Management
http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/CourseScreens/UGConcentrations.htm
Management Concentration Advisor
Dr. Adrian Tschoegl - 2013 SH-DH (215-898-1149)
The Management Department offers courses and experience to students who want careers in management; who want to take on major challenges and responsibilities in private, public and not-for-profit organizations, large or small. Although we advise students interested in Management to take courses from several of the Department’s sub-fields, each sub-field can provide a satisfying concentration in itself.
The Entrepreneurial Management courses provide students with skills, analytical tools, and concepts to prepare them for careers as autonomous entrepreneurs, family-business entrepreneurs, or corporate "intra-entrepreneurs."
The Human Resources and Organizational Behavior courses are intended to serve students interested in management consulting, in strategic human resource management, in a legal career with a special interest in labor and/or employment law, or simply in how to manage people regardless of the functional area in which the students find themselves.
The Multinational Management courses are designed to equip managers who need to develop strategies and operating systems that enable their companies to respond effectively to global competitors both at home and abroad.
Lastly, the Strategic Management courses emphasize the realistic situations that top management face, as well as the theoretical bases for analysis of such situations, and are particularly appropriate for students interested in management consulting.
More generally, a Management concentration is a logical complement to a major in a functional area. The functional area major provides the hard skills that employers look for in entry-level positions. In the short-term the Management concentration provides the perspective that enables the new employee to put their job in the firm and the firm itself into a context; in the long-term the Management concentration provides the perspective and knowledge that more senior managers require.
Suggested groupings of courses in Entrepreneurial Management, Multinational Management, Human Resource/Organizational Management, and/or Strategic Management are given below. Students, however, are encouraged to consider the wide range of courses available, as any four management courses beyond MGMT 100 and 10l comprise a concentration in Management.
Entrepreneurial Management
MGMT 212x Entrepreneurship and Social Wealth (0.5 cu)
MGMT 230 Entrepreneurship
MGMT 231 Entrepreneurship & Venture Initiation
MGMT 233 Strategies and Practices of Family- controlled Companies
MGMT 235 Technological Innovation
MGMT 237 Management of Technology
MGMT 245 Managing the Process of Innovation
MGMT 251 Consulting to Growth Companies
Human Resource/Organizational Management
MGMT 104 Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
MGMT 234 Comparative Management
MGMT 238 Organizational Behavior
MGMT 239 Organization Design
MGMT 240 Group Dynamics
MGMT 243 Communications in the Workplace
MGMT 244 Human Resources Management
MGMT 248 Executive Leadership
MGMT 255 Community Reinvestment
MGMT 291 Negotiations
Multinational Management
MGMT 111 Multinational Management
MGMT 205 Multinational Corporate Strategies
MGMT 208 Globalization and International Political Economy
MGMT 209 The Politics of the Multinational Firm
MGMT 234 Comparative Management
Strategic Management
MGMT 211 Competitive Strategy
MGMT 213 Strategic Management in a Sustainable Society
MGMT 214 Microeconomics & Technical Change
MGMT 223 Business Strategy & Policy
MGMT 225x American Business History
MGMT 230 Entrepreneurial Decision Making
MGMT 234 Comparative Management
MGMT 237 Management of Technology
MGMT 249 Corporate Development: Mergers & Acquisitions
MGMT 253 Creating, Managing, and Presenting the Arts
MGMT 282 Strategic Implementation
For a list of Frequently Asked Questions regarding the management concentration, refer to:
http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/CourseScreens/FAQ_Fall07.pdf
Some considerations for students who are exploring concentrations:
Management is generally a more qualitative area rather than a quantitative one. The basic portal to all its courses is MGMT 101, which all Wharton undergraduate students take. The introductory courses within the sub-fields are:
Strategic Management:
MGMT 223 - Business Strategy and Policy
Multinational Management:
MGMT 111 - Multinational Management
Entrepreneurship:
MGMT 230 - Entrepreneurship
Human Resources and Organizational Management:
No specific gateway course though many students take MGMT 104 Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management to fulfill their organizational environments requirement.
MGMT 291: Negotiations. The Department strongly recommends this course, not only for students who are considering a management concentration, but for all Wharton undergraduate students. It is a course that starts to pay off immediately in that all students participate in negotiations all the time, whether it is negotiating for an apartment or a used car, or for a job.
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