Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
Nashville, TN, United States
http://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu/

Creating New Business

Will study different approaches to entrepreneurship and will learn to identify potential opportunities, to evaluate those opportunities, and to develop a plan for implementation of a business concept. Practicing entrepreneurs will serve as speakers in the program, and students work with cases to learn about the practice of entrepreneurship....
 

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Examines major behavioral issues in the management of organizations. Topics include motive and incentive systems, decision-making, management of power and conflict in small groups, attitudes and change, performance, leadership, values, and communication....
 

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Focuses on leading change in organizations. Taught as an intensive three-day module, the course examines leadership qualities such as vision, courage, mindfulness, communication, integrity, and relationship building. It covers strategies for change including using crises, creating readiness, promoting the vision, empowerment, building consensus, and short-term wins. The course will include pers......
 

Draws on the approaches learned in Organizational Behavior to provide a critical view of HR practices in organizations. Topics include organizational and environmental factors affecting personnel, manpower planning, career development, personnel selection, job design, performance appraisal, and reward systems. ...
 

Examines the theories and practices of financial decision-making in terms of the underlying economic principles. Topics include capital budgeting decisions, financial structure and dividend policies, and other topics within the context of financial markets and risk/return trade-off. ...
 

the second course in a 3 couse sequence. The sequence focuses on theories of portfolio analysis and capital markets, including diversification in portfolio selection, random walk hypothesis, theories of efficient markets, determinants of security returns, and elements of corporate finance. ...
 

the final course in a 3 couse sequence. The sequence focuses on theories of portfolio analysis and capital markets, including diversification in portfolio selection, random walk hypothesis, theories of efficient markets, determinants of security returns, and elements of corporate finance. ...
 

Studies the management of the global organization including the international economic environment and international operations. Related topics include international finance and economic strategies, the foreign exchange market and factors affecting exchange rates, management of foreign exchange exposure, capital budgeting and financing of foreign projects, and management of intra-corporate fund......
 

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Studies the interrelationship of elements that influence global economies including business cycles, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation, employment, and monetary and fiscal policies. Theory is related closely to current developments in the economy. ...
 

Focuses on management’s use of accounting and financial reporting concepts. The first part of the course deals with accounting tools and techniques that contribute to organizational efficiency including standard costs, budgeting, product profitability analysis, and responsibility accounting. The second part of the course covers income measurement and asset valuation focusing on the impact ......
 

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