Business Administration

The purpose of this course is to teach relevant domain knowledge of the acquisition of firms for pursuing synergistic or undervalued targets worldwide. Before or after mergers and acquisitions (M&A), asset restructuring can be a must to achieve strategic renewal and organizational reinvention for legitimacy and profitability. This course observes how acquisitions and restructuring have played out in the global business field and in Taiwan. 

This is an inter-disciplinary course that lays its groundwork on entry-level courses in management, finance, and organization. Thus, basic knowledge in these subjects (or equivalent), though not regarded as pre-requisites, contribute to effective learning.

This course examines the knowledge, skills, and experience in starting up an innovative business, in looking for critical funding and in structuring a deal to make a business viable. The course is geared towards students who want to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, want to undertake innovative business cases, or have a general interest in start-ups.

This provides students with an understanding of the nature and structure of the disclosures that an acquirer must make when proposing a merger with a target. Particular attention is paid to data that is useful for valuation purposes when trying to appraise a target with a view to developing a target identification methodology. Course topics include the anatomy of a typical merger – mini case study; overview of Mergers Analysis – methods to identify prospective targets using financial statements; brief outline of US and European financial reporting requirements; required filings to raising finance to publicly fund transactions; obtaining a purchase price and creating a Pro Forma Valuation; special topic on fair values, goodwill, and intangibles valuation; applied examples; constructing projections including accretion and dilution; and ex-post analysis of deals. Prerequisites for the course: introductory level accounting.

This course covers career-related issues through reading, reflection, group discussion, and in-class activities. It also explores and discuss the dynamics of career counseling via social justice perspective.

This course provides a study of family owned or controlled businesses, with special emphasis on the specific challenges they face. It takes into account the organization and management of human resources within a family business structure, as well as the competitive advantages and specific problems that can result.

This course gives students the opportunity to improve their ability to build and manage constructive relationships and to get to high value added results managing not only their own, but also other people's performance. The determinants of optimal performance, that is competence, motivation, and positive psychological states, are explored with the aim of both improving the ability to engage oneself and the people they are working with, and the effectiveness when managing problem/underperforming people. Leadership skills gives students the opportunity to reflect and act upon change: change is one of the relevant dimensions of leadership and becoming a leader requires students to go through a personal and professional transition. This course provides the resources needed to specifically manage the transition from Individual Contributor to Manager, encouraging a greater self-awareness and therefore increased effectiveness. This course covers the main theories of leadership: trait, situational approach, transactional, transformational and charismatic leadership; the dark side of leadership. It also covers leadership skills: influence, integration of differences, compelling communication, leading for excellent performance. Other topics covered include: designing and leading teams; minorities, women, and leadership; organizational culture and leadership in multicultural environments. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of organizational behavior.

The primary objective of the course is to learn how to define and develop a business opportunity for a venture a novel and innovative idea. Design discipline including human centered approach, design thinking methodology and lean startup theory and many case studies of the business model innovation will be introduced to support, to create and nurture each business idea. 

The word “design” has been a common keyword for many industries to identify and solve their problems. The positive side of this trend is that everyone becomes aware of the value of design. However, design eventually occupies a very limited area in startup culture, mainly for aesthetics, communication process, and user experience. While the startup eco system understands that “design” can be a big part of creating company’s value, yet, it is still hidden in the mysterious box which only design professionals can understand or access. Design Driven Innovation and Entrepreneurship (DDIE) is a course for non-design background students who are willing to integrate the knowledge between Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design. The course offers a mix of hands-on exercises in a collaborative setting, as well as dedication to a group project. Throughout the course, you will be coached about the set-up and execution of your group project. During the course students pay attention to the different parts and dimensions of a business: services, products, customer value, delivery processes, revenue models, and interfaces with customers, branding message, customer experiences and much more. This course will offer lectures and hands-on practices. 

·learn new approaches and methods for design thinking and business innovation

·apply these approaches your group in generating and developing innovative ideas

·develop an entrepreneurial business opportunity, design, prototype, test

·make MVP and business model system map 

The course familiarizes students with the basic principles of law, so that they can apply them to a wide range of commercial transactions, in the light of the policy objectives that legal regulation pursues, and with an understanding of the context of commercial transactions in which the law operates. 

This course examines the definition of national innovation systems and business ecosystems and the understanding on how to identify and build innovative business models. It discusses the phenomenon of innovation considering the relationships between firms, national innovation systems, and business ecosystems and presents the basic concepts related to the innovation process. 

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the student's research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.