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GSBGEN 566: Ethics in Action - It's Never Black and White / Decisions Have Consequences

GSBGEN 566 is an elective course offered to 2nd-year MBA and MSx students. The goal of this course is to improve students' judgment in confronting ethical situations encountered in the normal course of business activities. Classes use the Socratic method to examine ethical questions and build analytical skills. The course aims to sharpen moral reasoning and build judgment without favoring a particular position. The course will be taught by Mark Leslie and Peter Levine, Lecturers.nThe course, which is "vignette" based, will involve revealing partial information about the situation during the class, interspersed with discussion as the vignette develops. Frequent student-to-student and student-to-instructor role-playing will be encouraged. Cases will be drawn from a wide selection of real business situations with protagonists as guests whenever available), including such topics as raising venture capital, managing major industrial customers, product distribution agreements, board of director fiduciary conflicts, developing financial instruments, senior management mutiny, work/life balance, etc. The class is extremely engaging - it is quite usual to find continuing discussion of the day's case outside the classroom among small groups of students. This class is for two GSB credits and will be graded on a pass/fail basis. Sixty percent of the final grade will be derived from classroom performance; the remainder will be based on a final written assignment.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2

GSBGEN 568: Managing Difficult Conversations

This elective 2-credit course is offered to 2nd-year, 3rd-year, and 4th-year Medical students, Residents, and Fellows, and to 2nd-year MBA students who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult interpersonal situations. The course will be taught at Stanford Medical School by H. Irving Grousbeck, Consulting Professor of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, with assistance from Dr. Charles G. Prober, Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education. Teaching techniques that have been successful in helping business school students improve their ability to manage difficult conversations will be used.nnThe course, which will be case-based, will involve frequent student-to-student and student-to-instructor role-playing in actual medical situations. Physician-experts often will be present to participate as class guests. Relevant principles of professionalism, leadership, and psychology underlie the course pedagogy.nnThere will be seven classes held on Wednesdays beginning September 28th and concluding on November 16th (no class on October 26). Each class will begin promptly at 12:35 and end at 2:05, without a break. Due to the abbreviated nature of the class (7 sessions), students will be expected to attend all classes unless excused in advance. nnClass preparation will include reading of assigned cases; analysis of the cases and recommendations as to how to confront specific difficult conversations (consistent with assigned study questions); and reading of assigned background material. While optional, it is suggested that students form regular study groups. For GSB students, 50% of the final grade will depend on classroom performance; the remainder will be based on a final written assignment of no more than 6 pages. GSB students will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. The course will be ungraded for Medical School students, Residents and Fellows. All students will be expected to complete the written assignment.nnClass size will be limited to 35 students per the following: (1) a maximum of 15 MBA2 students and (2) a maximum of 20 2nd-year, 3rd-year and 4th-year Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows.
Terms: Aut | Units: 1

GSBGEN 569: The Open Road: Innovation in Cars, Driving, and Mobility

This new course will look at ongoing and upcoming innovation in cars, driving, and mobility from three perspectives: (1) technology, (2) economics & business Models, and (3) policy. We'll survey changes in powering vehicles (e.g. electrification and biofuels), in vehicle connectivity and communications, and most especially changes in autonomy and self-driving vehicles. We’ll look at changes in the economics of cars, vehicles, and driving—new business models, shared ownership, mobility as a service, as well as who some of the major players are in this nascent field and what they'€™re doing/developing. And we'll explore the interactions of technology and economics with policy and broader societal changes-€”direct effects like safety, legal liability, and who can drive; indirect effects on traffic, insurance, infrastructure needs, fuel taxes, and the environment; as well as longer-term and even bigger changes in daily life and where and how we live, work, and drive.
Terms: Win | Units: 2

GSBGEN 571: Becoming a Leader: Managing Early Career Challenges

This course is based on a large number of interviews with MBA grads who have been out of the GSB for 4-10 years. These interviews identified a set of common early career challenges that young MBAs faced--and the lessons they learned from these. This 6-session course is based on these critical transitions, formative experiences, and personal conflicts that characterize the challenges young leaders face. The course objective is to help current students better understand some of the pitfalls they are likely to face as they become leaders and to avoid the career-limiting mistakes that these can bring.
Last offered: Spring 2016

GSBGEN 574: Effective Virtual Communication: Presenting via the web, video, and teleconference

