Business Administration

This course provides a study of the strategic behavior of firms, particularly the concentration indices and monopolistic behavior found in both single and multi-product firms, and examines how price discrimination facilitates an increase in profits. It explores the strategic interaction between firms in oligopolistic markets, models that include time horizon, capacity restrictions, and product differentiation, and the strategic effect of capacity change on firm entry decision or the effect of location decision on firm market power. Students are expected to have completed coursework in microeconomics and game theory

This course covers the basic principles of corporate finance and accounting. The course covers the study of key financial concepts, like the time value of money and arbitrage, the valuation of major securities like bonds and stocks, the financial risk and portfolio theory and the CAPM, as well as the accounting principles and reporting and the financial statements, their nature, content, use, and analysis. The nature of the course is technical and quantitative and employs tutorials and the use of exercises and applications to practice the introduced topics. To make the course more hands-on, we stress the importance of using Excel in solving financial problems, which reflects its wide use in business life. Assumed previous knowledge: for students without an economics background this is an intensive and challenging course. To the extent students lack knowledge of Mathematics and Excel, students are expected to compensate for this on their own.

The course provides students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the relationship between business and society through the umbrella concept of corporate social responsibility. It focuses on three main aspects: understanding corporate social responsibility, applying corporate social responsibility, and managing corporate social responsibility. The course analyzes different perspectives to understand corporate social responsibility. It explores the relationship of the corporation and a variety of stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, investors, and the environment. 

The course enables students to develop knowledge in the management of people, processes, and product design in a global context through collaboration with Chung-Hwa Telecomm International (CHTI).

This course enables students to understand CHTI from the following perspectives:
People – Enhancing and developing competencies to manage people across national and cultural boundaries.
Processes – Integrating knowledge development, product procurement, manufacturing, and distribution for a global supply chain.
Product design – Managing internal and external environments such as globally-dispersed stakeholders, corporate vision, and cross-border regulations in targeted international market.