Pompeu Fabra University

This course explores concepts, strategies, and processes of social innovation and social change. It examines the state of the world from a social-economic perspective and focuses on how social innovation can help solve existing and future problems. This course also discusses social entrepreneurship as the vehicle for social innovation and its accompanying challenges and opportunities.

This course presents a study of the workings of banks and other financial institutions. Topics include: banking and the creation of money; deposits; liability; financial contracts; insurance companies. Prerequisite: Course on financial economics or equivalent.

This course teaches the importance of building, reading, understanding, and analyzing financial statements of companies, no matter what country they are from. It focuses on mastering the vocabulary of financial statements and accounting reports in order to to communicate with internal and external interlocutors. Topics include: basics in financial accounting; cash flow management; financial statements analysis; cost accounting; time value of money; interest rates; risks and rates of return; cost of capital; basics of capital budgeting; cash flow estimation and risk analysis; working capital management; financial planning and forecasting.

This course discusses the fundamentals of Place Branding, its challenges, and its main foci of action with Barcelona as the primary case study. It also explores the role and contribution of the different stakeholders in building contemporary city brands.

This course offers a study of the strategic role of branding. It examines the key principles of building enduring brands in competitive markets and creating market value. This course discusses the latest research in brand management and reviews case studies of brand successes and missteps.

This course analyzes concepts and tools of intercultural communication and cross-cultural management in an increasingly globalized world. Topics include: culture and ethnocentrism in business; models of theory-- Hofstede, Trompenars, Lewis; models of theory-- models for assessments; cultural intelligence; cross-cultural management and human resources; cross-cultural management and marketing; cross-cultural management and sales and negotiation; organizational culture; the global manager.

This course offers a study of human resources management which examines empirical evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of common HR practices. It begins with an overview of the foundational concepts of the field before examining the entirety of the cycle of personnel management, from hiring to separation. Course topics include: recruitment and selection, motivation and compensation, managing and evaluating performance, and employee separation.