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Business Administration (B)
Business Administration 1220E - Introduction to Business
Business 1220E, offered by the Ivey Business School, gives students from all faculties the opportunity to learn business fundamentals in finance, marketing, operations, organizational behavior and general management.  The course is delivered using Ivey’s renowned case method, which challenges students to learn by doing, within an active class environment of no more than 85 students.  Students explore real business issues, make management decisions, defend their position, and take action. This course will be particularly appealing to those students who want a glimpse of Ivey’s unique learning experience.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 1299E, Business Administration 2295F/G, Business Administration 2299E, the former Business Administration 1220, the former Business Administration 2299.     
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
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Business Administration 1299E - Business for Engineers
Students learn business fundamentals in finance, marketing, engineering economics, organizational behaviour and general management. Students are taught business decision-making using the case method, wherein students explore real business issues, make management decisions, defend their position, and take action, within an active class environment of no more than 85 students.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 1220E or the former Business Administration 1220, Business Administration 2295F/G, Business Administration 2299E or the former Business Administration 2299.
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Extra Information: Restricted to Engineering students only. 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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Business Administration 2257 - Accounting & Business Analysis
Prerequisite for entry to Honors Business Administration. Course Divisions: (1) Financial Accounting - development of financial statements, and the assessment of their uses and limitations. (2) Business Analysis and Management Accounting - using case studies with an emphasis on smaller businesses, students learn various quantitative decision-making tools highlighted by an entrepreneurial feasibility study.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
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Business Administration 2295F/G - Business for Science Students
The course is designed to provide students pursuing modules offered by the Faculty of Science or the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry with an understanding of how business operates and how the individual employee fits into the larger business organization. Students are introduced to the basics of finance, organizational behaviour and intellectual property.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Major, Specialization or Honors Specialization in the Faculty of Science or the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. Interested students in Health Science may take this course with special permission by contacting the Business 2295F office.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
Restricted to students in Years 3 and 4.
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Business Administration 2299E - Business for Engineers
The course is designed to introduce students to managerial decision-making. The case method is used to present selected problems in finance, engineering economics, marketing, organizational behaviour and general management.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 1220E, the former Business Administration 1220, Business Administration 1299E, Business Administration 2295F/G, the former Business Administration 2299.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of third year Engineering.     
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
Limited to Engineering students.
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All 3000- and 4000-level Business courses are available only to students in the Honors Business Administration program.
Business Administration 3300K - Strategy
Strategy consists of an organization’s focused efforts to achieve success. Ensuring the continued success of the enterprise requires both analysis and action. The cases and concepts utilized in the course take the total enterprise as the unit of analysis and the general manager as the key actor.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.75 course.
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Business Administration 3301K - Marketing
The desires and needs of the buyer are important to the manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer. Students analyze the firm's goals, strengths, opportunities, and weaknesses. This analysis is then converted into reasonable marketing strategies and action plans. Students learn to make decisions in the face of considerable uncertainty.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.75 course.
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Business Administration 3302K - Communications
Designed to make business graduates more effective communicators. The course focuses on presentation skills, writing skills, and the management of the communication process in organizations. In addition to case discussions on oral and organizational communication, the course offers detailed critiques of written assignments and video taped presentations.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 2205F/G
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.75 course.
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Business Administration 3303K - Finance
The course covers problems involved in determining the need for, acquiring and administering the financial resources of a business enterprise, and deals with the need for short-term intermediate funds in the operation of a business organization as well as the subject of long-term financing, capital structures, mergers and acquisitions, etc.
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Business Administration 3304K - Operations
Management of activities involving movement or processing of materials, information and/or people. Focus is on developing systematic thought about the structure and interrelationships of production situations. Process analysis, work measurement, facilities planning, production control, quality are discussed and utilized.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.75 course.
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Business Administration 3307K - Managerial Accounting & Control
Trains students to be competent consumers of accounting data and to integrate the understanding of accounts, profits, cost behavior, relevant cost and control systems required for decision-making. Topics include data collection, processing, interpretation, and the utilization of accounting information by managers.
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Business Administration 3311K - Leading People in Organizations
In this course students will be able to manage themselves and their direct relations with others (including their boss, peers, and subordinates) so that appropriate goals are established and achieved; understand how effective organizations are designed; and understand and contribute to effective organizational change.
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Business Administration 3316K - Decision Making with Analytics
Managerial decision makers must cope with complexity and/or uncertainty. This course presents a systematic approach to structuring and analyzing decision problems including the use of statistical tools and spreadsheet programs. To stress the generality of this approach, problems from all functional areas and various industries are discussed. The course also examines a number of innovative management tools that are changing the practice of management.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.75 course.
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Business Administration 3321K - Accounting and Financial Fundamentals
This course will provide the groundwork for using accounting information in managerial decisions in the fields of marketing, accounting and finance.  The course will provide students with the accounting tools necessary to make marketing decisions in terms of pricing and volume.  It will also develop the fundamental skills required to analyze financial statements by considering accounting policy choice and the use of ratio analysis.  Finally, the course will provide the necessary foundation for finance in terms of the time value of money, projection of financial statements and the basics of business valuation.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.75 course.
