This course develops the financial skills and logical thought processes necessary to understand and discuss financial policy decisions in a global economy. Specific objectives include developing an understanding of the time value of money, using financial statements in decision making, understanding the nature of financial markets and the cost of capital. The course also covers valuation of stocks and bonds, management of short-term assets, short-term and long-term financing, lease financing, capital markets, multinational financial management and special topics in financial management. The impact of legal, social, technological and ethical considerations on efficient economic outcomes is also stressed. We will stress effective written and oral communication skills that are necessary for the design and implementation of financial decisions. Throughout the course, we will emphasize best practices.

This segment of the International Accounting course will introduce you to the concepts and principles of financial accounting with an emphasis on the interpretation of financial statements. It focuses on how corporate financial statements report economic events. In this segment, we will discuss the generally accepted accounting principles relating to these events, their limitations and their alternatives. By the end of this course segment, you should feel comfortable reading a company's annual report. You should also be able to reach a reasoned conclusion about a company's financial health and be able to make comparisons across firms and periods. You should be able to pick up a set of financials, understand where the numbers come from and be able to "dissect" the statements and "reconstitute" them so that they suit your decision-making needs.

This course aims to provide the student with a basic understanding of marketing management in the international environment; to introduce the student to some key conceptual schemes and models that are valuable in analyzing marketing management and multinational marketing problems; and to provide training in planning and controlling domestic and international marketing strategy.

Global Management is intended to give students knowledge, abilities and skills that can be used as successful members of organizations in the future. The class will explore the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations themselves, often in a global context. Sudents will learn to diagnose complex, multi-dimensional situations and decide upon courses of action. Participants will also learn to develop and employ the perspectives of management and leadership roles. By the end of the class, students will have a foundation for increasing their understanding of the places where they’ll work and people with whom they’ll work, as well as improving their effectiveness.

This course introduces participants to solid analytical foundations (objective definition, marginal analysis and optimization, elasticity analysis, cost analysis, applied game theory, etc.) that are essential to be able to address key issues in competitive strategy, marketing strategy and related fields in a rigorous way and to make better decisions accordingly. This course will also analyze markets and how they work, from perfect competition to oligopoly (rivalry between a small number of competitors) to monopoly (one dominant firm). Participants will learn about companies' strategic decision-making problems, their available options, and how the competitive environment crucially affects their performance. The course’s ultimate goal is to develop skills for making effective managerial decisions and strategic choices based on the analysis of the companies' cost structures and their market conditions.

This course focuses on computational techniques that will help students make better decisions in a wide range of business settings. Specifically, the class will discuss decision analysis, forecasting, linear programming, linear regression, multiple regression, waiting lines and Monte Carlo simulation. The class will use real-world examples to illustrate the decisions that managers need to make. The objective will be to make good choices and avoid big mistakes that waste the company's resources and weaken its position in relation to competitors. Most decisions will be modeled using Excel spreadsheets. This course presumes some familiarity with Microsoft Excel and shows some of the many computations that Excel helps perform.