GSIM Course Descriptions

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MGT1000 International Management

This course of international management is designed to provide student core knowledge for carrying out management in an international business context. Given the globalizing business world that we are living and working in, a better understanding of how to deal with international phenomenon and management has become a must.

MGT4610 Corporate Strategy

This course of Corporate Strategy involves strategic decision making and management at the corporate level. Through the business logic, added value logic and capital market logic, the course evolves with portfolio strategy, adding and subtracting values, and management strategy from the corporate headquarters’ perspective, and interaction with business strategy. The approach of the course is practical and problem-oriented. The major part of the course will involve applying concepts, analytic frameworks, and intuition to the strategic issues which real-world companies face.

MGT4540 Competing in Emerging Markets

This course of Competing in Emerging Markets focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with business and management in emerging markets. By examining the various social economic and institutional factors particular to emerging markets, the course addresses specific organizational strategies that firms need to pursue to overcome these obstacles and exploit opportunities in emerging markets. The course combines lectures, class participation, cases, and a number of visiting speakers will help to tie the course theory to business practice.

MGT4620 Chinese Management

With the rising economic power of Chinese business and economy, the purpose of this course is to help students understanding on the dynamics of business and management in China, and to help them improve their capabilities for business doing in China，and with Chinese enterprises. The course will tackle both doing business in China and the internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Different themes of innovation, leadership, digital business, and expatriation will be debated in the class to provoke profound reflection and understanding of Chinese phenomenon and management.

MGT1000 International Management

This course of international management is designed to provide student core knowledge for carrying out management in an international business context. Given the globalizing business world that we are living and working in, a better understanding of how to deal with international phenomenon and management has become a must.

MGT4610 Corporate Strategy

This course of Corporate Strategy involves strategic decision making and management at the corporate level. Through the business logic, added value logic and capital market logic, the course evolves with portfolio strategy, adding and subtracting values, and management strategy from the corporate headquarters’ perspective, and interaction with business strategy. The approach of the course is practical and problem-oriented. The major part of the course will involve applying concepts, analytic frameworks, and intuition to the strategic issues which real-world companies face.

MGT4540 Competing in Emerging Markets

This course of Competing in Emerging Markets focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with business and management in emerging markets. By examining the various social economic and institutional factors particular to emerging markets, the course addresses specific organizational strategies that firms need to pursue to overcome these obstacles and exploit opportunities in emerging markets. The course combines lectures, class participation, cases, and a number of visiting speakers will help to tie the course theory to business practice.

MGT4620 Chinese Management

With the rising economic power of Chinese business and economy, the purpose of this course is to help students understanding on the dynamics of business and management in China, and to help them improve their capabilities for business doing in China，and with Chinese enterprises. The course will tackle both doing business in China and the internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Different themes of innovation, leadership, digital business, and expatriation will be debated in the class to provoke profound reflection and understanding of Chinese phenomenon and management.

MCM4100 Business Presentation

This course develops a sound conceptual understanding of persuasive communication through effective presentations, as applicable to individuals in leadership positions in organizations. Students learn about “presenter’s mindset,” “psychological presence,” and “influence.” They also develop the ability to speak assertively; logically structure and naturally deliver a value-based presentation to an audience; and become more confident as communicators. The course combines interactive lectures, group discussions, and individual & team presentation activities with customized, constructive feedback. In addition to text materials and cases, the course uses selected TED-talks, expert presentations, and comments from presentation experts from online sources, for modelling and in-class discussions.

MGT1050 Strategic Management

The firm’s strategy, as a whole, is essentially of an integrative nature and does not break into parts that can be separately addressed.  Yet, in an individual managerial situation, the manager must focus on the specific strategic task as if it were a separable part of the whole strategy. This course introduces the basic tools, concepts and frameworks useful in conceiving a firm’s strategy as an irreducible whole. Throughout the course, the essential task for students is to develop the ability to take a company-wide, integrative perspective when making a decision in a specific business situation.

MGT4460 Innovation and New Business Creation

This course is about innovation, not invention. Innovation, by definition, refers to the whole process of going from idea to market acceptance, through design, development, production, market development and sales. Innovation poses formidable challenges even to many well-run companies because it often induces discontinuities along various dimensions such as technology, markets and organization. While many companies simply try to accommodate discontinuities (and often fail to do so), some great companies can exploit and even create discontinuities to leapfrog competition. This course examines innovation and related issues of new business creation, mainly in the context of established firms.

