This is an archived copy of the 2020-21 guide. To access the most recent version of the guide, please visit http://guide.berkeley.edu.
About the Program
M.E.T. at a Glance: One program, two Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees.
The Civil Engineering and Business Administration simultaneous degree is part of the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program. The M.E.T. Program aims to educate leaders with a seamless understanding of technology innovation, from idea to real-world impact.
M.E.T. students earn two Bachelor of Science degrees in one program that combines the best of the top-ranked College of Engineering and Haas School of Business. The integrated curriculum is completed in four years. Internships, career coaching and other enrichment activities provide ample opportunity for hands-on experience with innovation and entrepreneurship. Each M.E.T. cohort is small, allowing for close mentoring and a tight-knit community.
Admission to the M.E.T. Program
The M.E.T. Program seeks inquisitive, self-motivated students with a passion for finding and solving big problems. It is highly competitive and is only open to freshmen during the UC application period. Freshman admission is limited to a maximum of 50 students.
For further information, please see the M.E.T. website.
Accreditation
The B.S. program in Civil Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. The Undergraduate Business Degree Program is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
Major Requirements
In addition to the University, campus, and M.E.T. Program requirements, listed on the College Requirements tab, students must fulfill the below requirements.
General Guidelines
- A minimum of 38 upper division business units are required.
- Students must complete the College Requirements and the Major Requirements.
- Students must complete the degree program in eight semesters, not including Summer Session.
- All Haas business courses must be taken for a letter grade, including core substitutions, with the exception of UGBA 194, UGBA 198 and UGBA 199 (only offered Pass/No Pass).
- All technical courses that can be used to fulfill a requirement must be taken for a letter grade.
- Students who receive a grade of D+ or lower in a core UGBA course must repeat the course until they achieve a grade of C- or better.
- Students must complete their business prerequisite courses (including R&C) by the spring semester of their sophomore (2nd) year.
- Students in this program must adhere to all policies and procedures of the College of Engineering and the Haas School of Business.
For information regarding University and campus requirements, Reading and Composition, breadth, class schedule, minimum academic progress, and unit requirements, please see the College Requirements.
Lower Division Requirements
Code | Title | Units |
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UGBA 10 | Principles of Business | 3 |
ECON 1 | Introduction to Economics | 4 |
MATH 1A | Calculus | 4 |
MATH 1B | Calculus | 4 |
MATH 53 | Multivariable Calculus | 4 |
MATH 54 | Linear Algebra and Differential Equations | 4 |
CHEM 1A | General Chemistry | 3 |
COMPSCI C8 & STAT 88 | Foundations of Data Science and Probability and Mathematical Statistics in Data Science | 7 |
PHYSICS 7A | Physics for Scientists and Engineers | 4 |
PHYSICS 7B | Physics for Scientists and Engineers | 4 |
ENGIN 7 | Introduction to Computer Programming for Scientists and Engineers | 4 |
CIV ENG 11 | Engineered Systems and Sustainability | 3 |
CIV ENG C30/MEC ENG C85 | Introduction to Solid Mechanics | 3 |
CIV ENG 60 | Structure and Properties of Civil Engineering Materials | 3 |
CIV ENG 93 | Engineering Data Analysis | 3 |
Basic Science Elective Complete one of the following: 1 | 3-4 | |
CIV ENG 70 | Engineering Geology | 3-4 |
or CHEM 1B | General Chemistry | |
or BIOLOGY 1B | General Biology Lecture and Laboratory | |
Reading & Composition R1A and R1B | 4-4 |
Subject Matter Requirements
Students with a specific interest within civil engineering may choose to emphasize one of the following areas in their choice of electives: engineering and project management, environmental engineering, geosystems (geoengineering), structural engineering, or transportation engineering. See the suggested courses for each area of interest.
Code | Title | Units |
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Fundamentals | ||
CIV ENG 100 | Elementary Fluid Mechanics | 3-4 |
or CIV ENG 132 | Applied Structural Mechanics | |
Engineering Fundamentals Elective - Complete one of the following: | ||
Principles & Techniques of Data Science [4] | ||
Engineering Dynamics and Vibrations [3] 2 | ||
Optimization Models in Engineering [4] | ||
Engineering Thermodynamics [4] | ||
Thermodynamics [3] | ||
Engineering Mechanics II [3] 2 | ||
CEE Applications - Complete three of the following (9 units): | ||
CIV ENG C103N/ESPM C130/GEOG C136 | Terrestrial Hydrology | 4 |
CIV ENG 111 | Environmental Engineering | 3 |
CIV ENG 120 | Structural Engineering | 3 |
CIV ENG 155 | Transportation Systems Engineering | 3 |
CIV ENG 175 | Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering | 3 |
CIV ENG 191 | Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis | 3 |
CEE Practice | ||
CIV ENG 167 | Engineering Project Management | 3 |
Capstone Design - Complete one of the following: | ||
Design for Global Transformation [3] | ||
Environmental Engineering Design [3] | ||
Design of Steel Structures and Course Not Available | ||
Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures and Course Not Available | ||
Transportation Facility Design [3] | ||
Geosystems Engineering Design [3] | ||
Life-Cycle Design and Construction [4] | ||
Design of Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities [3] | ||
CEE Extensions: Complete nine units of additional CIV ENG courses 3 |
1 | The Basic Science Elective cannot be fulfilled with an exam score. |
2 | Students cannot receive credit for both CIV ENG 126 and MEC ENG 104. |
3 | CEE Extensions-Nine letter-graded units chosen from upper division CIV ENG courses not being counted toward other major requirements. Students may use up to three units of CIV ENG graduate courses numbered 200-295, taken Fall 2017 or later, toward their CEE Extensions units. Students must have a technical GPA of 3.0 or higher to obtain permission to enroll in CIV ENG graduate courses. Students may receive up to three units of credit toward their CEE Extensions units for work on a research project in CIV ENG H194 (Honors Undergraduate Research). |
Code | Title | Units |
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Upper Division Business Administration Requirements | ||
UGBA 100 | Business Communication | 2 |
UGBA 101A | Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions | 3 |
UGBA 101B | Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions | 3 |
UGBA 102A | Financial Accounting | 3 |
UGBA 102B | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
UGBA 103 | Introduction to Finance | 4 |
UGBA 104 | Introduction to Business Analytics | 3 |
UGBA 105 | Leading People | 3 |
UGBA 106 | Marketing | 3 |
UGBA 107 | The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business | 3 |
M.E.T. Special Topics | ||
Two courses are required. 1 | 2-2 | |
Upper Division Business Administration Elective Courses | ||
Select a minimum of 4-6 units of upper division UGBA elective courses in order to complete a minimum of 38 units of upper division Business Administration courses. | 4-6 | |
UGBA 115 | Course Not Available | |
Special Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy [1-4] | ||
International Trade [3] | ||
UGBA 119 | Course Not Available | |
Intermediate Financial Accounting 1 [4] | ||
Intermediate Financial Accounting 2 [4] | ||
Advanced Financial Accounting [4] | ||
Federal Income Tax Accounting [4] | ||
Financial Information Analysis [4] | ||
Operating and Financial Reporting Issues in the Financial Services Industry [3] | ||
Auditing [4] | ||
Special Topics in Accounting [1-4] | ||
Strategic Cost Management [3] | ||
Corporate Finance and Financial Statement Analysis [3] | ||
Financial Institutions and Markets [3] | ||
Investments [3] | ||
Behavioral Finance [3] | ||
Special Topics in Finance [1-4] | ||
Production and Operations Management [2-3] | ||
Game Theory and Business Decisions [3] | ||
Special Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management [1-4] | ||
Management of Human Resources [3] | ||
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution [3] | ||
Power and Politics in Organizations [2,3] | ||
Leadership [3] | ||
Special Topics in the Management of Organizations [1-4] | ||
Customer Insights [3] | ||
Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis [3] | ||
Brand Management and Strategy [3] | ||
Product Branding and Branded Entertainment [2] | ||
Advertising Strategy [3] | ||
Special Topics in Marketing [1-4] | ||
Pricing [3] | ||
History of American Business [3] | ||
Legal Aspects of Management [3] | ||
Innovations in Communications and Public Relations [2] | ||
Special Topics in Business and Public Policy [1-4] | ||
Introduction to International Business [3] | ||
International Consulting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises [3] | ||
Introduction to Real Estate and Urban Land Economics [3] | ||
Introduction to Real Estate Finance [3] | ||
Urban and Real Estate Economics [3] | ||
Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance [1-4] | ||
Strategy for the Information Technology Firm [3] | ||
Special Topics in Innovation and Design [1-4] | ||
Communication for Leaders [2] | ||
Improvisational Leadership [3] | ||
Leadership and Personal Development [3] | ||
Leading Nonprofit and Social Enterprises [3] | ||
Strategic Philanthropy [2] | ||
Applied Impact Evaluation [2] | ||
Topics in Social Sector Leadership [1-5] | ||
Sustainable Business Consulting Projects [3] | ||
Topics in Responsible Business [1-4] | ||
Energy & Civilization [4] | ||
Practical Training [0.0] | ||
Business Abroad [1-4] | ||
Undergraduate Colloquium on Business Topics [1] | ||
Entrepreneurship [3] | ||
Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully start a New Business [3] | ||
Entrepreneurship To Address Global Poverty [3] | ||
Topics in Entrepreneurship [1-3] | ||
Special Topics in Business Administration [1-4] | ||
Directed Study [1-4] | ||
Supervised Independent Study and Research [1-4] |
1 | M.E.T. Special Topics courses will count as upper division business units. |
College Requirements
University of California Requirements
All students who enter the University of California as freshmen must demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling the Entry Level Writing Requirement. Fulfillment of this requirement is also a prerequisite to enrollment in all reading and composition courses at UC Berkeley.
American History and American Institutions
The American History and Institutions requirements are based on the principle that a US resident who graduates from an American university should have an understanding of the history and governmental institutions of the United States.
Campus Requirement
American Cultures (AC) is the one requirement that all undergraduate students at UC Berkeley need to take and pass in order to graduate. The requirement offers an exciting intellectual environment centered on the study of race, ethnicity, and culture of the United States. AC courses offer students opportunities to be part of research-led, highly accomplished teaching environments, grappling with the complexity of American culture.
M.E.T. Program Requirements
Reading and Composition
Two Reading and Composition (R&C) courses must be taken for a letter grade (C- or better required), and must be completed by no later than the end of the sophomore year (4th semester of enrollment). The first half of R&C, the “A” course, must be completed by the end of the freshman year; the second half of R&C, the “B “course, by no later than the end of the sophomore year or a student's registration will be blocked. View a detailed list of courses that fulfill Reading and Composition requirements.
Breadth Requirement
The undergraduate breadth requirement provides Berkeley students with a rich and varied educational experience outside of their major program. As the foundation of a liberal arts education, breadth courses give students a view into the intellectual life of the University while introducing them to a multitude of perspectives and approaches to research and scholarship. Engaging students in new disciplines and with peers from other majors, the breadth experience strengthens interdisciplinary connections and context that prepare Berkeley graduates to understand and solve the complex issues of their day.
Students in the M.E.T. Program must successfully complete six breadth courses, one in each of the following categories:
Arts and Literature
Historical Studies
International Studies
Philosophy and Values (will be satisfied with UGBA 107)
Physical Science (will be satisfied with Physics 7B)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (will be satisfied with Econ 1)
- With the exception of UGBA 107, UGBA courses cannot be used to fulfill breadth requirements.
- With the exception of Econ 1 or Econ 2, microeconomics and macroeconomics at any level (Econ 3, Econ 100A/B, Econ 101A/B, IAS 106/107) cannot be used to fulfill breadth requirements.
- No more than two courses from any one department may be used to satisfy the breadth requirement (L&S Discovery courses are exempt).
- Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and A-Level exams cannot be used to fulfill the breadth requirement.
- Courses numbered 97, 98, 99, or above 196 may not be used to complete any breadth requirement.
- Breadth courses must be a minimum of 3 semester units.
- Reading & Composition courses cannot be used to fulfill breadth requirements.
Class Schedule Requirements
- Minimum units per semester: 13
- Maximum units per semester: 20.5
- Students in the M.E.T. Program must enroll each semester in no fewer than two letter graded technical courses (of at least 3 units each, with the exception of Engineering 25, 26, and 27). Every semester they are expected to make satisfactory progress in their declared major; satisfactory progress in the student's declared major is determined by their ESS advisor.
Minimum Academic (Grade) Requirements
- A minimum overall and semester grade point average of 2.000 (C average) is required. Students will be subject to dismissal from the University if during any fall or spring semester their overall U.C. GPA falls below a 2.000, or their semester GPA is less than 2.000.
- Students must achieve a minimum GPA of 2.000 (C average) in upper division technical courses each semester. Students will be subject to dismissal from the University if their upper division technical GPA falls below 2.000.
- A minimum overall GPA of 2.000, and a minimum 2.000 GPA in upper division technical course work required of the major are required to graduate.
Unit Requirements
- A minimum of 120 units are required to graduate.
- A maximum of 16 units of Special Studies coursework (courses numbered 97, 98, 99, 197, 198, or 199) will count towards the 120 units; a maximum of four are allowed in a given semester.
- A maximum of four units of Physical Education from any school attended will count towards the 120 units.
- Passed grades may account for no more than one-third of the total units completed at UC Berkeley, Fall Program for Freshmen (FPF), UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP), or UC Berkeley Washington Program (UCDC) toward the 120 overall minimum unit requirement. Transfer credit is not factored into the limit. This includes transfer units from outside of the UC system, other UC campuses, credit-bearing exams, as well as UC Berkeley Extension XB units.
UC and Campus Requirements
University of California Requirements
All students who will enter the University of California as freshmen must demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling the Entry Level Writing Requirement. Satisfaction of this requirement is also a prerequisite to enrollment in all Reading and Composition courses at UC Berkeley.
American History and American Institutions
The American History and Institutions requirements are based on the principle that a U.S. resident graduated from an American university should have an understanding of the history and governmental institutions of the United States.
Campus Requirement
The American Cultures requirement is a Berkeley campus requirement, one that all undergraduate students at Berkeley need to pass in order to graduate. You satisfy the requirement by passing, with a grade not lower than C- or P, an American Cultures course. You may take an American Cultures course any time during your undergraduate career at Berkeley. The requirement was instituted in 1991 to introduce students to the diverse cultures of the United States through a comparative framework. Courses are offered in more than fifty departments in many different disciplines at both the lower and upper division level.
