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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) Business School Business B8813 Cross Cultural Seminar (1.5 Points)
X This course will focus on national (or organizational) culture in the context of your internship or student experience and beyond. In particular, we will investigate how cultures differ along several dimensions, and how you can identify areas of good and bad fit between a previous culture and the culture in which you now work or study. I will present information on how to classify any culture, how cultural attributes influence organizations and work expectations, and how workers can manage the adjustment to the workplace or academy in non-native cultures. The online class lecture (webinar) will provide you a formal way to analyze how you approach work assignments across cultures and managing cross-cultural teams. At our required class meeting we will have a discussion regarding your cross-cultural (e.g., internship or student) experiences, both in general and with a specific focus on cross-cultural challenges. We will also take time to analyze a cross-cultural business case and to view presentations by your fellow students (see section on Grading and Required Assignments).
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
Business School Decision, Risk & Operations Management
B6100 Managerial Statistics (1.5 Points)
X Introduces students to basic concepts in probability and statistics of relevance to managerial decision making. Topics include basic data analysis, random variables and probability distributions, sampling distributions, interval estimation, hypothesis testing and regression. Numerous examples are chosen from quality-control applications, finance, marketing and management.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
Business School Economics B7216 Economics Of Strategic Behavior
X This course examines the underlying economics of successful business strategy: the strategic imperatives of competitive markets, the sources and dynamics of competitive advantage, managing competitive interactions, and the organizational implementation of business strategy.
The course combines case discussion and analysis (approximately two thirds) with lectures (one third). The emphasis is on the ability to apply a small number of principles effectively and creatively, not the mastery of detailed aspects of the theory. Grading is based on class participation and online case quizzes (35%), case write- ups (25%), and a take-home case-based exam (40%). The course offers excellent background for all consultants, managers and corporate finance generalists.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
Business School Management B8519 Launch Your Startup X At Columbia Business School, instilling entrepreneurial thinking in our students is part of our mission. Entrepreneurship is fully integrated throughout the MBA curriculum, and now — for the first time ever — we are offering an open-enrollment executive education program on the topic.
The eight-week Launch Your Startup (Online) program — comprised of four live and four self-directed modules — offers an intensive learning experience that focuses on the creation, evaluation, development, and launch readiness of a new business or social enterprise. Program participants learn from world-renowned Columbia Business School faculty and tap into the expertise of the University's vibrant entrepreneurial community.
Each participant enters the program with a preliminary venture idea that they would like to work on. Using a proprietary sequence of eight modules, the program leverages associated work assignments to support the development of the new venture. Participants learn how to assess the industry and market attractiveness for their venture idea, form competitive strategies, develop minimum viable products and services, prioritize customer acquisition strategies for early traction, and generate full financial statements.
Throughout the program, participants refine their venture’s hypothesized business model based on instructor, peer, and customer feedback. They leave the program fully equipped with the tools and frameworks required to create and launch their new startup.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
GR5066 Data Analysis With Phyton
X This course is meant to provide an introduction to regression and applied statistics for the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on utilizing the Python software language to perform the key tasks in the data analysis workflow. Topics to be covered include various data structures, basic descriptive statistics, regression models, multiple regression analysis, interactions, polynomials, Gauss-Markov assumptions and asymptotics, heteroskedasticity and diagnostics, data visualization, models for binary outcomes, models for ordered data, first difference analysis, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. Through a variety of lab assignments, students will be able to generate and interpret quantitative data in helpful and provocative ways. Only relatively basic mathematics skills are assumed, but some more advanced math will be introduced as needed. A previous introductory statistics course that includes linear regression is helpful, but not required.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
S5019 Entrepreneurial Principles And Quantitative Reasoning
X X This course is structured around class-wide and individual exercises that introduce students to the key principles of entrepreneurial thinking, such as identifying problems and opportunities, thinking creatively, developing minimally viable products (MVPs) and low fidelity prototypes, creating a reliable workflow, pivoting and course- correcting, finding valuable help, and developing productive habits. In addition, students are introduced to the key tools of quantitative reasoning, including surveys, observational data, experiments, simulation and projections, data analysis, statistical reasoning, organized researching, and persuasive and authoritative writing – and how those tools support entrepreneurial projects. Students should leave the class equipped with the sense that they themselves can produce constructive change in their world, along with a blueprint for how to go about getting it started.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA1, CA
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Sociology UN3675 Organizing Innovation Tba Tba This course examines major innovations in organizations and asks whether innovation itself can be organized. We study a range of forms of organizing (e.g. bureaucratic, post-bureaucratic, and open architecture network forms) in a broad variety of settings: from fast food franchises to the military-entertainment complex, from airline cockpits to Wall Street trading rooms, from engineering firms to mega-churches, from scientific management at the turn of the twentieth century to collaborative filtering and open source programming at the beginning of the twenty-first. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between organizational forms and new digital technologies.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA2, CA
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Statistics GR5702 Exploratory Data Analysis And Visualization
X This course is covers the following topics: fundamentals of data visualization, layered grammer of graphics, perception of discrete and continuous variables, intreoduction to Mondran, mosaic pots, parallel coordinate plots, introduction to ggobi, linked pots, brushing, dynamic graphics, model visualization, clustering and classification.
