BGS - Business, Government, and Society
Business, Government, and Society: BGS
Lower-Division Courses
BGS X19S. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
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.
BGS X80. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
Upper-Division Courses
BGS X25. Social and Ethical Responsibility of Business.
Examine ethical aspects of the decision-making processes of managers and employees. Explore the responsibility of firms to society and other constituencies.
BGS X29S. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
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.
BGS X37. Strategy Beyond Markets.
BGS X40S. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
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.
BGS X70S. Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship.
Create a business to address social problems, using social and creative means to design market-based approaches to aid a specific cultural group.
BGS X71. Corporate Political Strategy.
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.
BGS X71T. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
BGS X72. Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility.
A study of how corporations can engage in corporate social responsibility and sustainable activities to improve the world with strategic considerations kept in mind.
BGS X72T. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
BGS X72T.1. Energy Technology and Policy.
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.
BGS X72T.10. Nontechnical Exploration and Production.
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.
BGS X72T.12. Global Business Sustainability.
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.
BGS X72T.14. Global Net Zero Strategy.
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.
BGS X72T.2. Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Service Learning.
Examine reasons that seemingly good people sometimes make unethical choices. Explore real-life ethical dilemmas, decision-making processes, and ideal behavior for the future.
BGS X72T.3. Business Ethics and Social Responsibility.
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.
BGS X72T.4. International Business and Politics.
BGS X72T.5. Health Care Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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.
BGS X73. Strategic Corporate Communication.
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.
BGS X74. Global Political Economy.
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.
BGS X75. Business and Policy in the Age of Inequality.
Examine inequality and its implications as managers and as citizens, and explore how to deal proactively with the consequences of this pervasive phenomenon.
BGS X79. Independent Research in Business, Government, and Society.
BGS X80. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
Graduate Courses
BGS X80. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
BGS X80C. Strategic Corporate Communication.
Studies corporate efforts to inform, motivate, and persuade various constituencies, including investors, employees, communities, and regulators. Includes public relations, investor relations, and government relations.
BGS X80D. Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility.
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.
BGS X80E. Global Political Economy.
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.
BGS X80G. Business and Policy in the Age of Inequality.
Examine inequality and its implications as managers and as citizens, and explore how to deal proactively with the consequences of this pervasive phenomenon.
BGS X81. Law, Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
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.
BGS X81E. Topics in Law, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Energy.
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.
BGS X81M. Social and Ethical Responsibility of Business.
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.
BGS X81N. Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Accountants.
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.
BGS X82. Corporate Political Strategy.
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.
BGS X82D. Economics of Health Care.
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.
BGS X82E. Energy Economics.
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.
BGS X82L. Labor Economics.
Studies the functioning of the labor market and examines determinants of wage and employment levels in perfect and imperfect labor markets.
BGS X82R. Economic Analysis of Law.
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.
BGS X82S. Economics of Sustainable Business.
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.
BGS X83. Business Ethics in the Global Market.
Moral theory and its application to business issues in diverse cultures.
BGS X84. Global Macroeconomic Policy.
Practical study of global macroeconomic policy, including monetary policy, financial market regulation, and economic growth and development policies.
BGS X85. Business, Government, and Public Policy.
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.
BGS X85W. Business, Government, and Public Policy: Washington Campus.
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.
BGS X86. Market Structure and Performance.
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.
BGS X86E. Topics in Business, Government, and Society.
BGS X87. Business Integrity.
Examines how to make ethical decisions, take ethical actions, lead an ethical life, run ethical organizations, and fulfill corporate social responsibilities.
BGS X88. Behavioral Economics.
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.
BGS X89. Environmental Regulation of Business.
Examines federal and state regulation of business activities that affect the environment and the potential liability of business for environmental damage.
BGS X90. Behavioral and Institutional Economics.
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.
BGS X90E. Business in the Global Political Environment.
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.
BGS X90F. Federal Regulatory Policy.
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.
BGS X90J. Modern Political Economy.
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.