My first two classes

These are the classes I'll start with at Haas (in August):

Organizational Behavior
COURSE CONTENT & OBJECTIVES:
Much of what managers do in modern organizations involves leading, communicating with, and motivating an increasingly diverse workforce. They also design jobs, reward systems, and hierarchies for accomplishing those tasks. This course is concerned with understanding organizations in order to manage them better and increase their effectiveness. It focuses on helping the manager better understand the nature and dynamics of social behavior related to organizational performance. It relates existing theory and research in the social sciences to organizations by reviewing basic concepts about individual, group and network behavior. The following is a partial list of course objectives:
1) To provide an overview of the fundamental theories and principles of organizational behavior, and to illustrate how these theories are translated into practice within organizations.
2) To demonstrate the importance of understanding behavior at the individual, the group, and the organizational levels when managing organizations.
3) To aid the development of students' leadership and interpersonal skills through analyzing their own personality and network structure.

Economic Analysis for Business Decisions
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
The goal of this course is to teach you how to use the tools of microeconomics to understand your business environment. There are two ways in which microeconomics is useful to managers. First, it will help you understand markets. Since business is filled with markets -- from product markets to input markets to labor markets to financial markets -- this tool will be useful in many contexts.

Second, an understanding of microeconomics in general and markets in particular can help you think systematically and strategically about creating and capturing value through the management of your firm's resources. We will analyze many practical questions faced by managers, including: How should the presence of uncertainty affect my decision process? How should I account for costs in deciding whether or not to enter a market or how to price a product? What are the effects of different pricing strategies? We will use readings and cases to develop practical insights into managing for competitive advantage.