Business Administration

This course provides an international comparative perspective on the analysis of contemporary labor markets. It focuses on applying labor economics to important policy issues in the areas of labor supply and demand, wages, migration, multinational firms, international trade, and automation. The course provides a review of how economists address most recent trends in international labor markets.

This course covers the fundamental vocabulary and syntax of economic and commercial French and develops cultural skills specific to the business world. It analyzes and produces simple and complex professional documents dealing with economics. The first part of the course covers the Economic World and discusses economics, economic agents, needs, competition, the market, and price setting. The second part of the course discusses the Business world, including the company, classification, goods and services, economic sectors, the shift toward a service-based economy, and the chocolate market. Finally, the last part of the course covers Company Personnel: company structure, types of organizational charts, the different departments within a company, and hierarchy.

This course provides an understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation in a variety of settings. This course develops negotiation skills by addressing a variety of negotiation topics experientially by 1) preparing for and simulating a range of negotiation situations and 2) analyzing students’ negotiation outcomes and strategies. The course integrates students’ experiences with negotiation theory in a weekly debrief. Readings complement the classroom experience and reinforce key messages from the experiences.

This course cultivates the ability to automate, enhance, and put into practice the startup process using generative AI and Agentic AI.  Even for students who have not decided on entrepreneurship as their career path, this course allows students to explore entrepreneurship as a career option through theory and case studies.  

As a startup accelerator, the course shares know-how and various techniques on how to nurture and invest in startups in actual practice, and provides practical solutions on how to reduce risks at all stages of entrepreneurship and execute more easily and quickly using more than 10 specialized AI solutions to overcome the vagueness and constraints of entrepreneurship itself. This course is designed for students who want to explore careers in the startup ecosystem, such as direct entrepreneurship, startup incubation, or venture capital, or who want to learn how small companies are created, survive, and grow, regardless of their future career path, and apply this knowledge to various fields. 

The Internet is having a profound effect on the conduct of marketing as we move towards the new millennium. The Internet presents a fundamentally different environment for marketing, and new paradigms have to be developed to take account for marketing activities in the electronic age. This course focuses primarily on the impact of the Internet on marketing, marketing research with Internet, consumer behavior on the Internet, and marketing strategies in the Internet age.

In this course, students approach consumer psychology and behavior from a neuroscientific perspective. Students learn the fundamentals of brain anatomy and their functions in the context of marketing and management. This course also covers cutting-edge marketing research that uses biometric techniques such as eye tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), and students gain hands-on experience with some of these techniques and analysis of biometric data. Students learn how to apply insights from neuroscience not only in marketing and management, but also in their everyday life. 

Drawing on behavioral science concepts and theories, this course examines topics including job analysis, manpower planning, recruitment, training and development, performance management, compensation and motivation, benefit, employee relations, and employee security and safety. It explores how human capital is an essential resource in organizations and how identifying, attracting, recruiting, retaining, and motivating human capital is critical for organizational success. 

This course examines the main business areas of a modern full-service bank, including how banks generate profit across different activities, the principal risks they face, the methods used to manage those risks, and the ways in which the public can assess bank risk, evaluate performance, and understand the regulatory framework governing banking operations. The course focuses on (1) the financial statement analysis of banks and bank-like financial institutions, and (2) the accounting and disclosure rules for the financial instruments they hold, including interest rate risk disclosures, loan loss disclosures, fair value accounting for financial instruments, securitization accounting, derivatives and hedge accounting, and market risk disclosures. Analyzing these two aspects of a modern bank reveals much about the strategies followed by the bank given the various regulations under which it operates. The financial statements of financial institutions are increasingly based on fair value accounting and their financial reports include increasingly extensive risk and estimation sensitivity disclosures. Both fair value accounting and risk and estimation sensitivity disclosures are necessary ingredients for financial reports to convey financial institutions’ risk and performance in today’s world of complex, structured, value and risk-partitioning financial instruments and transactions. While financial institutions often report imperfect (or worse) fair value measurements and risk and estimation sensitivity disclosures, careful joint analysis of the information they do provide invariably yields important clues about their risks and performance.

This course is an introduction to the study of leadership with a focus on research in the international literature. Emphasis is placed on advancing the understanding of leadership through a focus on the rich complexities of human behavior and social interactions. The focus is on leadership theory and research within and across formal organizational settings and societal contexts, leadership, effectiveness, and ethics.

This course develops a familiarity with, and the ability to use the tools and concepts of corporate finance. This is accomplished via a combination of lecture, problem sets, and case discussion. The lectures provide a conceptual background for the subsequent analysis of an actual financial decision.  

Topics include Cost of capital and capital budgeting; Capital structure with payout policy; IPO's and LBO's; M&A and corporate control; Option application in corporate finance; Risk management.  

Students should have a background in basic corporate finance concepts as well as an understanding of the conceptual framework for the capital market. Throughout this course, some analytic tools are used that may rely on students' mathematical understanding.