The American Cultures requirement and courses constitute an approach that responds directly to the problem encountered in numerous disciplines of how better to present the diversity of American experience to the diversity of American students whom we now educate.
Faculty members from many departments teach American Cultures courses, but all courses have a common framework. The courses focus on themes or issues in United States history, society, or culture; address theoretical or analytical issues relevant to understanding race, culture, and ethnicity in American society; take substantial account of groups drawn from at least three of the following: African Americans, indigenous peoples of the United States, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, and European Americans; and are integrative and comparative in that students study each group in the larger context of American society, history, or culture.
This is not an ethnic studies requirement, nor a Third World cultures requirement, nor an adjusted Western civilization requirement. These courses focus upon how the diversity of America's constituent cultural traditions have shaped and continue to shape American identity and experience.
Visit the Class Schedule or the American Cultures website for the specific American Cultures courses offered each semester. For a complete list of approved American Cultures courses at UC Berkeley and California Community Colleges, please see the American Cultures Subcommittee’s website. See your academic adviser if you have questions about your responsibility to satisfy the American Cultures breadth requirement.
Plan of Study
Freshman | |||
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Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
MATH 1A1 | 4 | MATH 1B6 | 4 |
CHEM 1A2 | 3 | PHYSICS 7A7 | 4 |
COMPSCI C8 & STAT 8812 | 6 | UGBA 10 | 3 |
Reading & Composition Part A Course5 | 4 | CIV ENG 93 | 3 |
M.E.T. Special Topics Course (UGBA 196)13 | 2 | Breadth - International Studies3 | 4 |
19 | 18 | ||
Sophomore | |||
Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
MATH 53 | 4 | MATH 54 | 4 |
PHYSICS 7B (Breadth - Physical Science)3 | 4 | CIV ENG C30 (Cross-listed with MECH ENG C85) | 3 |
Basic Science Elective8 | 3 | ENGIN 7 | 4 |
Reading & Composition Part B Course5 | 4 | ECON 1 or 2 (Breadth - Social and Behavioral Sciences)3,4 | 4 |
Breadth - Historical Studies/AC3 | 4 | CIV ENG 60 | 3 |
19 | 18 | ||
Junior | |||
Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
CIV ENG 100 or 132 | 3-4 | CIV ENG 11 | 3 |
UGBA 100 | 2 | UGBA 101B | 3 |
UGBA 101A | 3 | UGBA 107 (Breadth - Philosophy & Values)3 | 3 |
UGBA 105 | 3 | UGBA 102A | 3 |
CEE Applications Elective9 | 3 | CEE Applications Elective9 | 3 |
Engineering Fundamentals Elective15 | 3-4 | CEE Applications Elective9 | 3 |
UGBA Elective14 | 2 | ||
17-19 | 20 | ||
Senior | |||
Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
CIV ENG 167 | 3 | UGBA 102B | 3 |
UGBA 103 | 4 | UGBA 106 | 3 |
UGBA 104 | 3 | CEE Extensions Electives10 | 3 |
CEE Extensions Electives10 | 3 | CEE Extensions Electives10 | 3 |
Breadth - Arts and Literature/AC (Upper Div)3 | 4 | Capstone Design11 | 4 |
M.E.T. Special Topics (UGBA 196)13 | 2 | UGBA Elective14 | 2 |
19 | 18 | ||
Total Units: 148-150 |
1 | MATH 1A may be fulfilled with a score of 3, 4 or 5 on the AP Calculus AB or BC exam, a score of 5, 6 or 7 on the IB Higher Level Math exam, or a grade of A, B or C on the A-Level Math H1, H2, H3, Pure Math or Further Math exam. |
2 | CHEM 1A may be fulfilled with a score of 3, 4 or 5 on the AP Chemistry exam, a score of 5, 6 or 7 on the IB Higher Level Chemistry exam, or a grade of A, B or C on the A-Level Chemistry exam. |
3 | ECON 1 or ECON 2 and UGBA 107 will be accepted for the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Philosophy and Values breadth requirements, respectively, as exceptions for students in the M.E.T. Program. The Biological Science breadth requirement is waived for students in the M.E.T. Program. Some American Cultures courses will also fulfill the Arts & Literature or Historical Studies breadth requirement; use Requirements filters to search the Class Schedule for courses that apply. See College Requirements |
4 | Econ 1 may be fulfilled with scores of 4 or 5 on both the AP Microeconomics exam and AP Macroeconomics exam. However, the Social and Behavioral Sciences Breadth requirement cannot be fulfilled with AP exam scores. |
5 | Reading & Composition part A may be fulfilled with a score of 4 or 5 on the AP English Language and Composition exam or the AP English Literature and Composition exam, or a score of 5, 6 or 7 on the IB Higher Level English Literature exam or the IB Higher Level English Language and Literature exam. A 5 on the AP English Literature and Composition exam, or a score of 5 or higher on the IB Higher Level English Language and Literature exam will fulfill Reading & Composition part A and part B. |
6 | MATH 1B may be fulfilled with a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam, a score of 5, 6 or 7 on the IB Higher Level Math exam, or a grade of A, B or C on the A-Level Math H2, H3, Pure Math or Further Math exam. |
7 | PHYSICS 7A may be fulfilled with a score of 5 on the AP Physics C Mechanics exam. |
8 | Basic Science Elective - Choose one course from the following: BIOLOGY 1B, CHEM 1B, or CIV ENG 70. The Basic Science Elective cannot be fulfilled with an exam score. |
9 | CEE Applications - Choose three courses (9 units) from the following: CIV ENG C103N/ESPM C130/GEOG C136, CIV ENG 111, CIV ENG 120, CIV ENG 155, CIV ENG 175, CIV ENG 191. |
10 | CEE Extensions - Complete nine (9) letter-graded units chosen from upper division CIV ENG courses not being counted toward other engineering major requirements. Students may use up to three units of CIV ENG graduate courses numbered 200-295, taken Fall 2017 or later, toward their CEE Extensions units. Students must have a technical GPA of 3.0 or higher to obtain permission to enroll in CEE graduate courses. Students may receive up to three units of credit toward their CEE Extensions units for work on a research project in CIV ENG H194 (Honors Undergraduate Research). |
11 | Capstone Design - Choose one course from the following: CIV ENG 105, CIV ENG 112, CIV ENG 122N and CIV ENG 122L, CIV ENG 123N and CIV ENG 123L, CIV ENG 153, CIV ENG 179, CIV ENG 180, CIV ENG 186. |
12 | Students must take STAT C8, COMPSCI C8, DATA C8 or INFO C8 plus STAT 88 or UGBA 96 - Data Decisions to fulfill the statistics prerequisite for business and the data science requirement for CE. Both courses must be taken to satisfy the requirement, although they do not need to be taken in the same semester. |
13 | M.E.T. Special Topics courses will count as upper division business units. |
14 | Students must complete a minimum of 38 units of upper division business coursework. See UGBA Elective course list under “Major Requirements” tab. |
15 | Engineering Fundamentals Elective - choose one course from the following: CIV ENG 126, ENGIN 40, MEC ENG 40, MEC ENG 104, EECS 127, or COMPSCI C100/DATA C100/STAT C100. Students cannot receive credit for both MEC ENG 104 and CIV ENG 126. |
Courses
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
An introduction to key engineered systems (e.g., energy, water supply, buildings, transportation) and their environmental impacts. Basic principles of environmental science needed to understand natural processes as they are influenced by human activities. Overview of concepts and methods of sustainability analysis. Critical evaluation of engineering approaches to address sustainability.
Engineered Systems and Sustainability: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Harley, Horvath, Nelson
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
A review of equilibrium for particles and rigid bodies. Application to truss structures. The concepts of deformation, strain, and stress. Equilibrium equations for a continuum. Elements of the theory of linear elasticity. The states of plane stress and plane strain. Solution of elementary elasticity problems (beam bending, torsion of circular bars). Euler buckling in elastic beams.
Introduction to Solid Mechanics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Mathematics 53 and 54 (may be taken concurrently); Physics 7A
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Mechanical Engineering C85/Civil and Environmental Engineering C30 after completing Mechanical Engineering W85. A deficient grade in Mechanical Engineering W85 may be removed by taking Mechanical Engineering C85/Civil and Environmental Engineering C30.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
10 weeks - 4.5 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Armero, Papadopoulos, Zohdi, Johnson
Also listed as: MEC ENG C85
Terms offered: Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Summer 2020 8 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session
A review of equilibrium for particles and rigid bodies. Application to truss structures. The concepts of deformation, strain, and stress. Equilibrium equations for a continuum. Elements of the theory of linear elasticity. The states of plane stress and plane strain. Solution of elementary elasticity problems (beam bending, torsion of circular bars). Euler buckling in elastic beams.
Introduction to Solid Mechanics: Read More [+]
Objectives & Outcomes
Course Objectives: To learn statics and mechanics of materials
Student Learning Outcomes: -
Correctly draw free-body
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Apply the equations of equilibrium to two and three-dimensional solids
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Understand the concepts of stress and strain
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Ability to calculate deflections in engineered systems
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Solve simple boundary value problems in linear elastostatics (tension, torsion, beam bending)
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: MATH 53 and MATH 54 (may be taken concurrently); PHYSICS 7A
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for MEC ENG W85 after completing MEC ENG C85. A deficient grade in MEC ENG W85 may be removed by taking MEC ENG C85.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of web-based lecture and 1 hour of web-based discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of web-based lecture and 2.5 hours of web-based discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture and 2 hours of web-based discussion per week
10 weeks - 4.5 hours of web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of web-based discussion per week
Online: This is an online course.
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Govindjee
Also listed as: MEC ENG W85
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Introduction to structure and properties of civil engineering materials such as asphalt, cements, concrete, geological materials (e.g. soil and rocks), steel, polymers, and wood. The properties range from elastic, plastic and fracture properties to porosity and thermal and environmental responses. Laboratory tests include evaluation of behavior of these materials under a wide range of conditions.
Structure and Properties of Civil Engineering Materials: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Monteiro, Ostertag
Structure and Properties of Civil Engineering Materials: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Principles of physical and structural geology; the influence of geological factors on engineering works and the environment. Field trip.
Engineering Geology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CHEM 1A (may be taken concurrently)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 4 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Glaser, Sitar
Terms offered: Spring 2017
In this course, we will pursue analysis of long-term records of coastal water levels in the context of sea level rise. We will cover the collection, evaluation, visualization and analysis of time series data using long-term records of sea levels from coastal sites around the world. Specific topics will include extreme events and distributions, frequency-based descriptions, averaging, filtering, harmonic analysis, trend identification, extrapolations, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Time Series Analysis: Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Concurrent or prior enrollment in Foundations of Data Science (COMPSCI C8 / INFO C8 / STAT C8) and MATH 1A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Stacey
Time Series Analysis: Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Cities become more dependent on the data flows that connect infrastructures between themselves, and users to infrastructures. Design and operation of smart, efficient, and resilient cities nowadays require data science skills. This course provides an introduction to working with data generated within transportation systems, power grids, communication networks, as well as collected via crowd-sensing and remote sensing technologies, to build demand- and supply-side urban services based on data analytics.
Data Science for Smart Cities: Read More [+]
Objectives & Outcomes
Course Objectives: Become familiar with urban big data and sensor data collection techniques.
Develop intuition in various machine learning classification algorithms, as well as regression modelling.
Develop intuition in various machine learning classification algorithms, as well as regression modelling.
Foster critical thinking about real-world actionability from analytics.
Learn how to use data science techniques in urban decision-making and scenario generation.
Student Learning Outcomes: Develop capabilities in a range of data science techniques.
Gain the ability to solve problems in smart city research and practice.
Think critically about how to assess analytics for cities.
Use data analytics in the smart city domain.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: This course is a Data Science connector course and is meant to be taken concurrent with or after Foundations of Data Science COMPSCI C8/INFO C8/STAT C8. Students may take more than one Data Science connector course if they wish, concurrently or after taking the C8 course
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Gonzalez
Formerly known as: Civil and Environmental Engineering 88
Also listed as: CY PLAN C88
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
A course designed to familiarize the entering student with the nature and scope of civil and environmental engineering and its component specialty areas.
Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2020
Hands-on engineering design experience for creating future infrastructure systems. Intelligent infrastructure systems leverage data and computational to enhance sustainability and resilience for smart cities of the future. Student teams identify a challenge with current transportation, energy, water, waste, and/or the built infrastructure. Student teams design and prototype an innovation that solves this problem using maker resources, e.g. 3D printing, laser cutters, and open-source electronics. The project will be executing via the "Design Sprint" process, which is popular in agile development and Silicon Valley. Students present projects to guest judges from industry. Course is an introductory design experience for first-year students.
Design for Future Infrastructure Systems: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Moura
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Application of the concepts and methods of probability theory and statistical inference to CEE problems and data; graphical data analysis and sampling; elements of set theory; elements of probability theory; random variables and expectation; simulation; statistical inference. Use of computer programming languages for analysis of CEE-related data and problems. The course also introduces the student to various domains of uncertainty analysis in CEE.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: ENGIN 7 or COMPSCI C8 / INFO C8 / STAT C8. Student should consult instructor prior to enrolling
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit after taking Statistics 25.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture and 7.5 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Hansen, Rubin, Walker
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Supervised group study and research by lower division students.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Supervised independent study by lower division students.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Freshman or sophomore standing and consent of instructor. Minimum grade point average of 3.3 required
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Fluid statics and dynamics, including laboratory experiments with technical reports. Fundamentals: integral and differential formulations of the conservation laws are solved in special cases such as boundary layers and pipe flow. Flow visualization and computation techniques are introduced using Matlab. Empirical equations are used for turbulent flows, drag, pumps, and open channels. Principles of empirical equations are also discussed: dimensional analysis, regression, and uncertainty.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: PHYSICS 7A, MATH 53, and ENGIN 7 (may be taken concurrently); and CIV ENG C30 / MEC ENG C85 recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Chow, Stacey, Variano
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Course addresses principles and practical aspects of hydrology. Topics in introduction to hydrology include hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, snow and snowmelt, and streamflow; introduction to geomorphology, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications, theory of unit hydrograph, frequency analysis, flood routing through reservoirs and rivers; introduction to rainfall-runoff analyses, watershed modeling, urban hydrology, and introduction to groundwater hydrology.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 93 and CIV ENG 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Thompson
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2014
A quantitative introduction to the hydrology of the terrestrial environment including lower atmosphere, watersheds, lakes, and streams. All aspects of the hydrologic cycle, including precipitation, infiltration, evapotranspiration, overland flow, streamflow, and groundwater flow. Chemistry and dating of groundwater and surface water. Development of quantitative insights through problem solving and use of simple models. This course requires one field experiment and several group computer lab assignments.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CHEM 1A, MATH 1A, MATH 1B, and PHYSICS 7A; or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Larsen
Also listed as: ESPM C130/GEOG C136
Terms offered: Spring 1998, Fall 1996
This course aims to introduce students to the debates and discussions about the impact of increasing human resource consumption, increasing population, and increasing human prosperity on the planet’s environmental systems that support human societies.
