printer friendly pageMS&E 277: Creativity and Innovation
Experiential course explores factors that promote and inhibit creativity and innovation in individuals, teams, and organizations. Teaches creativity tools using workshops, case studies, field trips, expert guests, and team design challenges. Enrollment limited to 40. Admission by application. See
http://dschool.stanford.edu/classes.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Braden, R. (PI)
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Britos Cavagnaro, L. (PI)
;
Carroll, M. (PI)
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Instructors:
Braden, R. (PI)
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Britos Cavagnaro, L. (PI)
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Carroll, M. (PI)
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Pferdt, F. (PI)
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Seelig, T. (PI)
MS&E 279A: Entrepreneurial Leadership
This seminar explores a wide range of topics related to entrepreneurial leadership through class discussions, case studies, field trips, and guest speakers. It is part of the DFJ Entrepreneurial Leaders Fellowship, which requires an application during Fall quarter. Details can be found at:
http://stvp.stanford.edu/dfj/.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Roizen, J. (PI)
;
Seelig, T. (PI)
MS&E 279B: Entrepreneurial Leadership
This seminar explores a wide range of topics related to entrepreneurial leadership through class discussions, case studies, field trips, and guest speakers. It is part of the DFJ Entrepreneurial Leaders Fellowship, which requires an application during Fall quarter. Details can be found at:
http://stvp.stanford.edu/dfj/.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Roizen, J. (PI)
;
Seelig, T. (PI)
MS&E 282: Transformational Leadership
The personal, team-based and organizational skills needed to become a transformative leader. Case method discussions and lectures. Themes include: personal transformation; the inside-out effect, group transformation; cross-functional teams; re-engineering; rapid - non-profit and for profit - organizational transformation; and social transformation. Course includes a group project that is defined and approved during the first two weeks of class. Limited enrollment. Graduate students only. Admission by application. Prerequisite: 180
or 280.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Tabrizi, B. (PI)
MS&E 284: Designing Modern Work Organizations
This practice-based experiential lab course is geared toward MS&E masters students. Students will master the concepts of organizational design, with an emphasis on applying them to modern challenges (technology, growth, globalization, and the modern workforce). Students will also gain mastery of skills necessary for success in today's workplace (working in teams, communicating verbally, presenting project work). Guest speakers from industry will present real-world challenges related to class concepts. Students will complete a quarter-long project designing and managing an actual online organization. Limited to 25. Admission by application.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Valentine, M. (PI)
MS&E 299: Voluntary Social Systems
Ethical theory, feasibility, and desirability of a social order in which coercion by individuals and government is minimized and people pursue ends on a voluntary basis. Topics: efficacy and ethics; use rights for property; contracts and torts; spontaneous order and free markets; crime and punishment based on restitution; guardian-ward theory for dealing with incompetents; the effects of state action-hypothesis of reverse results; applications to help the needy, armed intervention, victimless crimes, and environmental protection; transition strategies to a voluntary society.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Howard, R. (PI)
MS&E 450: Lessons in Decision Making
Entrepreneurs, senior management consultants, and executives from Fortune 500 companies share real-world stories and insights from their experience in decision making.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Howard, R. (PI)
MS&E 452: Decision Analysis Projects: Helping Real Leaders Make Real Decisions
A virtual consulting firm directed by professional decision analysts who offer advice and guidance as student teams help local organizations make a current business strategy or public policy decision. Projects for businesses, governments, or other institutions typically include start-up venture funding, R&D portfolio planning, new product or market entry, acquisition or partnering, cost reduction, program design, or regulatory policy decisions. Emphasis is on developing clarity of action and delivering insights to clients. Satisfies MS&E project course requirement. Prerequiste: 252. Recommended: 352.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Robinson, B. (PI)
MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital: Venture Capital From Past to Present
Explores changes in the venture capital industry: rise of SiliconnValley and Sand Hill Road, investing in the dot-com bubble, incubatorsnand accelerators, equity crowd funding platform, and different modelsnof venture capital. Explores how companies are funded, grown, andnscale by meeting with individuals who have been at the forefront ofnthis change. See
www.lensofvc.com.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Fu, E. (PI)
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Weyant, J. (PI)
MS&E 489: d.Leadership: Design Leadership in Context (ME 368)
d.Leadership is a course that teaches the coaching and leadership skills needed to drive good design process in groups. d.leaders will work on real projects driving design projects within organizations, and gain real world skills as they experiment with their leadership style while coaching innovation projects. Take this course if you are inspired by past design classes and want skills to lead design projects beyond Stanford. Preference given to students who have taken other Design Group or d.school classes. Admission by application. See
dschool.stanford.edu/classes for more information
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
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