The Dean's Leadership Forum is a one-hour, invitation-only seminar course aimed at developing young, promising leaders and is part of the School's commitment to Educating Principled, Innovative Leaders Who Drive Value. The course focuses on various aspects of real-world leadership and introduces students to CEOs and successful business leaders of all types, with a heavy emphasis on CU alumni. Requisites: Restricted to students with 0-26 units (Freshmen) Business (BUSN) majors only.
Provides an opportunity to learn and practice the foundational skills of negotiation and conflict management. This class provides a set of conceptual tools for diagnosing problems and obtaining agreement in difficult situations. Students will learn to identify and strategically execute a set of options that allow them to obtain their business objectives while building effective and harmonious work relationships. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
The course takes as its starting point the fact that not all students will be leaders. A student may end up as an individual contributor, or manager of a small group of people, or an owner of a sole-proprietorship. Students can have a tremendous impact o these roles and the questions becomes, how can they become the best they can be? Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of BCOR 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Provides an opportunity to learn about and practice the skills required of all managers. These skills include leadership, negotiation, conducting performance appraisals, delegation, effective communication, interviewing and making hiring decisions, and managing employees with problem behaviors. Objectives include developing self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses as a manager, gaining familiarity with theory-based skills, and developing proficiency in the use of these skills. Students taking this course will not receive credit for LEAD 1000. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Examines concepts, tools and techniques used in the management of service operations. Focuses on how firms add value and compete with high quality and efficient services. Emphasizes the use of models for designing new services and improving the effectiveness of service processes. Studies the application of technology in the context of productivity, growth and the globalization of services. Formerly SYST 3030, OPIM 3030. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Teaches cutting-edge tools and approaches to the analysis of data, including "big data" for effective decision-making. The class creates data connoisseurs through hands-on exposure to exploratory and predictive analytics. Application areas covered include Web Marketing, the Internet of Things, Biometric Monitoring, as well as data integration and analysis for online marketing, human resources and operations. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BASE 2101, 2102, 2103 and 2104 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
The course objective is to introduce students to the world of programming and empower them with the ability to create and extend business applications. They will learn the core concepts of programming with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and use them to customize and extend applications like Excel. They will also learn a method to decompose a complex task into manageable pieces. Formerly MGMT 2010. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BASE 2101, 2102, 2103 and 2104 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Explores developments in such areas as employee relations law and procedures, employee and employer rights, worker involvement programs, environmental safety and health, and the effects of technology on emerging organization forms. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Allows students the opportunity to practice conducting job analyses and then use this information to develop employee selection and performance appraisal systems. Provides thorough coverage of employers' equal employment opportunity and affirmative action obligations, as well as various approaches to gender, cultural, and ethnic diversity. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Examines theories of work motivation and relates themto the strategic use of compensation and other reward systems. Topics include procedures for managing base pay; linking pay incentives to productivity at the individual, group, and organizational levels; developing cost-effective programs of employee benefits; and the use of nonfinancial reward systems. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2150 or 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Explores how to determine where an organization needs to focus its development efforts, how to develop and deliver an effective training program, and how to evaluate the impact of development programs on organizational effectiveness. Explores individual, team, and organization-wide development, including such topics as skills training, team building, and managing change. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2150 or 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Although some companies are very successful in discovering and cultivating innovative technology-enabled business strategies, many fail in the process. Combines theories and frameworks with practical approaches to provide students with the skills required to help companies identify business opportunities, find appropriate information related technologies, and lead adoption efforts to success. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BCOR 2200 or 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.
Explores the key issues related to the design and management of supply chains. Covers the efficient integration of suppliers, production facilities, warehouses, and stores so that the right products in the right quantity reach customers at the right time. Focuses on the minimization of the total supply chair cost subject to service requirements imposed by a variety of industries. Formerly SYST 4050, OPIM 4050. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Covers the concepts and tools to design and manage business processes. Emphasizes modeling an analysis, information technology support for process activities, and management of process flows. Graphical simulation software is used to create dynamic models of business processes and predict the effect of changes. Prepares students for a strong management or consulting career path in business processes. MGMT 4120 and 5120 are the same course. Formerly SYST 4060, OPIM 4060. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 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. MGMT 4130 and CESR 4130 are the same course. Requisites: Requires prerequisite coureses of BCOR 2500 and 3010. Restricted to Business, AEBU, ARBU, CEBU, CVBU, CSBU, ECBU, MEBU, EVBU, ADBU, BNBU, NEBU or MUBU Majors with 52-180 units completed.
Introduces multidisciplinary project management concepts, skills, and tools, including the relationship between project definition, organization, planning, scheduling, resource and risk management, control, costing and performance. Presents both qualitative and quantitative tools for better project management. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BASE 2101, 2102, 2103 and 2104 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Compares systems of production/operations management in the United States with those in Japan, Europe, and Asia. Contrasts various regional and national approaches to business, quality management, labor practices, management styles, international competitiveness, productivity, distribution systems, trade practices, and strategies for penetrating foreign markets. Examines different sociocultural environments, government-business relationships, banking industries, operations strategies, and the potential for transferring industrial management practices and techniques between countries. Formerly OPIM 4065 and MGMT 4070. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Provides students with the foundational skills related to competitive strategy. Tools and techniques associated with this course will enable students to understand the fundamentals of why one firm out performs another through understanding the fundamentals of superior performance at the business unit level. Examples of specific learning objectives: develop an understanding of fundaments of what is strategy, foundations of competitive advantage. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of BSE 2103 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Emphasizes the fundamentals of modern database design in the context of large-scale applications. Covers analysis phase activities such as data modeling for requirements analysis. Covers the extended entity relationship model and the semantic data model in-depth. Covers design phase activities such as the normalization criteria of the relational model and transformation from conceptual to physical design. Introduces object oriented databases. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BASE 2101, 2102, 2103 and 2104 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Provides students with problem solving and critical thinking skills in order to analyze large, complex social problems. Students learn techniques to get to the root cause of the problem and understand unintended consequences of proposed solutions to that problem. Students learn to break from typical mental models, make paradigm shifts and learn to recognize and avoid learning barriers and biases. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BASE 2101, 2102, 2103 and 2104 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Covers ERP (enterprise resource planning) technologies which facilitate business processes within firms in three modules. The first will involve understanding the basics of technologies in organization. The second module will introduce OpenERP, an open-source ERP system for small-medium sized businesses. The final module is an introduction to SAP, the most widely used ERP system for large organizations. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BASE 2101, 2102, 2103 and 2104 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Focuses on the development of user-friendly business systems, especially websites. Students will plan, design and develop websites, including mobile sites, that are user-friendly and visually appealing following current best practices for responsive and interactive design. Usability testing and website analytics techniques will be explored and practiced. MGMT 4230 and 5230 are the same course. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BASE 2101, 2102, 2103 and 2104 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Privacy = the new currency. In a time where technology allows unprecedented aggregation of personal information use of "private" information is moving faster than social norms and laws can follow. We will dissect the technologies and social trends related primarily to privacy and use of information about individuals to reap profits. A good complement to business intelligence and analytics classes. Same as CESR 4440. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
Offered irregularly to provide opportunity for investigation of new frontiers in Management. Requisites: Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
