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College of Graduate Study in Management at Khon Kaen University

Supplementary Foundation (Non credit)
Business English
Business Statistics
Business Environment
Basic accounting for Management
Core Courses
Managerial Economic and Business Environment
Accounting for Business Decision
Marketing Management
Human Resource Management and Development
Operation Management
Quantitative Analysis
Strategic Management
Business Research Methodology (Plan A)
Government Law and Business Ethics (Plan B)
Elective Courses For Business Leadership
International Business Management
Strategic Business Leadership
Formation for new Venture
Analysis for Venture Opportunity
Elective Courses For Entrepreneurs
Management of New Venture
Information Technology for Management
Supply Chain Management
Brand Building Strategies
Competitive Strategies for New Venture
Elective Courses For Health Care Management
Health Policy Management
Quality Improvement in Health Care
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Strategies in Health Care Industry
Seminar on Current Topics in Health Care Management
Elective Courses For Industrial Management
Inventory Management
Production Scheduling and Sequencing Method
Decision Analysis
Energy Management
Free Elective Courses
Advance Finance Management
Quality Management
Project Analysis and Management
Service Marketing Management
Marketing Communication and Promotion
Independent Case Study For Plan B: Each student has to conduct case study in industry and business strategy on the independent basis with close supervision from CGSM staffs or experienced businessman.

Thesis For plan A : A research project for student’s thesis has to be performed.

(1) Instructor group guidance

A group of advisers, including a chief adviser and two assistant advisers, provides research guidance for the doctoral thesis.
(2) Multi-stage guidance

The doctoral thesis is completed through the six stages presentation and reviews: Research Plan Presentation, Survey Paper Presentation, Intermediate Thesis Presentation, Draft Thesis Presentation, Preliminary Review, and Final Dissertation Review. A Doctoral dissertation of final stage is requested to contain some thesis, at least one of which musut be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal.

Marketing Communications
Marketing communications covers the basic topic of how a company can get customers to buy, based on convincing them of the value of its product. This includes the use of the four elements of the “marketing communications mix”: advertising, sales promotion, personal selling and public relations. This course covers the role of each element of the marketing mix in each step of becoming a loyal customer, from first hearing of a product, interest, information search, etc. to product purchase and repurchase. We also cover the importance of profitability in deciding on a marketing communications mix, with emphasis on linking costs with the revenues they generate. In this course, students learn the role of communications in strategy, how to develop communications plans based on strategy, how to develop a media plan, and how to track results and analyze those results to determine profitability.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

4802: Global Investment Process
Summer Solnik & Fukaya
In this course, we study basic topics regarding global investment processes from the point of views of institutional investors, such as pension funds and other financial institutions. The plan of the lecture is as follows: 1. Foreign exchange rates, 2. International CAPM. 3. Foreign stocks, 4. Foreign bonds, 5. Asset allocation processes, risk control, and performance evaluation.

ICS , Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
[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 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):

Marketing Management (EKM 2102)

This is a follow on from Marketing Management which explores in greater depth the basic marketing concepts. The course explains the methods, techniques, and processes of formulating and developing a marketing plan to achieve their marketing objectives through certain steps in the marketing plan which includes activities such as segmentation, targeting, marketing strategies and programs formulation technically called product, price, place or distribution and promotion, and action plan. The objectives of this course are to enrich students with a better understanding about (1) the mechanism of making marketing decisions, (2) basic marketing concepts and recent development in marketing, (3) the role of marketing managers, and (4) the ability to implement the marketing concepts they learn into a marketing planning project/exercise.

Entrepreneurship (EKM 2101)

The course introduces students to entrepreneurship, especially for small enterprises. The discussions begin with idea creation, feasibility analysis, business plan, organization, and business development. The aims of this course are to introduce students to entrepreneurship concepts, to exercise students in developing and analyzing ideas, arranging and drafting plan, organize and develop business, and to provide an opportunity for students to exercise their skills in conducting research on some small businesses.

Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Business Administration

The instruction program attends to improve the quality of the education of the doctoral candidates and strengthen the standardized management of Ph. D. educating program. Approved by the School of Graduate, this program is designed for Business Administration and Technical Economics and Management as the first-grade discipline.

I. Educational Objectives
This Ph. D program aims to
1.train students to have a scientific attitude and style in pursuit of precise and truth, to have aspirations after the truth and innovations and good ethics for scientific research, and also to qualify the students with the ability to do the research independently;
2.lead students to profound and broad theoretical foundations as well as systematic and in-depth professional knowledge;
3.lead students to creative achievements in one’s own major or professional techniques;
4.qualify students with the ability to do research independently.II. Research Fields
1. Financial Management and Investment Decision 2. Marketing Management
3. Human Resource Management 4. Enterprise Strategy Management
5. Corporate Governance 6. Financial Risk Management
7. Technological Innovation Management 8. Intellectual Property
9. Technological Strategy and Policy

III. Length of Schooling and Credits
Full time Ph. D candidates usually spend 3 or 4 years finishing their studies. They may get their degrees earlier but not less than two and a half years, or get their degrees later but not more than 6 years. The specific length of schooling will be decided by supervisor according to the student’s case. For those students who get direct entry into Ph.D study from master period, they usually spend 4 or 5 years finishing their studies.

IV. Requirements for Ph. D Candidates
1The education of doctoral candidates will follow the policy of “supervisor in full charge”, and organize a direction group with the supervisor as the monitor. The direction group together is responsible for the education and evaluation of the doctoral candidates.

2．Interdisciplinary Courses
1 The cross first-grade-disciplinary courses refer to graduate courses which are not defined in Business Administration. The students who select these courses must attend the classes and take the final examination.
2 The selected cross-disciplinary courses should not be the same as or similar to the courses taken during the periods as master candidates.

3．Seminars
Seminars are of importance for cultivating the comprehensive ability and leading the candidates into the advanced research fields. Within the professional fields specified by the supervisor, the doctoral candidates should participate in the special research reports given by others or take classes. The candidates should then review the most recent research papers according to the special report or the content of the course, and compose a research report and give the report in public seminars. The candidates can get 6 credits from the special seminars. The allocation of the credits is 2 credits for Methodology of Management Research, 2 for advanced courses in the profession and 2 for seminar