College of Graduate Study in Management at Khon Kaen University
900 741 Feasibility Study of New Venture
Scanning and analyzing the environment for new venture formation, A feasibility study for investment, marketing opportunity, operation opportunity, financial and source of fund consideration, network and formation for new venture.
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.
Global Strategy and Organization
This course addresses issues of corporate strategy in the context of ever-increasing global competition. The course is designed to help students understand the nature and functioning of multinational (and typically multi-business) corporations, and fundamental managerial challenges they are facing. The course also aims to help students acquire frameworks and skills to analyze those challenges, and develop broad capabilities for international business management. The course is case-driven, and the cases give students an opportunity to apply concepts and frameworks in identifying and framing strategic challenges in international managerial settings and crafting effective responses to those challenges.
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[Term 3 & 4] Entrepreneurial Management (M. Korver) (2009/Term 3&4 (Spring&Summer))
This course covers the process of identifying and assessing entrepreneurial opportunities, then conceptualizing and planning an enterprise tasked to capitalize on such an opportunity. Students will work in teams to pick an attractive entrepreneurial opportunity (viz., a new technology, new business area, or innovation in an existing market) and develop a business plan, working through issues of opportunity identification and analysis, management team-building and organization, competitive strategy, marketing and sales, and identifying and obtaining necessary resources. We will introduce frameworks necessary to identify and analyze entrepreneurial opportunities and the elements of companies that can quickly define and dominate an existing or new category of business through innovative strategies or disruptive technology.
Course Structure
The course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to gain practical knowledge in how to identify entrepreneurial opportunities and, with limited resources, transform them into successful enterprises. This knowledge will be gained by:
(1) Studying cases of both successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurial ventures
(2) Learning about and applying analytical frameworks to issues commonly faced by entrepreneurs
(3) Examining in detail what a business plan is designed to do, what it contains, how it is developed and written, what are its uses, how to analyze and evaluate the business plan, and what investors look for in a business plan
(4) Providing an environment where students can collaborate to create their own winning business plans as members of entrepreneurial management teams
(5) Interacting with business plan contest judges and hands-on faculty who have deep and recent experience starting and building companies
Teaching Method
The course consists of two sections. Term 3 (Spring) will primarily cover the items (1) through (3) in the previous paragraph and will culminate in a mid-term examination. Term 4 (Summer) will primarily cover items (4) and (5) and will culminate in a business plan competition. Accordingly, the first section consists of regularly scheduled sessions with a mixture of case studies, lectures, and class discussion. Term 4 (Summer) consists of out-of-class collaboration by the team members on development of a business plan with periodic feedback from the faculty. In addition, guest lectures may be scheduled from time-to-time. The details of the business plan competition will be announced during the first class.
ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
[Term 3] Equity Investments (S. Abe) (2009/Term 3&4 (Spring&Summer))
The equity investor perspective will be the focus of this elective finance course. The emphasis will be applications-oriented with limited exposure to quantitative investment theory. Different investment styles for different risk profiles will be explored with an emphasis on publicly traded stocks. This course will be of interest to students who want to learn more about (1) the equity capital provider side of corporate finance; (2) valuing and investing in publicly traded companies; and, (3) the business of investment management. This course will appeal to students who want to build and preserve their own wealth over time.
Course Structure
Lectured discussions, case studies, and expert speakers.
Topics will include individual company valuation analysis, convertible securities, growth vs. value stocks, fundamental vs. technical analysis, active vs. indexed investing, mutual funds, hedge funds, and behavioral finance. Four outside speakers from the investment management community will bring the real world into the classroom and will give students an opportunity to learn firsthand contrasting investment styles and investment analytics. Their careers are built on successful investing, and they will share with you the excitement, gratification, pressures, and anxieties found at the intersection of risk and return. (All first and second year students will be invited to attend the speaker sessions whether or not you are enrolled in the course.)
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[Term 2] Strategy Simulation Week (2008/Term 1&2 (Fall&Winter))
To wrap up the first year, you will be working as part of top management team running a company in StratSim, a web-based, interactive simulation program that extends across multiple business functions, ranging from strategy, to marketing, to operations and human resources, and to accounting and finance. Your team will be competing against other teams in the rapidly changing automobile industry, where customer needs evolve, new products are introduced, and economic environment changes. Teams compete directly against each other, with the results being impacted by how the competitors interact, what new products are introduced, and how the strategic investments are financed.
