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ADMN   502 DEAN'S SEMINAR II                        Credits 0.00  Spring 97
See Admn 501.  Required MBA course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Bailar, Benjamin

ADMN   504 DEAN'S SEMINAR IV                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
See Admn 503.  Note:  Credit for the 501-504 series is awarded only
after completion of 504.  Required MBA and MAcco course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Bailar, Benjamin

ADMN   506 FACULTY RESEARCH SEMINAR                 Credits 0.00  Spring 97
See Admn 505.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

ADMN   512 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR                  Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Modern approaches to the study and management of people at work.
Particular attention to the description of work, techniques for
evaluating jobs and performance, problems in attracting, recruiting,
selecting, training employees, and issues in supervision.
001                                  Currall, Steven
001                                  Love, E.
002                                  TBA
003                                  TBA

ADMN   520 ENTREPRENEURSHIP                         Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Methods of starting a business ; the economics of new businesses;
analyzing new ventures; sweat equity; legal, tax, and accounting
aspects of new venture creation; leveraged buyouts; going public.
Prereq- Admn 541.  Required MBA course.
001                                  Williams, Edward
002                                  Napier, H.

ADMN   522 ENTERPRISE EXCHANGE                      Credits 3.00  Spring 97
How to negotiate, the "needs" approach to buying and selling a
business, enterprise valuation, deal and contract structuring,
mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.
Limited enrollment.
Prereq- Admn 541 and permission of instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      Williams, Edward

ADMN   524 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT & DEV             Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Identifies and analyzes real estate investment and development
opportunities.
Prereq- Admn 541 and instructor's permission.
Limited enrollment.
001 TBA     TBA                      Williams, Donald

ADMN   526 VENTURE CAPITAL                          Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Overview of venture capital industry, organization and operation of
venture capital funds, investment methodology, monitoring and portfolio
liquidation, leveraged investing, and specialized investments.
Prereq- Admn 541.
001 TBA     TBA                      Banks, Stephen

ADMN   532 STATISTICS & DECISION ANALYSIS           Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Use of operations research methods and computer systems to analyze
decision problems, with particular emphasis on production and operations
management.
Prereq- Admn 531.  Required MBA course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Kirby, Christopher
002 TBA     TBA                      Kirby, Christopher

ADMN   542 MACRO & INTERNATIONAL ECON               Credits 2.00  Spring 97
Modern political economy, productivity and aggregate economics, the
basic Keynesian model, neoclassical macroeconomics, and international
economics.
Prereq- Admn 541.  Required MBA course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Ostdiek, Barbara
002 TBA     TBA                      Ostdiek, Barbara

ADMN   544 PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT II                  Credits 2.00  Spring 97
Continuation of Admn 543.
001 TBA     TBA             TBA      Ikenberry, David

ADMN   546 CORPORATE FINANCIAL STRATEGY             Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Advanced financial topics of interest to the corporation:  value
creation, diversification, risk-benefit analysis, tax policy, and
present value. Emphasizes practical problems of the corporation.
Limited enrollment.
Prereq- Admn 547 or permission of instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      Ross, David

ADMN   550 FUTURES & OPTIONS                        Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Develops the principles of futures and options contracts within a
general valuation framework that emphasizes the determinants of contract
value and provides a context for evaluating various hedging and
speculative trading strategies.  The valuation principles are then
applied to a number of derivative markets, including stocks, stock
indexes, fixed income securities, and currencies.
Prereq- Admn 545 or instructor's permission.
001 TBA     TBA                      Fleming, Jeff

ADMN   552 INVESTMENT BANKING                       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Analysis of the characteristics of the investment banking industry,
focusing on topics of corporate financial transactions:  public
offerings, private placements of debt and equity, and mergers and
acquisitions.
Prereq- Admn 545 or permission of instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      Atherton, Clifford

ADMN   554 COMMERCIAL BANKING                       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Provides students with an understanding of the important features of
financial intermediation, focusing on economic analysis of particular
practices, contracts, instruments, and institutions in the
deposit-taking intermediary market.  Special emphasis is on the
intermediary's sources of risk and its management.
Prereq- Acco 524.
001 TBA     TBA                      Kanatas, George