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Business Administration 3322K - Leveraging Information Technology
This course develops a student's understanding of the general manager's role of in maximizing the value of information technology (IT) in organizations. This includes the ability to assess a situation from a IT perspective in mind and the impact of technology when creating organizational solutions and how it can leverage a organization's success.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.75 course.
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Business Administration 3323K - Learning Through Action
This course integrates learning from different managerial perspectives and applies those learnings to team-based deliverables. The goal is to develop further the HBA Program Leadership Essentials:  decisiveness through uncertainty, communicate persuasively, manage volume, maximize team potential, and stand and deliver. Throughout the year, sessions on personal and corporate responsibility will be organized to inform the student's development in leadership and its orientation to the organization as well as communities and society in which they operate.
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4000-level half course offerings may vary each year
Business Administration 4402Q/R/S/T - Communications & Society
This course will teach students how to communicate effectively in interviews, group collaborations, conflict situations, performance evaluations, media contact situations, and in public relations.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.25 course.
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Business Administration 4408A/B - Cross Cultural Management
Problems of human behavior in cross-cultural contexts are examined and solutions sought. Managerial issues involving the interaction of two or more cultures in international business situations (as well as settings within Canada) are treated. In addition to normal classroom case discussions, field work and involvement exercises are used.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4410 - New Venture Project
This course is for students who are interested in starting their own venture and who want to obtain hands-on experience in the preparation of a business plan for a new venture.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4430.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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Business Administration 4412Q/R/S/T - Advanced Presentation Skills
This course develops presentation skills through practice and feedback, simulations, experiments and “hands-on” demonstrations. Debriefing and feedback are integral parts of this methodology.
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Business Administration 4413A/B - Derivatives & Risk Management
This course is designed for students interested in careers in investment banking, finance consulting, or corporate finance.
Antirequisite(s): Financial Modelling 2557A/B or the former Actuarial Science 2557A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Business Administration 3303K.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4417A/B - Corporate Financial Reporting
The main objective of this course is to prepare students to become better users of financial statements by developing a knowledge and understanding of some of the key financial reporting concepts and accounting principles and an understanding of the financial reporting system. The course also takes a managerial perspective of financial disclosure.
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Business Administration 4423A/B - Financial Strategies for Global Success
The objective of this course is to develop a detailed understanding of financial securities, markets and institutions. The course deals with important aspects of the financial markets such as: 1) the design and pricing of securities; 2) the form and function of markets; 3) corporate financing decisions; 4) innovation; and 5) globalization of financial markets.
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Business Administration 4427A/B - Advanced Corporate Financial Reporting
This course is directed primarily for students who intend to pursue careers which will involve extensive use or preparation of financial accounting information. It is designed to examine the major contemporary issues in the financial accounting environment. The managerial point of view is a crucial dimension in this course, as it is in Business Administration 4417A/B, Corporate Financial Reporting: A Managerial Perspective.
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Business Administration 4430 - Ivey Consulting Project
This is a field based research course on behalf of a corporate client. It is undertaken in a team of 4-5 people. Course work consists of industry analysis, company size-up, written and oral presentation to client and agreement on deliverables.
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Business Administration 4431A/B - Advertising & Promotion
This course is based on the concept that advertising, personal selling and other promotional activities of the firm have a common purpose - the communication of incentives to buy. Objective: to develop analytical and decision-making skills relevant to the formulation of an effective marketing communications strategy.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4433A/B - Portfolio Management
For individuals interested in money and capital markets, who may seek employment with any of the wide range of institutions involved in money management. Objectives: (1) knowledge of established portfolio theory, (2) understanding of the Canadian securities industries, and (3) consideration of basic ethical, communicative and organizational problems involved in management of financial assets.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4434A/B - Management of Services
The course aims at establishing a framework for evaluating existing and new service concepts from the standpoint of the operator or investor. Specific emphasis is placed on evaluating those criteria which protect a service organization so as to ensure its success in its competitive environment.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4437Q/R/S/T - Income Tax Planning
This course focuses on how income tax impacts an individual in the areas of employment income, business income, property income and capital gains and how tax planning and organizational form can lead to different tax burdens. The material is most applicable for those who wish to pursue careers in the financial area, entrepreneurs and others that wish to develop an understanding of how income tax impacts financial planning.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4479A/B.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.25 course.
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Business Administration 4439A/B - Entrepreneurial Finance
This course focuses on the financial challenges facing mid-size companies that are growing rapidly. A conceptual model for making deals will be introduced. Topics to be addressed include government assistance programs, joint ventures, purchase order financing, bank financing, limited partnerships, franchising, mezzanine financing, private placements, merchant banking, venture capital and initial public offerings.
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Business Administration 4440Q/R/S/T - International Business Strategies & Public Policies
This course focuses on the interaction between management decisions and public policy. The political environment of business is shaped by government structures from parliamentary and presidential systems to dictatorship and with differing allocations of responsibility between national and provincial/state governments.
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Business Administration 4441A/B - Entrepreneurial Marketing
This course focuses on the issues of growing the sales of high potential ventures. The high potential setting highlights the conflicts between the expectations of employees and investors and the constraints of cash and time.
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Business Administration 4443A/B - Value Investing
This course provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of value investing. Topics include the value investing process, institutional investor behaviour, search strategies, market psychology, the phenomenon of neglect, valuation, concepts of intrinsic value and margin of safety, moderately and deeply neglected companies as well as hybrid securities.
