Business Administration

This course provides an international comparative perspective on the analysis of contemporary labor markets. It focuses on applying labor economics to important policy issues in the areas of labor supply and demand, wages, migration, multinational firms, international trade, and automation. The course provides a review of how economists address most recent trends in international labor markets.

This course covers the fundamental vocabulary and syntax of economic and commercial French and develops cultural skills specific to the business world. It analyzes and produces simple and complex professional documents dealing with economics. The first part of the course covers the Economic World and discusses economics, economic agents, needs, competition, the market, and price setting. The second part of the course discusses the Business world, including the company, classification, goods and services, economic sectors, the shift toward a service-based economy, and the chocolate market. Finally, the last part of the course covers Company Personnel: company structure, types of organizational charts, the different departments within a company, and hierarchy.

This course provides an understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation in a variety of settings. This course develops negotiation skills by addressing a variety of negotiation topics experientially by 1) preparing for and simulating a range of negotiation situations and 2) analyzing students’ negotiation outcomes and strategies. The course integrates students’ experiences with negotiation theory in a weekly debrief. Readings complement the classroom experience and reinforce key messages from the experiences.

This course cultivates the ability to automate, enhance, and put into practice the startup process using generative AI and Agentic AI.  Even for students who have not decided on entrepreneurship as their career path, this course allows students to explore entrepreneurship as a career option through theory and case studies.  

As a startup accelerator, the course shares know-how and various techniques on how to nurture and invest in startups in actual practice, and provides practical solutions on how to reduce risks at all stages of entrepreneurship and execute more easily and quickly using more than 10 specialized AI solutions to overcome the vagueness and constraints of entrepreneurship itself. This course is designed for students who want to explore careers in the startup ecosystem, such as direct entrepreneurship, startup incubation, or venture capital, or who want to learn how small companies are created, survive, and grow, regardless of their future career path, and apply this knowledge to various fields.