportunity to analyze the mechanisms underlying the creation and destruction of value in mergers and acquisitions from a strategic perspective. Some of the issues that will be examined in this course include: Internal and external forces that serve as drivers of M&A activity, value creation strategies involving M&A, appropriation of value through proper valuation, negotiation and internal decision making, and post-acquisition integration in order to ensure that the value creation potential is realized.
BUSMHR 7421 Intopia: Applied Competitive Strategy
INTOPIA: Applied Competitive Strategy develops and tests your skills as a general manager and negotiator and is distinctly entrepreneurial in nature. The course revolves around a sophisticated international business simulation called INTOPIA where companies composed of four executive team members compete in the global computer industry. Each week, Intopian executives make decisions about all aspects of their firm, including choices related to marketing, operations, finance, R&D and so forth as they compete in the three markets (US, EU, Brazil) and two product classes (chips and PCs). Strategic decisions include choices regarding vertical integration, scope (such as industrial, retail or wholesale operations) or R&D investment versus licensing of patents, while managing cash flows among the four currencies available. The simulation incorporates thousands of variables that create a dynamic, evolving environment that might include government interventions such as tariffs and import restrictions, worker strikes, recessions, natural disasters and currency fluctuations. You’ll track the evolving industry changes and breakthroughs in the Intopia Gazette, published twice weekly. The course is engrossing, challenging, competitive and most of all—fun.
BUSMHR 7461 Technology and Innovation Strategy
How technology strategy may lead to creation/persistence of competitive advantage. In contrast to core strategy course, provides series of strategic frameworks for managing high-tech businesses.
BUSMHR 7520 Entrepreneurship and Introduction to Business Plans
Experiential opportunities in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial concepts, and basics about business plans.
BUSMHR 7525 Globalization and Entrepreneurship in the Smaller Firm
Field study projects to introduce venture capital, private equity, technology commercialization and new venture strategy.
BUSMHR 7526 Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship
Topics involved in starting a retail or product business such as financing, how to start franchising, how to organize boards, how to find attorneys.
BUSMHR 7530 Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
This course enhances the student’s ability to isolate, qualify and develop strategies for transforming raw technologies into commercially viable product and services and developing those concepts into scalable business models. This is a true interdisciplinary projects course where students from business, law, engineering, and technology work together on mini portfolios of 3 or 4 live technologies each with a prior R&D investment of $250,000 or more. Each team is mentored by two or more serial entrepreneurs, angel investors/venture capitalists, or industry/technology experts who coach the team through the entire TEC protocol. While the course is focused towards venture-funded startups, the pedagogy is sufficiently general that the knowledge and skills are also directly applicable to commercialization within a corporate environment.
BUSMHR 7531 Technology Venture Lab
In this course, interdisciplinary teams of students will evaluate, design, and execute scalable, venturable business models around their personal concepts for innovative products and services. This award-winning course utilizes the fundamental principles of lean startup, business model innovation and customer discovery to accelerate the student through the critical considerations for new product innovation through a new venture commercial strategy. Under the careful coaching of seasoned entrepreneur and executive mentors, many students will actually execute on their plans, forming new ventures, securing intellectual property, raising seed-stage funding, and beta testing minimally viable products with prospective customers. Fourteen new technology companies have emerging from this class in the last five years, having won the annual Ohio State University Business Plan Competition five years in a row and having raised in excess of $11 million in venture funding.
BUSMHR 7610 Business Ethics
Developing ethical perspectives in the business environment for use in managerial decision-making using readings, case discussion, lectures, and speaker presentations.
BUSMHR 7611 International Corporate Compliance and Ethics Governance
Expansion of controls and standards in multinational enterprises that governments view as reducing corruption and promoting ethical business practices. Anti-corruption prohibitions, ethical codes of conduct, and model guidelines for business applications are no longer limited to business conducted with or awarded by governments or sovereign states.
BUSMHR 7640 Strategies for Business Sustainability: Principles and Concepts
Examination of the principles and concepts involved in developing sustainable businesses. The course builds an understanding of how the outcomes of sustainable business practices align with and enable the classical business objective of building shareholder value while at the same time benefitting broader stakeholder interests in environmental quality and social well being. Guest speakers, case studies, and field trips reinforce the principles and concepts studied which include, for example: life cycle design, closed loop systems, industrial ecology, corporate social responsibility, ecosystem services, sustainability reporting & transparency, and skills needed to lead a sustainable enterprise.
BUSMHR 7665 Innovation Projects
Diagnosing and solving real-world innovation problems. Students are provided with the opportunity to gain experience diagnosing and solving real world innovation problems. Mirroring the approach taken by leading consulting firms in stressing an analytical, data driven, problem solving approach; students work with senior managers at a client firm to systematically analyze a focal innovation challenge, generate alternative solutions, recommend a course of action that is supported by evidence from secondary data, and communicate actionable steps that may guide implementation of any recommendations.
BUSMHR 7689 Washington Campus
Week-long program with presentations by Washington policy-makers, trips to agencies, and participation in congressional simulation.