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Business Administration 4444A/B - The Operating Manager
Each manager has both an operating and strategic sector in his or her job. This course focuses on the operating sector, with emphasis on decision-making and implementation. The point of view is that of the manager in the early stages of a career who must develop the ability to lead, to take action and to operate effectively.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4447A/B - Accounting and Control for Global Operations
This course develops skills in the use of accounting data in multiple currencies, financial reporting under multiple national GAAPs and international Accounting Standards, and provides skills in planning and measuring performance in global organizations.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4449Q/R/S/T - Business Leadership
Students learn the significance of thought, choice, habits, thinking style and attitude on becoming an effective leader. Students will learn to internalize and incorporate the course experiences and learnings into everyday leadership practices.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.25 course.
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Business Administration 4450A/B - Business Law
This course strives to help the student organize and understand the increasing network of legislation and regulation which influences the general management of organizations. In the cases and readings, the emphasis is placed on the law in evolution - not as specific rules and regulations, but as a continuous attempt to solve social and management problems.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 2275A/B.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4454A/B - Operations Strategy
The course aims to develop the ability to identify the relationships among competitive structure, manufacturing and service technologies, and market demands; prepare viable operations strategies for a firm within the identified constraints; and change the operations of a firm into a principal competitive strategy.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4457A/B - Performance Management
The process by which management translates organizational objectives and strategies into specific goals. The course examines systems facilitating this process at all levels of the organization. Topics include measurement of performance, profit and investment centres, transfer pricing, planning/budget process, strategic controls and surveys of relevant academic literature on control.
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Business Administration 4458A/B - Leading Change
The course addresses a range of challenges faced by organizations as they prepare for, or attempt to, lead change and manage crisis situations. Whether incited by technology, competition, globalization, or inspiration, organizational change has become a constant in today’s business world. Issues will be explored from individual, group, organizational, and societal perspectives.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4459R/T - Research
The purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to learn the research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a research report. Useful to persons considering further academic work or doing special projects in industry. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.25 course.
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Business Administration 4461A/B - Strategic Market Planning
Marketing planning is viewed in this course as continuous process involving: setting company marketing goals, assessing market opportunities, developing a marketing strategy, developing a set of integrated action programs, and monitoring the implementation of programs and adjusting the marketing plan.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4463A/B - International Finance
The purpose of the course is to prepare individuals to assume decision-making roles in the area of international finance. Emphasis will be on the operations of non-financial corporations, as opposed to those of financial intermediaries.
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Business Administration 4464A/B - Purchasing and Supply Management
Topics include supply chain organization, systems, quality, delivery, quantity, price, source selection, commodity buying, outsourcing, reverse marketing and supply strategy. Other topics may include negotation, supply chain consulting, international procurement and environmental issues in supply chains.
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Business Administration 4466A/B - Management Information Systems
This required core course is designed around six modules that are concerned with what a general manager needs to know about managing IT and managing with IT.
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Business Administration 4468A/B - Interpersonal Negotiations
Negotiations is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more parties who are interdependent and who are seeking to maximize their outcomes. The central issues of this course deal with understanding the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations in the context of interdependent situations.
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Business Administration 4469A/B - Competing with Analytics
The objective of this course is to build on the first year Management Science course, and examine the use of Management Science/Operational Research (MS/OR) as a competitive weapon. We shall examine some of the many ways that globally competitive corporations are using MS/OR to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. We shall also investigate some major public sector applications of MS/OR that have yielded huge benefits.
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Business Administration 4477A/B - Corporate Financial Reporting II
This course supplements the learning from Business 4417A.B. It covers intermediate accounting including the financial reporting environment, accounting for assets, liabilities and equity, accounting changes and errors, and the statement of cash flow. It is a self-study course. A weekly tutorial, lead by a chartered accountant, is available.
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Business Administration 4479A/B - Taxation for Managers
This course is designed for individuals who wish to understand how income tax laws impact various types of income and wealth accumulation. It is specifically relevant to those pursuing careers in accounting, finance or becoming entrepreneurs.
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Business Administration 4480A/B - Global Strategy
The course will build students' capacity to address the need and the means of moving from a domestic base to international operations and an understanding of how established global firms develop and implement strategy in a complex international setting.
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Business Administration 4486A/B - Financial Modeling
This course implements financial models in Excel. The main topics covered are: modeling financial instruments, programming in Excel and modeling for valuation.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4489Q/R/S/T - Managing the Professional Services Firm
This course will teach how to understand the impact of the current environment on the professional firm, the strategic alternatives available as well as how the structure and administrative systems of the firm relate to the strategy. It will also cover women in management, ethics and globalization relative to the professional firm.
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Business Administration 4492 - Research
The purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to learn the research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a research report. Useful to persons considering further academic work or doing special projects in industry. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work.
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Business Administration 4495A/B - Consumer Brands Marketing
The course looks at brand management within the marketing function and its relations to produce management in general. We examine product line management as a strategic option and competitive issues in brand management. We then look at environmental threats to the brand, including the issues of private labels and changes in media. Finally, we examine global branding and its organizational basis.
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Business Administration 4497A/B - Auditing
The course begins with an examination of the factors affecting the demand and supply of assurance including independence, third party litigation, and the market for assurance services. We then review the traditional audit risk model, materiality, and the various types of audit evidence.
