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Specialization Courses
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Leadership in Business and Organization Systems Inquiry
Use a case-in-point method to learn and practice key concepts of effective leadership. Explore group dynamics and analyze how group interactions are a reflection of the adaptive challenges faced in organizations. Identify roles often played in organizations, learn reflection-in-action skills and develop a greater understanding of the many forces influencing group or team behavior.
Finance: Stakeholders and the Bottom Line
Sustainable business practice requires knowledge about financial tools needed to manage budgeting, forecasting and accounting. Also required is commitment to the triple bottom line: people, profits and the planet. Learn how to discern the financial health of an institution or business.
Marketing: Creating Customer Value
Learn the basic vocabulary, key concepts and analytical tools in the field of marketing to create and satisfy customer demand. Marketing topics include defining customer value, creating and forecasting demand, channel management and effective operations. Collaborate on a team and conduct a marketing consultation project for an organization in the community.
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Explore planning concepts and methodologies with focus on organizational life. Topics include understanding the evolution of organizational systems, diverse paradigms, spiral dynamics, self-organizing systems and systems dynamics.
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