http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34004 Sloan School of Management (15) http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46692 15.021J / 11.433J Real Estate Economics, Spring 2004 Wheaton, William C., 1944- This course, offered by the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on developing an understanding of the macroeconomic factors that shape and influence markets for real property. We will develop the theory of land markets and locational choice. The material covered includes studies of changing economic activities, demographic trends, transportation and local government behavior as they affect real estate. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46354 15.280 Communication for Managers, Fall 2002 Yates, Joanne, 1951- Hartman, Neal Hafrey, Leigh Kelly, Christine Raffoni, Melissa Writing and speaking skills necessary for a career in management. Students polish communication strategies and methods through discussion of principles, examples, and cases. Several written and oral assignments, most based on material from other subjects and from career development activities. Restricted to first-year Sloan School of Management graduate students. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46326 15.568B Management Information Systems: Generating Business Value from Information Technology, Spring 2003 Weill, Peter Concepts, frameworks, tools, techniques, and processes that assist management in its interaction with and direction of computer-based information systems today. Discusses the impact of the Internet, changes in the IT industry, and changes in other industries as a result of IT. Also notes the redesign of information flows to meet the needs of both control and empowerment in the era of the global information infrastructure and networked organizations. Emphasizes managerial point of view and organizational issues involved in managing a firm's information resources. From the course home page: Course Description Information Technology is pervasive in today's firms. For many firms IT is the single largest capital investment, often exceeding 50% of capital expenditure. As a result, in this course we take the strategic perspective of the general manager and study how these leading firms get more value from their IT investments. The course focuses on the business value that can be achieved rather than the details of the technology. Issues around IT governance will pervade the course. An IT background is not required and this is not a "technical" course. This is, however, an integrative course, including issues of business strategy, finance, and the study of organizations and people, which are also covered in other parts of the Sloan MBA program. The creation of business value requires the successful integration of these issues with the potential of IT. Spring 2003 was the last time that this course was taught as 15.568B. In the future, this course will be named 15.571, Generating Business Value from IT. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45593 15.023J / 12.848J / ESD.128J Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy, Spring 2007 Jacoby, Henry D. Prinn, Ronald G. Cohen, Jason Blake Sarofim, Marcus Introduces scientific, economic, and ecological issues underlying the threat of global climate change, and the institutions engaged in negotiating an international response. Develops an integrated approach to analysis of climate change processes, and assessment of proposed policy measures, drawing on research and model development within the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.