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