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This course introduces students to supply chain management concepts that are critical to business success in today's competitive environment. Global supply chain management involves coordinating and improving the flow and transformation of goods, services, information, and funds within companies and around the world, from raw materials to the final end user. This course integrates key functions of operations management, marketing, logistics, and computer information systems in order to analyze and design domestic and international supply chains. Topics include relationship management, transportation and distribution, inventory control, purchasing, forecasting, production management, and the impact of technology on supply chain management. 

This course discusses several strategic, tactical, and operational concepts used in improving the distribution of goods and services by companies worldwide. The course emphasis is on understanding when and how these concepts are applied, as well as on using mathematical programming and optimization methods for their adequate implementation.

This course explores the need for a business process focus, the essential steps for business process improvement, and the critical success factors for making the effort successful. It provides a practical framework for business process improvement and describes many tried and true process improvement concepts and techniques. Lastly, it provides valuable tips and techniques to introduce process changes effectively, to get the most from your process improvement effort. Presented in a methodology-neutral way, participants can easily apply the knowledge and skills to any environment, and use the techniques immediately upon leaving class.

This course focuses on the meaning of entrepreneurship and the process of starting and running an entrepreneurial business. The course covers a range of topics, including: the differences between entrepreneurial and conventional approaches to business; the attributes of a successful entrepreneur; the issues and obstacles facing an entrepreneurial enterprise; the creation of a business plan; and the ethical and social dilemmas facing entrepreneurs. The course also allows students to develop a concept for an innovative product or service.

This course focuses on the application of marketing concepts to explore an entrepreneurial concept and to develop/expand an entrepreneurial business’s market and revenues. Students learn the seven steps of the marketing process and their application to entrepreneurship. The course includes topics such as: building and sustaining an entrepreneurial brand; using marketing to discover and satisfy customer needs; using market research to ensure entrepreneurial success; and the development of an entrepreneurial marketing plan.

The social entrepreneur participates in profit-seeking business ventures in order to yield profits that can be used to create valuable social programs for the community. Social entrepreneurship addresses critical social needs as they relate to human needs and citizen rights. Students explore the field of social entrepreneurship addressing opportunities and challenges within the field as well as the mechanics, challenges, and realities of starting and managing a social enterprise. Students also examine topics such as sustainability, performance, impact, innovation, and leadership within the social enterprise.

This course provides an introduction to approaches and tools for making effective use of business data, focusing on machine learning techniques for discerning, meaningful, and useful patterns in data. The course aims at providing an overview of data mining and its application to business problems, core data mining techniques, and best practices. Details on the techniques and algorithms will be discussed, together with their application to business problems. Hands-on exposure to different data mining methods will be obtained through business case studies, using data mining tools.

Marketing Analytics is an application of data science to marketing decision problems. This course explores customer data analysis techniques and their theoretical foundations to help students acquire analytic skills that can be applied to real world marketing problems. The course also examines the ethical and technical issues related to data privacy.

This course analyzes a wide range of business planning and decision problems involving data with the help of spreadsheet models. The frameworks for quantitative decision-making, optimal design, effective resource allocation and economic efficiency are provided. This framework will be used in the center of many business-related disciplines, including marketing, finance, operations research, accounting, and economics. The course will focus both on modeling the decision problems and on implementing the designed models over the collected data. Powerful and easy to use spreadsheet tools have been developed to assist in this process. Those covered here include Optimization tools (e.g. Solver add-in); extracting maximum value from resources and activities; exploring complex combinations of possibilities to achieve desired goals; Simulation tools (e.g. Crystal Ball add-in); valuing and managing complex portfolios of risks. This decision technology has enabled many companies to improve their routine activities, but also identify long-run decision opportunities and sometimes rethink the whole of their activities. In this sense, decision models have tactical and strategic value; they are an important factor of value creation.

This course focuses on international financial management and international trade. Topics in financial management, viewed primarily from the perspective of managers doing business overseas, include the management of foreign exchange exposure, foreign direct investment decisions, and multinational capital budgeting. Other topics covered include trends in international banking, the balance of payments, the determination of exchange rates, the LDC debt crisis, and the Asian meltdown. We will also examine the challenges and problems faced by firms planning on doing business in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Mexico, Canada, South America, Africa, India, and other regions during the next decade.

This course analyzes corporate mergers and acquisitions. Students develop skills necessary to structure a deal or form an opinion about a proposed transaction. The course evaluates the legal and regulatory framework for takeovers, such as filing requirements, fiduciary duties of the target board of directors, and antitrust regulation. The course uses a mix of lectures, projects, and cases analyses, to provide ample opportunity to understand and practice the application of standard corporate valuation methods.

This course looks at U.S. Capital Markets from structural, functional, and regulatory perspectives. It presents a wide range of topics, including: how funds flow into and out of the various capital markets; the determination of interest rates as a controller of funds flow; the inherent risks presented by these markets; techniques used to deal with these risks; the financial instruments used by the markets; and the role the government regulation in markets. Some of the current issues associated with these markets are analyzed, along with operational and legislative changes introduced to address them.

This course explains the fundamentals of analyzing financial statements of corporations and not-for-profit businesses. The analysis of financial statements is important in making business decisions, allocating resources and accumulating individual wealth through investing directly or indirectly in companies. Properly interpreting financial information is vital to the long-term well-being of the firm. This course allows the student to examine the implications of financial and accounting conventions on the financial statement totals and the various methods available for analyzing such information.

International marketing is important as the world becomes increasingly globalized. In an international context, marketing managers plan and conduct transactions across borders to create exchanges that satisfy the objectives of individuals and organizations. The fact that a transaction takes place “across national borders” highlights the difference between domestic and international marketing. The course considers the basic concepts of international marketing, the various activities necessary for international marketing planning, the beginning of international marketing activities to be conducted by a domestic firm, and relevant issues on strategy and marketing management relevant to expanded global operations.