This is a first-year gateway course and is not available for initial second-year MBA bidding. Second-years must wait until the add/drop process begins in January to add this course.  Last year, there was space available for 2nd year MBAs.

***NOTE: THIS COURSE DESCRIPTION IS FROM PAST SEMESTER (SPRING 05), AND REPRESENTS OUR MOST CURRENT VERSION FROM HENRY CHESBROUGH. WE WILL UPDATE THIS COURSE DESCRIPTION IF WE RECEIVE A NEWER VERSION.***

COURSE NO.: MBA290A.1* Crosslisted with COE, SIMS

COURSE TITLE: Introduction to Management of Technology

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3

INSTRUCTOR: Henry Chesbrough

E-MAIL ADDRESS: chesbrou@haas.berkeley.edu

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION (HTTP URL): TBD

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Monday and Wednesday, 8:00-9:30 AM

PREREQUISITE(S): none

CLASS FORMAT: Lectures, cases and speakers
REQUIRED READINGS:Both general readings and cases.

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
Class Participation 40%, Course Project 60% (10% for the poster session, 10% for the class presentation, and 40% for the final report)..

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
This course is designed to give students a broad overview of the main topics encompassed by management of technology.  While enrollment preference will be given to first year Haas students, second year students are welcome if space permits.  We will begin with a technology perspective towards business.  Then will we discuss Technology Strategy, how technology can help drive business growth and profitability.  We will then look at how to organize for innovation, and we will conclude the course with student presentations of their course projects that apply these concepts to organizations that they have chosen.  We will include cases on the managment of technology in services, which now comprise 80% of the US economy .  Where available and appropriate, our cases and lectures will be supplemented by visitors from companies that we will be studying during the course.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Prior to joining the Haas faculty, Henry Chesbrough was a professor for six years at Harvard Business School, teaching the management of technology. He received his Ph.D. from Haas. Before joining academia, he worked for ten years as a senior executive at Quantum Corporation in the disk drive industry. Chesbrough's work examines the management of innovation, with particular attention to new models of industrial R&D, technology spin-offs, licensing in and licensing out technology, corporate entrepreneurship, and corporate venture capital. His academic research has been published in Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Business History Review, and the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. He has also published managerial articles in the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and Sloan Management Review. He is the author of Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, published in 2003 by Harvard Business School Press, which was named "One of the Best Business Books of 2003" by Strategy & Business Magazine.  In December of 2003, Chesbrough will be recognized by Scientific American as one of The Scientific American 50 for 2003, for his research on industrial R&D.