Business Administration

This course reviews organizations and workplaces with a focus on how to enhance relationships with the organizations. Organization Theory is a branch of social sciences that is particularly interested in the why, how, and when multiple individuals join efforts to reach a common goal. It is a multidisciplinary subject drawing from disciplines such as arts and humanities, educational sciences, psychology, evolutionary biology, economics, and politics. These multiple lenses through which we view organizations make Organization Theory a fascinating and relevant topic to explore and examine at any stage of your study program. The main topics covered in this course are organization-environment relations, organizational design types and culture, leadership development, HRM and well-being, and managing diversity and inclusion at work.

This course reviews issues associated with the strategic sourcing of information systems. The main focus is to understand and evaluate different sourcing strategies for information systems. The course describes various sourcing solutions for development and maintenance as well as the management of information systems. The aim is to equip students with the necessary knowledge in order to be able to assess and evaluate different sourcing strategies for information systems. Some of the issues discussed are: What solutions are there for a company that wishes to implement information systems? What advantages and disadvantages do the different solutions involve? What makes one solution fit better than the other?

This course integrates the theoretical and managerial issues concerning the operation of the marketing discipline. More specifically the class introduces the basic marketing concepts of product, price, distribution and promotion; analyzes marketing problems and appropriate marketing strategies for implementation, including brand storytelling with the production of a branded film; applies the three core values of YSB’s mission—creativity, integrity and global; and encourages a proactive learning approach via the use of a more problem-solving-based and interaction-based classroom.

This course offers a study of the main decision-making processes and evaluation techniques in corporate finance. Topics include: analysis and evaluation of investment projects; business valuation; processes of buying and selling companies.

Strategic management studies why some firms are more successful than others.  As such, this course integrates knowledge and skills gained from prior studies on marketing, management, finance, and accounting. This course focuses on the key theoretical ideas and concepts of strategic management and how to apply them in practice and on business-level, corporate-level, and global-level strategy by analyzing strategic options available to multi-divisional, multi-national firms. In drawing on these tools, students adopt a general management point of view by analyzing strategies in light of the total enterprise.  Moreover, because of the limitations of applying static analysis in the real world, the course underlines the dynamic nature of effective strategy formulation and implementation. This shifts the emphasis from generic strategies of cost leadership and differentiation based on industry analysis (i.e., Porterian approaches) to strategies that managers should develop for resource and knowledge building, entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation, and learning. A key focus in the course is on firm-specific unique resources and competencies and their deployment for improving company performance. The purpose is not to inflict new theories but to enable students to apply their accumulated knowledge to address real-world business problems. This discussion-based course draws heavily on case analyses, simulation, and experiential exercises to develop a deeper understanding of strategic management.

This course examines international business theories underlying the existence and development of international firms.

This course examines the competences and skills that are key to making strategic decisions in an internationally competitive company. Topics include: the globalization of markets and the internationalization process; the international business environment; international business strategies; the organizational structure for the internationalization of a company. Prior coursework in marketing, marketing research, and strategic management is expected. NOTE: This course is the same as BUS A 160 but taught in English