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22 courses
Ranked courses have at least 100 recorded letter grades.
Venture Creation teaches students to transform ideas into new ventures by evaluating, formalizing, and communicating venture concepts.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stefan Koehler
The final project was described as demanding, potentially becoming difficult if group dynamics were poor.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Contemporary Topics explores advanced subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Fall 2023Theory and practice of negotiations, covering game theory approaches, distributive and integrative bargaining, tactical application, and analysis of negotiation processes and settlements.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stav Atir
The reviewer rated difficulty as 2/5 and advised students not to be intimidated by the course name or content.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Explores how leaders enact and implement change in organizations, covering transformations, crisis response, and performance improvement.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Randall Dunham
The course required a significant amount of reading.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Explores how leaders enact, foster, and implement change in organizations and individuals, covering managing organizational transformations, responding to crises, and performance improvement.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026Bargaining, Negotiating and Dispute Settlement for Managers covers bargaining theories and applies them through exercises and role-playing to improve negotiating skills.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Entrepreneurial Management covers activities and skills to start and manage an enterprise, including decisions on domain, purchase vs. start-up, market, financing, legal form, staffing, organization, location, and legal requirements.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Management Consulting course covering fundamental principles, methods, and tools to diagnose organizations, solve problems, and design interventions for effectiveness.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Loren Kuzuhara
The class included one large group project assigned early in the semester, many extra credit opportunities, and only one midterm with no final exam.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026People Analytics builds hands-on skills to integrate data analytics into human resource management, focusing on developing and evaluating human capital policies through experiential learning with organizational data.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Strategic Management of Innovation helps students gain tools and concepts to generate value from innovation and technology in existing organizations.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Martin Ganco
The workload involved weekly readings of 10-20 pages of case studies with brief analyses, online book quizzes, and a final group project.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Strategic Management synthesizes accounting, economics, finance, and other fields to examine corporate and business-level strategy, top management problems, and actual business cases.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Florence Honoré
Weekly quizzes were described as easy, and case studies were graded pass/fail. One student found getting an A manageable without excessive work.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Examines growth strategies extending firm scope into new businesses and geographies, analyzing portfolio complementarities, vertical integration, and external alliances.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026Manages behavior in organizations by applying leadership and work motivation theories, emphasizing performance management and managerial skill building.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Explores organizational strategies for talent management, including attraction, acquisition, development, motivation, and retention, to support business strategy.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Maureen Miner
The workload included two group projects, one midterm, and weekly quizzes, with the group projects requiring a bit of work.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Covers HR policies, staffing, training, labor relations, and wages. Focuses on strategy-driven HR management aligned with organizational processes, structure, and culture.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Loren Kuzuhara
The course typically included three exams, one group project, and several individual assignments. While the material itself was not considered difficult, some students found the exams challenging due to disorganization or typos.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Business Strategy covers strategic management formulation and implementation at business unit and corporate levels, emphasizing unique analysis tools for companies and industries applied to business problems.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Hart Posen
The coursework was considered too heavy for the three-hour weekly commitment, with tests described as incredibly difficult and group projects lacking direction.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026This course covers entrepreneurship principles, value proposition design, and business model development specifically for arts and cultural organizations within social entrepreneurship contexts.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS IN BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY provides knowledge and skills to tackle challenges at the intersection of business and sustainability.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Kelly Nyhoff
One student described the coursework as having an obnoxious amount of work.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Explores business sustainability challenges, analyzing causes and applying frameworks and measurement systems to corporate decision-making.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Ann Terlaak
The course has no exams, but includes two time-consuming group projects and one-page article summaries. Participation is a significant component of the final grade.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Introductory course covering foundations of entrepreneurship, including founding teams, customer/market discovery, and starting and growing a business.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Adam Bock
The course involved short weekly readings, videos, and easy quizzes, with exams described as fair and often reusing previous questions. A t-shirt project was a key component.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026LEADING TEAMS examines team components, effectiveness factors, and opportunities/threats to enhance teamwork expertise.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Manages people and organizations covering diversity, decision making, motivation, leadership, influence, strategy, culture, and change management.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Kelly Nyhoff, James Windsor
In Professor Nyhoff’s section, quizzes account for 43% of the grade, requiring serious preparation and consistent reading. In Professor Windsor’s section, the course relies on unit tests and group projects, with no midterms or finals.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026