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Objectives & Outcomes
Course Objectives: Explain the major arguments on the sides of “planetary boundaries” and “cornucopia”
Understand the basic system dynamics view of planetary systems
Understand the main features of several of planetary boundaries that have scientific consensus
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division undergraduate standing
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for CIV ENG 104 after completing CIV ENG 104. A deficient grade in CIV ENG 104 may be removed by taking CIV ENG 104.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructors: Chow , Gadgil
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2017
Student teams will design strategies to address critical global challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and related issues, with the potential for transformational change. Project topics will vary. Students will explore global to local scales using principles and practices from design science, systems thinking, regenerative design, circular economy, environmental justice, science communication, data visualization, and numerical modeling, among other disciplines.
Design for Global Transformation: Read More [+]
Objectives & Outcomes
Course Objectives: Create a multi-media exhibit to clearly communicate your findings and strategy
Iteratively design a comprehensive strategy to address your team’s global challenge
To gain familiarity with relevant design and engineering tools, including data visualization and simulation and modeling
Work strategically and collaboratively with fellow students in a design team
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: At least one of the following courses: CIV ENG C103N / ESPM C130 / GEOG C136, CIV ENG 111, CIV ENG 120, CIV ENG 155, CIV ENG 175, or CIV ENG 191; or instructor’s permission
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Chow
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018
This course is an introduction to air pollution and the chemistry of earth's atmosphere. We will focus on the fundamental natural processes controlling trace gas and aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere, and how anthropogenic activity has affected those processes at the local, regional, and global scales. Specific topics include stratospheric ozone depletion, increasing concentrations of green house gasses, smog, and changes in the oxidation capacity of the troposphere.
Air Pollution: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CHEM 1A, CHEM 1B, and PHYSICS 8A or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Goldstein
Also listed as: EPS C180/ESPM C180
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Assessment of technological options for responding to climate change. Overview of climate-change science; sources, sinks, and atmospheric dynamics of greenhouse gases. Current systems for energy supply and use. Renewable energy resources, transport, storage, and transformation technologies. Technological opportunities for improving end-use energy efficiency. Recovery, sequestration, and disposal of greenhouse gases. Societal context for implementing engineered responses.
Climate Change Mitigation: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division or graduate standing in engineering or physical science, or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
This course will familiarize students with the complex infrastructure used to meet human water demands; competing uses and demands; water and wastewater infrastructure; technologies to enable recovery of water, energy, and other resources from wastewater; supply planning; trends and forecasting; costs, pricing and financing; environmental justice; methods to assess sustainability; regulatory, policy and institutional challenges; and water's contribution to other sectors (e.g., energy, food, buildings). Innovation, both barriers and opportunities, will be highlighted. California and the U.S. will be emphasized but global challenges will be discussed. Students will study, critique, and recommend improvements for a real-world system.
Water Systems of the Future: Read More [+]
Objectives & Outcomes
Course Objectives: Consider costs and tradeoffs in water supply planning under uncertainty for real-world water systems
Critically evaluate water planning and innovation potential for real-world utilities given future uncertainties and competing priorities.
Explore the innovation ecosystem in the water sector, its opportunities and challenges, and analyze case studies
Introduce the technologies that are currently in use for treating and managing water and wastewater, as well as innovations that have the potential to dramatically change water infrastructure.
Provide overview and examples of concepts and methods for analyzing the sustainability of water systems
Provide overview of the complex infrastructure systems that supply and manage water and wastewater.
Student Learning Outcomes: Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. MODERATE
Ability to communicate effectively. EXTENSIVE
Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. MODERATE
Ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams. EXTENSIVE
Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. MODERATE
Ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. MODERATE
Knowledge of contemporary issues. EXTENSIVE
Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning. EXTENSIVE
Understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. EXTENSIVE
Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. EXTENSIVE
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division status or consent of the instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Nelson
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Quantitative overview of air and water contaminants and their engineering control. Elementary environmental chemistry and transport. Reactor models. Applications of fundamentals to selected current issues in water quality engineering, air quality engineering, air quality engineering, and hazardous waste management.
Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing in engineering or physical sciences, or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Alvarez-Cohen, Nelson, Sedlak
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
This laboratory course is designed to accompany the lecture topics in Civil Engineering 111. Each laboratory activity will provide an opportunity to understand key concepts in water and air quality through hands-on experimentation. Laboratory topics include phase partitioning, acid/base reactions, redox reactions, biochemical oxygen demand, absorption, gas transfer, reactor hydraulics, particle destablization, disinfection, and combustion emissions.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 111 (may be taken concurrently)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Alvarez-Cohen, Nelson, Sedlak
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Engineering design and project management of environmental systems. Students will complete a design project focusing on pollution control in a selected environmental system. Lectures and project activities will address process design, economic optimization, legal and institutional constraints on design, and project management. Additional components of design (e.g., hydraulics, engineering sustainability, plant structures) will be included.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 100 and CIV ENG 111
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Ecological engineering approaches for treating contaminated water using natural processes to improve water quality. Emphasis on combining basic science and engineering approaches to understand the fundamental processes that govern the effectiveness of complex natural treatment systems. Applications include constructed wetlands, waste stabilization ponds, stormwater bioretention, decentralized wastewater management, ecological sanitation. Laboratory sessions will consist of design and monitoring of laboratory and full-scale natural treatment systems, including a range of water quality measurements.
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Objectives & Outcomes
Course Objectives: Become familiar with common applications of natural treatment systems through lectures, reading materials, laboratory activities, and field trips
Develop a solid understanding of the fundamental processes in ecological engineering approaches to natural treatment systems that govern the removal or transformation of contaminants in water
Learn common design approaches for waste stabilization ponds and wetlands, as well as their necessary operation and maintenance activities
Measure key water quality parameters and evaluate the performance of mesocosm ponds and wetlands based on the data collected throughout the semester
Understand and appreciate the complexity of these systems compared to mechanical treatment systems
Student Learning Outcomes: Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. EXTENSIVE
Ability to communicate effectively. MODERATE
Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. EXTENSIVE
Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. EXTENSIVE
Ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams. MODERATE
Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. EXTENSIVE
Ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. EXTENSIVE
Knowledge of contemporary issues. MODERATE
Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning. MODERATE
Understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. MODERATE
Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. MODERATE
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 111 or consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Civ Eng 113N
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Nelson
Formerly known as: Civil and Environmental Engineering 113N
Ecological Engineering for Water Quality Improvement: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
The scope of modern environmental engineering requires a fundamental knowledge of microbial processes with specific application to water, wastewater and the environmental fate of pollutants. This course will cover basic microbial physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, growth energetics and kinetics, ecology, pathogenicity, and genetics for application to both engineered and natural environmental systems.
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Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Alvarez-Cohen
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
The application of principles of inorganic, physical, and dilute solution equilibrium chemistry to aquatic systems, both in the aquatic environment and in water and wastewater treatment processes.
Water Chemistry: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division or graduate standing in engineering or physical science, or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Sedlak
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2018
Chemical mechanisms of reactions controlling the fate and mobility of nutrients and pollutants in soils. Role of soil minerals and humus in geochemical pathways of nutrient biovailability and pollutant detoxification. Chemical modeling of nutrient and pollutant soil chemistry. Applications to soil acidity and salinity.
Chemistry of Soils: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 111
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Also listed as: ESPM C128
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Introduction to design and analysis of structural systems. Loads and load placement. Proportioning of structural members in steel, reinforced concrete, and timber. Structural analysis theory. Hand and computer analysis methods, validation of results from computer analysis. Applications, including bridges, building frames, and long-span cable structures.
Structural Engineering: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG C30 / MEC ENG C85 and CIV ENG 60 (may be taken concurrently)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Moehle
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2015
A first course in steel design focusing on basic principles. Introduction to materials and methods of steel construction; behavior and design of tension members, compression members, flexural members and beam-columns; design of welds, bolts, shear connections, and moment connections. Includes laboratory sessions to illustrate member behavior. By the end of the course students should be able to design simple steel structures subjected to static gravity and lateral loads. Design teams will conceive, determine design loads, and conduct a preliminary and final design of a structural system and its foundation. Teams will prepare a report containing project description, design criteria, structural drawings, and supporting calculations.
Design of Steel Structures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 120
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for CIV ENG 122 after completing CIV ENG 122N, or CIV ENG 122. A deficient grade in CIV ENG 122 may be removed by taking CIV ENG 122N, or CIV ENG 122.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Becker
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Introduction to materials and methods of steel construction; behavior and design of tension members, compression members, flexural members and beam-columns; design of welds, bolts, shear connections and moment connections; design of spread footings or other foundation elements, inroduction to design of earthquake-resistant steel structures including concentrically braced frames and moment frames.
Design of Steel Structures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 120
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Becker
Formerly known as: Civil and Environmental Engineering 122
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2015, Spring 2012
Introduction to materials and methods of reinforced concrete design and construction; behavior and design of reinforced concrete beams and one-way slabs considering deflections, moment, shear, and reinforcement development requirements; behavior and design of columns; design of spread footings; design of earthquake-resistant structures; laboratory sessions to illustrate member behavior, to solve problem sets, and to develop and present the preliminary designs for a design project.
Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 120
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for CIV ENG 123 after completing CIV ENG 123N, or CIV ENG 123. A deficient grade in CIV ENG 123 may be removed by taking CIV ENG 123N, or CIV ENG 123.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Moehle
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Introduction to materials and methods of reinforced concrete construction; behavior and design of reinforced concrete beams and one-way slabs considering deflections, flexure, shear, and anchorage; behavior and design of columns; design of spread footings or other foundation elements; design of earthquake-resistant structures; introduction to prestressed concrete.
Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 120
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Moehle, Mosalam
Formerly known as: Civil and Environmental Engineering 123
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Characteristics and properties of wood as a structural material; design and detailing of structural elements and entire structures of wood. Topics include allowable stresses, design and detailing of solid sawn and glulam beams and columns, nailed and bolted connections, plywood diaphragms and shear walls. Case studies.
Structural Design in Timber: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 120
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Filippou
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Introduction to the dynamics of particles, rigid bodies, and deformable solids in civil engineering. Newtonian and Lagrangian formulations. Vibration of particles and rigid body systems: natural frequencies and mode shapes, free and forced vibration. Vibration of continuous systems: bars, strings, beams. Modeling and numerical simulation methods..
Engineering Dynamics and Vibrations: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG C30 / MEC ENG C85 and ENGIN 7; or consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for CIV ENG 126 after completing MEC ENG 104. A deficient grade in CIV ENG 126 may be removed by taking MEC ENG 104, or MEC ENG 104.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Konstantinidis, DeJong
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Spring 2018
Elastic and plastic stress and deformation analysis of bars, shafts, beams, and columns; energy and variational methods; plastic analysis of structures; stability analysis of structures; computer-aided mathematical techniques for solution of engineering problems and modular computer programming methods.
Mechanics of Structures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG C30 / MEC ENG C85; and CIV ENG 60 or MAT SCI 45
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for 130N after taking 130.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 6 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Filippou, Govindjee, Li
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Concepts of theory of solid mechanics: three dimensional stress, strain, and material response; elastic and inelastic boundary value problems; fracture, fatigue, and geometric instability. Problems in advanced strength of materials; thin plate and axis-symmetric shell theory.
Applied Structural Mechanics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG C30 / MEC ENG C85, MATH 53 and MATH 54
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for CivEng 132 after CivEng 130N.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Govindjee, Li, Konstantinidis
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
This is an introductory course on the finite element method and is intended for seniors in engineering and applied science disciplines. The course covers the basic topics of finite element technology, including domain discretization, polynomial interpolation, application of boundary conditions, assembly of global arrays, and solution of the resulting algebraic systems. Finite element formulations for several important field equations are introduced using both direct and integral approaches. Particular emphasis is placed on computer simulation and analysis of realistic engineering problems from solid and fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and electromagnetism. The course uses FEMLAB, a multiphysics MATLAB-based finite element program that possesses a wide array of modeling capabilities and is ideally suited for instruction. Assignments will involve both paper- and computer-based exercises. Computer-based assignments will emphasize the practical aspects of finite element model construction and analysis.
Engineering Analysis Using the Finite Element Method: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Engineering 7 or 77 or Computer Science 61A; Mathematics 53 and 54; senior status in engineering or applied science
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Also listed as: MEC ENG C180
Engineering Analysis Using the Finite Element Method: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
The failure mechanisms in civil engineering materials (cement-based materials, metallic- and polymer-based materials) are associated with processing, microstructure, stress states, and environmental changes. Fracture mechanics of brittle, quasi-brittle, and ductile materials; cracking processes in monolithic, particulate, and fiber reinforced materials; examples of ductile/brittle failure transitions in civil engineering structures; retrofitting of existing structures; non-destructive techniques for damage detection.
Failure Mechanisms in Civil Engineering Materials: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 60
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Ostertag
Failure Mechanisms in Civil Engineering Materials: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
A capstone class with the objective to design transportation facilities based on operational capacity, site constraints, and environmental design considerations. Emphasis on airports, including landside and airside elements, and environmental assessment and mitigation techniques.
Transportation Facility Design: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 155
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Hansen
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019
Operation, management, control, design, and evaluation of passenger and freight transportation systems. Their economic role. Demand analysis. Overall logistical structure. Performance models and modeling techniques: time-space diagrams, queuing theory, network analysis, and simulation. Design of control strategies for simple systems. Feedback effects. Paradoxes. Transportation impact modeling; noise; air pollution. Multi-criteria evaluation and decision making. Financing and politics.
Transportation Systems Engineering: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing in engineering or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Cassidy, Daganzo, Hansen, Kanafani, Madanat
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Concrete materials: cements, supplementary cementitious materials, water, and admixtures. Sustainability analysis of concrete materials and mixtures. Development of special concretes: self-leveling concrete, high-performance concrete, and mass concrete. Consideration of sustainability of concrete construction methods used for buildings, highways, airfields, bridges, dams and other hydraulic structures. Non-destructive methods. Discussion of long-term durability. Comprehensive group projects.