MKG4250 Marketing Intelligence

​Marketing Intelligence (MI) is a specialized practice focusing on anticipating critical market, the environment and the competition changes. More and more firms require a formalized MI functions to feed the marketing decision-making process with up-to-date insights. Some environmental and organizational conditions are directly related to the success of MI functions (Comai, 2016). Therefore, companies need to use this information efficiently by collecting qualitative information. The data used by a MI function replace those decisions that are based on historical data with forward-looking information. The purpose of this course is to create professionals able to implement a IM in the firm.

MKG1010 Marketing Management

Understanding customers and how to deliver value in an increasingly competitive national and international market is a fundamental task for each company. Although these issues are generally accepted by managers, many cases show failures in the products launched due to poor analysis and understanding of markets and customers. Therefore, students need to consider marketing as a core discipline in order to deliver value not only to customers but also to society as a whole.
This marketing management course provides the basic marketing principles as well as some advanced tools and methodologies necessary for creating successful marketing plans.

FIN4390 Derivatives Securities

The main purpose of this course is to understand concepts, principles, and tools for the analysis and valuation of derivative securities such as forwards, futures, swaps, and options, which are being applied in modern corporate finance, investments, and risk management for financial institutions and enterprises. Students also will learn the application of these derivatives in order to improve the corporate value of the corporations. Advanced topics such as weather derivatives, electricity derivatives, commodity markets will be covered.

FIN4380 Entrepreneurial Finance

This course covers the basic valuation methods of venture corporation using spread sheets modeling, possible financing choices for entrepreneurs, and exit strategies. This course also helps entrepreneurs to make pro-forma financial statements in order to know how much sales would be needed to cover the expenses. While this course focuses on the financial aspects of entrepreneurship, we briefly discuss how to develop the business model to understand the nature of venture business in order to enhance both qualitative and quantitative analysis. These topics are delivered using cases and real-world examples as well as textbook chapters.

FIN4400 Advanced Corporate Finance

This course introduces the financial analysis of capital investments and projects. Recent rapid technological innovation and globalization change existing business faster than ever. Companies must modify their business models all the time. Business reorganization such as M&A might be needed. These considerations should be based on how these actions improve the enterprise value. This course provides basic financial tools for decision making such as cost-volume-profit analysis, forecasting future cash flows, and discount cash flow method to calculate the enterprise value, etc. We also discuss sophisticated methods such as real options which can incorporate the flexibility of strategy into valuation.

Joint-Appointment Faculty

JDP4030 Japanese Corporate Finance & Financial System & Its impact on Development

This course discusses concepts and techniques used in Japanese corporate finance and financial systems and their impacts on the development using cases and academic papers. Japan has many unique financial features like main bank system and mutual shareholding while their financial implications are controversial. In fact, Japan experienced significant economic growth after the WWII, however, Japan has faced a long economic depression in 1990’s. Stock returns and profitability of Japanese corporations were less than those in other countries. Yet, life spans of Japanese corporations are longer. We discuss how and why Japan has experienced these economic consequences.

FIN4200 Risk Management

This course discusses concepts and techniques used in risk management practices using cases of both financial and non-financial institutions. This courses emphasis the valuation of risk management, that is, how corporations could improve their corporate value by risk management. We deal with financial derivatives valuation such as futures, options, and swaps as well as other innovative derivatives including credit default swaps, weather derivatives, and structured finance. We also learn the pricing under incomplete market using probability measure transformations such as Esscher Transforms and Wang Transforms. Recent innovative ways of risk management such as alternative risk transfer (ART) will be introduced.

Visiting Faculty

ACT1010 Financial Accounting

This course introduces concepts and mechanics of financial accounting. It covers preparation, interpretation, and analysis of corporate financial reports. It will help students to understand how well a company creates value and how to assess managers’ contribution to the creation of value. By the end of the course, students will be able to feel comfortable with dealing with real world corporate financial reports.

ACT4090 Practice in Financial Accounting

In continuation of Financial Accounting (ACT1010), this course further introduces essential topics of financial reporting which can be usually found in real financial statements. Examples include comprehensive income, fair value accounting, income tax, consolidation, lease, and pension liabilities. This course is also a stepping stone to advanced elective courses like Financial Statement Analysis (ACT4100). It will facilitate effective financial analysis in those courses.

ACT4100 Financial Statement and Business Analysis

This course introduces standard frameworks of financial statement analysis. Main approach is fundamental analysis. Various steps will be introduced in detail with examples: extracting information from financial statements, analysing it, building scenarios, and determining a corporate value. Participants who would like to work as a financial analyst or a financial manager will get the most of benefits. The course will also cover various situations through actual financial statements, cases, and contemporary articles.

