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Courses Offered | Full-Time Students

Check your study plan and the list of courses offered. Students must select courses that fulfil their program’s requirements, never forgetting their personal interests.

Please note that enrollment is processed on a first-come, first-served basis. All courses are lectured in English. A course will only be offered if at least 12 students enrol for it.

Courses Offered 2023-2024

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Accounting

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

The objective of this course is to help students to develop into informed users of financial statements information. 
The course is focused on a solid understanding of the rules and procedures to prepare financial statements, as well as on the knowledge and skills that are required to analyse, interpret, understand, and use financial information to make informed decisions.

Advanced Corporate Finance

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Corporate Finance analyzes the main strategic financial decisions of firms: investment decisions and financing decisions. This course will focus on the theory and the practice associated with the financing decisions of firms. The course combines the theory of capital structure and financing decisions with empirical results and practical applications of these topics. Topics are typically introduced in a lecture that covers the theory. The theoretical results are then put into practice by working on case studies and analyzing empirical findings.

Business Research Methods

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces quantitative models for business decision-making. A great emphasis is put on practical applications of models and on the use of statistical software packages to analyse real-world datasets. 

Economic Analysis of Social Policies

ECTS: 6

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

EASP studies the mechanisms of social protection that are at the core of the Welfare State using an Economics perspective. The course has three parts. The first part is a survey of basic results in Welfare Economics and Political Economy dealing with market failures, government policies, and their failures. The second part deals with the distribution and redistribution of income and the measurement of inequality and poverty. The third part covers social policies: income maintenance, poverty reduction, and pensions. 

Finance

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

The main goal of the Finance course is to engage you in a journey to discover the main financial concepts and methods. We adopt the perspective of a financial manager of a non-financial firm. This course contributes to understand financial markets, financial investments and corporate finance decisions.

Financial Investments

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course covers topics related to financial investments and portfolio management. The course covers the basics of fixed-income instruments, equity valuation, portfolio theory, asset pricing theory, the risk-return tradeoff, market efficiency, measuring risk-adjusted performance, active portfolio management, and hedge funds.

Foundations of Statistics with Applications in R

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

A great emphasis is put on practical applications of models and on the use of statistical software packages to analyse real-world datasets. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to applied econometrics, equipping students with the necessary tools and techniques to conduct rigorous research and analyze business data. 

History of Economic Thought

ECTS: 6

Prerequisites: None

This course attempts a description of the evolution of the main references of economic theory. Starting in Antiquity, the main stress will be placed on the classical and neoclassical schools, directly analyzing the main texts of the basic authors of the science, describing the evolution of Economic Theory. The method used will be oral exposition by the teacher, discussing some specific quotations from each of the books selected. 

Introduction to Programming

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

This course introduces you to the world of programming. You will learn what programming is and how to set up a proficient programming environment on your machine or online, using packages and standard collaboration tools such as git and Github.

Macroeconomic Policy

ECTS: 6

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The purpose of the course is to enable students to understand macroeconomic policymaking and to think systematically about macroeconomic policy issues. This will imply mastering several macroeconomic models and several instruments relevant to economic analysis. The course will cover topics related to monetary policy, fiscal policy, and macroprudential policy. Each topic will include a review of the available empirical evidence and the institutional framework underlying macroeconomic policy decisions.  

Marketing Planning

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

This course's goals are to promote a deep understanding of marketing´s key concepts, tools, and relationships with other managerial functions. To practice the principles of marketing planning by means of proposing a plan for the launch of a new product/service in the Portuguese market.

Marketing Research

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The quality of Marketing decisions largely depends on the information that is made available to decision-makers about consumers, markets, and relevant products. The main goal of this course is to familiarize students with the instruments and techniques that are commonly used for producing useful information for marketing-related decision-making. The course covers the various stages of the marketing research process, from the basic definition of the research problem to the presentation of the research results. 

 

Language Courses

German Language Course | Level A1.1

ECTS:
4.5

Prerequisites: None

This course provides a general introduction to the German language, focusing occasionally on specific professional contexts of use related to the world of business. Students are expected to reach level A1.1 of the CEFR in the German Language.

French Extensive Course | Level A1

ECTS: 4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

 The French Language 1 classes will take into account a communicative approach enriched with an actionable perspective knowing how to underst and the progressive construction of meaning, the discovery of the language at the service of carrying out real and realistic actions.

Portuguese Extensive Course | Level A1

ECTS: 
4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

This course is aimed at the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A1. 

Spanish Language Course | Level A1

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: None

The aim is that the students reach the objectives defined by the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at level A1.

 

Brand Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this course is to teach you how to build, manage, and leverage world-class brands. The broad learning of this course is: 1) to increase your understanding of the important issues in planning and evaluating brand strategies; 2) to present relevant theories, conceptual models, and other tools and principles to make more effective branding decisions; and 3) to provide a forum for you to apply these principles. Particular emphasis is placed in the course on understanding psychological principles at the consumer level that will improve managerial decision-making with respect to brands.

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Why does Ethics matter in business? What are the ethical responsibilities associated with being a manager, an accountant, or a financial trader? What are the main commonalities and differences of recent corporate scandals, and how is it possible to adopt individual and organizational strategies to prevent new ones? This course will assist students in answering such questions through the discussion of case studies concerning ethical issues and dilemmas faced by managers, financial professionals, and entrepreneurs in different cultural, industrial, and organizational contexts. 

Competitive Intelligence

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course highly contributes to an understanding of competitive intelligence and the intelligence environment overall. In a highly competitive and innovative environment, companies depend on their external knowledge acquisition capabilities, and this is true for large as well as for small companies; this is also especially true for start-ups. Companies should thus develop an intelligent attitude at all levels. This course thus proposes participants apply a set of the most advanced and relevant competitive intelligence methodologies in an integrated manner.

Consumer Behaviour

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

 This course aims to outline the importance of understanding consumers’ behavior in order to develop appropriate marketing strategies. Specific information about how consumers choose, buy, and dispose of the products or services, helps organizations to properly define their core market and to identify threats and opportunities for their products and brands. It is therefore of major importance to adequately analyze potential consumers, identifying their needs and wishes in order to properly offer customized solutions and be able to successfully innovate.

Corporate Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The main goal of the Corporate Finance course is to engage you in a journey to discover the main concepts and methods in corporate finance. We adopt the perspective of a financial manager of a non-financial firm. This course contributes to understand financial markets and corporate finance decisions with a focus in the investment decisions of corporations.

Cross-Cultural Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The world is becoming increasingly more global. From the emergence of multinational organizations and global markets to the rising numbers of international workers, new challenges and opportunities emerge for entrepreneurs, managers, and employees. These challenges and opportunities can be best understood if cross-cultural factors are taken into consideration.

Data Analytics for Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

 This course shows how modern data can be used to answer important economic questions. Students will learn how economists use various types of data (administrative and Census data, satellite data, Google search, corporate data…) to infer causal inferences, as well as discuss appropriate methods for each type of data. The class is aimed to be hands-on: for each type of data, students will have the tools needed to replicate the method used in a research paper.

Data Privacy and Ethics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this unit is to introduce the students to ethical reasoning in the digital world. Participants must be able to identify ethical reasoning, as separate from a scientific or judicial approach. This approach is then applied to specific decisions in several aspects of some areas in computer, data science, and internet ethics.

Data Science for Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Using data in your work is a typical job of a finance graduate. This course teaches you how to deal with different and large datasets. It incorporates three main components: coding, statistics, and databases. This course equips finance graduates with the skills to effectively process and analyze diverse and large datasets. It combines coding, statistics, and database principles to provide a comprehensive understanding of data processing in finance. Overall, this course enables students to make data-driven decisions and extract valuable insights from financial data. 

Data Visualization

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Data Visualization is a core course for any student who will work with and extract knowledge from data. It focuses on representing insights in a clear and impactful way. Students will learn both theoretical concepts and practical tools for data presentation. Furthermore, they will work within a framework that guides the path from ideas generated from data to powerful stories. 

Digital Marketing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the main concepts of digital marketing. Along the course, students will create an online e-commerce shop, launch its mock-up (Wix or Shopify), and propose their promotional plan using digital media.  

Digital Transformation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

As digitalization shapes the business landscape, adeptly navigating and driving digital transformation (DT) became critical for organizational competitiveness and success. This course empowers students with the analytical, strategic, and practical skills needed to spearhead or effectively integrate into a digital transformation team.

Economics of Education

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The central aim of the course is to assist students in viewing the education sector and its educational processes through the perspective of economics, providing students with an understanding and analytical tools that help them undertake careers in academia or in policy-oriented institutions (such as World Bank or Governmental agencies).

Financial Analysis and Forecasting

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

A complete set of pro forma financial statements is based on assumptions regarding the future business’ underlying economics. The assumptions are a result of an integrated industry and business analysis. The main objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive framework for financial forecasting and apply it to real-world firms.

International Industry Analysis

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Business leaders and strategy consultants must fully understand industries before developing corporate strategies. Therefore, the International Industry Analysis course will enhance the students’ strategic competencies to research and analyze specific industries on a global level. 

International Marketing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

 This course introduces the field of international marketing. It looks at the globe from a macro perspective. Specifically, this course covers the complex and interesting environment of international marketing and its various dimensions such as cultural, economic, and political. It then considers how marketing managers could use these global dimensions to obtain benefits for the firm and for society as a whole.

International Negotiation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

 Negotiation is a decision-making process in which two or more parties with nonidentical preferences seek to reach an agreement about how to allocate resources (Bazerman & Carroll, 1987; Falcão, 2012). Students will learn a variety of effects in order to understand the process of negotiation and will have at least one face-to-face negotiation exercise per week in order to practice and develop skills. International and cross-cultural aspects of negotiation will also be explored.

Intrapreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This class engages with the intrapreneurship terrain in both a practical and theoretical manner from a broad variety of perspectives. Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) are established notions in strategy, leadership, and management. Intrapreneurship is a distinctive domain that incorporates aspects of CIE but is not entirely the same thing.

Leadership Development

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is about leadership and is intended to help students become more effective when dealing with workplace demands for leadership, regardless of their previous work experience. The course examines “what” leadership is, “why” it is important, and “when” it is useful.

Managerial Decision Making

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to provide you with a better understanding of how you and other people think, feel, decide, and behave. Ultimately, it aims at making you a better decision-maker. To that aim, we will start by studying the psychological processes that underlie the choices that people make. We will further look at systematic biases that people have when making decisions, as well as a variety of other important influences on the decision-making process.  

Managerial Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The course is an introduction, or a refresher, to the basic concepts and models of the microeconomic analysis of the firm and markets. The focus is on firms’ conduct under different market structures. Market structures covered are competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. Firms’ strategies in oligopolies are discussed using conjectural variations models and the basic concepts of game theory. At the end of the course, students should be able to apply microeconomic principles to managerial decision-making related to the contents of the course.

Managing Social Innovation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Managing social innovation is extremely challenging because recomposing social value creation and wealth generation in a single venture requires the development of specific, complex skills, capabilities, and managerial practices. Yet, organizations that are capable to manage social innovation successfully can not only drive a positive change in society but also acquire a sustainable competitive advantage. 

Marketing Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Marketing management is a complex business function that requires a balance of analytic and synthetic skills. This course introduces a series of frameworks and tools which may be used to solve general business problems as well as to develop specific marketing strategies and programs.

Mathematics

ECTS: 0

Prerequisites: None

This module aims at reviewing basic mathematic tools needed for advanced studies in Management. It was designed for those that did not follow an advanced-level mathematics course in the last two years of high school or during their undergraduate degree. All content is illustrated with representative examples in Management and Finance. By the end of the course, students will be able to use Mathematic tools and methods to solve simple Management and Finance problems. 

Mathematics for Economists

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The Mathematics for Economists course aims to review the mathematical tools needed for advanced studies in Economics. The course was devised assuming that students already have a Mathematics background, namely in differential calculus for functions of a single variable. Building on this knowledge, differential calculus for functions of several variables, with a special emphasis on nonlinear optimization, and integral calculus for single variable functions are addressed.  

Microeconomics

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to deepen the student’s knowledge of Microeconomic Theory. It is organized around lectures that include moments for solving and discussing problems.

New Value Creation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Finding product-market fit is the most important moment in the life of a business. If you develop a credible business concept, your next challenge will be how to scale your startup. If you launch a new business without turning your initial market assumptions into facts, you will be wasting a lot of energy, time, resources and money.This course is designed to help you test and validate the “product-market fit” for your ideas. With this course, you will get better and faster at generating, testing and improving ideas that can be translated into business concepts

Responsible Business

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course will provide students with a holistic and systemic approach to the challenges facing businesses when it comes to acting as RB from the perspective of key players (Governments, Companies, Citizens) and key stakeholders (shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers, consumers, local communities, ONGs…). It will deliver a global and coherent understanding of what RB really means and how to go about it. 

Strategic Business Transformation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Strategic business transformation is essential to survive in a context of unprecedented pace of change and disruption, under increased volatility and complexity (VUCA)…even for market leaders. Transforming entails a profound and comprehensive change in strategy, business model, operating model, technology architecture, organization, people, and processes aiming at delivering dramatic and sustainable improvement in performance and value creation.

Strategic Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of strategic management. The aim is to provide students with the theoretical foundations of the field of strategy. Specifically, the purpose of this course is to develop students’ ability to think strategically and to provide students with the tools and knowledge needed to understand how organizations can achieve superior sustainable performance

Language Courses

Portuguese Intensive Course 

ECTS: 1
.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

This course is intended for absolute beginners in Portuguese as a foreign language and aims at preparing participants for their first contact with the language and the daily communicative situations they will come across whilst in the country.

 

 

 

Advanced Strategic Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to discuss and understand the strategic implications of new trends resulting from dramatic changes and new challenges in the business environment. How does the digital era affect strategic thinking? What are the impacts of the crisis of capitalism and the growing importance of social and environmental concerns? How do organizations reorient corporate objectives and rethink organizational design to implement strategic changes? The course is of interest to future managers, entrepreneurs, or consultants, who need to understand how companies succeed in a fast-paced, hypercompetitive world.

Advanced Strategic Management (IMSc)

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course intends to provide an advanced understanding of how firms can create value through strategic decisions in current environments. Recently, there have been substantial worldwide signs that firms are struggling to achieve superior performance in a consistent way over time. In fact, whereas past dominant theories in the Strategy field were particularly concerned about explaining how firms can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, more recent studies began to show that sustainable competitive advantage is rare and declining in its duration. This course will attempt to provide an in-depth but accessible discussion of those struggles and developments. 

Behavioral Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

People subscribe to a gym membership but do not go there. They are on a diet, but still give in to a chocolate cake. They have a hard time-saving money while spending some on impulsive purchases. In many ways, individuals make decisions that deviate from the standard assumption made by economists according to which humans are rational. Behavioral economics (hereafter BE), a still-growing strand of research, deals with the same big issues as standard economics (labor, health, savings, markets, etc.) without assuming that people behave as homo œconomicus. Rather BE is an attempt to empirically check how humans actually behave.  

Brand Activation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

After Brand Development, including its Purpose, Character, Positioning, and Campaign Idea, Brand Activation is fundamental to set in place the defined strategy and bring it to life! Knowing to whom you should activate your Brand or product as well as how and where to deliver it is fundamental to successful consumer engagement and proximity with the brand. Materialize brand values, and develop brand activations that allow brands to ‘Walk the Talk’ and amplify them to deliver as much return as possible.

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Why does Ethics matter in business? What are the ethical responsibilities associated with being a manager, an accountant, or a financial trader? What are the main commonalities and differences of recent corporate scandals, and how is it possible to adopt individual and organizational strategies to prevent new ones? Why should business organizations behave in a socially responsible way? How can organizations develop a business strategy that integrates the generation of commercial and social value? This course will assist students in answering such questions through the discussion of case studies concerning ethical issues and dilemmas faced by managers, financial professionals, and entrepreneurs in different cultural, industrial, and organizational contexts. 

Business Statistics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is part of a sequence completed by the course “Business Research Methods (B)”. Their overall goal is to introduce quantitative methods as a way to extract information from the data with the ultimate goal of improving managerial decisions.

Corporate Governance: an International Perspective

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course starts by making clear how CG developed in the last decade in the aftermath of the financial and economic crises and how important it is for building trust in today’s capital markets. The economic, legal, and managerial foundations of CG are discussed with a view to understanding how shareholders’ and other stakeholders’ rights are protected and accounted for. As a consequence, the implementation of sound and internationally acceptable CG practices is discussed at the light of the functioning of the Board and its role in monitoring management. 

Design for Innovation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course aims to provide a series of tools for better understanding the role of design in innovation. The course should be of particular interest to future managers, entrepreneurs, or consultants, who must understand the role of design and innovation in affecting competitive advantage. We will use a combination of lectures and case studies to explore and apply theoretical frameworks in a practical, business context.  

Digital Product Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

What do Apple, Instagram, and Netflix have in common? Technological products are used by millions of users around the planet. Behind their success are product managers, maestros of the technology world, working amongst engineers, designers, and data scientists making sure companies are building what users want.

Economics of Business and Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course develops an understanding of firms’ strategic behavior and how they can influence the market structure. We will use game theoretic reasoning to analyze issues related to pricing, entry into new markets or exit from established businesses, changing the perceptions of competitors, level of product differentiation and product proliferation competition and its impact on market competition, and strategies aimed at alleviating price competition among firms.

eContent

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

 In this project-based course, you will develop skills to evaluate the circumstances and context that make it work for your company and the strategy of your brand. These skills serve as a foundation for an effective brief for an agency or a designer, critically viewing content and providing constructive and actionable feedback, benchmarking competitive content, and analyzing it from the target consumer’s perspective. 

Financial Decision Making in a Business Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Two questions are at the core of any study relating to corporate financial decision-making (and more broadly Corporate Finance):  How do firms optimally choose their investment projects? How do they decide among the pool of financing options for these projects? Answering these two questions and understanding the issues involved will be the focus of this course.  

Financial Derivatives

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course studies a particular class of financial assets, named derivative assets, whose value “derives” from other financial assets, referred to as the underlying asset. Derivative assets play a key role in modern capital markets, representing today many trillion USD. They are an important instrument available to financial managers to manage their companies’ risk exposure

Firm Valuation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Whether interested in pursuing a career as a security analyst, portfolio manager, or CEO or are an individual investing their wealth, this course will provide you with the right tools for reliable firm valuation. Employing knowledge from the fields of accounting and finance, we will study alternative valuation methods from both a conceptual and practical perspective. We will address the various issues arising in the valuation process and discuss valuation in special settings such as private equity markets, emerging markets, and restructuring.

Imperfect Markets

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The objective of this course is to provide a rigorous understanding of core theoretical aspects of the behavior of firms and other economic agents in imperfectly competitive markets.

International Industry Analysis

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Business leaders and strategy consultants must fully understand industries before developing corporate strategies. Therefore, the International Industry Analysis course will enhance the students’ strategic competencies to research and analyze specific industries on a global level. 

Intrapreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This class engages with the intrapreneurship terrain in both a practical and theoretical manner from a broad variety of perspectives. Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) are established notions in strategy, leadership, and management. Intrapreneurship is a distinctive domain that incorporates aspects of CIE but is not entirely the same thing.

