printer friendly pageMS&E 274: Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy
Primarily for graduate students. How entrepreneurial strategy focuses on creating structural change or responding to change induced externally. Grabber-holder dynamics as an analytical framework for developing entrepreneurial strategy to increase success in creating and shaping the diffusion of new technology or product innovation dynamics. Topics: First mover versus follower advantage in an emerging market; latecomer advantage and strategy in a mature market; strategy to break through stagnation; and strategy to turn danger into opportunity. Modeling, case studies, and term project.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Tse, E. (PI)
MS&E 276: Entrepreneurial Management and Finance
For graduate students only with a preference for engineering and science majors. Emphasis on managing the challenges high-growth ventures experience, especially those based on technology products and services. Students develop a set of skills and approaches to becoming effective entrepreneurial managers. Topics include business model management, deal structure and negotiation, raising capital and financial management, venture operations and organizational administration, managing the interplay between ownership and growth, and handling adversity as well as failure. Limited enrollment. Admission by application. Prerequisite: 140/240, or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Byers, T. (PI)
;
Loy, T. (PI)
MS&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://creativity.stanford.edu.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Britos Cavagnaro, L. (PI)
;
Seelig, T. (PI)
MS&E 278: Patent Law and Strategy for Innovators and Entrepreneurs (ME 208)
Inventors and entrepreneurs have four concerns related to patent law: protecting their inventions in the very early stages of product development, determining the patentability of their invention, avoiding infringement of a competitor's patent, and leveraging their patent as a business asset. This course will address each of these concerns through the application of law cases and business cases to an invention of the Studentâ¿¿s choice. Although listed as a ME/MSE course, the course is not specific to any discipline or technology.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Schox, J. (PI)
MS&E 280: Organizational Behavior: Evidence in Action
Organization theory; concepts and functions of management; behavior of the individual, work group, and organization. Emphasis is on cases and related discussion. Enrollment limited; priority to MS&E students.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Siino, R. (PI)
;
Sutton, R. (PI)
MS&E 283: Scaling up Excellence in Organizations
A problem for every manager is to make 'good' behaviors spread quickly and to shrink 'undesirable' behaviors quickly. This course provides you practical frameworks to accomplish these managerial goals. We will examine issues such as scaling Idea generation, scaling knowledge sharing, scaling the adoption of ideas across firms, scaling change in global firms. We will be using a newly written series of cases for this course and also draw on guest speakers.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Rao, H. (PI)
;
Sutton, R. (PI)
MS&E 289: Designing for Sustainable Abundance
Hands-on, team-based, multidisciplinary class, uses radically human-centered approach to tackle sustainability challenges in areas like food and transportation. Teams develop solutions that improve environmental and economic sustainability as well as physical and emotional well-being. Students benefit from close interaction with the teaching team, support from project sponsors, and the varied perspectives of numerous guest speakers. Application required. Limited enrollment. Design Institute class; see
http://dschool.stanford.edu.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Dunn, D. (PI)
;
Rothe, M. (PI)
MS&E 292: Health Policy Modeling
Primarily for master's students; also open to undergraduates and doctoral students. The application of mathematical, statistical, economic, and systems models to problems in health policy. Areas include: disease screening, prevention, and treatment; assessment of new technologies; bioterrorism response; and drug control policies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Brandeau, M. (PI)
MS&E 293: Technology and National Security (MS&E 193, MS&E 193W)
The interaction of technology and national security policy from the perspective of history to implications for the new security imperative, homeland defense. Key technologies in nuclear and biological weapons, military platforms, and intelligence gathering. Policy issues from the point of view of U.S. and other nations. The impact of terrorist threat. Guest lecturers include key participants in the development of technology and/or policy. Students seeking to fulfill the WIM requirement should register for 193W.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Hecker, S. (PI)
;
Perry, W. (PI)
MS&E 295: Energy Policy Analysis
Design and application of formal analytical methods for policy and technology assessments of energy efficiency and renewable energy options. Emphasis is on integrated use of modeling tools from diverse methodologies and requirements for policy and corporate strategy development. Recommended: background in economics, optimization, and decision analysis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Weyant, J. (PI)
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