SEM 427 - Management Consulting: Organizational Change and Governance

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

This course equips students to address organizational effectiveness challenges, including governance design, change management, and organizational development. Students develop expertise in organizational assessment, diagnostic frameworks, governance structures, change implementation, and stakeholder alignment, with a specialized focus on entrepreneurial, privately held, and family enterprises where governance structures are emerging or evolving. The curriculum integrates organizational theory with practical consulting approaches for leadership transitions, succession planning, organizational design, and change readiness. Students apply consulting tools, including issue trees, stakeholder mapping, governance design frameworks, and change readiness assessments, to real organizational challenges. Through case studies and simulations, students learn to assess organizational effectiveness, design governance frameworks for scaling businesses, facilitate leadership transitions, manage change resistance and stakeholder dynamics, and build organizational capabilities for future transformation.

SEM 428 - Managing Family Enterprise

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Designed to improve managerial knowledge and practice through improved recognition and understanding of the significance of family firms and of the unique challenges they face. The course is designed primarily for individuals who a) are members of a family with established business interests; b) might find themselves working for family controlled firms; c) might find themselves working in a professional capacity with family controlled firms in roles such as accountant, lawyer, banker or consultant. Prerequisite: SEM 201, 301 or 310 or permission of the instructor.

SEM 628 - Managing Family Enterprise

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Designed to improve managerial knowledge and practice through improved recognition and understanding of the significance of family firms and of the unique challenges they face. Designed primarily for individuals who a) are members of a family with established business interests; b) might find themselves working for family controlled firms; c) might find themselves working in a professional capacity with family controlled firms in roles such as accountant, lawyer, banker or consultant.