Concrete Materials, Construction, and Sustainability: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 60
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Monteiro
Concrete Materials, Construction, and Sustainability: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2018
Introduction to construction engineering and field operations. The construction industry, construction methods and practice, productivity improvement, equipment selection, site layout formwork, erection of steel and concrete structures. Labs demonstrate the concepts covered. Field trips to local construction projects.
Construction Engineering: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing; CIV ENG 167 recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Horvath
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Principles of economics, decision making, and law applied to company and project management. Business ownership, liability and insurance, cash flow analysis, and financial management. Project life-cycle, design-construction interface, contracts, estimating, scheduling, cost control.
Engineering Project Management: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 93 (can be taken concurrently)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Ibbs, Tommelein
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Introduction to sensing and modeling of infrastructure system; Imagery analysis (point clouds, lidar, structure for motion, satellite); Geophysics (Synthetic-aperture radar analysis, time histories analyses); Sensor systems (distributed fiber optics, wireless sensor network, MEMS, conventional); Structural health monitoring and analysis; Infrastructure network analysis (graph theory, GIS, simulations); entrepreneurship in infrastructure and smart cities industry.
Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: ENGIN 7, CIV ENG C30, and CIV ENG 93 or equivalents
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructors: Soga , Zekkos, Kayen
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Geological and geophysical exploration for structures in rock; properties and behavior of rock masses; rock slope stability; geological engineering of underground openings; evaluation of rock foundations, including dams.
Rock Mechanics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 70 or an introductory course in physical geology; and upper division standing in engineering
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Glaser
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2001
The course will introduce junior/senior undergraduate students to the basic physical concepts of remote sensing as they relate to different earth surface processes. It will introduce students to a variety of recently developed ground, airborne, and satellite instruments and their applications to monitor and analyze environmental processes. These include active (e.g., Lidar), and passive (radiometers) sensors, optical (e.g., Landsat, MODIS), microwave (e.g., SMAP), and gravitational (e.g., GRACE) satellites.
Remote Sensing of the Environment: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for ESPM C172 after completing CIV ENG 172, or ESPM 172. A deficient grade in ESPM C172 may be removed by taking CIV ENG 172, or ESPM 172.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Girotto
Also listed as: ESPM C172
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Introduction to principles of groundwater flow, including steady and transient flow through porous media, numerical analysis, pumping tests, groundwater geology, contaminant transport, and design of waste containment systems.
Groundwater and Seepage: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior standing in engineering or science; CIV ENG 100 recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Rubin, Sitar
Terms offered: Summer 2015 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 First 6 Week Session
Engineering Geomatics is a field that integrates collections, processing, and analysis of digital geospatial data. This new field is anchored in the established field of geodetics that describes the complex shape of the Earth, elements and usage of topographic data and maps. Basic and advanced GPS satellite mapping. Digital globe technology. Advanced laser-LIDAR mapping. Quantitative terrain modeling, change detection, and analysis. Hydrogeomatics-seafloor mapping.
Engineering Geomatics: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 5 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Soil formation and identification. Engineering properties of soils. Fundamental aspects of soil characterization and response, including soil mineralogy, soil-water movement, effective stress, consolidation, soil strength, and soil compaction. Use of soils and geosynsynthetics in geotechnical and geoenvironmental applications. Introduction to site investigation techniques. Laboratory testing and evaluation of soil composition and properties.
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG C30 / MEC ENG C85 (may be taken concurrently); CIV ENG 100 recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Bray, Sitar, Soga
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Principles of environmental geotechnics applied to waste encapsulation and remediation of contaminated sites. Characterization of soils and wastes, engineering properties of soils and geosynthetics and their use in typical applications. Fate and transport of contaminants. Fundamental principles and practices in groundwater remediation. Application of environmental geotechnics in the design and construction of waste containment systems. Discussion of soil remediation and emerging technologies.
Environmental Geotechnics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 175 or consent of instructor; CIV ENG 111 and CIV ENG 173 recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Sitar
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
Principles of foundation engineering. Shear strength of soil and theories related to the analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations, and retaining structures. Structural design of foundation elements; piles, pile caps, and retaining structures. The course has a group project that incorporates both geotechnical and structural components of different foundation elements.
Foundation Engineering Design: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 175; CIV ENG 120 recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Bray
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
The theory and practice of geophysical methods for determining the subsurface distribution of physical rock and soil properties. Measurements of gravity and magnetic fields, electrical and electromagnetic fields, and seismic velocity are interpreted to map the subsurface distribution of density, magnetic susceptibility, electrical conductivity, and mechanical properties.
Applied Geophysics: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Rector
Also listed as: EPS C178
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Geosystem engineering design principles and concepts. Fundamental aspects of the geomechanical and geoenvironmental responses of soil are applied to analyze and design civil systems, such as earth dams and levees, earth retention systems, building and bridge foundations, solid-waste fills, and tailings dams. Students form teams to design geotechnical aspects of a civil project and prepare/present a design document. Field trip to a project site.
Geosystems Engineering Design: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 175
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Bray, Sitar, Soga
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Course encompasses two design aspects of a civil and environmental engineering system: 1) Design of whole system, component, or life-cycle phase, subject to engineering standards and constraints, and 2) production system design (e.g., cost estimation and control, scheduling, commercial and legal terms, site layout design). Students form teams to address real-life projects and prepare project documentation and a final presentation.
Life-Cycle Design and Construction: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 167
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Horvath
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Hands-on engineering design experience for creating cyber-physical systems, or more colloquially, "internet-of-things (IoT) systems" for smart cities. Projects overlay a software layer onto physical infrastructure to produce one integrated system. Student teams will identify a challenge with current urban systems, e.g. mobility, energy & environment, water, waste, health, security, and the built environment. Student teams design and prototype an innovation that addresses this challenge using maker resources, e.g. 3D printing, laser cutters, and open-source electronics. The project will be executing via the "Design Sprint" process, which is popular in agile development and Silicon Valley. Students present projects to industry judges.
Design of Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 191
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.).
Instructors: Moura, Sengupta
Design of Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2016
This course covers current topics of interest in civil and environmental engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester depending upon the instructor
Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Variano
Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course is organized around five real-world large-scale CEE systems problems. The problems provide the motivation for the study of quantitative tools that are used for planning or managing these systems. The problems include design of a public transportation system for an urban area, resource allocation for the maintenance of a water supply system, development of repair and replacement policies for reinforced concrete bridge decks, traffic signal control for an arterial street, scheduling in a large-scale construction project.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: CIV ENG 93 and ENGIN 7
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Bayen, Madanat, Sengupta
Formerly known as: 152
Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
A series of lectures by distinguished professionals designed to provide an appreciation of the role of science, technology, and the needs of society in conceiving projects, balancing the interplay of conflicting demands, and utilizing a variety of disciplines to produce unified and efficient systems.
The Art and Science of Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior standing in Civil Engineering
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
The Art and Science of Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Applications of probability theory and statistics in planning, analysis, and design of civil engineering systems. Development of probabilistic models for risk and reliability evaluation. Occurrence models; extreme value distributions. Analysis of uncertainties. Introduction to Bayesian statistical decision theory and its application in engineering decision-making.
Engineering Risk Analysis: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Li
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Supervised research. Students who have completed 3 or more upper division courses may pursue original research under the direction of one of the members of the staff. A final report or presentation is required. A maximum of 4 units of H194 may be used to fulfill the technical elective requirement.
Honors Undergraduate Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division technical GPA 3.3, consent of instructor and faculty advsior
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 8 units.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-10 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 6-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 10 Week Session, Spring 2021
Supervised experience in off-campus companies or tutoring/mentoring relevant to specific aspects and applications of civil engineering on or off campus. Written report required at the end of the semester.
Field Studies in Civil Engineering: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of fieldwork per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of fieldwork per week
8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of fieldwork per week
10 weeks - 1.5-6 hours of fieldwork per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Group study of a selected topic or topics in civil engineering.
Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior standing in engineering
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 10 Week Session, Summer 2021 3 Week Session
Supervised independent study.
Supervised Independent Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and major adviser. Enrollment is restricted; see the Course Number Guide for details
Credit Restrictions: Course may be repeated for a maximum of four units per semester.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
10 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
This course offers students a taste of what it’s really like to start a business. In addition to learning key foundational entrepreneurial concepts such as idea generation & evaluation, customer & product development, creating a business model, fundraising, marketing, and scaling & exiting a business, students will also hear from successful entrepreneurs who share their perspectives and best practices. Students will apply core concepts by working in teams to evaluate and select a venture idea that they will then develop throughout the semester.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Also listed as: L & S C5
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
This team-taught course provides an introduction to the study of the modern business enterprise. It consists of four modules, the order of which may vary from semester to semester, and an online business simulation that runs during most of the semester. The four modules cover: Finance & Accounting, Marketing, Operations & Sustainability, and Leadership. In addition to lectures and the simulation, students attend discussion section each week.
Principles of Business: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 10
Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2021, Summer 2020 3 Week Session
Berkeley Changemaker impact occurs across many fronts: scientific, artistic, social, and entrepreneurial. This course helps students identify as a Berkeley Changemaker and learn the critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills to become one. Combining disciplines across UC Berkeley, the course also helps launch the Berkeley Discovery arc. Students develop their own leadership styles and discover how they can create and lead diverse teams to act upon the world. Values in Berkeley’s DNA like Questioning the Status Quo and going Beyond Yourself support students in leading from whatever position they occupy, preparing them to leave their mark on campus, in their communities, or beyond. More at: http://changemaker.berkeley.edu.
The Berkeley Changemaker: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of web-based lecture per week
Summer:
3 weeks - 10 hours of web-based lecture per week
6 weeks - 5 hours of web-based lecture per week
8 weeks - 4 hours of web-based lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Alternative to final exam.
Also listed as: L & S C12
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2013
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
This class will compare and contrast the variety of gift giving and sharing traditions that make up American philanthropy. Both the cultural antecedents and their expression in this country will be explored from five ethnic and racial groups: Native American, European American, African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American. The goal is to gain a greater understanding of the many dimensions of philanthropy as it is practiced in the United States today.
Philanthropy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 39AC
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 39
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
The goal of this connector course is to provide an understanding of how data and statistical analysis can improve managerial decision-making. We will explore statistical methods for gleaning insights from economic and social data, with an emphasis on approaches to identifying causal relationships. We will discuss how to design and analyze randomized experiments and introduce econometric methods for estimating causal effects in non-experimental data. The course draws on a variety of business and social science applications, including advertising, management, online marketplaces, labor markets, and education. This course, in combination with the Data 8 Foundations course, satisfies the statistics prerequisite for admission to Haas.
Data and Decisions: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: One semester of Calculus (Math 16A or Math 1A). Also, this is a Data Science connector course and may only be taken concurrently with or after completing Computer Science C8/Statistics C8/Information C8
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Miller
Terms offered: Spring 2019
This course offers an introduction to the field of biotechnology and will cover the history of the field, its impact on medicine and society, key methodologies, important therapeutic areas, and the range of career options available in the biopharmaceutical industry. In addition to lectures on innovation and entrepreneurship, students will hear from lecturers with expertise ranging from molecular biology to clinical trial design and interpretation. Several case studies of historically impactful scientists, entrepreneurs, and biotherapeutic companies will be presented. Students will work in teams to create and develop novel biotechnology company ideas to present in class. Intended for students interested in the Biology+Business program.
Introduction to the Biotechnology Field and Industry: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Alternative to final exam.
Instructors: Kirn, Lasky
Formerly known as: Molecular and Cell Biology C95B/Undergrad. Business Administration C95B
Also listed as: MCELLBI C75
Introduction to the Biotechnology Field and Industry: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Study in various fields of business administration for lower division students. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Lower Division Special Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Lower Division Special Topics in Business Administration: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014
Organized group study on topics selected by lower division students under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the Haas School of Business faculty.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 98
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Theory and practice of effective communication in a business environment. Students practice what they learn with oral presentations and written assignments that model real-life business situations.
Business Communication: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Restricted to Undergraduate Business Administration Majors Only
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
Economic analysis applicable to the problems of business enterprises with emphasis on the determination of the level of prices, outputs, and inputs; effects of the state of the competitive environment on business and government policies.
Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 1, Mathematics 1A or 16A, Statistics W21, or equivalents
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 101A after completing ECON 100A, ECON 101A, BUS ADM 110, ENVECON 100, BUS ADM S110, IAS 106, or POLECON 106. A deficient grade in UGBA 101A may be removed by taking POLECON 106, ECON 100A, ECON 101A, ENVECON 100, IAS 106, or POLECON 106.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session
Analysis of the operation of the market system with emphasis on the factors responsible for economic instability; analysis of public and business policies which are necessary as a result of business fluctuations.
Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 1, Mathematics 1A or 16A, Statistics W21, or equivalents
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 101B after completing ECON 100B, ECON 101B, BUS ADM 111, IAS 107, or POLECON 107. A deficient grade in UGBA 101B may be removed by taking ECON 100B, ECON 101B, IAS 107, or POLECON 107.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required, with common exam group.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 111
Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
The identification, measurement, and reporting of financial effects of events on enterprises, with a particular emphasis on business organization. Preparation and interpretation of balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows.
Financial Accounting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Course not open for credit for students who are taking or have completed Undergraduate Business Administration W102A.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
The uses of accounting systems and their outputs in the process of management of an enterprise. Classification of costs and revenue on several bases for various uses; budgeting and standard cost accounting; analyses of relevant costs and other data for decision making.
Managerial Accounting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 102A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session
The identification, measurement, and reporting of financial effects of events on enterprises, with a particular emphasis on business organization. Preparation and interpretation of balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows.
Financial Accounting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Course not open for credit for students who are taking or have completed Undergraduate Business Administration 102A.
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of web-based lecture per week
Online: This is an online course.
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session
Analysis and management of the flow of funds through an enterprise. Cash management, source and application of funds, term loans, types and sources of long-term capital. Capital budgeting, cost of capital, and financial structure. Introduction to capital markets.
Introduction to Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
This course provides an introduction to several quantitative methods used to facilitate complex decision-making in business, with applications in many different industries, at different levels in the organization, and with different scopes of decisions. The power of the methods covered in this class is further enhanced by implementing them in spreadsheet software, which allows complex problems to be approached and solved in a straightforward and understandable manner.
Introduction to Business Analytics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B or 16B, Statistics W21, or equivalents
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of laboratory per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
A general descriptive and analytical study of organizations from the behavioral science point of view. Problems of motivation, leadership, morale, social structure, groups, communications, hierarchy, and control in complex organizations are addressed. The interaction among technology, environment, and human behavior are considered. Alternate theoretical models are discussed.
