Students can complete a 1-credit or 4-credit internship. The internship may be done in France or elsewhere. Most internships in France require fluency in French. Please contact the Internship Office for more details.
This course introduces students to the important managerial issues in information systems today, such as how to best use information technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness in a firm. In an attempt to improve students’ awareness and understanding of various aspects of business information systems, we adopt both a theoretical and practical approach. We begin with a brief overview of the necessity to study BIS, highlighting the strategic importance of BIS decisions. We examine various theories, concepts and strategies, with a focus on managerial challenges and best practices. Students will also learn how to use software to support business decision-making.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PL-3 | Wednesday | 12:10 | 15:05 |
This course introduces students to the important managerial issues in information systems today, such as how to best use information technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness in a firm. In an attempt to improve students’ awareness and understanding of various aspects of business information systems, we adopt both a theoretical and practical approach. We begin with a brief overview of the necessity to study BIS, highlighting the strategic importance of BIS decisions. We examine various theories, concepts and strategies, with a focus on managerial challenges and best practices. Students will also learn how to use software to support business decision-making.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-L22 | Tuesday | 16:55 | 18:15 |
G-L22 | Friday | 16:55 | 18:15 |
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?
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-L21 | Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 |
G-L21 | Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 |
The course Entrepreneurial Approaches provides highly customized paths for a variety of business contexts, including new ventures, franchises, corporate ventures, socially responsible companies, and family-controlled enterprises. Students are expected to critically assess the readings, to have the ability to work in groups, and to present ideas orally and written in English.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-3 | Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
SD-3 | Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
This course deals with the theory and practice of multinational financial management. Topics include: foreign exchange risk management, multinational working capital management, managing intra-corporate fund flows, foreign investment analysis, debt and equity financing, international financial crises, and Foreign Direct Investment.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-6 | Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 |
SD-6 | Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 |
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.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-102 | Tuesday | 09:00 | 10:20 |
G-102 | Friday | 09:00 | 10:20 |
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.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PL-1 | Wednesday | 15:20 | 18:15 |
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.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PL-3 | Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 |