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GSB students are eligible to report on work experience that is relevant to their core studies under the direction of the Senior Associate Dean responsible for the MBA Program. Registration for this work must be approved by the Assistant Dean of the MBA Program and is limited to students who present a project which, in judgment of the Advisor, may be undertaken to enhance the material learned in the first year core required courses. It is expected that this research be carried on by the student with a large degree of independence and the expected result is a written report, typically due at the end of the quarter in which the course is taken. Specific assignment details and deadline information will be communicated to enrolled students. Units earned for this course do not meet the requirements needed for graduation.

The major objective of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of the fundamentals of real estate investment. The course covers land economics, market analysis, finance, taxation, investment analysis, investment vehicles, real estate risk, development and urban design. Major land uses are discussed including apartments, retail, office, and industrial. The course is designed for students with limited or no background in real estate.

Business leaders have marketing strategies, expansion strategies, finance strategies, even exit strategies. Successful leaders, however, also have communication strategies. This course will explore how individuals and organizations can develop and execute effective communication strategies for a variety of business settings. This course introduces the essentials of communication strategy and persuasion: audience analysis, communicator credibility, message construction and delivery. Deliverables will include written documents and oral presentations and you will present both individually and in a team. You will receive feedback to improve your communication effectiveness. This practical course helps students develop confidence in their speaking and writing through weekly presentations and assignments, lectures and discussions, guest speakers, simulated activities, and videotaped feedback. An important feature of this course is that there are two faculty members working in concert to ensure that students get rigorous and individualized coaching and feedback. In this course you will learn to: - Create communication strategies at an individual and organizational level - Develop clearly organized and effective presentations and documents - Diagnose and expand your personal writing and oral delivery style - Adapt your delivery style to different material and audiences - Enhance oral delivery through effective visual aids Students at all levels of comfort and expertise with public speaking and business writing will benefit from this course.

This course examines alternative pathways for economies around the world to achieve deep decarbonization within a couple of decades. The overall perspective is to analyze the global decarbonization process at the intersection of technological improvements, financial fundamentals and the parameters set by public policies. The first part of the course will be concerned with the science and the political economy of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and the proliferation of net-zero pledges by governments and corporations. Included in this part is a closer look at countries for which the production and export of fossil fuels is a key economic activity. We then turn to the competitiveness of carbon-free or low-carbon technologies in different segments of the economy, including i) power generation, ii) energy storage, iii) transportation, iv) industrial production and v) food and Ag Tech. The final part of the course turns to the emergence of energy technologies with future commercial potential, including hydrogen, fission/fusion, carbon capture and utilization and synthetic hydrocarbons. The course will rely on lectures from each of the three instructors, guest presentations and select case studies.

In the modern corporation, everything is rented: owners, capital, C-suite, labor, assets, even the legal system. In such a world, it appears pointless to build an institution ¿ a social arrangement that is stable and long-lived, created and maintained to serve a shared purpose that cannot be achieved by individuals acting alone. Indeed, in a world transfixed by the allure of new technology, institutions are viewed as obstacles that must be routed around. Or disrupted. Or destroyed. This course takes a different view: institutions are essential to a well-functioning society. In the commercial world, institutions are what we refer to as enduring enterprises. The course will explore why and how to turn a company into an institution, whether that company is a family firm (the primary form of enduring enterprise), startup, growth business, professional services partnership, or legacy corporation. It is co-taught by Leo Linbeck III, Lecturer since 2005 at the GSB and President and CEO of Aquinas Companies, LLC, and Thomas Brenninkmeijer, a leader in his family business Cofra Holding. The course is intended for three main audiences: (1) Students from a family firm who may or may not want to work at that firm. (2) Students who are interested in building or leading or buying an enduring non-family firm. (3) Students who want to explore a view of business that is markedly different from the ¿Silicon Valley model." The course uses a combination of case studies, guest speakers, lectures, readings, movies, projects, and reflections because the instructors hate being bored and so do their best to help their students avoid that fate.

Power dynamics permeate the global economy, and institutions such as governments, corporations, and international bodies interact with each other in complex and often opaque ways. This course explores the structures, incentives and rules of engagement that shape economic and political outcomes affecting us all. Drawing from multiple disciplines in the social sciences, we will focus on the role of governance mechanisms to prevent abuse of power that can harm markets and people. Topics include corporate legal rights and duties, internal and external enforcement mechanisms, political narratives, and the media. We will discuss specific cases from major economies around the world. Visitors with extensive experience will enrich class discussions. This course combines content from GSBGEN 538 - Power in Finance and GSBGEN 593 - Business and Government: Power and Engagement in the 21st Century World.

This course explores the contemporary postsecondary education industry, focusing especially on the places where disruptions of all kinds present significant opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs, investors, and the businesses that serve this huge global market, as well as for faculty, students, and traditional higher education institutions and leaders. The center of the course is where the future of learning and the future of work meet. Using a variety of readings and case studies to better understand recent disruptions and the unbundling occurring across the post-secondary landscape, from outside and inside the academy, both for-profit and nonprofit, the course will examine technology in teaching and learning; the future of the degree and alternatives to the traditional credential; accreditation; competency based education; affordability, student debt, and education financing models; artificial intelligence; investing in the education space; workforce, upskilling, and lifelong learning; and tertiary products and platforms that serve the educational services market. Guests will include practitioners, as well as investors, entrepreneurs, and social entrepreneurs.

This is a civics course about the ideas that comprise a modern implementation of liberal democracy: freedom, democracy, capitalism, and a rules-based international order. Our principal focus will be on the post-WWII American implementation of these ideas. We will explore these ideas from the midpoint of theory and real-world implementation.

The course will provide students from different disciplines with an understanding of the broad educational policy context. The course will cover topics including a) school finance systems; b) an overview of policies defining and shaping the sectors and institutional forms of schooling, c) an overview of school governance, d) educational human-resource policy, e) school accountability policies at the federal and state levels; and f) school assignment policies and law, including intra- and inter-district choice policies, desegregation law and policy.