Prerequisites: programming
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Computer Science
W4995 Topics In Computer Science: Varying Topics
X Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of International and Public Affairs
International Affairs
U6004 Programming For Social Impact (1.5 Points; Workshop)
Tba Tba In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of programming so you can start writing web applications that can potentially be used in non-profit or public sectors. The course will be very hands-on and you are expected to code during the class. The topics will include - fundamentals of computer science, programming basics, data structures, client-server architecture, javascript, application programming interface, LAMP stack and web frameworks, design tools, scalability issues and infrastructure for application deployment. We will discuss some of these topics in the context of agile development methodology for startups. If you are interested in building a startup as a social entrepreneur, the tools and methods you learn in this course should help you in coding the first prototype of your application. As part of the final project, you are expected to build a fully functional web application. No programming background is required. Students are expected to complete all the reading assignments before the first day of class.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School of Professional Studies
Actuarial Science ACTU PS
Data Science In Finance And Insurance
X X Financial decision making has been heavily relied on the data. This dependency becomes more and more strengthened due to an explosion in financial data -- social media activity, mobile interactions, server logs, real- time market feeds, customer service records, transaction details. To fully utilize these giant data sets, Wall Street has an increasing demand to data scientists. It is said that data scientist is the sexiest job of 21 century.
This course will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and experience to get a job as a data scientist in finance and insurance – which requires a mix of software engineering, statistical understanding, and the ability to apply both skills in the industry. The program will prepare students to gather data, apply statistical analysis to answer questions with that data, and make their insights and information in the decision-making.
This is an intensive hands-on course so be prepared for a lot of work and a significant time commitment. But your reward proficiency in data analytics skills will be substantial.
Prerequisite There is no prerequisite for this course. However prior exposure to some programming language is helpful. Some basic knowledge of linear algebra and statistics is also expected.
Yes CA
School of Professional Studies
Applied Analytics Multiple Multiple X X NOTE: MULTIPLE COURSES IN APPLIED ANALYTICS ARE RELEVANT TO IKNS STUDENTS. CURRENTLY THESE COURSES ARE OPEN TO APPLIED ANALYTICS STUDENTS ONLY, FOR CAPACITY REASONS. CHECK THE COLUMBIA COURSE DIRECTORY FOR CHANGES TO THIS POLICY.
TBA TBA
School of Professional Studies
Business Offerings
PS5010 Managing Human Behavior In The Organization
X X Students will gain an overview of major concepts of management and organization theory, concentrating on understanding human behavior in organizational contexts, with heavy emphasis on the application of concepts to solve managerial problems. By the end of this course students will have developed the skills to motivate employees, establish professional interpersonal relationships, take a leadership role, and conduct performance appraisal.
NOTE: THIS COURSE IS ALSO OFFERED THROUGH THE ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AS ERM PS5300.
Yes CA2, CA
School
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
Business Offerings
BUSI
PS
Developing And Implemeting New Ideas
X Interested in starting your own company? Do you have an idea for a new product or service? Have you come up with a way to improve something that already exists? This course tackles the central business concept of how one creates, builds and leads companies. It looks at aspects of entrepreneurship and leadership for both individuals and teams in the face of complex situations. Using the case study method as taught in business school, also known as participant-centered learning, this course puts students in the role of an entrepreneur facing critical business decisions. A selection of guest speakers will offer firsthand experience on innovation and entrepreneurship.
Yes CA
School of Professional Studies
Construction Administration
CNAD
PS
Innovative Project Delivery
X This course is an elective, designed to introduce students to the administration and management responsibilities associated with innovative project delivery methods, or procurement methods, including planning, design, construction, and financing, as well as operations and maintenance requirements; for both public sector and private sector participation and collaboration.
This course will focus on defining a continuum of alternative or accelerated procurement processes when compared to traditional design – bid – build processes; for a range of public works asset types. Practices, tools, and methods will be informed by municipal planning and general economic concepts, as well as case studies. Students will develop an understanding of the political forces, principles and contractual structures in innovative project delivery agreements.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School of Professional Studies
Enterprise Risk Management
ERM
PS
Managing Human Behavior In The Organization
X In this course, students will gain an overview of major concepts of management and organization theory, concentrating on understanding human behavior in organizational contexts, with a heavy emphasis on the application of concepts to solve managerial problems. Students will work in a combination of conceptual and experiential activities, including case studies, discussions, lectures, simulations, videos, and small group exercises.
