Apr 27, 2024  
2017-2018 Graduate Academic Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MG 801 - Executive Seminar

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course consists of informal meetings with presidents, owners and other executives of for profit and non-profit corporations. Students gain insight into current thinking of top management with respect to today’s management challenges at the top managerial decision-making levels. Insights gained are aligned with concepts from MSEM foundation courses to evaluate a business initiative familiar to students. (prereq: 27 credits, MG 633 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Meet with organization executives to discuss current issues and critically reflect on the theory and practice of management as they have experienced in the MSEM program course of study. Students will demonstrate their insights into contemporary management issues through class discussions and written assignments
  • Evaluate how individual executives address today’s critical management issues
  • Gain insight into contemporary initiatives familiar to individual students through student interviews with executives involved and responsible for the initiatives
  • Identify how key concepts introduced in MSEM foundation courses affect approaches identified by individual executives
  • Apply in a final paper an evaluation of a business initiative based on knowledge gained from individual executives and MSEM foundation courses

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None

Course Topics
  • None

Coordinator
Dr. Kelly Ottman



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