Academic Calendar - 2024
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Business Administration
Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Students learn business fundamentals in finance, marketing, engineering economics, organizational behaviour and general management. Students are taught business decisionmaking 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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is designed to provide students pursuing modules offered by the Faculties of Science, Health Sciences 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, marketing and organizational behaviour through Ivey Business School’s case method.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 1220E, Business for Engineers 1299E, Business Administration 2299E.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Major, Specialization or Honours Specialization in the Faculties of Science, Health Sciences or the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Restricted to students in Years 2 and above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Limited to Engineering students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4678A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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This course will teach students how to communicate effectively in interviews, group collaborations, conflict situations, performance evaluations, media contact situations, and in public relations.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course develops presentation skills through practice and feedback, simulations, experiments and "hands-on" demonstrations. Debriefing and feedback are integral parts of this methodology.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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The course covers how derivatives products are structured, priced, and used. This knowledge is essential for corporate executives who use derivatives in financing activities and risk management, bankers who create and trade these products on their behalf and on behalf of clients, and managers of mutual, pension, and hedge funds.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4643A/B, Financial Modelling 2557A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Business Administration 3303K.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics include supply chain organization, systems, quality, delivery, quantity, price, source selection, commodity buying, outsourcing, reverse marketing and supply strategy. Other topics may include negotiation, supply chain consulting, international procurement and environmental issues in supply chains.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course supplements the learning from Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4437Q/R/S/T.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course implements financial models in Excel. The main topics covered are: modeling financial instruments, programming in Excel and modeling for valuation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course examines brand management within the marketing function and its relations to product management. We examine product line management and competitive brand management. We then examine environmental threats to the brand, including the issues of private labels and media changes. Finally, we examine global branding and its organizational basis.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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To introduce to students the unique business environments in the Far East, including China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines issues related to the COVID-19 crisis and common to crises in general. Students will study COVID-related cases, business cases relating to previous crises and other resources. Students will develop the skills required to manage an organization through a material, external shock.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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).
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will involve an organized study trip to an international location where a mix of business, political and cultural topics will be observed.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores how to assess overall stock market risk within a value investing approach, how to determine a fair value for the overall market, and what steps to take to manage exposure to market risk. The course reviews stock market manias and behavioral biases which can affect market prices.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4633A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The objective of the course is to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed to manage a high growth, entrepreneurial company.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 2277A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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).
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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?
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will have the opportunity to learn the case writing or research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a report within a condensed time frame. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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This course aims to provide a hands-on introduction to (un)structured 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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Many major corporations now see analytics as a source of competitive advantage. This course will familiarize students 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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 statistical concepts that can assist in making sound business decisions and they are the topic of this course.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 entrepreneurs to understand and persevere through some of the most challenging (but potentially rewarding) decision-making situations of entrepreneurship.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Geography 3464F/G.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Internet continues to dramatically alter the way marketing is done. The course is designed toget you to think like a digital marketing professional, and to provide you opportunities to gain firsthand experience designing, implementing, and analyzing digital marketing strategies.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This multidisciplinary course focuses on managing creativity in companies that are competing based on differentiation by exploring unconventional cases (in design, entertainment, food, sport, supercars, game). In the end, students will learn how to uniquely develop strategies and manage creative processes and creative people when competing based on creative differentiation.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Designed for students intending to work in complex, multi-business enterprises. Students will learn to analyze the formulation of corporate strategy, discuss the design and implementation of multi-business enterprise’s management processes and evaluate the relationship that the corporate office maintains with business unit managers.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is designed for HBA2’s interested in FinTech and the transformation of banking and financial services. The course is for students pursuing careers in large financial incumbents, starting their own venture, financial services consultancy, or investing in FinTech companies. Students should be comfortable with HBA1 core Finance, Strategy.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on the skills, techniques, and strategies required to be successful in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace. Students will learn how to: create a compelling value proposition, package it to resonate with their target buyer(s), deliver the proposition to prospects, and ultimately close deals to drive strategic growth.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on how the advance of digital technologies extends the management capabilities required for competitive success across a range of business disciplines, including strategy, finance, marketing, innovation, partner and customer relationship management, risk management, organizational structure and people management and beyond.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide students with a distinct set of technical skills customized to your preferences and career trajectory. A different set of on-line training will be offered each term. Choose from badges, such as: Design Software and Techniques, e.g. Adobe Design Suite.
