Business Administration

This course covers issues related to important concepts, practices, and leaders in the world of modern management. 

The world of management is fiercely competitive; managers and their employers must deliver results. In this course, essential performance dimensions: cost, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability are emphasized. A key focus is on the modern management function, including issues of 1) delivering strategic value (for planning), 2) building a dynamic organization (for organizing), 3) mobilizing people (for leading), and 4) learning and changing (for controlling) in turbulent and competitive markets. 

The course considers the following primary questions: (1) what skills will help you to be an effective manager, and (2) how can you apply the material in this course to daily life?  

Ultimately, this course provides core foundational knowledge and principles integral to organizational management careers. 

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the key analytical methods and leading applications in the field of game theory. At the end of the course, students should be able to identify and formalize problems that involve strategic interaction between different economic agents, and to analyze them with game-theoretical thinking.

This course is systematically organized around the creation of new value, processes of innovation management, and operation of new and emerging ventures in global environments. It covers major aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship strategy in countries such as U.S., Europe, Australia, China, and other emerging countries. 

This course analyzes the economics of different types of tourism companies. It focuses on ownership and management functions including strategic, tactical, and operative decisions of tourism companies. This course also discusses the main socio-cultural impacts of tourism.

This course provides students with the fundamental tools to understand financial decision-making in the modern corporation. Topics include: capital budgeting/corporate investment, capital structure, corporate sources of funding, dividend policy, corporate contingent claims for financial risk management. The course frames these topics within the standard theories of risk and return, valuation of assets, and market structure.

The course focuses on the following topics:

• Financial Planning and Analyzing financial performance
• Capital budgeting (NPV, IRR and payback period)
• Capital budgeting and risk (asset beta and equity beta)
• Financing decisions and the firm cost of capital
• Capital issuing (seasoned equity offers, IPOs and venture capital)
• Corporate risk management

This course examines developments in finance. Possible topics include security trading and market making, venture analysis, financial contracting, investment strategies for local markets and other current issues in finance. 

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the entire integrated marketing communication process, covering a variety of elements in integrated marketing communication and other marketing components.  The course instructs on how advertising relates to marketing and the specifics of research, setting objectives, strategy, positioning, creative, media, promotions, public relations, and campaigns.  Upon completion of the course, one will have a better general understanding of the development of the advertising industry; how it works today, and debate about its roles in society.

This course explores the principles of civil, commercial, and labor law pertaining to economics. It discusses legal entities, the framework of the entrepreneur (including labor-management relations), free competition, copyright/intellectual property and patent/industrial rights, and consumer protection law or company insolvency.

Why is diversity good for businesses? What can leaders do to make their organizations more inclusive? This course explores these and other questions by introducing students to a range of theories and practical issues relevant to managing diversity in contemporary organizations. Students learn why inclusion matters, how diversity relates to business and organizational success, and explore case studies related to different dimensions of diversity like gender, age, race and so on. The course discusses various theories that help us understand why diversity and inclusion issues continue to persist in organizations and the labor market. For instance, why are some professions continue to be male- or female dominated? Where does gender pay gap comes from? Can recruitment be unbiased? The course then explores how to apply theory to practice and explore how to design and deliver effective diversity initiatives in organizations and consider the role of managers and leaders in fostering organizational inclusion. 

Transnational corporations and local businesses face significant challenges arising from geopolitical tensions. This course introduces the intricate relationship between geopolitics and business operations at both the international and local levels.