ADMN   558 GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS                   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Analyzes the international equity, fixed income, derivative, and money
markets from the points of view of an international investor and an
international equity and fixed income issuer.  The course centers on
investigating the effects of different institutional arrangements and
microstructures on market activity.
Prereq- Acco 524.
001 MW      12:30PM-01:45PM TBA      Verma, Avinash

ADMN   560 LAW FOR ACCOUNTANTS                      Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Common law and statutory law of contracts, sales, commercial paper,
secured transactions, agency, business organizations, securities
regulation, bankruptcy, accountant's legal responsibility, and state
and federal court systems.  Not equivalent of Admn 562.
Prereq- Acco 501 or equivalent and graduate standing.  Required MAcco
course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Friday, Arthur

ADMN   562 LEGAL & GOV'T PROCESSES II               Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Law as the medium in which American  society and business function;
legal history, jurisprudential bases, theory and practice of principal
kinds of law:  common law, statute law, constitutional law, and law of
government control.
Prereq- Admn 561.  Required MBA course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Schnietz, Karen
002 TBA     TBA                      Schnietz, Karen

ADMN   574 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW               Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Topics in U.S. and foreign law as they relate to the law/business
interface of importing/exporting/trade problems, foreign operations,
foreign investment, extraterritorial impact of U.S. law, corporate
organization, foreign exchange, joint ventures, withdrawal from foreign
ventures, and third country manufacturing.
Prereq- Admn 560 or 562.
001 TBA     TBA                      Hannan, John

ADMN   578 INT'L TRADE & COMPETITIVENESS            Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Presents an overview of the economic and political environment of
international trade and competitiveness.  Explores the challenges unique
to the management of the multinational corporation.
Prereq- graduate standing and instructor's permission.
001 TBA     TBA                      Schuler, Doug

ADMN   580 CUSTOMER ANALYSIS                        Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Introduction to key marketing concepts that underlie the function of
marketing in the business enterprise; provides a foundation for
advanced course work in marketing.  Employs lectures and extensive
analysis of marketing management cases.
Prereq- graduate standing and school's permission.
Required MBA course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Westbrook, Robert

ADMN   582 BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETING           Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Deals specifically with the marketing of goods and services to
businesses and other organizations.  Focuses on the analysis of issues,
problems and opportunities that are characteristic of business
marketing situations.  Emphasis is placed on the formulation and
implementation of business-to-business marketing strategies.
Prereq- Admn 580.
001                                  Yim, Bennett

ADMN   584 PRODUCT MANAGEMENT                       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Applies various dimensions of marketing strategy and management to role
of product manager, who is responsible for all aspects of managing the
marketing activities for a given product.
Prereq- Admn 580.
001 TBA     TBA                      Crump, Caryn
001                                  Shaddix, Mallory

ADMN   585 FUNDAMENTALS OF MARKETING RESEARCH       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Addresses the fundamental process of conducting marketing research by
providing a broad-based understanding of the range of marketing research
options.  Emphasizes learning the strengths and weaknesses of different
approaches to gathering marketing information and understanding how the
individual steps of the marketing research process are interrelated.
Students design marketing research studies to address some of the most
commonly asked managerial questions, including estimation of marketing
potential, segmentation of customer groups, issues of new product
introduction, and reactions to marketing mix changes.
Prereq- Admn 580.
001                                  Kumar, Piyush

ADMN   592 MANAGEMENT STRATEGY II                   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Continuation of Admn 591.  Emphasis on field projects with companies and
other organizations.
Prereq- Admn 591.  Required MBA course.
001 TBA     TBA                      Baker, Lovett
001                                  Taylor, Ronald
002 TBA     TBA                      Baker, Lovett
002                                  Taylor, Ronald

ADMN   596 STRATEGIC PLANNING AND CREATIVITY        Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Develops strategic planning skills to help business managers make better
short and long-run applied decisions.  A central theme is the role of
creativity in the planning process as the essential features of
effective planning systems are examined.  Emphasis is on examples of
excellent planning performed by a variety of actual companies and
industries.
Prereq- Admn 591.
001 TBA     TBA                      Taylor, Ronald

ADMN   598 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
See Admn 597.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA
002 TBA     TBA                      TBA
003 TBA     TBA                      TBA

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