Introduction to Econometrics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (See syllabus)

The course aims to introduce the basic econometric methods for estimating their parameters and performing statistical inference. By the end of the course, students should be able to use the basic econometric techniques in the analysis of economic problems and conduct their own basic empirical analyses. The course also provides the basis for further econometric courses.

Macrodynamics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In this course, we discuss the role of expectations in general equilibrium macrodynamic models and the possible existence of business cycles driven by self-fulfilling expectations (endogenous cycles). We explore distortionary economic environments where autonomous changes in expectations, about the value of future economic variables, can lead to changes in the economic outcomes consistent with those expectation’s changes. 

Macroeconomics

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course offers an introduction to neoclassical macroeconomics in a closed economy. The course is intended for master’s students who wish to develop a solid background in this area.

Management Accounting

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course aims at developing skills related to Performance Measurement and Management Control. At the end of the course, students should be able to understand the need of setting up control systems, techniques, and tools in the way of doing so and how to use these control mechanisms in making relevant economic decisions.

Management of Digital Transformation and Disruption

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course greatly enhances understanding of Digital Transformation and Digital Disruption using Information Systems & Technology (IS/IT), as well as information management within organizations. The course on Digital Transformation & Disruption discusses prevalent Information Systems and technologies, which managers can utilize for digital innovation in the Information Era, emphasizing value creation, strategy, and profitability.

Managing People

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Managing People is designed to provide you with a better understanding of individual perception and interpersonal behavior in organizations, and how these influence personal and organizational performance. The course focuses on how you, as an organizational member and manager, can experience, understand, and manage yourself, as well as other individuals, in organizations.

Marketing Communication

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

One of the critical tools that brands use to engage with their consumers and shoppers is communication and advertising. But superior brand communication is part science and part art. This course will enable you to discuss and evaluate multiple elements of marketing communications, preparing you for a future role in this field

New Value Creation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Finding product-market fit is the most important moment in the life of a business. If you develop a credible business concept, your next challenge will be how to scale your startup. If you launch a new business without turning your initial market assumptions into facts, you will be wasting a lot of energy, time, resources and money.This course is designed to help you test and validate the “product-market fit” for your ideas. With this course, you will get better and faster at generating, testing and improving ideas that can be translated into business concepts

Project Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The Project Management course aims to develop the specific project management-related competencies of the students, by presenting and discussing world-class project management practices and concepts in the business context. In addition, it aims to apply Project Management tools to a practical case on a strategic approach.

Services Marketing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to outline the importance of services management. Services dominate most economic transactions and are becoming critical for the competitive advantage of companies across the globe and in all industry sectors. Even organizations that typically positioned their business as product manufacturers are increasingly changing their positioning, focusing on the offer of services as a differentiating factor.

Strategic Marketing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course focuses on business-level marketing strategy. The overall goal of the course is to develop students’ ability to think strategically about marketing problems and their potential solutions through exposure to a variety of marketing concepts and methods. The main learning emphasis in this course is placed on improved critical thinking ability (analytical and creative) as it relates to marketing strategy and implementation.

Time Series Econometrics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces you to forecasting using linear stochastic models in R. We will start from the basic linear models and build up to more advanced alternatives, to account for temporal behavior such as seasonality or trend. We will extend these models to incorporate covariates and to work with multiple time series, possibly in an aggregation structure. We will cover the assumptions required to make causal statements when working with linear models. This class will provide a well-rounded understanding of forecasting and linear models.

 


Technical Modules

R

ECTS: 1

Prerequisites: None

This course offers an introduction to R, one of the most popular software for data analysis across the social sciences. The main objective of the course is twofold. On one hand, this class aims at providing students with a solid command of R and the RStudio IDE to allow them to carry out simple empirical investigations. On the other hand, the class lays the ground for a full mastery of the program by describing the principles and the main packages used in advanced work with the program.

Stata

ECTS: 1

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The goal of this course is to provide students with the basics of the econometric software “STATA”, a fundamental tool in Economics, Finance, and Management areas, both in the professional environment and in the construction of the MSc thesis. Many empirical thesis have used “STATA” and many times students at that moment regret not having learned it before - check the MSc thesis repository.  

 

Business Research Methods (B)

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces quantitative methods used to extract information from data with the ultimate goal of improving managerial decisions. The course’s approach is twofold. First, it develops concepts and methods which are useful in the current data-oriented business environment: from data collection to statistical models of data interpretation. Second, it introduces software tools to carry analyses of real-world datasets and to report results.

Database Management

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course introduces students to database management—from data modeling, to data collection, to data analysis—with a strong focus on Relational Databases and Structured Query Language (SQL). It addresses the theory, application, and management of relational databases, as well as alternative database paradigms.

Empirical Finance

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to introduce topics in Empirical Corporate Finance and Empirical Asset Pricing. The applied approach of this course will allow students to use real data and implement state-of-the-art models. Students will be asked to understand and critically think about the results obtained in light of the appropriate models. At the end of the course, students will be asked to develop a new conceptual idea and implement it.

Health Economics

ECTS: 6

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Why study health economics? The health care industry has been growing in importance and today its size is around 10% of GDP in many developed countries. The industry is also becoming a major employer in modern economies, presenting career opportunities for graduates from Economics and Business Administration programs. Health Economics can be fascinating both when we study the specificities of the health care industry and when we realize the power of Economics in explaining the fundamentals of health and its production. 

Lean Entrepreneurship Project

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

This course offers a hands-on opportunity to integrate all entrepreneurship learnings from your previous experiences and courses. We aim to closely simulate a real-life environment. You will be working in groups (predefined by the instructors) and are required to dedicate a minimum of four hours per week to the startup project you will be developing. This commitment is not only to the project but also to your teammates and instructors. Think of it as a personal contract you engage in with all the parties involved.

Social Entrepreneurship: Building Impact Ventures

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

Social entrepreneurs are a driving force for societal change and business innovation, creating compelling ventures that align both profit and impact. What do social entrepreneurs do that is unique, and why do they succeed in addressing profound societal problems in areas where governments, markets, and charities fail? How are impact ventures built? This course will place you in a social entrepreneur’s role and help you learn in teams how to design and launch an impact venture.

Strategic Management Consulting Project

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The Strategic Management Consulting Project (SMCP) is a project-oriented course in which students work as teams of consultants to solve a given client’s real business challenge. Groups of five students work together on a given project for the whole duration of the course, in direct contact  with the client organization and pursuing their own project.

Strategic Marketing Consulting Project

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The Strategic Marketing Consulting Project (SMktCP) is a project-oriented course in which students work as teams of consultants to solve a given client’s real strategic marketing challenge. Groups of five students work together on a given project for the whole duration of the course, in direct contact with the client organization and pursuing their group’s project.

 

Language Courses

French Extensive Course | Level A1

ECTS: 4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

The French Language 1 classes will take into account a communicative approach enriched with an actionable perspective knowing how to underst and the progressive construction of meaning, the discovery of the language at the service of carrying out real and realistic actions.

German Language Course | Level A1.1

ECTS:
4.5

Prerequisites: None

This course provides a general introduction to the German language, focusing occasionally on specific professional contexts of use related to the world of business. Students are expected to reach level A1.1 of the CEFR in German Language.

Portuguese Extensive Course | Level A1

ECTS: 
4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

This course is aimed at the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A1. The course also introduces certain aspects of Portuguese history, culture and ways of life in order to help participants gain the most from their time and experiences in the country as well as communicating with people and contemporary realities.

Portuguese Extensive Course | Level A2

ECTS: 4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims at the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A2. 

Spanish Language Course | Level A1

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: None

The aim is that the students reach the objectives defined by the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at level A1.
In accordance with the syllabus, students are expected to develop skills in producing and interpreting different types of utterances, both oral and written, and in multiple situations. One primary aim of the discipline is also to promote both individual and collaborative learning, i.e., through group work.

Spanish Language Course | Level A2

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Our aim is that the students reach the objectives defined by the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at level A2 (Plataforma/Waystage).

 

Applied Economics

 

ECTS: 4.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course shows how analytical tools and data can be used by economists to address economic issues, including poverty, inequality, and economic growth. Students will learn how to use advanced economic analysis to reach reasoned conclusions about the drivers of these issues and the keys to anticipating, preventing, and managing disruptions. The course will explore how economics is used in professional, policy, and research settings. It will help students analyse economic data at a much deeper level while also forming their own opinions on economic issues and policy responses. 

Brand Management

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this course is to teach you how to build, manage, and leverage world-class brands. The broad learning of this course are: 1) to increase your understanding of the important issues in planning and evaluating brand strategies; 2) to present relevant theories, conceptual models, and other tools and principles to make more effective branding decisions; and 3) to provide a forum for you to apply these principles. 

Business Ethics & Social Responsibility

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: None

Why does Ethics matter in business? What are the ethical responsibilities associated with being a manager, an accountant, or a financial trader? What are the main commonalities and differences of recent corporate scandals and how is it possible to adopt individual and organizational strategies to prevent new ones? Why should business organizations behave in a socially responsible way? How can organizations develop a business strategy that integrates the generation of commercial and social value?

Business Model Innovation

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: None

In this elective, students get to know frameworks and practices on how to create new digital ventures. The course is ideal for students who plan to work in business development, strategy, consulting, or start their own company. You strengthen your digital mindset and learn how to think strategically about the ideation, market, product, business model, go-to-market, and organizational and financial setup for a chosen digital product. It complements strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation courses.

