Jim Seethram
Winter Term 2025 (1900)
SEM 641 - Business Strategy
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
This course examines top management decisions and emphasizes the development of business and corporate strategy. It integrates the management principles studied in the business core using a series of business cases. Guest Faculty members and executives will participate. Prerequisite: All required Year one MBA core courses.
LECTURE X50 (75599)
2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
T 18:30 - 21:30
Spring Term 2025 (1910)
MARK 452 - Strategic Marketing
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
The objective of this course is to provide students with the analytic, planning, and communication skills to be successful marketing managers. The focus is on practical marketing planning, along with the development and implementation of marketing strategies. Course activities may include the use of marketing simulation games, case analyses, field research projects, secondary research and in-depth discussion of current literatures. The course focuses on the integration of all the conceptual areas in marketing. Prerequisite: MARK 301. Restricted to third year students who have completed MARK 312 or MARK 320, or to fourth year students.
LECTURE X01 (30644)
2025-05-05 - 2025-06-11
MW 18:00 - 20:50
Summer Term 2025 (1920)
SEM 690 - Entrepreneurial Strategizing
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
Entrepreneurial skills are increasingly needed across all domains of the economy and society. While conventional entrepreneurial imagery invokes a Silicon Valley high-technology start-up, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial behavior are prevalent in many large corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and community settings. This includes varied forms of cultural and social entrepreneurship. This course aims to provide a broad overview of general entrepreneurial skills that are vital for any successful career and organizational situation. Our focus will be on providing students with the strategic tools needed to think and act entrepreneurially and innovatively. Entrepreneurial strategizing emphases include framing, resource assembling, opportunity sensing and developing, value-creating, designing, networking, effectual reasoning, and iterative validating and learning.
LECTURE B01 (40908)
2025-07-23 - 2025-07-25
WRF 09:00 - 16:50
2025-07-30 - 2025-07-31
WR 09:00 - 16:50