Business Administration

The course broadens, and selectively deepens, students' understanding of finance, building on their existing knowledge of financial economics. The course covers a broad range of topics, with both a theoretical and an empirical emphasis. These include topics in corporate finance, investments and performance evaluation, and international finance. The course consists of two interchangeable ten-week components, one on investments and international finance, and the other on corporate finance.

This course provides an introduction to valuation. It introduces the concepts and tools required to price assets, value projects and firms, and make capital budgeting decisions under uncertainty. It discusses how risk analysis and simulation models can help with investment decisions, and introduces the concept of real option valuation.

The course contains the learning materials, practices and case studies to develop the knowledge and skills of the students in the field of data science and its application in the real business/work world. The students learn how to apply analytical techniques and scientific principles to extract valuable information from business data for decision-making, strategic planning. This course covers practical contents of statistics, machine learning, information visualization, and data analysis techniques through python programming language and other tools.

This course examines the central role that marketing plays in modern business and society. It studies the major phenomena underlying marketing strategy formation and component decisions of pricing, product planning, advertising, promotion, distribution, and personal selling. 

This course demonstrates the ways in which contemporary organizations navigate an increasingly turbulent environment. To achieve this, it combines necessary theoretical material with contemporary examples to convey the importance of, and different perspectives on, organizational change. The course covers topics including the nature and context of change, how individuals perceive and deal with change in a changing world, new ways of working, disruptive organizations and the gig economy, and the pivotal role of leaders in the organizational change process. 

This course is designed to assist students who seek to bring cross-cultural theory and research into their business practices in order to develop the intercultural competence necessary to interact confidently and successfully with Japanese businesspeople. Theoretical discussions and intercultural sensitivity workshops are included in this course to achieve these goals. The comparative approach allows for examining how people practice business differently, depending on explicit and implicit sets of general cultural assumptions, rules, norms, and values. The course aims to understand cultural differences in businesspeople’ s attitudes towards work, companies, and the relationship between individuals (colleagues or co-workers and clients/customers) and organizations (counterparts or partners). The course also seeks to understand possible cultural roots of Japanese business practices and behavior, highlighting phenomena that are only indirectly observable, such as harmony, loyalty, discipline, patience, respect for senior staff, and the importance of moderation.

A good mixture of lectures, class discussions, and workshops comprise the activities of this course.

This course explores the psychology behind entrepreneurship and innovation. The topics include the personality of entrepreneurs and exploring whether entrepreneurs are born or made; how entrepreneurs make decisions about risk and manage uncertainty; what drives entrepreneurs and what "returns" they can expect (in terms of income and well-being); what success means to entrepreneurs and what the ingredients are of an ‘entrepreneurial culture’. The course also reflects on how each one of us can act in an entrepreneurial manner and adopt an entrepreneurial leadership style. The course examines the psychological underpinnings of the entrepreneurial process and innovative behaviors within established business. 

This course deals with the basics of mathematical finance. The goals are to understand Option Trading and Portfolio Theory.

Prerequisite: Calculus I, II, Linear Algebra I, II, Sets and Topology I, and Probability Theory.

The course sits at the interface between bioscience and business, covering the elements of management science that are most relevant to bioscience. Bioscience often has a long, complex route from innovation to implementation. Hence the content includes integration with practice, bioscience firms, medical behaviors, as well as the pillars of intellectual property, regulation and investment choices. How to gain stakeholder support is also included.

Through the teaching of this course, students master the basic knowledge, basic theory and basic skills of enterprise marketing; recognize the importance of strengthening the management of enterprise marketing in the process of developing socialist market economy; familiarize and master the basic procedures, methods and strategies of analyzing the marketing environment, studying the buying behavior of the market, making marketing mix decisions, organizing and controlling marketing activities; train and The course will also provide students with the ability to analyze and solve marketing management problems correctly and to have better practical application skills so that they can better adapt to the needs of marketing management in the future.

1、The course will introduce a mixed teaching method, combining face-to-face and video teaching

2. The course is oriented to innovative results, and students are guided to make practical attempts to complete a new product marketing plan.

3、The course focuses on developing students' teamwork and communication and expression skills.