Core Courses:
ACC501 Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis
The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts, principles, and standards of financial accounting with an emphasis on how financial information is reported to external users and how it is used in resource allocation decisions. The topics covered include the preparation and use of the financial statements, the recording cycle, sales and receivables, inventories and cost of goods sold, plant assets and intangibles, liabilities and owner's equity, cash flow, EBIT, EBITDA and financial statement analysis.
MGMT 501 Global Business Context
This subject addresses the phenomenon of globalization in connection with a variety of issues that have direct and/or indirect relevance for business and managerial practices. Topics to be covered include: The globalization debate in terms of conceptualization, causal dynamics, socio-economic consequences, and implications for macroeconomic stability, state power, and governance. Transnational corporations, globalization versus localization of emerging consumption patterns, information technologies, global financial markets, political and economic consequences of globalization, and accords such as the European Union, GATT, and NAFTA will be discussed.
BAN 506 Fundamentals of Data-Driven Business Decisions
This course covers basic statistics tools and concepts to teach students how to apply statistical analysis to managerial decisions. By requiring hands-on statistical analysis using MS Excel, the course also aims to develop the students’ data analysis skills. Descriptive statistics, statistical significance, hypothesis testing, and linear regression topics are covered and their applications for a variety of business decisions are discussed.
MGMT 508 Ethics in Business
This course examines ideas and perspectives on ethical issues in contemporary business to expand our capacity for moral inquiry and increase our alertness about the consequences of misconduct. We will examine various ethical and moral dilemmas in business decision-making encountering the philosophical issues at the foundation of economic theory and management science. The course will also review recent debacles in the corporate world focusing on practical issues such as social responsibility, ethical investments, corporate governance, professional codes of ethics, and morality and the future of market-driven societies.
MGMT 514 Economics for Managers
This is the first part of a two-course module in economics. The purpose of the module is to familiarize students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist. In this part, the focus is on the market economy and on the decision-making problem of the individual units, notably firms.
MKTG 501 Marketing Management
Course objectives are 1) Familiarizing participants with marketing concepts and methods used in processes that integrate innovative and productive capabilities of a firm into its products and services in light of its customers' needs, market challenges, and company objectives; 2) Developing skills to apply these concepts and methods in market analysis, marketing strategy development and implementation design through developing a complete marketing plan in a real market environment.
OPIM 501 Operations and Supply Chain Management
This course deals with the design, production and distribution of goods and services. Managerial issues and decision problems include the design, planning, and control of processes at strategic and operational levels. Concepts and tools used in generating solutions to problems and their implementation aspects are discussed. Operating systems from different areas such as manufacturing, service, and transportation are exemplified to expose students to the similarities and differences in their characteristics. Topics include operations strategy, process design and improvement, quality management, capacity and supply chain management.
ORG 501 Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations and why they think, feel, and act the way they do. The field, which borrows extensively from the social sciences, includes but is not limited to, topics such as motivation, decision-making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure, and change. This course is based on a belief that social science has much to offer the practicing manager and that becoming an effective manager of others requires increasing our own self-awareness and a portfolio of managerial skills. Thus, the course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects, and experiential exercises.
FIN 502 Principles of Finance
This course develops an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues relating to financial management. Fundamental financial concepts from the perspective of financial managers/entrepreneurs are examined and practical applications within local and global contexts are discussed. Topics include the use of accounting information for decision-making/performance evaluation, financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, risk-return relationship, capital structure, valuation of financial securities & firms, risk management, and derivatives.
MGMT 510 Strategic Management
This course aims to introduce a plurality of perspectives in strategic thinking and action. Strategy as plan, position, perspective and pattern capture the diversity of perspectives that are essential to grasp in managerial practice.
MGMT 511 Business Simulations
The objective of this 30-hour, one-week, intensive activity is to provide an opportunity for the participants to integrate their knowledge of the various management functions through a computer-based simulation environment. The participants, in teams of four to five, make sequential decisions at the beginning of each period over a certain time horizon and report, at the end of each period, how their decisions affect the performance of their respective companies. (Measured in terms of market share, profitability, and key financial ratios).
Elective Courses* You have to take at least 6 credits of elective courses
