Courses

Part one of a year-long course that focuses on values and leadership at the top level of organizations. The course is based on an interactive model that brings in six high-level executives to share their experiences and present critical business dilemmas, to which students prepare solutions for the executives to evaluate. Recommended prereq., BCOR 3010. By instructor recommendation only. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Continuation of a year-long course that focuses on values and leadership at the top level of organizations. The course is based on an interactive model that brings in six high-level executives to share their experiences and present critical business dilemmas, to which students prepare solutions for the executives to evaluate. Prereq., CESR 4000. Recommended prereq., BCOR 3010. By instructor recommendation only. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Students work in teams to provide business advice to social entrepreneurs, social ventures and Peace Corps volunteers who are working to solve global social and environmental problems. The primary objective of the class is to provide student with practical knowledge and experience in developing proactive, sustainable business strategies to meet the needs of the poor and to encourage students to think critically about how business can make an impact on global poverty. Prereq. or coreq., BCOR 3010. Prerequisites: Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.

In the last two decades, microfinance initiatives have provided the primary worldwide impetus to promote economic independence for the poor (1.4 billion). Microfinance seminar links the financial markets with entrepreneurship to create a platform for building a microfinance institution that facilitates financial inclusion to the poor. The students in a semester long project build a hypothetical financial institution that provides access to credit, saving, insurance and more to a segmented poor population, somewhere in the world including the U.S. CESR 4010 and FNCE 4832 are the same course. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of BCOR 2200. Restricted to Business majors with 90-180 units completed.

Operational sustainability is not just an obligation, as set of strategies or a niche market to explore, but a critical shift in mindset of how businesses function. Sustainable operations examines business strategies in response to environmental and social challenges. The course takes a pragmatic business perspective on improving operations across the supply chain. Grounded in resource efficiency, life-cycle thinking and a dose of investigative skepticism, the course assists students to thoroughly understand the scope of costs, benefits and risks associated with driving businesses toward sustainable operations. Prereqs., BCOR 2500, 3010 and 60 hours completed. MGMT 4130 and CESR 4130 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 60-180 units completed.

As a critical stakeholder group, consumers have substantial power to shape business behavior. Students will develop an understanding of the roles business can play in society, and the options and limitations that consumers have to influence business by exerting their purchasing power. This class is exclusively for non-business majors and will not count toward the business major or business minor. Prerequisites: Open to Non Business and Non Sponsored Students.

Offered irregularly to provide opportunity for investigation of new frontiers in Social Responsibility. Prereq., BCOR 3010. Restricted to BUSN majors with minimum 52 units completed. Prerequisites: Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.

See the future through the eyes of entrepreneurs who are addressing global and social environmental problems such as poverty and deforestation. Can the social ventures they create to solve these problems survive over time and will they achieve the impact they seek? We will meet some of these social entrepreneurs and, in teams, write case studies to tell their stories. Restricted to non-Business majors with 60-180 units completed. CESR 4826 and ESBM 4826 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to non-Business majors with 60-180 units completed.

Explores the growing global trend of companies to measure, disclose and report for socially responsible initiatives. Integrated reporting combines financial, environmental, social and governance information into a single report. Current practices in sustainability and integrated reporting in the US and across the world will be examined/learned through case studies, guest speakers, current literature and projects. Can be taken concurrenlty with BCOR 3010 and ACCT 3220. Same as ACCT 4827. Prerequisites: Requires pre-req course of BCOR 2000 and 2200. Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).