MAN X85 MAN 185, 285, 385 Current Topics in Strategic Management 1-3 Hours
1,2,3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
For 185, one hour a week for a semester; for 285, four lecture hours a week for half a semester; for 385, three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.
Restrictions: Restricted to graduate students in the McCombs School of Business.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Action Skills for Managers: Implementing Strategy.
Topic 2: The Art of Leadership.
Topic 3: Health Care Management. Management 385 (Topic 3) and Management Information Systems 383N (Topic 1: Health Care Management) may not both be counted.
Topic 4: Health Services Seminar.
Topic 5: Leadership, Literature, and the Individual.
Topic 6: Management Planning and Control in Complex Systems.
Topic 7: Managerial Ethics.
Topic 8: Managing Corporate Diversification and Renewal.
Topic 9: Strategic Analysis for High-Tech Industries. Management 185, 285, 385 (Topic 9) and Management Information Systems 181N, 281N, 381N (Topic 3) may not both be counted.
Topic 10: Managing Corporate Restructuring. Examine turnaround business situations, strategic and financial issues, and the operating manager's perspective. Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Executive MBA Program.
Topic 11: Cultures in Organizations.
Topic 12: Control in Organizations: Behavioral Perspectives.
Topic 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. Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Executive MBA Program.
Topic 14: Managing Product Cycle: Manufacturing and Marketing Perspectives.
Topic 15: Corporate Design Strategy.
Topic 16: Power and Politics. Covers skills and techniques to gain power and influence in organizations as political entities. Includes cases, business press, and theoretical articles.
Topic 17: Entrepreneurship.
Topic 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. Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Executive MBA Program.
Topic 19: Management Sustainability Practicum. Management 385 (Topic: Management Sustainability Prac) and 385 (Topic 19) may not both be counted.
Topic 20: Advanced Venture Development.
Topic 21: Entrepreneurial Behavior: Social and Business Aspects.
Topic 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.
Topic 23: Introduction to Entrepreneurship.
Topic 24: Entrepreneurial Growth.
Topic 25: Social and Economic Aspects of Entrepreneurship.
Topic 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. Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Executive MBA Program.
Topic 27: Leading Innovation and Change. Management 385 (Topic: Leading Innovation and Change) and 385 (Topic 27) may not both be counted.
Topic 28: Planning and Accountability Systems.
Topic 29: Entrepreneurship in Large and Small Organizations.
Topic 30: Creative and Innovative Management.
Topic 31: Economic and National Security Policies.
Topic 32: Frontline Management.
Topic 33: Managing and Marketing in the Global Arena.
Topic 34: Technology Incubator Laboratory.
Topic 35: Managing and Marketing in the Global Arena.
Topic 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.
Topic 37: Management Planning and Control Systems.
Topic 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. Management 385 (Topic: Managing Diverse Workforce) and Management 385 (Topic 38) may not both be counted.
Topic 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. Management 385 (Topic: Entrepreneurship/Incubation) and Management 385 (Topic 39) may not both be counted.
Topic 40: Natural Resources and Environmental Management I.
Topic 41: Natural Resources and Environmental Management II.
Topic 42: Human Resources Information Systems.
Topic 43: Facilitating Process Improvement.
Topic 44: Management of Large-Scale Companies.
Topic 45: Economics and National Security Policies. Offered on the letter-grade basis only.
Topic 46: Contemporary Issues in Strategic Management.
Topic 47: Entrepreneurship and New Ventures.
Topic 48: Strategic Management and Marketing. Issues related to effective management of training: assessing the need for training, choosing between in-house training and training by an external vendor, and selecting criteria and procedures for training evaluation.
Topic 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. Business Administration 188T, 288T, 388T and Management 185, 285, 385 (Topic 49) may not both be counted.
Topic 50: Frontline Management.
Topic 51: Global Management. Management 385 (Topic: Global Management) and Management 385 (Topic 51) may not both be counted.
Topic 52: Technology Incubator Laboratory.
Topic 53: Organizational Change and Strategic Renewal.
Topic 54: Entrepreneurial Behavior: Social and Business Aspects.
Topic 55: Natural Resources and Environmental Management II.
Topic 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. Management 385 (Topic: Healthcare Business Ecosystem) and 385 (Topic 56) may not both be counted.
Topic 57: Computers in Competitive Manufacturing.
Topic 58: New Enterprise Planning and Development.
Topic 59: Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy.
Topic 60: Management of the Design Process.
Topic 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.
Topic 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. Only one of the following may be counted: Management 285 (Topic 62), 385 (Topic 62), Marketing 382 (Topic: Corporate Governance).
Topic 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.
Topic 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.
Topic 65: Management Consulting Practicum. Students work in supervised teams and develop recommendations to solve a real business problem for a client firm. Additional prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Topic 67: Nutrition Entrepreneurship. Management 385 (Topic: Nutrition Entrepreneurship) and Management 385 (Topic 67) may not both be counted.
Topic 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. Management 385 (Topic: Perf and Sports Analytics) and Management 385 (Topic 68) may not both be counted.
Topic 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.
Topic 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.
Topic 71: Persuasive Communications. Explore the best practices for persuasive communication. Examine and practice the fundamentals of strong communication in business settings.
Topic 73: Opportunity Identity and Analysis. Management 385 (Topic: Opportunity Ident and Analysis) and 285 (Topic 73) may not both be counted.
Topic 74: Technology Strategy. Management 385 (Topic: Technology Strategy) and 385 (Topic 74) may not both be counted.
Topic 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. Management 385 (Topic: Energy Technology and Policy) and 385 (Topic 75) may not both be counted.
Topic 76: Business of Healthcare.
Topic 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. Management 385 (Topic: Texas Venture Labs Practicum) and Management 385 (Topic 77) may not both be counted.