Fall Quarter Courses
Fall courses strengthen knowledge of key management disciplines. The Sloan Leadership Seminar, which extends over the entire year, provides opportunities to reflect on leadership tasks and styles and to learn from private meetings with CEO's. The quarter includes a study trip to nearby Silicon Valley firms and an end-of-quarter trip to the Seattle area. For a typical academic year, the courses may include:
Modeling and Analysis
Jeffrey Moore
Senior Lecturer of Operations, Information, and Technology
This course develops three themes: the building, using, and interpretation of computer-based models for decision-making; analysis and interpretation of empirical data for use in computer-based models; and problem-solving approaches related to issues of model implementation.
Financial Accounting
Alan Jagolinzer
Assistant Professor of Accounting
The goal is to develop students' understanding of the nature, scope, and limitations of accounting information. Course work helps students to understand conceptual accounting, including the objectives of financial reporting, and to critically evaluate the financial disclosure made by corporations. The course addresses the managerial incentives of accounting information and disclosure.
Economics
Robert Flanagan
Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Labor Economics and Policy Analysis
The course covers business decision making within the firm including market behavior, consequences of alternative market structures, international trade, interactions between the public and private sectors, and basic macroeconomics, including the role of fiscal and monetary policies.
Dynamics of Organizations
Deborah Gruenfeld
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
This course relates existing theory and research to organizational problems by reviewing basic concepts in the following areas: individual motivation and behavior, decision making, interpersonal communication and influences, small group behavior, and individual, dyadic, and intergroup conflict and cooperation. The course focuses on the ways in which organizations and their members affect one another and exposes students to frameworks for diagnosing and dealing with problems in organizational settings.
Organizational Behavior
Frank Flynn
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
This course is designed to introduce students to the structures and processes that affect group performance as well as some of the common pitfalls associated with working in teams. Topics include understanding team culture, fostering creativity and coordination, making group decisions, and dealing with a variety of personalities. Students will participate in a number of group exercises designed to illustrate principles of team work and to give students practice diagnosing team problems and taking action to improve team performance.
Sloan Leadership Perspectives
Marie Mookini
Director of the Sloan Program
A number of activities have been designed specifically to enhance Fellows' understanding of leadership and their own leadership styles. Different activities include 360-feedback survey on the Fellow's leaderships style, interactive seminars and study trip meetings with business leaders. The emphasis is to provide an opportunity for self-knowledge and reflection about leadership in various contexts.
