Courses

REQUIRED COURSES:

ACCT801-Financial Accounting and Reporting: 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-Macroeconomics for Global Economy: 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.

ECON803-Economics for Managers: The course reviews microeconomic concepts such as supply and demand, production, cost, perfect competition and monopoly. The course also shows how economics affects main business decisions such as compensation, pricing, and market entry. Game theory and strategy are the final topics of the course.

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-Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: 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-Business Analytics: 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.

MKTG802-Marketing Management: 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 Management: 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.

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.

EMBA EXECUTIVE SEMINAR SERIES:

MGMT811-Executive Seminar Series: 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.

ELECTIVE COURSES:

ACCT802-Financial Statement Analysis: To help analyze and interpret financial information presented in financial statements as users who make decisions based on that information. 

ACCT803-Management Accounting and Control: This course covers the process of identifying, measuring, analyzing and interpreting financial information for the pursuit of an organization’s operational goals. 

ECON804- Country Economic Analysis: This course is about country economic dynamics at a glance and conducting country economic analysis. Throughout the course, students choose a region (or a country) of interest and analyze the prospects, challenges and opportunities of that country given the broad macroeconomic conditions, economic forecasts and the written reports by the international organizations and consulting firms.

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.

FIN808-Mergers &Acquisitions and Private Equity: The course concentrates on the Merger&Acquisition process and its application in the Private Equity world while analyzing the structure of the Private Equity industry. Topics covered include motives and types of Merger&Acquisition transactions, steps in a Merger&Acqusition procedure, structure and types of Private Equity funds, and Leverage-Buy-Out deals.

MGMT803-Creative Destruction: To enable students to acquire the entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and techniques valid in various settings either as an entrepreneur and/or intrapreneur.

MGMT805-Managing and Leading Organizations: This course focuses on the principle concepts underlying human behavior in organizations at multiple levels- the individual, interpersonal, group, intergroup, and organizational level- by tracing a path that is informed by various social science-based disciplines. This course relates fundamental behavioral theories to actual organizational situations. Therefore, the methodology and approach embedded in the course integrate research and experience to help students learn practical ways to manage and lead people in their organizations

MGMT808-Technology Strategy In Business Ecosystems: To enable students to formulate company technology strategy in business ecosystems.

MGMT809-Organizational Behavior: To provide the students with the fundamental theories and conceptual models in order to enable them to analyze, understand, and manage human behavior in organizations.

MGMT825- Demystifying Turkish Economic Data: Each week, the students analyze a different section of the Turkish economy. 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 Turkish economy in the post global crisis era.

MGMT826-New Product Development: This course focuses on the tools and techniques associated with analyzing market opportunities and then designing, testing, and introducing new products and services. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are covered. In particular, the course covers the new product development process, market entry strategies, how to generate new product ideas, mapping customer perceptions, segmentation, product positioning, forecasting market demand, and product design.

MGMT832-Behavioral Decision Making: This course improves decisions by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of human judgment and reasoning in both business and life. The sessions involve many puzzles and brain-teasers, which make sure that participants experience first-hand a variety of interesting and relevant decision situations. Participants read, watch, write and participate in discussions about current issues related to decision making. They also produce and present a short analysis, based on a decision making process they encountered in their (work) lives.

MGMT835-Career Management: This course explores aspects of personality, values, needs, interests, skills and values that impact effective career management. Managers and leaders must not only make sure they are effective in their work roles, but are also expected to guide the development of their direct reports. The methodology integrates research-based assessments with experience that provide practical ways to manage careers.

MGMT844-Design Thinking: The course consists of creative thinking processes, with an accentuated approach on “Empathy” introducing design thinking methodology, storytelling techniques to help create solutions in limited resourced corporate and private situations and have the system to implement the solutions designed with calculated risks, teaching prototyping as an entrepreneurial tool.

MGMT845-People Management and Personal Branding: 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.

MGMT846-Digital Business and Transformation: To provide students with an overview of Digital Business and Transformation.

MKTG803-Business-to-Business Marketing: To provide students with insight into inter-business marketing management through a combination of lectures, presentations and real-world case studies.

MKTG804-Marketing Strategy: The course presents a decision oriented, integrative and dynamic overview of marketing strategy with a market-consumer-competitor perspective. The course also develops a view of marketing as a major component of corporate strategy and brings marketing management into close alignment with rapidly growing practice of corporate strategic thinking. Strategies for building new brands/markets as well as those for extending and defending the equity in established brands/markets are analyzed. The readings and examples used in the course expose participants to diverse settings in terms of size of organizations involved, type of markets they serve, and nature of the goods they market.

MKTG805-Advanced Topics in Marketing, Business Models & Innovations: To develop students? skills to generate revenue growth and increase budget effectiveness.

MKTG824-Strategic Brand Management: This course introduces the complex world of brand management, and provides the students with tools to build and manage brands, e.g., situation analysis; 5Cs, STP, and marketing mix (4Ps) management. 

OPM811-Supply Chain Management: In this course, students are introduced to the concepts of supply chain management and related decision problems. Topics include supply chain dynamics and structure, demand and supply matching, inventory management, and supply chain contracts.

OPM822-Project Management: This course is targeted at individuals interested in developing both their understanding of project management as a management activity and their project management skills. As well as teaching project management tools and techniques, it provides a clear view of how successful project management contributes to competitiveness of a firm, and of successful practices in organizing for, selecting, planning and executing projects.

OPM823-Retail Operations: Retailing is one of the main drivers of economic growth and transformation in emerging markets around the world. This course develops managerial insights for the retail sector and uses quantitative and empirical modeling skills. Topics discussed include store execution, inventory management and inventory inaccuracy, assortment planning, retail pricing, online retailing, retailing in emerging markets, and the link between inventory and financial performance.