Leading People: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Undergrad. Business Administration 105 after completing Business Administration 150 or S150.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of lecture and 1.5-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 4-8 hours of lecture and 4-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 3-6 hours of lecture and 3-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session
The evolution of markets and marketing; market structure; marketing cost and efficiency; public and private regulation; the development of marketing programs including decisions involving products, price, promotional distribution.
Marketing: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
Study and analysis of American business in a changing social and political environment. Interaction between business and other institutions. Role of business in the development of social values, goals, and national priorities. The expanding role of the corporation in dealing with social problems and issues.
The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
A variety of topics in economic analysis and policy with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101A-101B or equivalents
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 119
Special Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019
This course will develop models for understanding the economic causes and effects of international trade, will investigate the effects of economic policies that inhibit trade, and will examine the political economy of trade. By integrating the findings of the latest theoretical and empirical research in international economics, this course help students learn how to explore the current political debates in the U.S. and elsewhere regarding the benefits and costs of international trade.
International Trade: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Undergraduate Business Administration 101A or equivalent
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Undergraduate Business Administration 118 after taking Economics 181 or Economics C181/Environmental Economics and Policy C181.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
This Course introduces the student to concepts, theory and applications of financial accounting. The topics covered include accrual accounting concepts, financial statement analysis, inventory valuations, capital assets and their corresponding depreciation and impairment. Attention is given to examples on current reporting practices and to the study of reporting requirements promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) with comparison to the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”).
Intermediate Financial Accounting 1: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 102A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course expands students’ knowledge of the concepts, theory, and application of financial accounting. It continues the technical accounting sequence, which also includes UGBA 120AA, Intermediate Accounting 1 and UGBA 120B, Advanced Financial Accounting. Topics include an in-depth treatment of the financing elements of the balance sheet and the income statement, as well as a detailed examination of the statement of cash flows.
Intermediate Financial Accounting 2: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: UGBA 102A is required. UGBA 120AA is recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Continuation of 120A. Sources of long term capital; funds statements, financial analysis, accounting for partnerships, consolidated financial statements, adjustments of accounting data using price indexes; accounting for the financial effects of pension plans; other advanced accounting problems.
Advanced Financial Accounting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: UGBA 120AA and 120AB are recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Determination of individual and corporation tax liability; influence of federal taxation on economic activity; tax considerations in business and investment decisions.
Federal Income Tax Accounting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 102A (120AA recommended)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
This course is designed to: 1) develop basic skills in financial statement analysis; 2) teach students to identify the relevant financial data used in a variety of decision contexts, such as equity valuation, forecasting firm-level economic variables, distress prediction and credit analysis; 3) help students appreciate the factors that influence the outcome of the financial reporting process, such as the incentives of reporting parties, regulatory rules, and a firm's competitive environment.
Financial Information Analysis: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 120AA
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
This course examines how accounting in the financial services industry – banking, insurance, investment industry, and real estate – actually operates. Students learn about underwriting and pricing in each sector, investment processes and controls, incentive-based profit sharing, risk management, and the factors that contribute to profitability. Students learn what financial statements reveal about estimates companies make regarding liabilities and, more generally, what they reveal about how companies deal with uncertainty associated with predicting and measuring financial results. Students examine the controversy over employing Fair Value Accounting across sectors and learn about other sector-specific accounting requirements.
Operating and Financial Reporting Issues in the Financial Services Industry: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Students are encouraged to complete UGBA 102A or to possess a basic understanding about how financial statements are prepared
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Operating and Financial Reporting Issues in the Financial Services Industry: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020
This course focuses on ethics related to the accounting for and reporting of financial statements and related financial information, and touches on the ethics of tax preparers. It is taught within the context of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), as well as broader ethical concepts. This course fulfills the accounting ethics education requirement of the California Board of Accountancy, needed for a California CPA license. The course covers (i) theories and rules and (ii) the application of these theories and rules to case studies drawn from real life. Students are taught not only to identify the risks of fraud, but also how an organization’s culture and structure might be altered to reduce the risks.
Ethics in Accounting: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Concepts and problems in the field of professional verification of financial and related information, including ethical, legal and other professional issues, historical developments, and current concerns.
Auditing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 120AA (120AB and 120B recommended)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
A variety of topics in accounting with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in Accounting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: At the discretion of the instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture and 0-2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Managerial accounting is a company's internal language and is used for decision-making, production management, product design and pricing, performance evaluation and motivation of employees. The objective of the course is to develop the skills and analytical ability of effectively and efficiently use managerial accounting information in order to help a company achieve its strategic and financial goals.
Strategic Cost Management: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 102B
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
This course will cover the principles and practice of business finance. It will focus on project evaluation, capital structure, and corporate governance. Firms' policies toward debt, equity, and dividends are explored. The incentives and conflicts facing managers and owners are also discussed.
Corporate Finance and Financial Statement Analysis: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 134
Corporate Finance and Financial Statement Analysis: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019
The course is designed to cover advanced corporate finance issues. Its purpose is two-fold. First, it will help students develop a tool-box, both conceptual and quantitative, to address real-world corporate financial issues that they will likely use immediately in any finance-related career. Second, the course is designed to give the “the big picture,” i.e., sharpen understanding of how corporate financial strategy helps increase a firm’s value in a dynamic environment. The course examines qualitative factors that help determine financial strategy, including the costs of financial distress and the value of financial flexibility, as well as quantitative techniques, such as option pricing, that will be helpful in various analyses.
Corporate Strategy and Valuation: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Undergraduate Business Administration 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 First 6 Week Session
Organization, behavior, and management of financial institutions. Markets for financial assets and the structure of yields, influence of Federal Reserve System and monetary policy on financial assets and institutions.
Financial Institutions and Markets: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101A-101B, and 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 132
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session
Sources of and demand for investment capital, operations of security markets, determination of investment policy, and procedures for analysis of securities.
Investments: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2019
This course provides students with an introduction to the application of mathematics and statistics in the field of finance. It consists of three integrated modules: 1) an introduction to the quantitative foundations of finance, using calculus, linear algebra, statistics and probability; 2) extension into financial theory as it relates to asset pricing, fixed income, derivatives, structured finance and risk management; and 3) application and implementation of these foundational tools and theory through software like Excel to build basic quantitative financial models (touching on programming). The goal is to use financial models that can guide business and financial decisions.
Introduction to Financial Engineering: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: UGBA 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Survey of major life financial decisions (e.g., career choice, consumption versus saving, investments, mortgages, insurance) and how decision-making biases (e.g., overconfidence, present bias, limited attention) can lead to suboptimal choice. The course draws on research from economics, psychology, and sociology.
Personal Financial Management: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Odean, Selinger
Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session
This course explores why markets are sometimes inefficient. We consider the role that investors’ heuristics and biases play in generating mispricing in financial markets. We also explore how various trading frictions limit the ability of arbitrageurs to reduce mispricing. Finally, we look at the influence of market inefficiencies on corporate decisions.
Behavioral Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2020
A variety of topics in finance with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 103
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 139
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
A survey of the concepts and methodologies for management control of production and operations systems. Topics include inventory control, material requirements planning for multistage production systems, aggregate planning, scheduling, and production distribution.
Production and Operations Management: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 104 or equivalent, or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-2.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 142
Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2010
This course provides an introduction to game theory and decision analysis. Game theory is concerned with strategic interactions among players (multi-player games), and decision analysis is concerned with making choices under uncertainty (single-player games). Emphasis is placed on applications.
Game Theory and Business Decisions: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B or 16B, Statistics 21, or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2005
The primary objective of this course is to develop the critical skills and knowledge needed to successfully pitch and lead projects, and to deliver those projects on time and within budget. The course delves into formal planning and scheduling techniques including: project definition, project selection, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource Estimation, Critical Path Method (CPM), Pert, Gantt Charts, Resource Constrained Scheduling, Project Monitoring and Project Closing.
Project Management: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session
A variety of topics in manufacturing and information technology with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Special Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course helps students hone and develop the leadership skills needed to lead dynamic, complex, global teams. Globalization, rapid technological change, and a shift towards an innovation-based economy have resulted in more dynamic, distributed, cross-functional, as well as demographically and culturally diverse teams. Students will learn to create team developmental plans and accountability, coach teams through challenges, encourage teams to recognize and avoid bias and misattributions, and lead from a distance and across boundaries.
Leading High Impact Teams: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018
The designs of systems of rewards, assessment, and manpower development. The interaction of selection, placement, training, personnel evaluation, and career ladders within an on-going organization. Role of the staff manager. Introduction of change. Implications of behavioral research for management problems and policies.
Management of Human Resources: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 105
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 151
Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course focuses on measuring and analyzing the costs and benefits of human capital investments by providing students with the ability to develop, analyze and use information to assess and measure employee and organizational performance. The course will show participants how to develop and make critical recommendations on such information to senior management, as well as helping to increase their presence and credibility with key decision makers. On successful completion, students will have the skills necessary to formulate both qualitative and quantitative recommendations for key management decisions affecting employees.
People Analytics: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings. It is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems faced by managers and professionals. By focusing on the hehavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of competitive situations, the course will allow students the opportunity to develop negotiation skills experientially in useful analytical frameworks (e.g.- simulations, cases).
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 105
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 152
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2020
This course will provide students with a sense of "political intelligence." After taking this course, students will be able to: (1) diagnose the true distribution of power in organizations, (2) identify strategies for building sources of power, (3) develop techniques for influencing others, (4) understand the role of power in building cooperation and leading change in organizations, and (5) make sense of others' attempts to influence them. These skills are essential for effective and satisfying career building.
Power and Politics in Organizations: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2020, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session
The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, case studies, class discussions, and lectures.
Leadership: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 155 after completing UGBA W155. A deficient grade in UGBA 155 may be removed by taking UGBA W155.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 10 Week Session, Summer 2020 10 Week Session
The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, case studies, class discussions, and lectures.
Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA C155 after completing UGBA W155. A deficient grade in UGBA C155 may be removed by taking UGBA W155.
Hours & Format
Summer: 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of web-based lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Also listed as: UGIS C151
Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, case studies, class discussions, and lectures.
Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA W155 after completing UGBA 155. A deficient grade in UGBA W155 may be removed by taking UGBA 155.
Hours & Format
Summer: 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of web-based lecture per week
Online: This is an online course.
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Mulhern
Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
A variety of topics in organizational behavior and industrial relations with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 105
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 159
Special Topics in the Management of Organizations: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021
This course inspires, trains and equips participants to convert raw energy and enthusiasm for creating a better world into real leadership skills and mindsets which will empower you to create positive change at an individual, organizational and societal level. Anchored in change leadership and bringing together the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership & social impact, the course is focused on moving from ideas to action; gaining inspiration from diverse changemakers across roles and sectors; learning how to navigate, shape and lead change to thrive amidst uncertainty; and helping you become the kind of leader our companies, our communities and our world need right now.
Becoming a Changemaker: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Consumer behavior is the study of how consumers process information, form attitudes and judgments, and make decisions. Its study is critical to understand how consumers think and behave, which is critical for a company wishing to develop a customer focus. Given how different people are, it is amazing how similarly their minds work. Consumer psychology is the systematic study of how consumers perceive information, how they encode it in memory, integrate it with other sources of information, retrieve it from memory, and utilize it to make decisions. It is one of the building blocks of the study of marketing and provides the student with a set of tools with diverse applications.
Customer Insights: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 106
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Information technology has allowed firms to gather and process large quantities of information about consumers' choices and reactions to marketing campaigns. However, few firms have the expertise to intelligently act on such information. This course addresses this shortcoming by teaching students how to use customer information to better market to consumers. In addition, the course addresses how information technology affects marketing strategy.
Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 106
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2020
This course is an introduction to product management in marketing consumer and industrial goods and services. The course will cover analysis of market information, development of product strategy, programming strategy, and implementation.
Brand Management and Strategy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 106
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 162
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
As consumers demand information and products tailored specifically to their individual needs, brands strive to create alternative advertising methods to build lasting relationships and retain “top of mind” status. Smart consumers, especially those in niche markets, have dismissed traditional avenues of sponsorship and product placement. Course explores how and why brand executives across multiple industries are leveraging entertainment to connect with niche markets. It educates students about how marketers develop creative and entertaining ways to connect with multi-hyphenate customers. Course culminates in a Creative Pitch, based on a case study, and a Client Presentation where students present marketing campaigns to industry executives.
Product Branding and Branded Entertainment: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
This course specifically addresses how to deal with competition. Additionally, marketing managers usually have to make decisions with incomplete or unreliable information. In “Marketing Strategy” students learn how firms develop plans that can be updated in light of changing circumstances. The course covers the following topics: Market size estimation; Competitor identification and analysis; Internal analysis; Alternative business models; Risk identification, assessment and management using scenario planning; Handling unknown futures using sensitivity analysis; Price setting dynamics; Competitive tactics. The course utilizes a combination of lectures and cases. There are group presentations (self-selected teams) and some group projects.
Marketing Strategy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 106
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2019
Basic concepts and functions of advertising in the economy; consumer motivation; problems in utilizing advertising and measuring its effectiveness.
Advertising Strategy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 106
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 165
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018
A variety of topics in marketing with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in Marketing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 106
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 169
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session
This three-module course aims to equip students with proven concepts, techniques, and frameworks for assessing and formulating pricing strategies. The first module develops the economics and behavorial foundations of pricing. The second module discusses several innovative pricing concepts including price customization, nonlinear pricing, price matching, and product line pricing. The third module analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of several Internet-based, buyer-determined pricing models.
Pricing: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course critically examines how new technologies and business models impact cities, and identifies the approaches that produce not only the best business outcomes, but also the most equitable and sustainable outcomes. To begin, we explore what makes cities such compelling laboratories for technology innovation, learn from past attempts at “smart city” interventions, and discuss how technologists can identify more effective solutions to today’s urban challenges. We’ll then hear from a variety of cutting edge practitioners, including venture investors, startup founders, government officials, tech journalists and community organizers about the unique opportunities and challenges of building an urban tech startup today.
Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Tech and the City: How to Get Urban Innovation Right: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
This course will examine selected aspects of the history of American business. Included will be discussions of the evolution of the large corporation, the development of modern managerial techniques, and the changing relationship of business, government, and labor.
