Courses

COURSES:

ACCT801 - Financial Statements Analysis: The course emphasizes (1) the concepts and conventions that underlie financial statements, (2) the methods that are used to record, summarize and report the effects of economic activities in financial statements, (3) the interpretation and analysis of financial statements, (4) identify the main users of financial information, and (5) understand the role played in the financial reporting process by all the participants.

ECON801 - Global Economic Dynamics: Each week, the focus is on a different section of macroeconomic policy analysis. These sections provide a wide spectrum including monetary policy, financial markets, fiscal policy, foreign trade dynamics, labor market as well as global and domestic challenges awaiting the global and the Turkish economy in the post global crisis era.

FIN802 - Corporate Finance: This course firstly describes the financial markets and the financial instruments traded in these markets. Throughout the course, there is increasingly more exposure to the quantitative tools and methods of modern finance. Managers face two broad types of financial decisions: investment decisions (which investments should be made) and financing decisions (how to raise funds to pay for investments). This course develops the tools and methods necessary for managers to make intelligent investment decisions. The role of financing decisions and their effects on firm value are left to a follow-up course.

MGMT801 - Corporate Ethics and Social Impact: Managers and employees continuously face ethical dilemmas in their professional careers. Hence it is crucial to integrate ethics into decision making processes at every level of an organization. Through theoretical approaches, critical (self-) reflections, and real business cases, this course provides a scientific framework for business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Apart from discussing seminal frameworks of business ethics (e.g., CSR, stakeholder theory, and corporate citizenship), the course explores ethics on the individual level by applying models of ethical decision-making and mindfulness. Further, the course outlines how to actually manage business ethics in teams and organizations and highlights the role of ethics in various business contexts (e.g., human resource management, marketing, international business).

MGMT807 - Data-Driven Decision Making: This course emphasizes the connections between data, statistical models and the decision-making. It focuses on statistical models and their implementations and on basic skills in statistical tools to analyze business data, to evaluate strengths and weakness of various analyses.

MGMT823 - Strategy and the Business Landscape: This course explores the issues involved in the management and success of the total enterprise. It deals with the overall direction of the firm and how to compete in a given business landscape, as well as how to shape that landscape. The course is different from prior courses in that it takes a big picture, senior management perspective and focuses on integrating prior functional knowledge into a coherent whole that we call strategy. Topics include analyzing a business landscape; developing a strategy that allows the firm to gain competitive advantage over rivals, and how to protect that advantage under changing competitive conditions.

MKTG804 - Marketing Strategy: The course provides an introduction to the role of marketing in an organization. Specifically, it addresses developing marketing solutions within the organization and developing the ability to define and analyze marketing problems. It addresses analytical concepts and techniques relevant for marketing decision making, with an emphasis on creating, capturing, and sustaining customer value. It provides a forum (both written and oral) for presenting and defending own marketing decisions, and for critically examining and discussing the recommendations of others.

OPM802 - Operations Strategy: This course develops an understanding of the main decision areas in management of operations in organizations. To this effect, process analysis, quality, and inventory management principles are introduced within an operations strategy framework. Students learn different process types, how to do process analysis, and the principles of process effectiveness and efficiency. Process quality and its impact on process performance are also covered, as well as statistical quality control and six-sigma.

MGMT 813 - Negotiation and Influence: The course emphasizes developing students’ practical skills in business negotiations, conflict resolution, and interpersonal influence.  It is structured around five key modules: (1) Preparation for negotiations, (2) Distributive negotiation strategy and tactics, (3) Integrative negotiation strategy and tactics, (4) Power, ethics and reputation in negotiations. Through these modules, students engage in a variety of in-class negotiations that mirror real organizational challenges, enhancing their ability to apply theoretical concepts effectively. 

MGMT 814 - Adaptive Leadership: This course focuses on the development of students’ leadership and influence skills in organizational contexts. It aims to help students identify their own leadership beliefs and values and commit to relevant leadership behaviors, fostering the development of their personal leadership identity. The course then covers issues around the leadership of individual employees, teams, and organizations, including aspects of organizational change, culture, and innovation. Drawing upon various social science-based disciplines, it integrates research and case studies to discuss tools for effective leadership.

MKTG 806 - Customer-Centric Leadership: This course gives an overview of consumer behaviour in the digital age and acquaints the students with both what it means to be a consumer in a market-oriented society and what, as a marketer, you need to know to understand the role of meeting the consumer?s needs in the development of a marketing strategy. To this end, the class explores processes involved in consumption and manners in which marketers are better able to predict and influence behaviour.

MGMT 816 - Executive Entrepreneurship: Leading Innovation: This course addresses revenue growth and effective/productive spending. The course builds on the core concepts such as targeting, segmentation, positioning, advertising and innovation management. The course introduces rigorous analytical approaches on pricing, product/ attribute formulations, marketing effectiveness measurement with an emphasis on new & emerging developments and industry disruptions. Participants play the role of growth consultants/Chief Growth Officers.  This challenge is relevant whether you work for a startup or a large company, whether you sell products or services, and whether your customers are individual consumers or companies.

FIN803 - Strategic Financial Management: The course focus is on strategic financial decision making. Topics covered include project valuation techniques, capital investment decisions, project analysis and evaluation, risk and return, cost of capital, and capital structure.

MGMT845 - Human Capital Strategy: To increase the awareness and competence of participants in making refined people decisions, via a journey through "Good, Better and Great People Decisions", and to guide them in increasing their own potential to further stretch their capabilities.

EMBA EXECUTIVE SEMINAR SERIES:

MGMT811 - Immersive Workshops for Leaders: This course is organized around a series of seminars where critical decision makers and top executives share their views, experiences and business practices with the students. These seminars are designed also to have room for discussion so that students are able to ask critical questions to the executive speaker about the seminar subject.

GLOBAL IMMERSION TRIP:

MGMT 810 - Global Immersion Trip: The global immersion trip ensures that students broaden their understanding of the global context of management further. It complements the classroom experience by offering students the opportunity to meet and engage with global leaders, managers, professionals, and government officials from multinational as well as local business, government, and legal organizations. During the trip, students are introduced to world-class organizations and business schools of prominent universities through site visits and guest speaker presentations.

EMBA CAPSTONE PROJECT:

PROJ850 - EMBA Capstone Project: To enable the students to initiate change in their current organization or in a newly defined enterprise, that will support their careers through using and integrating knowledge from the EMBA program.