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Daily Archive: April 30, 2009

allan’s top 5 MBA courses @ LSB

The post title is formatted for Twitter :-).  These are my picks, thus far, for the top 5, “must take” elective courses at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.  I’ll detail them more later but let’s get this list put together.

  1. Management 516 – Organization Politics, Professor Dennis Moberg
  2. Management 524 – Managing Technology and Innovation, Professor Del Mank
  3. IDIS 696 – Social Benefit Entrepreneurship, Professor Eric Carlson
  4. Management 512 – Psychology of Leadership, Professor Cheryl Shavers
  5. Management 703 (1 unit) – The Balanced Scorecard, Professor Leidecker*

* – I really enjoyed and got a lot out of this class, but I’m not sure I’m really ready to put a 1 unit course on here.  I have a few more electives that I’ll be doing over the next few quarters and I think number 5 will change (actually, take a look at Econ 466, which I’m taking now).  But those top 4 are solid.

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where business and law schools meet…

Recently, I had a discussion with a student at Santa Clara University’s School of Law who is also pursuing an MBA at the Leavey School of Business.  There are only a few joint degrees at Santa Clara, and the JD/MBA is one of them.  However, to put it simply, it’s a bit haphazardly organized.  I believe that up to 6 units can be cross listed; the rest of each program has to be taken in its entirety.  That part is actually pretty standard as compared to other joint degree programs around the country.  What is a bit off is that it seems that for every student there is negotiation about which courses are credited across the two programs.  For one student, courses A and B are accepted by both schools.  For another student, it’s X and Y.  

More importantly, however, law students seem to be unsure about what classes to take to embellish their JD.  The MBA, presumably, will contribute to the education they are already receiving about law.  But while there are concentrations for MBA students (leadership, finance, etc), there isn’t anything like “classes a law student interested in intellectual property might want to take” guide.

Well, as I have made it through the MBA program and have taken a LOT of classes (2 years in, I’ll have done…I think 66 units out of 70 required), primarily in management, I have my own commentary about what classes at the business school might pique the interest of a law student. Because students can pursue so many different areas within the field of law, I’m going to focus on Intellectual Property and Social Justice, and follow this post up immediately with my “top 5 classes” which also contribute to the impact of a business education in conjunction with the law (for the most part).

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Originally uploaded by kaiyen

Around the late 1700’s, Ayutthaya, at the time the capital of what is now Thailand, was sacked after the second of two vigorous attacks by the Burmese. Following, the city was basically burned to the ground, many of the Wats and palaces were destroyed, and raping and pillaging was rampant. The Thai are quite sore at the Burmese about this to this day. To rub it in, the Burmese prince that was leading the army had a big Wat built outside the city to commemorate his victory.

Very little of the original grand palaces and temples still stand. Those that do are either restorations or badly in need of them. This particular mass of bricks – you can’t even tell what it is anymore. It now looks like a combination of a transformer made of bricks or some kind of rock monster.

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