An analysis of capital markets and financial instruments. Topics include fundamental principles and theories of financial asset pricing, asset valuation, risk measurement, risk-return tradeoff, and portfolio design, as well as an introduction to the main financial markets, their organization and functional characteristics.

Introduction to the time value of money and discounted cash flow analysis; coverage of financial decisions to maximize the value of the firm’s equity: valuation of assets, liabilities, and common equity; capital budgeting decisions; opportunity cost of capital; risk and return.

A series of presentations by faculty, outside speakers and students.

Firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets. How firms acquire and maintain market power. Welfare consequences of market power. Strategic interactions among firms, and the role of government competition policy. Basic theoretical models of industrial economics: Bertrand and Cournot competition, collusion, advertising, innovation, and international trade.

Analysis of strategic interactions that commonly arise in economic, business, political, and judicial arenas. A systematic introduction to game theory and some of its applications, such as market competition, technological races, auctions, party competition for votes, and bargaining.

The use of laboratory and field experiments as a data collection method for understanding economic decisions and testing economic theories; how to design a good and valid economics experiment, the methodology of experimental design. The topics that will be studied theoretically and experimentally in the course include decision-making under risk and uncertainty, decision-making over time and related psychological phenomena/biases, market experiments, bargaining experiments, social preferences, fairness and altruism, incentive schemes and motivation, gender and economic decisions.

The analysis of the performance of national economies, including growth, inflation, international economic relations, balance of payments, and foreign exchange. The fundamentals of monetary, fiscal and international trade policies. The main institutions and dynamics of globalization as well as the special interests of its main stakeholders, including the private sector and Non-Governmental Organizations.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Fundamental concepts and analytical tools of microeconomic theory as applied to managerial decision making. Demand, supply and equilibrium in a competitive market. Market equilibrium in monopolistic and oligopolistic markets; markets with network externalities; behavior under conditions of asymmetric information.

Focuses on understanding the broader macroeconomic and global environment in which managers make their decisions. Basic national income accounting, monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, determination of exchange rates and international aspects of macroeconomics.

Basic concepts of information technology, building information systems for problem solving; implications of information management for competitiveness; future directions in information systems.

Basic concepts of information technology, building information systems for problem solving; implications of information management for competitiveness; future directions in information systems.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Introduce collective leadership, creativity and systemic solutions to address complex and interrelated problems cutting across disciplines, departments and organizations. Based on organizational learning and system theory perspectives, interactive and experiential course develops skills to lead multi-stakeholder social innovations for pioneering a more sustainable economy and society.

History of social entrepreneurship. New developments and approaches in the social entrepreneurship field. Theories of Social Entrepreneurship. Examples of various social enterprises around the world. Challenges and opportunities facing social entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship in Türkiye.

In this course, the students learn how new business are created and developed. The course consists of three modules. In the first module, the students learn how to create new business ideas, evaluate the extent to which their business ideas are true opportunities, form effective entrepreneurial teams and craft partnership agreements. In the second module, the students learn how to formulate business strategies, marketing strategies, and business models of new ventures. Finally, the third module will help students develop their financial plan and learn basics of entrepreneurial finance including valuation and term sheet negotiation. This course offers learning benefits to students who are willing to form a no-tech, low-tech, or high-tech firm, work for young entrepreneurial firms, or pursue a career as a risk capitalist such as a venture capitalist or an angel investor.

In this course, the students learn how new business are created and developed. The course consists of three modules. In the first module, the students learn how to create new business ideas, evaluate the extent to which their business ideas are true opportunities, form effective entrepreneurial teams and craft partnership agreements. In the second module, the students learn how to formulate business strategies, marketing strategies, and business models of new ventures. Finally, the third module will help students develop their financial plan and learn basics of entrepreneurial finance including valuation and term sheet negotiation. This course offers learning benefits to students who are willing to form a no-tech, low-tech, or high-tech firm, work for young entrepreneurial firms, or pursue a career as a risk capitalist such as a venture capitalist or an angel investor.

Responsibility of corporations including economic, social, environmental and ethical aspects. Effect of corporate responsibility on reputation and business outcomes from a stakeholder (e.g., consumers, employees, investors, etc.) perspective. Inclusive business models and shared value approach for sustainable business results.

Leadership and Management Development Program (LMDP) is an extra-curricular program aiming to develop the managerial competencies of students. LMDP consists of integrative learning experiences outside of the traditional classroom setting. The main tracks of the Leadership and Management Development Program are: developing managerial Skills, developing communication skills, career planning, career sessions, guest speaker series. Students are required to participate in a minimum number of activities to be able to get an S grade. In addition to the mandatory activities, students can choose from among a set of workshops and guest speakers in order to fulfill the requirements.

Human behavior and interpersonal relations as they occur in organizational context, particularly work teams.

Management problems from the perspective of the entire enterprise in a domestic and international setting; strategy formulation, environmental analysis and strategy implementation applied to actual companies. Course relies heavily on cases and on presentations to business leaders.

Introduction to the concept of Strategy and Strategic Management, industry analysis: External environment of the firm, resources and capabilities of the firm, key success factors in competitive advantage, corporate strategy, global strategies and the multinational corporation, management of the multi-business corporation, current trends in strategic management.

New developments and approaches in the social entrepreneurship field. The situations, resources and business structures used by social entrepreneurs. The mechanics, tensions, and realities of starting and/or managing a social enterprise. Theories of Social Entrepreneurship. Examples ofvarious social enterprises around the world. The emergence of “social intrapreneurism” and thepotential for scaling social and environmental solutions profitably throughout the business sector