Causality and Randomized Experiments

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course equips you with the skills to design, execute, and interpret randomized experiments, providing a solid foundation for extracting causal relationships. Emphasizing practical applications, the curriculum guides you in translating theoretical knowledge into actionable insights for shaping effective business policies and strategies.

CFA Challenge

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The objective of this module is to help and assist students that wish to participate in this universities international competition that is sponsored by the CFA Society.
As the project is the valuation of a Portuguese listed company and its presentation to a jury of CFA members, the students get an insight into how is the work of a financial analyst.

Creativity: the Business Ideia Machine

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Business ideas drive organizational success and societal progress, especially in this era of exogenous shocks. Building business ideas, namely, ideas for new products/services or new businesses, is arguably one of the most fascinating activities in Management. Creativity, i.e., the production of novel and useful ideas, plays a central role in such endeavors. This course intends to provide a rigorous and practical understanding of how business ideas can be effectively built using creativity.

Development Economics

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course will present key ideas and theoretical frameworks so that students understand how the debate on those topics has evolved over time and, especially, in the last 10 years. But the course will mostly focus on applications of econometric tools and the smart use of large datasets in development economics to answer questions and solve social problems.

Digital Marketing

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the main concepts in digital marketing. Along the course, students will create an online ecommerce shop, launch its mock-up (Wix or Shopify) and propose its promotional plan using digital media.  

Econometrics

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The main objectives of the course are to introduce students to econometric techniques applicable when the regressors are not strictly exogenous and to prepare them to do their own applied work.

Economic Globalization

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Understanding of the globalization/protectionism debate with the economist lens. The myths and economic theory. Competitiveness and Productivity. Learning globalization through history. The past, the beginning of this century, the present, and the future. The hyperspecialization.  The distribution of the gains of globalization. Global value chains: efficiency and fragility. 
Multilateralism versus regionalism. Understanding the current debate: U.S. and China. Lessons from the Pandemics and the Russia/Ukraine war.

Economics of Business and Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course develops an understanding of firms’ strategic behavior and how they can influence the market structure. We will use game theoretic reasoning to analyze issues related to pricing, entry into new markets or exit from established businesses, changing the perceptions of competitors, level of product differentiation and product proliferation competition and its impact on market competition, and strategies aimed at alleviating price competition among firms.

Financial Decision-Making in a Business Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

There are two main questions that form the basis of any study relating to Corporate Finance or more specifically, corporate financial decision-making: 1) What is the optimal choice of investment projects for the firm? 2) How do firms decide among the pool of financing options for these projects? In this course, we will attempt to understand these two questions and the issues involved.  

Financial Modeling

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Many training courses in the modeling area put their emphasis either on Excel functionality, financial theory, or on mathematical models, but seldom address the modeling process. This course aims to cover the modeling issues that are relevant to facilitate the construction of robust and readily understandable models.

FinTech

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed for students who plan to get involved with the disruption of the financial sector. Banks and insurance companies are facing one of the most pressured moments of the industry history. After a financial and credibility crisis, the drivers of this pressure are not only clients seeking for innovation and convenience, but also regulators. 

Fundamentals of Business and Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles of business and economics, laying the groundwork for further study in these fields. Students will gain an understanding of the core concepts of microeconomics, and business management, equipping them to model economic and business phenomena and navigate the dynamic economic and corporate world.

Game Theory

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course offers an introduction to non-cooperative game theory, with applications to relevant economic topics. The course is intended for master students who wish to develop a solid background in this area.

Healthcare Transformation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course immerses Master students into healthcare industry. The course is aimed at students who wish to prepare for consulting projects in healthcare sector, considering management careers in any type of organization (public or private, large or small), or seek innovation opportunities in the vibrant context of modern wellness and health industry.

Industrial Organization

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Industrial Organization is the field of Economics that studies the behavior of firms in imperfectly competitive markets as well as the performance of such markets. Building on the standard oligopoly models covered in the “Imperfect Markets” course, Industrial Organization introduces additional instruments, strategic decisions, and market dynamics. The course is structured around twelve sessions (one hour and a half each) that include both theory and problem-solving.

International Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In an increasingly globalized world, investors and executives have to understand how fluctuations in exchange rates create risks and rewards for multinational corporations. The course explains international risk factors and discusses several recent developments in the international financial markets such as the rise of cryptocurrencies, efforts to create a CBDC by central banks, and global geopolitical crisis and international sanctions. The course combines theory with real world examples, data analysis, and practical case discussions. 

International Financial Reporting Standards

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course is designed to provide an in-depth examination of some of the most economically significant international financial reporting topics and their impact on financial statements and decision making. Investments, mergers, and acquisitions decisions require a clear understanding and a careful examination of a company’s performance. So, we will start by analyzing financial investments and economic groups, the concepts of control, subsidiary company, associates, and how the group’s performance and financial position are reported. 

Investing in Short-Term Fixed Income Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The trading industry is in constant evolution. From Pit Trading to High Frequency and quantitative analysis the only constant is that each player is trying to have a positive P&L. This course has 2 main objectives. One is to understand the evolution of the industry and how that affects the entire market and the world. The second objective is to develop the “bridge” between concepts learned about financial markets and how to apply them to real market situations. 

Leadership Development

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is about leadership and is intended to help students become more effective when dealing with workplace demands for leadership, regardless of their previous work experience. 

Management of Digital Transformation & Disruption

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course greatly enhances understanding of Digital Transformation and Digital Disruption using Information Systems & Technology (IS/IT), as well as information management within organizations. The course on Digital Transformation & Disruption discusses prevalent Information Systems and technologies, which managers can utilize for digital innovation in the Information Era, emphasizing value creation, strategy, and profitability.

Managerial Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The course is an introduction, or a refresher, to the basic concepts and models of the microeconomic analysis of the firm and markets. The focus is on firms’ conduct under different market structures. 

Managing in an International Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Strategy in business typically is framed as orienting firms towards managing change, along with acquiring and sustaining competitive advantage (CA). Firms thus undertake transactions in markets with a view to gaining an edge, such as through reducing frictions or extracting rents. Strategies for CA tend to be separated into corporate, functional, and business-level dimensions, where theories such as the resource based view and dynamic capabilities explain how firm-differentiated CA accrues.

Managing Organizations

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The main objective of this course is to help students understand several core topics relating to organizational dynamics such as organizational structure, culture, learning, communication, and change. Through cases, class activities, lectures, and assignments, the course will engage students to reflect and apply organizational behavior concepts, theories, and practices to a variety of real-life organizational settings. 

Managing People

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Managing People is designed to provide you with a better understanding of individual perception and interpersonal behavior in organizations, and how these influence personal and organizational performance. The course focuses on how you, as an organizational member and manager, can experience, understand, and manage yourself, as well as other individuals, in organizations. 

Managing Social Innovation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

What are the key winning factors of social innovation? Where does social innovation occur? How is it possible to combine different and apparently antithetic objectives – social impact and profitability – in the same organization? How is it possible to transform a social problem in a business opportunity with positive social impact? This course will assist students to answer such questions through the discussion of case studies.

Marketing Communication

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

One of the critical tools that brands use to engage with their consumers and shoppers is communication and advertising. But superior brand communication is part science and part art. This course will enable you to discuss and evaluate multiple elements of marketing communications, preparing you for a future role in this field.

Methods in Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to introduce topics in empirical Corporate Finance. The applied approach of this course will allow students to use real data and implement state-of-the-art econometric models. Students will be asked to understand and critically think about the results obtained in light of the appropriate models. 

Monetary Policy and Optimal Taxation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This is an introductory course on optimal fiscal and monetary policy. It covers principles of optimal fiscal policy and long-run monetary policy. 

Predictive Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Knowledge and Understanding: Master the concepts, Data Science, and Data Driven Decision Making; Have hands-on experience with data analytics for supporting management situations. Subject-Specific Skills: Build predictive models for classification and regression; Evaluate model fit and generalizability; Learn about bias variance decomposition of predictive models. General Skills: Be able to think systematically about how and when data can improve decision-making in contexts of management; Be able to understand and discuss topics of data analysis for business intelligence. In particular, know basic principles and algorithms of data mining to interact with data analytics professionals. 

Python for Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to equip students with data analytic and programming skills to solve practical problems in Finance. By learning Python, students get familiar progressively with latest technologies (e.g. cloud-computing, data API) and use these tools to build dedicated applications. 

Reinforcement Learning and Business Applications

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course provides an introduction to a key subject area of Artificial Intelligence: Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is suited to find “good” solutions to complex dynamic control problems, that is, problems that are difficult – if not impossible – to solve analytically. 

Retailing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course provides an understanding of what is Retail and the environment in which Retail operates. It will therefore present the main concepts linked to the practice of retailing as well as the trends and hot topics linked to its activity. Our focus will be on the main managerial decisions, both strategic and tactical, that impact the retail operation.

Risk Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In this course, we will analyze different sources of risk for firms and discuss in detail the tools available to managers to mitigate those risks. Most of our analysis will be focused on risk management in financial institutions for two interrelated reasons. First, these institutions are more exposed to financial risks than non-financial firms, due to the nature of their activities. Second, the importance of adequately managing these risks fosters the permanent creation of new tools to address them.

Social Doctrine of the Church

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The present course attempts a presentation of the doctrine of the Catholic Church on social issues, with special attention to the economic topics, describing themes, documents and proposals.

Sustainable Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Sustainable Finance is intended to discuss the challenges climate change along with the shift in the traditional economic and business models introduce in financing economic activity. Corporates, banks, regulators, and the investment community at large will work as catalysts for change. Some financial instruments are new, and aspects of their structure, market infrastructure, governance and best practices are still being developed. Hence, every market participant is required to keep informed as is drawn to the discussion.

