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understand the social, political, and legal environment affecting telecommunications and information processing. Among the questions considered will be the following: what is a sensible telecommunications policy for the information age? What are the key policy and ethical issues in a networked world? Who governs and who should govern the Net? Specific topics include copyright protection, free speech, privacy rights, and public policies governing the use of encryption. Richard Spinello MD 265 Globalization, Culture and Ethics (Fall: 3) Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement This course helps students learn how to manage responsibly across different countries and cultures. The spread of capitalism and expansion of markets around the globe provoke challenging questions about socially responsible management. Managers must decide whether strategies and ethical principles that make sense in one culture can be applied to others. Central to the course will be the difficult choice between adapting to prevailing cultural norms or initiating a cultural/moral transformation. The course considers a number of cases set in different cultural contexts. There are selected readings about the beliefs, ideals, and values at the core of these different cultures. Richard Spinello MD 299 Independent Study (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of department chairperson By arrangement The student works under the direction of an individual professor. The Department MD 310 Corporate Citizenship (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status Restricted to CSOM Juniors and Seniors Companies today can hardly avoid demands from all quarters of society that they be better corporate citizens, that they be responsible and accountable for their impacts on stakeholders, on nature, and on society in general. This course will explore how companies attempt to develop their corporate citizenship and even gain competitive ecological, and political strategies and behaviors that companies use to enhance their reputations as leading corporate citizens, the ways in which they get in trouble, and how managers and leaders can develop the appropriate vision and values to lead companies as positive influences on societies. Sandra Waddock MD 320 Accounting Information Systems (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisites: MA 022, CS 021 Cross Listed with MA 320 This course will review the strategies, goals and methodologies for designing, implementing, and evaluating the appropriate internal controls and audit trails in integrated accounting systems. This course also examines the effect the Internet has had on business and its financial implications with regard to accounting information systems. Frank Nemia MD 375 Operations and Competition (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: MD 021 Required for the Operations and Technology Management concentration. This course examines concepts, principles, and techniques for formulating, implementing, and evaluating an operations strategy. The purpose of the corse is to link strategic and tactical operational decisions to the creation of a competitive advantage. Topics to be covered include an overview of operations strategy content and process, service operations, workforce management, capacity and facilities strategy, supply chain management, project management, process design and technology choice, and quality and productivity improvement. Case studies are used to illustrate the concepts covered in the course. Joy Field MD 384 Applied Statistics (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: Previous exposure to statistics and an ability to use computing facilities Acquaintance with linear algebra and the ability to use a computer are desirable. This course is an introduction to the theory and the use of linear statistical models particularly as they are applied to the analysis of data for forecasting and experimental analysis. David McKenna Undergraduate and Graduate Course Offerings MD 604 Management Science (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: MD 021, MD 707, or MD 723 Strongly recommended for students interested in operations management. Covers the most frequently used quantitative tools of management: linear programming, integer programming, network models, multiple objective and goal programming, nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, inventory models, queuing models, Markov chains, game theory, decision theory, and decision trees. David McKenna MD 606 Forecasting Techniques (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: Previous exposure to statistics and an ability to use computing facilities. The planning process is dependent on both forecasting ability and logical decision-making. This course focuses on forecasting models of processes that occur in business, economics, and the social sciences. The techniques presented include time series models, single equation regression models, and multi-equation simulation models. The underlying theory is presented through real cases. Richard McGowan, S.J. Graduate Course Offerings MD 700 Economics (Fall/Spring: 3) This course covers microeconomics and macroeconomics. The microeconomics is a fairly traditional treatment of price theory which develops an analytic framework of demand and supply. Upon this base, the implications of the various market structures are considered within the usual structure/conduct/performance models with respect to behavior, price, output, and welfare implications. In macroeconomics, the variables of focus are interest rates, inflation, and unemployment. Based on an initial backdrop of the naive aggregate supply and aggregate demand concept, the Keynesian and monetary models are developed and fiscal and monetary policy explored. International trade, exchange rates, and balance of payments are also examined. The Department MD 701 Economics (Fall: 2) This course covers microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics is a fairly traditional treatment of price theory which develops an analytic framework of demand and supply. Upon this base, 346 The Boston College Catalog 2005-2006 MANAGEMENT

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