Business Administration

The course focuses on the structure and dynamics of a variety of networks (e.g., the World Wide Web, online social networks, collaboration networks). It uncovers the network foundations of innovation, information diffusion, cultural fads, financial crises, and viral marketing. Special emphasis is placed on the hub-dominated "scale-free"" networks and the "small-world" networks showing the "six degree of separation" phenomenon. The course combines current research on social networks with contributions from relevant organizational and sociological literature.

This course guides students through the “exciting nightmare” of taking an idea or a technology to market, growing the venture, and securing a successful exit. Although grounded in rigorous theory, the focus of the course is highly practical and class participation is actively encouraged. No prior knowledge of the subject is required but students should be interested in the creation of wealth and the commercialization of technology. 

This course is mainly based on the organizational behavior perspective in a global context. It focuses helping one build their own global mindset; enhance their understanding of issues in global management, and develop their own global skills. Topics to be covered in the course include individual-level inputs, outputs and processes (IOPs) such as demographic diversity, personality and values, attitudes and behaviors, emotions and moods, perception and Individual decision making, and motivations, as well as group-level and organizational level IOPs in the global context. The focus will be on leading and managing people in a global setting, and issues such as strategy, trade, finance, etc. will not be covered. 
 

Using a practical approach, this course explores the historical trajectory of business in Europe, highlighting the advantages derived from regional integration for sustainable entrepreneurship, while simultaneously addressing the current challenges facing entrepreneurial culture in Europe, accentuated by significant events such as Brexit and the future enlargements of the EU.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Corporate Finance is an advanced course with a focus on valuation, covering the theoretical framework of corporate valuation issues and the tools to apply valuation models in practical situations. Topics covered include estimating cash flows, the firm’s opportunity cost of capital, the role of capital structure, and relative valuation. At the end of the course, students are expected to know and understand, to a greater extent, national and international socio-economic processes and be able to independently draw conclusions based on the collected data; know in-depth mathematical, statistical and qualitative research methods used in research in economic sciences and management sciences; and have in-depth knowledge of their use in the processes of analysis and inference in the field of international business.

This course introduces the theoretical concepts in corporate finance and their practical applications. Topics covered include capital structure, payout policy, corporate governance, corporate bonds, financial derivatives, and leasing.

The course introduces students to the key processes concerned with the management of people within organizations. It is pitched at non-specialist level, so it explores concepts, procedures, and regulations that any manager with direct reports is likely to need to know in order to effectively handle their staff.

This course develops an understanding of the fundamentals of consumer behavior and the ways in which consumer behavior can be influenced. It introduces concepts and theories to provide insight into the drivers of consumer behavior, including the analysis of how consumers make decisions. Several company examples are discussed that show how insights about consumer behavior are applied and implemented in business contexts. Topics include consumer segmentation, tools to conduct consumer research, consumer decision making process (problem recognition, information search), internal influences on consumer behavior (exposure, attention, motivation, attitudes, memory, knowledge, learning), external influences on consumer behavior (social influence, reference groups, cultural influences), consumer biases and heuristics, and consumer behavior in the age of artificial intelligence.

This course examines how innovation and entrepreneurship can be applied in practice to help the health, wealth and well-being of social and environmental organizations and communities.

This global business course focuses on the organizational behavior perspective in a global context. The course covers individual-level inputs, outputs and processes (IOPs) such as demographic diversity; personality and values; attitudes and behaviors; emotions and moods; perception and individual decision making; motivations, as well as group-level and organizational level IOPs in the global context.