BLAW6158

This course highlights topics that are important to any business manager, with particular emphasis on areas of interest for those aspiring to high level executive/management positions with publicly-traded companies. General topics include: contracts, real estate law, the law of agency, employment law, certain discrimination laws (including Minnesota's fairly recent protections for women in the workplace), and forms of business entity. Public company subjects include: pros and cons of going public, the IPO process, federal securities laws and SEC regulations regarding public company reporting requirements, insider trading, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and its impact on corporate governance, trends in shareholder democracy rights and shareholder activism, and the role of boards and audit committees. Throughout the course, we will examine the impact of the Supreme Court on American business.

prereq: MBA or Mgmt Sci MBA student

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