Making Ethical Decision

This course will address the realities and challenges of Making Ethical Decisions. "Moral Capitalism" by Stephen Young, the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table will be the key text for this course. Through sharing my own business experience, the students will address the question from theoretical and practical perspectives. This course will develop on the theoretical and practical foundation provided in the core course of "Business Ethics". Through case studies, additional materials on current issues, students are required to discuss how ethical standards such as the Caux Round Table's "Principles for Business" and assessment tools such as "CSR Innovation" should be applied within the framework of business decision making and find solutions.
The question of "how to keep the balance between profit and duty?" and individual moral sense will be considered through sharing the domestic and international working experience of CSR as the Executive Director of the Caux Round Table-Japan. Positive and negative examples of companies and cutting edge decision making will be shared with the students.
The students will not only benefit from the experience from being taught by a number of faculty members with their special expertise, but through special lectures conducted by guest speakers from corporations working on CSR in day to day operations.

Designing Organizational Systems

This course is designed to deepen the students’ understanding on organizational systems. It will give the students an overview of organization theory focusing on classical as well as modern concepts with solid academic foundations. The course will also provide the opportunity to apply those theories and perspectives to actual business cases, and to thoroughly examine how theoretical argument does and does not apply to what is actually happening in businesses. Students will be continuously reminded that organizational system is not stable and fixed framework, but adapting routines that dynamically interact with strategy, environment, capability, learning, and innovation. Beyond just being knowledgeable on various buzzwords on organizational systems, the students will be required to examine the logic of designing organizational systems.

International Management

This course examines the impact of globalization and the internationalization of business activities on the competitive context of organizations, and looks at how corporate strategy can incorporate this impact. It will explore the environment of international business (trade, political economy and government-business relationships, etc.) as these affect the institutional and cultural foundations of the firm. It also examines specific issues related to the use of knowledge and to the firm as an instrument of change in the broader context of international society.

Marketing Management

The course challenges you to think critically about the role of marketing in the increasingly global economy. The course has many practical elements but also provides the conceptual tools necessary for managers to abstract, analyze, understand and predict existing and future markets and customers. Contemporary and persuasive issues such as the increased globalization of markets, the importance of changing technologies and the impact of social considerations on marketing decision making are recognized and integrated into the course.
The key challenges for business organizations include:
1) developing a shared vision throughout the organization about the market and how it may change in the future; 2) identifying opportunities for delivering superior value to customers; 3) positioning the organization and its brands in the marketplace to obtain the best match between distinctive capabilities and market opportunities; 4) recognizing the potential benefits of partnering with customers, suppliers, distribution channel members, internal functions, and even competitors; and 5) shaping the design of the organization to implement and manage strategy on a global basis.

Marketing Strategy

This course provides an overview of basic but vital concepts in marketing management. It will use case studies and ask students to consider critically and to demonstrate how marketing concepts such as pricing strategy and brand communication are applicable to real business situations. Students will be able to acquire the practical skills needed to create marketing plans that are competitive and effective in the real business environment. The course also deals with recent topics in marketing management, such as global brand management and digital marketing.

Principles of Finance

Principles of Finance provide a basis for the study of finance at the MBA level. It will present a survey of key concepts, covering the issue of how to allocate scarce resources over time under conditions of uncertainty. The course encompasses all the subfields of finance in 4 major sections. Section I explains “Overview of Finance”, which includes the financial system, its structure and functions, financial statements, cash flows and financial statement analysis. Section II deals with “Valuation and Capital Budgeting”: discounted cash flow valuation, net present values and other investment rules, emphasizing the application of financial principles to decision-making through financial planning, investment, capital budgeting. Section III covers "Theory and Practice of Risk": the CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model), APT (Arbitrage Pricing Theory) and Cost of Capital. Section IV covers “Capital Structure and Dividend Policy”: efficient capital market, MM Proposition, among others.

Financial Reporting and Analysis

The main goal of this course is to help you to develop financial reporting analysis skills and techniques such as fundamental analysis, forecasting, and estimation of firm value. You learn the usefulness and the limitations of financial reporting analysis using financial data provided by public companies. It is important to know the incentives that a preparer of financial reports faces and to understand how these incentives affect financial reporting. Academic journal articles as well as news topics are used to discuss how managers’ decision-making in the preparation of financial information is affected by such incentives. We will learn various analysis techniques such as strategy analysis, financial analysis, forecasting, valuation theory and concepts, equity security analysis, credit analysis and distress prediction using case-studies. Upon completion of the course, students are expected to have sufficient knowledge and skills to analyze financial information rationally, and put the results to effective use.

Corporate Finance

The objective of this course is to introduce students to corporate financial decisions based on the principles of asset valuation in competitive financial markets. Along with the discussion on corporate asset and capital acquisitions, the course also deals with the issues related to agency problems and managerial incentives which might affect the going-concern value of a firm and its assets. The course will be a mixture of lectures and discussions in style. In addition to the textbook and business cases, the course will also uses real-world data and internet Web information. Students are expected to be active in class discussion, especially, of business cases. To be active in class, it is essential for them to be fully prepared prior to attending the class.

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