In this six-day intensive program, you will work as one of the board members of a 3-4 person firm and make a total of 10 rounds of decisions, which is equivalent to 10 simulated years worth of managing your own company. You will also be asked to make two presentations – half-time and final presentations – to reflect on and share your learning with other teams. The tentative schedule is as follows:
Monday
Feb 23
9:00 Introduction
13:00 Decision #1
18:00 Decision #2
Tuesday
Feb 24
9:00 Decision #3
13:00 Decision #4
18:00 Decision #5
Wednesday
Feb 25
13:00-16:00 Half-Time Presentation
Thursday
Feb 26
13:00 Decision #6
18:00 Decision #7
Friday
Feb 27
9:00 Decision #8
13:00 Decision #9
18:00 Decision #10
Saturday
Feb 28
13:00-16:00 Final Presentation
The program has been consistently voted by students in the past years as one of the “most memorable” learning experiences at ICS. Offered at the very end of the first year, it provides you with an opportunity to integrate everything you have learned throughout the year and also the very last chance to learn from each other by collaborating and competing with your classmates.
The registration costs $39.95 per student for software licensing and a copy of the StratSim manual. Further specifics will be explained in the information session in Term 2. (You are also encouraged to visit.)
ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strateg
The Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS) offers students the opportunity to earn an MBA degree in International Business Strategy at Hitotsubashi University. In order to meet the requirements of an MBA degree, students must take a minimum of 66 credits during the First Year. This requirement applies to students in both the One-Year Program and the Two-Year Program at Hitotsubashi ICS.
Course work in the MBA program consists of two-credit or four-credit courses. Individual classes are 120 minutes in duration. Therefore, typically, a two-credit course is a four-month-long course that meets once a week for 2.0 hours per week, or a two-month-long course that meets twice a week for 4.0 hours per week. A four-credit course is typically a four-month-long course that meets twice a week for 4.0 hours per week. Classes are scheduled in three or four time slots: once in the morning (9:45 am start) during Term 1, and twice in the morning (8:30 am start) during Term 2 (Winter), Term 3 (Spring), and Term 4 (Summer), and twice in the afternoon during all the terms.
Students in the Two-Year Program have the option of custom-building their second year curriculum, which is basically comprised of activities that apply what they have learned in the First Year to the real world. They consult with faculty members in choosing from a wide array of options, such as participating in a company internship program, spending a semester overseas in a student exchange program, developing a business plan for starting up a new venture, conducting an individual research project, or searching for post-MBA job opportunities.
For detailed information on admission procedures to the MBA Program at Hitotsubashi ICS, including all submission deadlines, please download the Application Package by clicking the link below (PDF format):
EMBA-Global Asia
EMBA-Global Asia is designed for high-potential, globally-focused executives and managers who are seeking to deepen their understanding of both Western and Eastern business, and who are passionate about the opportunities Asia’s rapid economic development affords.
EMBA-Global Asia builds on the success of the well-established and top-ranked programme offered by Columbia and London Business Schools. This partnership has been extended to HKU Business School giving students in Asia the opportunity to access this world-class programme.
FINA0303 A Case studies in corporate finance A
Semester : 1
For Student of Year : 2&3
This course is structured around the most important financial decisions made at firm level in an uncertain environment. For examples: what capital structure to adopt (financing decision); how to value a firm or investment project (investment/valuation decision); how to raise capital in the equity market (IPO decision); what mechanisms to put in place to discipline manager and the largest shareholder (corporate governance decision); whether to return cash and how to return cash to investors (dividend/share repurchase decision); and whether a firm should engage in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities and how to do an M&A right (M&A decision). This course exposes students to some of the most fundamental issues in corporate finance today as well as some of the most important advances in corporate finance of the last decade. It will offer students an opportunity to understand how the concepts and theories of corporate finance are applied in real world and generate lasting impact on firm values, a driving issue faced and constantly asked by CFOs and CEOs. This course will be taught using a case-oriented approach.
ECON0701 Introductory econometrics
Semester : 1 & 2
For Student of Year : 2
Econometrics is the branch of economics that formulates statistical methodology for use in analyzing economic data. Consequently, the objective of this course is to prepare students for basic empirical work in economics. In particular, topics will include multiple regression analysis, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, functional form specification, time series models, and limited dependent variable models. Students will have the opportunity to use actual economic data to test economic theories.
Extra Information
Pre-requisite: ECON1003 Analysis of economic data or STAT0301 Elementary statistical methods or STAT0302 Business statistics or STAT1301 Probability & statistics I or STAT1306 Introductory statistics
Mutually exclusive courses: STAT2301 Linear statistical analysis, STAT2314 Business Forecasting, STAT2804 Linear models and forecasting, STAT3301 Time-series analysis or STAT3302 Multivariate data analysis.