Business Administration

In this interactive course, you engage with the strategic, psychological, and cultural aspects of negotiations. Using live negotiation simulations, ranging from two-party negotiations to multi-party multi-issue negotiations, you have an opportunity to put into practice effective negotiation strategies based on academic research. Through rigorous reflection and feedback from peers and faculty, you learn about your own personal negotiation strengths and weaknesses, and you develop a personal plan to become a better negotiator.

Accounting is the process of identifying, recording, and reporting economic activities and serves a vital role in our economy. It is a language that presents the financial condition of a business, non-business or other entity as well as how an entity performed financially in a given period. There are many people who rely on accounting information for their decision making, including investors, creditors, regulators as well as executives and managers who run businesses.  

This course presents a fundamental framework and concept for financial accounting, which is used by for-profit business enterprises mainly in their external reporting. In any business, financial accounting is imperative; it is simply impossible to understand a business without understanding accounting. The objectives of this course are to 1) Understand the basic concept of financial accounting; (2) How it is processed, and (3) How it is used.  

There are no prerequisites for this course. An accounting background or any specialized knowledge is not required.  

This course introduces the eco-system concept to examine ways that innovating firms interact with various actors to build and sustain viable global enterprises. Actors include: suppliers, competitors, investors, users/customers, governments and universities. 

This course offers a practical introduction to critical skills for managers including critical thinking, negotiation, flexibility, people management, and more. It explores why these management capabilities are important to success in managerial roles.

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.