Online MBA Degree

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

Electives

6 credits are required as electives, and may be recognized from other approved institutions and organizations allowing for complete customization according to your career goals. Electives can include evidence-based research in health management, global population health, healthcare supply chain management, executive coaching and mentoring, disaster planning, pandemic and crisis management, corporate social responsibility in healthcare and more.

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

BASD 501 Corporate Social Responsibility

Prerequisite
MBA Core

Overview

This course is designed to engage students in a discussion of Corporate Social Responsibility through a series of interactive learning activities. The course will begin with preparing the students to discuss and debate the definition and importance of CSR to a company’s strategy. We’ll then move on to examine situations in which companies have not done a very good job at demonstrating good CSR practices, and we’ll examine the complexity of those situations and the range of possible responses. Finally, we’ll look at some companies that have demonstrated CSR “best practices”, and discuss what these examples teach us that we can apply in our future careers. The class depends highly on student participation, and student interests will drive the topics and situations that are considered and discussed.

Learning Objectives

After successfully completing this course, students will be able:
To explain what Corporate Social Responsibility means
To debate the case for and “against” CSR including understanding the complex balance between CSR and other elements of company strategy
To identify real-world CSR best practices and to reflect on how those might be more broadly applied
To critically analyze situations where companies are facing CSR issues, including an appreciation of the interests of various stakeholders
To recommend a course of action that balances CSR with other business interests, and is compelling and persuasive

Global Environment of Business – Business 560

This course demonstrates the relationships among the major environmental forces, examines the ways in which they differ among nations and over time, and analyzes how they may impact corporate strategies. This course addresses the following five sets of environmental forces: (1) Industry Structure: Responses to strategies of customers, suppliers and competitors, dependence of profitability on unique value-added attributes, and the shift of certain activities to low-wage countries; (2) Macroeconomic variables: Income levels and growth rates, foreign exchange rates, inflation rates, interest rates, and unemployment rates; (3) Political variables: Regulations, financial incentives, taxation, foreign investment restrictions, and international trade and investment agreements; (4) Societal variables: Labour and environmental practices, ethics, corporate social responsibility, Boards of Directors, and demographics; (5) Technological variables: Technological infrastructure and the pace and direction of technological changes, including in particular the Internet and e-business.

MGMT 68 Corporate Social Responsibility
This course, which focuses on the issue of “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law,” observes concepts ranging from command and control regulations to self-regulation with market-based approaches. This is a practical course and will walk the student through practical processes of the following critical activities: identification of social issues to support, selection of initiatives to support the social issues, development of integrated and strategic implementation plans, and measurement and report outcomes.

Course of EMBA from Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University

MGMT S68 - Corporate Social Responsibility
This course focuses on the issue of “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law” observing concepts ranging from command and control regulation to self-regulation with market-based approaches. This is a practical course, and will walk the students through the practical processes of the following critical activities: identification of social issues to support, selection of initiatives to support the social issues, development of integrated and strategic implementation plans, and measurement and report outcomes.

Second Year course of MBA from Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University

In their second year, many students choose to concentrate in a specific area which is reflected on their student transcript. The maximum number of concentrations is two with each concentration made up of one or two foundation course(s) and two or three additional elective courses. Courses may NOT simultaneously count for more than one concentration.

There are presently five main areas of concentration: Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, International Business and Strategic Management.

1. Finance
Foundation (required): FINC D30
FINC D41 Finance I
Finance II

Two electives: FINC D42
FINC D46
FINC D55
FINC D60
FINC D65
FINC D70
FINC D79
FINC D53 Financial Decision
Entrepreneurial Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Investment
Derivative Markets 1
International Finance
Financial Planning and Governance
Financial Risk Management

or other finance courses taken at Sasin or Sasin’s cooperating institutions under the International Student Exchange Programs with the written approval of the Registrar’s Office.

2. Marketing
Foundation (required): MKTG D30
MKTG D50 Marketing I
Research Methods in Marketing

Two electives: MKTG D52
MKTG D70
MKTG D68
MKTG D59
MGMT D68
Consumption and Marketing
Strategic Marketing
Multicultural Marketing
Services Marketing
Corporate Social Responsibility

or other marketing courses taken at Sasin or Sasin’s cooperating institutions under the International Student Exchange Programs with the written approval of the Registrar’s Office.

3. Entrepreneurship
Foundation (required): MGMT D62 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formulation

Three electives: LAW D30
MORS D70
MGMT D55 Business Law
Negotiations
Information Technology

or other entrepreneurship courses taken at Sasin or Sasin’s cooperating institutions under the International Student Exchange Programs with the written approval of the Registrar’s Office.

4. International Business
Foundation (required): MECN D50
MGMT D52 Macroeconomic Analysis for Management
Strategy in Domestic and International Business

Two electives: MGMT D73
FINC D70
MKTG D68 Global Initiatives in Management (GIM)
International Finance
Multicultural Marketing

or other international business courses taken at Sasin or Sasin’s cooperating institutions under the International Student Exchange Programs with the written approval of the Registrar’s Office.

5. Strategic Management
Foundation (required): MGMT D31 Business Strategy

Three electives: MECN D41
MGMT D35
MGMT D54
MKTG D70 Competitive Strategy and Industrial Structure
Management Consulting Practices
Formulating Competitive Direction
Strategic Marketing

or other strategic management courses taken at Sasin or Sasin’s cooperating institutions under the International Student Exchange Programs with the written approval of the Registrar’s Office.

Second Year course of MBA from Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University

Elective Courses:
Although electives vary from year to year, they usually include:
Accounting ACCT D31 Managerial Accounting

Entrepreneurial Studies FINC D46
MGMT D62
MGMT D55 Entrepreneurial Finance
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formulation
Information Technology

Finance FINC D65
FINC D46
FINC D41
FINC D42
FINC D79
FINC D53
FINC D70
FINC D60
FINC D55
Derivative Markets I
Entrepreneurial Finance
Finance II
Financial Decisions
Financial Planning and Governance
Financial Risk Management
International Finance
Investments
Mergers and Acquisitions

Law LAW D30 Business Law

Management and Organizations MGMT D68
MORS D70 Corporate Social Responsibility
Negotiations

Management and Strategy MECN D41
MGMT D54
MGMT D55
MGMT D35
MECN D46
MGMT D73 Competitive Strategy and Industrial Structure
Formulating Competitive Directions
Information Technology
Management Consulting Practices
Pricing Strategies
Global Initiatives in Management

Marketing MKTG D52
MKTG D70
MKTG D68
MECN D46
MKTG D59 Consumption and Marketing
Strategic Marketing
Multicultural Marketing
Pricing Strategies
Services Marketing

Operations Management OPNS D50 Spreadsheet Modeling for Managerial Decisions

Core Course for Corporate Governance Graduate School of Management

Corporate Social Responsibility (3 Credits)

The course focuses on the ways in which an increasing number of successful companies are attempting to express forms of social and environmental responsibility in their business practice. The course also takes an internal perspective by considering practical reasoning in the context of managerial everyday action in organizations, as managers and employees have a responsibility to ‘work out’ what is ethical behaviour).