NOTE: THIS COURSE IS ALSO OFFERED THROUGH THE ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AS BUSI
PS5010.
Yes CA2, CA
School of Professional Studies
Enterprise Risk Management
ERM
PS
Information Technology Risk Management
X Students will learn how to better identify and manage a wide range of IT risks as well as better inform IT investment decisions that support the business strategy. Students will develop an instinct for where to look for technological risks, and how IT risks may be contributing factors toward key business risks. This course includes a review of IT risks, including those related to governance, general controls, compliance, cybersecurity, data privacy, and project management. Students will learn how to use a risk-based approach to identify and mitigate cybersecurity and privacy related risks and vulnerabilities. No prior experience or technical skills required to successfully complete this course.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA1, CA
School of Professional Studies
Human Capital Management
HCM
PS
Introduction To Human Capital Management
X In this foundations course, students will examine the impact of industry dynamics (i.e., external industry trends, shifting workforce and workplace challenges) on human capital management (HCM) solutions and the competencies required of human resources (HR) professionals. Students will learn about effective strategies for designing human capital solutions and people development programs, including business-aligned and integrated approaches to talent management and cross-functional collaboration with organizational leadership. Students will be introduced to the latest practices related to advancing human capital implications for high-impact organizational performance and have an opportunity to apply practices to current industry and organizational challenges. The course will also introduce foundational approaches to measuring the effectiveness of human capital investment.
Yes CA
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
Human Capital Management
HCM
PS
Leading Cross-Cultural Global Organizations
X This course will cover the essentials necessary to lead and work across cultures in high performing global organizations and matrixed systems. The course will cover various cultural frameworks, identity work-style differences impacting interactions, communication, leadership, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision- making in complex environments. In this course, the core theories of culture will be examined and applied in relation to authority, power, leadership styles and work practices, as well as intercultural communication across cultural groups, including multicultural team dynamics and group leadership.
Yes CA
School of Professional Studies
Human Capital Management
HCM
PS
Inclusive Leadership X (Block Format)
X This course seeks to introduce students to the latest theory, research and practice of “Inclusive Leadership,” an evolving framework, for understanding the role of people leaders, teams, and individual contributors in cultivating diverse, equitable, and inclusion environments in companies and organizations. This interactive, intensive course will leverage insights, research, and experiences of leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. The content covered is grounded in inclusive leadership development, diversity management, team effectiveness, organization development, and intergroup relations. Students will learn hands-on strategies for fostering inclusion at every level of the organization, and how and why it matters on the overall culture and climate of the organization in a systematic way. Class discussions, assignments, and readings will pose questions such as: How to foster a culture of inclusion? How do we know when inclusion is actually taking place?
Yes CA2, CA
School
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
IKNS IKNS PS5995 IKNS Internship In Industry (1, 2, Or 3 Points)
X X Students enroll in this course (for credit) in parallel to carrying out an internship with a non-Columbia entity (private sector, NGO, non-profit, or government). International students can enroll in this course as part of their optional Curricular Practical Training (CPT). Please contact the IKNS program administration for details.
The Internship course offers students the preparation to excel in the marketplace with hands-on experience within an organization. The ideal internship will provide students an opportunity to gain tangible and practical knowledge in their chosen field by taking on a position that is closely aligned with their coursework and professional interests. The course is structured around the internship experience. In the first assignment, students will author learning objectives to complete in their internship and review these learning objectives with their site supervisor. Students should also expect that after completing this course they will be able to:
Discuss the application of program content and theory in a professional context (LO1)
Define a plan for assessing and building their professional competencies (LO2)
Describe an organization’s culture and assess their cultural “fit” (LO3)
Make recommendations for the types of behaviors, structure, and culture they would want to see in a future
workplace setting (LO4)
Before registering for this course, students must secure an appropriate graduate-level internship, complete the Internship Application Form and receive approval from the academic program. It is highly recommended that domestic students complete at least 12 points (credits) prior to completing an internship. International students must have completed at least two terms before completing an internship and apply for & receive CPT approval through the ISSO Office unless they completed their undergraduate degree in the U.S. and enrolled in graduate school immediately after obtaining their undergraduate degree.
To receive approval, the internship must:
Provide an appropriate opportunity for students to apply course concepts
Fit into the planned future program-related career path of the student
Provide a minimum of 210 hours over the semester
Internship dates must coincide with the start and end of the term you are enrolling in the course. You may not
complete this course for a previous internship or for an internship you plan to take in the future. The internship and course must be done at the same time.
