Business Administration

This course examines corporate finance, providing a holistic view of the principles of financial valuation and financial decision making in action. The course aims to broaden and deepen theoretical knowledge and practical experience in valuing complex debt and equity assets; to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between financial risk and return and how this relationship in turn affects the cost of capital, capital structure, and asset values; and extend practical knowledge and skills in valuing cash flows and managing working capital.

This course offers a study of the foundations and applications of the interdisciplinary field of consumer behavior. It explores the internal, cognitive, and emotional motivations that drive individual consumers. It also discusses how external and exogenous influences affect buyers, taking into consideration socioeconomic, generational, gender, and cultural idiosyncrasies.

Digital innovations transform the ways in which companies and individuals create and share information, offer innovative value creation propositions, define new economics patterns, and make possible unique business models. The course provides unique resources to understand how digital innovations change the economic dynamics of the contemporary economy and e-business practices.

This course applies the theories, processes, and strategies of negotiation to a variety of settings and the broad spectrum of negotiation problems faced by both the manager in the workplace and the common citizen in the real world. It examines basic negotiation concepts and their use in the negotiation process, how to develop confidence in negotiating, and the behavior and motives of individuals and groups in negotiations. 

The International Management workshop is intended to be a challenging advanced management course for highly motivated undergraduate students. Students will gain a general overview of the process and effect of internationalization in contemporary business, along with an introduction to theories; concepts, and skills relevant to managing effectively in today’s global environment, with a special focus on Japanese firms. Students will be challenged to integrate knowledge they have gained from this workshop and from other courses and apply their accumulated knowledge to business case studies and a group research project. Students will engage in analytical problem-solving related to managing in the international environment and will frequently be called upon to brief their findings to the class. In addition, students will conduct a research project in small groups to resolve ongoing global issues. The topics of these team-based projects will be confirmed before the fifth workshop session.

The course provides a study of banking and bank management. The course is divided into three parts. The first part of the course introduces the history and current state of the banking industry (structural characteristics). The second part of the course includes banking performance evaluation and analysis, focusing on banking financial statements and value analysis. The third part of the course covers banking business and risk management. Topics include asset-liability management and interest rate risk management, liquidity risk and reserve management, debt management, investment management, capital management, commercial bank credit management, innovative business and off-balance sheet business management, etc. Experts from the banking industry are invited to provide guest lectures.

This course focuses on the Google search engine and its online advertising platform Google Ads. It offers a study of how search engines work-- page indexing and ordering of results-- and the composition of search engine results pages.