Teaching

This course offers an in-depth examination of the entrepreneurial process from a theoretical perspective, designed for students already familiar with basic management principles and financial analysis. Instead of focusing on practical applications like business plan writing, the course aims to explore the underlying theories of entrepreneurship across various disciplines including management, psychology, sociology, and economics. Through a blend of case studies, simulation exercises, and academic articles, students engage with topics crucial to the entrepreneurial journey. These include founding new ventures, team formation dynamics, prototype development, securing financial resources, and strategizing for growth and potential exit plans. The course not only enhance understanding of current entrepreneurial approaches but also sharpen decision-making skills, preparing students for potential entrepreneurial endeavors. By focusing on the theoretical foundations, the course cultivates an opportunity-focused, creative mindset essential for spotting and exploiting business opportunities. 

This course focuses on the structural dynamics of organizations and how they motivate and coordinate individual efforts to achieve collective goals. It covers both traditional and modern organizational forms, with particular attention to changes driven by globalization, network economies, the Internet, big data, and crowdsourcing. Through interactive case studies and in-class debates, students critically analyze and engage with the challenges and opportunities inherent in organizational design. This course is designed to enhance students' critical thinking about organizational structures and their transformation, preparing them for strategic roles in organizational development and management across diverse environments. 

This course explores the strategic management of a workforce, focusing on the intricate relationship between employee decisions and organizational goals. It examines how individual characteristics, alongside organizational contexts like rewards and incentives, influence employee behavior. The course emphasizes crafting and managing employment relationships to align employees' aspirations with organizational needs. Utilizing evidence-based decision-making and analytical techniques, students analyze HR strategies across three main subsections: Establishing, Defining, and Transforming Employment Relationships. During the course students engage with various human resource levers, such as recruitment, job design, training, and performance management. The curriculum prepares students to implement strategic HR practices that enhance organizational performance and adaptability in dynamic organizational environments . 

This course examines the critical role of teams within modern organizations, emphasizing the design of high-performing teams and the creation of conditions conducive to innovative solutions, effective decision-making, and high-quality outputs. The course integrates theoretical frameworks with practical skills necessary for leading and managing dynamic groups. Students learn core concepts such as group dynamics, performance diagnosis, and strategic interventions. Practical application of these concepts occurs through in-class activities and experiential exercises that simulate real-world team challenges, offering students hands-on experience in managing group situations. This approach underscores the necessity of applying theoretical knowledge to practical scenarios, equipping students with the skills to enhance team capabilities and performance in their roles as managers. 

This course focuses on the intricacies of managing global virtual teams, addressing the unique challenges posed by cultural and time zone differences in the modern, post-pandemic work environment. Through a blend of lectures, discussions, and hands-on group exercises, the course aims to enhance students' skills in navigating group dynamics, diagnosing performance issues, and designing effective interventions for distributed teams. Students participate in real-time simulations that highlight communication barriers and cultural nuances, preparing them to effectively lead and coordinate teams that are geographically and culturally diverse. The course emphasizes active participation and practical application, offering a comprehensive approach to developing essential management skills for global virtual teams. 

This course examines the influence of non-market environments on business strategies, focusing on how firms interact with a variety of stakeholders such as regulatory bodies, legislatures, courts, media, social activists, NGOs, and IGOs. We explore the roles of state and society in impacting and being impacted by business actions, alongside the tools firms can use to respond to challenges from these stakeholders. The curriculum, designed around case studies and current media accounts, equips students with the skills to analyze, manage, and integrate non-market and market considerations into comprehensive business strategies. Participants also engage with academic readings to gain empirical insights into non-market strategy, enhancing their ability to "do well" by "doing good" in a complex business environment.