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Business Administration 4498A/B - Managing People for Exceptional Performance
This course is organized around five sets of activities critical to managerial success, each involving face-to-face interaction and a high degree of interpersonal skill: Coaching for Exceptional Performance; Negotiating and Resolving Conflict; Getting Commitment to Goals and Standards; Conducting Performance Reviews; and Managing Problem Employees.
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Business Administration 4499A/B - Research
The purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to learn the research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a research report. Useful to persons considering further academic work or doing special projects in industry. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work.
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Business Administration 4500A/B - Learning from Leaders
Students will study the actions, backgrounds and beliefs of proven leaders who have turned around failing organizations or led successful organizations over time and who are widely recognized for success.
Antirequisite(s): The former Business Administration 4500Q/R/S/T.
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Business Administration 4501A/B - Doing Business in Asia
To introduce to students the unique business environments in the Far East, including China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.
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Business Administration 4503A/B - Leadership and Communication
The arts teaches a great deal about leadership and communication. This course explores the nature of leadership and the craft of successful leadership communication from a range of important disciplines.
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Business Administration 4505A/B - Global Macroeconomics for Managers
This course enables students to understand the economic and political environments in which they will operate as managers. This course is concerned with issues in the external environment at the country and international levels.
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Business Administration 4507A/B - Special Topics in Accounting
Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
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Business Administration 4508A/B - Special Topics in Communications
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Business Administration 4509A/B - Special Topics in Finance
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Business Administration 4510A/B - Special Topics in General Management
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Business Administration 4517A/B - End User Modelling
The course will freshen and sharpen Excel and management science modeling concepts and skills, and introduce computer programming with VBA and provide a variety of applications (e.g., simulation, optimization) from various fields (e.g., finance, operations, service).
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Business Administration 4518A/B - Project Management
This course is designed to provide students with a holistic, integrative view of project management. Both the technical elements (e.g., scope, schedules, budgets and status reports, etc.) and the sociocultural elements (e.g., leadership, teamwork, politics, etc.) of project management will be examined. Students taking this course will advance their understanding of project management and should develop a better appreciation for the common sense and science behind effective project management.
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Business Administration 4519A/B - Co-Creating Value in Developing Markets
The objective of the course is to equip students with knowledge and nuanced understanding of societal and individual consumer needs in developing markets, and to enable them to design product and market development strategies to satisfy those needs. The course will explore these through a value co-creation paradigm. Although adopting a predominantly 'business' anchor to such issues, the course will also address value creation by social and public enterprises, and most importantly analyze the cross-enterprise issues arising from cross-
sector collaborations.
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Business Administration 4520A/B - Revenue Management
This course will introduce students to the principles and practice of revenue management and strategic pricing. Topics include basic principles of revenue management and pricing models, revenue management and pricing as a strategic competitive advantage, consumer behaviour models, auctions and online auctions, forecasting and data driven revenue management, ethics and legal aspects of price discrimination.
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Business Administration 4521A/B - Social Innovation
Organizations are becoming increasingly interconnected and integrated through globalization, financial markets, information and communication technologies, and demographic changes. This course places in sharp focus the intimate connection among individuals, corporations, and society. You will learn about the complexity of decision-making, particularly when trying to align societal, organizational, and personal objectives.

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Business Administration 4522A/B - Managing the Triple Bottom Line
This course enables managers to come to grips with the complex, demanding and potentially conflicting issues of sustainable development. In a nutshell, sustainable development focuses on the interrelationships between and integration of financial, social and environmental performance.By the end of this course you should have gained tools, skills and intuition that will enable you to characterize the drivers of current social and environmental issues; integrate financial, social and environmental performance within a general business model; review and critique the strategies adopted by firms on sustainable development based on decision-oriented frameworks; and formulate effective approaches to managing the triple bottom line.
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Business Administration 4523A/B - Business, Government and the Environment
This course examines the rationale for government regulation in various industries and the public policy procedures through which regulations are determined. The course will also develop an understanding of how firms can strategically manage their policy environment through their interactions with various stakeholders and government. Special emphasis will be placed on current policy and management issues in the energy sector.
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Business Administration 4524Q/R/S/T - International Business Environment Study Project
This course will involve an organized study trip to an international location where a mix of business, political and cultural topics will be observed.
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Business Administration 4525A/B - International Business Environment Study Research Project
This course will involve an organized field trip to an international location where a mix of business, political and cultural topics will be observed. An independent studies paper based on the trip will be required. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work.
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Business Administration 4527A/B - Independent International Business Study Research Project
This course will involve an international business environment experience organized independently by the student. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work.
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Business Administration 4528Q/R/S/T - Communicating Across Cultures
As business becomes increasingly global and as the workplace begins to reflect the diversity of our population, it is crucial for leaders to develop cross-cultural competence in order to navigate international assignments, to engage in cross-cultural teams, to work with diverse clients, customers and other key stakeholders, and to compete and collaborate successfully with other organizations. Communicating across Cultures introduces students to the challenges of communicating within different cultures (i.e. cross-cultural communication) and communicating between different cultures (i.e. intercultural communication). Students will confront the values, beliefs, and assumptions they hold about people from different groups and will begin to develop practical skills in communicating across the cultures. Through the use of activities, simulations, case discussions, guest speakers and readings, this course provides an opportunity for students to begin to develop cultural awareness and investigate how culture and worldview play a crucial role in cross-cultural communication.
