Applied Project Managment
This course provides application knowledge on the implementation of organizational strategy. The organization of current curriculum course topics into an integrated strategy for action and planning perspective for project managers, program manager, portfolio manager and sponsors.
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.
Business Plan Development
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!
Business Turnaround: How Failing Companies Get Saved
The seminar will cover:
- What business turnaround means and the root causes that precipitate the need for one
- The complete process for turning around a company at real risk of going out of business
- Principal lessons learned from successful turnarounds in corporate history
- The most common turnaround strategies and when does each work best
- Why and how Systems thinking is imperative in planning and executing a circumspect corporate turnaround
- After the turnaround: how to prevent managerial drift in a company that’s been turnaround
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.
Corporate Re-Structuring: How Companies go about Optimizing their Business Portfolios
This course will explain corporate re-structuring and the ways mergers and acquisitions factor into it, as well as the typical stages in a corporate vision is reformulated. It will also cover the decision to divest or close an underperforming business unit, the search for acquisition candidates and the role that investment bankers play in that search, and the process of due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. Finally, the course will review ways in which mergers and acquisitions can be made to be successful.
Data Tool Benchmarking & Information Skills for Business Decisions
In this topical seminar, business professionals will gain practical expertise in using a variety of powerful online tools to solve strategic information needs. They will also create a plan for sharing these tools and research within their organization. Training will include hands-on use of information tools for market research and analysis, international marketing, and market competition benchmarking. Database essentials, information analysis, storage and presentation of researched information will be covered. Projects will focus on areas specific to participants’ organizations, goals, and job responsibilities.
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.
Financial Decision-Making in a Healthcare Organization
This seminar will meet for 4 sessions and is part of the Healthcare Executive Management Certificate. Students will be exposed to the financial aspect of health care. Although access to the clinical piece is critical to patients, the financial portion is what achieves its sustainability. For example, “How a provider gets paid” is an important concept to understand when working in the health care industry. Consequently, future and current health care employees will gain an understanding and appreciation of the major areas of financial decision making that health care executives deal with on a daily basis.
Foreign Currency Trading
This course will give students an in depth understanding of the foreign currency market and how it operates. Students will use online practice accounts to gain experience on how to trade currency.
The Great Recession of 2007-2009
Did the great recession of 2007-2009 parallel other recessions or was it different this time? This question along with the origins and consequences of the great recession of 2007-2009 will be discussed during this seminar.
At the conclusion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Articulate how technology has played a role in shaping contemporary HR
- Identify commonly used HR technology solutions in place today (workforce administration, personnel cost planning & modeling, succession planning, employee & manager self services, etc)
- Describe the basic models of HR technology sourcing (outsourcing, insourcing, cosourcing, offshoring, shared services, application service providers)
- Develop an HR technology strategy to compliment the overall goals and objectives of the HR department and/or business strategy
- Understand current HR technology case law and employee rights to formulate an internal policy on the usage of HR technology (specifically, social media websites such as facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc)
Improving Productivity Using Quality Management Principles
This seminar will meet for 4 sessions and is part of the Healthcare Executive Management Certificate. The course will focus on aspects related to quality within an organization. It will provide attendees the opportunity to understand quality, the data used to quantify it and ways to analyze data.
Intercultural Managerial Competence
Acquire skills to enable effective intercultural communication with individuals and stakeholder groups across national boundaries.
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 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.
Mastering Executive Leadership and Change in Healthcare Today
This course will meet for 4 sessions and is part of the Healthcare Executive Management Certificate.
Mortgage and Real Estate Markets: Cause and Effects
The course will cover the history of mortgages, the political mandates that allowed the oversupply of lending dollars and lower borrowing standards, the federal oversight and regulations of the industry, the reasons behind the prolonged crash of the industry, and its effects on the remainder of the economy.
Negotiation: Developing Collaborative Skills
A review of the traditional negotiations model including an explanation and comparison of the different collaborative bargaining models models focusing on Interest Based Bargaining (IBB), the Interest Based Problems Solving (IBPS) model and how IBPS applies to the collaborative bargaining models, and an understanding of how the IBPS model can be utilized in addressing and resolving workplace conflict
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.
Risk Management, Risk Transfer, and Insurance
In addition to insuring for business risks, companies have many risk management options, including assuming risk, transferring risk contractually or by outsourcing production/service, etc. This course provides students with a simplified working knowledge of commercial insurance options for any company or industry and a better understanding of global management options that improve the asset protection of any company. An MBA student should have the ability to competently asses the inherent risks of their company’s business and have a generalized capability to offer solutions.
The Science and Art of Managing Strategically
This course will meet for 4 sessions and is part of the Healthcare Executive Management Certificate. This seminar focuses on applied strategic management. The course will cover the following select topics in applied strategic management, one per session:
- Thinking and Managing Strategically: What it means, why it is imperative, and the foundation required for attaining it
- Controlling the Future by Creating it: The art of succeeding by design and staying on-course through shifting priorities and realities
- Strategic Management of Uncertainty: Innovating for differentiation, diversification and flexibility
- Managing Strategic Issues: What they are, the problems they present, and how to solve them and keep them solved
Strategic Project Management: Project Management for Executives and Managers
This seminar looks at project management from the top down, namely through the eyes of senior management. It addresses questions such as, “What are the critical decisions that senior managers must make?”, and “What difficulties can be expected?”. Additionally, for the young manager, the seminar presents insights into becoming a project manager and a view of what that career entails.
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.
Web 2.0: Digital Business Management
The course will provide an overview of the major current and emerging trends of the use of digital channels in business, ranging from an introduction to Web 2.0 digital services, network effects, community development, online marketing, and social networking. The course will introduce approaches to the development of a business strategy for the application and integration of digital channels in the current business environment. We will use the Porter Five-Forces model and apply it to specific internet companies and their business models. We will discuss major strategic questions of managing online services in a fast moving technology environment. Furthermore, the course will provide an introduction to the implementation and the prevailing digital business models (e.g. display and search advertising, e-commerce, subscriptions). The course will give an introduction to relevant digital business metrics and the measurement tools (e.g. audience measurement tools, online behavior tools). This course will not provide in-depth technology explanations. The course will focus on the strategic implications and the practical deployment and use of digital platforms in business.
Wind Power Development – Business Rewards and Realities
This course provides an overview of the hard-core business rewards and realities of wind power development. Among other topics, the students will be exposed to the manner in which public policy drives or discourages investment; traditional economic models used by the private sector and non-traditional economic development driven models used by the public sector; and how the global supply chain is developing through push and pull demand from China to Europe to the U.S. to support this fast growing industry.
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