Curricula

Courses description

TERM I

Human Resources and Organizational Behavior

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the basics and challenges of modern personnel administration and concentrates on the key concepts, techniques and processes used in this dynamic area of management. Additionally, it will offer the opportunity to analyze and understand the human factor of organizational development and performance. The focus of the course is the "micro" level in organizations-issues concerning individuals, interpersonal relations, and groups.

Applied Management Science

At this course the participants will learn how to ensure the quality of the decisions that drive the company's future and how to gain commitment to decision quality throughout the organization.
This course provides an overview of the best practices for making smarter, faster, and more creative long-term decisions. It introduces the cornerstones of making better decisions:
• Decision quality - the framework that defines the requirements of a good decision
• Decision analysis - the concepts, the qualitative and quantitative tools that produce clarity about the best choice in an uncertain, complex and dynamic business environment with diverse value metrics.

Strategic Management

This course provides students with knowledge and understanding of the integrated strategic
management model and its application in strategic thinking within a globally competitive
environment. It teaches students to reach beyond their comfort zone to generate global strategies. This course will make you familiar with techniques such as SWOT matrix in order to analyze and formulate strategies in a corporate environment and at the end to explain the various issues involved in strategy implementation.

Management in Global Context

This course studies the international environment where political and economical context is changing constantly and the effect of them on business and decision making. The students would learn to identify similarities and differences of the management in the different contexts worldwide and how to deal with it.

Managerial Economics

The participant will learn about economic theory and how it applies to corporate governance. Students will be able to use this knowledge to analyze the real-life situations that managers face on a daily basis. The course focuses on teaching students to apply decision making tools that optimize a company's economic results. The second part of the course would help to understand how the economic activities of all operators are developed in an economic framework that affects, restricts and limits their development. The focus is on helping students make better managerial decisions to bolster their companies' performance.

Financial Accounting

The objective of this course is to record, organize, summarize and disseminate information on economic events that affect how a business is run. These facts must be quantified with reasonably accurate financial information. This course introduces participants to the fundamentals of industrial accounting.

Quantitative Analysis

This course introduces basic statistical concepts and methods used in business giving the participant analytical and quantitative skills to solve managerial problems. The participants will learn to interpret and apply:
• The terminology and definitions used in statistics for business.
• Hypothesis testing.
• Build regression models and interpret its results.
• Forecasting techniques.
• Utilize Microsoft Excel as a tool in data analysis and decision making.

Management of Information Systems 1

This introductory information systems course shows how information technology is the backbone of any business. The focus is not just on a description of the key concepts of information systems but rather on an examination of how those concepts are being applied in numerous real companies to manage their daily operations effectively and profitably. In this sense, this course asks students to relate the information technology concepts they learn to other functional areas, such as finance, marketing, human resources, or operations management.

TERM II

Corporate Legal Issues

This course addresses the legal aspects of business agreements and relationships. Managers must know how to operate successfully in the legal environment in which they do business and must know how to structure corporate transactions. The objective of the course is not to impart technical legal skills, but to offer a variety of tools to manage the firm more effectively.

Managerial Accounting

Managerial accounting is concerned specifically with how the cost information and other financial and non-financial information should be used for planning, controlling, continuous improvement and decision making. It provides information to managers and other users about the operation of the business to be capable of answering questions such as: (i) what is the cost of a product, (ii) are the indirect costs distributed in the correct way, (iii) what is the cost structure of a product and others.

Finance 1

This course's main objective is to teach students how to apply economic concepts, and particularly financial evaluation, during a company's decision making processes. At the end of this course, students will have a good understanding of the concepts, principles; methods and tools used by financial managers and will be capable of applying these elements when developing and evaluating investment projects. Students will be able to use this knowledge to increase the company's value based on the characteristics of the Peruvian financial market.

Finance 2

This course provides students with the necessary tools to evaluate project development and investment and participate effectively in the decision making process. The objective is to increase a company's value through an understanding of the Peruvian financial environment.

Management of Information Systems 2

This course focuses on the strategic management of information systems in the firm and how it can be managed effectively. Participants will realize about the major role played by information systems and will identify the challenges faced by firms that attempt to implement them.

Operations Management

This course provides students with the fundamental concepts, theory and tools for resolving the
challenges of operations management of both manufacturing and service industries. Participants will know how to design and manage a firm's operating system that involves suppliers, contract manufacturers, logistics service providers, distributors, and others.

Marketing Management

The overall objective of the course is to introduce you to the marketing decisions in an organization and teach you to think like a marketer. At the end of this course you will be able to:
• Understand the strategic role of marketing and develop the ability to define and analyze the marketing problems dealt with by managers, and
• Understand analytical concepts and techniques currently being used in marketing.

Forecasting and Marketing Plan

At the end of the course, participants will have developed the knowledge and skills to formulate,
implement and monitor a marketing plan that enables a company to analyze alternatives, take advantage of market opportunities, ensure development and improve its sales.

Managerial Skills Development

This workshop identifies each student's managerial skills at the beginning of the program. During the program, the objective is to develop and strengthen managerial competences.