MAN - Management

Management: MAN

Lower-Division Courses

MAN X01H. Leadership Challenges and Innovation: Honors.

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.

MAN X01S. Leadership Challenges and Innovation.

MAN X01T. Leadership Challenges and Innovation.

MAN X19S. Topics in Management.

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.

Upper-Division Courses

MAN X20F. Foundations of Management and Organizational Behavior.

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

MAN X25. Strategic Human Resources Management.

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

MAN X27. Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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.

MAN X27E. New Venture Mechanics.

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.

MAN X27H. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Honors.

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.

MAN X28. Consulting and Change Management.

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.

MAN X29S. Topics in Management.

MAN X32F. Topics in Foundations of Management.

MAN X34M. Healthcare System Management.

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.

MAN X36. Organizational Behavior.

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

MAN X36H. Organizational Behavior: Honors.

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

MAN X38. Lean Startup Essentials.

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

MAN X40. Leadership and Urban Engagement.

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.

MAN X40S. Topics in Management.

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.

MAN X47C. Texas Startup Accelerator.

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

MAN X47I. Texas Startup Incubator.

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

MAN X47P. Entrepreneurship Practicum.

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).

MAN X66P. Management Practicum: Social Entrepreneurship I.

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.

MAN X67P. Social Entrepreneurship II.

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.

MAN X69P. Social Innovation Practicum.

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.

MAN X71T. Topics in Management.

MAN X72T. Topics in Management.

MAN X72T.1. Intercultural Management.

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.

MAN X72T.10. Women in Entrepreneurship.

MAN X72T.11. Leading a Multicultural Workforce.

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.

MAN X72T.18. People Analytics.

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

MAN X72T.2. Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship.

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.

MAN X72T.20. Entrepreneurial Management.

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

MAN X72T.21. The Art and Science of Negotiation.

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

MAN X72T.22. Women in Management.

MAN X72T.3. Developing and Pitching Ideas.

MAN X72T.4. Leading for Impact.

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

MAN X72T.5. Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship.

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.

MAN X72T.6. Performance and Sports Analytics.

Examine the state of sports analytics in American sports.

MAN X72T.7. Entrepreneurial Leadership For Women.

MAN X72T.8. Energy Strategy.

MAN X72T.9. Leadership Issues.

MAN X74. General Management and Strategy.

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.

MAN X74H. General Management and Strategy: Honors.

MAN X79C. Independent Research in Management.

Graduate Courses

MAN X83. Current Topics in Organization Science.

MAN X83.16. Leading People and Organizations.

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

MAN X83.17. Organizational Behavior for Executives.

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.

MAN X83.20. Art and Science of Negotiation.

MAN X83.23. People Analytics.

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.

MAN X83.24. Managing Human Capital.

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.

MAN X83.25. Strategic Human Capital for Executives.

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.

MAN X83.26. Leading in High Stakes Environments.

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.

MAN X83.27. Advocacy for Executives.

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.

MAN X83.31. Organizational Change and Strategic Renewal.

MAN X85. Current Topics in Strategic Management.

MAN X85.1. Action Skills for Managers: Implementing Strategy.

MAN X85.10. Managing Corporate Restructuring.

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

MAN X85.13. Corporate Strategy for Executives.

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.

MAN X85.18. New Venture Creation for Executives.

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.

MAN X85.19. Management Sustainability Practicum.

MAN X85.2. The Art of Leadership.

MAN X85.20. Advanced Venture Development.

MAN X85.22. New Venture Creation.

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.

MAN X85.23. Introduction to Entrepreneurship.

MAN X85.24. Entrepreneurial Growth.

MAN X85.25. Social and Economic Aspects of Entrepreneurship.

MAN X85.26. Managing Corporate Turnarounds, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy.

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.

MAN X85.27. Leading Innovation and Change.

MAN X85.33. Managing and Marketing in the Global Arena.

MAN X85.36. Power and Politics.

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

MAN X85.38. Managing Diverse Workforce.

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.

MAN X85.39. Assessing Technologies and Innovations.

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.

MAN X85.49. Strategic Management.

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.

MAN X85.51. Global Management.

MAN X85.56. Healthcare Business Ecosystem.

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.

MAN X85.6. Management Planning and Control in Complex Systems.

MAN X85.61. Perspectives on Public Policy.

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.

MAN X85.62. Corporate Governance.

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.

MAN X85.63. Economics of Competitive Strategy.

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.

MAN X85.64. Enterprise of Technology: From Mind to Market.

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.

MAN X85.65. Management Consulting Practicum.

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

MAN X85.67. Nutrition Entrepreneurship.

MAN X85.68. Performance and Sports Analytics.

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.

MAN X85.69. Social Innovation Practicum.

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.

MAN X85.70. Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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.

MAN X85.71. Persuasive Communications.

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

MAN X85.73. Opportunity Identity and Analysis.

MAN X85.74. Technology Strategy.

MAN X85.75. Energy Technology and Policy.

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.

MAN X85.76. Business of Healthcare.

MAN X85.77. Startup Consulting Practicum.

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.

MAN X85.8. Managing Corporate Diversification and Renewal.

MAN X85.9. Strategic Analysis for High-Tech Industries.

MAN X85D. Global Practicum for Executives.

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.

MAN X85E. Directed Studies in Global Management and Business Practices.

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

MAN X85F. Leading for Impact.

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

MAN X85G. Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

MAN X85H. Innovation in the New Economy: Entrepreneurial Mindset.

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.

MAN X85L. Leading for Impact for Executives.

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

MAN X85S. Leading For Impact Capstone.

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

MAN X85T. Leading for Impact I.

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

MAN X85U. Leading for Impact II.

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

MAN X90. Topics in Seminar: Organization Science.

Intensive analysis of organizational science issues.

MAN X90.1. Research in Organizational Science.

MAN X90.11. Management of Knowledge Workers.

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.

MAN X90.12. Longitudinal Analysis.

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

MAN X90.2. Introduction to Research Methods in Management.

MAN X90.3. Research Methods in Management.

MAN X90.4. Seminar in Organizational Behavior.

MAN X90.5. Seminar in Organization Theory.

MAN X90.6. Organizational Decision Making.

MAN X90.9. Behavioral Decision Theory.

MAN X91S. Independent Study.

MAN X93. Topics in Seminar: Strategic Management.

Intensive analysis of strategic management issues.

MAN X93.1. Foundations of Strategic Management.

MAN X93.2. Contemporary Issues in Strategic Management.

MAN X93.3. Research in Strategic Management.

MAN X93.5. Executive Leadership.

MAN X93.6. Management of Diversification.

MAN X98. Thesis.

MAN X98R. Master's Report.

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