Topics in Business

Catalog description

The course enables students to apply tools and skills, learned in this and previous business courses, by undertaking projects focused on real business cases and provided by real companies. The cases are supplied by organizations expressly for this course and concern real opportunities and challenges facing them. Students will participate on teams of 4-5 people. Each team will have a different project. They will meet the organization for which they are undertaking the project to get insights into the problem being addressed and to present their results in the end. They will also meet regularly with the professor who will give lectures on problem-solving tools and skills as well act as a mentor when the projects are undertaken. They will also meet with outside mentors, brought in from the business world to review and offer comments / suggestions. Prerequisite: Sophomore or above. Fulfillment: BUSF Non-Finance/BUSM Non-Marketing elective or China Business Studies (must have China related topic); Business Management Track; IMB Business elective.