Extra Information: 2 hours, pass/fail.
Non-credit course.
Course Weight: 0
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This course will introduce econometric and statistical methods used to analyze applied research questions in management. Concentration will be placed on when and how causality can be determined using observational data. Topics covered may include matching estimators, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity designs, panel data, and their application in R.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4656A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course will explore: product, service and process innovation concepts; innovation in high-tech and low-tech industries; how firms build and sustain innovation-centric strategies; creating and fostering a culture of innovation; and striking the balance between promoting innovation and harvesting its benefits.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4564A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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By the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to (a) have a better understanding of the contemporary business environment of China, (b) develop the ability to analyze complex business cases in the multinational contexts, (c) develop solutions for the context specific challenges that foreign companies face in China.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4501A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to technologies and practices for simulation used to model complex systems. It covers modeling and risk assessment approaches with a focus on continuous and discrete event simulation.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will cover 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. Examples of topics may include, but are not restricted to, SAS, SQL, Hadoop, Python, JAVA, visualization software (e.g., Tableau and Qlik) and others.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week, pass/fail. Non-credit course.
Course Weight: 0
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The purpose of this course is to assist in the development of skills, habits and expertise in salient dimensions of new venture creation (especially as it relates to fostering innovation and new venture creation in independent and corporate settings).
Antirequisite(s): Engineering Science 3330A/B and Business Administration 4558A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course focuses on cultivating and managing digital architectures that serve the business its suppliers and partners. Students will develop and understanding of the way in which digital platforms span functional boundaries and require substantial partnership and collaboration between stakeholders including technologists, designers, functional management and external partners.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide students with a distinct set of technical skills customized to your preferences and career trajectory. A different set of online training will be offered each term. Choose from badges such as: Programming for Business, R, Python, Java, or Quantum Computing Language.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week, pass/fail. Non-credit course.
Course Weight: 0
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This course will give you a foundational understanding and skills to work with data. Through the use of hands-on examples, we will explore the design and implementation of the kinds of multiuser transactional databases that you are likely to routinely encounter in your future work.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4600A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course intends to create a better understanding of decision-making and risk management processes in organizations, with special focus on international business settings. We will consider cognitive, social, organizational factors that impact how people perceive and assess risk.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4618A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week
Course Weight: 0.50
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We will explore the context of Frontier Markets, the implications of investing and operating in these promising pre-emerging economies, where many assumptions from developed countries do not hold. We will welcome a range of experts to discuss their experiences in Frontier Markets, along with best practices.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course strikes a balance between theory and applications. Applications span the four markets of foreign exchange, commodities and energy products, stocks, and fixed income instruments. Industries covered include airlines, automakers, oil and gas, hedge funds, and commercial and investment banks.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4413A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In this experiential course, students explore failure, misconduct and wrongdoing as realities in today’s world of work. They develop a hands-on understanding and explore ways to navigate through using a responsible mindset. Through cases, role-plays, scenarios and simulations, students identify, analyze and work to become part of the solution.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Revenue management is an analytics-based approach for selling the right product to the right customer at the right price at the right time. In this course, students will learn how to enhance revenues using a “data + models” approach.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4520A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The theory and practice of systems thinking will help students to explore root causes and effects in order to better predict and prepare for large scale change. Understanding systems thinking will assist students to design and manage resilient organizations with real-world and action-oriented business tools.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In this course we will explore various models for analyzing issues at the intersection of technology and society. We pose the questions: are digital technologies producing a better society? If so, for whom? What are the implications for decision making and leadership in the digital age?
