Program Outline

Orientation

Strategic Management Foundations: explores economic principles of business strategy and develops an analytic framework for identifying and evaluating alternative strategies.

Model Magic: Using Models to Improve Business Decisions: Gain a good understanding of different probability concepts and the idea of conditional probabilities.

Model Magic: Using Models to Improve Business Decisions: Gain a good understanding of different probability concepts and the idea of conditional probabilities.
 

​Managerial Economics: explores the nature and determinants (including market forces) of decisions on profit-maximizing production and pricing.

Macroeconomic: inspects the economic mechanisms and trends as well as the cultural, social and political environments that shape economies, with emphasis on countries of the Middle East.
 

Doing Business in Emerging Markets.
Analyzes emerging markets from multiple perspectives in order to prepare business leaders to address the challenges of succeeding in a globalized world.

International Financial Reporting & Analysis:  introduces generally accepted accounting principles and concepts along with the preparation and analysis of financial statements.
 

Leadership and Organizations: uses cases and simulations to explore how theories of behavior apply to individuals and groups within organizations.
 

Cross Cultural Communication

Negotiation Strategies: develops negotiation and dispute-resolution skills through simulations set in dyads, groups, and multilateral contexts within and between organizations and across cultures.
 

​Strategic Crisis Management: provides managers with conceptual tools to successfully master high-pressure, complex crisis scenarios. Topics include issue and media management, dealing with activists and interest groups, and surviving legal, legislative, and regulatory challenges.

​Managerial Economics: explores the nature and determinants (including market forces) of decisions on profit-maximizing production and pricing.

​Corporate Finance & Investments (Part I): explores the strategic decisions that an organization makes in its capital spending. The risk element in financial decision making and the financial instruments that have evolved to reallocate risk in the economy are discussed.

​Corporate Finance & Investments (Part I): explores the strategic decisions that an organization makes in its capital spending. The risk element in financial decision making and the financial instruments that have evolved to reallocate risk in the economy are discussed.
 

​Operations Management: examines some of the basic principles of managing the production of goods or services, and studies some useful tools. The course emphasizes tools and principles that are equally useful in the service and manufacturing sectors.

Marketing Management: introduces the market-driven company and customer-focused organization, and presents current theories and practices of marketing management.

​Corporate Finance & Investments (Part II): explores the strategic decisions that an organization makes in its capital spending. The risk element in financial decision making and the financial instruments that have evolved to reallocate risk in the economy are discussed.

Startup in the making – an entrepreneur’s and VC’s perspective
introduces the venture capital (VC) industry, presenting and discussing the players of the industry and their respective roles. Participants experience the life cycle of investment decision making and learn the VC game plan and best practices of the industry. 

Leadership theory and practice: fosters an understanding of the difference between leadership and management, gain familiarity with recent leadership theories, and an d a understand of how to create long-lasting, transformational change.
 

Marketing Strategy: focuses on developing, refining, and executing the organization’s story in the marketplace.

Doing magic with big data
 

Technological product development:  equips students with the frameworks, tools and direct experience to become effective technology product managers (whether as entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs). .

Advanced Topics in Strategy
 

Strategic Financial Management
 

Leading the Strategic Change Process: focuses on key tasks in leading the strategic change process in organizations, creating a shared understanding of the present and desired states of the organization, creating a shared urgent need for change, a change vision and the belief that change is possible, and finally leading the change transition process.

Variety of classes allow to customize the curriculum to the individual goal and interest. Classes take place at partner universities and additional locations:

Toronto
Shanghai

Hong Kong
Lisbon
Evanston, Chicago
Miami
Vallendar
​London

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