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