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Business Administration 4530A/B - Competition and Competitor Analysis
For students considering a career in general management, consulting or marketing. Many principles discussed in class will also be useful to entrepreneurs. May also be of interest to students seeking knowledge of concepts and development of skills that enable them to understand and respond to the competitive environment.
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Business Administration 4532Q/R/S/T - Regulation and Management of Financial Institutions
This course is designed as an introduction to the topic for students intending to pursue careers in financial services especially banking, investment banking, securities and investment management. It would also be an introduction to financial regulation for those interested in a career as a regulator, as this is a growing field.
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Business Administration 4534Q/R/S/T - Internet Marketing
This course is aimed at students who aspire to work in marketing, advertising or an Internet-focused business. This is an introductory course, which assumes no prior knowledge of online marketing or related technologies.
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Business Administration 4535A/B - Integrating and Implementing Marketing Decisions
The focus of this course is integrating a wide range of marketing tools and analyses to drive good business decisions. This elective is a combination of integrated marketing cases, and the renowned SABRE marketing simulation. Each week will normally include one case-class, and 2-3 rounds of on-line simulation.
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Business Administration 4536A/B - Corporate Governance
This course is for the HBA student that wishes to develop a greater understanding of what drives the existence and strategies of organizations and in particular corporations. Additionally, this course is aimed at the student that may one day serve on the board of a charity, nongovernmental organization or corporation.
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Business Administration 4537A/B - Strategy Implementation
This elective is geared towards those students who want to deepen their understanding and mastery of business strategy. This class uses the case method to explore different decision-making methodologies that managers can use to effectively execute strategies. Strategy implementation or execution will be examined from various managerial levels within the same organization.
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Business Administration 4538A/B - Women in Leadership
This course is for students who want to promote the movement of women into leadership positions in Canadian business organizations. Through case studies, debates, and conversations with senior women leaders, we will investigate the factors enhancing women’s career opportunities and identify the skills that it takes for women to build successful careers.
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Business Administration 4539A/B - Business Strategy and Sustainability
This course is for students interested in understanding the interface between business and sustainability. Sustainability is defined as the maintenance of ecological, social and economic systems. This course will introduce students to the relationship between sustainability and business strategy, focusing on the fundamental strategic motivations of business can represent both a force for and against the integrity of these systems.
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Business Administration 4540A/B - Schulich Medical School Health Care Management
To provide participants with tools and concepts so that they can perform effective leadership roles in health care delivery. The course has been designed as a cross-discipline/cross professional schools initiative as students in the course will be HBA students of the Ivey Business School along with 4th year MD students of the Schulich Medical School. The joint interaction of future physicians and future industry leaders will provide a stimulating environment for all student participants.
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Business Administration 4542A/B - Venturing in International Firms
Through a series of cases, students will gain insight into how managers pursue entrepreneurial venturing in international firms. Three key aspects will be stressed: (1) The context for MNE venturing, (2) Managing and organizing MNE venturing, and (3) performance implications.
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Business Administration 4543A/B - Technology Innovation
This course is targeted to students who are interested in building businesses with new technology. We will look at how to identify technology innovation capability for use within existing businesses or new startups.
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Business Administration 4544A/B - Managing in Public & NFP Sectors
This course is to build on management theory and learning from first year in the context of unique and complex environments in the public and not-for-profit sectors. We will explore the special considerations, challenges and opportunities in these sectors and the critical skills needed for effective and efficient management.
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Business Administration 4545A/B - Sports and Entertainment Analytics
You will learn how data and models can be used to improve decision making in the "glamour" industries namely: sports and entertainment. The concepts learned in this course can be easily extended to other industries.
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Business Administration 4547A/B - Health Sector Leadership and Innovation
This course is for students who have an interest, or wish to pursue careers, in the health sector. It will be of interest, also, to those seeking insight into challenges that require leadership and innovation, as well as students interested in leveraging their interests in the life sciences.
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Business Administration 4548A/B - Consumer Insights
You will have the opportunity to delve into the psychology that underlies customer behavior. We will explore a variety of tools and techniques both in class and in team projects. However, the course will fundamentally focus on increasing your ability to translate customer insights into winning marketing strategy.
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Business Administration 4550A/B - Sustainability in Action
This course provides a comprehensive foundation to the practical challenges to and opportunities of doing sustainability work. It is designed as an action-oriented course for future leaders of for-profit, non-profit and governmental organizations interested in championing and implementing positive social change.
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Business Administration 4551A/B - Leaders Under Fire
Students will learn in a hands-on manner to develop, experience, and work through complex issues that could impact them during their careers. This course is intended to support the development of skills to identify individual reactions and stressors that could influence leaders and practice the mechanisms and approaches to deal with situations.
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Business Administration 4552A/B - Biotech Strategy
This course covers changes in regulatory, economic, social and technological environments. These forces play out in combination with the uncertainties, complexities and dynamics of the competitive forces and intersecting industries within which organizations attempt to operationalize sustainable strategies to generate, capture and distribute value.
