Business Administration

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.

The course covers the basics of corporate finance from a big picture and value enhancing perspective. The course has three main objectives: (1) Develop an understanding of the tools that are used to value investment projects and companies (valuation); (2) Understand the basic issues involved in how firms should raise funds for their investments (financing); (3) Evaluate how investment and financing decisions are related. Emphasis is placed on applying the theoretical framework of corporate finance to real world problems. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic economic and statistical concepts, familiarity with time value of money, financial statements analysis, discounted cash flow analysis, risk-return trade-off, and diversification.