Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, United States
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/

Legal Issues In Real Estate

Taught by distinguished practitioners and participants in the field, this course introduces potential managers to legal issues as they relate to real estate and development. The course is not intended to make lawyers out of business school students. Rather, it presents an overview of the legal issues that are essential elements of real estate transactions. ...
 

Taught by a developer of significant Chicago real estate, the course introduces the student to the dynamics of the development process using real world examples. Students develop a thorough understanding of how the development process works, from the inception of an idea to income-producing real estate. Emphasis is placed on identifying opportunities for developers in a rapidly changing real es......
 

This course examines why cities exist, where they are located and grow, and how real estate values flowing from such urban development are sustained or eroded. It explores economic base analysis, multiplier/accelerator, leading indicators and other tools of high value in local real estate market analysis. The concepts are applied to office, retail, industrial, hotel and residential properties t......
 

The objective of this course is to develop students’ understanding of real estate assets and the various methods of valuing such properties in the midst of a period of change within the asset class. The course is organized in two parts. The first part focuses on the impact of taxes on real estate valuation and the tax implications of different organizational forms of real estate ownership.......
 

This course focuses on how to analyze and research methods for improving a business process, and how to integrate those improvements in a prioritized, actionable manner. Students will learn the concepts of bench-marking, best practices, and performance-improvement principles. The course is organized around five business processes, containing multiple component processes, that are universal acro......
 

This course is designed as a selective, interdisciplinary study that integrates topics of operations, strategy, marketing and Information technology (IT). It aims to develop frameworks and tools that can aid decision making. After taking this class you should be able to identify and evaluate the changes in information and physical flows, cost structures and market forces that IT causes througho......
 

What are the key capabilities a supply chain must develop to support the business strategy of a firm? What is the relationship between the desired capabilities and the structure of a supply chain? This course provides a framework to answer these questions. We define supply chain structure in terms of the following drivers of performance: facilities, information, inventory and transportation. Th......
 

This course examines the methods of material procurement, production planning and inventory control for improving economy, productivity and customer service. Topics include demand forecasting, deterministic and probabilistic models, and decision rules for inventory management, material requirements planning (MRP), capacity planning, and process design and operation for just-in-time (JIT) or sto......
 

This course focuses on structuring, analyzing and solving managerial decision problems on Excel spreadsheets. We address problems of resource allocation (how to use available resources optimally), risk analysis (how to simulate the effects of uncertainty in problem parameters), decision analysis (how to analyze sequential decisions involving uncertainty), data analysis (how to synthesize the av......
 

Operations management is the management of business processes--that is, the management of the recurring activities of a firm. This course aims to familiarize students with the problems and issues confronting operations managers, and to provide the language, concepts, insights and tools to deal with these issues to gain competitive advantage through operations. We examine how different business ......
 

This course explores the current state of the public schools with an emphasis on ways to restructure the delivery of education in the context of a rapidly changing international, demographic, and economic context. Management concepts and principles from the private sector will be applied to public schools to test their applicability in reforming an institution that has been basically unchanged ......
 

This course gives an overview of the fast-growing entrepreneurial aspect of U.S. education from kindergarten through the university level. The course covers education businesses, educational management organizations, online learning companies, charter schools, educational product and service opportunities, and for-profit education at the post-secondary level. The course features presentations b......
 

This course imparts an understanding of how nonprofit organizations are governed. It is designed for students who will serve as board members, volunteers or staff of nonprofit organizations. The intent is to help students appreciate the nature of nonprofit organizations; the roles and responsibilities of boards, the staff and volunteers; how the boards of nonprofit organizations function; and w......
 

This course integrates mission-based strategy and concepts with leadership and organizational development, and includes the basics of nonprofit finance, accounting and performance measurement as part of the learning process. For more information, visit www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/academic/ nonprofit/program/curriculum.htm. ...
 

Entrepreneurial opportunities often arise when industries are created or transformed by emerging new technologies. The course addresses the challenges of building high technology entrepreneurial firms as independent entities and within incumbent organizations. This course is being offered in collaboration with McKinsey and Company and uses lectures and cases based on real-life examples to discu......
 

This course focuses on the strategic and managerial issues associated with starting a new e-business. It provides students with conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for managerial and strategic decision making in a high-growth and turbulent environment, and gives them tools and guidelines for identifying opportunities. These include products or services that meet an underlying market need......
 

This five-week course on risk and its ramifications deals with avoiding risks as well as taking them wisely. It takes two perspectives. The first surrounds the notion that we and our organizations are always subject to calamities, regardless of what we do, and that the best way we can safeguard our firms and ourselves is to prepare for the worst. The second perspective is based on the fact that......
 

The purpose of this course is to understand and improve how we make decisions. It is designed to complement the technical skills taught in other courses at Kellogg. A basic premise of the course is that a manager needs analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to problems. However, the intuition that lies at the core of these decisions may be faulty. This course allows participants the op......
 

This course is designed to improve students’ skills in all phases of negotiation: understanding prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to dyadic and multiparty negotiations, to buyer-seller transactions and the resolution of disputes, to the development of negotiation strategy and to the management of integrative and distributive aspects of the negotiation process. T......
 

The current work force is diverse, creating a challenge for executives and managers. The entrants in the work force in the next 10 years represent vastly different cultural backgrounds, physical abilities, ages, education levels, lifestyles and ethnic groups. Present and future managers will have to develop a skill-set that enables them to manage these diverse groups effectively to enhance prod......
 

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