Logistics: Ahead of registration in this course, the student meets with the supervisor to discuss and agree on (i) the topic and the relevant IKNS content area(s); (ii) the timeline of deliverables, milestones, and contact hours for the semester; and (iii) the number of credits. The number of credits (1-3) will be commensurate with the scope of the work. The scope can range from a summary of existing sources (typically 1 credit. 5-10 page report), to a synthesis or meta-analysis of existing and new sources, e.g., interviews with subject matter experts (typically 2 credits, 10-15 pages report), to a comprehensive study which adds the student’s own critical discussion and suggestions to the topic (typically 3 credits; 15-20 pages report). Pre-requisites: PS5300 (Foundations of the Knowledge-driven Organization) or instructor permission.
Yes Either CA1, CA2, or CA (determined based on topic)
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
IKNS IKNS PS5305 Networked Work X As the pace of technological change accelerates, and market disruptors lurk around the corner, organizations find that traditional hierarchies pose a huge disadvantage. Decision-making is often layered and ponderous, insular cultures block new ideas, and information moves inefficiently. Increasingly, managers find that, to compete, they need novel operating models. Organizations need to readily access resources and markets. At the same time, they need diverse intelligence, large multidisciplinary data sets, and novel product ideas. The answer lies in the network, an organizational construct that involves people engaging across boundaries, organizations, and/or geographies with shared knowledge-creation goals.
For-profit and nonprofit organizations, alike, are embracing networks to share insights and data, act as a voting block, serve customers, and innovate. For example, realtor COMPASS, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and electric cooperatives are all leveraging networks. The ideas of “open” and “collective” are no longer seen as a rarified university experiment. Now these present a viable means for a growing number of purposes: get to market faster, thwart climate change, clean the oceans, and find cures to intractable diseases.
“Networked Work” presents the structure, impacts, and practical work of networks. There are many different forms of network, varying in size, shape and purpose. Yet there are some common practices and behavior models that trace their origins back to the science of the human brain, evolution and social and behavioral psychology. We will use the Knowledge Network Effectiveness Framework, a logic model flowing backwards from outcomes, to individual and social behavior, to dynamics, to design. We will also use other scholarly research, along with practical cases, to study different network forms: communities of practice, knowledge-networks, crowds, open source, open data, and open innovation. Students will envision, diagnose and design networks for “cooperative advantage.” We will do that while considering that networks operate in the context of human bias, social influence, common-pool resource dilemmas, and technology advancement.
IKNS and other SPS students will find that the course aligns with the future of work, in which operations and innovation come increasingly from parties outside the organization or department. Work is more networked, collaborative, and integrative. This course relates to three main thrusts of the IKNS Program:
- Digital transformation
- Future of work
- Leading collaboration
Yes CA1, CA
School
Program/Topic Area Number Name
Offered In Person
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
IKNS IKNS PS5338 Digital Product Innovation And Entrepreneurship
X The exponential growth of information and data—combined with software that can understand and learn from experience—provides entrepreneurs with tremendous opportunities to bring innovative customer-focused solutions to market. While there are no direct paths to bring a new product idea to market, there are easily identifiable milestones that can guide the way from idea generation to product profitability. This course will explore the process of early-stage development of knowledge-driven, data-intensive digital products like Spotify, Netflix, Watson, and TripAdvisor. The goal is to create a hands-on entrepreneurial experience at its most elemental and visceral level—ideation, brainstorming, interacting with customers, building a founding team, developing a business model, managing risk, investigating competitors, pitching the business to potential investors, and creating an interactive mobile app prototype (a design proof of concept for your business idea) through an iterative user-centered design process.
In this course, we use Eric Reis’ startup method from his book, Lean Startup, as a foundation for creating and testing new ideas. Students learn to validate their new product ideas in the market by immediately engaging with customers to gauge whether their idea solves a problem better than alternative solutions. Building on the insight generated by customer interviews, students design a business model using the Lean Canvas approach designed by Ash Maurya and iterate their ideas based on Design Thinking (Tim Brown) principles. Throughout the course, we will shift from learning to the rapid application of new frameworks to speed up product design and development.
Students will be exposed to all the pressures and demands of real-world start-ups by participating in teams tasked with creating weekly deliverables required to launch a new business. The user-experience skills and methods that are taught in this class are in demand by employers and startups across nearly every industry and reflect the latest best practices used to create today’s most widely used and award-winning digital products. The skills developed in this class apply to many real-world business problems that require an agile and iterative approach.