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The first part of the course covers the broad perspective of purchasing and supply management; The second part addresses logistics activities in the supply chain. The balance of the course focuses on supply chain strategy and deals with opportunities to develop and implement initiatives to create competitive advantage.¿
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4464A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In making decisions, executives rely on predictions and forecasts that are based on the versatile data that companies are increasingly gathering. Making accurate forecasts is a necessity to cope with issues such as seasonality, and swings in the economy and is fundamental for creating a competitive advantage.¿
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores various models for analyzing issues at the intersection of technology and humanity. Are digital technologies producing a better society? What are the implications for decision making and leadership in the digital age? We will discuss ways in which technology affects the internal and external stakeholders of organizations.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4647A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the implications of economic inequality and diversity for business. How are “opportunities”, both within organizations and in society more generally, created and constrained by social stratification? Does inequality and diversity affect innovation and productivity? These issues are explored in a cross-national perspective, with particular emphasis on liberal
democracies.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course offers an integrated understanding of organizational risks, governance, and reporting considerations. Students will be introduced to concepts, frameworks, and underlying theories of topics including financial and nonfinancial disclosure and transparency, global regulatory frameworks, transfer pricing in global supply chains and challenges of digital technologies and assets.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4417.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course studies how systematic errors in judgment impact economic outcomes. It will explore problem spaces that are relevant to management, consumer behaviour, government, philanthropy, the environment, and our personal lives.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides students with 10 weeks to 4 months (May to August) of practical experience relating to the student’s degree in an employment setting. During the work term, students complete a set of Learning Outcomes, a Mid-Point Reflection meeting, a Final SelfAssessment, and a Final Report. At the conclusion of the internship term, students will receive a pass/fail assessment from the Faculty Supervisor.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of HBA1 with a minimum average of 70%, and participation in Career Management Essentials during HBA1. Approval of, and acceptance into, a Student Work Placement through Career Management.
Extra Information: Pass/Fail. Note: (1) There is no credit weight for this course, and it is not a requirement to complete the HBA program. (2) Students must be enrolled in a full course load (7.5 credits) in HBA1 and must return to full-time studies following the internship term. (3) International students who meet the requirements to participate in an internship term must secure a valid co-op work permit. (4) Funding is available to corporate partners in the Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) which offers a wage subsidy to employers hiring interns.
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This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of causal inference and its importance for making high quality decisions with data. Through a series of case studies, students will learn how to describe and analyze causal relationships and implement basic causal estimation techniques.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4632A/B, Business Administration 9911.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will cover ongoing and impending developments in retailing, including - e-retail adoption, AI in retailing, market entry, customer retention, and franchising. Reliance on case-based learning method, the business press, and state-of-the-art academic research ensures comprehensive learning.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will offer a comprehensive look at emerging markets as they integrate with the global economy and increasingly become the global mainstream. Participants will discuss and analyze emerging markets from multiple perspectives, including local and global examples.
Extra Information: 3¿ hours/week.¿
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides students with 8 to 12 months (for example, September to August) of practical experience relating to the student’s degree in an employment setting. During the work term, students complete an Internship Agreement, a Mid-Point Reflection meeting, a Final Self-Assessment, and a Final Report. At the conclusion of the internship term, students will receive a pass/fail assessment from the Faculty Supervisor.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of HBA1 with a minimum average of 70%, and participation in Career Management Essentials during HBA1. Approval of, and acceptance into, the Internship course.
Extra Information: Pass/Fail. Note: (1) There is no credit weight for this course, and it is not a requirement to complete the HBA program. (2) Students must be enrolled in a full course load (7.5 credits) in HBA1 and must return to full-time studies following the internship term, as outlined by the program. (3) International students who meet the requirements to participate in an internship term must secure a valid co-op work permit. (4) Funding is available to corporate partners in the Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) which offers a wage subsidy to employers hiring interns (5) Students who qualify to receive a continuing scholarship in the academic year in which they participate in the Business Internship Program are permitted to defer receipt of the scholarship for one year.
Course Weight: 0
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ESG In-Action examines how organizations implement ESG principles in terms of best practices, tools, and techniques. Through case studies, readings, guest lectures and discussions, this course provides an overview on how to measure, evaluate, report and disclose a company’s environmental, social, and governance commitments and results.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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The specific goal of this course is to improve students' capacity to act effectively when dealing with ethical conflicts and/or opportunities.
