BADM 590

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Seminar in Business Admin

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Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Special topics in the general area of business. Topics are selected by the instructor at the beginning of each term.

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BADM 590 class schedule data for spring 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10402	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign or Professional - Urbana.
31477	Lecture-Discussion	ADF	9:00AM -11:50AM	F	101 Armory	Kurtz, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Frontiers in Technology Section Info: BA590 activities are specially arranged for MSTM participants to enhance their educational experience. These experiential activities complement your classroom learning. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
31460	Lecture-Discussion	ADO	8:00AM -9:20AM	MW	1049 Business Instructional Fac	Jayes, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Oral Communication for Bus Section Info: Designed to improve the international student's ability to speak and understand English in the business setting at normal conversational speed and to give the student the ability to continue improving pronunciation skills after the course is finished. Focus on the rhythm, stress, intonation, and sounds of natural speech, and the use of ordinary English spelling to guide the pronunciation of newly encountered words. No student will be permitted to remain in the class who does not take the Diagnostic Test administered during the first three class meetings and show demonstrated need. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
44800	Lecture-Discussion	ADT	1:00PM -3:50PM	F	3007 Business Instructional Fac	Kurtz, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Technology Practicum Section Info: Apply your knowledge and skills in the real world. This class gives students a unique opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge, their skills and their experiences in a real world setting while still in school. Our student consultants should expect the experience to be as close to working in a business environment as the academic environment allows. Each team of students will work in a consultative relationship with real businesses and organizations to solve real problems by developing implementable solutions. The instructor's expectation is that the student consultants will provide professional quality work. Our students form teams that work directly with a business client for 12 weeks of the semester on a project jointly defined by the client and the team. Team Leaders are selected by the instructor after evaluating the applicants' work experience, leadership experience, and other qualities. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
47816	Lecture-Discussion	AN	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	3041 Business Instructional Fac	Ye, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Predictive Data Analytics Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Concentration in Business Data Analytics. This course covers advanced techniques of data analytics, with an emphasis on the predictive perspective. This course provides both rationale and real-world applications of data analytics and is ideal for students seeking to extract insights from real data to support business decision-making. In particular, students will learn to: (1) mine, summarize and visualize data (2) formulate, identify, and design optimal procedure for prediction, forecast and inferential decision-making (3) uncover and quantify the influence of performance drivers with data (4) draw data-driven conclusions to create competitive advantage for businesses. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC, or MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
43945	Lecture-Discussion	BD	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	ARR Business Instructional Fac	Albarracin, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Bus Data to Journal Articles Section Info: This course will meet in 3015/3017 BIF. In this seminar, students and I will bring data (e.g., existing meta-analytic data, survey data, scanner data, social media data, or experimental data) that need to be mined through the lenses of interesting and applicable business, psychological, or social theories. This seminar will involve intensive hands on research, with readings tailored to the methods, theories, and skills (e.g., writing, displaying results) required to ultimately produce complete research papers. If the proposed project exceeds the time expected for the class, additional research credit may be offered though the Business School or the Psychology Department. Restriction(s): Restricted to PHD:Business Administrtn -UIUC.
