Strategic Issues in Management Series (formerly MBA Update)
 Forward-thinking seminars geared toward managers and administrators who want to sharpen management skills and enhance their careers.
The Strategic Issues in Management Series (SIMS) provides today’s senior managers with an opportunity to both update and broaden their business skill set and knowledge. World-class faculty from the Merage School conduct highly interactive seminars designed to address today’s most pressing management needs. Each half-day seminar is held on campus in executive classrooms using the latest teaching technology. A certificate of completion is given to participants who attend any four (4) sessions.*
- Gain tools and techniques today – apply them tomorrow!
- Network with peers in a dynamic classroom setting.
- Learn new approaches and perspectives from our world-class faculty and each other.
- *Earn a certificate of completion – a great resumé builder.
Thursdays, 2:30 - 6:30pm on campus
10/1/09
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Professor John Graham
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10/15/09
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Dr. David Hartl
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10/29/09
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Professor David Blake
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11/12/09
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Professor Phil Bromiley
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2/25/10
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Professor Kristin Behfar
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3/18/10
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Professor Todd Richey
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4/8/10
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Professor Vijay Gurbaxani
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4/15/10
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Professor Lisa Barron
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Alumni & Friends of the Merage School
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8 Sessions $1,795
4 Sessions $895
2 Sessions $565
1 Session $295 |
8 Sessions $1,435
4 Sessions $735
2 Sessions $445
1 Session $235 |
Topics offered vary from year to year and we continue to evaluate the addition of new topics.
GLOBAL INNOVATION
Professor John Graham
Innovation is the key to success in today’s dynamic business environment. Two innovation processes are crucial – the development of new ideas and the distribution of those ideas. This session will cover the latest information about maximizing innovations within companies. Attention will be given to key drivers of innovative thinking such as diversity in groups and open innovation processes. International communications will also be emphasized as an important tool to stimulate innovative processes.
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FROM CONFLICT TO COLLABORATION
Dr. David Hartl
Company leaders often report that too much of their time is spent on problems involving conflict among staff. This distracts from mission-focused activities and adversely impacts the bottom line. This highly interactive session will explore the dynamics of conflict, define strong leadership techniques that help to develop collaborative teamwork, provide key insights into your individual preferences for dealing with conflict, and identify other options you may wish to develop. Come prepared to be engaged in an important self-development learning experience.
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"DOING LEADERSHIP" IN A WORLD OF COMPLEXITY
Professor David Blake
Leadership is much more than having a certain set of chromosomes or personality traits. Leadership is also about doing – doing the kinds of things that will help an organization and its people succeed in complex and ever-changing times in a globalizing world. By observing and diagnosing actual leadership in action, as opposed to management, this session will encourage participants to understand the importance of building effective leadership throughout an organization. Focusing on what leadership does and should do, the session will help participants develop an awareness of skills that leadership, wherever it exists in an organization, needs to develop and execute always with an eye on the future and not just the present.
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: STRATEGIC DECISIONS
Professor Philip Bromiley
Mergers and acquisitions often help companies expand into new markets, acquire new technologies, and leverage competences. This session builds a familiarity with the M&A process from start to finish by addressing how to:
- Assess whether a firm should favor an acquisition or merger over other development modes
- Evaluate potential acquisitions or mergers, and
- Integrate acquisitions and mergers
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BUILDING EFFECTIVE TEAMS
Professor Kristin Behfar
Most of us work in some form of team, ranging from committees to task forces to project teams. While teams can be very effective at problem solving and generating novel ideas, products, or services, research demonstrates that about two-thirds of teams experience performance or motivation failures over time. This session integrates the latest research about designing, rewarding, and managing the dynamics of teams to help you understand the interplay of all the variables that determine team effectiveness. The session also challenges participants with experiential realworld problems and discusses practical solutions and the many different roles people play in managing and leading the evolving dynamics of effective teams.
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FINANCE FOR NON-FINANCIAL MANAGERS
Professor Todd Richey
The central objective of a firm usually includes the role of finance and the actions that a manager can and should take to help increase shareholder value. The decision process for managers has become increasingly difficult given the elevated levels of risk in the economy and the global capital markets. This session emphasizes financial decision-making and helping the non-financial manager understand the process involved with financial decision-making and the techniques necessary to help create value within a firm or department. Participants will:
- Build a strong foundation in interpreting financial information and measuring both the risk and return of a project
- Understand the role of capital markets in the decision process
- Apply appropriate techniques in financial models/spreadsheets to critically value a project or a firm
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DRIVING TRANSFORMATION WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Professor Vijay Gurbaxani
The role of Information Technology (IT), and especially the Internet, in business success has never been more critical, enabling new forms of competition and ways for companies to deliver value to their customers. Successful companies are exploiting network effects and economies of scale in information to offer new products and services, to improve performance and to build customer loyalty. In this session, participants will gain practical insights into how to lead their company in a technology-intensive world, including:
- Developing a vision for value creation with IT
- Gaining competitive advantage by using IT to enable new strategies and business models and drive innovation
- Understanding how to synchronize business and IT by leveraging internal and external sourcing strategies
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RESOLVING ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES WITH NEGOTIATION
Professor Lisa Barron
Daily life in organizations involves negotiations – negotiations over resources, negotiations to determine what direction to take, and negotiations to resolve conflicts. In this session, participants will learn:
- Key negotiation techniques and how to apply them to organizational problems
- How to focus on interests rather than positions
- How to uncover the interests of others
- How to use interests to reach more satisfying agreements and solutions in organizational conflict situations
- How to make better decisions, reach better agreements, and increase buy-in with these techniques.
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