COURSE NUMBER: MBA217.1
This course is cross-listed with the EWMBA Program.
COURSE TITLE: Incentives and Strategies in Talent Management
UNITS OF CREDIT: 2
INSTRUCTOR: Yona Rubinstein
E-MAIL ADDRESS: yona_rubinstein@haas.berkeley.edu
MEETING
DATES: 8/22-10/24
(No class 9/5 for Labor Day)
PREREQUISITE(S): Enquiring minds.
CLASS FORMAT: This course relies on both lectures and discussion of state of
the art research papers in a non-technical style.
REQUIRED READINGS: Lecture notes and further readings will be provided online.
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
Class discussion 20%
Home reading assignment 30%
Final take home exam 50%
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S
CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
View complete slide deck of course content and objectives here.
Incentives and Strategies
in Talent Management provides an economic framework for analyzing the
management of talent.
We use this framework to
examine the attraction, motivation, and retention of talent under varying
institutional and competitive environments, highlighting the importance of
information and incentive in the modern economy.
Last but not least we
provide evidence for the effectiveness of alterative management strategies --
with special focus on monetary and social incentives -- on the performance of
individuals and the productivity of teams.
Topics
Lecture Outline
Lecture 1: Human Managers
Lecture 2: Recruiting and Sorting
Lecture 3: Private Signals and Group Affiliations in the Recruitment Process
Lecture 4: Investing in Human Capital
Lecture 5: General vs. Specific Human Capital
Lecture 6: Pay Incentives and Effort
Lecture 7 Strategic Interactions and the Management of Talent in Teams
Lecture 8: Turnovers, Layoffs, and Buyouts
Lecture 9: Entrepreneurship
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Professor at the London School of Economics. My research is closely related to
the topics covered in this course. This includes my recent work (with Ross
Levine) on entrepreneurship, see below:
Troubled Teens Make More Successful
Entrepreneurs
Troubled teenagers equal
entrepreneurial success
Behaviour - Entrepreneurs don't play by the school rules