Antirequisite(s): the former Business Administration 4584Q/R/S/T.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will have the opportunity to learn the case writing process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a case for class together with a draft teaching note. Topics and learning objectives are developed between students and a faculty member.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through systems thinking, students will learn how corporations can adapt and thrive in times of disruption. Students will learn to define problems, understand systems, and nudge the system using real-world and action-oriented tools. In doing so, they will learn to design and manage resilient and sustainable organizations.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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This is an applied, experiential course where students will work with social enterprises to develop focused and feasible recommendations for a plan of action on real-world problems. Students will apply learnings to co-create ideas and solutions with a particular social enterprise and/or community.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will help students learn how entrepreneurs develop software products at startups and product leaders at early-stage startups and tech companies. Topics covered might include setting product strategies and visions, understanding customer needs, experimenting to validate ideas, working with developers and designers, and developing minimum viable products.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will cover topics relevant for financial managers in a firm (e.g., CFO, treasurer), focusing on important frameworks and theories to aid decision-making. It will cover capital structure and payout policy, advanced debt and equity valuation, and financial strategies including capital raising, and mergers and acquisitions.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Given the increasing importance of Africa in the global economy, this course will examine the challenges and opportunities of doing business throughout Africa. Students will learn relevant entry modes, managing political risks, and how to internationalize across African Emerging Markets by leveraging agreements of African Regional Economic Integration.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will hone students’ capacity to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) by using social innovations to address problems such as climate change and social inequities. Students will take insights from research and apply them in practice as they work to create their own social innovations.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4664A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the HBA Program Director.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus on ways in which corporate managers create value for shareholders through their capital structure and financing choices. It will also place corporate financial decisions in a strategic context, emphasizing the relationship between capital structure, financial markets and strategic financial decisions.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4667A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the HBA Program Director.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides tools for using data and models to obtain managerial insights and introduce quantitative methods for decision analysis including probability, linear regression, simulation, and optimization. It also provides a systematic framework for the use of data and models in managerial decisions in marketing, operations, finance, accounting, and strategy.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 3316K.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will analyze the impact of digitalization on company strategy and new business opportunities. It will address company strategy of firms throughout the core digital markets in the context of policies that set constraints and opportunities for executing business strategy. It will also examine government responses/initiatives of the same.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the nature of strategy decisions, the attributes of effective decisions in ambiguous settings, and crafting persuasive narratives that help put decisions into effect. It complements the merits and limits of concepts, theories and frameworks of Strategic Analysis and Action with skills such as foresight, judgment, and creativity.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Transformational Leadership provides a learning journey that takes aims to understand, activate, and develop one’s leader character. In doing so, the course will build on evidence identifying character as a key requirement of next generation leaders, and as a foundation for strong decision making and judgement.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Business Administration
Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Students learn business fundamentals in finance, marketing, engineering economics, organizational behaviour and general management. Students are taught business decisionmaking 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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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Prerequisite for entry to Honours 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.
Prerequisite(s): 5.0 courses at University level.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is designed to provide students pursuing modules offered by the Faculties of Science, Health Sciences 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, marketing and organizational behaviour through Ivey Business School’s case method.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 1220E, Business for Engineers 1299E, Business Administration 2299E.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Major, Specialization or Honours Specialization in the Faculties of Science, Health Sciences or the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Restricted to students in Years 2 and above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Limited to Engineering students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4678A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.75
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This course will teach students how to communicate effectively in interviews, group collaborations, conflict situations, performance evaluations, media contact situations, and in public relations.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course develops presentation skills through practice and feedback, simulations, experiments and "hands-on" demonstrations. Debriefing and feedback are integral parts of this methodology.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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The course covers how derivatives products are structured, priced, and used. This knowledge is essential for corporate executives who use derivatives in financing activities and risk management, bankers who create and trade these products on their behalf and on behalf of clients, and managers of mutual, pension, and hedge funds.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4643A/B, Financial Modelling 2557A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Business Administration 3303K.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics include supply chain organization, systems, quality, delivery, quantity, price, source selection, commodity buying, outsourcing, reverse marketing and supply strategy. Other topics may include negotiation, supply chain consulting, international procurement and environmental issues in supply chains.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course supplements the learning from Business Administration 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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4437Q/R/S/T.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course implements financial models in Excel. The main topics covered are: modeling financial instruments, programming in Excel and modeling for valuation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course examines brand management within the marketing function and its relations to product management. We examine product line management and competitive brand management. We then examine environmental threats to the brand, including the issues of private labels and media changes. Finally, we examine global branding and its organizational basis.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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To introduce to students the unique business environments in the Far East, including China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines issues related to the COVID-19 crisis and common to crises in general. Students will study COVID-related cases, business cases relating to previous crises and other resources. Students will develop the skills required to manage an organization through a material, external shock.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult the HBA Office for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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).