Yes CA1, CA
School of Professional Studies
IKNS IKNS PS5990 Navigating The Future Of Work
X (Block Format)
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the critical capabilities necessary for individual, team, and organizational success in the new world of work. Based upon current economic models, students will recognize the intangible factors within teams and organizations that drive decision making, knowledge, and culture as value and valuation of the work of organizations. Our core question is, how to start, build, and sustain leadership and organization capabilities for successfully navigating the future of work? The course will answer this question by looking at successful case examples who are demonstrably leading the way. We will bring actual leaders and entrepreneurs to the class for exchange with our class. The course will require students to work individually and in teams to build their own future of work models through unlearning and learning. Students will study modern exemplar organizations and leaders to harness their lessons for staying competitive and successful. We will explore the changing nature of work, provide the means for better understanding what is occurring, and develop strategies for successfully navigating this new world. This course will start by analyzing how platforms, robotics, AI, automation, data, digitization, and the speed of technology has changed work. The capabilities necessary for success require both technological expertise, as well as, human skill centered around leadership, knowledge, and cultures of trust, respect and intentional inclusion. Students will participate in an “intangibles” assessment survey that will measure behaviors associated with leadership, culture, and knowledge for driving performance. This approach allows for exploring how the intangible factors behind each of these change factors impact the world of work, workforces, and workplaces. Assignments will include determining individual work interests, skills and connecting them to organizational objectives and key results (OKR). Students will work in teams to design a future of work map and negotiate practices for their current organizations and clients.
Yes CA2, CA
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
IKNS IKNS PS5999 IKNS Independent Study (1, 2, or 3 Points)
X X Overview: This one-semester course (elective, IKNS students only, hybrid) provides an opportunity for a student to extend or supplement their educational experience via a deep-dive into an established or novel area of research of their choice (the topic), under the guidance and supervision of a faculty member (the supervisor). An independent study course allows a student to work one-on-one with a faculty member to gain and contribute new insight into the discipline of Knowledge Management.
Topic and objective: The topic can be chosen freely by the student as long as it falls within the general realm of Knowledge Management or its specific content areas in the IKNS curriculum, such as IT systems, knowledge organizing systems, data repositories, business data analytics including machine learning and AI, learning processes, collaboration, dialogue, team and project management, transformational leadership, change management, digital transformation, or digital product innovation. The course will therefore serve the dual purpose of allowing a student to pursue their own intellectual curiosity and to make a contribution to the wider discipline of Knowledge Management while also deepening their understanding of the content they acquired in other courses, by applying this material to the specific topic chosen for the Independent Study.
Logistics: Ahead of registration in this course, the student meets with the supervisor to discuss and agree on (i) the topic and the relevant IKNS content area(s); (ii) the timeline of deliverables, milestones, and contact hours for the semester; and (iii) the number of credits. The number of credits (1-3) will be commensurate with the scope of the Independent Study. The scope can range from a summary of existing sources (typically 1 credit. 5-10 page report), to a synthesis or meta-analysis of existing and new sources, e.g., interviews with subject matter experts (typically 2 credits, 10-15 pages report), to a comprehensive study which adds the student’s own critical discussion and suggestions to the topic (typically 3 credits; 15-20 pages report).
Pre-requisites: PS5300 (Foundations of the Knowledge-driven Organization) or instructor permission.
Yes Either CA1, CA2, or CA (determined based on topic)
School of Professional Studies
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
NECR
PS
Complexity Of Conflict And Change Management
X
(Asynchron ous)
Complexity of Conflict and Change Management (NECR K5095) is an elective course in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NECR) Program. The course explores how change can create conflict and also how conflict requires change. Conflict is generally about differences in how people think, know, prefer, believe, and understand. By entering into a conflict resolution process, people can shift their understanding and beliefs about the conflict, the other party or parties, and possible outcomes. The course reviews literature and case studies of how people are impacted at a fundamental level when change occurs. Understanding this elemental human experience can lead to greater self-awareness and the ability to manage change professionally and personally, in order to become effective change agents, negotiators, mediators, and peacemakers. We will also explore how leaders at all levels in organizations can play an important role in implementing change in an organizational context. Thoughtful and strategic approaches that consider the impact of a change management process can mitigate and even prevent conflict. We will review change management models and links to developments in neuroscience and how humans are biologically wired to resist change. Balancing theory and practice, this course will focus on the experience and expertise of the students. They will learn to apply practical conflict resolution approaches to change efforts at the individual and organizational levels as well as consider national and international applications.
While there will be no required live course sessions, we will be planning one synchronous meeting near the start of the term and one near the end of the term. You are highly encouraged to attend both. These meetings will be scheduled once class has started. If needed, we may have two sessions of each meeting to accommodate time zones and student schedules.
Yes CA2, CA
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
NECR
PS
Understanding Conflict And Cooperation
X X The field of conflict resolution has been developed academically as a discipline from diverse fields of knowledge. This course provides an introduction to the major schools of thought that contribute to the developments in social psychology, law, political science, social work, and business. The field of conflict resolution is also dynamically transforming, and the course introduces recent developments, particularly in the area of complexity and dynamical systems.