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Business Administration 4553A/B - Social Enterprise
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to social enterprise in developed and developing countries. The course focuses on the unique entrepreneurial processes associated with the creation or discovery of positive social change. It explores the different mechanisms of value creation in organizations that combine doing good and doing well.
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Business Administration 4554A/B - Private Equity
This course provides an overview of the world of private equity, and how it fits into both the asset allocation decisions of many investors as well as the broader capital markets.
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Business Administration 4555A/B - New Media Marketing
New Media Marketing merges theoretical concepts with strategic and practical solutions. Through a combination of readings, industry articles, case studies, in-class discussions and online resources (including blog posts, tweets and videos), students are exposed to the latest developments in new media marketing brought together through in-class discussions and analysis.
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Business Administration 4557A/B - Business Government & Globalization
This course explores the tensions that can arise between corporate behavior and societal interests. There are two modules to the course: the first, examines these issues in the context of the natural and the social environment. The second examines the relationship between business strategy and an ever globalizing world.
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Business Administration 4558A/B - New Venture Creation
This course relies heavily on experiential learning-you will be engaging in field-work to identify problems faced by real people in the real world, you will be identifying and conducting interviews with real subject matter experts, and you will be getting feedback from real customers over the term.
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Business Administration 4559A/B - Raising Capital in the Financial Markets
This course places corporate financial decisions in a strategic context, emphasizing the relationship between capital structure and the financial markets. This course is designed as a "how to" course on capital raising in domestic and global financial markets.
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Business Administration 4560A/B - Strategic Hedging for Investors
This course explores ways by which the other component of risk - market risk - may be assessed and, when appropriate, hedged. Data exercises throughout the course support the practical orientation of the material covered, including exercises requiring students to construct portfolio hedges.
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Business Administration 4564A/B - Design Driven Innovation
The course demonstrates how organizations gain competitive advantage through design driven innovation which is a customer experience oriented approach to marketing that results in powerful, emotional - and profitable - brand relationships.
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Business Administration 4565A/B - Applied Corporate Finance
This course builds on the corporate finance tools presented in the core finance course. A central part of the course is a project examining the valuation and financing strategy of a Canadian Mining company using data obtained by students through extensive financial sources available at Ivey.
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Business Administration 4566A/B - Managing High Growth Companies
The objective of the course is to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed to manage a high growth, entrepreneurial company.
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Business Administration 4567A/B - Wealth Management
The principal objective of the course is to provide a framework and sufficient knowledge for the individual investor to undertake financial and investment decisions within their overall personal financial plan.
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Business Administration 4568A/B - Advanced End User Modelling
Through the use of UDF modeling, two goals will be achieved: first, students will find it easier to understand and use complex mathematical concepts, such as those required in some finance and “big data” applications, and second, they will adopt practical skills for real-world applications.
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Business Administration 4569 - Ivey Field Project
The Ivey Field Project (IFP) presents an opportunity for students to put into action all of what they have learned during their time at Ivey. Each student, together with their team, will choose between creating a new venture (NVP) and consulting to an existing business (CCP).
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Business Administration 4570A/B - Design Thinking for Sustainable Innovation
This course is intended for business and engineering students who are interested in leading multi-disciplinary teams in a holistic approach to creating sustainable innovations.
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Business Administration 4571A/B - Leadership Under Fire - Developing Character
The course will be conducted off-site at a Canadian Forces base.  Some classroom instruction at the front end, followed by a number of days of field work and then culminating with a day of "lessons learned" and presentations on leadership by individuals in Canadian society for their leadership ability.
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Business Administration 4572A/B - Retailing
This course provides an overview of designing and managing retailing in the current fast moving business environment. Modern day retailing is increasingly buffeted by ever increasing customer demands and expectations on one hand, and intense competition on the other.
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Business Administration 4573A/B - Measurable Marketing
The course will cover measuring marketing effectiveness. Students will understand how brands are valued, customer satisfaction assessed and loyalty measured. They will learn how to talk to financial decision makers through analyzing the profitability of customers and the contribution of marketing to a firm’s value.
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Business Administration 4574A/B - Mergers and Acquisitions
This course provides an overview of corporate takeovers and restructurings, including the strategic rationale, the process, valuation techniques, deal structuring and negotiation, and financing. It also highlights the regulatory and corporate governance issues.
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Business Administration 4579A/B - Dark Side of Capitalism
The course is designed for individuals seeking to understand the underlying dynamics of capitalism’s evolution by looking at the broader picture: How do industries emerge, grow, die or get reshaped by powerful organizations which do not always follow the traditional rules of the game?
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Business Administration 4580A/B - Reputation Management
This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to apply strategic communication skills to analyze current business communication challenges. Recent economic turmoil has caused public trust in companies to decline. Research shows that companies who invest in communications are more profitable.
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Business Administration 4581A/B - Business Ethics
This course is designed to enable students to develop greater ethical awareness, sound ethical reasoning abilities, and effective ethical decision-making as business managers and leaders. We will accomplish this by exploring key ethical theories and principles through select readings and class discussions, and practicing ethical reasoning and decision-making through case studies.
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Business Administration 4582A/B - Business and Public Policy
The objectives of the course are to give students a) insights into the public policy world and the role that business plays in that arena, and b) conceptual frameworks for developing strategies for engagement on public policy issues to best serve the interests of the firm and society.