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will involve an organized study trip to an international location where a mix of business, political and cultural topics will be observed.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores how to assess overall stock market risk within a value investing approach, how to determine a fair value for the overall market, and what steps to take to manage exposure to market risk. The course reviews stock market manias and behavioral biases which can affect market prices.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4633A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The objective of the course is to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed to manage a high growth, entrepreneurial company.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 2277A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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).
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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?
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will have the opportunity to learn the case writing or research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a report within a condensed time frame. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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This course aims to provide a hands-on introduction to (un)structured 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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Many major corporations now see analytics as a source of competitive advantage. This course will familiarize students 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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 statistical concepts that can assist in making sound business decisions and they are the topic of this course.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 entrepreneurs to understand and persevere through some of the most challenging (but potentially rewarding) decision-making situations of entrepreneurship.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Geography 3464F/G.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Internet continues to dramatically alter the way marketing is done. The course is designed toget you to think like a digital marketing professional, and to provide you opportunities to gain firsthand experience designing, implementing, and analyzing digital marketing strategies.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This multidisciplinary course focuses on managing creativity in companies that are competing based on differentiation by exploring unconventional cases (in design, entertainment, food, sport, supercars, game). In the end, students will learn how to uniquely develop strategies and manage creative processes and creative people when competing based on creative differentiation.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Designed for students intending to work in complex, multi-business enterprises. Students will learn to analyze the formulation of corporate strategy, discuss the design and implementation of multi-business enterprise’s management processes and evaluate the relationship that the corporate office maintains with business unit managers.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is designed for HBA2’s interested in FinTech and the transformation of banking and financial services. The course is for students pursuing careers in large financial incumbents, starting their own venture, financial services consultancy, or investing in FinTech companies. Students should be comfortable with HBA1 core Finance, Strategy.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on the skills, techniques, and strategies required to be successful in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace. Students will learn how to: create a compelling value proposition, package it to resonate with their target buyer(s), deliver the proposition to prospects, and ultimately close deals to drive strategic growth.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on how the advance of digital technologies extends the management capabilities required for competitive success across a range of business disciplines, including strategy, finance, marketing, innovation, partner and customer relationship management, risk management, organizational structure and people management and beyond.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide students with a distinct set of technical skills customized to your preferences and career trajectory. A different set of on-line training will be offered each term. Choose from badges, such as: Design Software and Techniques, e.g. Adobe Design Suite.
Extra Information: 2 hours, pass/fail.
Non-credit course.
Course Weight: 0
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This course will introduce econometric and statistical methods used to analyze applied research questions in management. Concentration will be placed on when and how causality can be determined using observational data. Topics covered may include matching estimators, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity designs, panel data, and their application in R.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4656A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course will explore: product, service and process innovation concepts; innovation in high-tech and low-tech industries; how firms build and sustain innovation-centric strategies; creating and fostering a culture of innovation; and striking the balance between promoting innovation and harvesting its benefits.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4564A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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By the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to (a) have a better understanding of the contemporary business environment of China, (b) develop the ability to analyze complex business cases in the multinational contexts, (c) develop solutions for the context specific challenges that foreign companies face in China.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4501A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to technologies and practices for simulation used to model complex systems. It covers modeling and risk assessment approaches with a focus on continuous and discrete event simulation.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will cover 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. Examples of topics may include, but are not restricted to, SAS, SQL, Hadoop, Python, JAVA, visualization software (e.g., Tableau and Qlik) and others.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week, pass/fail. Non-credit course.
Course Weight: 0
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The purpose of this course is to assist in the development of skills, habits and expertise in salient dimensions of new venture creation (especially as it relates to fostering innovation and new venture creation in independent and corporate settings).
Antirequisite(s): Engineering Science 3330A/B and Business Administration 4558A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course focuses on cultivating and managing digital architectures that serve the business its suppliers and partners. Students will develop and understanding of the way in which digital platforms span functional boundaries and require substantial partnership and collaboration between stakeholders including technologists, designers, functional management and external partners.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide students with a distinct set of technical skills customized to your preferences and career trajectory. A different set of online training will be offered each term. Choose from badges such as: Programming for Business, R, Python, Java, or Quantum Computing Language.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week, pass/fail. Non-credit course.
