Online MBA Degree

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia
BAMA 530 International Marketing Strategy

Prerequisites
MBA Core

BAMA 530 will provide a practical overview of the key elements of International Marketing and issues businesses face when entering and operating in foreign markets. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to synthesize and apply existing marketing knowledge. The course will cover key issues in the external environment, how companies assess opportunities and the development of international marketing strategies. Lectures will be augmented with readings, videos, short cases and practical mini-assignments. Similar to other courses, a high degree of participation will be expected.

A major group project will involve developing a marketing strategy for a business expanding into an international market. Both a written report and group presentation will be required.

This course was called BAIM 521 prior to September 2008.
Please note that MBA modules with BAIM codes have been re-coded to ensure that the designation corresponds to the appropriate discipline.
Credit will not be granted for both BAMA 530 & BAIM 521.

Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia

BAFI 507 Mergers & Acquisitions

Prerequisites
BAFI 500, BAFI 511

Mergers and acquisitions can be critical to the success of corporations and their managers. In this course, we explore the economic motivations for M&A activity, as well as valuation, transaction structuring, financing, and tactics. We consider the central role of corporate managers, investment bankers and other advisors, private investors and investment funds, public financial markets, and regulators. We discuss how some M&A activity is a symptom of agency problems, while other restructurings can help to realign the goals of managers and shareholders. The course is balanced between lecture, cases, and student presentations. Active participation is essential.

Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University

FINE 541
3 credits
Applied Investments

Finance: Students are exposed to practical aspects of managing investment portfolios. A principal activity of students is participation in the management of a substantial investment fund.

Offered by: Management
Terms
This course is not scheduled for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Instructors
There are no professors associated with this course for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Advanced Venture Management Program (AVM)

Within a few years of its creation, a venture firm goes through its most vulnerable stage — a stage that determines its ultimate success or failure. It is in this stage that management knowledge and skills are crucial. In response to demands by Korean business people, KAIST Business School has established this unique program targeting the top executives of venture firms experiencing this critical transition stage.

The AVM program offers top executives of venture firms and venture capitalists the opportunity to learn entrepreneurial approaches and management techniques for the venture process of foundation-growth-maturity, to learn the management of innovation and changes, strategic management, marketing and technology management, attracting and working with venture capitalists, and managing organizations and human resources.

The management environment of venture firms is vastly different from that of mature firms. Creative problem-solving ability needs to be cultivated to meet the ever-changing role of managers. The curriculum of the AVM Program is balanced between theory and application, and emphasizes participation and practice in business clinics, case studies, and business plan development, thereby enhancing problem-solving and adaptive ability. As a part of the AVM Program, participants join in a one-week field trip to Beijing and Shanghai.