This course introduces students to the international business environment domains. It covers multinational corporation strategic imperatives and organizational challenges. It also addresses the following questions: What differentiates a global industry from a domestic one? What are the sources of competitive advantage in a global context? What organizational structural alternatives are available to multinationals?
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | G-L21 |
Friday | 10:35 | 11:55 | G-L21 |
We will explore the evolution of the Sustainable Finance sector, and its roots in ethically responsible investing. Following an in-depth analysis of corporate ESG (Environmental,Social & Governance) ratings and impact measurement, students will create a Sustainable Investment Portfolio using data provided by an ESG ratings agency. Students will then analyze and critique other SF vehicles such as active ownership, micro-finance, impact investing, green bonds and carbon trading sectors. Lastly, student will draw linkages between the SF vehicles studies and their role in achieving social/environmental goals. Pre-requisite:
Junior Standing
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | 15:20 | 18:15 | G-102 |
This course is an introduction to applied computational methods for finance and the valuation of financial firms and elements of capital structure: equity, bonds, and options and additional methods for optimization of securities portfolios and hedging risk. We emphasize implementation and use selected models. Aimed at providing the necessary technical and analytical skills useful for graduate school work, working in financial firms or investment banks.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 09:00 | 10:20 | G-207 |
Thursday | 09:00 | 10:20 | G-207 |
Following an in-depth analysis of corporate ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) ratings and impact measurement, students will create a Sustainable Investment Portfolio using these tools and risk/return analysis.Via hands-on involvement in an energy transformation project, students will gain key knowledge about locally based sustainability initiatives and their sources of financing.Students will also research, analyze and critique other prominent Sustainable Finance areas such as Micro Finance, Carbon Trading Schemes and Islamic Finance.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | 15:20 | 18:15 | G-102 |
Behavorial finance investigation is based on concepts of cognitive psychology decision theory. In addition, behavioral finance studies how real-life investors interpret and act on available information. Financial theories are dominated by efficient market theory assuming rational agents. he key assumption of financial models under this theory is the rational behavior of investors and other economic agents. Empirical observation demonstrates this assumption regularly is violated.Markets often are inefficient. Information disclosure is expensive, and accordingly is distributed asymmetrically. Heuristics may change the investors’ behavior and bias their decisions. Among biases are that each investment decision depends on our previous investment decisions: we are anchored by memory and experience and Bayesian approaches to the data are not of sufficient explanatory power to compensate for the remaining unknowns.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | G-002 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | G-002 |
The course introduces advanced marketing concepts and their use in the management-specific theories and applications. Students consider how to combine market research data, financial data, and business strategy to make marketing decisions that best meet customer demands and desires, respond to competitors, and reach financial and strategic objectives. The course is case-driven, with background given on advanced marketing topics though case studies, supported by lectures, discussions, simulations, and written analyses. The course will also examine the marketing function from a variety of professional and critical perspectives. The course considers marketing within national and multi-national contexts. A key component of the course is to develop a thoughtful and critical understanding of marketing practices and to gain the ability to implement concepts in professional environments. This course is intended as a capstone course for Marketing majors as their final course in the program sequence. It leverages all of the subject areas studied in the program and it is highly recommended that students complete all of the required courses before enrolling in the class. The course will also prepare students for graduate-level academic and professional work in the field of marketing.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 15:20 | 18:15 | G-102 |
Teams of student-managers compete in a complex international business simulation designed to allow them to demonstrate mastery of department-level, major and discipline specific learning objectives. The teams operate a company in the international athletic footwear industry. Using a hands-on experiential approach, teams make strategic management, marketing, human resources, operations, facilities, finance, and corporate social responsibility decisions over ten fiscal years. Students are evaluated on their
company’s performance, but also on written individual and group analyses of the simulation and on a final comprehensive exam. Please note this course has a fee.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | PL-3 |
Through readings, in-class activities, assignments and cases, the course will explore how Strategic Management influences the direction of organizations and businesses and how theoretical and societal trends influence practices in these areas. The course follows a participative model, so students are expected to be prepared and attend each course meeting.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 13:45 | 16:40 | C-102 |
This course takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to NGO and mission-based management based on the assumption that management principles vary significantly according to the context in which NGOs function. The course focuses on the operational, financial, and organizational issues of mission-based organizations – and understanding how some conventional strategies translate into a non-profit and mission-driven environment and others do not.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 15:20 | 18:15 | G-002 |
The senior research seminar in economics and finance provides students with a capstone experience. Using
quantitative tools, students will embark on an empirical research project in economics or finance that interests
them most.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-604 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-604 |