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 | 16:55 | 18:15 |
Concentrates on functional skills already acquired by students in the area of general management and corporate and business-level strategy. Through case studies, lecture/discussions, presentations, and the Business Strategy Game simulation, students perfect analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and the application of strategy concepts to the formation and implementation of strategy.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PL-3 | Wednesday | 15:20 | 18:15 |
Introduces a variety of issues pertinent to firms and individuals operating in an international context. Subjects change every semester. Recent topics included: Marketing of New Products, Market Research, and Consumer Behavior.
“For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser: https://www.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/by-term.”
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PL-1 | Wednesday | 12:10 | 15:05 |
Introduces a variety of issues pertinent to firms and individuals operating in an international context. Subjects change every semester. Recent topics included: Marketing of New Products, Market Research, and Consumer Behavior.
“For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser: https://www.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/by-term.”
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PV-1 | Thursday | 15:20 | 16:40 |
Introduces a variety of issues pertinent to firms and individuals operating in an international context. Subjects change every semester. Recent topics included: Marketing of New Products, Market Research, and Consumer Behavior.
“For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser: https://www.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/by-term.”
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
Q-604 | Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
Q-604 | Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
Overview of management control, managerial accounting, as well as financial and performance reporting, management by exception, balanced scorecard, cost accounting, etc. Takes a critical approach to using accounting and performance management tools in managerial decision making. The course focuses on how conventional management tools can inform decision-making, and how to consider financial, strategic, and ethical mitigating factors in more ambiguous and nuanced contexts.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PL-1 | Monday | 09:00 | 11:55 |
This course engages students with advanced themes and methods in management consultancy, both in theory and in practice. We will take a critical approach to understand how theory influences practice and how our perceptions of management consultancy evolve over time and circumstance. Students will examine management consultancy in terms of specific cultural, international and organizational elements given specific consulting frameworks.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-6 | Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
This course takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approached to NGO and mission-based management based on the assumption that management principles, though universal to some extent, vary significantly according to the context in which NGOs function. This course requires students to think strategically and critically in the management of NGO’s within the political, economic, ideological, and socio-cultural contexts in which they operate.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
Q-604 | Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
Q-604 | Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
In the last decades, the market economy has started an evolutionary journey that has now reached a level requiring fundamental changes in corporations. This course is designed in response to these changes. It introduces business students to sustainable business management practices and to the role of the private sector in global sustainability development and environmental initiatives.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
PL-1 | Wednesday | 12:10 | 15:05 |