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Laszlo, Karen G

Assistant Teaching Professor

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courses taught

  • BASE 2104 - BCOR Applied Semester Experience
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Focuses on major business decisions integrating across business functional areas. Students complete multiple business projects drawing on knowledge and tools from previous BCOR courses.
  • BCOR 2304 - Strategic and Entrepreneurial Thinking
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Provides students with a set of critical thinking skills and theoretical tools to enhance students' abilities at strategic and entrepreneurial thinking. We examine the following topics: (1) What is Strategy and Entrepreneurship, (2) External Analysis and Porter's 5 Forces, (3) Internal Analysis and the Resource Based View, (4) SWOT Analysis, (5) Differentiation, Cost Leadership, and Blue Ocean Strategy. Credit not granted for this course and BASE 2101.
  • MBAX 6540 - Consulting Skills
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023
    Provides an integrative, hands-on exercise in managing change. Develops skills in contracting, collecting, and analyzing data, developing action plans, and preparing reports. Teams practice these skills by conducting an organizational diagnosis, consulting project within an organization.
  • MGMT 4850 - Senior Seminar in Management
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
    Covers the issues and challenges of running a firm in a competitive environment. It integrates and builds upon coursework in other functional areas. Discusses principles, frameworks, and techniques that helps understand how to analyze the competitive environment; firm sources of competitive advantage; competitive dynamics; and, specific types of strategies to promote firm performance. Focuses on specific company examples. Formerly MGMT 4000.