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College of Management
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ILE serves as a resource for the many colleges and schools throughout Georgia Tech, helping them to build the concepts of leadership and entrepreneurship into their activities and curricula. ILE allows students from all disciplines and backgrounds to study the latest leadership and entrepreneurial research, and encourages them to form their own perspectives on what makes an effective leader.. The courses listed here have been designed either to enhance value-creation or to prepare students to guide, support and influence others more effectively. If you would like to work with ILE to design a course with integrated leadership or entrepreneurial content, or would like to build these concepts into your existing curriculum, please contact us. |
Certificates: Graduate Entrepreneurship Certificate Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Certificate
Graduate Certificate in Engineering Entrepreneurship
Courses by subject: Leadership Entrepreneurship
Sustainability
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| | | | Impact Forum. The objective of this course is for the students to develop key competencies for creating personal "Impact" (internal) and to explore the concept of "Impact" – across a range of environments (external). This course incorporates the Fall 2009 IMPACT Speaker Series. The purpose of the "IMPACT Speaker Series" is to expose the students to individuals and organizations that have had an impact. Through the personal view of their experiences and insights, the speakers address the concepts of innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and impact. Through the presentations and question/answer periods that follow, students have a first-hand opportunity to hear and understand a broad range of environments, concepts, approaches, styles and results. | | | | Course Number | Instructor | Details | MGT 4192 | Kelly Grace | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | Servant Leadership, Values and Systems. This course has been designed to enhance students’ awareness of their values and the ways in which those values are reflected in their decisions and actions. The course will explore the gap and tension between stated organizational values and those that drive actions. Students will gain a better understanding of the systems in which they operate, and learn how to identify points of leverage to affect change. Contemporary concepts of integrating values and system-level thinking will be studied, providing the student with knowledge that may influence their philosophy, style and strategy. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | MGT 4193 | Robert N. Thomas, Ph.D. | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | | Uncertainties of the Emerging World. The student should not only be concerned with his/her future, but also concerned with what the world he/she is entering holds for them. This course will attempt not only to give insights into this area, but also to show the student how to analyze the world as it might affect them. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT 8803 | Joel Cowan | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | |
| | | Social Entrepreneurship. This is is a concept that has gained momentum during the past few years. It is a process that applies innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems. It has become an attractive alternative for students who wish to utilize their leadership and managerial skills to address the challenges of the world. | | | | Course Number | Instructor | Details | | MGT 4803 | Robert N. Thomas, Ph.D. | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | | Entrepreneurship Forum. This course is an entry-level course in entrepreneurship and new venture management providing a broad overview of Entrepreneurship and what it takes to successfully start and run a business. Central to the course is the opportunity for students to meet, listen to, and interact with entrepreneurs and business leaders in both the for profit and non-profit sectors and to be exposed to real life “lessons learned” from individuals with credibility and thought-provoking life experiences. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT 4191 | Alan Flury | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | | Entrepreneurship. This course provides an introduction to the process of establishing a technology-based new venture, and examines the entrepreneurial approach to business development and growth. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT 4670 | Alan Flury | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | | Principles Of Management For Engineers. The objective of the class is to provide engineering and science students with an accelerated introduction to the basics of management and the language of business. This course provides a framework that will enhance a person’s effectiveness in the business world. The course is taught as a series of business disciplinary modules. Professors who teach the modules represent a diverse group of functional areas, including accounting, finance, operations management, organizational behavior, strategy, marketing and information technology management. Central to the course is a semester-long team project designed to provide students with an opportunity to practice techniques learned in class through the analysis of a specific industry and companies within that industry. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT/ME 6753 | Alan Flury | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | | Principles Of Management. This course will present the student with an overview of the general principles of management and is targeted specifically for non-management majors. Early on students will be exposed to the overall process by which managers manage, that is, how managers plan, organize, lead, and control human and other resources to achieve organizational goals efficiently and effectively. Over the semester these components of the management process will provide the framework for class lectures and discussions allowing the student to develop a basic understanding of each. Also since management is a social discipline, the students will be given the opportunity to develop a basic understanding of the principles of individual, group, and organizational behavior and how management principles can be applied to ordinary situations managers encounter on a day to day basis. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT 3150 | Alan Flury | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | | Technology Ventures. This course provides an introduction to the process of establishing a technology-based new venture, and examines the entrepreneurial approach to business development and growth. Entrepreneurship is viewed in this course as long-term value creation. Accordingly, the course will focus on a study of the activities associated with the assessment, creation, development, and successful operation of high potential new and emerging ventures. Course participants, working in a small team environment will have the opportunity to develop their new venture management skills through a combination of classroom exercises, case analysis, and existing business plan analysis; and through the development of a detailed opportunity analysis and venture business plan based on student-identified venture opportunities. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT 6789 | Alan Flury | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | |
* Offered in Spring
| | Business Sustainability Ethics. The purpose of this course is to consider the mental models of business that consciously or unconsciously reside in each of us and, in conjunction, explore the moral and ethical perspectives of sustainability. Students will think critically about how current and future business practices fit with the notion of sustainability. Three businesses will be dissected using the triple bottom-line framework. Laws will be examined, which frame the boundaries and obligations of business to stockholders, the environment, and society. Students will consider the extent to which sustainability, as represented by the triple bottom-line, engages a handful of fundamental ethics principles. In sum, this course will explore the intersection of business strategy and implementation, and ethics. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT 4803 | Ben Hill | Syllabus | | | | | | | | | | Special Topics: Business and the Environment. This course takes a holistic view of the interaction of businesses with the environment. It outlines reasons why businesses would want to care about environmental issues, introduces environmental assessment and management tools, and visits topics from various business functions.On the whole, it takes the perspective of "What do I need to know about environmental issues to make my company more successful?" Current issues such as global warming, energy and e-waste are discussed in the context of a number of cases such as Walmart's Sustainability Strategy, Managing Product Returns at HP, Sustainable Development at Shell, Fedex and ED: Building a Hybrid Delivery Fleet, Environmental Product Differentiation by the Hayward Lumber Co., Xerox: Design for the Environment and Interface's Evergreen Services Agreement. | | | Course Number
| Instructor | Details | | MGT 8803 | Beril Toktay, PhD | Syllabus |
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