History of American Business: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Rosen
Formerly known as: American Studies C172, Business Administration C172
Also listed as: AMERSTD C172
Terms offered: Fall 2021
This course draws upon theories and frameworks from industrial organization economics, game theory, and resource-based views to address the unique challenges confronted by senior executives of organizations. The focus is strategies for competitive advantage at an organizational level. Topics include industry and competitor analysis, horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm, strategic positioning, internal competencies, and dynamic capabilities.
Competitive Strategy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101A or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
3 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Metzler
Formerly known as: Undergrad. Business Administration 115
Terms offered: Fall 2021
Class format consists of lectures, experiential exercises, student presentations, and case discussions. This course will cover the concepts and techniques required for successful implementation of business strategies with a particular focus on the role of effective leadership in leading strategic change.
Leading Strategy Implementation: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 174 after completing BUS ADM 190.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 10 weeks - 4.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: Undergrad. Business Administration 119
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
An analysis of the law and the legal process, emphasizing the nature and functions of law within the U.S. federal system, followed by a discussion of the legal problems pertaining to contracts and related topics, business association, and the impact of law on economic enterprise.
Legal Aspects of Management: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 175
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
This course introduces students to public relations and how it is used by companies, non-profits and individuals to build and support their brands through innovative communication techniques. Students will hear from and have direct access to entrepreneurs and established executives who share insights on how they've used creative public relations campaigns and communications skills to create attention and value for their brand or avoid it in a crisis. They also learn to work in teams crafting effective media responses for an existing company needing real help now (not a case study). The semester ends with each student applying this technique to create their own personal brand that they can refine as they prepare to move into the workforce.
Innovations in Communications and Public Relations: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Innovations in Communications and Public Relations: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
A variety of topics in business and public policy with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in Business and Public Policy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 107
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 179
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2020
A survey involving environmental, economic, political, and social constraints on doing business abroad; effects of overseas business investments on domestic and foreign economies; foreign market analysis and operational strategy of a firm; management problems and development potential of international operations.
Introduction to International Business: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Undergraduate Business Administration 101A-101B or equivalents
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Undergraduate Business Administration 178 after completing Business Administration 188. A deficient grade in Business Administration 188 may be removed by taking Undergraduate Business Administration 178.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020
By exploring the intersection of global business, entrepreneurship, and consulting, this course provides an understanding of how decision-makers in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can develop the frameworks necessary for making decisions about how to venture across borders in pursuit of economic opportunities in today's hypercompetitive global business environment. In addition to the technical analysis of cases, there is a strong emphasis on how to create a new service company, market and sell to potential clients, manage client relationships, and leverage financial and human resources in a service setting.
International Consulting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
International Consulting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
The nature of real property; market analysis; construction cycles; mortgage lending; equity investment; metropolitan growth; urban land use; real property valuation; public policies.
Introduction to Real Estate and Urban Land Economics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 1, Mathematics 16A or 1A, or equivalents
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 180
Introduction to Real Estate and Urban Land Economics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Real estate debt and equity financing; mortgage market structure; effects of credit on demand; equity investment criteria; public policies in real estate finance and urban development.
Introduction to Real Estate Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 180
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 183
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
This course examines how market forces influence the development of cities and the development and pricing of real estate assets. Topics include city formation; city size; land rent and land use; the operation of residential, commerical and industrial property markets; and the impacts of government policies, including the provision of public services, the imposition property taxes and fees, transportation pricing and investment, and land use regulations.
Urban and Real Estate Economics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A background in microeconomics and basic calculus is preferable. Please contact the instructor if you are unsure about your preparation for this course
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009
A variety of topics in real estate economics and finance with emphasis on current problems and research.
Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Special Topics in Real Estate Economics and Finance: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2020
This is a project-based course in collaborative innovation where students experience group creativity and team-based design by using techniques from across the disciplines of business, theater, design, and art practice. Students will leverage problem framing and solving techniques derived from critical thinking, systems thinking, and creative problem solving (popularly known today as design thinking). The course is grounded in a brief weekly lecture that sets out the theoretical, historical, and cultural contexts for particular innovation practices, but the majority of the class involves hands-on studio-based learning guided by an interdisciplinary team of teachers leading small group collaborative projects.
Collaborative Innovation: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for UGBA 190C after completing ART 100, or THEATER 100. A deficient grade in UGBA 190C may be removed by taking ART 100, or THEATER 100.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Beckman
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
The goal of this course is to equip students with innovation skills and practices. This is a learn-by-doing lab. Students learn research methods, ethnography, analysis and synthesis, reflective thinking, scenario creation, ideation processes, rapid prototyping cycles and designing experiments, iterative design and how to tell the story of “Never Before Seen” ideas. Class time is spent using hands-on innovation and human-centered design practices. Teams present work for critique and iterative development. The course features short lectures, guest talks, campus-based fieldwork, site visits, research and readings. Projects will be launched in the sessions and each team will be coached and mentored.
Innovation and Design Thinking in Business: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course is a strategy and general management course for students interested in pursuing careers in the global information technology industry. Students are taught to view the IT industry through the eyes of the general manager/CEO (whether at a start-up or an industry giant). They learn how to evaluate strategic options and their consequences, how to understand the perspectives of various industry players, and how to anticipate how they are likely to behave under various circumstances. These include the changing economics of production, the role network effects and standards have on adoption of new products and services, the tradeoffs among potential pricing strategies, and the regulatory and public policy context.
Strategy for the Information Technology Firm: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Advanced study in the fields of innovation and design that will address current and emerging issues. Topics will vary with each offering and will be announced at the beginning of each term.
Special Topics in Innovation and Design: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2016, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
This course is a workshop in the fundamentals of public speaking skills in today's business environment. Each student will give speeches, coach, and debate each other, and take part in a variety of listening and other communication exercises. The course focuses on authenticity, persuasion, and advocacy.
Communication for Leaders: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture and 5 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture and 3.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
This class explores the broad principles of improvisation, a performing art form that has developed pedagogical methods to enhance individual spontaneity, listening and awareness, expressive skills, risk-taking, and one’s ability to make authentic social and emotional connections. The ultimate aim of the course is to help students develop an innovative and improvisational leadership mindset, sharpening in-the-moment decision making and the ability to quickly recognize and act upon opportunities when presented. In practical terms, this course strives to enhance students’ business communication skills and increase both interpersonal intuition and confidence.
Improvisational Leadership: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Leadership Communication is a workshop in the fundamentals of public speaking in today's business environment. Through prepared and impromptu speeches aimed at moving others to action, peer coaching, and lectures, students will sharpen their authentic and persuasive communication skills, develop critical listening skills, improve abilities to give, receive, and apply feedback, and gain confidence as public speakers.
Leadership Communication: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 2 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course is highly interactive and challenges you to explore questions central to your own leadership journey. The ultimate aim of the class is to help you develop a lifelong leadership development practice, where continuous personal growth is valued and actively pursued.
Leadership and Personal Development: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
This course prepares students conceptually and practically to found, lead, and manage organizations in the nonprofit sector. The course focuses on mission and theory of change (strategy), role of the board in governance, managing and marketing to multiple constituencies, role of advocacy in meeting mission, leadership styles and managing organizational culture, resource development (philanthropy), nonprofit financial management, managing for impact, HR management (volunteering), and cross-sector alliances.
Leading Nonprofit and Social Enterprises: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101A or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 115
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017
This course provides a survey of innovative social movements and their complex relationships to social media technologies. It will examine the evolution from pre-social-media to present-day mobilizing strategies and the interplay between explicitly policy- and advocacy-focused approaches and related efforts rooted in music, visual arts, popular culture and celebrities. The course will place into comparative relief the discourses of explicitly racially- or ethnically-defined movements and movements that mobilize based on other, sometimes overlapping categories of marginalization including class, immigration status, gender identity and occupational category.
Social Movements and Social Media: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Instructor: David Harris
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course teaches students the concepts and practices of effective philanthropy. It offers students the experience of studying relevant theories and frameworks for assessing potential grant recipients and a real-world grant making experience in which they complete a series of nonprofit organizational assessments and then make actual grants totaling $10,000 to a limited number of organizations. Students learn about the evolution of the philanthropic sector from traditional entities, such as private, corporate and community foundations, to an array of new funding intermediaries, technology-driven philanthropies, open source platforms, “impact” investors, and venture philanthropy partnerships.
Strategic Philanthropy: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019
This course is designed to provide broad exposure to the theories and activities of social entrepreneurship. The inquiry is grounded in real-world examples that illustrate the topics and stimulate thinking, discussion, and learning. Working in groups, students develop a business plan or pitch deck for a social enterprise that addresses an issue that is of interest/concern to the student team. Students with preexisting social enterprise ideas or plans that they would like to further develop and refine are welcomed and encouraged to use this class project as an opportunity to do so.
Social Entrepreneurship: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The main objective of this course is to help students become effective practitioners in global development and understand career options in the global social sector. The course aims to (i) analyze the historical, sociological and statistical underpinnings of the major issues in global development (conflict, food security, human rights, poverty, health and education), (ii) understand what various organizations can contribute to each issue (government agencies, multilateral institutions, private foundations, NGOs, and private sector companies and entrepreneurs), and (iii) design and analyze approaches to addressing these issues.
Strategic Approaches for Global Social Impact: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Strategic Approaches for Global Social Impact: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021
This course, one of the first of its kind offered at a business school, will prepare students for the growing field of practice at the intersection of business and human rights. Students will gain an overview of the international human rights framework and global business and human rights standards and guidelines; analyze the ways in which companies can impact human rights, and to assess the degree to which companies are and should be responsible for human rights impacts; learn to manage a company’s human rights impacts as corporate human rights managers, external consultants, or civil society advocates; and practice the communication skills necessary to successfully address human rights issues within a complex multinational corporation.
Managing Human Rights in Business: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Not yet offered
This is a high-octane, single weekend course (plus one intro day) for students interested in meeting other innovators and getting hands-on experience developing a new impact startup concept. All “social and environmental” impact themes are welcome. The course is inspired by other “hackathon” and startup weekend formats. A structured roadmap helps guide students through a sprint formation and ideation process. All students will be asked to submit an idea during the week prior to the class. After a peer vote selects the top ideas, teams are organically formed during the first session. At the end of the course, each team will present their validated concept and their next steps plan to a panel of impact venture experts.
Impact Startup Disco: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 1 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course covers the methods and applications of impact evaluations, which is the science of measuring the causal impact of a program or policy on outcomes of interest. At its essence, impact evaluation is about generating evidence on which policies work, and which don’t. This subject matter should appeal to three main audiences: (1) those in decision-making positions, such as policy makers and business leaders, and need to consume the information generated from impact evaluations to make informed evidence-based decisions, (2) project managers, development practitioners and business managers who commission impact evaluations and (3) researchers who actually design and implement impact evaluations.
Applied Impact Evaluation: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course provides a basic understanding of what consultants do and how they do it, and how consulting skills can be applied to thorny problems of social impact. Students will: 1) gain a broad understanding of the management consulting industry, the various consulting models, and how consultants can generate value for their clients in the social sector; 2) learn and practice structured approaches to problem solving used by leading management consultancies; and 3) understand other skills required in management consulting for social impact – such as communicating persuasively and managing projects and client relationships – as well as some of the ethical issues that consultants often face working in the social sector.
Management Consulting Skills for Social Impact: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
12 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture per week
15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.).
Management Consulting Skills for Social Impact: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Advanced study in the field of social sector leadership that will address current and emerging issues. Topics will vary with each offering and will be announced at the beginning of each term.
Topics in Social Sector Leadership: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-5 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-12.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018
Discuss the field of strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a series of lectures, guest speakers, and projects. The course will examine best practices used by companies to engage in socially responsible business practices. It will provide students with a flavor of the complex dilemmas one can face in business in trying to do both "good for society" and "well for shareholders." It looks at CSR from a corporation perspective, and how this supports core business objectives, core competencies, and bottom-line profits.
Sustainable Business Consulting Projects: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session
This course—a mixture of lectures, readings, business cases and corporate speakers—uses theory, frameworks, tools and business cases to teach students how to systematically evaluate and implement sustainability strategies that also maintain or maximize financial returns. Students are taught to identify opportunities to create business value from environmental and social challenges, and to evaluate the competitive implications related to sustainability initiatives. What type of long-term strategies can organizations set to simultaneously foster sustainable development strategy and sound financial practice? How should decision makers make trade-offs between these two organizational objectives? When is “sustainability” also “good business”?
Business and Sustainability: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Advanced study in the field of corporate social responsibility that will address current and emerging issues. Topics will vary with each offering and will be announced at the beginning of each term.
Topics in Responsible Business: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 2-8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 8 Week Session
As corporations have grown in influence, concerns over their impact on people and the planet have also grown, pushing sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and the wider impact of business into the spotlight. This course focuses on business ethics, supply chains, resource constraints, labor issues, innovation, and environmental externalities, as well as the internal challenges, competitive pressures, external stakeholders, and other issues that businesses must consider while trying to act responsibly.
Business, Sustainability, and Society: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required, with common exam group.
Instructor: Rochlin
Also listed as: ENE,RES C192
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Energy is one of the main drivers of civilization. Today we are at the precipice of what many hope will be a major paradigm shift in energy production and use. Two transitions are needed. On the one hand, we must find ways to extend the benefits of our existing energy system to the impoverished people living in the developing world while continuing to provide these benefits to the people of the developed world. On the other hand, we must completely overhaul the existing system to fight climate change and other forms of air and water pollution. Are these shifts truly within our reach? Can we achieve both simultaneously? If so, how? This Big Ideas course will grapple with these questions using an interdisciplinary systems approach.
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Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students who take UGBA 193B will not receive credit for L&S 126.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 10 Week Session, Summer 2012 10 Week Session
A structured reflective experience on the applied aspects of Business Administration in a professional off-campus environment. The self-selected experience from a CPT employer is designed to provide students with opportunities to make connections between the theory and practice of academic study and the practical application of that study in a real world setting. This applied course is intended for students to enhance their academics through their experience with the experiential learning activity of their choice.
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Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 0 hours of internship per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
This course includes both formal learning in lectures, experiential learning, and action research through site visits abroad. Students and instructor will visit with international companies and/or organizations to learn about the business opportunities and challenges of operating in a specific country or region. Evaluation is based on student participation, presentations, and a research paper. Country and business industry focus may vary from term to term depending upon the instructor.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: To be determined by instructor depending on topic
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 5 weeks - 16-25 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This is a speakers series course designed to give students insights from practitioners into complex issues facing American business leaders. Each week a guest speaker will discuss an issue related to a particular theme, ranging from corporate governance to the social responsibilities of business. Students will be challenged to synthesize, question, and extend those insights under the guidance of the instructor.
