Management

• MET MG 515: Negotiations and Organizational Conflict Resolution
  A communications skills course designed to better understand the nature of conflict and its resolution through persuasion, collaboration, and negotiation. Students will learn theories of interpersonal and organizational conflict and its resolution as applied to personal, corporate, historical, and political contexts. Students will assess their own styles, skills, and values, and develop techniques to better resolve disputes, achieve objectives, and exert influence.
• MET MG 517: Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
  Mechanics of securities markets, types of available investments, and an introduction to determination of securities values. Problems of investment policy are approached through studies of portfolio selection methods, and the valuation of special classes of securities (i.e., growth stocks).
• MET MG 520: International Business Management
  Environmental, economic, political, and social constraints on doing business abroad. Examines the effects of overseas business investments on domestic and foreign economics; foreign market analysis and operational strategy of a firm; and development potential of international operations.
• MET MG 521: Organizational Behavior and Development
  Understanding relationships between individuals, social interaction patterns, technology, and organizational arrangements and their environmental context. Dimensions of effective organizational environments. Emphasis on analyzing and evaluating related contemporary theories and issues through case studies.
• MET MG 522: Consumer Behavior
  A broad view of consumer attitudes, behavior, and decision-making processes. Uses computer and case studies to supplement text readings.
• MET MG 523: Marketing Research
  Discusses marketing management situations as a basis for examining various marketing research techniques. Uses methods of social and behavioral science in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting facts necessary for making decisions. Applications in professional practice.
• MET MG 530: Business Strategy
  Policy problems of business organizations. Integrates the areas of marketing, finance, accounting, economics, and personnel into a managerial concept of business decision making.
• MET MG 541: The Innovation Process: Developing New Products and Services
  Addresses the specifics of new product and service development and factors such as market research and partnering that add value and bring innovation to commercial reality. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Creativity/Innovation.
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  • Creativity/Innovation
• MET MG 545: American Institutions and Culture
  This course is intended primarily for international students to introduce them to American institutions -- business, educational, and political in particular -- within the context of American history, popular culture, and society. Students will learn about the unique features of American management and enterprise. The Boston metropolitan area will play an important role in appreciating the overall historical and cultural context, as will contemporary issues, scholarship, and unfolding events in illustrating distinctive features of American life and commerce.
• MET MG 550: International Business Law and Regulation
  This course examines the international business, legal and regulatory environment. Topics include international legal comparisons, the international sale of goods, imports, and exports, technology transfer, intellectual property protection and forms, and regulations of foreign direct investment.

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