This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Business, Government, and Society. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Examine ethical aspects of the decision-making processes of managers and employees. Explore the responsibility of firms to society and other constituencies.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Business, Government, and Society. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office, or the school's BBA Exchange Programs. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Business, Government, and Society. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence.

Create a business to address social problems, using social and creative means to design market-based approaches to aid a specific cultural group.

Study how the political and regulatory environment enables and constrains business activity and how individual firms and groups of firms can ethically yet effectively lobby legislatures, negotiate with regulators, create industry associations, make campaign contributions, and engage in other political activity to gain competitive advantage.

A study of how corporations can engage in corporate social responsibility and sustainable activities to improve the world with strategic considerations kept in mind.

Develop an understanding of the broad context of energy production and consumption in the United States and the world. Discuss past energy trends and fundamentals of energy and power, including fossil fuels and renewable energy sources and technologies. Explore different energy resources, environmental impacts, and societal uses of energy. Evaluate future energy technology options.

Introduction to the oil and gas exploration and production business for nontechnical personnel. Explore prospect generation and leasing, drilling, production, processing, transportation, and closing out a project.

Explore the role of sustainability in the corporate sector. Examine how businesses partner with others for sustainability goals, how to value sustainable business practices, and how to report on corporate sustainability.

Discuss the actions that firms around the world are taking regarding global warming, and whether these actions and innovations will keep the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

Examine reasons that seemingly good people sometimes make unethical choices. Explore real-life ethical dilemmas, decision-making processes, and ideal behavior for the future.

Focus on the development of ethical leadership and responsibility. Explore basic concepts relevant to business ethics. Develop ethical principles in a variety of business domains, and practice discussing ethical issues with people from a variety of viewpoints and backgrounds.

Focus on healthcare entrepreneurship in the United States, addressing the complexities of building companies in this sector while also examining the incentives of health care financing and spending that risk, ignoring the needs of the most vulnerable. Explore how to ensure that innovation decreases disparities in access and outcomes for the underserved.

Studies corporate efforts to inform, motivate, and persuade various constituencies, including investors, employees, communities, and regulators. Subjects include public relations, investor relations, and government relations.

Explore how firms can successfully integrate their traditional strategies with non-market strategy in the global arena, including how to successfully engage with international non-market actors, such as foreign governments, regulators, political parties, NGOs, and the media. Examine the necessary tools to craft successful, integrated firm strategies in diverse institutional and political environments.

Examine inequality and its implications as managers and as citizens, and explore how to deal proactively with the consequences of this pervasive phenomenon.

Studies corporate efforts to inform, motivate, and persuade various constituencies, including investors, employees, communities, and regulators. Includes public relations, investor relations, and government relations.

Overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) given the constraints of the business environment, with an emphasis on the conditions under which CSR can provide strategic value to firms through class discussions and group projects.

Exploration of how firms can successfully integrate their traditional strategies with non-market strategy in the global arena, including how to successfully engage with international non-market actors such as foreign governments, regulators, political parties, NGOs, and the media. Examines the necessary tools to craft successful, integrated firm strategies in diverse institutional and political environments.

Examine inequality and its implications as managers and as citizens, and explore how to deal proactively with the consequences of this pervasive phenomenon.

Examines corporate responsibility issues and the tools necessary to manage relationships with external stakeholders such as governments, nongovernmental organizations, and communities in legal, political, and cultural contexts.

Examines the external relations challenges facing the energy industry. Focuses on the theory and practice of corporate social responsibility and government relations for the oil, natural gas, and electricity industries in the United States and the larger world. Explores the resource curse and its implications for oil and gas companies doing business overseas, the management of environmental health and safety risk in both the developed and developing world, energy facility siting, and NIMBY challenges in the United States. Some familiarity with energy law is helpful.

Examines ethical aspects of the managerial decision-making process and the application of fundamental ethical principles to business, legal, and social problems. Includes ethical implications of financial markets, race and gender discrimination, employee privacy, multinational business, and health, safety, environmental, and consumer issues.

Examines ethical aspects of the managerial decision-making process and the application of fundamental ethical principles to business, legal, and social problems. Includes ethical implications of financial markets, race and gender discrimination, employee privacy, multinational business, and health, safety, environmental, and consumer issues.

A study of how the political and regulatory environment enables and constrains business activity and how individual firms and groups of firms can ethically, yet effectively, lobby legislatures, negotiate with regulators, create industry associations, make campaign contributions, and engage in other political activity to gain competitive advantage.

Explores the production and provision of health care in the United States. Includes the study of basic economic concepts, differences between health care and other goods, impact of regulatory policies, and the importance of health for economic development. May include international and ethical aspects of health care.

Studies domestic and international policy issues of energy and the environment, with a focus on market solutions to various problems and market limitations in the allocation of environmental resources. Also examines the economics of fossil fuel alternatives.

Studies the functioning of the labor market and examines determinants of wage and employment levels in perfect and imperfect labor markets.

Uses economic analysis to study law and its impact on business activity. Includes the economics of contract law, tort law, property law, securities regulation, antitrust law, intellectual property, and environmental law.

Examines the policy and practical implications of sustainability. Topics covered may include property rights, air and water pollution, solid-waste disposal, hazardous substances, and wilderness preservation and the protection of endangered species.

Moral theory and its application to business issues in diverse cultures.

Practical study of global macroeconomic policy, including monetary policy, financial market regulation, and economic growth and development policies.

Studies the relationship between business and government throughout the policy process and examines the constitutional constraints that affect businesses across different political and legal systems. Explores ethical issues of the role of business in the policy process.

Studies the relationship between business and government throughout the formation and implementation of public policy; includes examination from economic, political, legal, and behavioral perspectives. Focuses primarily on the political, regulatory, and legal system of the United States and addresses issues covered further in the Washington Campus event, a week-long seminar with policy makers in Washington DC that precedes the course.

Studies industrial organization economics using game-theory to model strategic market behavior. Examines econometric methods used to test hypotheses regarding firm conduct and market performance. Explores profit-maximizing business strategies of firms with market power and strategic interactions among firms in imperfectly competitive markets.

Examines how to make ethical decisions, take ethical actions, lead an ethical life, run ethical organizations, and fulfill corporate social responsibilities.

Explores and applies existing behavioral economics findings to all areas of business, and also instructs how to run studies to learn how to nudge" people toward or away from particular behaviors.

Examines federal and state regulation of business activities that affect the environment and the potential liability of business for environmental damage.

Uses aspects of the social sciences, including economics, psychology, and sociology to explore the evolution of economic organizations, the need for business regulation, bubbles and speculation, and economic herd behavior.

Examines global business from a political science perspective. Includes the politics of international trade and investment and the regulatory expectations of national regulators and of international organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the World Bank.

Studies the federal regulatory framework in the United States, including the processes through which regulations are promulgated and the stakeholders involved. Particular emphasis on cost-benefit analysis.

Studies economic theory from Adam Smith to the modern day, with a focus on the interrelationship between economic models and political behavior. Explores the development of American capitalism; includes works from Marx, Hayek, Polanyi, and Williamson.