Language Courses

Portuguese Intensive Course

ECTS: 1.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

This course is intended for absolute beginners in Portuguese as a foreign language and aims at preparing participants for their first contact with the language and the daily communicative situations they will come across whilst in the country. 

 

Advanced Topics in Predictive Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course will introduce students to the world of deep neural networks in the Python programming language. The course will begin with a brief review of relevant concepts in neural networks and mathematics before covering the theory and implementation of (Deep) Neural Networks to address prediction problems. Students will learn various deep learning architectures, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and attention-based models employing various types of data (images, text, audio). Students will learn how to implement these models using TensorFlow and Keras.

AI Interpretability and Fairness

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course builds on the technical knowledge you've acquired in training and evaluating machine learning models while adding new layers of technical skills to ensure these models are fair and equitable. This course is socio-technical in nature, challenging you to solve real-world product implementation problems while translating requirements into precise implementation strategies.

Alternative Investments

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Alternative Investments is an elective course in the MSc Programmes in Finance at CLSBE and aimed at students that want to extend their understanding of investments to include less traditional asset classes and investment approaches. Alternative Investments are becoming increasingly relevant in today’s investment landscape with investors seeking new ways of adequately investing a growing amount of retail and institutional capital. 

B2B Marketing Strategy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Most companies of any dimension do not sell their products and services to consumers but to other companies. The buyers are organizations with a decision-making process that is complex and different from those of a final buyer of consumer goods. The marketing and sales challenges faced in business-to-business markets must be addressed based on the fundamentals of marketing but applied in a radically different way. The focus, levers, and processes of the marketing and sales efforts are different, and so must marketing strategy and communication be. This is especially relevant for small and medium enterprises. This course reviews the main components of business-to-business – “B2B”: strategy, marketing, and sales. 

Banking and Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Banks receive money from depositors and other investors and channel these funds to firms, households, and governments in the form of loans. In this course, we will discuss research papers to understand the main theoretical concepts of banking as well as related empirical evidence and policy questions.

Big Data Technologies

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In this course students will be introduced to the field of Big Data. Topics covered will include: 1) key concepts and how to extract value from Big Data; 2) frameworks and tools to process and manage Big Data; 3) cloud computing services to build highly scalable solutions for Big Data; 4) machine & deep learning frameworks for Big Data Analytics.

Brand Activation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

After Brand Development, including its Purpose, Character, Positioning and Campaign Idea, Brand Activation is fundamental to set in place the defined strategy and bring it to life! Knowing to whom you should activate your Brand or product as well as how and where to deliver it is fundamental to a successful consumer engagement and proximity with the brand. Materialize brand values, develop brand activations that allow brands to ‘Walk the Talk’ and amplify them to deliver as much return as possible.      

Business Cycles and Stabilization Policy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This is a course on economic fluctuations and optimal stabilization policy. It is a follow up course to Monetary Policy and Optimal Taxation.

Competitive Intelligence

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course highly contributes to an understanding of competitive intelligence and the intelligence environment overall. In a highly competitive and innovative environment, companies depend on their external knowledge acquisition capabilities, and this is true for large as well as for small companies; this is also especially true for start-ups. Companies should thus develop an intelligent attitude at all levels. This course thus proposes participants apply a set of the most advanced and relevant competitive intelligence methodologies in an integrated manner. 

Consumer Behavior

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Understanding consumers is important to every business. However, consumers’ minds are not always easy to understand. This course provides an overview of theories that best explain how consumers arrive at their judgments and choices. The course will review important theories in economics and psychology that provide the foundation for behavioural marketing.

Cross Cultural Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The world is becoming increasingly more global. From the emergence of multinational organizations and global markets to the rising numbers of international workers, new challenges and opportunities emerge for entrepreneurs, managers, and employees. These challenges and opportunities can be best understood if cross-cultural factors are taken into consideration. 

Digital Product Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

What do Apple, Instagram and Netflix have in common? Technological products used by millions of users around the planet. Behind their success are product managers, maestros of the technology world, working amongst engineers, designers and data scientists making sure companies are building what users want. This course dives into the fundamentals of building and managing digital products as well as the practices that led companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook into building technology used by billions of people every single day. The course is structured to provide an in-depth view of the digital product management discipline, currently practiced at startups and large software companies.  

Digital Transformation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In the dynamic realm of digital ecosystems, mastery of Digital Transformation (DT) is increasingly recognized as critical within the corporate sector. This course is designed to equip the next generation of professionals—who have experienced the digital shift directly—with the skills needed to steer DT initiatives in contemporary businesses. The journey begins with an exploration of societal and technological paradigm shifts, illustrated through an analysis of a tangible DT case study. 

Economic Growth

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Introduction to the main facts and theories of economic growth. Understanding the importance of Growth for Development. Introduction to the basic questions of economic growth and development. Theories: strengths and weaknesses.

Economics of Business and Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Throughout this course you will dive into some of the best kept secrets on what makes content work will amaze and enrich your skills background, a true added value to today’s market demand. You will also be part of a challenge – a true brand will share a tough task to be solved only by the best: groups will be formed to share their creative vision, ideas, and content strategy for that brand so as to beat their competitors in the digital field. 

eContent

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

You’ve carefully conceptualized your marketing strategy and ready to rip its benefits. Success? Not just yet… Even the best laid plans and carefully devised brand strategy can crumbles at the execution stage and in content creation. Success hinges on implementation details, small shifts behind the Facebook or Instagram or Tiktok algorithms, a few seconds of video content that suddenly drain its viral potential, taking your great strategy with it. In this hands-on course you will be able to better understand what makes good content… good.  

Equity Reports

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The main focus of the course is to make a valuation of a listed company and to be able to write a investment bank report with a price target for that company. This report has to be present to the class as if you were working for an investment bank.

Ethics for Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this unit is to introduce the students to ethical reasoning in financial decisions. 

Ethics in Economics

ECTS: 2

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The present course analysis the ethical implications of economic science. The contributions that moral philosophy may give to economics and the ethical problems raised by the main economic models will be assessed.

Financial Decision-Making in a Business Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

There are two main questions that form the basis of any study relating to Corporate Finance or more specifically, corporate financial decision-making: 1) What is the optimal choice of investment projects for the firm? 2) How do firms decide among the pool of financing options for these projects?
In this course, we will attempt to understand these two questions and the issues involved.

Go to Market Strategy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course’s roadmap takes students along the main stops of creating the right sales and marketing environment, which will enable them to start making sales from day one and growing from there, thus making any business launch a success. It also covers different types of strategies for entering a market, each one more effective in specific circumstances.

Impact Investing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The goal of this course is to introduce participants to the growing global phenomenon of Impact Investing, broadly defined as the purposeful allocation of financial resources to entrepreneurial projects or ventures that generate sustainable impact. Participants will be able to understand the value proposition of impact investment, for both investors and entrepreneurs, and how this new sector is positioned in the emergent impact economy, which lies at the intersection of the commercial, social and public sectors. 

Information and Uncertainty

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course covers advanced topics related to decisions under uncertainty and optimal contracts with asymmetric information.

Infrastructure Investing in an International Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Alternative asset classes are playing an increasingly important role in a well-diversified investor’s portfolio. Infrastructure assets, with their unique features such as inflation protection and long-term cashflow profile, have grown rapidly as an alternative asset class since they were first recognized in the late 1990’s. Most recently, the growth of infrastructure has been led by key themes such as energy transition and digitalization. This course explores in detail the concept of infrastructure as an investable asset class, including key features, most important industry sectors, valuation methodologies and the role of project finance as a key financing technique. 

International Industry Analysis

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Business leaders and strategy consultants must fully understand industries before developing corporate strategies. Therefore, the International Industry Analysis course will enhance the students’ strategic competencies to research and analyse specific industries on a global level.

International Market Segmentation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Segmentation has been defined as the cornerstone of modern marketing. However, as competitive pressures on companies grow, short term implementation replaces the conceptual frameworks and analysis inherent in segmentation analysis and strategies. Simultaneously, most companies are facing increasing pressures to internationalize. As such, country segmentation becomes the first naïve approach to segment international markets, as a natural first step in the internationalization process.

  

International Negotiation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Negotiation is a decision-making process in which two or more parties with non-identical preferences seek to reach an agreement about how to allocate resources (Bazerman & Carroll, 1987; Falcão, 2012). Students will learn a variety of frameworks in order to understand the process of negotiation and will have at least one face-to-face negotiation exercise per class in order to practice and develop skills. International and cross-cultural aspects of negotiation will also be explored. 

Intrapreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Intrapreneurs are highly valued by firms and the broader business culture. Intrapreneurship, or corporate entrepreneurship as it is also known, entails acting like an entrepreneur within a larger organization. Intrapreneurship in firm strategy allows companies to innovate from within to become more competitive, and also helps incumbent firms address the so-called “innovator’s dilemma” where established entities are displaced by upstarts. 

Investing in Global Financial Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In the ever more complex and competitive world of investing, investors are being forced to examine alternative asset classes in order to understand their impact on financial markets and many have begun investing in these assets in the hope of increasing their returns and diversifying their risk. The global investor landscape continues to evolve with new types of investors (such as sovereign wealth funds) constantly emerging. This course hopes to demystify this international web of investment funds and their strategies using real world case studies.

Labor Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course is based in a course given by Pierre Cahuc. This course introduces the latest theoretical, methodological, and empirical developments in labor economics. It presents empirical methods (relevant for the policy makers) using contributions that have proved to be milestones in labor economics. 

Lean Entrepreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

In this course, students will learn about how to find a business idea, transform the idea into a business model, define a critical hypothesis, achieve product-market fit and plan the go-to-market strategy. 