Yes CA2, CA
School of Professional Studies
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
NECR
PS
Conflict, Social Networks, And Communication Technologies
X Conflict, Social Networks, and Communications Technology (NECR PS5212) will analyze the relationship between conflict and communications technologies and will explore the challenges that individuals and networks face in using online technology for collaboration and conflict mediation purposes. The course will demonstrate how recent software and social media innovations can facilitate knowledge acquisition, network building, and the analysis and presentation of conflict-related data. Finally, it will analyze contemporary cases where developments in communications technologies have played a critical role in exacerbating and/or resolving conflicts. The course focuses on international peacebuilding, business, and human rights cases.
The course will also instruct students in the use of social software (such as blogs, wikis, curation, and visual mapping) and improve their “digital literacy” on a range of technologies. It will also provide practical (and often provocative) examples and challenge students to reflect on how these tools will be useful in their professional development and work environment.
As an elective offered by the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NECR) program, Conflict, Social Networks, and Communications Technology builds on students’ conflict analysis skills (PS6125, PS6150), their ability to understand and apply relevant theories and frameworks to complex issues (PS5101), and their assessments as to what influences the behaviors and cultural understandings of conflict parties (PS5105, PS5107, PS5124, PS5205). The aforementioned courses will contribute to the understanding of this course’s content and should, in general, be taken before this (or any other) electives.
Yes CA
School of Professional Studies
NonProfit Management
NOPM
PS
Data Analytics/Metric In The Nonprofit
X Data analytics and resultant metrics analysis are skillsets now being utilized and even required in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector at a rate and level of sophistication never before seen. Unlike the for-profit sector, metrics evaluation methodology in a mission-based environment is not always obvious nor agreed upon by stakeholders. In this class, you will discuss the research and practice methodologies related to nonprofit organization and program evaluation. We will explore a model for evaluation that includes both qualitative and quantitative benchmarks of success. Through the development of an intentional approach to data and analytics, students will learn how to assess service needs and determine the effectiveness and efficiency of individual program components or entire service systems.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School of Professional Studies
Sports Management
SPRT
PS
Business Intelligence In Sports
X This course examines the history and future of companies growing their customer relationship management (CRM) tool. From the early stages of data collection, to the data explosion witnessed in recent year, this course examines the tools needed to make informed decisions on customers. This business strategy aimed at understanding, anticipating and responding to customer needs in order to expand the customer relationship based on customer’s actions and data points.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
Strategic Communication
SCOM
PS
Gender And Communication In The Workplace
X (Block Format)
Gender and Communication in the Workplace offers professionals across sectors and industries the knowledge and skills needed to identify the social and linguistic practices enacted at work, and the opportunity to advance the interests of those who run up against barriers to advancement as a result of prejudice and stereotyping.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School of Professional Studies
Sustainability Management
SUMA
PS
Corporate Sustainability Reporting And Strategy
X This course is designed for those who will hold positions in corporations with responsibilities for mapping and managing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)issues relating to a business, setting sustainability goals, communicating progress towards goals, and engaging with stakeholders, including civil society organizations, suppliers, customers, and investors. While a sustainability report is a snapshot in time of a company’s performance against sustainability goals, the sustainability reporting process, is a continuous improvement cycle designed to embed sustainability within the corporation. This course will explore the interplay between corporate sustainability strategy and reporting. Expectations for how today’s companies operate are rapidly evolving. It is increasingly recognized that by implementing sustainability management mechanisms, companies can better manage physical, regulatory, technological, and reputational risks, as well as create value through efficiencies and innovation. Embedding sustainability into the corporate DNA necessitates corporations to expand their horizons for strategic planning. Implementing sustainability reporting practices enables corporations to do just that.
Yes CA1, CA
School of Professional Studies
Sustainability Management
SUMA
PS
Decision Models & Management
X X This course provides an introduction to computer-based models for decision-making. The emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, accounting, operations, and marketing. Applications will include advertising planning, revenue management, asset-liability management, environmental policy modeling, portfolio optimization, and corporate risk management, among others. The applicability and usage of computer-based models have increased dramatically in recent years, due to the extraordinary improvements in computer, information and communication technologies, including not just hardware but also model-solution techniques and user interfaces. Twenty years ago working with a model meant using an expensive mainframe computer, learning a complex programming language, and struggling to compile data by hand; the entire process was clearly marked “experts only.” The rise of personal computers, friendly interfaces (such as spreadsheets), and large databases has made modeling far more accessible to managers. Information has come to be recognized as a critical resource, and models play a key role in deploying this resource, in organizing and structuring information so that it can be used productively.