51008	Lecture-Discussion	BPI	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	2057 Business Instructional Fac	Anand, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Business Process Improvement Section Info: This course meets with BADM 379. This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Concentration in Business Data Analytics. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
46485	Lecture-Discussion	CD	3:30PM -6:20PM	T	2005 Business Instructional Fac	Kim, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Corporate Development Section Info: Corporate strategy decisions involve defining the firm's scope in terms of geography, technology, markets and levels of integration. The desired changes in the scope can be achieved through several important tools of the corporate strategy: mergers and acquisitions; strategic alliances; interfirm network relationships. While those tools have been widely used for decades, many corporate decisions, especially in acquisitions, continue to lead the firms that make them to spectacularly destructive results. Typically, there are two fundamental reasons for such poor performance: the managers' lack of understanding of how the value is created in their multi-business companies, and the managers' failure to successfully navigate the complexities of acquisitions and alliances. Therefore, we will have two primary objectives in this class. First, we will improve our understanding of what makes a portfolio of businesses under a single corporate umbrella more or less valuable. Second, we will develop and hone the decision-making tools for properly structuring and executing acquisitions and alliances under different business situations. The following are some of the topics we will discuss: proper selection of an acquisition target or an alliance partner; the leader's perspective on planning and implementing the acquisition integration process; learning from alliance partners; building an effective interorganizational network; developing overall acquisition capability and/or alliance capability of the firm; managing alliance portfolios. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
46486	Lecture-Discussion	CPT	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Chhajed, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Business Practice Immersion Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
53653	Lecture-Discussion	GRF	9:00AM -11:50AM	F	101 Armory	Kurtz, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Frontiers in Technology Section Info: BA590 activities are specially arranged for MSTM participants to enhance their educational experience. These experiential activities complement your classroom learning. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
57299	Lecture-Discussion	GRT	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	2043 Business Instructional Fac	Kurtz, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Technology Practicum Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
57696	Lecture-Discussion	IB2	4:00PM -6:50PM	R	ARR Business Instructional Fac	Clougherty, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Economics of International Bus Section Info: This course will meet in 3015/3017 BIF. Restriction(s): Restricted to PHD:Business Administrtn -UIUC.
50061	Lecture-Discussion	IT	5:00PM -7:50PM	W	2041 Business Instructional Fac	Nelson, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: IT Consulting Project Mgmt Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Minor or Concentration in Information Technology. The goal of BADM590-IT is to allow the student to become aware, comprehend, explore and manage significant issues confronting management information systems consultants. The course strives to reach a balance between 'general' management consulting principles and information technology (IT) specific topics. To achieve these course goals, the course is structured around five core objectives pertaining to management consulting tools & techniques, IT valuation methods & issues, the consulting engagement process, IT to Business alignment, and information technology trends & impact assessment. To accomplish these objectives the course provides students an opportunity to conduct real-life case-orientated analysis, prepare the most prevalent types of consulting engagements, and research & review materials from the industry's most successful thought-leaders in these areas. It is the professor's sincere hope that this innovative course design will maximize the students' learning experience, time and value of completing this class. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA: (PT) Business Adm -- UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
50843	Lecture-Discussion	IT2	11:00AM -1:50PM	M	241 Wohlers Hall	Larson, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Social Media Strategy Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Minor or Concentration in Information Technology. Managers in firms today must be equipped to deal with the new reality of a socially connected society. In this course, students will improve their analytical capabilities and understanding of the opportunities and challenges that social media, global collaboration and new ways of engaging customers pose for the firm. An emphasis will be placed on managerial decision making in the context of the social media phenomenon. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC, MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA: (PT) Business Adm -- UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
43695	Lecture-Discussion	J	9:30AM -12:20PM	R	ARR Business Instructional Fac	Bercovitz, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: From Inspiration to Output Section Info: This course meets in 4001 BIF. Given the increasing emphasis and expectations for PhD students to publish (or at least submit) manuscripts prior to graduation, we are offering a new workshop course to prepare and assist students in this endeavor. This course is designed to both demystify the paper development process and provide students with a hands-on, structured roadmap. The final deliverable for the seminar is the submission of the course-related manuscript to a conference (with the eventual goal of journal submission). Restriction(s): Restricted to PHD:Business Administrtn -UIUC.
54986	Lecture-Discussion	MSA	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	1049 Business Instructional Fac	Bercovitz, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Title: The Economics of Organizations Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Accy - Cost Rec -UIUC or PHD:Accountancy -UIUC.
49293	Lecture-Discussion	MT5	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	3039 Business Instructional Fac	Shaw, M	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/14/16-05/04/16 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: EnterpriseIT & Dig Strat Mgmt Section Info: Meets with MBA 505. Registration for this course will open to MSTM students on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Minor or Concentration in Information Technology. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC or MS: Technology Management-UIUC.
