This course explores key management and leadership concepts relevant to the high-technology world. Topics include the firm's key operations, strategic issues, and managerial leadership including personal leadership and talent management. This course prepares technical and business minded students for careers focused on professional and management track careers in high technology. Students undertake intensive study of actual business situations through rigorous case-study analysis.

"This course emphasizes the three Berkeley Changemaker pillars of critical thinking, effective communication, and productive collaboration. It combines critical examination of entrepreneurial challenges with strategic, ethical, and leadership theories. It develops verbal and collaborative leadership skills, through flipped classroom and intense case discussions, a team project, and a formal final presentation of the project. The case discussions in particular will develop effective listening, real-time analysis, and verbal leadership skills. The project will challenge you to analyze a current or historical ethical challenge in a high technology industry, or analyze the ethical implications of your own entrepreneurial plans."

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for Ind Eng 171 after taking UGBA 105.

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