BUSI 681: Managerial Economics & Public Policy (Core MBA Class)
This class covers the fundamentals of optimal firm production and market functioning as well as linking microeconomic foundations to firm decision making and competitive dynamics. In addition to analyzing competition and firm strategy via economics, students examine common sources of market failures.
Teaching Awards:
- Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence
- Distinguished Teaching Award
- Voted Most Effective Core Professor
- Top 15% teaching list
BULM 758F: Sustainability: Economics & Strategy (MBA Elective)
This class applies economics to understand market failures and firm strategic responses in the area of sustainability. The goal is to better understand issues of sustainability facing firms in a series of different contexts and highlight market based solutions to these problems. The contexts include common property problems, such as natural resource depletion, energy, carbon emissions, and issues specific to business, such as manufacturing and construction.
Teaching Awards:
- Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence
- Distinguished Teaching Award
- Top 15% teaching list
HONR 248R: Sustainability Solutions: Business Lab (Undergraduate honors seminar)
Environmental and their related social problems present the some of the most significant issues facing society and business today. In this seminar, we discuss the underlying economics and market failures that have led to many of these environmental problems. With an understanding of the issues, students work in cross-disciplinary teams to develop a business canvas for a new idea created to solve a sustainability related problem.
Coming soon: New Economic Organization (MBA Elective)
In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the costs of current organizational forms, particularly public companies. Conflicting interests, short-termism and regulation all impose significant costs on the organization that not only hamper the firm's own performance, but the ability to create value for all stakeholders. Further, there are emerging organizational alternatives that allow firms to invest for the long term, engage in forms of value creation beyond shareholder value and enhance productivity. This class explores several of these alternatives such as holocracy, cooperatives, and B-corporations.
The Chesapeake Project
Rachelle participates as a faculty mentor and facilitator for the Chesapeake Project at the University of Maryland, a university-wide initiative for integrating sustainability into the curriculum. She has co-organized several similar workshops within the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
