printer friendly pageMS&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 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:
Shachter, 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 472: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders' Seminar
Entrepreneurial leaders share lessons from real-world experiences across entrepreneurial settings. ETL speakers include entrepreneurs, leaders from global technology companies, venture capitalists, and best-selling authors. Half-hour talks followed by half hour of class interaction. Required web discussion. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
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)
;
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. 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
MUSIC 280: TA Training Course
Required for doctoral students serving as teaching assistants. Orientation to resources at Stanford, guest presentations on the principles of common teaching activities, supervised teaching experience. Students who entered in the Autumn should take 280 in the Spring prior to the Autumn they begin teaching.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Michon, R. (PI)
;
Riopelle, K. (PI)
ORALCOMM 215: Voice Workshop (ORALCOMM 115)
Focus is on breath, voice production, expansion of vocal range and stamina, and clarity of articulation. Geared toward public speaking including presentations, lectures, and job talks. May be taken in conjunction with
ORALCOMM 117.
ORALCOMM 115/215 was previously listed as
CTL 115/215.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
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