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                                         Leadership

 Entrepreneurship

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Leadership
Impact Forum. The objective of this course is for the students to develop key competencies for creating personal "Impact" (internal) and to explore the concept of "Impact" – across a range of environments (external). This course incorporates the Fall 2009 IMPACT Speaker Series. The purpose of the "IMPACT Speaker Series" is to expose the students to individuals and organizations that have had an impact. Through the personal view of their experiences and insights, the speakers address the concepts of innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and impact. Through the presentations and question/answer periods that follow, students have a first-hand opportunity to hear and understand a broad range of environments, concepts, approaches, styles and results.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4192	Gregory Marr	Syllabus
Servant Leadership, Values and Systems. This course has been designed to enhance students’ awareness of their values and the ways in which those values are reflected in their decisions and actions. The course will explore the gap and tension between stated organizational values and those that drive actions. Students will gain a better understanding of the systems in which they operate, and learn how to identify points of leverage to affect change. Contemporary concepts of integrating values and system-level thinking will be studied, providing the student with knowledge that may influence their philosophy, style and strategy.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4193	Robert N. Thomas, Ph.D.	Syllabus
Uncertainties of the Emerging World. The student should not only be concerned with his/her future, but also concerned with what the world he/she is entering holds for them. This course will attempt not only to give insights into this area, but also to show the student how to analyze the world as it might affect them.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 8803	Joel Cowan	Syllabus
Fairness & Leadership: Building High Trust Cultures. This course will cover the three aspects of leadership as described in the US Army’s model of leadership development known as the “BE, KNOW, DO” model. To be a successful leader one must be a certain way (character), one must KNOW certain things (knowledge set), and one must be able to DO certain things (skill set). Using the case method, the course will provide tools that will enable students to teach themselves to be better leaders. The course involves active interaction with real-life situations as a way of helping make certain analytic techniques part of students’ cognitive tool kit.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4803	Cindy Zapata, Ph.D.	Syllabus
Leadership in Changing Environments. This course focuses on developing an understanding of the management challenges posed by the changes taking place in the business environment, as well as on the frameworks and skills that are critical to leading both individuals and teams within these changing environments.  The course encourages learning at multiple levels through a variety of instructional techniques including class discussion of conceptual frameworks, cases, and videos, group exercises, and practical application.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 3103	David M. Sluss, Ph.D.	Syllabus
Management in the Healthcare Sector. This course will explore the healthcare sector in its most comprehensive sense.  It will analyze the healthcare "system" across the continuum of patient care - from prevention, to early detection, to diagnosis and treatment, to palliative care.  Students will gain exposure to and knowledge of the many components of the industry, including issues in finance, accounting, supply chain, organizational behavior, strategy, healthcare IT, regulatory policy, and manpower planning and development.  Emphasis will be placed on where contemporary management practice can engage for improvement, within the limits allowed by the exercise of clinical judgement.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4803	William Todd	Syllabus
Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance examines the evolution of the United States corporate governance model, the meaning of, and distinction between, corporate governance and management; why understanding corporate governance is important; and how corporate governance matters are addressed from an internal and external perspective.  This course primarily focuses on United States public companies and laws that relate to them, including Sarbanes-Oxley.  However, the course contains a section that explores non-profit corporation governance.  The course also identifies best practices in corporate governance, and briefly explores global corporate governance matters.  The course is an interactive, discussion and project-centered course, where students will have an opportunity to analyze and critically discuss legal and ethical situations and issues that businesses and other stakeholders face.  Additionally, through guest speakers and films, documentaries and other electronic media, students will experience and examine real-world dilemmas in the corporate governance arena.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4803	Seletha R. Butler	Syllabus
Management Consulting. In this course we explore what it means to be a Management Consultant, and will introduce students to consulting frameworks and methods, simulate consulting project activities and situations using business cases, and network students with practicing consulting professionals from a variety of global and local firms.  Within the context of this course, consulting is viewed broadly and is inclusive of a number of practice areas including Strategy Consulting, IT Consulting, Marketing Consulting, Human Capital Consulting, Operational/Process Consulting, and Organizational Consulting.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4102	Alan Flury	Syllabus
Teams in Organizations. Working in teams is an integral part of modern businesses and organizational life.  To better prepare you to succeed as a leader, manager, or member of teams, this course is designed around two objectives.  First, it will create opportunities for you to lead and manage dynamic teams and design and implement effective team processes.  Second, it will introduce you to the critical theories, concepts, and frameworks used by successful managers to diagnose team performance and the threats and opportunities teams face.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4106	Benjamin Herndon	Syllabus
Gender and Ethnicity in Global Organizations. This course will examine how managers and employees become more effective leaders by understanding the role gender, race, and ethnicity plays in the life of the organization.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4116	Gail Evans	Syllabus
Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship. This is a concept that has gained momentum during the past few years. It is a process that applies innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems. It has become an attractive alternative for students who wish to utilize their leadership and managerial skills to address the challenges of the world.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4194	Robert N. Thomas, Ph.D.	Syllabus
Venture Creation. This course is about creating ventures that are (1) based on or enabled by technological innovation and (2) launched as startups or formed within companies. While covering the venture creation and innovation process from conception to execution, the course emphasizes venture strategy for entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders. (The course uses the term entrepreneur to refer to the person leading and managing the venture creation process.) MGT 6165 takes a multidisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of venture creation. Objectives of the course are to help students (1) understand and apply the strategic process of venture creation and (2) improve their skills in generating and finding ideas for new ventures, creating and identifying opportunities, evaluating venture proposals, designing and planning ventures, organizing resources, staffing ventures, building teams, communicating persuasively (in oral and written formats), and developing systems to control risk and enable growth.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 6165	Jonathan Giuliano	Syllabus
