Business Administration

Industry and Community Projects (ICPUs) provide the opportunity to work on authentic problems and issues set out by industry, community and government organizations. In collaboration with a major industry partner and an academic lead, students work in a group with other students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. Together you research, analyze and present solutions to real world problems set by the external partner organization. You will then have the opportunity to engage with and learn from industry experts and present your recommendations and ideas to the industry partner.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course focuses on trading mechanisms in financial markets: the main challenges, the economic principles, and the statistical models for analyzing the data they generate. The course explores in detail the modeling of high frequency financial data. Special attention is placed on the structure of modern financial markets, the conceptual basics of trading, and the use of economic and econometric models in the high frequency domain.

This course starts with basic concepts in investments including time value of money, bonds, duration, and equities. Then we study the risks and the returns that are applied to Markowitz’ modern portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model. The derivative securities such as forwards and options are introduced. Topics include Bond Price and Yields, Yield to Maturity, Duration, Equity Valuation, Markowitz’ Portfolio Theory, and Forwards and Options.

This course examines issues surrounding the design, application and effective use of information systems in organizations. It covers the role of information systems in organizations, the technical foundations of information systems, communication networks that interconnect information systems components, and basic IT design, management and strategic issues for business.

This course examines historical evolution in terms of human and organizational actors responding to opportunities in their environment in ways that pioneered entirely new industries and forms of business. This course studies a path-breaking historical development in one or more leading industrial capitalist nations during the second industrial revolution. The course zooms in on business activities and their outcomes, and zooms out to the historical and national context in which these events have taken place. Looking back at history can be concretely informative since much what exists now has its roots in the past. But studying history is also a way of developing creative notions about how humans interact with their business environment in a situation of pervasive uncertainty. This can broaden our mental scope in dealing with our own uncertain world. 

This course introduces students to the key concepts of managing people involving and examination of organizational, management, and human resource management theory and practice. This is achieved through relating relevant theory to practical people and organizational management issues.