Undergraduate Colloquium on Business Topics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Do you have an idea for a new business, but want to learn how to more fully develop this idea? Would you like to receive funding for your business idea, but lack a framework to ask for capital? This course takes students through the new venture process using a business plan as the main deliverable. A well-written business plan sets key milestones and indicates the resources needed to achieve them, in an increasingly complex business environment. Through the planning process that tightly links market and financial planning a business plan creates a set of standards to which investors and teammates can evaluate actual performance, laying the foundation for an “operating plan” once the business is launched.
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Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the concepts and principles for consulting with startups and small businesses. Students will work in self-created teams of 3-4 and can either bid for projects provided by the instructor, or source their own project so long as it fits the course criteria. Course time will include guest lecturers and consulting skills workshops. Student teams will be expected to meet together and with the client outside of class time.
Startup and Small-Business Consulting: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
This course explores and examines key issues facing entrepreneurs and their businesses. It is intended to provide a broad spectrum of topics across many business disciplines including accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behavior, production/quality, technology, etc. Students will acquire a keen understanding of both the theoretical and real world tools used by today's entrepreneurial business leaders in achieving success in today's global business environment.
Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully start a New Business: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully start a New Business: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011
This course examines whether and how entrepreneurial ventures can meaningfully address global poverty vs. more traditional approaches such as foreign aid, private philanthropy or corporate social responsibility initiatives. Combining lectures, case studies, and interviews with social entrepreneurs, it explores poverty and entrepreneurship before focusing on their intersection in various bottom-of-pyramid markets, from health, housing, and education to energy, agriculture, and finance.
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Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Courses of this kind will cover issues in entrepreneurship that either appeal to a specialized interest by type of firm being started (e.g., new ventures in computer software) or in the aspect of the entrepreneurial process being considered (e.g., new venture funding). The courses typically will be designed to take advantage of the access offered by the University and the locale to knowledgeable and experienced members of the business community.
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Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Blended lecture / Project-based course where student teams build out a business plan for a mock biotech company, demonstrating advanced knowledge in therapeutics and business development. Throughout the course student teams will work toward a final project in which they will identify and present a technology overview, disease overview and explanation of unmet need, a development plan, a commercialization plan, risk mitigation strategy, and financials. Class will include field trips, guest lectures, and a pitch competition with prize.
Life Sciences, Business, and Entrepreneurship Capstone Course: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Students must be in their fourth and final year of the Life Sciences, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program in order to enroll in this class
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructors: Schaletzky, Dillin
Also listed as: MCELLBI C175
Life Sciences, Business, and Entrepreneurship Capstone Course: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Study in various fields of business administration. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Special Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
10 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 196
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Organized group study on topics selected by upper division students under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the Haas School of Business faculty.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 198
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Enrollment restrictions apply.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Undergrad. Business Administration/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 199
Faculty and Instructors
+ Indicates this faculty member is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award.
Faculty
Cameron Anderson, Professor. Status hierarchies, psychology of power, self and interpersonal perception.
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Ned Augenblick, Assistant Professor. Theoretical and empirical analysis of online markets.
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Aaron Bodoh-Creed, Assistant Professor. Industrial organization, market design, psychology and economics.
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Severin Borenstein, Professor. Energy policy and climate change, electricity deregulation, airline competition, oil and gasoline market pricing and competition.
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Jamie Breen , Assistant Dean, MBA Programs for Working Professionals.
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Andrew Campbell, Executive Director, Energy Institute.
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Maria Carkovic, Executive Director, Institute for Business Innovation.
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Dana Carney, Associate Professor. Ethics, social cognition, social judgment and decision making, nonverbal communication, power and influence, prejudice and discrimination.
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Courtney Chandler, Senior Assistant Dean, Evening & Weekend MBA Program.
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Jennifer Chatman, Professor. Organizational culture and firm performance, group demography, norms in social groups.
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Henry Chesbrough, Adjunct Professor. Innovation, Organizing, structuring, and managing internal and external research and development, Technology-based spinoffs and corporate venture capital, Managing intellectual property, Comparative industry evolution in high-technology industries between the US, Japan, and Western Europe.
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Kevin Coldiron, Master of Financial Engineering. Shadow Banking, Carry Trades, Sentiment and Asset Valuation.
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Victor Couture, Assistant Professor. Urban economics, transportation.
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Clayton Critcher, Associate Professor. Judgment and decision making, consumer experience, the self, moral psychology, social cognition.
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Ernesto Dal Bo, Professor. Applied microeconomic theory, political economy, corruption and influence, collective decision-making, coercion.
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Solomon Darwin, Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation. Smart City Innovations and Business Models, Cognitive Computing Business Models, Open Innovation and Business Models, Sustainability, Strategic Planning & Cost Reduction Strategies, Forensic Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, International Accounting & Multinational Corporations.
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Lucas Davis, Associate Professor. Energy and environmental economics, applied microeconomics, public finance.
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Rui de Figueiredo, Associate Professor. Game theory, methodology and econometrics, non-market strategy, institutions and organizations, bureaucratic organization, American politics.
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Mathijs de Vaan, Assistant Professor. Economic sociology, social network analysis, causal inference.
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Patricia Dechow, Professor. Accounting accruals, quality and reliability of earnings, use of earnings information in predicting stock returns.
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Marjorie DeGraca, Executive Director, M.E.T. Program.
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+ Stefano DellaVigna, Professor. Behavioral economics.
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Sunil Dutta, Professor. Performance measures, incentive contracts, accounting information, cost of capital, equity valuation.
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Omri Even-Tov, Assistant Professor. Corporate debt, relation between accounting information, bond returns, and stock returns, analysts as information intermediaries.
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Ellen Evers, Assistant Professor. Judgment and decision making, collecting, pattern perception, moral psychology.
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Pnina Feldman, Assistant Professor. Operations economics, operations management incorporating strategic consumer behavior, pricing strategies, operations-marketing interface, behavioral operations.
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Brenda Fellows, Lecturer. Multicultural competence challenges, relationship between strategic executive leadership to organizational and people performance.
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Frederico Finan, Associate Professor. Applied microeconomics, development economics, political economy.
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Lee Fleming, Professor. Strategies for product invention, integration of scientific and empirical search strategies, recombination of diverse technologies, innovation.
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Tenny Frost, Executive Director, Alumni Relations & Development.
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William Fuchs, Assistant Professor. Dynamics, asymmetric information, contracting with limited enforcement.
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Nicolae Garleanu, Professor. Asset pricing, liquidity, contracts, financial innovations, security design, auctions.
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Paul Gertler, Professor. Impact evaluation, health economics.
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Andreea Gorbatai, Assistant Professor. Social structures, social norms, open innovation, collective entrepreneurship.
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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor. International macroeconomics and finance.
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Brett Green, Assistant Professor. Information economics, dynamic games, contract theory, sports economics.
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Jose Guajardo, Assistant Professor. Business model innovation, business analytics, service innovation, operations strategy, operation-marketing interface.
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John Hanke, Executive Fellow.
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Heather Haveman, Professor. Organizational theory, economic sociology, historical sociology, entrepreneurship, organizational development.
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Terrence Hendershott, Professor. Management of information systems, role of information technology in financial markets, electronic communications networks and stock market design.
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Benjamin Hermalin, Professor. Corporate governance, executive compensation, economics of leadership and organization, contract theory, competitive strategy and industrial organization.
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Debby Hopkins, Executive Fellow.
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Ming Hsu, Associate Professor. Marketing, customer insights, neuroscience, consumer decision-making.
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Ganesh Iyer, Professor. Competitive marketing strategy, distribution channels, marketing information, internet institutions and competition, bounded rationality.
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Drew Jacoby-Senghor, Assistant Professor. Intergroup Interactions, Social Networks & Prejudice , Morality in Group-Diverse Contextsm Effect of Subtle Bias on Performance.
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Paul Jansen, Adjunct Professor.
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Przemyslaw Jeziorski, Assistant Professor. Industrial organization, quantitative marketing, dynamic games.
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Peter Johnson, Assistant Dean, Full-time MBA Program.
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Yuichiro Kamada, Assistant Professor. Revision games, solution concepts for games, social networks, market design, communication, political economy.
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Zsolt Katona, Associate Professor. Online marketing, search advertising, network economics, social networks.
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Michael Katz, Professor. Economics of network industries, intellectual property licensing, telecommunications policy, cooperative research and development.
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Guy Kawasaki, Executive Fellow.
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Tom Kelley, Executive Fellow.
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Amir Kermani, Assistant Professor. Monetary policy, macroeconomics and housing, securitization market and political economy.
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Jonathan Kolstad, Assistant Professor. Health economics, industrial organization, public economies, applied microeconomics.
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Yaniv Konchitchki, Assistant Professor. Macro-accounting, linkages between accounting information, stock returns, and the macroeconomy.
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Laura Kray, Professor. Negotiation, gender stereotypes, counterfactual mindsets, group decision making, organizational justice.
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Linda Kreitzman, Executive Director & Assistant Dean, MFE.
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Scott Kupor, Executive-in-Residence.
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Alastair Lawrence, Assistant Professor. Financial disclosures and reporting issues, SEC comment letters, how investors demand financial information, auditing issues.
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Thomas Lee, Associate Adjunct Professor.
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Jonathan Leonard, Professor. Employee incentives, affirmative action, job creation, workplace regulation.
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Martin Lettau, Professor. Finance, asset pricing, stocks, bonds.
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Ming Leung, Assistant Professor. Organizational theory, economic sociology, markets, categorization, strategy.
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David Levine, Professor. Organizational learning, economic development, management, workplace, health and education in poor nations.
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Ross Levine, Professor. Financial regulation and economic growth, income inequality, poverty, financial crises, political economy, international capital flows, entrepreneurship.
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Dmitry Livdan, Associate Professor. Asset pricing, informational economics, corporate finance.
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+ Richard Lyons, Professor. Exchange rate economics, microstructure finance, international finance.
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Kimberly MacPherson, Academic Coordinator, Health Management. Digital health and emerging innovation, policy management of biomedical innovation, health care reform and market response, end of life/advanced care planning.
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+ Ulrike Malmendier, Professor. Corporate finance, behavioral economics, behavioral finance, economics of organizations, contract theory, law and economics.
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Gustavo Manso, Associate Professor. Corporate finance, entrepreneurship, financial institutions, financial markets.
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Andre Marquis, Executive Director, Innovation Acceleration Group.
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Aaron McDaniel, Professional Faculty. Millennial Workplace Trends.
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Kellie McElhaney, Associate Adjunct Professor. Corporate social responsibility, best practices, corporate responsibility strategy maximization, outcomes and metrics of corporate social responsibility, initiatives on stakeholders, cases of corporate responsibility, experiential learning.
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Conrad Miller, Assistant Professor. Hiring, job networks, affirmative action in the labor market, spatial labor market frictions.
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Don Moore, Professor. Overconfidence in decision-making, negotiation, and ethical choice.
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Enrico Moretti, Professor. Labor economics, urban economics.
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John Morgan, Professor. Competition in online markets, elections and polling, communication in organizations, experimental economics.
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Adair Morse, Associate Professor. Household finance, entrepreneurship, corruption & governance, asset management, development.
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Abhishek Nagaraj, Assistant Professor. Innovation, entrepreneurship, big data, cartography.
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Noel Nellis, Adjunct Professor.
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Leif Nelson, Professor. Human judgment and decision making, consumer preferences and choices, consumption experience and consumer well being.
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Alexander Nezlobin, Assistant Professor. Equity valuation, managerial performance measurement, real options, profitability analysis, monopoly regulation.
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Hoai-Luu Nguyen, Assistant Professor. Banking, local credit markets, financial access, small business lending.
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Terrance Odean, Professor. Behavioral finance, investor behavior, investor welfare, influence of individual investors on asset prices.
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Marcus Opp, Assistant Professor. Corporate finance, contract theory, DSGE models, trade theory.
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Christopher Palmer, Assistant Professor. Mortgage finance, housing markets, foreclosure crisis, structured finance, gentrification, applied econometrics.
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Yiangos Papanastasiou, Assistant Professor. Dynamic pricing, operations.
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Minjung Park, Assistant Professor. Marketing and microeconometrics, industrial organization, firm behavior .
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Christine Parlour, Professor. Banking, market design.
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+ Panos Patatoukas, Associate Professor. Measuring and forecasting economic activity using financial statement analysis, valuation, cross-industry economic links, supply-chain performance, financial reporting.
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Trond Petersen, Professor. Organizations, social stratification, inequality, economic sociology, comparative studies, quantitative methods.
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Paul Rice, Executive Fellow.
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Christine Rosen, Associate Professor. History of business and the environment, business history, green chemistry, sustainable business strategies.
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Kenneth Rosen, Professor.
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Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Assistant Professor. Development economics, political economy, taxation, government.
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Juliana Schroeder, Assistant Professor. Social cognition, judgment and decision-making, interpersonal and intergroup processes.
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Abby Scott, Assistant Dean, Career Management & Corporate Relations.
Carl Shapiro, Professor. Design and use of patents, anti-trust economics, intellectual property and licensing.
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Stephen Shortell, Professor. Organizational correlates of quality and outcomes of care, evaluation of total quality management and community-based health improvement initiatives.
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Nora Silver, Adjunct Professor.
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Richard Sloan, Professor. Accounting information and stock returns, earnings management, role of analysts and auditors as information intermediaries.
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Jim Spitze, Executive Director, CIO Leadership Program.
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David Sraer, Associate Professor. Behavioral finance, corporate finance, entrepreneurship and venture capital, organizations.
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Sameer Srivastava, Assistant Professor. Organizational sociology, organizational theory, network analysis, culture and cognition, economic sociology, research design and methods.
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Richard Stanton, Professor. Mortgage and lease markets, term structure modeling, mutual funds and risk management, employee stock options.
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Matthew Stepka, Executive-in-Residence.
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Biz Stone, Executive Fellow.
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Jay Stowsky, Senior Assistant Dean for Instruction.
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Toby Stuart, Professor. Corporate strategy, entrepreneurship.
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Steven Tadelis, Professor. E-commerce, economics of organizations, procurement contracting, theory of the firm and industrial organization, contract theory, game theory.
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Terry Taylor, Professor. Social responsibility in and economics of operations management, supply chain management, marketing-operations interface.
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David Teece, Professor. Role of product and process development, intellectual property, competitive performance, innovation and organization of industry.
