Albers School of Business and Economics
Seattle, Washington, United States
http://albers.seattleu.edu/

Entrepreneurship

Interdisciplinary course designed to give students a solid understanding of the field and potential opportunities of entrepreneurship from micro-enterprise and family businesses to high growth ventures and corporate entrepreneurship. Guest speakers, business plans, and activities will be utilized to deepen the students’ insight into values-based entrepreneurship in for profit and nonprofit......
 

This course is directed at providing participants with a historical overview of the lives and accomplishments of great leaders in private, public, and religious enterprises and organizations. It examines leaders in context of the principles, philosophies, and tactics they used to accomplish their objectives....
 

Examines environments in which diversity initiatives operate. Dominant work values are explored to understand how they define desired work behaviors and to understand ways in which diversity challenges some dominant work values. Challenges students to acquire information about diversity via studies of organizational culture and subcultures....
 

Student teams serve as consultants to area businesses that have been identified through the Seattle University Project Center. The consulting teams identify the projects’ work dimensions in the beginning of the quarter through interaction with company leadership. Substantial interaction is then required throughout the quarter between the student team, the business representatives, the pr......
 

Facets of entrepreneurship are examined to help equip the student with the entrepreneurial applications to create social and private value in profit or not-for-profit organizations. Students consult with (1) for-profit organizations desiring to use their resources to address social issues; (2) individuals starting for-profit microenterprises for a self-employment/job creation, and/or (3) nonpro......
 

In this course Business students will be teamed with Law students in learning and applying interdisciplinary legal and business skills to assist in new and existing business ventures in the Central District Community. The Clinic will run 10 weeks in the fall and 10 weeks in the winter. Students must enroll for both in order to receive full credit. The winter quarter component will allow student......
 

Leadership Formation I is the first of a two-course sequence required for students admitted to the graduate certificate program. Admission to the program is a prerequisite for enrollment, and students in the program attend as a cohort. This first course provides a forum for students to explore, process, assimilate aspects of leadership theory and behavior in the context of social justice. Parti......
 

Geared to students who want to learn about China both as a business opportunity and a threat in view of its state of market development This course is taught as a competitive strategy course and covers China’s competitive environment, China’s rapid development, role of the state, state owned enterprises, competencies for foreign companies to succeed, branding in China, inward and outw......
 

Cases in business finance that develop students skills for identifying problems, acquiring relevant material, and using appropriate financial theory for making decisions in simulated business settings. Serves as a capstone course for MSF program and should be taken during the last two quarters of the program....
 

This course develops an integrated knowledge of accounting and finance and provides a financial reporting perspective for fair value- related issues. Topics will relate to the accounting for business combinations and asset impairments including the recognition and valuation of intangibles and contingencies, stock compensation accounting, derivatives accounting including assessing hedge effectiv......
 

Focuses on methods used for business valuation. Various methods will be discussed including discounted cash flow techniques, multiples, and an introduction to real option analysis. Emphasis is on developing the required information for valuation from financial statements and other publicly available sources of information. The course will emphasize the valuation of technology firms and will als......
 

The course offers an in-depth study on the theory and management of hedge funds. It covers various alternative investment strategies including relative-value, event-driven, equity hedge, tactical trading, and multi-strategy funds/fund of funds. It will pay particular attention to performance evaluation as well as issues at the operational level, such as fees and compensation, leverage, and risk......
 

This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the valuation and risk management concepts in the fixed income markets. A variety of fixed income securities will be discussed. These include pure discount bonds, coupon bonds, callable bonds and home mortgages. Interest rate derivatives (e.g. forwards and futures on fixed income securities, bond options, caps and floors) w......
 

Extends traditional asset valuation techniques to incorporate the value of flexibility and account for the sequential nature of much decision-making. Especially useful for new product development, R&D activity, patents, and other intangible assets and for valuing emerging, high growth, and/or high technology companies....
 

Course emphasizes portfolio construction rather than security selection. Topics include setting portfolio objectives and constraints for individual and institutional investors, efficient diversification, asset allocation, portfolio insurance, international diversification, performance measurement, and attribution....
 

Course examines financing options available to an entrepreneurial venture as well as the financial management of the small business. Financing sources follow the life cycle of the business from start-up through angel investors, venture capital, bank lending, leasing, asset based lending, and franchising to the IPO. Focus is on methods of valuation used in entrepreneurial finance....
 

Focus on the process of capital budgeting: the decision area of financial management that establishes criteria for investing resources in long-term projects. The decisions made regarding the acquisition, maintenance, or abandonment of capital assets plus certain financial decisions such as lease vs. buy are analyzed. Focus on the capital budgeting process under uncertainty and the connection wi......
 

Reviews theoretical concepts, practical techniques, institutions, and issues related to the management of financial aspects of international business. Includes topics such as globalization of trade and financial markets, exchange rates, currency exposures and hedging techniques, and valuation of cross-border investments....
 

Objective is to expose students to the various elements involved in formulating a comprehensive financial plan. Topics included will be personal investing, education planning, retirement planning, risk management, and consumer finance....
 

Focus on self-assessment, tools for developing leadership skills, and concepts of, and practice in, group dynamics. A retreat component and service project emphasize individual growth and team building. In-class activities may require active participation and will include case analyses, mini-lectures, and group work. To be completed in the first or second quarter of the student’s program....
 

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