Yes CA
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Curriculum Areas (CA1, CA2, CA3) School of Professional Studies
Sustainability Management
SUMA
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship
X X Entrepreneurship is all the rage in conversations on Wall Street and Main Street. Everyone and their neighbor seems to want the glitz and glamour of starting a successful company and being their own boss, but few take the plunge because of the inherent risks and tiresome challenges of developing an early-stage company. This course applies entrepreneurial thinking to different business models as seen through a social, environmental, and economic sustainability perspective. The course will explore the relationship between society’s need for business development and costs to the environment. You will study ways in which sustainable entrepreneurship can significantly diminish dependency on fossil fuels and toxic substances. The course will challenge you to conceive and pitch a sustainable entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial business concept. Guest lectures, readings, case studies, activities, and group work will support the development of your entrepreneurial venture. This course is distinctive from others at Columbia in several ways. This course puts sustainability concepts to work by inspiring students to think about value creation through the lens of ecological and social stewardship; then to test market their ideas, evaluate the business landscape, and create a thoughtful business plan and execution strategy. The class is appropriate for those with an interest in the unique challenges of starting a social good or clean technology company. This course requires business and technical proficiency gained in a competitive undergraduate program or commensurate professional experience. During the course, students will work in teams to formulate a business solution around a sustainability issue. All teammates will need to understand their solution, including technical and scientific aspects, and the mechanisms by which you develop a company and market your solution. This is an elective course and is approved to satisfy “Area 5 – General and Financial Management” requirement for the M.S. in Sustainability Management curriculum. Registration is open to students from the School of Professional Studies; School of International and Public Affairs; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; SEAS Graduate Programs; and Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
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CA
School of Professional Studies
Technology Management
PS5115 Accounting And Finance For Technology
X An exploration of the central concepts of corporate finance for those who already have some basic knowledge of finance and accounting. This case-based course considers project valuation; cost of capital; capital structure; firm valuation; the interplay between financial decisions, strategic consideration, and economic analyses; and the provision and acquisition of funds. These concepts are analyzed in relation to agency problems: market domination, risk profile, and risk resolution; and market efficiency or the lack thereof. The validity of analytic tools is tested on issues such as highly leveraged transactions, hybrid securities, volatility in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, acquisition and control premiums, corporate restructurings, and sustainable and unsustainable market inefficiencies.
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CA1, CA
School of Professional Studies
Technology Management
PS5118 Behavioral Challenges In Technology Management
X An in-depth study of the intricacies of managing technical personnel and management teams in a fast paced and evolving business environment. Emphasis is placed on key challenges including the management of multiple technology projects, software development processes, and communications among technology managers and senior managers, developers, programmers, and customers.
Yes CA
School of Professional Studies
Technology Management
PS5120 Operations Management In It
X This course provides an examination of the role the technology leader plays in the daily operations and performance management of an organization. The course focuses on how tech leaders can manage both up and down within their organizations through critical examination of current IT topics such as Outsourcing, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture (as a strategy), Information Security, Risk Management, IT Governance, and determining/communicating the business value of IT. Students leave the course with a deep understanding of the dramatically different priorities, skills, and actions required to succeed as an IT leader.
Yes CA1, CA
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Technology Management
PS5200 Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
X X This course provides a broad overview of applied analytics frameworks and methods to help organizations turn data into informative insights. The chain of inferences leading from data collection to utilization for decision- making represents a comprehensive and coherent validation framework for the use of data to inform real-life problems. The course covers tools for addressing a set of claims about a problem based on data: exploratory data analysis, multivariate regression, causal inference, network analysis, and predictive analytics. It also introduces computational methods in natural language processing and machine learning and how these methods are integrated and deployed within modern database frameworks to turn organizations in data-savvy organizations.
AAM helps students to recognize which applied analytic frameworks and methods to use to make smarter and better decisions and producing better results for their organizations. Students learn how different analytic methods are used to address critical data issues facing an organization and how best to apply those methods. Students learn how to conduct in-depth strategic analytic analysis of business problems and communicate those results to all levels of an organization — both technical and non-technical audiences. Students will have the opportunity to apply these analytic methods to real problems in specific industries associated with their area of interest.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School of Professional Studies
Technology Management
PS5400 Modern Database Architecture
X This course provides coverage of modern database architecture and how organizations extract, transform, and load data to set the foundation for deep analytics within their organization. Students will develop a broad understanding of cloud-based computing environments such as Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure, MapReduce and data parallel applications using Hadoop, noSQL databases such as MongoDB. Students will learn how to develop a strong working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, structured and unstructured data, as well as scalability and performance issues as they relate to modern applied analytics. Students will cover different types and scales of data and how to apply the best database framework for their organization’s analytic needs. The course will provide case studies from industry and students will apply their knowledge to architect real business solutions, not only the optimal architectural framework but the total costs, including hardware, software and human costs, to implement such a solution.
