NBA 5880

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NBA 5880
Critical Thinking for Business Leaders

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course is based on the proposition that leading well requires thinking well-that is, in order to succeed in any business leadership role, one must learn, exhibit, and model critical thinking skills to organizational stakeholders: colleagues, supervisors/senior executives, and clients/customers. The first few class sessions look at a series of brief articles that attempt to advance arguments in favor of a particular business proposition, and students learn how to examine these arguments critically, including by evaluating the strength and limitations of the evidence presented and by identifying and articulating the best counter-arguments to the positions offered. The remainder of the course is spent applying these critical thinking skills to a set of business cases, using a Strategic Thinking Problem-Solving framework. By the end of the course, the goal is for students to be able to approach business problems in a systematic and critically thoughtful way, and to produce and communicate a problem solution that is well reasoned, well received by ultimate decision makers, and likely to be implemented with success by a group/organization that a student is leading.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First. 

  • 1.5 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14950 NBA 5880   LEC 001

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  • GM 2nd Year and Grad students ONLY **ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED during the add/drop period or you will be dropped from the class. Waitlisted students should also attend class in order to be enrolled should seats open up during the add/drop period. Students who are absent during add/drop will be moved to the wait list unless the absence was caused by a medical emergency OR they provided advance notice to the instructor AND received permission in writing to be absent and remain in the course.** Non-Johnson students may add themselves to the waitlists during the enrollment periods, however Johnson Students have priority into the classes and non-Johnsons will be enrolled: 1) IF seats are still available after Johnson students complete their enrollment period and 2) IF the instructor allows. Add/Drop Dates: Johnson Students - January 13th at 8:00am to January 28th at Noon. Non-Johnson Students: January 27th at 8:00am to January 28th at 4:00pm. You may add or drop a first-half class after January 28th with permission of the faculty. A late fee of $100.00 will be charged for each add or drop transaction. If you are dropping after February 4th you will also receive a "W" on your transcript in addition to the late fees.

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First. 

  • 1.5 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14951 NBA 5880   LEC 002

  •  

  • GM 2nd Year and Grad students ONLY **ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED during the add/drop period or you will be dropped from the class. Waitlisted students should also attend class in order to be enrolled should seats open up during the add/drop period. Students who are absent during add/drop will be moved to the wait list unless the absence was caused by a medical emergency OR they provided advance notice to the instructor AND received permission in writing to be absent and remain in the course.** Non-Johnson students may add themselves to the waitlists during the enrollment periods, however Johnson Students have priority into the classes and non-Johnsons will be enrolled: 1) IF seats are still available after Johnson students complete their enrollment period and 2) IF the instructor allows. Add/Drop Dates: Johnson Students - January 13th at 8:00am to January 28th at Noon. Non-Johnson Students: January 27th at 8:00am to January 28th at 4:00pm. You may add or drop a first-half class after January 28th with permission of the faculty. A late fee of $100.00 will be charged for each add or drop transaction. If you are dropping after February 4th you will also receive a "W" on your transcript in addition to the late fees.

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First. 

  • 1.5 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14974 NBA 5880   LEC 003

  •  

  • GM 2nd Year and Grad students ONLY **ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED during the add/drop period or you will be dropped from the class. Waitlisted students should also attend class in order to be enrolled should seats open up during the add/drop period. Students who are absent during add/drop will be moved to the wait list unless the absence was caused by a medical emergency OR they provided advance notice to the instructor AND received permission in writing to be absent and remain in the course.** Non-Johnson students may add themselves to the waitlists during the enrollment periods, however Johnson Students have priority into the classes and non-Johnsons will be enrolled: 1) IF seats are still available after Johnson students complete their enrollment period and 2) IF the instructor allows. Add/Drop Dates: Johnson Students - January 13th at 8:00am to January 28th at Noon. Non-Johnson Students: January 27th at 8:00am to January 28th at 4:00pm. You may add or drop a first-half class after January 28th with permission of the faculty. A late fee of $100.00 will be charged for each add or drop transaction. If you are dropping after February 4th you will also receive a "W" on your transcript in addition to the late fees.