44256	Lecture-Discussion	MT6	8:00AM -9:20AM	TR	3039 Business Instructional Fac	Bucheli, M	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/19/16-03/11/16 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Entrepreneurship&Globalization Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Minor or Concentration in International Business. When crossing borders entrepreneurs have to face new challenges created by different political, cultural, and economic environments. Under these circumstances, success depends on the companies' abilities to adapt themselves to the new realities, or their capability to transform the local economy to their needs. This adaptation demands flexibility in the companies' managerial organization, creativity at dealing with different legal cultures, and strong emphasis on technological innovation. By studying several cases in different historical moments, this course will explore how the adaptation of different companies to diverse and sometimes hostile environments permitted the creation of the global economy as we know it. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Technology Management-UIUC or MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC.
43946	Lecture-Discussion	OM	11:00AM -1:50PM	W	170 Wohlers Hall	Jackson, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Operations Strategy Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Minor or Concentration in Supply Chain Management. Operations strategy examines how manufacturing or operations in general can be used as sources of competitive advantage. Some firms compete based on innovative and high-performing products. Others may rely on rapid delivery, flexibility to accommodate specific customer needs, or cost leadership. The capabilities that allow the pursuit of these strategies are usually the result of well formulated and executed operations strategies. This course illuminates the fundamental underlying drivers that make the pursuit of these and other strategies possible and/or desirable within different contexts. The course uses cutting edge theory as well as business cases that illustrate the theoretical concepts. We will meet once a week for an evening of stimulating discussion that links together and deepens the understanding of concepts learned in core Competitive Strategy and Operations/Process Management classes. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA: (PT) Business Adm -- UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
51352	Lecture-Discussion	PLO	12:30PM -3:20PM	T	130 Wohlers Hall	Gajendran, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Power & Leadership in Orgs. Section Info: Organizations are political systems and leadership is, among other things, a deeply political task. As people try to ascend through organizational hierarchies they inevitably confront political dynamics and come face to face with the realities of power. Those who are fortunate enough to achieve positions of authority are ultimately confronted with the problem of using power. This task, which involves numerous practical, ethical, and personal challenges, can be even more demanding than the task of attaining power in the first place. This course has two basic and interrelated purposes. The first is to help students better understand power in organizations and to become more effective political actors in their professional careers. The second is to explore the nature of the outwardly similar but less tangible thing called leadership, and to carefully consider its relationship to power itself. In pursuing this latter objective, we will address important normative questions about power's legitimate purposes and the ethical constraints which should govern its use. We will also consider how the pursuit and attainment of power can affect people. Leadership, as we shall come to see in the course of the class, is an inherently ethical and personal concept. The course attempts to do justice to these aspects of the phenomenon at the same time that it explores complicating political realities. It is about power AND leadership. This means both realism and idealism, both "getting things done" and "doing the right thing." The design of the course is generally similar to my MBA 502 OTD course. We will read a large number of cases and attempt to learn from the experiences of many successful (and failed) organizational politicians/leaders. We will also draw upon a large body of popular management literature and social scientific research which has directly addressed the phenomena of power and leadership in and around organizations. The course will be highly interactive and discussion-based. Grading procedures and expectations will also be similar to those used in OTD. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA: (PT) Business Adm -- UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
46201	Lecture-Discussion	PS	3:30PM -6:20PM	W	2005 Business Instructional Fac	Leblebici, H	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/19/16-03/11/16 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Managing Prof Service Firms Section Info: Professional service firms are a critical part of the global economy. How these firms address the economic, social and technical challenges and provide solutions to their clients' needs play an increasingly important role in today's world. The objective of the course is to understand how these firms are organized, how they manage their human capital, and fulfill their clients' expectations. We will first develop an understanding of what makes professional service firms successful and how they develop and sustain their competitive advantage. Second, we will focus on their unique human capital processes that are critical in executing their strategies by paying special attention to the ways these firms develop professional talents and motivate them to deliver superior client service. Third, we will have the opportunity to bring some of our graduates from these firms to explore how they have leveraged their skills and competencies to develop their careers and to learn from their experiences. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC, MS: Accy - Cost Rec -UIUC, MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC, MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA: (PT) Business Adm -- UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
