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Explores modern financial instruments - stocks, bonds, options, futures, swaps - and the financial environment thereof. Discusses the forces that determine changes in financial markets and institutions, and the implications for the utilization of financial instruments for the management of funds in firms and/or financial institutions.

An overview of global business from a management perspective, including national differences, global trade, investment and entry strategies, supply chain and human resources management.

Financial management is the management of the flow of funds available to an organization. The course will provide concepts, frameworks, tools, techniques and procedures. Topics include financial analysis, forecasting and planning, working capital management, valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital, mergers, sources and methods of financing, types of securities, financial strategy and the timing of financial policies in domestic and international settings.

This course provides learners with the basics of project management, including the process of project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closeout that all projects share.

A course in organizational communication to provide extensive theoretical background upon which to examine, evaluate, diagnose, and recommend solutions to organizational communication problems. The course allows students to explore particular areas of interest and encourages the critique of existing theories while applying them to real-world situations in order to frame sets of practical skills.

Marketing strategy refers to creating, delivering, and capturing more customer value than the competitors on a sustainable basis. This course aims to provide students with a competitive advantage: the ability to predict customer and competitor response to marketing actions, and hence to create value by making more insightful marketing decisions in different industries. This course is to deepen the student's practical skills by using marketing analytics to improve marketing mix ROI and customer analytics to improve targeting decisions. The teaching method will be highly interactive, with a blend of lectures, case discussions, problem sets, and project work.

A study of the Modern Theory of Organization. The nature of organizational theory, traditional theories, and the evolution of modern systems theory are explored. Factors related to formal and informal organizational processes and the basic linking process of Decision Theory are analyzed.

A study of the concept of an ethic and the nature of a corporation's relation to an ethic. The course explores the nature of ethics in a corporation functioning in a competitive global environment. Case studies are utilized to understand ethics in a practical environment.