The program consists of the following course segments:
Finance, Managerial Accounting and
Strategy
The course begins with an appreciation of
accounting, financial analysis, and the interpretation
of corporate financial statements. It then proceeds
to the use of accounting information in setting goals,
business planning, budgeting, and evaluating
performance. Decision-making topics, such as
pricing and capital budgeting, are considered.
Another theme developed in the course deals with
financing decisions about such issues as capital
structure and dividend policy. Finally, the course
integrates investment and operating decision making
with the firm's financing decisions in a business
strategy framework.
Economic Analysis and Policy
The course will provide an overview of the operation
and current problems of a market economy with
specific reference to the U.S. case. Topics given
special emphasis include:
- price and product design outcomes in competitive and monopolistic markets;
- issues in the design of public policy;
- income distribution;
- international economic policy; and
- macroeconomics and stabilization policy.
Marketing
Marketing is intended to develop an understanding
of the elements of market strategy that can be
utilized by many kinds of organizations to meet more
successfully the needs of the customers they seek to
serve; to sharpen analytical tools for dealing with
various types of problems faced by marketing
managers; to understand some of the major
constraints imposed by federal legislative and
administrative action on the process of
decision-making in the field of marketing; to review
the contributions of behavioral and management
science in providing new techniques for the solution
of marketing problems; to develop an awareness of
the broader social issues that are involved in current
controversy over various marketing practices.
Organization Studies
This course is concerned with the strategic, political, and cultural aspects of managing individuals and
groups within and between organizations.
Organizations are changing rapidly and dealing with
these changes requires new skills and attitudes on
the part of managers. The goal of organization
studies is to make you aware of these challenges and
better equip you to manage change. In short, the
purpose is to help build your understanding of how
organizations and groups behave and change and
thus enhance your ability to act effectively in
organizational settings.
Leadership
The aim of this course is to provide a theoretical and
practical understanding of leadership. The course is
based on the 3C's model of Leadership: catalyzing
action, contingent on context, and change signature.
"Catalyzing action" suggests that leadership is about
change, making things happen. Through mapping the
environment, building relationships, small
experiments, creating a vision, change, and learning
leaders can help to build organizational capability
and individual credibility. This can be done through
taking charge, or enabling others to change.
"Contingent on Context" means that leadership needs
to change depending upon the context, and leaders
need to understand what is enabled and constrained
by the organizational culture. Leading in a start-up is
different than leading in a large, bureaucratic firm.
Finally, "change signature" underlines the
importance of individual style. There is no one way
to lead and each person has a unique way to create
change. In this course we will examine individual
values, skills, and styles in order to help students
understand more about their own change signatures.
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