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ADVANCED MASTER IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Course Descriptions 1. International Financial Reporting Standards This course will provide students with the essentials of financial accounting and reporting. Upon completion, students should be able to read and interpret financial statements for business diagnosis and decision-making. You will also gain the necessary background and the conceptual base to continue mastering more sophisticated issues of corporate reporting and finance on their own. 2. Fundamentals of Finance This course is designed for students both financed and non-finance majors, practitioners and others with a general interest in the subject matter. This is a basic course on Corporate Finance, mainly focused on understanding fundamental principles of finance and its application to real business. This course teaches the fundamentals of finance from a variety of angles – value, risk and return relationships, capital structure and payout policy, capital budgeting, financial planning and working capital management – and focusing on how corporations making financial decisions. 3. Fundamentals of Economics The course aims at equipping students with the knowledge of fundamental principles of micro- and macroeconomics and their relevance to managerial decision-making. The module covers major theories and approaches to economic policy, helping students to appreciate the impact of economic forces on strategic and operational managerial decisions in contemporary organizations. 4. Business Strategy and International Business Development In this course, devoted to Strategy, students will be looking into the whole evolution of the business strategy and what will be the nearest future. In a very intensive format participant of this course will get their hands-on-experience with using all the classical and more controversial tools of planning, evaluating and executing their strategies. Students will dive into the world of corporate strategies as we as innovative examples of Tech “Unicorns” from so called startup's universe of the Silicone Valley. The students will work on the real-time corporate business cases, or take their endeavor with their own Startup, perhaps next Uber or Airbnb. Main benefits to the participants of the course: Expanded knowledge of business strategy, international business and the practical skills required to develop regional and international strategies. Develop the knowledge and skills required to analyze company strategy and consult on how to confront complex strategic challenges.Explore strategy and international business issues across a wide range of national contexts Gain the ability to design and evaluate internationalization strategies. 5. EU Corporate and Competition Law (including a comparative analysis of US, EU and Russian Competition Law) The content of the course is divided into two parts: the first part deals with the history, nature, structure and legal system of the European Union, the second one is dedicated to the material business law of the European Union: regulation of the internal market, economic and monetary union, corporate and competition law. 6. Quantitative Methods This course is about quantitative methods, namely statistics, applied to the business world. Specifically, we will focus on certain statistical competencies that help managers make better decisions. We will start from scratch: I expect you to have only the basic understanding of math. Everything else we will learn in this class. As you will see, we will use a lot of business applications, and I am concerned more with your understanding on how statistic works as opposed to memorizing the formulas. This class will be unique in a sense that I will bring a lot of non-statistical material to help you understand the world of decision. 7. Marketing Marketing course consists of two parts: Fundamentals of Marketing (fall semester) and Advanced Marketing (spring semester). The overall objective of the Marketing course is to provide students with the basic understanding of marketing concepts and theories. Marketing is not only understood within the framework of traditional 4P model, but also in terms of interfirm and network collaboration, relationship marketing, and value co-creation. The first part of the Marketing course "Fundamentals of Marketing" aims to give students the basic knowledge of the marketing discipline. It includes the major topics of classical marketing, such as strategic marketing, relationship marketing, consumer behavior, and marketing communications. The course includes a number of case studies dealing with marketing decisions in organizations and the role of marketing in the development of corporate strategies. Teaching methods include lectures, guest lecture, individual and group projects, case studies, and class assignments. The second part of the course “Advanced Marketing” is based on the core marketing concepts discussed in the first part of the discipline and their advanced implementation within CRM, Digital Marketing, Social Media Management and Viral Marketing, Customer Analytics and Marketing Research. In this course we discuss basic tools and strategies of the mentioned areas and their application in particular markets and areas such as B2B, Luxury and Services. The course includes a number of case studies dealing with marketing decisions in organizations and the role of marketing in the development of corporate strategies. Teaching methods include lectures, guest lecture, individual and group projects, case studies, and class assignments. 8. Workshop on Global Strategy and Cross-Border Merger and Acquisitions This course examines the theoretical and practical aspects of multi-national corporations operating in an international environment, problems and risks that may be encountered and various bases for profitable operations. The course will cover the aspects of global strategy development including when and how a firm will use alliances, mergers, and acquisitions to enhance global competitiveness. 