JDP4020 Japanese Corporate Systems and Japanese Style Management and Their Impact on Development

This course will introduce Japanese style management. It was established amid social chaos after World War II and has evolved into a unique management system which is distinct from a typical textbook model. This new system eventually led Japanese companies to rapid growth and worldwide success. The creation of Japanese management system was an adaptation process of business theory to its unique environments. Its success was not accidental, but based on sound economic rationality. This course will review this process and economic rationality behind it.

ACT4110 Managerial Accounting

This course introduces students to the evolving role of managerial accounting in modern business environments. The course highlights the informational need of managers in planning, controlling and decision making, and shows how to take advantage of accounting information. The course will enable students to express real world business problems into manageable ones in a systematic way and solve them by applying managerial accounting concepts and techniques.

QIS1020 Applied Statistics

This course studies the basic knowledge of statistics and how to apply statistics in business areas. Students will learn how to describe data effectively, how to run simple regressions, how to interpret the results, and how to do hypothesis testing. It is a fundamental core required course for two-year MBA students. This course provides students with fundamental knowledge for various business areas such as corporate finance, investment, risk management, and marketing etc. It is helpful for students seeking careers such as consultants, financial analysts, general managers, policy makers, and operational managers. This course is the prerequisite for several other courses.

OPR4160 Operations Management

Japan is most famous for methods such as Toyota Production System, Just-In-Time, Kaizen, 5S, Quality Circle, Ishikawa Diagram, and many others. OM is the course to learn this concepts.

Operation is the key value-adding activity in a firm’s value chain. This course will familiarize students with basic knowledge of process thinking, leaning thinking, and Japanese way of operations management and quality control. Students will learn Operations strategy, process selection, lean thinking, quality control, inventory management, and various other techniques for both manufacturing and service industries. Field trips to experience Japanese corporations will also be arranged.

OPR4160 Operations Management

Japan is most famous for methods such as Toyota Production System, Just-In-Time, Kaizen, 5S, Quality Circle, Ishikawa Diagram, and many others. OM is the course to learn this concepts.

Operation is the key value-adding activity in a firm’s value chain. This course will familiarize students with basic knowledge of process thinking, leaning thinking, and Japanese way of operations management and quality control. Students will learn Operations strategy, process selection, lean thinking, quality control, inventory management, and various other techniques for both manufacturing and service industries. Field trips to experience Japanese corporations will also be arranged.

OPR4170 Project Management in Products Development

The success of most firms depends on their ability to identify the needs of customers and to quickly create products that meet these needs and can be produced at low cost. This course studies the six phases of product development process and the set of tools and methods for product design and development, which involve marketing, design, and manufacturing functions.

Product development projects involve the completion of hundreds or even thousands of tasks. Successful product development requires effective project management. Project Management in Products Development will be discussed in the course.

MGT1010 Organizational Behavior

Due to the rapid change at the age of globalization, business leaders are now facing with the critical and tough situation and they are required to respond to the change by making the best decision consistent to the vision and mission shared among the organizational members.

From aforementioned points, this course provides participants how to manage events occurring in organizations derived from human behaviors and management activities.

In order to achieve organizational goals in global and cross-cultural environment, participants should understand the concept of global leadership and how to exercise their leadership capability by influencing the organization and people.

MGT4490 Negotiation Strategy

A business negotiation may be sometimes the formal affair that takes place across the proverbial bargaining table, in which a business people argues and discusses a wide variety of issues for either individual or mutual gain.
Upon completion of this course, student should be able to:
 Outline strategies of negotiation, conflicts and business communication, which help students at the new start of business career after graduation, through discussions and practices in this program to have confidence in the daily tasks
 Embody their knowledge, concept, theories and learnings in the other programs as the dynamic business conflicts resolution.

MGT4550 Leadership

Business leaders must understand how their leadership is effectively functioned in their decision making, especially in the critical situation. Furthermore, in order to achieve organizational goals, they must understand the difference between the management systems and their leadership power by empowering their people and applying organizational resources.

Upon completion of this course, student should be able to:
 understand what leadership is, how to use leadership, and how to develop leadership capabilities in order to become a competent business leader
 become effective business leaders who can implement and lead business goals in organization environments.

MGT1200 Leadership Bootcamp

One of the most important capabilities of a Leader is the ability to make informed strategic decisions without having access to perfect and complete information.  This course is meant to serve as a “Capstone” course within the 1-Year MBA curriculum, bringing together all of the hard and soft skills students have learned to become effective global leaders, and put these into practice through real-time interactions with the senior leadership team of a chosen company. This course will focus on enabling participants to develop to practical skills and capabilities to analyze imperfect and incomplete information within a constantly changing business environment.