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Am excited to be teaching this course again. BizOrgs is a subject with multiple personalities. On one hand it merely deals with a set of tools – a fairly musty set of open-ended lego-like pieces that corporate frameworks are built from. On the other hand, the frameworks built from those pieces are often massive flashpoints […]
Unbearable weirdness: The portrayal of In-House Counsel in “Pretty Woman”
One thing I mentioned towards the end of the course was that someday I wanted to do a post reviewing the corporate law aspects of the 1990 Julia Roberts/Richard Gere film movie “Pretty Woman”. “Pretty Woman” is mostly awful, especially when watched from the vantage point of 2019. Leaving aside the myriad blatant instances of […]
Vivendi/Ubisoft
Interesting evolving takeover and related events, made that much more impactful for some of us since they involve creative content companies. Links below: Vivendi stake in Ubisoft passes 25%, increasing takeover threat: French media company needs to acquire 30% of publisher’s stock before it can offer to buy the company Ubisoft dev fears ‘constraints that […]
Word-cloud of course materials
Was curious so fed the course materials into a word-cloud generator to see what would happen. The results in the shape of a corporate briefcase are below…. jon
And the Academy Award for best supporting role goes…to the class..
The UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology piece that included footage taken in the class has been posted. It is actually about some of the open pedagogies incorporated through our course website and the use of lecture capture. Since the interview with me was actually filmed the week before Biz Org started, my reference […]
Dates, deadlines, posts & all that jazz…
Below are dates and deadlines for the rest of course based on a review of the material we need to cover and the natural cadence of those materials. You will note a few changes. Most obviously you will see that assignment due dates away from Fridays to the following Monday (before or in-class) so as […]
Class 2: Business Organizations & Real Contexts
Video and Slides below: jon
Class 1: Introduction to the Course
Slides from our first class below. jon
Students in Law 449 003: “Authoring” priviledges
Here is how you get authoring privileges if you are a student in the course: Please create an account at https://cms.ubc.ca/using your CWL. Once you create an account and sign in at https://cms.ubc.ca/you can click your name in the top right. Half way down the following page will […]