Management

Entrepreneurship Theory and Research (MHR 977) - Anne S. Miner
Course Syllabus: Sample Spring 2008 syllabus

This seminar explores research on entrepreneurship, building on classic readings in an interdisciplinary framework. It includes six scholarly presentations by top faculty from outside and inside the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The seminar offers doctoral students across the UW campus an opportunity to probe and develop scholarly theories of entrepreneurial behavior and outcomes. It envisions entrepreneurship as a fundamental social process of vital interest to scholars in many fields. Key entrepreneurial activities and outcomes may or may not involve technology issues. In this seminar, we use technology entrepreneurship one window to consider entrepreneurship more broadly, but do not limit our focus to technology. We highlight both on classic frameworks and on emerging issues and scholars. We will include theories of entrepreneurial behavior at the individual, small group, organization, industry and regional levels of analysis. Much work will focus on the creation of new organizations, but we also explore creation of new sources of value within existing institutions.

Management – Anne S. Miner
Strategic management of innovation and technology: Dynamic strategies
(MBA Level, including Executive MBA)
Course link: http://instruction.bus.wisc.edu/sjain/mhr725 - Sanjay Jain
Course link: http://instruction.bus.wisc.edu/aminer/EMBA_archived/default.htm - Anne Miner

This course is part of the required MBA strategy curriculum. It focuses on: How can firms deal with the ongoing challenges created by technological change? It explores how firms generate dynamic strategies to create and harvest knowledge assets.

Course topics include:

• How technological evolution influences competitive strategies for newcomer and incumbent firms
• First, second, late mover and sequential strategies and firm requirements for their implementation
• Strategies to create, harvest and protect a firms’ knowledge assets
• How firm can influence the changing “rules of the game” such as technological standards
• Ethical dilemmas associated with new technologies and how firms/institutions may approach them.