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One-Hour Courses Expand Options for Jenkins MBA Students

The first course, offered at the start of the fall semester, focused on the key components of labor and human rights as part of a global chain strategy. Dr. Rob Handfield, director of the college’s Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, explained the increasing pressure placed on companies by organizations such as Doctors Without Borders as well as growing demands from investors. Students used a maturity assessment based on International Labor Organization criteria to evaluate a number of global companies in different industry sectors. The maturity model provides clear guidelines that senior management can adopt in their strategic supply chain confirmations, as well as a vision for future collaboration between global business communities and industry associations.

Following are the other one-hour courses scheduled for this fall.

  • Improving Individual Decision Making, taught by Dr. Steve Barr, Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Sept. 12 and 26 at the RTP location. The course focuses on actual decision making behaviors and aims to help the individual students improve their own decision making processes for better outcomes. Techniques taught in the class could be applied to business, professional and business decisions.

Global Product Management, taught by Dr. Deepak Sirdeshmukh, Department of Business Administration on Sept. 19 and Oct. 3, in Nelson Hall. Students examine the opportunities and challenges faced by globally distributed product managers and the ideal qualities of the global product manager.

  • Making Sense of the Subprime Mortgage and Credit Crisis of 2008-09, taught by Dr. Bruce Branson, Department of Accounting in RTP. The course presents a non-technical overview of the U.S. residential mortgage market from 2002 to the present. Through classroom discussion, students will search for lessons to help prevent a recurrence of the current financial situation.
  • Building, sustaining and Repairing Customer Trust, taught by Deepak Sirdeshmukh, Department of Business Administration on Oct. 17 and 31 in Raleigh. The course will examine four key topics: building and measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, foundations of customer trust and organizational competencies for building trust, measuring customer trust and its outcomes on human behavior.
  • Forecasting and Pro Forma Financial Statements, taught by Dog Pagach, Department of Accounting, Oct. 31 and Nov. 14 at the RTP site. Accurate budgeting and forecasting is fundamental to successful business operation and long term planning. The course focuses on the budget process
  • Strategic Pricing: Creating Mutual Value, taught by Deepak Sirdeshmukh on Nov. 7 and 21 in Raleigh. This course discusses the fundamental drivers of product and services pricing and key steps in developing price structures focused on customer value.
  • Roles, Responsibilities and Practices of Chief Officers and Board Members, taught by Steve Markham, Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the RTP site. Students will explore the job descriptions of chief officers of large and small companies, and cover the duties and responsibilities of boards of directors, as well as the career path and preparation for chief officers and board members.