Ever wonder if your online audience is paying attention to your web presentation or meeting? Have you wanted more engagement from your participants? Communicating virtually - using conference or video calls, web tools, and mobile devices is very challenging. Yet more and more communication is happening with presenter and audience connecting electronically.nInformed by scholarly research and industry best practices, this workshop will provide a hands-on, practical introduction to immediately applicable techniques that will help you prepare and deliver engaging, participative, and impactful virtual presentations.nnSpecifically, you will learn techniques for confidently delivering virtual presentations, how to create content that invites engagement, and how to facilitate speaker-audience interactions that invite collaboration without losing control. We will also cover best practices for responding to audience input and questions that will amplify your message and for handling challenging interactions and questions. With these virtual-presenting skills, you will feel more confident presenting and your audience will be more connected and engaged.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2

GSBGEN 575: Leadership and Crisis Management

During this class, you will: * Challenge your basic beliefs about the nature of crisis * Learn to scan your business practices for political and social risks * Anticipate and prepare for potential crises * Explore techniques for successfully solving problems in high-pressure crisis situations characterized by complex decision environments, time-pressure, high stakes, unanticipated events, and information overload * Develop strategies for managing stakeholders, public opinion, media relations, and public officials * Integrate your crisis management approach into your overall business strategy
Last offered: Autumn 2015

GSBGEN 576: Work and Family

This course examines the strategies that highly educated women and men use to combine work and family and the strategies that managers and policy makers can use to help others strike a balance. Topics include the tradeoffs in becoming a stay-at-home parent, the economic value of unpaid labor, the consequences of balancing two high-powered careers and children, the economics of marriage, fertility, child care, and elder care, the gendered division of labor in the home, time-management , workplace innovations, and policy initiatives. Guest speakers add their own perspectives on these issues and describe the roles their organizations play.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2
Instructors: Strober, M. (PI)

GSBGEN 579: Authentic Agency

The basic assumption of `authentic agency' is as a leader, manager, or consultant your job requires working with people to make decisions and solve problems. Authentic agency is an intentional effort to influence congruent with one's motivating emotional-values schema. In accordance with this assumption and definition your major tool for influencing people and achieving results is via languaging - the interpersonal use of spoken and written words - values and emotions. The focus of this course is how to `effectively and meaningfully use authentic expression to influence individual and group performance. `Authentic Agency' will be conceptually and experientially explored as the expressive intersection of intentionality, emotions, and values. Specific classroom activities and peer feedback will heighten student awareness of their present personal `authentic agency schema'. Besides completing homework readings and review questions, students are expected to author and submit a brief (20 min writing) `authentic agency meaning-making log' after each class. Each student will also complete a one-on-one critical incident phone interview (40-50 min) with Professor Bristol aimed at helping them capture and expand their authentic agency schema. Students will be provided digital copies of this interview for their study.
Last offered: Spring 2016

GSBGEN 585: Project You: Building and Extending your Personal Brand

GSB Graduates will be entering and re-entering the workforce needing to know and understand how to assess, create, broadcast, and maintain their personal brand. Project You will help each student realize: What is a personal brand and how can it be unleashed as a valuable, competitive advantage? Why do you need a personal brand? How do you differentiate yourself and create a brand identity and strategy? How do you use social and traditional media to enhance your brand effectively as well as measure the metrics of social media responses? And how do you know when to pivot and evolve your brand for sustainability? GSB Lecturer, Allison Kluger, a former Television Executive and Co-Lecturer, Tyra Banks, Supermodel/Entrepreneur/Television Executive/Business CEO, will lead this class. They will help students create their own specific image to support their brand, teach them how to navigate on-air exposure, and help them create a long-term strategy for how to promote their personal brand across several media platforms. This class will be a highly interactive learning environment with image transformations, live broadcasting of presentations at a television station, live streaming of portions of the class on Facebook Live, and YouTube recordings of presentations. Class participation and interactive class activities are part of the expected assignments. The class culminates with the students sharing their honed personal brand to the public via three viable platforms (Facebook Live, local television, YouTube) to jump-start their personal brand extension. A 1:00 original iPhone (or similar device) video stating "Who you are, what your personal brand is, and why this class would be impactful for you?" will be a mandatory requirement before Class #1. Once you get accepted, there is no option to drop out as there is a mandatory short survey that needs to be completed a week before class one. If you do not want your image broadcast across multiple platforms, this is not the class for you. There is also a mandatory additional class to broadcast final projects live from KMVT television station on Thursday, May 18th, 6-9pm Do not apply for this class if you cannot make this, or any of the other 6 classes. If you can commit to these 7 classes, you will have a dynamic, transformational, highly interactive experience in which your personal brand will get seen by the public.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2
Instructors: Kluger, A. (PI)

GSBGEN 589: Foundations in Social Impact

This course aims to introduce Social Impact Labs Fellows to different types of social impact organizations and nonprofit organizations, to their financial models, and to issues that arise in measuring their social impact. The course will also support development of the Social Impact Lab Fellows'€™ projects, through peer and faculty discussion and feedback.
Last offered: Winter 2016 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 4 units total)
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