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Laura Tyson, Professor. High-technology competition, US industrial and technology policies, international economy, US trade policy, US competitiveness, emerging market economies, multinational companies in the US economy, gender gap (economic participation, educational attainment, political empowerment and health), research and development tax credit.
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J. Miguel Villas-Boas, Professor. Competitive strategy, customer relationship management, internet strategies, organization design.
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Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Professor. Household consumption and portfolio choice, stock market participation, returns to entrepreneurial investment, corporate governance.
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Johan Walden, Associate Professor. Asset pricing, heavy-tailed risks, networks and capital markets.
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Erika Walker, Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Program.
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William (Reed) Walker, Assistant Professor. Environmental economics, labor and public economics.
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Nancy Wallace, Professor. Housing price indices, mortgage prepayment and pricing models, option pricing models, executive stock option valuable.
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Jane Wei-Skillern, Adjunct Associate Professor.
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James Wilcox, Professor. Banking, business conditions, conversions.
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Catherine D. Wolfram, Professor. Energy markets, environmental regulation.
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Candace Yano, Professor. Supply chain management, service systems management, production-quality interface issues, marketing-production interface issues.
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Noam Yuchtman, Associate Professor. Educational institutions, human capital, historical development, labor market institutions, law and economics, political institutions, social interactions.
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Dariush Zahedi, Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship & Development in the Middle East.
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Xiao-Jun Zhang, Professor. Financial statement analysis, financial accounting theory, international accounting.
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Affiliated Faculty
Vinod Aggarwal, Affiliated Professor. Integration of market and non-market strategies, International debt rescheduling, Lobbying and trade protectionism.
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Joseph Farrell, Affiliated Professor. Financial reporting, capital market efficiency, regulation in the internet age, negotiation and merger remedies, market structure.
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Morten Hansen, Affiliated Professor. Collaboration in and across companies, including online collaboration tools in business .
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Robert P. Merges, Affiliated Professor. Antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts.
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Lecturer
Mark Coopersmith, Lecturer.
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Brent Copen, Lecturer.
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Joe Dougherty, Lecturer. Social entrepreneurship and leadership in nonprofit organizations, College access and post-secondary success, Agricultural transformation in the developing work.
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Diane Dwyer, Lecturer.
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Ben Mangan, Lecturer.
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Allan Marks, Lecturer.
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Virginia Rath, Lecturer.
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Eric Reiner, Lecturer.
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Jeffrey Rideout, Lecturer.
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Mike Rielly, Lecturer.
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David Riemer, Lecturer.
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William Rindfuss, Lecturer.
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Deepak Agrawal, Lecturer. Credit risk, Fixed income, Risk management.
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Beverly Alexander, Lecturer. Integrated low carbon energy strategies, Energy efficiency, demand response & smart grid, Business leadership development.
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Wasim Azhar, Continuing Lecturer.
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Roy Bahat, Lecturer.
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Homa Bahrami, Senior Continuing Lecturer. Enterprise adaptation & flexibility, Organizational innovation for globalization, Impact of technology on organizational design, Orchestrating geo-distributed teams, Leading multi-cultural knowledge workers.
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Yasaman Baiani, Lecturer. Product management.
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Elizabeth Bailey, Lecturer. Antitrust, Intellectural property, Energy economics.
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Rajiv Ball, Lecturer. Leadership Communications, ReFrame.
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Ajay Bam, Lecturer. Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Product Design.
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Cristina Banks, Senior Continuing Lecturer.
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Michael Barry, Lecturer.
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+ Sara Beckman, Senior Lecturer SOE. Innovation and design management, New product development, Operations strategy, Environmental supply chain management.
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Sam Berde, Lecturer. Auditing.
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Kurt Beyer, Lecturer. Intrapreneurship in large organizations, Ecosystems of Innovation, Impact of disrptive technologies on IT and media industries, Entrepreneurship and innovation during recessions, Government supported innovation.
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Steven Blank, Continuing Lecturer. Methodology and models for customer-facing activities for early stage startups.
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Michael Borrus, Lecturer.
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Dino Boukouris, Lecturer. Venture capital and private equity.
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Colin Boyle, Lecturer. Strategy and management of non-profit and other social sector organizations, Impact measurement and evaluation of social sector organizations and programs, Global health policy and economics, including financing and systems reform, Product development and access to medicines in low-income countries.
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Janet Brady, Lecturer.
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Ori Brafman, Lecturer. Distributed Networks, Inclusion as Strategic Advantage, Improvisational Leadership, Trust and Emotional Connection in Organizations.
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John Briginshaw, Lecturer. Equity valuation, Fast growth companies.
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Rada Brooks, Continuing Lecturer.
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Shashi Buluswar, Lecturer.
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Jorge Calderon, Lecturer. Social venture design, Impact investing strategies and outcomes, Purpose economy evolution, the infusing of traditional companies with positive purpose and values, Convergence of investment and philanthropic services for the High-Net Worth segment, Entrepreneurship as a tool for prosperity for disadvantaged communities, Diversity in innovation.
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Jennifer Caleshu, Lecturer. High Impact Leadership, Leading Innovative Change, Leadership Communications, Active Communicating.
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Rob Chandra, Lecturer. Alternative investing (venture capital, private equity, & hedge funds), Entrepreneurship.
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David Charron, Continuing Lecturer.
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John Danner, Continuing Lecturer.
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Timothy Dayonot, Lecturer.
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Stephen Etter, Continuing Lecturer.
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William Falik, Continuing Lecturer.
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William Fanning, Continuing Lecturer.
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Flavio Feferman, Lecturer. Entrepreneurship and innovation in developing regions, The role of business and technology in economic development, Innovation clusters and regional economic development, Agricultural development, Entrepreneurial education, International consulting.
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Todd Fitch, Lecturer. Economic impacts of intellectual property, Peer instruction impacts on learning, Innovation, Technology Strategy.
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C. Sean Foote, Continuing Lecturer.
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Jeffrey Ford, Lecturer.
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Prashant Fuloria, Lecturer.
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Solomon Fulp, Lecturer.
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Dennis Geyer, Lecturer. Multi-driver cost modeling, Driver-based planning, Cost Reduction strategies.
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Christopher Giles, Lecturer.
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Ioannis Gkatzimas, Lecturer.
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Peter Goodson, Continuing Lecturer.
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Ernest Gundling, Continuing Lecturer. Global leadership development, Cross-border organization development: innovation, collaboration, change management, Global teams.
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Dan Hanson, Lecturer.
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David Evan Harris, Lecturer. Non-profit, non-governmental and civil society organizations, Social movements and social media technologies, Civic technology platforms, firms and networks, governance, Philanthropic innovation and risk-taking, celebrity activism, Ethics and discourses of socioeconomic inequality, historical materialism, Futures thinking, scenario planning, New media art, arts organizations, art funding ecosystems, Brazil, Latin America.
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Lynne Heinrich, Continuing Lecturer.
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Kevin Hill, Lecturer.
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Daniel Himelstein, Continuing Lecturer. Global business, Entrepreneurship, small business, Leadership, organizational development, culture, Strategic business planning, consulting, Technology.
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Asiff Hirji, Lecturer.
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Whitney Hischier , Lecturer.
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Judy Hopelain, Lecturer.
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Jim Hornthal, Lecturer.
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Andrew Isaacs, Senior Continuing Lecturer. Marketing for High Tech Entrepreneurs, The Business of Nanotechnology Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, Energy, Sustainability and Business Innovation.
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Arina Isaacson, Continuing Lecturer.
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Oren Jacob, Lecturer.
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Ron Kahn, Lecturer.
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Edward Kass, Lecturer.
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Clark Kellogg, Lecturer.
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Sheldon Kimber, Lecturer.
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Michael Kobori, Lecturer. Corporate Sustainability, Business in Society.
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Lloyd Kurtz, Lecturer.
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Gregory La Blanc, Continuing Lecturer. Data and analytics strategy, Business model innovation, Alternative investment strategies, Evolutionary decision theory, Behavioral law and economics, Behavioral corporate finance, Complex adaptive systems, Information in organizations.
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Colin Lacon, Lecture.
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Adam Leipzig, Lecturer.
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Anne Leschin, Lecturer.
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Glen Low, Lecturer. Corporate sustainability, Natural capital, Ecosystems, Data science, Water, Behavior change.
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Ericka Lutz, Lecturer. Creativity and the writing process, International business writing styles.
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Ananth Madhavan, Lecturer.
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Kenneth Marshall, Value Investing.
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Sumon Mazumdar, Continuing Lecturer.
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John McCauley, Lecturer.
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Chris McCoy, Lecturer.
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Roger McElrath, Lecturer.
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Jon Metzler, Lecturer.
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Alison Bloomfield Meyer, Lecturer.
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Peter Molloy, Continuing Lecturer.
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Daniel Mulhern, Lecturer.
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Ethan Namvar, Lecturer.
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Faris Natour, Lecturer.
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David Nelson, Lecturer.
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Carl Nichols, Lecturer.
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Robert O'Donnell, Lecturer.
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Samuel Olesky, Continuing Lecturer.
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Maura O'Neill, Lecturer.
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Terry Opdendyk, Continuing Lecturer.
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Marymoore Patterson, Lecturer.
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Brandi Pearce, Lecturer.
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William Pearce, Lecturer.
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Erica Peng, Lecturer.
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Arturo Perez-Reyes, Continuing Lecturer.
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John (Jack) Phillips, Continuing Lecturer.
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Mark Poff, Lecturer.
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Don Proctor, Lecturer.
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Chris Puscasiu, Lecturer.
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Tiffany Rasmussen, Lecturer.
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Mark Rittenberg, Continuing Lecturer.
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David Robinson, Senior Continuing Lecturer.
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Dave Rochlin, Lecturer.
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Omar Romero-Hernandez, Lecturer.
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William Rosenzweig, Lecturer.
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Alan Ross, Continuing Lecturer.
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Nicole Sanchez, Lecturer.
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Holly Schroth, Senior Continuing Lecturer.
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Frank Schultz, Continuing Lecturer.
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Barry Schwartz, Lecturer.
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Fred Selinger, Continuing Lecturer.
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Bill Shelander, Lecturer.
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Bill Shireman, Lecturer.
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Andrew Shogan, Lecturer.
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Dan Simpson, Lecturer.
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Ryan Sloan, Lecturer.
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F. Victor Stanton, Senior Continuing Lecturer.
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Brian Steel, Lecturer.
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Michael Sternberg, Lecturer.
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Robert Strand, Lecturer.
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Lisa Suennen, Lecturer.
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Donatella Taurasi, Lecturer.
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Peter Thigpen, Continuing Lecturer.
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Krystal Thomas, Continuing Lecturer.
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Paul Tiffany, Senior Continuing Lecturer.
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Molly Turner, Lecturer.
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Phin Upham, Lecturer.
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Lynn Upshaw, Continuing Lecturer.
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Joe Wadcan, Lecturer.
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Barbara Waugh, Lecturer.
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James Webb, Lecturer.
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Randolph Wedding, Lecturer.
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Steven Weinstein, Lecturer.
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Dennis Williams, Lecturer.
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Peter Wilton, Senior Continuing Lecturer.
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Steven A. Wood, Continuing Lecturer.
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Cort Worthington, Continuing Lecturer.
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Arman Zand, Lecturer.
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Mark Zanoli, Lecturer.
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Visiting Faculty
Sally Baack, Visiting Professor. Ethical leadership in organizations, CEO-Board relations in Corporate Governance, Strategic Management, International Competition.
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Michelle Greenwald, Visiting Professor.
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Steven Huff , Visiting Professor.
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Shachar Kariv, Visiting Professor. Social networks, Social learning, Personal and social preferences.
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Gary Pieroni, Visiting Professor.
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Jeff Thompson, Visiting Associate Professor.
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Karin Thornburn, Visiting Professor.
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Joachim Voth, Visiting Professor.
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Jennifer Walske, Social Impact Fellow.
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Emeritus Faculty
David Aaker, Professor Emeritus. Brand and brand building, Brand portfolio strategy, Global brand management.
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Robert Cole, Professor Emeritus. Software and Automotive industries, Management of technology, Japanese organizations, Quality, Organizational learning, knowledge management, Organizational transformation.
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Robert Edelstein, Professor Emeritus. Urban real estate economics and urban financial problems, Property taxation and the role of the public sector, Inter-linkages, securitization and globalization of real estate asset markets, Design of optimal mortgage debt instruments and variable-rate mortgages, Macroeconomic determinants of housing construction, Impacts of inflation and deflation on real estate values, Determinants of US and international real estate asset cycles.
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Jerome Engel, Adjunct Professor Emeritus. Innovation and creativity, Clusters and networks of innovation, Venture capital firms, structures and incentives, Corporate venturing and innovation initiatives, Entrepreneurship and management practices in emerging enterprise, Technology management and licensing, Mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, Financing high-tech ventures.
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Edwin Epstein, Professor Emeritus. Business ethics, generally, Jewish business ethics, specifically peace and conflict studies related issues.
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Rashi Glazer, Professor Emeritus. High-technology marketing, Information-intensive marketing, Consumer and managerial decision making, E-business, E-commerce, Marketing strategy, Knowledge management.
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Nils Hakansson, Professor Emeritus. Dynamic portfolio strategies, The welfare economics of financial markets, Economics of Information, Disclosure regulation and productive efficiency, Financial reporting.
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Robert Harris, Associate Professor Emeritus. Japan, Europe, U S , competitive strategy, industry policy, antitrust regulation, mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and transportation industries, comparative industry policies, performance in emerging technologies.
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Hayne Leland, Professor Emeritus. Structural modeling of credit risk, Dynamic models of optimal leverage and agency costs, Optimal investment strategies in the presence of transactions costs, Performance measurement: beyond mean-variance analysis.
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James Lincoln, Professor Emeritus. International business and management, particularly Japanese management, Corporate governance, organizational networks, organizational theory and research methods, Human resource management and industrial relations.
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Thomas Marschak, Professor Emeritus.
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Terry Marsh, Associate Professor Emeritus.
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Raymond Miles, Professor Emeritus.
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David Mowery, Professor Emeritus.
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John Myers, Professor Emeritus.
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Karlene Roberts, Professor Emeritus.
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Mark Rubinstein, Professor Emeritus.
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Pablo Spiller, Professor Emeritus.
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Barry Staw, Professor Emeritus.
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George Strauss, Professor Emeritus.
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+ M. Frances Van Loo, Associate Professor Emeritus.
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David Vogel, Professor Emeritus.
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Oliver Williamson, Professor Emeritus.
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Janet Yellen, Professor Emeritus.
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