Business Administration

The course provides an overview of human resources and human resource management. Topics include development, organization, orientation, recruitment, performance management, training, salary management, communication, incentives, and conflicts.

The course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and students are permitted to take the course with instructor consent. Commerce and art collide in the film marketplace every day. Is there a line between business and art, content and promotion, the bottom line and award accolades? This course explores the reality behind big budget art. The course details the life of two fundamentally different products: the independent and studio film. From concept inception to final net revenue reality, the course investigates basic aspects of development, finance, production, marketing, and distribution by investigating two roles 1) indie producer and 2) studio executive. The course focuses on the history of the U.S. production distribution studio machine as the primary market maker that has recently shifted towards international distribution and streaming. It provides an overview of the history of film from a business perspective, outlines the basic terminology of filmmaking development, finance, and production, and outlines indie to studio structures. The course also focuses on the major tools of the marketing executive, their budget, partnership structures, and the essence of timing media for film campaigns.

This course is designed for students wishing to clarify and/or advance their career goals through a 6-week internship. It provides a structured and guided learning environment to help students make the most of their internship experience in Korea. Course components facilitate students' professional development, focusing on the transition from the role of a student to the role of a working professional. 

This course gives non-psychology students an understanding of the theories, research, and applications in current business psychology. Topics include an introduction to business psychology, research methods, selection methods, trait predictors of work output, biodata methods and their limitations, work attitudes and values, theories of work motivation, job satisfaction, stress at work, learning and training on the job, group dynamics, decision making, leaders and leadership, working abroad, and the future of work.

This course illustrates how Operations and Supply Chain Management can be managed to properly deal with health, social, and environmental issues and how to transform such a challenge into a source of competitive advantage. The course focuses on specific topics related to the Triple Bottom Line and to the Circular Economy paradigms, by linking sustainability concepts with the product life cycle, from its design, manufacturing, distribution, and possible end-of-life recovery options. The teaching style of this course is consistent with its learning goals and is based on case discussions, group work, real examples, and on the interactions with guest speakers from companies that are coping with these issues. During the course, topics are analyzed moving from real-life case-histories, so as to make the students aware not only of the technicalities related to sustainability in Operations and Supply Chain Management, but also of the most valuable experiences of companies and of industries that are leading the process toward a more sustainable operating system. Topics covered include: mega trends and competitiveness; synergies between profits and sustainable practices in Operations Management; design for environment; sustainability and vendor selection; sustainability and production; lean management and six-sigma; sustainable logistics, transportation, and packaging; reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains; sustainability and performance measurement.

The course presents the structure of European and US financial markets and discusses the rules and principles that govern trading and price formation in the most advanced electronic trading platforms and auction markets. The course discusses how to trade securities on electronic order book markets like the London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana, Nyse-Euronext, NASDAQ, NYSE, or alternative trading systems (lit and dark pools). During the course, students participate in a trading simulation game prepared to practice real-time trading in the market. The course covers: market microstructure and research objectives, trading process, continuous vs batch auction, orders and order properties, market participants and the role of market makers, market structure, trading sessions (call and continuous auction markets), execution systems (order-driven, quote-driven, and hybrid markets), trading rules for order driven markets, price formation, matching rules, guidelines for price monitoring, price discovery, circuit breakers and market crashes, pricing and trading fees (make-take vs symmetric pricing structure), algorithmic trading, and high frequency trading (HFT), regulatory debate (U.S. and Europe) on dark liquidity, tick size, trading fees, and closing auction volume.