An examination and study, for management students, of the nature and place of law in our society, both national and international, the social and moral bases of law enactment, regulation of business, legal liability, enforcement procedures, and the legal environment for managers.

STRT 25400 Legal Foundations Of Business I

Legal Foundations Of Business I

STRT 25400 Legal Found Business-Honors

Legal Found Business-Honors

This course has four objectives: (1) To Increase self-awareness and understand its value in managing careers; (2) To learn how gender culture and implicit bias may affect workplace experiences; (3) To develop strategies to deal with gender related challenges; and (4) To develop competencies in leading effective, gender-aware teams. By exploring these areas, students will develop new insights for managing their careers, and they will learn new leadership strategies to help their teams achieve higher levels of performance.

STRT 29400 Navigating Gender In The Workplace

Navigating Gender In The Workplace

Venture creation drives progress by solving complex challenges, addressing pressing problems, and unlocking new opportunities. It begins with a deep understanding of stakeholder needs, customer pain points, and systemic challenges through rigorous observation and direct engagement. This course helps students lay that foundation by identifying a problem space they care about and embarking on a discovery journey. By the end, they will define their Challenge X - a clear, high-impact problem or opportunity that could inspire a new venture. Permission from Instructor is required.

STRT 31200 Venture X1-Honors

Venture X1-Honors

The class engages students to work in cross-functional teams to analyze business problems, develop recommendations, and persuade decision makers through the presentation of compelling solutions. In the classroom students will work together in teams to solve problems that are difficult for firms to outsource and are usually solved in-house without the opportunity to engage a consultant.

STRT 33200 Business World Problem Solving

Business World Problem Solving

The course focuses on understanding competitive forces and how organizations strive to build sustainable competitive advantages through business- and corporate-level strategies. It integrates and builds upon previous training in functional areas and presents new analytical tools for developing an understanding of the strategic decisions that determine future directions and effectiveness of the organization.

STRT 35200 Strategic Management

Strategic Management

This novel course will provide an opportunity for motivated students to gain exposure to the skills and tools necessary to succeed in the consulting industry. There will be a chance to work in small teams to define client problems, collect and analyze data, develop solution proposals, and implement recommendations. Students will also be given an insider's look into the history of consulting, common types of consulting, and professional standards in this specialized area of management. Honing skills in project management, presentation delivery, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement will form the foundation of the tools used to solve client challenges.

STRT 35500 Consulting Tools And Skills

Consulting Tools And Skills

Investigation into a specific topic area of Strategic Management. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 39000 Principles Bus Leadership

Principles Bus Leadership

This course focuses on the dynamics between a firm and the marketplace including interaction with competition. Strategy implementation occurs over multiple periods and is highly dependent on choices and behavior of competition. The course material covers how these dynamics and expectations of competitor response will shape the decisions of managers. This is inclusive of signaling intent to competitors and mutual forbearance to avoid negative sum gain competition.

STRT 44710 Competitive Strategy

Competitive Strategy

In today's business environment, success is driven by a firm's ability to create and capture value through innovation. This course seeks to develop tools for understanding how firms and industries evolve through new technology. This award-winning course uses an experiential team-based approach. Student teams pick a firm early in the semester and become experts in it by understanding how each framework we learn impacts its performance. The class is very interactive and there are various presentations throughout the semester. Ultimately students gain a deep understanding of the processes used by firms to develop new technologies, the choices they make regarding how to commercialize their knowledge, and the strategies they use to position and build a dominant competitive position.

STRT 44810 Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy

This course examines the management challenges posed by the growth in worldwide manufacturing capabilities, markets, and competition and by rapid advances in technology and the concomitant decline in product life cycles. The manufacturing function is considered within a broader context encompassing design, engineering, purchasing, marketing, and customer service in an effort to assess the degree to which existing management structures successfully meet the challenges arising from the changing manufacturing environment.

STRT 45200 Manufacturing Strategy And Process Innovation

Manufacturing Strategy And Process Innovation

The nature and place of law in our society, national and international, social and moral bases of law enactment, regulation of business, legal liability, and enforcement procedures. Special emphasis on torts, contracts, and agency. No credit to students in the School of Management.

STRT 45500 Legal Background For Business I

Legal Background For Business I

This course focuses on the challenges top managers face in developing strategies and management policies in multinational corporations (MNCs). Major topics usually covered include foreign market entry strategies, motivations and organizational challenges of internationalization, analyzing global industries, managing MNC/host government relations, building competitive advantage in global industries, international alliances and acquisitions, structuring and controlling MNCs, risk management, and the country manager role.

