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MM 010 Perspectives on Management UN 01001/MM 01001 Spring, 2009 Peter W. Bell (’86) Cell: 781.820.0781 Email: PBell@ John C. Clavin (’84) Cell: 617.413.7114 Email: jcclavin@ Teaching Assistant: Andrew Hickok (MBA ’10) Cell: 617-519-8915 Email: hickoka@ Class: Thursdays 4:30-6:50 pm Fulton 235 Office Hours: We are available by appointment. Course Materials: What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works, Ram Charan, Crown Publishing Note: This book should be read by students prior to the first class session. Various cases, online articles, notes, and spreadsheets See below for case and reading materials for each class session Course Description: UN 01001/MM 01001- -Perspectives on Management:This course, taught by practitioners Peter Bell (BC ‘86) and John Clavin (BC ‘84) provides Boston College?students with an excellent opportunity to explore the functional disciplines of business from a “real world” perspective. Using a combination of lectures, case studies, readings and outside speakers, the course will provide you the opportunity to get “grounded” in each of these disciplines as well as get some outside views on careers in each of these areas. The course will also provide students a framework to explore and discuss cross-functional issues that effect business strategy and execution. Course FormatThe course?puts an emphasis on class discussion of the assigned materials (primarily case studies related to the discipline we are focusing on that week).??Students need to be prepared each week to participate and defend their analysis of the material. There will be a short quiz at the start of each class session on the assigned reading materials.?Students are also required to submit questions at the start of each class for the guest speaker.? Students will be responsible for a group project where teams of approximately 4-6 students will present their analysis of a relevant case to the class. The final will be a case study that will bring toge