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OB 537: Advanced Topics in Teams

This course offers a deeper examination of team dynamics than was provided in Groups and Teams. The course goal is to provide you with tips and tools to maximize the performance of your teams at work. Topics include forming start-up teams, capitalizing on diversity in teams, managing virtual teamwork, facilitating effective discussion and debate in creative teams, and navigating informal leadership processes within top management teams. Group exercises and cases will help you learn how to create and maintain highly effective teams.

OB 569: Strategy and Management in Developing Economies

This course will explore the strategic and managerial challenges involved in running for-profit companies in developing economies. Particular emphasis will be given to understanding the challenges of running enterprises that touch the lives of the poor or the extreme poor, either by employing them or producing goods and services that improve their lives. A central theme will be the ways in which features of these economies shape the ability of firms to thrive and grow. Among the issues that may be considered are how the economic and social context affects the ability of firms to formulate successful strategies for creating and capturing value and how the context impacts the process of management within the organization.

OB 571: Diversity, Dynamics, and Influence

The course is based on the premise that diversity can present unique challenges and opportunities thereby compelling students to expand their sensitivity and develop a wider repertoire of skills, many of which are relevant across a variety of situations. The course is intended for students who plan to work in culturally diverse groups or organizations and will be equally relevant to those who work in the not-for-profit, public, and for-profit sectors.nnThrough the presentation of new concepts, participation in experiential group activities, and faculty facilitated debriefing, students are expect to improve their ability to better assess group level diversity dynamics and in turn both intentionally influence and to be influenced inclusive of three fundamental differences presented by peers - values, gender, and group identity. Students will be taught how to practice 'authentic discourse' during regular faculty facilitated small task group debriefings. 'Authentic discourse' is a skill stressed in Interpersonal Dynamics ( OB374).

OB 653: Categories in Markets

This seminar investigates the ways in which categories emerge in markets and shape market behavior. It covers recent theoretical and empirical work on the sociology of categories and its foundations in cognitive science. Particular attention is given to formalization.
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