Business Administration

This course examines the philosophy and basic concepts of operations management. The course defines the major activities associated with defining, organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling projects; discusses the four major process decisions; presents systematic ways to analyze processes; explains and constructs control charts; identifies systematic approaches to capacity planning; presents the theory of constraints; presents key factors that determine the appropriate choice of an inventory system; and explores how to design an effective supply chain, and how to measure its performance.

This course explores leadership techniques. Topics include: conscious leadership; difference between leadership and management; relationship between conscious leadership and decision-making; emotional intelligence and its relationship to leadership; types of motivation-- intrinsic and extrinsic; working on effectiveness in relationships with others; acting as a leader and a team member; conflict management, decision-making, commitment, and motivation within a team; leading in an organization; relationship between organization and team performance. 

This course is designed for students wishing to clarify and advance their career goals through an 8-week internship in Thailand. It provides a structured learning environment to help students make the most of their internship experience. While there are no regularly scheduled class meetings, internships are conducted under the close academic supervision of the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University. An assigned internship coordinator provides oversight and guidance for the duration of the internship. The course requires a minimum of 288 total work hours. 

This course is an integrated experiment to design and create a course to apply macro-meso-micro perspective for IB major students. International Competitiveness and Taiwanese Enterprises (ICTE) is born with the original challenge to bridge international /global survey of nation’s competitiveness and the corporate behavior, or to connect micro-issues at the firm level and the macro-international issues at the national level. 

Thic course examines marketing theory and method. It focuses on the principle and methods of how the positive side of the exchange of the two sides facilitate the exchange, especially the principle and method of how to sell products to customers as a seller of the enterprise. Topics include enterprise market environment analysis, demand management, the enterprise mission, market segmentation and market targeting, planning marketing strategies, including product, price, channel and promotion strategy, and so on. The course uses case studies and projects to examine current market strategies.

The course provides a deepened overview of macroeconomic theory. The content of the course mainly focuses on business cycle fluctuations, unemployment, inflation, the current account, and fiscal and monetary policy. The analysis is extended to include the fact that economic agents are forward-looking, which considerably deepens the insights into the determination and development of a country’s consumption, investment, current account, and economic policy. In addition, the course contains the IS–LM model that is important for analysis of economic policy.

This course provides students with a general understanding of the different functions performed by financial markets and institutions and their role in the economic system. The course begins with a brief overview of the functions of the financial system and its connections to the real economy. The course then studies the functioning of financial markets and the main financial instruments. Finally, the course studies the economics of different types of financial institutions. The first part of the course analyzes in detail the characteristics of the major financial assets, and describes the institutional characteristics of the markets in which these assets are traded. The second part of the course studies in detail the objectives as well as the organization of the major financial intermediaries (commercial banks, investment banks, mutual funds) that allow to match demand and supply of funds when securities markets do not function perfectly. The course recommends students have background knowledge in Mathematics (applied), Management, Accounting, and Financial Statement Analysis as a prerequisite.

This course covers the main theoretical and empirical developments in strategic management. It examines competitive strategies, corporate strategies, international strategies, and strategic alliances, among others.