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Senior Seminar in Management
Weekly Topics


Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 |

Topics & Notes

Reading/Assignments

WEEK 1 

  • Introductions, syllabus, History of Management
  • Construct a 3 - 5 page paper on a historical person to the field of Management. Research their contributions to the field. In your conclusion, state why your opinion of their work and their importance. You may choose any of the people in the lecture notes, or you may choose someone NOT mentioned in the lecture.

WEEK 2 

WEEK 3 - The Balanced Scorecard 

  • Assignment - Choose a person you think is a great leader. What are the characteristics about that person that makes them a great leader. Do the same for a bad leader.

WEEK 4 - Entrepreneurship 

WEEK 5 

  • Assignment: Using your own organization, or one that you are familiar with. How can operations / production management create competitive advantage for the organization? What is the link between value chain, supply chain and operations success? Answer in a 3 - 5 page paper using APA formatting.

WEEK 6 

WEEK 8 

  • Ethics and Social Responsibility

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