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Business Administration
| Business Administration 020, Introduction to Business | |
| | Description: The course is designed to present an opportunity for students to examine and discuss a broad range of business situations where analysis and decision-making are required. Stress is placed on management's function to make decisions. Course Divisions: (1) Finance (2) Marketing (3) Operations (4) Organizational Behaviour and (5) General Management. | | Antirequisite(s): Business 295F/G, 299. | | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 257, Accounting and Business Analysis | |
| | Description: Prerequisite for entry to Honors Business Administration. Course Divisions: (1) Financial Accounting - development of financial statements, and the assessment of their uses and limitations. (2) Business Analysis and Management Accounting - using case studies with an emphasis on smaller businesses, students learn various quantitative decision-making tools highlighted by an entrepreneurial feasibility study. | | Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 295F/G | | Prerequisite(s): Five courses at University level. | | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 295F/G, Business for Science Students | |
| | Description: The course is designed to provide students pursuing modules offered by the Faculty of Science or the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry with an understanding of how business operates and how the individual employee fits into the larger business organization. Students are introduced to the basics of finance, organizational behavior, marketing, innovation and intellectual property. | | Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 020, 257, 299 | | Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Major, Specialization or Honors Specialization in the Faculty of Science or the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. | | Restricted to students in Years 3 and 4. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 299, Business Organization for Engineers | |
| | Description: The course is designed to introduce students to engineering economics and managerial decision-making. The case method is used to present selected problems in accounting and finance, marketing, organizational behavior and general management. | | Antirequisite(s): Business 020, Business Administration 295F/G. | | Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of third year Engineering. | | Limited to Engineering students. | | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| All 300- and 400-level Business courses are available only to students in the Honors Business Administration program. |
| Business Administration 300, Strategic Analysis and Action I | |
| | Description: Strategy consists of an organization’s focused efforts to achieve success. Ensuring the continued success of the enterprise requires both analysis and action. The cases and concepts utilized in the course take the total enterprise as the unit of analysis and the general manager as the key actor. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 301, Marketing | |
| | Description: The desires and needs of the buyer are important to the manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer. Students analyze the firm's goals, strengths, opportunities, and weaknesses. This analysis is then converted into reasonable marketing strategies and action plans. Students learn to make decisions in the face of considerable uncertainty. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 302y, Management Communications | |
| | Description: Designed to make business graduates more effective communicators. The course focuses on presentation skills, writing skills, and the management of the communication process in organizations. In addition to case discussions on oral and organizational communication, the course offers detailed critiques of written assignments and video taped presentations. | | Antirequisite(s): Management and Organizational Studies 205F/G | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 303, Finance | |
| | Description: The course covers problems involved in determining the need for, acquiring and administering the financial resources of a business enterprise, and deals with the need for short-term intermediate funds in the operation of a business organization as well as the subject of long-term financing, capital structures, mergers and acquisitions, etc. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 304, Operations | |
| | Description: Management of activities involving movement or processing of materials, information and/or people. Focus is on developing systematic thought about the structure and interrelationships of production situations. Process analysis, work measurement, facilities planning, production control, quality are discussed and utilized. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 305q/r/s/t, Economics | |
| | Description: Introduction to the economic way of thinking. Basic foundations of supply and demand, price determination and the economics of industry structure. Cases, exercises and lectures emphasize the use of microeconomic principles for understanding business situations and making effective management decisions. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 307, Managerial Accounting and Control | |
| | Description: Trains students to be competent consumers of accounting data and to integrate the understanding of accounts, profits, cost behavior, relevant cost and control systems required for decision-making. Topics include data collection, processing, interpretation, and the utilization of accounting information by managers. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 308a/b, Leading Teams | |
| | Description: The course objectives are to gain an understanding of how to manage and participate effectively in teams by understanding the factors that lead to effective and ineffective team behavior, both in yourself and others and to improve your leadership skills by practicing key leadership behaviors such as getting commitment to goals. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 311, Leading People and Organizations | |
| | Description: In this course students will be able to manage themselves and their direct relations with others (including their boss, peers, and subordinates) so that appropriate goals are established and achieved; understand how effective organizations are designed; and understand and contribute to effective organizational change. | | 1.0 course | | back to top |
| Business Administration 316a, Competing with Analytics | |
| | Description: Managerial decision makers must cope with complexity and/or uncertainty. This course presents a systematic approach to structuring and analyzing decision problems including the use of statistical tools and spreadsheet programs. To stress the generality of this approach, problems from all functional areas and various industries are discussed. The course also examines a number of innovative management tools that are changing the practice of management. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| 400-level half course offerings may vary each year |
| Business Administration 400q/r/s/t, Managing Disruptive Innovation | |
| | Description: This course familiarizes students with disruptive theory, a theory of innovation and growth that makes it possible for established incumbents to identify and respond to new market opportunities as effectively as successful start-ups. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 402q/r/s/t, Management Communications | |
| | Description: This course will teach students how to communicate effectively in interviews, group collaborations, conflict situations, performance evaluations, media contact situations, and in public relations. | | 0.25 Course | | back to top |
| Business Administration 403q/r/s/t, Money Market Simulation | |
| | Description: This course covers bidding for contracts, formulating strategies, executing money market simulations. In a team setting, students will learn how to manage interbank calls and trading volumes, foreign exchanges, returns on assets, commercial contracts, and risk exposure | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 405a/b, Global Environment of Business | |
| | Description: This course prepares students to think and act in a global business context. It will be of particular interest for those who plan to work in industries that are highly international, are in the process of internationalizing, or are exposed to international competition.
| | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 406q/r/s/t, Database Management Systems | |
| | Description: This course provides students with an understanding of the systems analyst's role in developing computer-based solutions to meet information needs. Topics include project management, requirements analysis, system design, and systems security and control. | | 0.25 Course | | back to top |
| Business Administration 407q/r/s/t, Strategic Cost Management | |
| | Description: Develops understanding of how accounting systems compile relevant information, how such systems can be classified and analyzed, and how information can be used in problem-solving. Topics covered include types of cost systems (job order, process, standard, ABC) current management issues (JIT capital budgeting) and horizontal organizational issues (health care quality). | | 0.25 Course | | back to top |
| Business Administration 408a/b, Cross Cultural Management | |
| | Description: Problems of human behavior in cross-cultural contexts are examined and solutions sought. Managerial issues involving the interaction of two or more cultures in international business situations (as well as settings within Canada) are treated. In addition to normal classroom case discussions, field work and involvement exercises are used. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 410, New Venture Project (NVP) | |
| | Description: This course is for students who are interested in starting their own venture and who want to obtain hands-on experience in the preparation of a business plan for a new venture. | | Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 430 | | 1.0 course | | back to top |
| Business Administration 411a/b, Retail Marketing Management | |
| | Description: The objectives of this course are to develop a framework for identifying, appraising and formulating retail marketing strategies and the development of an improved appreciation of the inter-relationships amongst manufacturers, distributors, and final customers. The course will be predominantly case oriented but will also involve some lectures as well as field trips. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 412q/r/s/t, Advanced Presentation Skills | |
| | Description: This course develops presentation skills through practice and feedback, simulations, experiments and “hands-on” demonstrations. Debriefing and feedback are integral parts of this methodology. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 413a/b, Derivatives and Risk Management | |
| | Description: This course is designed for students interested in careers in investment banking, finance consulting, or corporate finance. | | Prerequisite(s): Business 303 | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 414a/b, Managing For Sustainable Development | |
| | Description: To enable managers to come to grips with the complex, demanding and potentially conflicting issues of sustainable development. This course focuses on the inter-relationships between and integration of financial, social and environmental performance. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 415q/r/s/t, Strategic Action and Analysis II | |
| | Description: This required core course exposes students to advanced topics in strategy. Topics may include strategic alliances/joint ventures, global strategy, non-profit strategy, strategy and the board of directors, emergent strategy/improvisation or innovation/disruptive technology. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 416q, Business Data Communications | |
| | Description: This course provides students with an understanding of business data communications from technical, managerial and applications perspectives to improve business performance. Topics include: communications media, network analysis tools and techniques, and data communications strategies. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 417a/b, Corporate Financial Reporting | |
| | Description: The main objective of this course is to prepare students to become better users of financial statements by developing a knowledge and understanding of some of the key financial reporting concepts and accounting principles and an understanding of the financial reporting system. The course also takes a managerial perspective of financial disclosure. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 418q/r/s/t, Valuation of Financial Securities | |
| | Description: Topics include interest rate determination, discount rate setting, comparable ratio establishment, cash flow estimation and bond, equity and options valuation models. The context is in equity valuation, valuation for mergers and acquisitions, and government and corporate debt financing. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 420y, Ivey Client Field Project | |
| | Description: All HBA2 students must satisfactorily complete Business 420, Ivey Client Field Project. The purpose of the Ivey Client Field Project is to enrich the learning of HBA2 students through field based research on behalf of a corporate client. The ICFP must be undertaken in self-selected teams of 3-5 people; each person will receive the same grade. The ICFP group is responsible for identifying a willing client and a managerial question(s) of acceptable scope to justify 75 hours of work per team member. There are two options available to each team for a topic: organizational consulting or issue consulting. Each ICFP group will be supervised and graded by the ICFP faculty supervisor or a faculty designate. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 421a/b, Business to Business Marketing | |
| | Description: The objective of the course is to enhance students' capacity to make strategic decisions as managers in firms marketing industrial products and services which, unlike consumer products, are marketed to business and other organizations for use in the products and services which they produce. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 422q/r/s/t, Entrepreneurship: Creativity, Opportunity and Expertise | |
| | Description: This class is targeted to all students who wish to better understand the entrepreneurial process and opportunity recognition in particular. Specifically this course focuses on creating or searching for venture ideas and screening them for real business opportunity.
| | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 423a/b, Financial Markets | |
| | Description: The objective of this course is to develop a detailed understanding of financial securities, markets and institutions. The course deals with important aspects of the financial markets such as: 1) the design and pricing of securities; 2) the form and function of markets; 3) corporate financing decisions; 4) innovation; and 5) globalization of financial markets. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 425q/r/s/t, Health Care Management | |
| | Description: As funders and clients of the health care industry, it is incumbent upon all of us to understand the challenges of an integrated delivery system, barriers to change, the role of public policy and politics in the system, the challenges to the system and future direction of the system.
| | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 427a/b, Advanced Corporate Financial Reporting | |
| | Description: This course is directed primarily for students who intend to pursue careers which will involve extensive use or preparation of financial accounting information. It is designed to examine the major contemporary issues in the financial accounting environment. The managerial pint of view is a crucial dimension in this course, as it is in Business Administration 417, Corporate Financial Reporting: A Managerial Perspective | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 428a/b, Organizational Design and Change | |
| | Description: In this required core course organizational design concerns achieving fit between the task, the business environment, strategy, human resources and operating systems. Leading change requires the identification of needed changes, the analysis or resistance to change, and the selection of strategies to manage change. | | 0.50 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 429, Biotechnology | |
| | Description: This course provides business skills and knowledge and the essential science needed to successfully operate in a research driven environment. Preference given to students with a science background. | | Permission from the Biotechnology Coordinator required.
| | 2.0 courses. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 430, Ivey Client Field Project | |
| | Description: This is a field based research course on behalf of a corporate client. It is undertaken in a team of 4-5 people. Course work consists of industry analysis, company size-up, written and oral presentation to client and agreement on deliverables. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 431a/b, Consumer Marketing | |
| | Description: This course is based on the concept that advertising, personal selling and other promotional activities of the firm have a common purpose - the communication of incentives to buy. Objective: to develop analytical and decision-making skills relevant to the formulation of an effective marketing communications strategy. Case studies, readings and filmed materials are used. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 432q/r/s/t, Managing High Growth Companies | |
| | Description: This course focuses on young, rapidly growing ventures, many of its principles also have application in the development of entrepreneurial businesses within established organizations. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 433a/b, Management of Financial Assets | |
| | Description: For individuals interested in money and capital markets, who may seek employment with any of the wide range of institutions involved in money management. Objectives: (1) knowledge of established portfolio theory, (2) understanding of the Canadian securities industries, and (3) consideration of basic ethical, communicative and organizational problems involved in management of financial assets. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 434a/b, Management of Services | |
| | Description: The course aims at establishing a framework for evaluating existing and new service concepts from the standpoint of the operator or investor. Specific emphasis is placed on evaluating those criteria which protect a service organization so as to ensure its success in its competitive environment. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 437q/r/s/t, Income Tax Planning | |
| | Description: This course focuses on how income tax impacts an individual in the areas of employment income, business income, property income and capital gains and how tax planning and organizational form can lead to different tax burdens. The material is most applicable for those who wish to pursue careers in the financial area, entrepreneurs and others that wish to develop an understanding of how income tax impacts financial planning. | | Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 479a/b. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 438q/r/s/t, Business Ethics | |
| | Description: This course focuses on enhancing sensitivity to ethical issues. Topics covered include: developing an appreciation of the importance of ethical decision-making in business and learning how to deal with ethical issues in an organized way.
| | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 439a/b, Entrepreneurial Finance | |
| | Description: This course focuses on the financial challenges facing mid-size companies that are growing rapidly. A conceptual model for making deals will be introduced. Topics to be addressed include government assistance programs, joint ventures, purchase order financing, bank financing, limited partnerships, franchising, mezzanine financing, private placements, merchant banking, venture capital and initial public offerings. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 440a/b, International Business Strategies and Public Policies | |
| | Description: This course focuses on the interaction between management decisions and public policy. The political environment of business is shaped by government structures from parliamentary and presidential systems to dictatorship and with differing allocations of responsibility between national and provincial/state governments. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 441a/b, Entrepreneurial Marketing | |
| | Description: This course focuses on the issues of growing the sales of high potential ventures. The high potential setting highlights the conflicts between the expectations of employees and investors and the constraints of cash and time. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 442q/r/s/t, New Venture Management | |
| | Description: This course concentrates on the development of the new enterprise rather than the management of an existing small business. Cases developed especially for the course and a project on starting their own business stimulate the students to analyze the opportunities, risks and ingredients necessary for entrepreneurial success. | | 0.25 Course | | back to top |
| Business Administration 443a/b, Value Investing | |
| | Description: This course provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of value investing. Topics include the value investing process, institutional investor behaviour, search strategies, market psychology, the phenomenon of neglect, valuation, concepts of intrinsic value and margin of safety, moderately and deeply neglected companies as well as hybrid securities. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 444a/b, The Operating Manager | |
| | Description: Each manager has both an operating and strategic sector in his or her job. This course focuses on the operating sector, with emphasis on decision-making and implementation. The point of view is that of the manager in the early stages of a career who must develop the ability to lead, to take action and to operate effectively. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 446q/r/s/t, Information Systems Consulting | |
| | Description: This course focuses on general management consulting skills in the IS area. A balance of communication skills, strategic thinking and technical proficiency is developed. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 447a/b, Accounting and Control for Global Operations | |
| | Description: This course develops skills in the use of accounting data in multiple currencies, financial reporting under multiple national GAAPs and international Accounting Standards, and provides skills in planning and measuring performance in global organizations. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 448q/r/s/t, Leading Diversity | |
| | Description: This course increases the understanding of organizational change and develops skills in dealing with crisis incidents. Topics include challenges of change, leadership and turnarounds, negotiating change, influence tactics, managing stakeholders. Issues are explored from individual, group, organizational and societal perspectives. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 449q/r/s/t, Business Leadership | |
| | Description: Students learn the significance of thought, choice, habits, thinking style and attitude on becoming an effective leader. Students will learn to internalize and incorporate the course experiences and learnings into everyday leadership practices. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 450a/b, Business Law | |
| | Description: This course strives to help the student organize and understand the increasing network of legislation and regulation which influences the general management of organizations. In the cases and readings, the emphasis is placed on the law in evolution - not as specific rules and regulations, but as a continuous attempt to solve social and management problems. | | Antirequisite(s): Management and Organizational Studies 275a/b. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 451a/b, Sales Management | |
| | Description: The objective of the course is to develop understanding and decision-making skills in the building and maintenance of an effective sales organization. Materials are organized around three sections of approximately equal duration: (a) The Salesman: (b) The Field Manager: (c) The Sales Executive. Case materials covering industrial and consumer sales organizations are supplemented in the classroom by appropriate readings and films. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 452q/r/s/t, New Venture Creation | |
| | Description: This course explores the many dimensions of new venture creation and growth and fosters innovation and new business formations in independent and corporate settings. | | 0.25 Course | | back to top |
| Business Administration 453q/r/s/t, Investment Management | |
| | Description: The course introduces students to the field of handling investments for the individual, estate, or small group. The main emphasis is on marketable securities - stocks, bonds and investment funds. Guests from the investment field supplement case discussions. The term project is designed to enable students to handle investment analysis and portfolio management on a problem basis. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 454a/b, Operations Strategy | |
| | Description: The course aims to develop the ability to identify the relationships among competitive structure, manufacturing and service technologies, and market demands; prepare viable operations strategies for a firm within the identified constraints; and change the operations of a firm into a principal competitive strategy. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 455q/r/s/t, Real Estate Management | |
| | Description: This course introduces students to the various aspects of real estate investment, development and management. Topics include the various types of real estate and their unique characteristics, the stakeholders involved and issues associated with the development process and the major issues in investment and management of existing real estate assets. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 456q/r/s/t, Technology, Economy, Society | |
| | Description: This course looks at technology and the economic and societal forces that shift with advances in technology and examines the unintended consequences that technology has on the World of business. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 457a/b, Management Control Systems | |
| | Description: The process by which management translates organizational objectives and strategies into specific goals. The course examines systems facilitating this process at all levels of the organization. Topics include measurement of performance, profit and investment centres, transfer pricing, planning/budget process, strategic controls and surveys of relevant academic literature on control. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 458a/b, Leading Change | |
| | Description: The course addresses a range of challenges faced by organizations as they prepare for, or attempt to, lead change and manage crisis situations. Whether incited by technology, competition, globalization, or inspiration, organizational change has become a constant in today’s business world. Issues will be explored from individual, group, organizational, and societal perspectives.
| | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 459r/t, Research | |
| | Description: The purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to learn the research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a research report. Useful to persons considering further academic work or doing special projects in industry. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 461a/b, Strategic Market Planning | |
| | Description: Marketing planning is viewed in this course as continuous process involving: setting company marketing goals, assessing market opportunities, developing a marketing strategy, developing a set of integrated action programs, and monitoring the implementation of programs and adjusting the marketing plan. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 463a/b, International Finance | |
| | Description: The purpose of the course is to prepare individuals to assume decision-making roles in the area of international finance. Emphasis will be on the operations of non-financial corporations, as opposed to those of financial intermediaries. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 464q/r/s/t, Purchasing and Supply Management | |
| | Description: Topics include supply chain organization, systems, quality, delivery, quantity, price, source selection, commodity buying, outsourcing, reverse marketing and supply strategy. Other topics may include negotation, supply chain consulting, international procurement and environmental issues in supply chains. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 465q/r/s/t, Managing the Family Owned Business | |
| | Description: Students will be armed with the discovery of the family business system and be able to discern ways of incorporating these success factors, habits and value-enhancers into a family business environment. Mindful of the potential three-way impact of every decision, the students will be better able to make effective choices and successfully manage the business. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 466a/b, Management Information Systems | |
| | Description: This required core course is designed around six modules that are concerned with what a general manager needs to know about managing IT and managing with IT. | | 0.50 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 467q/r/s/t, End User Modelling | |
| | Description: This course develops advanced spreadsheet skills. The course is focused on creating spreadsheet applications that are user friendly and scalable.
| | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 468a/b, Interpersonal Negotiations | |
| | Description: Negotiations is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more parties who are interdependent and who are seeking to maximize their outcomes. The central issues of this course deal with understanding the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations in the context of interdependent situations. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 469a/b, Management Science for Competitive Advantage | |
| | Description: The objective of this course is to build on the first year Management Science course, and examine the use of Management Science/Operational Research (MS/OR) as a competitive weapon. We shall examine some of the many ways that globally competitive corporations are using MS/OR to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. We shall also investigate some major public sector applications of MS/OR that have yielded huge benefits. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 470q/r/s/t, Corporate Strategy | |
| | Description: Students will be armed with the discovery of the family business system and be able to discern ways of incorporating these success factors, habits and value enhancers into a family business environment. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 473q/r/s/t, Equity Markets Trading Simulation | |
| | Description: This course covers bidding for contracts, formulating strategies, execution of simulation and debriefing. Students work on trading desks in teams of four for each trading desk. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 474q/r/s/t, Developing and Managing Technology | |
| | Description: The course focuses on management of technological resources with emphasis on production facilities. Objectives: (1) improve analysis of economic and technological factors relevant to management decisions about uses and control of technological change; (2) increase understanding of technological change as a factor in business activities; (3) develop approaches to managing production processes under conditions of technological change. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 475q, Governing the Firm: Coordination and Control in Organization | |
| | Description: The course offers the student a general framework for analyzing the patterns of value creation and the source of organizational problems. The readings, lectures, and case discussions should allow the student to develop a better understanding of how organizational controls and the "rules of the game" affect human behaviour and organizational performance and value. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 476a/b, Knowledge Management | |
| | Description: This course has several purposes: (i) to understand what knowledge management is and how it can contribute towards organizational performance; (ii) to overview various types of IT solutions to knowledge management problems and opportunities; and (iii) to explore the challenges associated with deploying these solutions, and identify strategies and tactics for addressing these challenges.
| | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 477a/b, Corporate Financial Reporting II | |
| | Description: This course supplements the learning from Business 417. It covers intermediate accounting including the financial reporting environment, accounting for assets, liabilities and equity, accounting changes and errors, and the statement of cash flow. It is a self-study course. A weekly tutorial, lead by a chartered accountant, is available. | | 0.50 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 479a/b, Taxation for Managers | |
| | Description: This course is designed for individuals who wish to understand how income tax laws impact various types of income and wealth accumulation. It is specifically relevant to those pursuing careers in accounting, finance or becoming entrepreneurs. | | Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 437q/r/s/t. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 480q/r/s/t, Global Strategy | |
| | Description: The course will build students' capacity to address the need and the means of moving from a domestic base to international operations and an understanding of how established global firms develop and implement strategy in a complex international setting. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 481q/r/s/t, Market Research and Analysis | |
| | Description: This course provides an understanding of what market research is, what kind of information it can provide, and how it can be used by marketing managers. It also includes qualitative and quantitative marketing research techniques and how to use marketing research applications in key marketing areas. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 484a/b, Supply Chain Management | |
| | Description: The main objective of this course is to further explore the inter-organizational networks from an operational perspective. Supply chain management is a system approach to managing the entire flow of information, compensation, materials and services from raw materials suppliers through factories and warehouses to the end-consumer. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 486a/b, Financial Modeling | |
| | Description: This course implements financial models in Excel. The main topics covered are: modeling financial instruments, programming in Excel and modeling for valuation. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 489q/r/s/t, Managing The Professional Service Firm | |
| | Description: This course will teach how to understand the impact of the current environment on the professional firm, the strategic alternatives available as well as how the structure and administrative systems of the firm relate to the strategy. It will also cover women in management, ethics and globalization relative to the professional firm. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 490q/r/s/t, Strategic Leadership | |
| | Description: Organizations need leaders who are willing to accept risk and willing to invest in employee development and training, market research, and research and development. Students will also define levels of required return, specify budgets and evaluate employees on the basis of objective financial information and strategic organizational performance. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 491q/r/s/t, Dynamic Channel Leadership | |
| | Description: This course covers achieving and maintaining market leadership through channel leadership, and/or establishing and conducting strategic channel partnerships in rapidly changing environments. | | 0.25 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 492, Research | |
| | Description: The purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to learn the research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a research report. Useful to persons considering further academic work or doing special projects in industry. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 494q/r/s/t, Logistics Management | |
| | Description: Some of the key topics of this course include assessing the potential contribution of the logistics function to corporate and or organizational strategy and objectives; and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of logistics service providers, logistics management organizations, policies and practices. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 495a/b, Consumer Brands Marketing | |
| | Description: The course looks at brand management within the marketing function and its relations to produce management in general. We examine product line management as a strategic option and competitive issues in brand management. We then look at environmental threats to the brand, including the issues of private labels and changes in media. Finally, we examine global branding and its organizational basis. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 497a/b, Auditing | |
| | Description: This course begins with an examination of the principles and theory which underlie the practice of auditing. In particular, concepts of management assertions, audit objectives, evidence, materiality and risk, internal control, audit planning, reporting, and auditing as an attestation process are examined and discussed. Assurance services will be introduced and their application considered. The strategic lens approach to auditing will be addressed. The course also examines auditing as a professional activity, including topics such as professional judgment, ethics, legal liability, and the responsibilities of auditors to society. The latter part of the course will be concerned with audit planning and audit strategy. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 498a/b, Managing People for Exceptional Performance | |
| | Description: This course is organized around five sets of activities critical to managerial success, each involving face-to-face interaction and a high degree of interpersonal skill: Coaching for Exceptional Performance; Negotiating and Resolving Conflict; Getting Commitment to Goals and Standards; Conducting Performance Reviews; and Managing Problem Employees. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Business Administration 499, Research | |
| | Description: The purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to learn the research process by undertaking an individual project and preparing a research report. Useful to persons considering further academic work or doing special projects in industry. Topics and activities are developed between students and a faculty member of their choosing who agrees to supervise their work. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
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