Entrepreneurship. This course provides an introduction to the process of establishing a technology-based new venture, and examines the entrepreneurial approach to business development and growth.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4670	Alan Flury	Syllabus
Principles Of Management For Engineers. The objective of the class is to provide engineering and science students with an accelerated introduction to the basics of management and the language of business. This course provides a framework that will enhance a person’s effectiveness in the business world. The course is taught as a series of business disciplinary modules. Professors who teach the modules represent a diverse group of functional areas, including accounting, finance, operations management, organizational behavior, strategy, marketing and information technology management. Central to the course is a semester-long team project designed to provide students with an opportunity to practice techniques learned in class through the analysis of a specific industry and companies within that industry.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT/ME 6753	Alan Flury	Syllabus
Principles Of Management. This course will present the student with an overview of the general principles of management and is targeted specifically for non-business majors. Early on students will be exposed to the overall process by which managers manage, that is, how managers plan, organize, lead, and control human and other resources to achieve organizational goals efficiently and effectively. Over the semester these components of the management process will provide the framework for class lectures and discussions allowing the student to develop a basic understanding of each. Also since management is a social discipline, the students will be given the opportunity to develop a basic understanding of the principles of individual, group, and organizational behavior and how management principles can be applied to ordinary situations managers encounter on a day to day basis.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 3150 MGT 3150	Alan Flury William Todd	Syllabus Syllabus
Technology Ventures. This course provides an introduction to the process of establishing a technology-based new venture, and examines the entrepreneurial approach to business development and growth. Entrepreneurship is viewed in this course as long-term value creation. Accordingly, the course will focus on a study of the activities associated with the assessment, creation, development, and successful operation of high potential new and emerging ventures. Course participants, working in a small team environment will have the opportunity to develop their new venture management skills through a combination of classroom exercises, case analysis, and existing business plan analysis; and through the development of a detailed opportunity analysis and venture business plan based on student-identified venture opportunities.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 6789	David Ku	Syllabus
Entrepreneurial Finance. Entrepreneurial finance is the application and adaptation of financial tools and techniques to the planning, funding, operations, and valuation of an entrepreneurial venture.  Entrepreneurial finance focuses on the financial management of a venture as it moves through its life cycles, beginning with its development stage and continuing through to when the entrepreneur exits or harvests the venture.  Nearly every entrepreneurial firm will face major operating and financial problems during its early years, making entrepreneurial finance and the practice of sound financial management critical to the survival and success of the venture.  This course has been developed to provide students with an understanding of the financial aspects of starting, funding, operating, and/or exiting an entrepreneurial venture.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4072	Robert N. Thomas, Ph.D.	Syllabus
Law for Entrepreneurs. This course will focus on the myriad of legal issues which entrepreneurs face while growing a start-up business from infancy to a publicly held company. It will start with the initial issues which an entrepreneur encounters in deciding to leave their employer and assessing what type of legal entity best suits his or her needs in establishing an entrepreneurial venture and continues through the sale, merger or initial public offering of the shares of the entrepreneurial entity We will focus on various substantive practical areas of law which most impact entrepreneurs such as establishing ownership structure and related shareholder or membership agreements and other documents which impact ownership structure, sales and lease contracts, loan agreements, raising capital and securities law compliance, venture capital negotiations and agreements, the role of the board of directors and a possible role for an advisory board, debtor- creditor relations, employment law and intellectual property law (both within the U.S.A. and outside the U.S.A.).
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4803	Arn Rubinoff	Syllabus
Business Fundamentals for Social Entrepreneurs. This course is designed to teach students how to apply fundamental business skills in organizations that seek to create social value. Most business courses are focused on creating economic value through for-profit organizations. Business skills are also critical in organizations that are tasked with creating social as well as economic value. The ability of students to apply this knowledge and skills will help them attract and manage the human and financial capital needed for success.
Course Number	Instructor	Details
MGT 4803 *This course is currently being offered only to participants of the Eastern Europe Study Abroad Program.	Robert N. Thomas, Ph.D.	Syllabus
Eastern Europe Study Abroad Program
The Eastern Europe Study Abroad Program is a 9 - hour integrated program composed of three courses:
MGT 4803- Business Fundamentals for Social Entrepreneurs. This course is designed to teach students how to apply fundamental business skills in organizations that seek to create social value. Most business courses are focused on creating economic value through for-profit organizations. Business skills are also critical in organizations that are tasked with creating social as well as economic value. The ability of students to apply this knowledge and skills will help them attract and manage the human and financial capital needed for success. Syllabus
MGT 4611 – Integrative Management Analysis (practicum component) Students will be actively engaged in addressing management challenges and opportunities of a non-profit organization in Hungary. In small groups, students will work with the leadership team on projects to enhance the capacity of the non-profit to better serve its constituents. Syllabus
MGT 4191 Entrepreneurship Forum or MGT 4192 IMPACT forum* The purpose of this course is to expose the students to, and facilitate a dialogue with individuals and organizations that have had an impact in the international sector. Through site visits and presentations by guest lecturers students will learn about the country and the European Union-specific challenges and opportunities which non-profit organizations face in Central and Eastern Europe. Syllabus
* Students will enroll in either MGT 4191 or 4192 for a total of 3 credits. Students can use one of these classes towards the Entrepreneurship Certificate or the Leading and Managing Human Capital concentration. If students completed either 4191 or 4192 on the Atlanta campus prior to the Eastern Europe Study Abroad, they will enroll in the course number they have not yet taken. For more info about the Entrepreneurship Certificate requirements click here