Mgmt 491 (Wednesday 6:00)

Class Schedule

August 22 Case segment #1 distributed

Discussion of teams and topics

Monday, August 27 Topics due for Ethics and Different Views – due in writing

Aug. 29 Case segment #2 distributed

HOTP: Wasim Al-Abed (article title missing)

HOTP: Shane Reynolds ("Seller of Online Currency May Have Been Victim of Fraud")

Ethics: Samia, Chad, Wasim (suing in the software industry)

Case in-progress: Shane, Ryan, Kim

Individual in-progress case summaries due

Sept. 5 Team Dynamics: A Myers-Briggs Analysis, Elisa Rudd, Associate

Director of the UNCA Career Center

Sept. 12 Opportunity to work on team projects

Sept. 19 Case segment #3 distributed

HOTP: Samia Fercha ("Advertising: In a soft economy, the National Football League" New York Times)

Ethics: Julie, Ryan, Shane (promotion fraud)

Different Views: Kim, Kim, Lynae (motivation in the workplace)

Case in-progress: Lynae, Mark, Wasim

Individual in-progress case summaries due

Sept. 26 Case segment #4 distributed

HOTP: Kimberly Moody ("Doctoring Sales" Sales and Marketing Magazine)

HOTP: Wasim Al-Abed ("H-P's deal for Compaq has its doubters" Wall Street Journal)

Different Views: Mark, Kevin, Shane (college book sales industry)

Case in-progress: Chad, Kevin

Individual in-progress case summaries due

Oct. 3 Case segment #5 distributed

HOTP: Chad Faircloth ( "Newly Popular in Disaster's Wake Amtrak Seeks U.S. Aid" Wall Street Journal)

Ethics: Kim, Lynae, Mark (price fixing)

Different Views: Ryan, Julie, Jim (globalization)

Case in-progress: Lynae, Mark, Wasim

Individual in-progress case summaries due

Oct. 10 Fall Break

Oct. 17 6:00-7:00: Guest speaker - Charles Massey (more details to follow)
7:00-8:30: Opportunity to work on team projects

Oct. 24 Case segment #6 distributed

HOTP: Lynae Fanelli ("New FAA Rules Hurt Blimps During the Busy Season" The Wall Street Journal)

Different Views: Chad, Samia, Wasim (sports industry)

Case in-progress: Jim, Kevin, Chad

Case in-progress: Shane, Kim, Ryan

Individual in-progress case summaries due

Oct. 31 Case segment #7 distributed

HOTP: Kevin Jennings ("Treasury Dept Says It Will Issue War Bonds" Wall Street Journal)

Ethics: Kim, Kevin (whistle-blowing in the workplace)

Case in-progress: Samia, Kim, Julie

Case in-progress: Kevin, Chad

Individual in-progress case summaries due

Nov. 7 HOTP: Ryan Piercy ("What It Takes" Fortune)

HOTP: Julie Pace ("The long shadow of XP" Fortune)

International Chad, Kevin (Sony Corp.)

International Lynae, Wasim, Mark (Hondu)

Nov. 14 HOTP: Kimberly Parks ("Why Deep Layoffs Hurt Long-term Recovery" Workforce)

HOTP: Mark Vanderslice ("PC-Security Device Can Read Fingerprints" Wall Street Journal)

International Samia, Julie, Kim (Proctor & Gamble)

International Ryan, Kim, Shane (American Express)

Nov. 28 Final presentations for case

Dec. 5 Project Retrospective Session

Dec. 12 Team analysis and personal speaking evaluation (video) papers due