Business Administration

This course explores the key individual and group behaviors that enhance organizational performance and wellbeing.  It analyzes organizations’ management models with a systemic shared-value perspective and teaches responsible management, considering national and international regulatory frameworks for trade, fiscal, labor law, and human rights. 

The class provides opportunities to design proposals that generate shared value by understanding the concerns and expectations of diverse interest groups protecting society from the risks produced by organizational actions.  Furthermore, the class teaches how to communicate a future vision of an organization that reflects its social responsibility and purpose while developing competitive advantages through utilizing financial information in decision making to enhance organizational profitability and financial structures.

This class provides the opportunity to work with a mentor; promote a new token-economy product (business model and service); create its prototype, and conduct a final presentation with peers. In preparation, the class comprises of lectures on blockchains, Web3, DeFi (Decentralised Finance), DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and X to Eaern as well as instructions on how to use Figma and NetLogo.  

This intermediate-level marketing course aims to equip students with the skills to design internal marketing strategies that generate value for the consumer by aligning human capital and leveraging the company's technological capabilities. It requires prior knowledge of basic concepts related to organizational culture, structure, and climate that foster a customer-centric philosophy. As a learning outcome, the class will develop internal marketing strategy plans.

This course aims to fill gaps in management education with respect to business and the natural environment by introducing pressing environmental issues confronting business today and providing effective tools for understanding and addressing these challenges. 

This course provides a solid foundation in essential mathematical concepts for students in economics and management. It ensures a consistent level of mathematical proficiency to prepare for further study of advanced quantitative techniques. The course covers linear functions, absolute values, square roots and inverses, second-degree polynomials, and derivatives.

This course introduces the concepts and methods of decision making and analysis, which involves the application of mathematical modeling and analysis to business problems. Models are simplified representations of real situations and can be invaluable tools in decision making. Students learn the basic elements of modeling-how to formulate a model and how to use and interpret the information a model produces. The emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, operations, and marketing. Applications include production planning, revenue management, sales force planning, risk management, portfolio optimization, among others. Spreadsheets and other tools are used to implement, solve, and analyze the models  developed.

This course introduces the fundamental accounting principles and processes involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It focuses on how financial information is used to evaluate potential acquisition targets and the subsequent accounting required after a merger. The course emphasizes practical applications of accounting data, helping students understand its role in strategic decision-making within the M&A context. Key topics include financial statement analysis, basic valuation methods, and an overview of the due diligence process. The course also touches on the legal aspects that influence accounting practices in M&A transactions.

This course covers the key elements of private credit within the alternative asset class. Private credit has become a significant component of alternative investments and an important source of financing for companies that may not have access to public capital markets or large institutional loans. The course emphasizes the importance of aligning financing solutions with the specific needs and risk profiles of middle-market companies as well as the investment options of investors in this alternative asset class. Prerequisites FINA1310: Corporate Finance

This pioneering course combines academic instruction with industry collaboration, featuring training delivered by a professional Alibaba Cloud instructor and preparation for an industry-recognized cloud computing certification. The course introduces the use of information technology with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, covering fundamental cloud computing concepts and their application in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial contexts. Topics include key business processes, challenges, risks, and rewards, with a focus on developing digital business projects grounded in real-world technology industry examples and suitable for presentation to stakeholders, including potential investors.

This course introduces students in the various topics that are related to business administration so that students have basic knowledge for the more specialized courses in marketing, organization, finance, strategy, supply chain management, and accounting. The course is centered around a real-life management simulation: Market Place live.