TEACH My Teaching style is highly interactive ("Socratic", as some would say), so all my courses require students to participate actively. Even worse, I actually expect you to think; I know that's a bit much to ask, and we work up to that slowly. Be forewarned.




In Fall, 1996, I began teaching my each of my courses using a website as a means to communicate better with students. The experiment was a success, and this is now my standard practice. These are my current course websites:

Telecoms and Internet: Strategy & Policy BPUB/MGMT 732

This is the mini for you if you need to know how technology will affect your career as a manager (and who doesn't?). Techie wiz? Here's where to learn the management side of technology. Complete newbie? Technology got you down? Here's where you can get over your technophobia, and learn to love those bits and bytes. How have previous students rated this course? I consistently get student ratings over 4.0 for this course. This course has been completely revamped to cover telecommunications, deconstructing the firm, and several case studies of technology deployment in real-life firms. The website has the full class-by-class schedule for the entire term, all the course information you need, late-breaking news for students, a direct link to me, and a course forum that lets us continue the class discussion on-line. If you are a Wharton student selecting courses for this fall, cruise this page. If you have already signed up, bookmark this page and come back often to find out what's changed, what's new, and what's hot.

I taught this course at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China to the International MBA students in March-April, 1999. Big turnout of really smart students.

Technology in Global Markets: Corporate Strategy and National Policy BPUB 790/290

If you are interested in how technology plays out global markets, this is the course for you. Protecting your intellectual property ... in the real world; working the standards game in the EU; government role in high technology; corporate strategies that take account of national differences in technology policy, the Internet and its governance in the 21st century... Anything else you want to know? The website has the full class-by-class schedule for the entire quarter, all the course information you need, late-breaking news for students, a direct link to me, and a course forum that lets us continue the class discussion on-line. If you are a Wharton student selecting courses for this fall, cruise this page. If you have already signed up, bookmark this page and come back often to find out what's changed, what's new, and what's hot.

This course has a loyal following of former students around the world. It has been completely revamped for 2001, including the latest and greatest on telecommunications and the Internet, which is a research specialty of mine.

Government and the Legal Environment of Business BPUB/LGST 621

The Wharton Core Course that teaches first-year MBAs about their mandatory partner: government and the law. The objective of this course is to give students frameworks, some ways of thinking, about the nonmarket dimension of firm strategy, and how to integrate it with your market strategies. This course will not turn you into a lawyer, lobbyist or policy analyst. But it will sensitize you to events and opportunities in which nonmarket forces can significantly influence your firm's success, so you know when to call for help from experts, what questions to ask, how to evaluate the answers you get, and what strategies make sense.

Regulatory Policy BPUB 987, Spring 2003

A doctoral-level course on the economics of regulation and antitrust. In this course, I review the history of thought on regulatory economics, tying the work of scholars to the specific problems of the day. I emphasize the link between economics research and the needs of policy. I also cover the changing face of antitrust in light of recent cases on "new economy" mergers and conduct cases.

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Wharton Web Workshop Fall Pre-Term 1999, First Years Only

This is a 1½ hour workshop on website design and implementation for Wharton MBAs. I developed this course in 1996 at the request of my students (a huge thanks to Jeff Frick, WHG '97, who labored long and hard to make this workshop happen in 1996); it was way oversubscribed. I now do it every year in the Pre-Term, where I conduct four workshops for first-year students. This website tells you what's covered, what's required, what resources are available. It also features a workshop forum, where students can exchange ideas, comment on others' thoughts, and get feedback from me and the web community. Try it out.

Strategic Management of the Service Enterprise(17 Kb) (last offered Fall, 1995)

This course focuses on strategies and implementation unique to the service sector. Cases, simulations, and outside speakers are used liberally throughout the course. The principal objective of the course is to give students a model for analyzing service enterprises that will serve them well in any service industry. The course is unique in that the Public and Not-for-Profit sector is covered as well as the Private sector; the emphasis is on the strategic similarity of these sectors, and how the lessons of each apply to the others. This course will not be taught in 1996-97.

Economics of the Government Regulation of Business(24 Kb) (last offered Fall, 1995)

This course imparts an understanding of how firms and the public sector interact via regulation. The focus is on strategy: how firms use (or fail to use) the regulatory process for competitive advantage, and how agencies and legislators can use (or misuse) regulation to accomplish their policy objectives. Four "extended" case studies are used to illustrate the principles of the course: banking, cable TV, telephone, and the Information Superhighway.

Doctoral Research Seminar(14 Kb)

This one-credit course is offered over two semesters, beginning in the Spring term and extending through the following Fall term. It is designed to teach doctoral students the craft of research, through a series of presentations by "Master Researchers" and discussions of the students' own research.

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