31474	Lecture-Discussion	SCA	3:30PM -6:20PM	W	243 Wohlers Hall	Mukherjee, U	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Supply Chain Analytics Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Minor or Concentration in Supply Chain Management and the Graduate Concentration in Business Data Analytics. This course is designed to be at the intersection of Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics. With increased IT infrastructure, improved data capture and storage technologies, and improved networking technologies, supply chains are getting inundated with data from several different sources, such as consumer transactions, consumer feedback, consumer inquiries (on-line click streams), supplier contacts, supplier coordination, and supplier evaluation, on several aspects of supply chain such as quality, cost, demand, inventory, risk, and planning, and in various formats such as social media, text, audio, video, geo-spatial, RFID and sensor data, etc. Advances in computing infrastructure such as cluster computing and cloud computing have enabled the storage, retrieval, analysis, and sharing of data over a wide geographical domain including many different supply chain nodes and agents. It is estimated that supply chain data is doubling every two years. This data explosion within supply chains have opened up the opportunity for managers to analyze the data using appropriate tools and techniques to generate insights that can help make better decisions and consequently improve supply chain efficiencies. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA: (PT) Business Adm -- UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
31482	Lecture-Discussion	SMA	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	3003 Business Instructional Fac	Fang, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Social Media Analytics Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Concentration in Business Data Analytics. Restriction(s): Restricted to MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC.
50079	Lecture-Discussion	STS	3:30PM -6:20PM	M	243 Wohlers Hall	Jackson, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Strategic Sourcing Section Info: This course is open to students pursuing the Graduate Minor or Concentration in Supply Chain Management. The Walt Disney Company realized $300 millions in annual savings, BellSouth improved its results by $1 billion, and IBM achieved 5% improvement in their margins are just a few of the many companies exploring the benefits of applying strategic sourcing concepts. Strategic Sourcing, also known as the next evolutionary step in supply-chain, is one of the foundation blocks for transforming an organization’s practices to world-class supply management. It is a systematic approach constructed on fact-based analysis and market intelligence for optimizing an organization's supply base and improving the overall value proposition via coordinated effort between the different areas of the organization and external partners. This course will present the strategic sourcing process and its focuses on helping senior executives and managers gain sustainable competitive advantage from their supply chains. You'll learn how to go beyond negotiation, cost-cutting and contract management functions, and successfully lead the redesign and adaptation of supply chains to drive maximum benefit for the entire organization. As the scope of strategic sourcing extends beyond supplier price negotiation, we will also take into account on the total cost of ownership incorporating customer needs, organizational goals, and market conditions rather than just cost as well as on getting the best product/service at the best value rather than getting the cheapest product/service. Hence, the objective of this course is to study how to enclose the reduction of cost while maintaining and/or improving quality. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Business Administrtn -UIUC, MBA: (PT) Business Adm -- UIUC, MS: Technology Management-UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
47490	Lecture-Discussion	X	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Loewenstein, J	Part of Term: A Date Range: 02/05/16-03/03/16 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Fostering Creative Thinking Restriction(s): Restricted to MBA:Exec MBA Ilini Ctr-UIUC.
47491	Lecture-Discussion	X1	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Somaya, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/05/16-04/13/16 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Strategic Human Capital Restriction(s): Restricted to MBA:Exec MBA Ilini Ctr-UIUC.
47624	Lecture-Discussion	X4	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Watkins, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/08/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Int'l Consulting Project:China Restriction(s): Restricted to MBA:Exec MBA Ilini Ctr-UIUC.
52992	Lecture-Discussion	X8	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Sleptsov, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 02/05/16-04/13/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Global Strategy Restriction(s): Restricted to MBA:Exec MBA Ilini Ctr-UIUC.