Course Weight: 0
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This course will give you a foundational understanding and skills to work with data. Through the use of hands-on examples, we will explore the design and implementation of the kinds of multiuser transactional databases that you are likely to routinely encounter in your future work.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4600A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course intends to create a better understanding of decision-making and risk management processes in organizations, with special focus on international business settings. We will consider cognitive, social, organizational factors that impact how people perceive and assess risk.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4618A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week
Course Weight: 0.50
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We will explore the context of Frontier Markets, the implications of investing and operating in these promising pre-emerging economies, where many assumptions from developed countries do not hold. We will welcome a range of experts to discuss their experiences in Frontier Markets, along with best practices.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course strikes a balance between theory and applications. Applications span the four markets of foreign exchange, commodities and energy products, stocks, and fixed income instruments. Industries covered include airlines, automakers, oil and gas, hedge funds, and commercial and investment banks.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4413A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In this experiential course, students explore failure, misconduct and wrongdoing as realities in today’s world of work. They develop a hands-on understanding and explore ways to navigate through using a responsible mindset. Through cases, role-plays, scenarios and simulations, students identify, analyze and work to become part of the solution.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Revenue management is an analytics-based approach for selling the right product to the right customer at the right price at the right time. In this course, students will learn how to enhance revenues using a “data + models” approach.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4520A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The theory and practice of systems thinking will help students to explore root causes and effects in order to better predict and prepare for large scale change. Understanding systems thinking will assist students to design and manage resilient organizations with real-world and action-oriented business tools.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In this course we will explore various models for analyzing issues at the intersection of technology and society. We pose the questions: are digital technologies producing a better society? If so, for whom? What are the implications for decision making and leadership in the digital age?
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The first part of the course covers the broad perspective of purchasing and supply management; The second part addresses logistics activities in the supply chain. The balance of the course focuses on supply chain strategy and deals with opportunities to develop and implement initiatives to create competitive advantage.¿
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4464A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In making decisions, executives rely on predictions and forecasts that are based on the versatile data that companies are increasingly gathering. Making accurate forecasts is a necessity to cope with issues such as seasonality, and swings in the economy and is fundamental for creating a competitive advantage.¿
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores various models for analyzing issues at the intersection of technology and humanity. Are digital technologies producing a better society? What are the implications for decision making and leadership in the digital age? We will discuss ways in which technology affects the internal and external stakeholders of organizations.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4647A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the implications of economic inequality and diversity for business. How are “opportunities”, both within organizations and in society more generally, created and constrained by social stratification? Does inequality and diversity affect innovation and productivity? These issues are explored in a cross-national perspective, with particular emphasis on liberal
democracies.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course offers an integrated understanding of organizational risks, governance, and reporting considerations. Students will be introduced to concepts, frameworks, and underlying theories of topics including financial and nonfinancial disclosure and transparency, global regulatory frameworks, transfer pricing in global supply chains and challenges of digital technologies and assets.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4417.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course studies how systematic errors in judgment impact economic outcomes. It will explore problem spaces that are relevant to management, consumer behaviour, government, philanthropy, the environment, and our personal lives.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides students with 10 weeks to 4 months (May to August) of practical experience relating to the student’s degree in an employment setting. During the work term, students complete a set of Learning Outcomes, a Mid-Point Reflection meeting, a Final SelfAssessment, and a Final Report. At the conclusion of the internship term, students will receive a pass/fail assessment from the Faculty Supervisor.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of HBA1 with a minimum average of 70%, and participation in Career Management Essentials during HBA1. Approval of, and acceptance into, a Student Work Placement through Career Management.
Extra Information: Pass/Fail. Note: (1) There is no credit weight for this course, and it is not a requirement to complete the HBA program. (2) Students must be enrolled in a full course load (7.5 credits) in HBA1 and must return to full-time studies following the internship term. (3) International students who meet the requirements to participate in an internship term must secure a valid co-op work permit. (4) Funding is available to corporate partners in the Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) which offers a wage subsidy to employers hiring interns.
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This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of causal inference and its importance for making high quality decisions with data. Through a series of case studies, students will learn how to describe and analyze causal relationships and implement basic causal estimation techniques.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4632A/B, Business Administration 9911.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will cover ongoing and impending developments in retailing, including - e-retail adoption, AI in retailing, market entry, customer retention, and franchising. Reliance on case-based learning method, the business press, and state-of-the-art academic research ensures comprehensive learning.
Extra Information: 3 hours/week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will offer a comprehensive look at emerging markets as they integrate with the global economy and increasingly become the global mainstream. Participants will discuss and analyze emerging markets from multiple perspectives, including local and global examples.
