Introduction to key factors in organizational success, including the roles of leadership and culture, the value of a diverse workforce and an inclusive environment, and the importance of creativity and innovation.

Introduction to key factors in organizational success, including the roles of leadership and culture, the value of a diverse workforce and an inclusive environment, and the importance of creativity and innovation.

Introduction to key factors in organizational success, including the roles of leadership and culture, the value of a diverse workforce and an inclusive environment, and the importance of creativity and innovation.

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 Management. 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.

An introduction to the management of organizations. Issues are addressed from the perspectives of strategy and planning, organizational behavior, and operations management.

Overview of the personnel function, covering recruitment, compensation, equal employment, job analysis, training, benefits, employee discipline, collective bargaining, safety, and health.

Explores the theoretical foundations and research evidence underlying innovation and entrepreneurship. Subjects include discovering and creating new sources of value, recognizing and evaluating opportunities, generating business models, engaging stakeholders, shaping markets, and competing against larger competitors and entrenched institutions.

Starting up a new venture involves a wide range of decisions, activities, and processes such as those involved in identifying the potential of an idea, developing and protecting an idea, building a new venture team, creating a business plan, obtaining resources, and establishing a business entity. Covers the basic analytical tools and processes involved in all these aspects of founding a new business.

Examines the knowledge and skills used to discover and create new sources of value, develop ideas into viable businesses, recognize and shape opportunities, generate new business models, engage with the ecosystem of new ventures, launch new businesses, and manage an innovation portfolio. Draws on various theoretical foundations, research evidence, and business cases to develop an understanding of effectiveness in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Designed to develop the fundamental change knowledge and consulting skills of students who plan to work with organizations as change agents, whether internally as managerial employees or externally as outside consultants.

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 Management. 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.

Introduction to the business ecosystem of the U.S. healthcare industry using a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate business structures, processes, and outcomes of health services in America. Explores the functionality of various healthcare components.

The process of managing organizations and the behavior of individuals and groups within the organizational setting.

An exploration of the process of managing organizations and the behavior of individuals and groups within the organizational setting.

Focus on the entrepreneurial process including problem identification, innovation, business plans, fund raising, legal aspects, launching, and management.

Explore leadership skills and goals in the urban context. Read and discuss leadership challenges that arise when stakeholders come together to plan, make decisions, and take action in organizational and community settings.

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 Management. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence.

Support startups in an experiential leadership practicum through projects designed to accelerate the venture's development.

Build and grow a new venture through an experiential leadership practicum, with advice and assistance on the entrepreneurial process.

Application of entrepreneurship skills and focus on additional project management skills through individual or group assignments conducted in an entrepreneurial setting, focusing on new business development either within existing companies (corporate entrepreneurship) or as stand-alone ventures (entrepreneurship).

Focuses on developing business plans through a semester-long project. Explores non-profit, for-profit, and hybrid organizations and how they deal with corporate social responsibility.

Apply skills and focus on readying chosen projects to increase awareness and understanding of business and economics issues, and prepare presentation teams for regional and national competitions based on criteria set by the international Enactus organization.

Explores a broad overview of the field of social innovation, and examines concepts and tools that support the creation of social ventures. Includes creating a social venture, articulating its vision, creating a business plan, choosing an organizational form, and assessing the venture's financial and social impact.

Examine a conceptual framework and specific tools for interacting successfully in international teams, negotiations, and partnerships. Discuss cultural patterns characteristic of world regions and particular countries in terms of their implications for corporate management.

Discuss the complexity of diversity within a national and global framework and to explore the relationship of diversity in organizational change and development. Focus on developing the cross-cultural competence needed to lead effectively in the modern collaboration-powered global marketplace and provide evidence-based insights, as well as proven individual, interpersonal, enterprise-level strategies to successfully harness the power of diversity and inclusion in teams, organizations, markets, and societies.

Explore the use of analytics in the creation and management of human capital. Examine recruiting, selecting, deploying, developing, and managing performance of employees.

Focus on skill development and mentoring in start-up formation, technology development, market validation, marketing, sales, operations, human resources, program management, and finance. Discuss intellectual property, social issues in design, and ethical and safety considerations.

Evaluate the life cycle of an entrepreneurial business, including the attractiveness of an idea, launching and growing the business, and harvesting the profits.

Develop a broad array of negotiation skills in useful analytical frameworks with emphasis placed on simulations, role-playing, and cases.

Explore leadership and personal development by engaging in personal assessments, action planning, peer discussion, and self-reflection in an interactive format.

Explore creating wealth from scientific discovery, which is the core of any business enterprise. Design a business model grounded in the entrepreneurial process for wealth creation around a scientific patent, which includes business models, eco-systems, funding the enterprise, and business plans.

Examine the state of sports analytics in American sports.

Designed to enable students to analyze business situations from the point of view of the practicing general manager. Addresses key tasks involved in general management, including strategic decisions that ensure the long-term health of the entire firm or a major division.

Designed to enable students to analyze business situations from the point of view of the practicing general manager. Addresses key tasks involved in general management, including strategic decisions that ensure the long-term health of the entire firm or a major division.

Designed to increase the student's effectiveness as a manager through discussion of organizational behavior and design, and guidelines for applying these concepts.

Explore organizational behavior frameworks and concepts that leaders can use to get things done in their teams and organizations. Examine how leaders can design effective organizations and teams, engage employees, improve decision making, manage interpersonal and team dynamics, exercise influence, and adapt to changing internal and external contexts.

Covers issues related to making human resource decisions in a more effective manner. Uses a strategic perspective, with particular emphasis on the links between human resource decisions and a firm's competitive position.

