BBUS 502
Strategic Management in High Technology Firms
MBA Program • University of Washington Bothell • Autumn 2008

Professor Kevin Laverty
laverty (at) u.washington.edu • +1 425 352-5338 • Office: UWB-2, Room 325; hours by appointment

Course page: http://faculty.washington.edu/laverty/502
Email archive

Library ERes • Cases


Updated 10/28/08.

SYLLABUS html | pdf

SCHEDULE (updated 10/18) html | pdf

Group research project abstracts | presentation schedule

Due dates for submissions, exams, etc.


Assignment #2 due Monday October 20 LINK
Assignment #1 due Monday September 29 LINK

Monday Oct 27
Assigned reading:
Text: Chapters 7 and 8
Case: GE's Digital Revolution: Redefining the E in GE

Wednesday Oct 29
Assigned reading:
Case: Timex Corp.
• Quiz #2

Required for this course
• Text (available at UW Bothell Bookstore)

Barney, Jay & William Hesterly (2008)
Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts (2nd edition)
ISBN-13: 9780136135203
http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,013613520X,00.html

• UW Bothell Policy on Academic Conduct

http://www.uwb.edu/students/policies/academicconduct.xhtml
(updated link for policies and procedures regarding academic integrity, including plagiarism)

• Cases from Harvard Business School Publishing

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/relay.jhtml?name=cp&c=c20154

• Articles on UWB Library Electronic Reserve

https://eres.bothell.washington.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=978