Business Administration

The course presents the integration of three different disciplines under an applied philosophical dimension needed to achieve the impossible. A vision needs leadership to develop the strategy, the roadmap through which management coordinates the execution of thoughts and acts. Strategic management without leadership is a well thought plan with the vision. The course presents the philosophy behind each discipline, their integration and their execution through various frameworks, methods and practices, but also metrics, case studies, and examples.

This course covers the main concepts of game theory and the tools that game theory provides to analyze economic situations in which there are strategic interactions among agents. It provides an introduction to the different types of games depending on the nature of interaction (static, dynamic or repeated) as well as on the type of information agents have (perfect or imperfect). The course also discusses main equilibrium concepts (Nash equilibrium, sub game perfect equilibrium and Bayesian equilibrium) and their economic applications: non competitive markets, political competition, bilateral bargaining, auctions, voting systems and the problem of cooperation in repeated games.

The course discusses leadership and professional responsibility to cultivate leadership skills and to improve their theoretical quality and practical skills. The course lays a solid theoretical and practical foundation for future employment and career development. Topics: the needs of the society and the future development of individuals; the theoretical foundation of the curriculum, including the basic theory of leadership and professional responsibility and the latest theoretical progress; a comprehensive model of leadership and professional responsibility, which achieves the full integration of the two; and how to effectively improve leadership and professional responsibility, how to carry out targeted training at all stages of the career life cycle and highlight the importance of “gratefulness” in leadership and professional responsibility cultivation.

This course engages with some of the key theories, approaches and findings that explore how language and social interaction underpin organizational life. The course draws on an interdisciplinary research field to interrogate the unique properties of "organizational discourse" and "institutional talk." It is structured around studies of organizational texts (e.g. recruitment brochures, mission statements, websites, and adverts), as well as studies of social interaction in organizational settings (e.g. business meetings, call centers, healthcare delivery, and sales encounters). 

This lecture offers a theoretical background to macroeconomic, psychological, and microeconomic aspects of entrepreneurship. Among macroeconomic aspects it presents the role of the entrepreneur in the national economy, economic growth, and the value of entrepreneurship. Psychological aspects include the personality of the entrepreneur and a typology of entrepreneurs. Microeconomic aspects treat problems at firm level such as incentives in entrepreneurial teams and financing problems. This course has two components, a lecture and exercise.