Elective seminars will be offered for the initial three weeks during the 15 week fall and spring semesters. These seminars will cover topics of current interest or provide in-depth coverage of selected topics from the core courses. The majority of the seminars will be assigned one semester hour of credit and will meet for three hours and ten minutes one night per week for a three week period. Seminars will occasionally be given greater credit because of required travel, additional class-time, or extensive out-of-class assignments. Seminars will not be offered during the summer.
Appreciative Inquiry - Breakthrough Results
Learn the process that will enable you to practice appreciative inquiry as a leadership and performance management tool used in the workplace to dramatically improve group performance.
The Balanced Scorecard
You get what you measure! Corporations are using the Balanced Scorecard both to guide current performance and target future levels. When performance is measured solely by financial matrix, systems thinking is ignored. the Balanced Scorecard focuses on measurements in four categories: (1) the viewpoint of the shareholder; i.e., financial performance; (2) the viewpoint of the customer; (3) the critical internal processes; and (4) facilitation of employee growth and the evolution of the corporation into a learning organization. The Balanced Scorecard becomes an excellent tool in developing performance measurements and helps drive superior results.
Business Cycles and Forecasting
Reviews macroeconomic indicators that help you understand, predict and interpret fluctuations in the business cycle. Major economic cycles will be discussed, including a historical view of the Great Depression, the stock market crash of 1987, and the Asian contagion as well as other recent economic events. The role of the Federal Reserve and the impact of monetary policy is reviewed. Macroeconomic policies invariably affect the corporate environment and influence decision-making. Comprehension of these policy effects is necessary for long-term strategic planning as well as targeting short-term goals.
For those interested in starting their own business, working for an entrepreneur or within an organization, or understanding how to properly plan and market a new business idea - this seminar is a must!
Career Assessment: Enhancing Your Value to Your Organization
You've put hard work and many hours into preparing for career advancement; are you prepared for the position that best fits your demeanor, desires and skills? If a position is offered that isn't exactly what you expected - will you take it? If an outside company approaches you - is the grass always greener? By being prepared to make decisions with a focused career plan, you will reduce the stress in both your personal and business life. Join us to explore "I, Inc." and the possibilities that exist in creating your next career.
E-Commerce
Students will see the multiple facets of e-commerce, and the creative ways in which this new medium can help enhance current business models and create new ones.
E-Investing
Investing, using your personal computer, includes topics that examine common stock, bond, mutual fund investments, portfolio analysis, and discount brokerage.
Entrepreneurship Immersion - Venture Capital
Students will gain firsthand awareness of the skills, knowledge and behaviors of successful entrepreneurs through in-depth discussions with the entrepreneurs and investors involved with Glengary Venture Catalysts, a B-W educational partner. Students will also explore the various types of funding for start-up and early-stage companies. Students will prepare for and attend a meeting of the Glengary Partners, where they will participate in discussions regarding the status of current Glengary Client Companies and potential new investments.
Follower-Centered Leadership
While not all employees will aspire to positions of senior leadership, the rapidity and magnitude of change and complexity demands that all levels of the organization must "lead" in determining the future of the organization and achievement of its purpose. In successful organizations, all employees commit to the purpose, vision, and values of the organization. If not called upon from a senior leadership perspective, then followership is the perspective where individuals can fulfill the organization's purpose. Also, there are times when a leader must assume a follower role within a team, group, division, or organization. The ability to successfully participate as both leader and follower is a learned skill that will be increasingly important to both the organization and the individual.(offered every other year)
Foreign Exchange Markets
Learn how the foreign exchange market provides the structure through which the money of one country is exchanged for that of another, how the rate of exchange between currencies is determined, and how foreign exchange transactions are completed. Changes to foreign exchange rates are a measure of the potential for a firm's profitability, net cash flow, and market value.