Yes CA
School of Public Health
(Health Policy and Management)
P8212 Digital Health Revolution (1.5 Points)
X Digital health is the use of any and all digital resources to improve health by making it safer, more efficient, maximize outcomes and lower costs. It is transforming the delivery of healthcare and behaviors of all health sectors. The size and scope are fast growing and difficult to define at this point in its history. The Covid- pandemic has magnified the importance and uses of digital health. This course provides an overview of digital healthcare in the US, focusing on how and why digital health is revolutionizing healthcare for providers, patients and payors. Students will be equipped with the vocabulary, concepts and tools to understand the dynamic aspects of digital healthcare in today's environment, including its definition, its role in improving patient outcomes, provider satisfaction, reduction in costs and why this is accelerating. Students are encouraged to take the perspective of the executive and policy-maker in class discussions. In addition, the course surveys current digital tools and investment strategies in digital health.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
School of Public Health
(Health Policy and Management)
P8213 Health Claims Data Analytics: Real World (1.5 Points)
X Integrated individual-level health claim, biometric and risk data have many business uses across insurance, consulting, disease management, engagement and other digital healthcare organizations. The purpose of this course is to provide training to meet the data analytical job demands of these organizations with practical, hands- on experience exploring real corporate longitudinal data.
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CA
Teacher's College Organization & Leadership
ORL 6011 Advanced System Management
Tba Tba Managing systems requires the generation of useful information for decision-making. This course focuses on using information for strategic planning and management of systems in healthcare.
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CA1, CA
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ORLA 5025 Ecology Of Data-Driven Leadership
Tba Tba This course relies upon systems theory and its application to school systems. The course teaches prospective leaders the use of databases of various kinds to pursue a systematic inquiry in the health and productivity of the ecology of the school. It explores various approaches to data mining, model building, and ultimately the "art of improvisational leadership." The course teaches students how to distinguish the different purposes for which data can be used and misused and relies heavily on the use of cases, simulations and exercises, including those with complex feedback systems. Familiarity with spreadsheets and simple statistics is helpful.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
Teacher's College Organization & Leadership
ORLD 4085 Management And Leadership Skills In Practice
Tba Tba This course develops skills as a manager and leader using a cognitive-science based approach to skills development. Taking a hands-on, experiential approach, the purpose is to demystify the notion of management, provide students with feedback about their own management potential, and facilitate their personal and intellectual growth as a skilled leader. To paraphrase the father of modern management, Peter Drucker: Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion and underperformance. Everything else requires management and leadership. In this course, students will learn how to more effectively lead and motivate groups while understanding, as Paul Hawkes said, "Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
Teacher's College Organization & Leadership
ORLD 5054 Strategy Development As A Learning Process In Organizations
Tba X This course provides a comprehensive view of organizational strategy from a learning perspective. Students examine various models for facilitating the development of strategic initiatives through learning interventions.
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CA2, CA
Teacher's College Organization & Leadership
ORLD 5060 Learning And Technology In Organizations
Tba Tba This course is designed to help students understand the rapidly changing role of intelligent technology for organizational learning about strategy and capacity building. The course draws on a combination of research case studies together with the existing theories on organizational learning in the workplace to address the complex dilemmas faced by human resource managers and corporate executives regarding the impact of technology on employee learning and management. The objectives of this course are presented in four integrated competency units: first, the ways in which IT has revolutionized learning in organizations; second, the alternative ways technology can be used to support distance learning; third, technology as it supports knowledge management; and, fourth, how technology changes organizational functioning and management.
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CA1, CA
Teacher's College Organization & Leadership
ORLD 5061 The Learning Organization
Tba Tba This course focuses on the practice of organization learning as a system of discrete components including learning and development programs, HR systems, corporate universities, executive coaching, using consultants, action learning programs, and OD, among others. Attention is given to action science as a framework for understanding OL at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Cases and readings balance theory and practice to demonstrate how leaders strive to integrate learning to increase organizational agility.
Requires permission of Instructor or Program
CA
Teacher's College Organization & Leadership
ORLD 5540 Social Entrepreneurship & Leadership
Tba Tba Social Entrepreneurship can be simply defined as the application of the mindset, processes, tools, and techniques of business entrepreneurship to the pursuit of a social and/or environmental mission. Social entrepreneurship brings to bear the passion, ingenuity, innovativeness, perseverance, planning bootstrapping abilities, and focus on growth characteristic of business entrepreneurs on the work of meeting our society’s most pressing challenges. Incorporated into each class will be implications for how entrepreneurs learn (entrepreneurial learning theory) through practice. The course will concurrently address the necessary skills needed to start a social enterprise including how to develop a business plan with a social/societal benefitting focus. Students will develop a comprehensive business plan for a social enterprise of their choosing throughout the semester, as well as a Pitch.
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