STRT 45900 International Management

International Management

Employment Law for Business is designed to help students navigate the complex legal challenges businesses face in employment. Students will explore key topics like defining the employment relationship, addressing discrimination and harassment, and managing technology and privacy issues in the workplace. Through real-world examples, students will learn about critical regulations, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, FMLA, OSHA, and laws governing employee benefits. By the end of the course, students will develop the skills to approach employment law issues with confidence, applying legal, managerial, and ethical perspectives to solve problems effectively.

STRT 47600 Employment Law For Business

Employment Law For Business

This course teaches skills required to become an entrepreneur, succeed in a start-up venture, work in venture capital, join a family business, or develop a franchise operation. Students will learn about how to identify and shape emerging market opportunities, innovate new business models, prepare and evaluate business plans, raise capital, build a skilled founding team, network for resources, and grow an initial market.

STRT 48400 Management Of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Management Of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Intellectual property (IP) has become a strategic opportunity for creating value for the firm. Firms are tasked with understanding how to utilize intellectual property as a competitive advantage in multiple market contexts. In the current economic environment, intellectual assets can be the largest portion of a firm's total wealth. Strategic management of these assets is very critical. Managing intellectual property is about transforming a firm's ideas, know-how, etc., into learning, products, and ultimately cash flow. In Managing Intellectual Property, we examine this topic by viewing intellectual property as both a legal asset (property ownership) and business asset (value-adding). The focus of Managing Intellectual Property is on the integration of IP generation, IP protection, and strategizing functions of the firm in creating value with an IP portfolio. Concepts and frameworks discussed/developed in lecture are exercised in case studies from multiple contexts.

STRT 49200 Intellectual Property Management

Intellectual Property Management

This course is open to all Purdue undergraduate and graduate students. Students first meet with early-stage investors to learn about their approaches to deal sourcing, investment strategies, and portfolio management. Then, as VC analysts, teams assess multiple pitch decks from companies actively seeking funding. Finally, students undertake a detailed assessment of the most attractive companies from the pitch deck assessment and recommend whether to make an investment from the SMVF Investment Fund. SMVF is a unique hands-on opportunity to become immersed in the process of funding early-stage companies from both the investor and founder's perspective.

STRT 51010 Student Managed Venture Fund

Student Managed Venture Fund

Managers, regardless of your industry, will routinely face HR and employment issues that collide with the law. In this course, we will examine many laws and the practical ways you can stay on the right side of the law. Don't worry, you aren't in a law school class and I don't expect you to become employment attorneys. However, I will help you gain a working knowledge of employment laws including: The Civil Rights Act, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, FLSA, and a host of alphabet soup. We will also apply these laws from posting a job description to recruiting to hiring to employee reviews to terminating an employee. While I can't guarantee you will never be sued by a disgruntled current or former employee, I can help you put yourself and your company in the best possible position to defend that suit. And don't worry: we will look at lots of quick case studies (less than a page) to give you context you can easily remember.

STRT 53600 Employment & Diversity Law For Managers

Employment & Diversity Law For Managers

Graduate-level variable-title course focusing on strategic leadership and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on synthesis of theory and practice in dynamic environments. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 59000 Technology Landscape

Technology Landscape

This course is designed to help prepare students for their professional careers by familiarizing them with aspects of the law that are directly relevant to the practice of accounting. These topics are not only at work every day in business but are also tested on professional examinations such as the Uniform Certified Public Accounting (CPA) Exam. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, contract law, relevant provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, bankruptcy, and the legal liability of accountants. The course will be taught through a mixture of lectures and class discussions. Students are expected to come to class having completed the assigned readings and ready to participate in class discussions.

STRT 63400 Business Law For Accountants

Business Law For Accountants

Concepts and methods that integrate previous training in functional areas of management. The perspective is that of the general manager charged with directing the total enterprise. Emphasis is given to formulation and implementation of strategy. Prerequisite: MGMT 61000, 62000, Master's student standing and Management majors only.

STRT 65000 Strategic Management I

Strategic Management I

This course is an engagement with an external firm to solve challenges within the business. Students work together on project teams that require a cross-functional and interdisciplinary perspective. Student mix is determined by project needs and qualifications. Projects are typically sponsored at a senior level of the organization and address enterprise-level issues and challenges of strategic importance. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 65810 Corporate Consulting Experiential Learning

Corporate Consulting Experiential Learning

Provides an introduction regarding the business and strategy challenges faced by managers in our global economy, regardless of whether the firm is a small domestic company or a large multi-national. Major topics for the course include motivations and challenges of internationalization, international business fundamentals, foreign market entry strategies, organizing across countries, analyzing global industries, building competitive advantage in global industries, and the influence of culture and institutions.

STRT 68800 Developing A Global Business Strategy

Developing A Global Business Strategy

Advanced graduate-level variable-title course emphasizing research-informed strategy and organizational analysis. Topics may include emerging strategic issues or advanced theoretical perspectives. Permission of instructor required.

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