Business Administration

This course examines the nature of the operating environment for international business today.  Students review the scale, scope, and trends in international business activity and evaluate the various methods that firms can use to assess, enter, and develop non-domestic markets. Students consider the relevance of factors such as culture, psychic distance, host and home country perspectives, and "green" issues on the organization and management of international business. Emphasis is placed on the business environment in key regions of the world, notably the European Union, North America, East and SE Asia and the transition economies of East and Central Europe. Finally, students examine the impact of the evolving world economy, regional integration and globalization on today's international firm.

This course offers a study of the foundations and applications of the interdisciplinary field of consumer behavior. It explores the internal, cognitive, and emotional motivations that drive individual consumers. It also discusses how external and exogenous influences affect buyers, taking into consideration socioeconomic, generational, gender, and cultural idiosyncrasies.

This course discusses insights into sustainable corporate communication in the digital age, and stakeholder relations from a sustainability perspective. The course analyzes and evaluates how business environment and sustainability issues affect corporate communication, how companies engage in the best practice of sustainability and corporate communication, and how companies foster stakeholder trust and relationships. Knowledge from this course may be applied to case studies to understand sustainability and corporate communication in the real life. This course equips students who are interested in ESG with skills on sustainability and corporate communication to help them become future leaders of sustainable sectors, industries or companies. 

This course equips students with bookkeeping skills corresponding to the third grade Official Business Skill Test in Bookkeeping and aims to expose students not only to accounting knowledge but also perspectives of global mindset and social responsibility. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This course studies the economics of competition and antitrust, with a special focus on financial and banking markets. The course covers how to define the relevant markets, how to measure the market power of agents, and the degree of market concentration. The course then introduces major antitrust violations and the typical measures taken to stop competition-harming behavior (from price fixing to abuse of dominance). The course considers antitrust implications of network interconnectedness in different segments of financial markets (included payment systems). The economic analysis of merger regulation is also examined. At the end of the course, the student knows how to apply the most important economic models to antitrust cases, and knows how to use rigorous models in the analysis of competition policy issues. Topics covered in this course include: Introduction to competition policy: definition, history, and the law; Market power and Welfare; Market definition and the assessment of market power; Art 101 TFEU : Collusion and Horizontal Agreements; Horizontal mergers; Vertical mergers; and Predation, monopolization, and other abusive practices.

The course is to introduce students to project management – as a concept, a practice, a skill and a key management resource in achieving organizational strategy and implementing change in organizations. This course focuses on planning and implementing projects that impact organizations, their strategic goals and their operations through business technologies. It also equips students with core knowledge about business technologies, which feature in a majority of graduate roles, along with confidence and skills to learn about these when students encounter them.

This course provides the foundations to econometrics and the use of software tools to perform econometrics data analysis. The course covers an introduction to causal inference and associated analysis models with a primary emphasis on linear regression. Examples are drawn from various industry domains and applications. The course requires students to have completed prerequisites.

This course offers a practical introduction to critical skills for managers including critical thinking, negotiation, flexibility, people management, and more. It explores why these management capabilities are important to success in managerial roles. This course also delves into sustainable business management including global sustainable models, trade, industry, consumption, trends, strategies, key sectors, policy, and more.

This course introduces how to manage and interpret accounting processes, balance sheets, and understand accounting principles with a specific focus to European and international norms and principles. The course comprises two modules: financial accounting and management accounting. In financial accounting, this course focuses on accounting in action, the recording process, adjusting accounts, the accounting cycle, accounting for merchandising operations, and inventories. In management accounting, this course focuses on cost basics, costs behavior and cost-volume-profit relationship, absorption costing, short-term decision making, pricing, budgeting, and variance analysis. 

This course dives into the complexity of globalization. It explores in-depth fundamental concepts such as multiculturalism, diversity, inter-culturalism, and superdiversity, highlighting their dynamic evolution and their profound impact on the business fabric. It offers a comprehensive analysis of disparities between countries, addressing crucial aspects such as political economy, country risks and diverse cultural and social heterogeneities. Class sessions introduce essential debates related to cultural construction, formal and informal institutions, economic development, and regional integrations.

This course is also referred to as International Dynamics and Cross-Cultural Negotiation: Global Environment.