Integrated Financial Case Analysis:

This course is designed to enhance the students’ knowledge of the fundamental principles and concepts covered in the core courses of finance, accounting, and economics. Integration of these three areas of business will allow the students to critically analyze issues that influence virtually all business decisions.
We will analyze case studies and real world examples to acquire the detailed knowledge of the technology applied in making informed and sophisticated business decisions.

Learning to Lead:

This course blends theory and practice with the Jesuit tradition of principled leadership in service to others. In a climate of inquiry and respect for diverse ideas and backgrounds, you will explore and enhance your skills as a competent and effective leader. Learning will be enhanced using a combination of readings, experiential exercises, simulations, cases, Dialogue, and personal reflection.

Financial Accounting and Analysis:

An introduction to the principles and procedures involved in the preparation and use of published financial statements of corporate enterprises. We will cover topics such as income and profit determination, asset and liability measurement, and financial disclosure requirements are the major topics addressed. Our perspective is from the standpoint of an external user of published financial statements. However, it is necessary to understand the accounting process in order to better analyze and interpret financial statements. The final topics in this course will serve as a transition toward Managerial Finance, e.g. forecasting financial statements and valuation of publicly traded companies.

Geopolitical Environment:

Business leaders anticipate and manage strategic interactions with important constituents, organizations and institutions outside of markets. Additionally, they are vigilant about broader political and social crosscurrents that characterize the global marketplace and define "competitive context." In this course you will learn about the actors and challenges that reflect these circumstances, especially the role of government and regulatory regimes in international commerce, the public policy process, political risk assessment, NGO activism and the interplay between business strategy and political - economic systems.

Understanding Organizations:

The objective of this course is to give you a dynamic analytical framework with which to diagnose and create positive effective change in organizations. Using teams, simulations, cases and Dialogue, you will explore group dynamics, motivational models, decision making, and strategies of influence in order to become sophisticated organizational members and leaders.

Technology-Enabled Innovation:

Technology-enabled innovation is an essential capability for all organizations, from start-ups and non-profits to multinational corporations. This course covers important trends in information technology, and helps you understand how those trends enable product and service innovation. It also covers process ownership and process innovation by presenting concepts and methods needed for describing and evaluating systems in organizations. In addition, it introduces databases and information management.

Macroeconomic Business Conditions:

Evaluating business conditions and recognizing the dependence of firm performance on the general economic environment are essential capabilities required of management, regardless of the type of organization. This course will develop skills and perspective necessary to understand domestic and international macroeconomic events. Economic theory will be applied to the analysis of ongoing issues and government policies affecting current business conditions.  Specific topics include real-time study of national output, unemployment, interest rates with introductory exposure to foreign exchange fluctuation and inflation.

Marketing:

This course exposes you to fundamental marketing thinking as well as specific marketing tools. At the core of all marketing activities, customer should always be the center piece to contemplate such activities’ relevance and effectiveness. Recognizing that customers differ in many ways, marketers employ market segmentation and targeting to divide-and-conquer. Marketing tools used to “conquer” include customer need-driven product development, customer sensual-stimulating marketing communication, customer value-based pricing, and customer convenience-enhancing distribution channel.

Ethics and Responsibility in Business:

This course focuses upon development of tools and techniques for the ethical analysis of issues and decisions that managers face. It presents ethical frameworks, such as teleological and deontological principles, virtue theory, and distributive justice, and examines their applications to managerial problems. It also considers contributions from the more contemporary approaches of moral psychology and development, along with sociobiology and evolutionary morality. Additional topics include managerial misconduct and criminal liability, alternative measures of economic performance and well-being, the nature and purpose of work, international and cross-cultural issues embodied in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Treaties of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, and management education in a Jesuit context.

Competitive Analytics:

This course will equip you with advanced analytical tools to understand what is happening in a business, understand and manage risk, and make better decisions. Building on your ability to create effective spreadsheet models, you will learn how to use optimization technology to guide decision and Monte Carlo simulation to obtain insight into risk and its mitigation. You will extract insight from data sets, and project historical data to make useful forecasts.

Spreadsheet Modeling for Managerial Insight:

This course will prepare you to be a skilled, effective business analyst capable of creating and using spreadsheets models to generate business insight influence organizational actions, and to effectively manage spreadsheet model assets. You will express your business knowledge in the form of a spreadsheet model that is accurate, meaningful, and suitable for collaborative use. You will apply analytical principles to learn about your business, then articulate the results in managerial terms to drive decision making in the organization.

Strategy and Competitive Advantages:

This course uses integrative and multi-disciplinary approaches to discuss cutting edge strategic management knowledge. It will help you understand the sources of competitive advantages in today’s global environments. The course will discuss key tasks in strategic management, including environmental analysis, corporate and business level strategies, strategic planning and execution, etc. This course will also help you use multi-discipline knowledge to analyze competitiveness of firms.