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Business Ethics This course introduces descriptive and normative ethical principles and their implication on individual behavior and business environment. Understanding ethical principles or norms provides insights to socially acceptable behavior and conduct. Although ethical issues encompass all aspects of social life, this course is focused on business ethics in national and international perspective. Therefore, it is designed to discuss various aspects that affect managerial decision making involving ethical issues. Business Law This course is designed to provide students with understanding of particular important areas of Indonesian business law. The course covers contract law including CISG (UN Convention on the International Sales of Goods), business organizations, foreign investment, banking law, capital market law, intellectual property law, and bankruptcy law. Business Research Methods This course introduces the basic concepts of research methodology and the business research process, beginning with exploration of business data in a firm, identification of business problems, formulation of the business problems, formulation of hypotheses, choices of analytical models, data gathering, data analysis, hypotheses testing, drawing conclusions, making recommendations, and policy implications. The course objectives are to develop students’ research skills and build their decision-making capacity. Financial Management The course introduces students to the greater depth on finance especially the financial management of business corporations. First, we will review some fundamental concepts on financial management. Second, we will discuss the strategic investment decision, including cost of capital, capital budgeting and cash flow estimation. Third, we will discuss the strategic financing decision including long-term financial planning, capital structure and dividend policy. Fourth, we will discuss the tactical financing decision such as lease financing and hybrid financing. Finally, we will discuss number of related topics in financial management, including derivatives and risk management and mergers. We will also discuss some cases in financial management to improve our understanding on theories and practices of financial management. General Business Environment The purpose of this course is to broaden student’s insight into the impact of the external environment (national and international, and economic and non-economic variables) on the management decision making process. Topics discussed include: the impact of economic, technological, social, cultural, political, bureaucratic, legal, demographic, and environmental variables on business growth. The economic system in Indonesia (national environment) will be looked at in terms of ideology and practice, national income, detail sectoral production and its use, government policy, population and job opportunities, and the problem of income distribution. Disscussion of the international business environment includes the following topics: international trade, the concept of comparative advantage, the international payments system and mechanism, impacts of international trade and finance on the domestic business environment, and the problem of protection. Management Control Systems Management control system is a course that introduces students to management dilemmas of how to implement corporate strategies. The course deals mainly with structures and processes used and executed by top management in ensuring subordinates to perform activities efficiently and effectively. The course also covers behavioral aspects of human and organization in the context of achieving individual as well as organizational goals. After completing the course, students are expected to have strong grasp of concepts and the ability to design, evaluate, and execute management control systems. Marketing Management This course describes the way a company achieves its marketing goals by determining a specified target market and using its sufficient marketing sources to successfully serve the target market. Therefore, marketing is an orderly and insightful process for thinking about and planning for markets. The efforts are conducted in a superior way facing the age of technology advancement. Customer value is perceived as a controlling factor to formulate a broad strategy and refining it into a detailed marketing mix, i.e. product, price, place or distribution and promotion, and action plan. Planning, evaluation and improvement relating to the marketing mix need marketing decisions by a manager. In making his decisions, he might be influenced by uncontrollably environmental factors, such as political, economic, social, legal, technology, demographic factors and competition. Operations Management This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of managing operations, transforming inputs into useful outputs. Specially, the course objective is to provide students background knowledge on how goods and services are produced and the necessary skills in organizing these for productive enterprise. Organizational Behavior The course consists of blending of theoretical discussion of the subject matters and real life experiences of the business world. The course is designed to meet the current need of business environment. The textbook is intended as the source of academic information to be used to understand the real phenomenon of the business world. There are six cases to be discussed in class. The cases were selected on the basis of its relevance to the course content. Strategic Management The course of strategic management is intended to be a challenging, demanding, and exciting (capstone) course for the curriculum of management education. It is first and foremost a course about “Strategy” and about “managing strategy formulation and implementation processes,” especially in the contexts of global business environment. As a “big picture” course, this course is also designed to assist the student in integrating much of the knowledge and skills that have gained in the core management curriculum. The problems or issues of strategy formulation, formation and implementation or execution cover the whole spectrum of business and management. The main objective is to sharpen your abilities to think strategically, to make strategic decisions, and to weigh things from the perspective of the total enterprise. It means systematically exposing the student to the rigors of industry and competitive analysis, to the characteristics of a global market environment, to the important ingredients of strategic moves and plans, and to the varied managerial tasks associated with implementing and executing the chosen strategy. Systems and Information Technology Management Information Systems is an interdisciplinary course for post-graduate students to understand the dynamics information and communications technologies, process management, and organizational changes. Topics include the evolution of information and communications technologies in firm, some aspects of computer hardware and software, strategic information systems, electronic commerce, analysis and design systems, and global information systems. The main focus of this course is building positive attitudes of students toward the strategic role of information and communications technologies especially in the process of business decision-making.
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