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Business Administration 4583A/B - Behavioural Finance
The goal of the course is to deepen students’ understanding of how financial decisions are made in a vast array of settings, incorporating insights from individual and social psychology in modern financial theory.
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Business Administration 4584Q/R/S/T - Giving Voice to Leadership
The specific goal of this course is to improve students’ capacity to act effectively when dealing with ethical conflicts and/or opportunities.
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Business Administration 4586A/B - Managing International Law
This course will leverage class discussion, case studies, and assigned readings to develop students’ abilities to analyze and address legal issues facing the multinational enterprise. Issues that arise in the popular press may be brought into class discussion to emphasize the volatility of the legal environment.
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Business Administration 4587Q/R/S/T - Modeling and Analytics
Modeling and Analytics will be of interest to all students who want to enhance their analytics skills. The focus is on building and interpreting models. This course builds on concepts covered in the core Decision Making with Analytics (DMA) class.
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Business Administration 4588A/B - C&S - Sustainable Finance
Students seeking careers in investment management who want to achieve a better understanding of the environmental and social portfolio risks. Students contemplating careers in management consultancies related to the adoption of business sustainability or management positions with the task of incorporating sustainability into mainstream business will find the course valuable.
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Business Administration 4589Q/R/S/T - Creative Analytics
The course is targeted towards students who are interested in (1) improving their presentation and communication skills of analytical concepts, and (2) developing creativity as it pertains to analytical problem solving.
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Business Administration 4590A/B - Introductory Data Science
Data science draws on tools from the empirical sciences, statistics, reporting, analytics, visualization, business intelligence, expert systems, machine learning, databases, data warehousing, data mining, and big data. What distinguishes data science itself from the tools and techniques is the central goal of deploying effective decision-making models to a production environment.
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Business Administration 4591A/B - Business and Markets
This course will provide an overview of the biggest problems, and the opportunities for applying business skills; examine the role of markets and business in solving global issues; make the connection between the big problems and the tractable solutions; and examine best practices in using business to solve big problems.
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Business Administration 4592A/B - Sports/Entertainment Marketing
This elective focuses on developing skills in the areas of marketing tactics, valuation techniques and the managerial decision making involved with succeeding in the highly dynamic sports and entertainment industry.
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Business Administration 4595A/B - Fixed Income Markets, Securities & Analysis
This course will provide a working knowledge of fixed income markets and their institutions, including the Canadian environment. The course will present students with the ability to calculate yields and values of fixed-income securities, estimate risks and expected returns and analyze the term structure of interest rates and yield spreads.
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Business Administration 4596A/B - Power and Politics in Organizations
This course examines how power and politics work in and across organizations. Topics include individual and social sources of power in an organization, diagnosing power and dependence, developing resources and support, dealing with conflict and resistance, the price of power, and developing a personal approach to power and politics.
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Business Administration 4597A/B - Advanced Competitive Strategy
The course is designed for individuals seeking to refine their understanding of how firms successfully develop and execute strategies to outperform their competition. A central theme in the course will be to understand how strategy and the structure of organizations are affected by uncertainty and risk.
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Business Administration 4600A/B - End User Database Management
The aim of this course is to provide a hands-on introduction to database design and use, specifically tailored to potential users of database systems. This course would be useful to a wide range of graduates including those who will work in consulting, business analysis, and new ventures.
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Business Administration 4601A/B - Cyberethics
This course is targeted at business students interested in better understanding how to ethically navigate through the complex digital landscapes brought about by the increasingly ubiquitous use of digital technologies in modern organizations.
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Business Administration 4602A/B - Special Topics in International Business
The course covers the rise of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and the process of internationalization. It starts with classical theories of international business dating back to the 1960s. It then moves to cover more recent literature on the institutional modes chosen by firms to expand internationally.
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Business Administration 4603A/B - Data Management in Excel
The aim for this course is to teach students different techniques to crunch the incoming data into meaningful spreadsheets. Students will also create different solutions in VBA and automate some of the processing time, and move from number crunching to value creation (e.g., generate macro-economic insights, market trends and dynamics).
Antirequisite(s): Computer Science 2034A/B.
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Extra Information: 3.0 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4604A/B - Special Topics in Business Statistics
A constant challenge for business leaders is to ensure that correct decisions are made. In order to make good decisions leaders rely on the best available information and data. This course provides fundamentals of how business leaders should analyze information and data in a sound and rigorous manner.
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Extra Information: 3.0 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4605A/B - Special Topics in Competing with Analytics
Many major corporations now see analytics as a source of competitive advantage. This course will attempt to familiarize you with the best practices and methods these organizations use to harness superior analytics skills to ensure that corporate decision making supports the strategic objectives of the organization.
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Extra Information: 3.0 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4606A/B - Special Topics in Big Data Analysis
In today's business environment managers are inundated with data. To define the concept "Big Data" in terms of bytes is a futile exercise: large today will be minuscule tomorrow. There are fundamental statistics concepts that can assist in making sound business decisions and they are the topic of this course.
