This course
is typically offered in the FALL and SPRING.
This is a Core
Course of the MOT program.
The course is open to graduate students only, from departments other than Business Administration. No prerequisite coursework is required, but a familiarity with basic economics is helpful.
Many graduate students in Law, Engineering and the Sciences will take a job in "industry" on leaving Berkeley. In addition, many students of Public Policy and in other Schools will interact with business people in their professional careers. Our goal is that by the end of the course, you'll feel comfortable talking with people whose graduate school work has been in Business. You'll understand the vocabulary, techniques of analysis and decision-making. Although Fundamentals of Business is a broad survey course, we understand that Berkeley graduate students are intellectually demanding and so we address some topics in depth. We also want to train you in the brief, clear writing style used in business.
The format of the course is three five-week modules taught by a team of instructors with different functional expertise:
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (Nancy Euske)
Accounting and Finance (Gregory P. La Blanc)
Marketing and Strategy (David Robinson)
The course meets a once-a-week 3 hour class on Wednesday evenings, with three scheduled examinations after the end of each module. In each module, students write a short term paper.
For further information, and for any additional questions, please contact David Robinson.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
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