Courses

• SMG SI 455: Leadership and Management of Nonprofit Organizations
  This course will introduce students to the structure, scope, and scale of the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and the inter-relationship of the nonprofit, business, and government sectors. We will investigate the major nonprofit sub-sectors such as health, education, arts, environment, religious institutions, international nongovernmental organizations, social services, and philanthropic organizations (such as foundations). Following this overview we will narrow our focus to the specific application of management topics in the sector including effective board governance, executive leadership, human resources management (including the management of volunteers), operations, resource development (fundraising), marketing, and nonprofit financial management. Class format combines lectures, case studies, student projects, guest speakers from the field, and discussion.
• SMG SI 469: Real Estate Development
  Real estate development is a process rather than a product. Too often, assumptions about occupancy, market absorption, rental income growth, valuation and competition are based on guesswork and interest in specific product types. The course will review the underlying demographic market data that drives demand; utilizing data such as population and job growth, market and marketability analysis. The focus will then shift to site selection and feasibility analysis, the available methods of gaining site control and the process of assembling the professional team. We then move to the regulatory control process, along with budgeting and contract award and review of the construction control processes. The course is introductory in nature and assumes students have little or no knowledge about the development process.
• SMG SI 471: International Entrepreneurship
  This course is designed for students who may at some point be interested in pursuing managerial careers in the international entrepreneurial sector, and covers the development of skills to identify, evaluate, start, and manage ventures that are international in scope. Over the course of the semester, the class will “travel” to more than fifteen countries on five continents, and analyze operations at each stage of the entrepreneurial process. The course will cover market entry, forming alliances, negotiations, managing growth and cross-border financing. Support from local governments, and the cultural, ethical, legal, and human resource issues facing the entrepreneur will also be touched upon,
• SMG SI 480: The Business of Technology Innovation
  Open only to seniors and juniors in the College of Engineering. SMG students cannot take this course for degree credit. This course provides an introduction to entrepreneurship and business for the engineer. Topics include finding business ideas – recognizing good from bad; understanding the importance of business model; turning technology into a business, including what to sell and how to sell it; the role of engineering within a business; business financial statements; and startups and venture capital, including starting a company or joining a startup.
• SMG SI 481: Creative Enterprises: Entrepreneurship for Science, Society, and the Creative Arts
  Pre-req: Junior standing. SMG students cannot take this course for degree credit. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to turn their creative ideas into a sustainable enterprises. For the final project, students will work in teams to create and prototype a viable game concept (board game, sport, video etc.). They will write a concept summary and deliver a pitch presentation. In the project they will put into practice the skills they have learned throughout the semester: opportunity creation and assessment; market segment identification and the process to build a fan base; project management; risk assessment and mitigation; key financial and intellectual property principles; and managing ones creative career.
• SMG SI 498: Directed Study in Strategy and Innovation
  Directed Study
• SMG SM 121: Management as a System
  Required of all SMG freshmen. Introduces students to management through a cross-disciplinary curriculum, emphasizing the interdependencies within organizational systems. Includes weekly lectures that provide background information and theory and biweekly discussion sections that offer a close examination of assigned material in small classroom environments, inviting students to participate actively in the learning process. Required computer and professional skills laboratories provide students with essential computer, communication, and analytical skills.
• SMG SM 122: Management as a System
  Required of all SMG freshmen. Continuation of SMG SM121. Continues to introduce students to management through a cross-disciplinary curriculum, emphasizing the interdependencies within organizational systems. Includes weekly lectures that provide background information and theory and biweekly discussion sections that offer a close examination of assigned material in small classroom environments, inviting students to participate actively in the learning process. Required computer and professional skills laboratories provide students with essential computer, communication, and analytical skills.
• SMG SM 221: Probabilistic and Statistical Decision Making for Management
  Sophomore requirement. Exposes students to the fundamentals of probability, decision analysis, and statistics, and their application to business. Topics include probability, decision analysis, distributions, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, and chi-square. Please note: Students may not receive credit for both SMG SM 221 and CAS EC 305.
• SMG SM 222: Modeling Business Decisions and Market Outcomes
  Sophomore requirement. Examines the use of economic and statistical tools for making business decisions. Topics include optimization (including linear programing), multiple regression, demand modeling, cost modeling, industry analysis (including models of perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly), and game theory. The course emphasizes modeling with spreadsheets. (There is also an Honors Program section for this course offered each Spring, numbered SMG SM 224).
• SMG SM 299: Management as a System (Intensive)
  Required of all students who did not enter as September freshmen and complete SMG SM 121/122. Prepares transfer students, from both inside and outside the Boston University community, for downstream coursework with the same level of skills and experience as those who matriculated at SMG from the beginning. Focuses on managerial functions and the relationships between those functions. The integration of perspectives is necessary to ensure that the individual student understands the complexity, challenge, and excitement of modern management in the global organization. Emphasis is placed on analytical skills, written analysis, oral presentation, teamwork, and learning.
• SMG SM 395: Mgmt Internship
  
• SMG SM 411: Charting Your Career Path
  The course equips students with tools to become self-aware and market-ready when joining the work force, with a focus on résumé and cover letter development, research techniques, networking tips, and interviewing skills.

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