Still looking for class ideas for the upcoming  semester? Consider one of the following and register today!

MGMT 6610 – Business Strategy Lab
Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:15 p.m.

MGMT 6610 is a career-centric course, offering MBA/MS students hands-on experience in two tracks – Management Consulting and Strategy. Susan Heinzeroth, a seasoned professional in both, guides MBA/MS teams in designing and executing projects that influence strategic change for a client company. We’ll be consulting to Senior Executives from a Financial Services firm on a strategic challenge they’ve identified. Be ready to prepare a team charter, scope of work, work -plan, conduct research, analyze information, interact with the client throughout, problem-solve, identify actionable strategic ideas and timelines, and present your final project recommendations at a client reception! Join us!

RISK 6209 – Cyber Risk Management
Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:15 p.m.

This course will focus on the evolution of cybercrime, cyber warfare, and cyber terrorism—it will include a discussion of how state and non-state actors utilize this form of asymmetrical warfare to infiltrate government and corporate networks, to manage risk associated with information technology and mitigate the effects of cybercrime and cyber warfare. Students will participate in a simulated cyber war game which will run through the course.

ENTP 6802 – The Regulatory Environment of Life Science Innovation
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. starting 08/27/2019 at Anschutz Medical Campus ED2 South, Room 2206

A graduate level course in the Biomedical Science and Biotechnology (BSBT) and Business School Entrepreneurship (ENTP) programs for engineering, business, and life science students that focuses on the fundamentals of the quality and regulatory processes for nutritional supplements, cannabis/CBD products, drugs, medical devices, biologics, combination products, human cellular and tissue products (CAR T-Cells, Stem Cells), in vitro diagnostics (IVDs), software as a medical device (SaMD), and healthcare IT and platform applications and services. This course also explores over-the-counter (OTC) regulations including the use of monographs and GRAS pathways.

ENTP 6028 – Cuba Libre: Innovation and Culture (Travel Study)
Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:15 p.m.

This course will take students to Havana, Cuba one of the most vibrant, energetic, and most historically fascinating cities in the western hemisphere. By visiting Havana, Vinales, and Trinidad students will experience the richness of the Cuban culture, the beauty of its beaches and countryside, and the warmth of its people while learning about the critical role entrepreneurship is playing in today’s emerging Cuban economy.

MGMT 6822 – Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Online

Covers business ethics and corporate social responsibility in the global contexts of employment, marketing, product liability, the environment and other areas. Students compare ethical theories, including utilitarianism, Kantian, Rawlsian, stockholder, stakeholder and social contract and apply some or all of these theories to actual and hypothetical case studies. The doctrine of corporate social responsibility is defined and explored and diverging views of corporate social responsibility are discussed. Examples of how corporate social responsibility can increase a company’s goodwill and net income are analyzed.

MGMT 6826 – Business and the Natural Environment
Online

With climate change and the need for companies to be sustainable, more and more firms have developed sustainability strategies to reduce their carbon emissions and negative effects on the natural environment.
This course considers the impact of economic activity on the natural environment and the regulatory, market, and corporate voluntary responses to reducing this impact. Topics include external effects, life cycle assessment, closed-loop systems, design for the environment, corporate sustainability reports, and effective corporate sustainability strategies.

MGMT 6610 – Business Strategy Lab
Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:15 p.m.

Gain strategy experience collaborating with and consulting to Senior Executives of a client company. This is a hands on, project-based course. Students will analyze a strategic initiative as defined by and with the organization’s leadership and provide their client with research, insights and actionable strategic ideas. Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School.

MGMT 6740 – Human Resources Management: Compensation
Mondays 6:30 – 9:15 p.m.

Develop and administer pay systems considering economic and social pressures, traditional approaches and strategic choices in managing compensation. Current theory research and practice. Students design a compensation strategy and a system that translates that strategy into reality. Prereq: MGMT 6380 and BUSN 6530. Cross-listed with MGMT 4450.

BANA 6800 – Special Topics: Data Visualization
Online

The course equips the Business Analyst with foundational concepts and techniques required for telling a compelling story with large complex data sets. The importance of visualizing information for many analysts is often overlooked or downgraded as a natural product of the analytics or model but if the visualization is ineffective the decision making processes and knowledge discovery will be compromised. This is a project-based course that begins with reviewing concepts of human perception and cognition and perceptual accuracy and preferences. In the weeks we have together we will explore the basics of graphic design and making a “good” graph, explore why some data visualizations present information effectively and others do not, and we will also consider visualization as a component of systems for the Data Scientist and Business Analyst and presents examples of EDA (exploratory data analysis), visualizing time, networks, and maps. We end by reviewing methods and tools for static and interactive graphics.

ENTP 6824 – Entrepreneurial Financial Management
Online

The course provides a foundation for the financial management of an entrepreneurial business, including financial financial aspects of setting up a business and considerations for a business plan to create, evaluate, and forecast, and analyze future financial statements including cash flow statements and cash budgets, break even analysis, working capital management, and cash build and burn concepts. We also examine buying versus starting a business, franchising, and valuation techniques, staging of investment and other financial considerations for venture capital, different choices for financing a business, and harvesting choices, and other important concepts for startup businesses

ENTP 6022 – Digital Strategy for Entrepreneurs
Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:15 p.m.

This exciting “profiles” course will introduce students to 10 or more local CEOs who are leading the digital disruption of traditional industries. In the past, we have welcomed CEOs from Colorado’s leading tech companies — including Ping Identity, Booyah Advertising, Havenly, PaySimple, EverCommerce, Ibex Investors and Base Education — to share their stories. Many of these companies offer attractive placement opportunities to interested students. Throughout the course, students will also discover and identify other industries ripe for disruption and, in the process, formulate new concepts with high probabilities of success.

MKTG 6826 – The Sport & Entertainment Industries
Mondays 6:30 – 9:15 p.m.

This course is designed as a speaker series of sports and entertainment industry elite focusing on: industry trends, strategic planning, management challenges, financing in sports and entertainment business (e.g., stadium/venue financing, sports team valuation, entertainment event guarantee estimation, player/artist salary issues, franchises, and managing disparate revenue streams), and major legal issues in the sports and entertainment industries (entertainment contracts, copyright, trademark and tort law).