Учебные программы

This course is directed toward the attainment of three interdependent objectives: 1) to develop an understanding of strategy implementation in complex organizations, 2) to understand how organizational planning, design, control, and human resource decisions are interdependent and critical to successful implementation, and 3) to develop a sensitivity to the "realities" of strategy implementation in "real-world" organizations.

This course is intended to help you see ways to advance strategy in an organization. Our starting points will be two: you as an actor in the organization and the strategy you and other members of your organization wish to pursue. We will assume that the organization has already determined what strategy to pursue. Developing a strategy is an extremely important issue, but we will consider strategy design only as it is related to the problems of implementation. Instead, we will direct our attention to the problems of pushing the strategy forward in the organization.

This course will review recent comparative research and debates on “varieties of capitalism”, concentrating on the so-called “triad” regions of North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. Are there distinct national models or family types of capitalism across these regions? How far and in what ways do developed capitalist economies differ from one another in their social organization, institutional embeddedness, and modes of governance? What are the implications of such differences for industrial specialization, technological innovation, and economic performance in a competitive world market? How tightly coupled and mutually supportive/constraining are the different domains and institutional structures within advanced capitalist societies, from product, capital, and labor markets to corporate governance, education and training, employment relations, and social welfare provision? Are current processes of globalization and regionalization eroding the coherence and distinctiveness of national economies? In tackling such questions, this course will combine a comparative approach with an analysis of interdependence between competing systems, as well as a discussion of tendencies towards convergence and/or divergence.

Work, like the biblical poor, has always been with us. But its social organization and technological content have varied widely across time, space, and industrial sector. Employment or paid work, by contrast, is inherently a social construction, whose boundaries in relation to other types of activity like household labor, leisure, retirement, or unemployment are institutionally and culturally defined. In most developed countries, employment is also a social and legal status, which carries with it distinctive rights and obligations (at least for certain sections of the workforce), such as protection from arbitrary dismissal, subordination to managerial authority, procedures for collective representation, and entitlements to benefits like paid vacations, pensions, and health care. Both the boundaries of employment and the status associated with it are thus historically contingent constructs which differ significantly from one country to another, and are currently being renegotiated in response to a variety of pressures, from globalization and technological innovation to the expansion of the service sector, demographic trends, and changing household/family structures. This course is designed to provide a selective introduction to key themes in the sociology of work and employment. It brings comparative, historical, and theoretical perspectives to bear on understanding contemporary transformations of work and employment in the ‘new economy’, with particular emphasis on the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. Topics covered will include: Fordism and post-Fordism; scientific management and mass production; flexible specialization and lean production; the diffusion of new forms of work organization such as teams, cells, and project groups; the relationship between technology and workforce skills; training systems and skill formation; the social construction of employment; the ‘invention’ and redefinition of unemployment and retirement; household labor and women’s employment; job stability and the growth of non-standard forms of employment; workers’ changing expectations and experience of careers at work; collective representation and employment regulation; employment policies for a new economy. The course is open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It will be taught through a mixture of lectures and in-class discussions.

Курс предназначен для бакалавров. Это курс начального уровня, не требующий специальной подготовки. Основными темами являются: изучение истории кооперирования на селе, экономические предпосылки, законодательство в области кооперативов (опыт США). Рассматриваются традиционные и новые структуры кооперативов, роль кооперативов в развитии сельской местности. В ходе курса используется ридер.
Программа включает содержание курса, темы лекций и практических занятий, список основной и дополнительной литературы, коллекцию ссылок по теме. Продолжительность курса – 2 семестра.

The course provides a systematic presentation of the factors to be considered when setting price, and shows how pricing alternatives are developed. Analytical methods are developed and new approaches are explored for solving pricing decisions.

Rapid development of new interactive media such as on-line services and the World Wide Web has surprised both consumers and marketers alike. In this early but fast developing stage, it is difficult to estimate its likely impact on marketing functions. The objective of this course is to provide insights into the converging logic of traditional marketing in the information age from managerial and consumers’ perspectives. It is to be recognized that within the marketing discipline this is a relatively new field of study and as a consequence the existing literature so far does not present any constructive theories or models. We will examine the impact of new technologies on Internet users e.g. consumers (and business to business marketers) within the framework of the traditional methods of marketing.