HRMGT 212: Organizational Principles from Unusual Places
How do organizations achieve their own, specific goals? Organizations face a range of challenges and goals, including attracting and combining skills and talents, consistently innovating, and securing profits. In order to achieve such goals -and more- organizations have learned to leverage various mechanisms, which this course explores. This course is designed to help students develop their understanding of why some organizational solutions work, and how to find and implement these solutions, by drawing from evolutionary social sciences and a broad range of case studies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Miton, H. (PI)
HRMGT 382: People Operations: From Startup to Scaleup
This course focuses attention on people operations challenges faced by startups seeking to scale themselves. It discusses recruitment, incentives, design of jobs, development of talent, leadership and empowerment challenges in startups. We will deal with questions ranging from equity splits to founding team dynamics, hiring talent to the sequencing of hires. We will use a mix of "live cases" from the field, and lectures. The course will be team taught by Huggy Rao, John Lilly ( founder and formerly, VC at Greylock) and Sujay Jaswa (founder, former COO of Dropbox).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3