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Business Administration 4607A/B - Microeconomics for Managers
This course enables students to understand the microeconomic environment in which they will operate as managers. This course is concerned with issues such as oligopolistic competition and asymmetric information and uses a combination of cases and in-class simulations.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4608A/B - C&S - Managing Energy, Environment & the Natural Environment
This course examines contemporary issues facing managers in natural resource extraction and implications to the society and the environment. The course will develop an understanding for the greatest sensitivities in these sectors and how firms can strategically manage the development of large-scale projects. Emphasis will be placed on public regulation and self-regulation.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4609A/B - Public Policy Analytics
This course will focus on the application of statistics and decision analytic tools to current public policy problems such as health care, energy, and the environment.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4610A/B - Leading Family Firms
Students will be armed with the discovery of the family business system and be able to discern ways of incorporating these success factors, habits and value-enhancers into a family business environment. Mindful of the potential three-way impact of every decision, the students will be better able to make effective choices and successfully manage the business.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4465Q/R/S/T.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4611A/B - Start-ups: Tricky Issues, Hustle & Grit
Grounded in the real-life case examples of entrepreneurs (both successful and not successful), we examine some of the toughest issues entrepreneurs can expect in startups. The course is intended to prepare future entrpreneurs to understand and persevere through some of the most challenging (but potentially rewarding) decision-making situations of entrepreneurship.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4612A/B - Contemporary Issues in Value Investing
This course explores ways by which macro risk may be assessed within a value investing approach to investing and, hedged. To determine how much macro risk is present, the course will provide various methods for determining an approximate fair value for the overall stock market and compare to its current value.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4613A/B - Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate
This course is designed to give a broad overview of commercial real estate, exposing students to all of the major real estate sectors; office, industrial, retail and multi-family residential. Students will be exposed to the development process, including redevelopments, acquisitions and dispositions, financing, leasing and operations.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4614A/B - Social Media Analytics & Digital Marketing
The internet continues to dramatically alter the way marketing is done. The course is designed to get you to think like a digital marketing professional, and to provide you opportunities to gain first-hand experience designing, implementing, and analyzing digital marketing strategies.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4616A/B - Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in Israel
Students meet entrepreneurs, CEOs, and political leaders, and visit startups, incubators, and historical sites in this selective experiential course in Israel. Also, they apply a range of skills addressing real world problems. This cross-cultural course exposes students to a society that sees risk as a positive aspect of entrepreneurship.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4617A/B - International Business Environment Studies: Service Learning in Africa
In this immersive service learning course, students teach business students in an African country using the case method. Students experience first-hand Africa's strong economic growth, while adding to the managerial talent to further grow economic prosperity. Students spend time in class before the trip and spend four weeks in Africa.
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Business Administration 4618A/B - Decision Making and Risk Management
Decision making and risk management quality affect outcomes – good and bad – to ourselves and others. Informed by psychology, economics, and decision analysis research, we examine normative models of how to make decisions, descriptive models of how people do make decisions, and prescriptive models to improve decision making and risk management.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4619A/B - The Performing Leader
Students are given the opportunity to understand the benefits of leadership stories to become an inspirational leader, to discover personal values and leadership stories to establish whom you are as a leader, to develop leadership presence and communication skills to connect with others, to discover different models of storytelling popular in today’s business world.
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Extra Information: 3.0 hours, 0.5 course.
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Business Administration 4620A/B - Assessing the Broader Impact of Business
Designed to provide students with the tools necessary to assess how firms manage their environmental, economic and social performance; develop methods and metrics to assess the broader impact of a product, program, organization or business on its stakeholders; and identify and explain how organizations’ performance measurement systems shape business practices.
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Business Administration 4621A/B - Technology Management in Creative Economy
Students will gain the ability to analyze decisions about managing innovative capabilities within firms; persuasively explain and defend a position on issues relevant to managing creative capabilities that are as yet unsettled by research; describe a framework for innovative capability management, and for use of technology to support innovative capabilities.
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Business Administration 4623A/B - International Collaborative Arrangements
Students will gain an advanced level of knowledge about best practice in international collaborations. To gain an appreciation of the strategic, legal, operational and organizational challenges that are faced by managers engaged in international collaborations and to enhance decision-making and problem-solving skills in relation to collaborative venture management challenges.
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Business Administration 4624A/B - Managerial Accounting and Control
This course provides students the necessary tools to be competent consumers of accounting data and to integrate the understanding of accounts, profits, cost behavior, relevant cost and control systems required for decision-making. Topics include data collection, processing, interpretation, and the utilization of accounting information by managers.
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Business Administration 4625A/B - C&S – Developing More Sustainable Supply Chains
Students will deepen their understanding of value creation, value delivery and value capture that remain central to business administration; to map a number of the complex interactions between business, society and the natural environment along the supply chain; and to delve into promising sources of improved competitiveness and sustainability.
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Business Administration 4626A/B - Special Topics in Cross Cultural Management
Students will develop critical thinking and advanced understanding on the nature of global variety and interdependence, foster a deep appreciation of culture and a perspective for leveraging their cultural expertise in changing multi-cultural combinations across people, and increase behavioural capabilities for leading in global contexts to achieve business results.
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Business Administration 4627A/B - Special Topics in Programming Skills 1
Students will develop technical programming skills that are frequently identified as important by data science practitioners, but which are not easy to cover within the current program structure. Topics will vary from term to term. Examples of topics include SAS, SQL, Hadoop, Python, JAVA, Tableau.
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Extra Information: 3.0 hours, 0.5 course.
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Academic Calendar 2017 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE INFORMATION Business Administration (B)
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