Sample Of Available Courses
OPERATIONS
Managing Global Supply Chains - Professor: Ananth Iyer
- Focus: Understanding approaches to develop effective global supply chains and estimating the competitive advantages of such approaches
- Concepts: : understanding risk, supply disruption, the role of supply contracts and options, global logistics, supply chain network design, global best practices
Operations Management Concepts through Active Learning - Professor: jim ward
- Focus: Understanding the impact of alternate approaches to managing manufacturing in a dynamic environment through experiential learning and team exercises
- Concepts: : Links between inventory and lead time, managing a work cell, small lot manufacturing, supply chain dynamics, capacity sharing and information visibility and managing distribution planning
Managing Global Service Operations - Professor: Ananth Iyer
- Focus: Managing the increase in complexity when service operations involve global coordination
- Concepts: : Blueprinting service operations, developing metrics, managing improvements, coordination, the role of auctions and technology, managing outsourced operation
FINANCE
Corporate Valuation - Professor: Raghu Rau
- Focus: Valuing a company with emphasis on practical applications
- Concepts: : Free cash flows, computation of the discount rate, capital structure theory
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Professor: Raghu Rau
- Focus: Creating value through asset restructurings and financial restructurings
- Concepts: : Asset: takeovers, divestitures, spinoffs; Financial: carve-outs as repurchases, bankruptcy, payout policy.
ACCOUNTING
International Accounting Concepts - Professor: Byung Ro / Tony Greig
- Focus: Understanding the unique accounting issues of international operations
- Concepts: : Accounting for foreign currency transactions, derivatives for controlling foreign exchange risk, translation and consolidation of foreign operations, international transfer pricing and taxation, accounting for price changes and inflation
QUANTITATIVE METHODS
Data-Based Decision Support Methods - Professor: Kwei Tang
- Focus: Finding interesting and useful patterns in large databases and responding effectively
- Concepts: : classical data analysis methods, Six sigma/TQM and Data mining, knowledge management
MARKETING
marketing and New Product Development - Professor: Bill Robinson
- Focus: Link between marketing concepts and managing new product development.
- Concepts: : customer segmentation, market positioning, data analysis to develop insights
STRATEGY
managing International Strategy - Professor: Mark Shanley
- Focus: Strategy development and evolution in technologically evolving global markets
- Concepts: : Focus on core competence, information strategy, technology strategy, country strategy, product versioning and managing mergers and acquisitions
Developing and Managing Technology Strategy - Professor: Gerry McCartney
- Focus: Strategy development in technology contexts
- Concepts: : Technology, technology forecasting, managing implementation issues, managing phaseout and phasein of new technologies; primarily in information technology, but other relevant examples used.
Corporate Governance - Professor: Raghu Rau
- Focus: Current trends in corporate governance
- Concepts: : Compensation issues, board composition and corporate performance, external governance forces, leadership structure, proxy process
HUMAN RESOURCES
International negotiations - Professor: David Schoorman
- Focus: Learning the concepts for successful negotiation in different contexts with a variety of approaches
- Concepts: : Negotiation exercises, negotiation frameworks, behavioral nuances
