There are two required books for the course, which are noted in shorthand in the table below:
[M] Ancona, D., T. Kochan, M. Scully, J. Van Maanen, and E. Westney. Managing for the Future. 3rd ed. Mason, OH: Thomson/Southwestern, 2005. ISBN: 0324055757.
[K&S] Kochan, Thomas, and Richard Schmalensee, eds. Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 0262112825.
Course readings.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Introduction and Overview |
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| 2 |
Introduction to Teams and Teamwork |
[M] "A Team Primer." Module 3, pp. M3-10 to M3-16.
[M] "Team Process Observation Guide." Module 5, pp. M5-8 to M5-16. |
| 3 |
Contemporary Management Challenges |
[K&S] D'Arbeloff, Alex. "Preface." pp. xi-xii.
[K&S] Annan, Kofi. "Corporate Citizenship in a Global Society." pp. 17-24.
[K&S] Fiorina, Carly. "Restoring Trust: Corporate Responsibility and the CEO." pp. 25-36. |
| 4 |
Work and Careers - Past, Present and Future |
[M] "Workforce Management: Employment Relationships in Changing Organizations." Module 7, pp. M7-12 to M7-28. |
| 5 |
Organizational Analysis - Strategic Design Lens |
[M] "Three Lenses on Organizational Analysis and Action." Module 2, pp. M2-13 to M2-32.
Look over the organizational charts from the Office of the Dean of Student Life and the Dean of Undergraduate Education. |
| 6 |
Organizational Analysis - Political Lens |
[M] "The Political Lens." Module 2, pp. M2-33 to M2-55.
Dalton, Melville. "Men who Manage." In The Sociology of Economic Life. Edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992, pp. 315-320 and 334-344. ISBN: 0813397642. |
| 7 |
Organizational Analysis - The Cultural Lens |
[M] "The Cultural Lens." Module 2, pp. M2-57 to M2-82.
Bring an MIT cultural artifact to class, one per team (we will explain this in the next class). |
| 8 |
Organizational Analysis - The Lincoln Electric Case |
Berg, Norman, and Norman Fast. "Lincoln Electric Co." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-500-071, August 1, 1975. |
| 9 |
Shareholders or Stakeholders - A Debate |
Friedman, Milton. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits." The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Evan, William, and R. Edward Freeman. "A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism." In Ethical Theory and Business. 6th ed. Edited by Beauchamp and Bowie. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001. ISBN: 0133985202.
Stout, Lynn. "Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy." Southern California Law Review 75 (2002). |
| 10 |
The Nike Case |
[K&S] Locke, Richard. "The Promise and Peril of Globalization: The Nike Case." pp. 39-70. |
| 11 |
Teams Revisited - Feedback and Workshop Session |
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| 12 |
Introduction to Negotiations |
[M] "Negotiations and Conflict Resolution." Module 12, pp. M12-4 to M12-21.
"Negotiation Simulation Ground Rules." (class handout)
"An Alarming Night." (class handout) |
| 13 |
Multi-party Negotiations |
"Laboratory Sciences, Inc." (class handout) |
| 14 |
Recruitment/Job Offer Negotiations |
"The New Recruit." (class handout) |
| 15 |
Leadership and Change - Introduction |
[M] "Leadership." Module 14, pp. M14-8 to M14-19.
Biographic sketch of César Chavez. |
| 16 |
The Big Dig, Part 1 |
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| 17 |
The Big Dig, Part 2 |
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| 18 |
Social Influence, Communications and Selling Ideas |
[M] "Issue Selling from Within." Module 13, pp. M13-6 to M13-11.
[M] "Inex." Module 13, pp. M13-14 to M13-19. |
| 19 |
Organizational Change |
[M] "Organizational Change." Module 8, pp. M8-6 to M8-21.
[M] "The Strategy that Wouldn't Travel." Module 8, pp. M8-22 to M8-25. |
| 20 |
Organizational Change (cont.) |
"Internship Protocol and Cases." (class handout) |
| 21 |
Managing the Innovation Process |
[K&S] Brockley, Ellen, et al. "The Next Technological Revolution: Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves." pp. 259-285. |
| 22 |
Team Presentations |
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| 23 |
Alumni Panel |
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| 24 |
Technology and Its Social Context |
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| 25 |
Inventing the Future |
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| 26 |
Inventing the Future (cont.) |
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