MBA Online

Entrepreneurship and New Business Development
How to develop a successful business by taking into account the vast resources of technology is the focus of this course. But technology alone cannot create a successful business; it requires good ideas, business plans, human resources, an execution strategy, and marketing, just to name a few key components. After understanding how one should approach developing a new business, the students will be exposed to entrepreneurs who have developed businesses, from start-ups to spin-offs. This class offers a great opportunity for students to gain first-hand experience from real CEOs and key executives. At the end of the course, students will be asked to produce business plans that they can potentially convert into real businesses.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
2102: Econometrics
Winter Ichimura & Y.Arai
Econometrics provide statistical tools to empirically investigate economic issues. After reviewing basic probability models and statistical methods, economic issues that cannot be analyzed by the basic probability models and statistical methods are discussed and the models are extended to cover these cases. Microeconometrics will be lectured by Ichimura and Macroeconometrics will be lectured by Arai.

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Course ,MBA , Hitotsubashi University,

[Term 3] Execution Management　(H. Kanno) (2009/Term 3&4 (Spring&Summer))

To deliver results, senior management needs to accomplish two things: (1) develop an effective strategy, and (2) execute the strategy effectively. The instructor, who worked as a management consultant for 17 years, has observed “execution failures” many times in a wide range of companies and industries —however right the strategy is, sometimes you fail to deliver the expected result because you fail to execute the strategy. Or, if the strategy is such that you cannot execute it effectively, is the strategy “right” at all? This elective course addresses these “execution challenges” and explores “how to make it happen.”
Course Structure

You will learn “how to make it happen” by walking through the following three modules:

Module 1 helps you understand why execution matters —why companies perform very differently even with more or less similar strategies.
Module 2 explains why senior management needs to intentionally and explicitly design and implement an “execution system.” In other words, you will learn why excellent execution does not take place naturally. Excellent execution has to be intentionally designed, ignited, and its momentum has to be intentionally maintained.
Module 3 explains the “how” in “how to make it happen.” The instructor will familiarize you with the dos and dont’s of effective execution by introducing a range of approaches and examples.
Teaching Method

The teaching approach consists of case discussions, lectures, guest speakers, and exercises. For case discussions, you will be expected to prepare for assigned cases, along with discussion questions, and participate actively in class.

MFIN7015
Behaviour Finance
Lin, Tao
General Information
Traditional finance theories encounter increasing difficulties in explaining intertemporal and cross sectional securities returns. Half of the course will focus on behavioral finance which introduces cognitive biases, limited information processing, and costly arbitrage to examine the micro dynamics of price discovery and the implications on corporate financing. It offers an introduction to the emerging behavioral finance studies. Topics covered include the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), financial anomalies, non-fundamental risk, limited arbitrage, cognitive biases, non-expected utilities, and behavioral corporate finance. Emphasis is given on how emerging rational behavioral theories can and cannot explain documented evidence.

The other half of the course will focus on hedge funds. Hedge funds and related investments are an integral part of the growing field of alternative investments. We attempt to understand the hedge fund industry, prime brokerage services and some of the recent developments. A considerable part of the course will be devoted to hedge fund strategies, such as convertible arbitrage, merger arbitrage, fixed income trading, and equity long/short strategies, to help us acquire an insight into these strategies and their concomitant risks. Case studies of some hedge funds that suffered large losses are included to illustrate potential pitfalls in the risk management of hedge funds. The role of fund of hedge funds and structured products on hedge funds will be discussed in the context of hedge fund investments.

University of Guam
BBA Upper-Division Free Electives Component

Students must complete six (6) semester credit hours selected from any upper-division, non-business course (i.e., the course cannot begin with BA). As there is no other requirement for this component, students have a wide range of courses from which to select.

The School intends that its students achieve the following learning outcome from the Upper-Division Free Electives Component. Successful students will investigate topics of personal interest that contribute to their lifelong learning.