Luxury Strategy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course is a dive into the luxury industry, with a focus on strategy, innovation, sustainability, internationalization, and on the marketing mix elements that shape luxury’s unique business model. It is structured to provide students with the distinctive principles for effective management of luxury brands, products, and services. The course explores how the luxury industry and its different subsectors have been successful, what challenges they are currently facing and how they try to overcome them, and what other businesses could learn from them and selectively apply luxury business model principles. 

Machine Learning in Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course covers fundamental Machine Learning (ML) techniques, with an emphasis on practical finance applications. We focus on intuition and design, with hands-on exercises and real datasets.

Managerial Decision Making

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to provide you with a better understanding about how you and other people think, feel, decide, and behave. Ultimately, it aims at making you a better decision maker. To that aim, we will start by studying the psychological processes that underlie the choices that people make. We will further look at systematic biases that people have when making decisions, as well as a variety of other important influences on the decision making process (e.g., moods and emotions). We will also examine interventions or “brain hacks” which can help people become more effective in making decisions.  

Marketing Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Today’s marketing managers must be aware of the immense value of data and what it can reveal about consumer behavior and the likely effects of marketing actions. This course provides students with skills to improve marketing decision making by applying appropriate statistical analysis and optimization methods to market and consumer data. Using Excel as the basic tool, you will learn a set of useful methods for modeling consumer demand, forecasting sales, making pricing and advertising decisions, aligning product design with consumer preferences and managing customers.

Mergers and Acquisitions

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course provides a comprehensive overview of mergers and acquisitions from the perspective of corporate finance. Students will learn the motives, mechanics, and valuation techniques behind M&A, as well as the strategic and financial benefits and drawbacks of different types of mergers and acquisitions.

Microeconometrics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The goal of this course is to provide students with a thorough understanding of a variety of econometric models that economists use for empirical microeconomic research. Special emphasis will be given to the application of these models to economic data in recent empirical research, in order to illustrate how they can be employed to answer empirical questions in different fields, labor or health economics or finance research questions. Put particular emphasis on the interpretation of the results and on learning to use the econometric software “STATA”.

Operations Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Operations Management (OM) is concerned with the management of resources and activities that produce and deliver goods and services to customers. The major activities of OM are planning, operating, controlling and improving processes within organizations. Upon completing this course, students should be able to: understand the strategic role of OM in creating and enhancing an organization’s competitive advantages, identify the main concepts and issues of OM in both manufacturing and service organizations, and apply analytical methods and problem-solving tools to the analysis of operations problems. 

Portfolio Management and Sustainability

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course is focused on the tools (data, models and analytics) used for modern portfolio management – with particular focus on Sustainable Investing. The course will prepare you well for the most foundational roles on both asset owners and asset managers - from asset management, investment and commercial banks, pension funds, insurance companies, alternative investors, etc. The course will also allow you to deepen your knowledge of investment management in one of the most critical areas of our times – sustainable investing. 

Political Economy of European Integration

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course takes a political economy approach to analysing the process of European integration. It discusses the evolution of European integration in terms of its various stages/levels, with emphasis on its regulatory character, notably the single market, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the European Green Deal, and examines the question of the optimal size of the Union (incl. Brexit). 

Private Equity

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to provide students with an overview of the different skills required to work in a private equity context. The course will be taught from the perspective of the private equity fund manager (GP), highlighting the rational for acquisitions and intrinsic valuations and key aspects in supporting management of the portfolio companies. These lessons will also be applicable to someone working as an advisor to private equity investors and who needs to understand what their priorities are. 

Project Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The Project Management course aims to develop the specific project management related competencies of the students, by presenting and discussing world-class project management practices and concepts in the business context. In addition, it aims to apply Project Management tools to a practical case on a strategic approach.

Responsible Business

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The need to act as Responsible Business (RB) is now a key element of most strategic agendas of Corporations and has now passed a point of no-return.  RB is certainly not a Fad, but an unstoppable Macro Trend and Corporations can no longer avoid the fact that their actions (and omissions) will have a scrutinized impact in markets where they operate, and relevant stakeholders will hold them responsible for it. 

Robotic Process Automation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Automation technologies are reshaping the business world, freeing people from repetitive uninteresting work for new value-creation tasks, and helping companies to become more competitive and resilient. As a result, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is now one of the top emerging jobs in the USA, with two-digit growth. RPA is centered on the definition, revision, automation, and optimization of business processes. The core competency within RPA is precisely the ability to analyze processes in the context of a business, focusing on value creation. This is the sort of competence a management school should ideally deliver.

SDGs as Business Strategy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see Syllabus)

The Sustainable Development Goals: a Corporate strategy from micro to macro goals, is a curricular unit aiming to enable students to: 1) understand why it is important for businesses to consider and integrate Humanity's greatest challenges into their strategies; 2) develop a deep understanding of the concept of the Sustainable Development, recently embodied by the SDGs, and why it answers an urgent call to action for Humanity, bringing an agenda of prosperity for all; 3) understand why the SDGs are important for the corporate world and society and why they can represent opportunities for business growth and competitive advantage; 4) develop managerial, leadership and critical analysis skills by developing a strategic implementation roadmap for companies to implement the SDGs in their strategy.

Strategic Management Consulting

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of strategic management consulting. Students will learn the basics on the consulting industry, while also addressing what are the ingredients for success in both a career at consulting and in working with consultants.

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Accounting

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

The objective of this course is to help students to develop into informed users of financial statements information. The course is focused on a solid understanding of the rules and procedures to prepare financial statements, as well as on the knowledge and skills that are required to analyse, interpret, understand and use financial information to take informed decisions.

Advanced Corporate Finance 

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Corporate Finance analyzes the main strategic financial decisions of firms: investment decisions and financing decisions. This course will focus on the theory and the practice associated with the financing decisions of firms. The course combines the theory of capital structure and financing decisions with empirical results and practical applications of these topics. 

Business Research Methods

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces quantitative models for business decision-making. A great emphasis is put on practical applications of models, and on the use of statistical software packages to analyse real-world datasets.

Economic Analysis of Social Policies

ECTS: 6

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

EASP studies the mechanisms of social protection that are at the core of the Welfare State using an Economics perspective. The course has three parts. The first part is a survey of basic results in Welfare Economics and Political Economy dealing with market failures, government policies and their failures. The second part deals with the distribution and redistribution of income and the measurement of inequality and poverty. The third part covers social policies: income maintenance, poverty reduction and pensions.

Finance

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

The main goal of the Finance course is to engage you in a journey to discover the main financial concepts and methods. We adopt the perspective of a financial manager of a non-financial firm. This course contributes to understanding financial markets, financial investments, and corporate finance decisions.

Financial Investments

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This is a course in the Master of Science program covering topics related to financial investments and portfolio management. The course covers the basics of fixed income instruments, equity valuation, portfolio theory, asset pricing theory, the risk-return tradeoff, market efficiency, measuring risk-adjusted performance, active portfolio management, and hedge funds. 

Foundations of Statistics with Applications in R

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces quantitative models for business decision-making. A great emphasis is put on practical applications of models, and on the use of statistical software packages to analyse real-world datasets.

History of Economic Thought

ECTS: 6

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course attempts a description of the evolution of the main references of economic theory. Starting in Antiquity, the main stress will be placed on the classical and neoclassical schools, analyzing directly the main texts of the basic authors of the science, and describing the evolution of Economic Theory. 

Introduction to Programming

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

This course introduces you to the world of programming. You will learn what programming is and how to set up a proficient programming environment on your machine or online, using packages and standard collaboration tools such as git and Github. You will learn how to write software using the Python 3 language, and will familiarize yourself with programming fundamentals, such as data types, functions, logic, and loops, up to more advanced concepts such as object-oriented programming (OOP). You will learn how to use Python 3 in a script from the command line and in Jupyter notebooks. 

Macroeconomic Policy

ECTS: 6

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The purpose of the course is to enable students to understand macroeconomic policy-making and to think systematically on macroeconomic policy issues. This will imply mastering several macroeconomic models and a number of instruments relevant for economic analysis. The course will cover topics related with monetary policy, fiscal policy and macroprudential policy. Each topic will include a review of the available empirical evidence and of the institutional framework underlying macroeconomic policy decisions. 

Marketing Planning

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

This course aims to promote a deep understanding of marketing's key concepts, tools and relationships with other managerial functions; to practice the principles of marketing planning using and proposing a plan for the launch of a new product/service in the Portuguese market. By the end of this course, students will be equipped to understand all steps involved in the ideation, development and launch of a new product/service. 

Marketing Research

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The quality of Marketing decisions largely depends on the information that is made available to decision makers about consumers, markets, and relevant products.  The main goal of this course is to familiarise students with the instruments and techniques that are commonly used for producing useful information for marketing-related decision making. The course covers the various stages of the marketing research process, from the basic definition of the research problem to the presentation of the research results.

 

Language Courses

German Language Course | Level A1.1

ECTS:
4.5

Prerequisites: None

This course provides a general introduction to the German language, focusing occasionally on specific professional contexts of use related to the world of business. Students are expected to reach level A1.1 of the CEFR in the German Language.

Portuguese Extensive Course | Level A1

ECTS: 
4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

This course is aimed at the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A1. 

Spanish Language Course | Level A1

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: None

The aim is that the students reach the objectives defined by the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at level A1.

 

Brand Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this course is to teach you how to build, manage, and leverage world-class brands.  The broad learning of this course are: 1) to increase your understanding of the important issues in planning and evaluating brand strategies; 2) to present relevant theories, conceptual models, and other tools and principles to make more effective branding decisions; and 3) to provide a forum for you to apply these principles

Business Ethics & Social Responsibility

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Why does Ethics matter in business? What are the ethical responsibilities associated with being a manager, an accountant or a financial trader? What are the main commonalities and differences of recent corporate scandals, and how is it possible to adopt individual and organizational strategies to prevent new ones? Why should business organizations behave in a socially responsible way? How can organizations develop a business strategy that integrates the generation of commercial and social value? This course will assist students in answering such questions through the discussion of case studies concerning ethical issues and dilemmas faced by managers, financial professionals, and entrepreneurs in different cultural, industrial, and organizational contexts.

