The objective of the Action Learning Project I and II is for teams to identify and solve/dissolve business problems that currently exist in organizations and inthe process, to provide significant value to organizations and their stakeholders. The experience of solving/dissolving business problems will both enablestudents to apply knowledge learned in core courses and to develop the wisdom, skills, and problem-solving capabilities of team members. This course isdesigned to promote independent learning. Faculty members will offer mini-modules on key themes such as organizational support, team dynamics and peerfeedback, but their primary role will be to facilitate the ALP process and serve as consultants to the student teams.

This course will examine business ethics issues across a variety of business contexts. You will learn toapply a number of ethical theories to business problems, primarily through case studies and discussion.The goal is for you to engage actively with the material and understand the complexity of many ethical dilemmas that businesses and business owners face. Often in ethics there is not one right answer; rather,businesses and individuals must wrestle with ethical principles that may compete and conflict with one another in arriving at a resolution. We will explore conflicts between personal values and organizationalgoals, ethics as part of a business strategy, and various ethical frameworks businesses may use in understanding and implementing ethical approaches to problems.

Develop the ability to communicate with and about data.

Offers a practical blueprint for understanding, building, implementing, and sustaining supply chains in today's rapidly changing global supply chain environment. It will provide the student with a survey of the fast-moving Supply Chain Management discipline and practice, including the evolution of supply chain strategies, business models and technologies; current best practices in demand and supply management; and methodologies for conducting supply chain-wide diagnostic assessments and formulating process improvement plans.

Many different skills are required in arriving at informed managerial decisions. Among these are analytical and quantitative skills. Decision Modeling is one in a sequence of two courses that seeks to develop these two important skills. More formally, the goals of this course are: to introduce business optimization modeling techniques to aid in complex decision making environments, decision trees to structure strategic decision making problems in an uncertain environment, and Monte-Carlo simulation to help analyze and assess the risk associated with decisions in an uncertain environment. We will demonstrate the use of all techniques in this course in a spreadsheet environment.

The objective is to understand the strategic and tactical issues involved in managing digital businesses and markets. Also, some of the characteristics of digital businesses and markets that make them unique and understand how companies can best manage them will be examined.

Supply chain managers are facing an increasingly volatile operating environment, with constant danger of trading community disruption from business, social and environmental risks. Students are provided with a working knowledge of both the core techniques of supply chain risk assessment and mitigation; as well as best practices in establishing formal corporate supply chain risk management programs. A semester-long X-Treme Supply Chain Simulation will enable students to gain hands-on experience in navigating a computer company through a complex and risky four quarters of global business operations.