Explore issues related to talent management processes, including how companies hire, socialize, appraise, reward, and retain talent. Use a strategic perspective of the impact of organizational context on how companies manage human capital and the practices and analytical frameworks that help managers leverage human capital.

Examine a set of analytical approaches to leveraging data that exist within an organization to make strategic human capital decisions. Explore how leading companies are applying analytics within their people organizations, as well as how these approaches are driving important organizational outcomes.

Examine the art and science of securing an agreement between two or more interdependent parties who are seeking to maximize their outcomes. Explore research and theory that help improve understanding of the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of competitive situations.

Focus on how leaders, especially senior leaders, can better advocate for their ideas. Examine how executives can effectively and persuasively communicate their ideas to diverse audiences, enhance their reputations as innovative leaders, build partnerships around their ideas, and successfully influence others to adopt their innovative notions.

Examine turnaround business situations, strategic and financial issues, and the operating manager's perspective.

Study the formulation and implementation of strategies specifically related to firm growth. Explore vertical integration, horizontal integration, diversification, acquisition, growth in platform ecosystems, technology-driven growth, and international growth.

Examine what advantages start-ups have over existing organizations when it comes to identifying new opportunities and developing innovative solutions to address pain points and create value.

Examine what advantages start-ups have over existing organizations when it comes to identifying new opportunities and developing innovative solutions to address pain points and create value.

Examine turnaround business situations, i.e., established firms experiencing operational, financial and managerial difficulties. Consider strategy issues as well as financial ones with an emphasis on the operating manager's perspective.

Covers skills and techniques to gain power and influence in organizations as political entities. Includes cases, business press, and theoretical articles.

Develop skills to effectively manage and capitalize on diversity within today's global organizations. Examine multiple dimensions of diversity--including, but not limited to, race, gender, generational differences, neurodiversity, remote/hybrid work arrangements, and cross-cultural dynamics--while developing practical competencies through case studies and experiential learning. Discuss the strategic value of diversity, offering frameworks for cultivating inclusive environments, driving innovation, and implementing metrics to sustain impactful diversity initiatives.

Explore integrated approaches for transitioning recent University of Texas research innovations from laboratory settings to market environments by bridging the dichotomy between technology push and market pull methodologies. Analyze the advancement of inventions developed by university inventors toward commercial viability, particularly where established demand is uncertain. Emphasize interactive engagement with inventors and extensive fieldwork involving industry experts, partners, and potential customers to investigate, evaluate, and test real-world opportunities and challenges in technology commercialization.

Designed to help students develop a general management orientation. Subjects include the role of the general manager, formulating business and corporate-level strategy, managing strategic change, strategy implementation, and developing general managers.

Explore the dynamics of the health care environment and health care reform. Analyze and discuss how health care strategy, delivery, and payment differ with value-based competition.

Designed to prepare MBA students, both as individuals and in their professional careers as managers and leaders, for active and effective participation in the democratic process.

Examines the roles and responsibilities of organizational leadership in a variety of settings, including large and small companies, startups and established companies, global, single-country, and single-region companies, and nonprofit entities.

Develops and uses concepts from microeconomics, game theory, and the economics of industrial organization and applies these concepts to competitive decision making, using a combination of case analyses and lectures.

Focuses on moving an idea from the mind of the researcher to the marketplace by examining the activities involved in commercializing a technology from conception to profitable enterprise.

Students work in supervised teams and develop recommendations to solve a real business problem for a client firm.

Leverage sports analytics to address business complexities, demystify pathways to thriving in the sports business sector, and foster the creation of innovative analytical tools through the fusion of computer science, mathematics, and statistics. Explore sports as a business, including crucial lessons in leadership and ethics with universal applicability.

Overview of the field of social innovation, including concepts and tools that support the creation of social ventures. Hands-on application to develop a social venture, articulate its vision, create a business plan, choose an organizational form for the venture, and assess the venture's financial and social impact.

Explore how existing and new firms can innovate strategically to discover and create new sources of value. Examine dynamic views of strategy that enable the creation of new markets, new business models, and growth opportunities.

Explore the best practices for persuasive communication. Examine and practice the fundamentals of strong communication in business settings.

Discuss energy technologies, fuels, environmental impacts, and public policies with an interdisciplinary framework. Explore quantitative and qualitative concepts in energy, such as fuels and energy technologies, energy policy levers, societal aspects of energy, culture, economics, war, and international affairs. Utilize historical examples, current events, and future looking predictions related to all aspects of the energy system.

Develop skills to research the viability of a business idea, analyze results, and deliver strategic recommendations in a compelling stakeholder presentation. Gain real-world experience with early-stage startups while collaborating cross-functionally and learning strategic frameworks.

Examine the history, culture, politics, and economics of a region through direct experience with a study tour or global management seminar in the respective regional area.

Study global business practices through lectures on campus and trips to international partner schools.

Analysis and application of contemporary concepts and theories of principled leadership for work teams and organizations.

Examine approaches that executives can use for identifying and creating new business opportunities, and for designing organizations and processes to foster employee creativity and innovation.

Explore leadership and how to apply concepts in ways that have impact on the world and local community.

Explore leadership development and provide opportunities to practice leadership abilities through projects for real organizations.

Analyze and apply contemporary concepts and theories of principled leadership for work teams and organizations.

Explore leadership development and provide opportunities to practice leadership abilities through projects for real organizations.

Intensive analysis of organizational science issues.

The study of knowledge workers at four levels of analysis: as individuals, as team members, as organizational resources, and as national resources. Strong emphasis on theory building.

Conduct rigorous analyses of organizational and other phenomena that evolve and change across time.

Intensive analysis of strategic management issues.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.