Competitive Intelligence

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course highly contributes to an understanding about competitive intelligence and the intelligence environment overall. In a highly competitive and innovative environment, companies depend on their external knowledge acquisition capabilities, and this is true for large as well as for small companies; this is also especially true for start-ups. Companies should thus develop an intelligence attitude at all levels. This course thus proposes participants to apply a set of the most advanced and relevant competitive intelligence methodologies in an integrated manner.

Consumer Behavior

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to outline the importance of understanding consumers’ behavior in order to develop appropriate marketing strategies. Specific information about how consumers choose, buy, and dispose of the products or services, helps organizations properly define their core market and to identify threats and opportunities for their products and brands. It is therefore of major importance to adequately analyze potential consumers, identifying their needs and wishes in order to properly offer customized solutions and be able to successfully innovate.

Cross-Cultural Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to deepen your understanding of the context-specific nature of management and to provide you with knowledge and skills helpful to navigate the increasingly global nature of contemporary work. To that aim, we will start by exploring the fundamentals of culture and cross-cultural differences. Subsequently, we will examine some critical aspects of working and managing in a global environment; including issues related to communication, leadership, motivation, teamwork, negotiation, and the management of expatriates and international careers.

Data Analytics for Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Students will learn how economists use various types of data (administrative and Census data, satellite data, Google search, corporate data…) to infer causal inferences, as well as discuss appropriate methods for each type of data. The class is aimed to be hands-on: for each type of data, students will have the tools needed to replicate the method used in a research paper.

Data Privacy and Ethics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this unit is to introduce the students to the ethical reasoning in the digital world. Participants must be able to identify ethical reasoning, as separate from a scientific or judicial approach. This approach is then applied to specific decisions in several aspects of some areas in computer, data science and internet ethics.

Data Science for Finance 

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

At the end of the course, students should be able to:  Use several databases; Search for academic articles; Analyze datasets using statistics; Create algorithms and programs; Create and edit Macros; Use VBA to create user-defined functions and automate processes; Use VBA to access Excel Objects; Use VBA to efficiently organize data; Use VBA to automate Solver and Data Tables; Create Models that are easy to navigate and use them to assist your decision-making process.

Data Visualization

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Data Visualization is a core course for any student who will work with and extract knowledge from data. It focuses on representing insights in a clear and impactful way. Students will learn both theoretical concepts and practical tools for data presentation.  Furthermore, they will work within a framework that guides the path from ideas generated from data to powerful stories.

Digital Marketing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to: understand the integration of digital marketing strategies in the overall marketing strategy of the company; explore the impact of digital in transforming the marketing mix; practice the principles of digital marketing planning; provide an overview of best practices in digital marketing; understand the main metrics and KPIs related to digital strategies.

Digital Product Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

What do Apple, Instagram and Netflix have in common? Technological products used by millions of users around the planet. Behind their success are product managers, maestros of the technology world, working amongst engineers, designers and data scientists making sure companies are building what users want. This course dives into the fundamentals of building and managing digital products as well as the practices that led companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook into building technology used by billions of people every single day. The course is structured to provide an in-depth view of the digital product management discipline, currently practiced at startups and large software companies. 

Digital Transformation

ECTS: 3.5 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Can you imagine remote work from anywhere in the world? In most industries, this would not have been possible just two years ago. During the COVID pandemic, companies accelerated the adoption of digital tools and irreversibly leaped forward into a new digital normal. There is no going back from this Digital Transformation (DT), and DT expertise has become a top competence.

Economics of Education

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Economics is a powerful framework for thinking about education policy. Economics focuses us on the incentives created by a policy, allowing us to predict its intended and unintended consequences. This course investigates current economic issues related to education by combining economic theory and empirical literature. This course is an introduction to the economics of education. The central aim of the course is to assist students in viewing the education sector and its educational processes through the perspective of economics, providing students with an understanding and analytical tools that help them undertake careers in the academia or in policy-oriented institutions (such as World Bank or Governmental agencies).

Financial Analysis & Forecasting

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

A complete set of pro forma financial statements is based on assumptions regarding the future business’ underlying economics. The assumptions are a result of an integrated industry and business analysis. The main objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive framework for financial forecasting and apply it to real world firms. This course is useful to different users. Managers need forecasts to formulate business plans and decide on which projects to invest; analysts need forecasts to communicate their views about firm’s prospects to investors; bankers and debt participants need forecasts to assess the likelihood of loan repayment; forecasts are fundamental for firm valuation. 

International Industry Analysis

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Business leaders and strategy consultants must fully understand industries before developing corporate strategies. Therefore, the International Industry Analysis course will enhance the students’ strategic competencies to research and analyse specific industries on a global level.

International Marketing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course introduces the field of international marketing. It looks at the globe in a macro perspective. Specifically, this course covers the complex and interesting environment of international marketing and its various dimensions such as cultural, economical, political. It then considers how marketing managers could use these global dimensions to obtain benefits for the firm and for society as a whole. 

International Negotiation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Negotiation is a decision-making process in which two or more parties with non-identical preferences seek to reach an agreement about how to allocate resources (Bazerman & Carroll, 1987; Falcão, 2012). Students will learn a variety of effects in order to understand the process of negotiation and will have at least one face-to-face negotiation exercise per week in order to practice and develop skills. International and cross-cultural aspects of negotiation will also be explored. 

Intrapreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Intrapreneurs are highly valued by firms and the broader business culture. Intrapreneurship, or corporate entrepreneurship as it is also known, entails acting like an entrepreneur within a larger organization. Intrapreneurship in firm strategy allows companies to innovate from within to become more competitive, and also helps incumbent firms address the so-called “innovator’s dilemma” where established entities are displaced by upstarts. 

Leadership Development

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is about leadership and is intended to help students become more effective when dealing with workplace demands for leadership, regardless of their previous work experience. 

Managerial Decision Making

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to provide you with a better understanding of how you and other people think, feel, decide, and behave. The main objectives are: increase awareness of the psychological processes that underlie the choices that people make, as well as systematic biases and heuristics that people have when making decisions; give you a space to reflect on who you are and who you want and do not want to be, as well as provide tools for how to mindfully create a life that aligns with your goals; understand how to interact with oneself and other people in ways that are responsible, productive, and mutually rewarding; appreciate the role of emotions and moods in how people decide and behave. 

Marketing Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Marketing management is a complex business function that requires a balance of analytic and synthetic skills. This course introduces a series of frameworks and tools which may be used to solve general business problems as well as to develop specific marketing strategies and programs.

Mathematics

ECTS: 0

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The technical module on Mathematics aims at reviewing basic mathematic tools needed for advanced studies in Management. The module was designed specifically for those that did not follow an advanced level mathematics course in the last two years of high school or during their undergraduate degree. All content is illustrated with representative examples in Management and Finance. By the end of the course, students will be able to use Mathematic tools and methods to solve simple Management and Finance problems.

Mathematics for Economists

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The Mathematics for Economists course aims to review the mathematical tools needed for advanced studies in Economics. The course was devised assuming that students already have a Mathematics background, namely in differential calculus for functions of a single variable. Building on this knowledge, differential calculus for functions of several variables, with a special emphasis on nonlinear optimization, and integral calculus for single variable functions are addressed. All content is illustrated with representative examples in Economics to help students bridge the gap between the mathematical tools description and their application in Economics.

Microeconomics

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to deepen the students’ knowledge of Microeconomic Theory. It is organized around lectures that include moments for solving and discussing exercises. 

New Value Creation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to help you test and validate the “product-market fit” for your ideas. With this course, you will get better and faster at generating, testing and improving ideas that can be translated into business concepts.

Responsible Business

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The need to act as Responsible Business (RB) is now a key element of most strategic agendas of Corporations and has now passed a point of no-return.  RB is certainly not a Fad, but an unstoppable Macro Trend and Corporations can no longer avoid the fact that their actions (and omissions) will have a scrutinized impact in markets where they operate, and relevant stakeholders will hold them responsible for it. Factors like globalization, communication technology, rising awareness of consumers, citizens, local communities, high profile breaches of Corporate Ethics, have all led to a place where leaders can no longer act without taking in consideration a holistic approach to Responsible Business (that includes economic, environmental and social sustainability). 

Strategic Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of strategic management. The aim is to provide students with the theoretical foundations of the field of strategy. Specifically, the purpose of this course is to develop students’ ability to think strategically, and to provide students with the tools and knowledge needed to understand how organizations can achieve superior sustainable performance. 

 

 

​Language Course

Portuguese Intensive  Course (18 hours)

ECTS: 1.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is intended for absolute beginners in Portuguese as a foreign language and aims at preparing participants for their first contact with the language and the daily communicative situations they will come across whilst in the country.

 

 

Advanced Strategic Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to discuss and understand the strategic implications of new trends resulting from dramatic changes and new challenges in the business environment. How does the digital era affect strategic thinking? What are the impacts of the crisis of capitalism and the growing importance of social and environmental concerns? How do organizations reorient corporate objectives and rethink organizational design to implement strategic changes? 

Advanced Strategic Management (IMSc)

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course intends to provide an advanced understanding of how firms can create value through strategic decisions in current environments. This course will attempt to provide an in-depth but accessible discussion of those struggles and developments. Importantly, such a discussion will strongly rely on concepts and perspectives emerging from scientific research rather than best-selling books or guru statements.