Extra Information: 3¿ hours/week.¿
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides students with 8 to 12 months (for example, September to August) of practical experience relating to the student’s degree in an employment setting. During the work term, students complete an Internship Agreement, a Mid-Point Reflection meeting, a Final Self-Assessment, and a Final Report. At the conclusion of the internship term, students will receive a pass/fail assessment from the Faculty Supervisor.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of HBA1 with a minimum average of 70%, and participation in Career Management Essentials during HBA1. Approval of, and acceptance into, the Internship course.
Extra Information: Pass/Fail. Note: (1) There is no credit weight for this course, and it is not a requirement to complete the HBA program. (2) Students must be enrolled in a full course load (7.5 credits) in HBA1 and must return to full-time studies following the internship term, as outlined by the program. (3) International students who meet the requirements to participate in an internship term must secure a valid co-op work permit. (4) Funding is available to corporate partners in the Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) which offers a wage subsidy to employers hiring interns (5) Students who qualify to receive a continuing scholarship in the academic year in which they participate in the Business Internship Program are permitted to defer receipt of the scholarship for one year.
Course Weight: 0
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ESG In-Action examines how organizations implement ESG principles in terms of best practices, tools, and techniques. Through case studies, readings, guest lectures and discussions, this course provides an overview on how to measure, evaluate, report and disclose a company’s environmental, social, and governance commitments and results.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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The specific goal of this course is to improve students' capacity to act effectively when dealing with ethical conflicts and/or opportunities.
Antirequisite(s): the former Business Administration 4584Q/R/S/T.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will have the opportunity to learn the case writing process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a case for class together with a draft teaching note. Topics and learning objectives are developed between students and a faculty member.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through systems thinking, students will learn how corporations can adapt and thrive in times of disruption. Students will learn to define problems, understand systems, and nudge the system using real-world and action-oriented tools. In doing so, they will learn to design and manage resilient and sustainable organizations.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.25
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This is an applied, experiential course where students will work with social enterprises to develop focused and feasible recommendations for a plan of action on real-world problems. Students will apply learnings to co-create ideas and solutions with a particular social enterprise and/or community.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will help students learn how entrepreneurs develop software products at startups and product leaders at early-stage startups and tech companies. Topics covered might include setting product strategies and visions, understanding customer needs, experimenting to validate ideas, working with developers and designers, and developing minimum viable products.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will cover topics relevant for financial managers in a firm (e.g., CFO, treasurer), focusing on important frameworks and theories to aid decision-making. It will cover capital structure and payout policy, advanced debt and equity valuation, and financial strategies including capital raising, and mergers and acquisitions.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Given the increasing importance of Africa in the global economy, this course will examine the challenges and opportunities of doing business throughout Africa. Students will learn relevant entry modes, managing political risks, and how to internationalize across African Emerging Markets by leveraging agreements of African Regional Economic Integration.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will hone students’ capacity to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) by using social innovations to address problems such as climate change and social inequities. Students will take insights from research and apply them in practice as they work to create their own social innovations.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4664A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the HBA Program Director.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus on ways in which corporate managers create value for shareholders through their capital structure and financing choices. It will also place corporate financial decisions in a strategic context, emphasizing the relationship between capital structure, financial markets and strategic financial decisions.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4667A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the HBA Program Director.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides tools for using data and models to obtain managerial insights and introduce quantitative methods for decision analysis including probability, linear regression, simulation, and optimization. It also provides a systematic framework for the use of data and models in managerial decisions in marketing, operations, finance, accounting, and strategy.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 3316K.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will analyze the impact of digitalization on company strategy and new business opportunities. It will address company strategy of firms throughout the core digital markets in the context of policies that set constraints and opportunities for executing business strategy. It will also examine government responses/initiatives of the same.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the nature of strategy decisions, the attributes of effective decisions in ambiguous settings, and crafting persuasive narratives that help put decisions into effect. It complements the merits and limits of concepts, theories and frameworks of Strategic Analysis and Action with skills such as foresight, judgment, and creativity.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Transformational Leadership provides a learning journey that takes aims to understand, activate, and develop one’s leader character. In doing so, the course will build on evidence identifying character as a key requirement of next generation leaders, and as a foundation for strong decision making and judgement.
Extra Information: 3 hours.