Graduate Business Program News
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Monday, Aug. 25, 2008
All Graduate Business students interested in enrolling in Capstone (MGMT 619) during the Winter 2009 quarter must submit an online Winter 2009 Capstone Petition by Monday, September 15th.
Students will be contacted regarding their eligibility to enroll in MGMT 619 in October prior to Winter 2009 registration.
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Monday, Aug. 25, 2008
The Fall 2008 Open Enrollment period for Graduate Business students will begin Tuesday, September 2nd.
Registration will be closed to all Graduate Business students the week of August 25th.
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Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
eCampus will be unavailable Saturday, August 23rd from 7:00 a.m. through early afternoon for system upgrades.
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Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
From August 25th - September 19th, the GBP Office will be open Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Evening and Saturday hours will resume the week of September 22nd.
*The GBP Office is now located in Lucas Hall 116.*
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Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008
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Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
On Thursday, August 14th from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., all SCU campus-wide wireless networks will be down and unavailable so that maintenance can be performed. If you require network access on August 14th while on campus, please make arrangements to utilize a wired network connection.
Additionally, if you are still utilizing the SCU-WiFi wireless network, please note that this network is no longer supported and will shortly be discontinued. To ensure that you have uninterrupted access to the wireless network at SCU, please reconfigure your wireless client to use the SCUWireless wireless network. Documentation describing the steps necessary to configure your wireless device is available at:
http://it.scu.edu/information/Network/wireless/
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Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
Please join Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society for business plan presentations by the 2008 Global Social Benefit Incubator entrepreneurs from around the world.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
California Mission Room, Benson Memorial Center, Santa Clara University
Continental Breakfast
7:15-8:00 a.m.
Business Plan Presentations
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Reception
6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
About GSBI:
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) is an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to become sustainable in fulfilling their social missions and to scale their endeavors. It combines classroom instruction in finance, marketing, organizational development, and business planning with case studies, best practices, and most importantly, carefully matched mentoring support. The invited entrepreneurs have demonstrated proof of concept in applying technology to address urgent human needs in the most adverse of circumstances around the world.
Living and learning together, GSBI participants develop common conceptual skills and a true sense of community. Together these outcomes foster peer-to-peer collaboration and receptivity to expert mentoring from seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. At the August 28 business plan presentations, you will see how the innovative adaptation of technology and models of social change, in combination with grounded business plans, can bring positive benefits to all of humanity.
We know you will be inspired by the work of the 2008 Global Social Benefit Incubator class and the promise of their innovative business plans.
To RSVP: visit www.scu.edu/sts or contact Sherrill Dale at sdale@scu.edu.
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Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
Dr. K. Thomas Chandy brings to the table a unique combination of industrial and scholarly experience. Trained as a chemical engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and the Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY), and with an MBA from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), his thirty years in industry span manufacturing, R&D, the design and construction of large chemical plants, and the development and marketing of miniaturized sensors and electronic process control systems. He has held management positions at large multinationals such as Hindustan Lever Ltd. (a subsidiary of Unilever), Monsanto, and Allied-Signal (now known as Honeywell), as well as at a couple of small start-ups.
Returning to UCLA, he earned his Ph.D. in Management and has been on the faculty at several universities in the United States, most recently at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) where he was an Adjunct Professor for Strategic Management at the School of Hotel Administration, the world leader in the field of hospitality and service managment studies. Dr. Chandy's research explores issues in technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, business strategy, management cognition, and business history. He has presented his research at leading academic conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Costa Rica. He teaches courses in strategic management, international business, technology management, organizational theory, and entrepreneurship. He has also served as a consultant to firms in the chemical, pharmaceutical, electronics, and banking industries.
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Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
FNCE 696: Behavioral Corporate Finance
Behavioral traps represent one of the most important obstacles to the successful implementation of the skills taught in traditional corporate finance courses. When it comes to improving the financial decision process, understanding these traps is absolutely essential. This course identifies the key psychological obstacles to value maximizing behavior, along with steps that managers can take to mitigate the effects of these obstacles. The objective of the course is to help students learn how to put the traditional tools of corporate finance to their best use, and mitigate the effects of psychological obstacles that reduce value.
Prerequisites: FNCE 451 and FNCE 455
IDIS 696: Social Benefit Entrepreneurship
Social benefit entrepreneurship is the creation of innovative ventures that produce a social benefit. These ventures typically innovate to produce products and/or services that help alleviate important social problems, such as economic development (poverty), health, equality, education, and environment. This course will introduce students to social benefit entrepreneurship through readings, analysis of case studies, and participation in the assessment of business plans for existing social benefit ventures. The emphasis of the course will be on understanding management techniques for maximizing the financial sustainability and scalability of an SBE.
Prerequisites: MKTG 551 and ACTG 300 OR ACTG 301 OR FNCE 451. Prerequisites may be waived by permission of the instructor.
MKTG 696: Business to Business Marketing
Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketing encompasses those management activities that enable a supplier firm to understand, create, and deliver value to other businesses, governments, or institutional customers. In the context of these business markets, value refers to the economic, technical, service, and social benefits a customer firm may receive for buying the market offering. Using core readings and in-depth case analysis, the course will introduce and apply the guiding principles of B2B Marketing, which include using value as the cornerstone for decision-making, focusing on business processes and the business as a "buying center" with the various roles of participants, stressing business across borders, and accentuating working relationships and business networks. Through this course, students will also develop critical analytical and problem solving skills for a variety of business marketing situations.
Prerequisites: MKTG 551 and MTKG 553
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