Examines and evaluates legal problems as they relate to the business environment. Course will deal with areas of law including contracts, agency, ethics, bankruptcy, business organization and other areas of commercial law.

Examines and evaluates legal problems as they relate to the business environment. Course will deal with areas of law including contracts, agency, ethics, bankruptcy, business organization and other areas of commercial law.

Overview of human resource management theory and practice in organizations. Legal framework; job design; recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, and separation; compensation; benefits; contemporary issues in HRM.

Overview of human resource management theory and practice in organizations. Legal framework; job design; recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, and separation; compensation; benefits; contemporary issues in HRM.

This course offers a broad overview of real estate investments and addresses some of the concepts and techniques involved in analyzing these financial decisions. Topics include valuation of real property, investment performance measurements and ratios, cash flow analysis, and financing strategies.

In this course, students will learn about the major sources of financing for new products: traditional venture capital, corporate capital, and angel capital. How those sources are accessed will be done through reading and individual research projects. The thinking process investors use to evaluate new venture deals will be explained. A major outcome of the course will be fluency in the terminology of entrepreneurial finance: cap rates and cap tables, burn rate, accredited investor, CAGR, dilution and anti-dilution, clawback, drag-along rights, exit strategy, multiples, and many more. Methods of learning will include Harvard case studies, problem solving, and individual research projects.

This course examines media, technology and communications through the lens of the commercial sports industry and its evolving set of stakeholders. Students analyze the means by which teams, brands, athletes, leagues, and venues in the sports industry develop and leverage existing, and emerging, media and technology in order to accomplish business objectives and more effectively communicate with consumers.

Provides an overview of different perspectives and approaches to leadership practice and related organizational behavior topics. Relying on a participative multi-learning approach, the course goes beyond traditional leadership practices to examine empowering leadership approaches for addressing contemporary organizational behavior challenges such as leading teams. The overall objective is to increase students' understanding of and ability to apply contemporary leadership and organizational behavior knowledge in work situations.

This course will examine the history of quality, performance improvement, and patient safety in healthcare. An overview of governmental and non-governmental agencies involvement in healthcare quality and performance improvement will be included. Learn key measures and tools to improve healthcare quality and performance improvement in hospitals and physician groups, including employer and health plans perspectives. Learn how healthcare leadership can improve organizational quality. Discussion topics will include current trends in healthcare quality and performance improvement. Course Objectives: Learn the history of healthcare quality and the quality movement in the United States; Learn how healthcare quality is defined and measured in hospitals, physician groups, employers, and health plans; Learn various tools and techniques to improve healthcare quality.

The goal of this course is to teach leaders what they need to know in order to build high-performance operations with world-class processes of innovation and continuous improvement. We cover the most current methodologies and tools, together with the most important soft skills required, to create efficient and responsive operations that deliver the highest quality services and products.