9. Corporate Governance This course will provide students with skills to understand and influence strategic decision making through the activity of the board of directors, understand risk control and ethical considerations when it comes to leadership and managing relationships with stakeholders. Students will be challenged to discuss and develop their own understanding of general management theory, challenge current modes of strategic thinking and generate new ideas to improve their professional practice. Special attention is paid to issues of corporate governance within companies which are not listed on stock exchanges and to procedures of preparing for IPO. 10. Change Management The course «Change Management» shall provide business professionals with the following knowledge and skills: - Understanding why universally known recipes and approaches to introducing changes in organizations fail in many cases of particular real organizations; - Understanding key patterns, forms and consequences of resistance to changes in organizations; - Ability to diagnose the readiness for changes in various types of organizations; - Ability to use practical tools of change management as well as models of managing changes in real organizations. 11. Leadership and International Dimensions of Organizational Behaviour Leadership and International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior studies the relationship between good management practices and well structured organizations. Management is the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, leading and controlling organizational resources. We take a special look at leadership and will introduce different theories of leadership behavior and practices. The course will strongly emphasis the relationship of management with the other subjects given during the Advanced Master of International Business, and will serve as a capstone to these other subjects. Last but not least: leadership is a social process. Understanding yourself as a leader, and the people you are leading, is an important element of the toolkit of a leader. The course will be practical and interactive, where students will write a paper using their own experience in management and is combined with cases and teamwork. 12. Business-informatics Business informatics is a modern discipline that is built on intersection between business studies, microeconomics and information technology. It is aimed to provide methods and tools how to govern the modern business deeply connected with Information Technology. IT adoption and governance is considered from the earlier Porter models and includes also contemporary methods of building enterprise architecture (EA). Students consider several successful IT start-ups and analyse reasons of their success. 13. Management Accounting The Management Accounting is a one semester course and it is focused on the process of making management decisions based on the information provided by business – about its transactions and performance. This information can be collected, processed and presented in certain way to assist in this process. Among the topics covered are the calculation of cost per items for making profitability decisions for different types of business activities or business units, pricing decisions, choosing from alternative options while deciding on additional costs or expenses or additional sales opportunities within limited production capacities – what issues the cost accounting cares about. Special attention is paid to the application of the cost accounting methods to merchandising and service organizations. Cost analysis has a significant influence on the pricing decisions and transfer prices. Also a part of the course is devoted to the planning and budgeting process in the company as a management tool and variances analysis. The discussion of modern methods of performance management such as Balanced Score Card brings a special value of the program. The first part of the course is devoted to the Cost analysis, the second part – covers aspects of making managerial decisions, including the cost-volume-profit analysis, evaluating relevant and opportunity costs for alternatives, considering uncertainty and constraints, and evaluation of capital projects. The course has a Financial Accounting course as a prerequisite. 14. Operations management The course will make students familiar with operations function of business regardless of whether it is a manufacturing, trade or service company. Students will learn how major elements of operations management are organized to achieve effective production of goods and services. 15. Workshop on Fundamentals of Enterprenership The course «Fundamentals of Enterpreneurship» is aiming at two main objectives. Objective number one – is to enable participants to turn their ideas into revenue – generating business, as a family enterprise, startup, or in a corporate environment. Objective number two is to help participants discover their potential as an enterpreneures by making more understanable of what it takes and how to manage it. 16. Workshop on Government-Public Partnership and Lobbying The module has both theoretical and practical application. The module goal is to provide business professionals with the knowledge of various lobbying tools and techniques used by businesses to promote and defend their interests towards all public actors in Russia. It will cover main issues public affair team member has to deal with in Russian business realities as well as deliver a complete set of competences and skills necessary to increase company public reputation and boost local support of authorities. The practice of lobbying actions of Renault Russia will be presented with description of unique cases that ensured the company business success in Russia.