BMATWT 353 - Business of Building

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Introduction and Overview

1. Greetings

2. Course Rationale

3. Course Syllabus

4. Group Work & Case Studies

1. Greetings
  • Major, Year
  • Do you want to own your own business?
  • Do you think you will become a millionaire?

2. Course Rationale

Provide an introduction to the many non-technical skills needed in "business".

Succeeding as an individual contributor requires technical expertise.

Leading and Managing require many more diverse skills, both people skills, and "other" technical skills.

3. Course Syllabus

OBJECTIVES SLIDE

READ PASSAGE FROM - Herb Simon Administrative Behavior, p. xv

Syllabus Details

4. Group Work & Case Studies

You are being assigned to four-person teams.

You will be asked to work together on Case Study Assignments

You will be given a group grade for this group work.

 

    
         

Produced and maintained by David T. Damery
Building Materials and Wood Technology
Department of Natural Resources Conservation
College of Natural Resources and the Environment
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

    
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