Creating the organizational culture that will be required to manage their implementation may be an even greater challenge. The industry or markets studied may vary from year to year. Part of the experience may include selected visits and discussions with executives and officials who are grappling with the issue of change and transition in their industries and are responsible for decision making. This course is offered in direct response to student requests for a course that provides material imparting insights, appreciation, and analyses related to transportation issues that, while important, do not warrant a full course. The course will cover transportation labor, privatization, and the case against re-regulation.
Topics can vary from year to year.
Course participants will interact with senior executives and, as a consequence, are expected to develop insights into the characteristics of effective leaders and managers. Entrepreneurship Laboratory E-Lab is dedicated to bringing real life into the classroom. Emphasis is on projects with actual start-up companies. Concurrently, classroom work focuses on entrepreneurship cases. The course emphasizes the need to understand a situation, create an integrated, cross-functional strategy and implement.