Health Care Overview and Issues from an Employer Perspective
Covers the current and future trends in healthcare which directly affect an employer. You will study the evolution of managed care and understand the global impact of health care from a cost, quality and access basis. Students will also be provided some basic tools to facilitate the management of the employee health care program. Topics include: Working with the plan administrator, understanding cost drivers, proactive measures and benefit strategies, and legal pitfalls.
This seminar has been approved for 9 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.
Intercultural Managerial Competence
Acquire skills to enable effective intercultural communication with individuals and stakeholder groups across national boundaries.
International Business Law
This seminar covers the law of international trade, licensing, and investment from a managerial perspective. It will examine the basics of buying and selling goods abroad, basic international trade law and negotiations for trade, and legal and ethical problems facing multinationals operating in a number of countries.
International Students’ Orientation
Course is designed to facilitate the integration of international students to the U.S. academic system and B-W's programs. Required of all new international students.
Introduction to Export Logistics
This course is designed to help students understand the basic requirements necessary to be successful at exporting: issues covered in the course will relate to finding markets, dealing with customers, using intermediaries, organizing the logistics of the sale, and getting paid.
Introduction to Import Logistics
This course is designed to help students understand the basic requirements to be successful at importing: issues covered in the course will include duty determinations, Customs’ clearance security requirements, logistics and transportation, international insurance and international payments.
Law for Entrepreneurs
This seminar identifies legal challenges inherent in entrepreneurial activities and investigates how they can be met while achieving core business objectives. Students will learn the legal aspects of creating and structuring a business entity, buying and selling a business, raising venture capital, selling products and services, protecting property rights, creating operational liabilities and other major concerns of entrepreneurs.
Leadership in the Organization
While not all employees will aspire to positions of senior leadership, the rapidity and magnitude of change and complexity demands that all levels of the organization must "lead" in determining the future of the organization and achievement of its purpose. This course will focus on the dimension of organizational leadership as it relates to culture and strategy, and will examine the multiple perspectives necessary to guide the organization to successful future outcomes. (Offered every other year)
Leading Change
This course explores what items are necessary to lead change within an organization. Given that an organization must be flexible and adaptable to effectively respond to change, the steps necessary to implement a change-ready culture and lead change are two major foci of this course. (Offered every other year)
Person-Centered Leadership
This course covers leadership from an individual perspective, and allows for the self-exploration of each student's leadership potential. This course explores the characteristics of great leaders, and the degree to which leadership is inborn versus a product of personal growth and experience.(Offered every other year)
Principles of Project Management
Discover the tools necessary to plan, schedule and control projects, and look at project management from the bottom up. Learn from the people responsible for the actual management of projects.
Problem-Solving in Business
An exploration of how the use of fundamental mathematical principles can aid in business decision making, assessing risk, and identifying leverage opportunities. The math background normally required in the B-W MBA program is all that is necessary for this course.
Project Management for Executives
See project management through the eyes of senior management. What decisions must they make for excellence in project management? Which U.S. companies have excellent project management, how did they get there, and how do they plan to stay there?
Regional Economic Development
Students will explore the current state of the economy of NE Ohio and current trends in areas like population growth, business development, income growth, and educational attainment. Students will discuss the implications of this trend for individual businesses, taxpayers, and the region as a whole. Next, students will learn about various initiatives underway tin the public and private sector to enhance economic growth, including regional job creation efforts, regional technology alliances, and regional educational initiatives.
Sustainability
This course will introduce students to the concept of environmental sustainability. It will offer leading definitions of the concept, argue for its importance for global capitalism, and show how it is permeating the mission, strategies, and performance of corporations, especially large publicly-traded global leaders. Sustainability concerns the ways that a corporation (and any organization) attempts to reduce its harmful impacts on the planet’s natural systems (“environmental footprint” defined in terms of such factors as the use of natural resources and ecological services, the production of waste) toward the goal of creating practices that can sustain the planet and corporation indefinitely.
Team Building
Explore group and team theory and facilitate the creation of work groups for new MBA starts. The scope/focus is the study of group dynamics and team building theory. Involves a study of learning styles and an analysis of organizational team functioning.
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