Electives (Master’s)

This is a graduate course in Organizational Behavior that thoroughly studies major theories and their practical application in organizational life.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the theory and practice of organizational behavior decision making.
2. Formulate solutions to case studies, practical examples and exercises.
3. Apply organizational behavior decision making principles to a wide variety of contexts within the non-profit and private sectors from small to large enterprises.
4. Be able to analyze organizational behavior in both – for profit and non-profit organizations.

This course is dedicated to the design thinking process, the tried-and-tested approach to creative problem solving. The course includes theory and practical applications of tools and techniques to introduce exciting, innovative business models, products or services to market quickly and informed by high-quality customer insights. The goal of the course is to unlock the creative potential of future entrepreneurial managers.
Learning Outcomes for the Course
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand how design thinking works.
2. Understand phases of design thinking.
3. Conduct primary market research and problem statement definition.
4. Identify key success factors and depict best case scenario of implementation strategy
5. Create usable models and frameworks for viable product through product ideation and prototyping, gathering user feedback and testing solutions.
6. Use tools and techniques for creative problem solving.

7. Develop and use design strategies for different types of business.

This program is designed for aspiring entrepreneurs and those who want to develop or strengthen an entrepreneurship climate. Participants will develop entrepreneurial mindset and skill sets, learn how to bring innovations to the market, and craft a business model to successfully launch the new business. The course examines the entrepreneurial mindset and skill sets, indicators of innovation opportunities, innovation strategies to establish and maintain a competitive advantage.

The course will cover the new tendencies and modern trends and their reflection in business activities.  In particular, how the latest pandemic changes transfer entrepreneurship will be the new normal for business. Explains how a new sustainable development framework will affect the business activities and incentivizes changes and innovations. The AI is changing the processes on micro and macro level, forcing rethinking the accessibility and importance of the main factors of production for starting and developing the business.

Moreover, course materials reflect geopolitical and international aspects of entrepreneurial activities, including transferring technologies, greening all processes, and tracking the life cycle of goods and services from creation till utilization or recycling; rethinking communication with consumers from new channels like tick-tock and others.

Courses cover topics: finance, leadership and management, marketing and planning, operations, and strategy.

Learning Outcomes for the Course

– Understand and apply structural analysis and ratio analysis techniques to evaluate public companies’ financial position and financial results.

– Apply unit-economy techniques for analysis

– Formulate and communicate about the value if the product or idea and competitive advantage

– Differentiate the role of leader and manager, understand how to establish the communication channels in the organization.

– Develop an understanding of how to develop winning investor pitches. Understand who and when to pitch, how to avoid common mistakes, and how to ‘get to the close.’ 

Everyone knows that brand management is managing brand by owners and customers. In this case, management is understood as the process of purposeful observation and impact on the object: target change / target refusal to change the object. And the goal is to maximize brand assets, maximize brand potential.

Enough scientific definitions, right? At the same time, the question remains – “How will you stand out among strong competitors and convey to the consumer an understanding of product uniqueness?”.

This course will allow you to understand how a brand is formed and how a brand helps a business to earn money. You will be able to define the goals and objectives of the brand and study how the brand is perceived by consumers. You will learn sustainable positioning of an enterprise in the market by formulating correct, capacious and catchy messages. You will also develop a strategy for the brand: from methods of analyzing goals and market research methods to monitoring the effectiveness of brand promotion. You will also explore ways to develop brand identity and understand how to combine rational and emotional product values in one, which will increase the impact on the consumer.

The course will help students who are not lawyers to understand the basics of human rights in the property, commerce, and business spheres.

It includes basic information about national and international documents, standards, principles, court cases, and essential nuances about human rights, which are crucial for future professionals in business and private commerce.

This course covers on such topics as international trade, finance, migration, war economics, inequality, technological advance, the environment, and developing and transitional economies.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to analyze current economic conditions, evaluate economic prospects and trends for actual global economic and business issues, know up to date challenges of developed and transitioning world, have skills to present complex practical and theoretical patterns in a comprehensive and capacious manner.

The classes of this course cover complex interdisciplinary topics of actual economic conditions on international level. It connects patterns of local origin globally, making up an interconnected system of national economies in terms of economic, social, and security challenges. 

This course Seminars in Business Policy is designed to provide students with knowledge needed to understand  theoretical and practical aspects of business policy. The course is devoted to the construction of strategy in the aspects of external and internal environment and formation of corporate and functional strategies. The course provides students with instruments and concepts of business planning which aim is to produce effective strategy.

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Comprehend the major issues concerned about process of strategy, global strategy and frameworks, organization and structure
2. Develop insights into process of strategy formulation.
3. Identify concept and managerial aspects of effective business planning
4. Evaluate and solve various strategic problems and case studies.

The course will provide graduate students with the concepts and analytical methodology useful in understanding the scope of business policies. The two main goals for this course are: familiarizing students with business policy problems through the use of case studies, and providing students with intellectual and practical insights, concepts and language to effectively create a viable business plan.
Learning Outcomes for the Course
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the development of business strategy and business policy.
2. Formulate solutions to case studies, practical examples and exercises.
3. Apply knowledge of business policy to a developed business strategy.
4. Develop a business plan for a “new start-up” or re-organization of an existing business plan.