Behavioral Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Behavioral economics (hereafter BE), a still-growing strand of research, deals with the same big issues as standard economics (labor, health, savings, markets, etc.) without making the assumption that people behave as homo œconomicus. Rather BE is an attempt to empirically check how humans actually behave. This course gives an overview of key insights from BE, describes the methodology used in BE, including experimental economics and randomized controlled trials, and identifies how BE can be used to understand and solve some important social and economic problems of our time.

Brand Activation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

After Brand Development, including its Purpose, Character, Positioning and Campaign Idea, Brand Activation is fundamental to set in place the defined strategy and bring it to life! Knowing to whom you should activate your Brand or product as well as how and where to deliver it is fundamental to a successful consumer engagement and proximity with the brand. Materialize brand values, develop brand activations that allow brands to ‘Walk the Talk’ and amplify them to deliver as much return as possible

Business Ethics & Social Responsibility

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Why does Ethics matter in business? What are the ethical responsibilities associated with being a manager, an accountant or a financial trader? What are the main commonalities and differences of recent corporate scandals, and how is it possible to adopt individual and organizational strategies to prevent new ones? Why should business organizations behave in a socially responsible way? How can organizations develop a business strategy that integrates the generation of commercial and social value? This course will assist students in answering such questions through the discussion of case studies concerning ethical issues and dilemmas faced by managers, financial professionals, and entrepreneurs in different cultural, industrial, and organizational contexts.

Business Statistics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is part of a sequence completed by the course “Business Research Methods (B)”. Their overall goal is to introduce quantitative methods as a way to extract information from the data with the ultimate goal of improving managerial decisions.
The guiding thread of the course is the emphasis on the random nature of the data generating processes along with its often-misleading consequences. Thus, after taking this class, students should embrace statistics as a challenging yet necessary systematic approach to avoid common decision traps. 

Corporate Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The main goal of the Corporate Finance course is to engage you in a journey to discover the main concepts and methods in corporate finance. We adopt the perspective of a financial manager of a non-financial firm. This course contributes to understanding financial markets and corporate finance decisions with a focus on the investment decisions of corporations.

Corporate Governance: an International Perspective

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Corporate Governance – An International Perspective is an introductory course in corporate governance (CG) which offers a view on practices and regulations in governance across continents. This course starts by making clear how CG developed in the last decade in the aftermath of the financial and economic crises and how important it is for building trust in today’s capital markets. The economic, legal, and managerial foundations of CG are discussed with a view to understanding how shareholders’ and other stakeholders’ rights are protected and accounted for. 

Design for Innovation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course focuses on the key role of design for innovation. The aim of this course is to discuss, present and distinguish the different ways that design contributes for innovation. Because the same term – design - is used for concepts such as Design Thinking and Design-Driven Innovation for instance, it is often assumed that they are the same thing. The two approaches are actually quite different, both use the term design but in very different ways. The aim of the course is to clarify this distinction as well as present three approaches that mobilise design for innovation! The course starts by defining design and its importance for innovation. Then it introduces three distinct and powerful “design for innovation” approaches that are: design thinking, design-driven innovation, and design management. 

Digital Product Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

What do Apple, Instagram and Netflix have in common? Technological products used by millions of users around the planet. Behind their success are product managers, maestros of the technology world, working amongst engineers, designers and data scientists making sure companies are building what users want. This course dives into the fundamentals of building and managing digital products as well as the practices that led companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook into building technology used by billions of people every single day. The course is structured to provide an in-depth view of the digital product management discipline, currently practiced at startups and large software companies. 

Economics of Business and Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course develops an understanding of firms’ strategic behavior and how they can influence the market structure. We will use game theoretic reasoning to analyze issues related to pricing, entry into new markets or exit from established businesses, changing the perceptions of competitors, level of product differentiation and product proliferation competition and its impact on market competition, and strategies aimed at alleviating price competition among firms. In the last topic the course will give insights on the public policy perspective, in terms of economic regulation and antitrust.

eContent

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Throughout this course, you will dive into some of the best-kept secrets on what makes content work will amaze and enrich your skills background, a true added value on today’s market demand. You will also be part of a challenge – a true brand will share a tough task to be solved only by the best: groups will be formed to share their creative vision, ideas and content strategy for that brand so as to beat their competitors on the digital field. 

Financial Decision-Making in a Business Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Two questions are at the core of any study relating to corporate financial decision-making, how do firms optimally choose their investment projects and how do they decide among the pool of financing options for these projects? Answering these two questions will be the focus of this course. Initially, we will study these two questions independently from each other, starting with the capital budgeting (investing) decision of an all-equity financed project. We will then turn to the capital structure (financing) decision, which we will found using perfect capital markets arguments. Subsequently, we will introduce capital market imperfections and examine how these shape the cross-sectional variety of capital structures observed in the real life. Finally, we will combine the two decisions by looking into the valuation methods for levered projects and companies based on
the knowledge acquired during the previous steps.

Financial Derivatives

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course studies a particular class of financial assets, named derivative assets, whose value “derives” from other financial assets, referred to as the underlying asset. Derivative assets play a key role in modern capital markets, representing today many trillion USD. They are an important instrument available to financial managers to manage their companies’ risk exposure. 

Firm Valuation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Whether interested in pursuing a career as a security analyst, portfolio manager, CEO or are an individual investing their own wealth, this course will provide you with the right tools for reliable firm valuation. Employing knowledge from the fields of accounting and finance, we will study alternative valuation methods from both a conceptual and practical perspective. We will address the various issues arising in the valuation process and discuss valuation in special settings such as private equity markets, emerging markets, and restructuring. 

Imperfect Markets

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The objective of this course is to provide a rigorous understanding of core theoretical aspects of the behavior of firms and other economic agents in imperfectly competitive markets.

International Industry Analysis

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Business leaders and strategy consultants must fully understand industries before developing corporate strategies. Therefore, the International Industry Analysis course will enhance the students’ strategic competencies to research and analyse specific industries on a global level.

Intrapreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Intrapreneurs are highly valued by firms and the broader business culture. Intrapreneurship, or corporate entrepreneurship as it is also known, entails acting like an entrepreneur within a larger organization. Intrapreneurship in firm strategy allows companies to innovate from within to become more competitive, and also helps incumbent firms address the so-called “innovator’s dilemma” where established entities are displaced by upstarts. 

Introduction to Econometrics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course aims to introduce the basic econometric methods for estimating their parameters and performing statistical inference. By the end of the course, students should be able to use the basic econometric techniques in the analysis of economic problems and conduct their own basic empirical analyses. The course also provides the basis for further econometric courses.

Macrodynamics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In this course we discuss the role of expectations in general equilibrium macrodynamic models and the possible existence of business cycles driven by self-fulfilling expectations (endogenous cycles). We explore distortionary economic environments where autonomous changes in expectations, about the value of future economic variables, can lead to changes in the economic outcomes consistent with those expectations changes. Along the course, students learn about Overlapping Generations Models with Market Imperfections and focus on equilibrium driven by self-fulfilling expectations. 

Macroeconomics

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course offers an introduction to neoclassical macroeconomics in a closed economy. The course is intended for master’s students who wish to develop a solid background in this area. This course is mandatory for students of the MSc in Economics at CATÓLICA-LISBON. At the end of the course, students should be able to understand the behavior of the aggregate economy in the Neoclassical Model and simulate models numerically using excel and/or matlab.

Management Accounting

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course aims at developing skills related to Performance Measurement and Management Control. At the end of the course, students should be able to understand the need of setting up control systems, techniques and tools in the way of doing so and how to use these control mechanisms in making relevant economic decisions. 

Management of Digital Transformation & Disruption

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course highly contributes to an understanding of Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption using information systems & technology (IS/IT), and information management in organizations. The Digital Transformation & Disruption course broaches the mainstream Information Systems and technologies that managers may deploy in the Information Era for digital innovation, focusing on value creation, strategy and profitability.

Managing People

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Managing People is designed to provide you with a better understanding of individual perception and interpersonal behavior in organizations, and how these influence personal and organizational performance. The course focuses on how you, as an organizational member and manager, can experience, understand, and manage yourself, as well as other individuals, in organizations.

Marketing Communication

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

One of the critical tools that brands use to engage with their consumers and shoppers is communication and advertising. But superior brand communication is part science and part art. This course will enable you to discuss and evaluate multiple elements of marketing communications, preparing you for a future role in this field. 

New Value Creation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to help you test and validate the “product-market fit” for your ideas. With this course, you will get better and faster at generating, testing and improving ideas that can be translated into business concepts.

Project Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The course aims to develop the specific project management related competencies of the students, by presenting and discussing world-class project management practices and concepts in the business context. In addition, it aims to apply Project Management tools to a practical case on a strategic approach.

Strategic Marketing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course focuses on business level marketing strategy. The overall goal of the course is to develop students’ ability to think strategically about marketing problems and their potential solutions through exposure to variety of marketing concepts and methods.

Time Series Econometrics

ECTS: 3.5 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces you to forecasting using linear stochastic models in R. We will start from the basic linear models and build up to more advanced alternatives, to account for temporal behavior such as seasonality or trend. We will extend these models to incorporate covariates and to work with multiple time-series, possibly in an aggregation structure. We will cover the assumptions required to make causal statements when working with linear models. This class will provide a well-rounded understanding of forecasting and linear models. 


Technical Modules (1)

R

ECTS: 1

Prerequisites: None

This course offers an introduction to R, one of the most popular software for data analysis across the social sciences. The main objective of the course is twofold. On one hand, this class aims at providing students with a solid command of R and the RStudio IDE to allow them to carry simple empirical investigations. On the other hand, the class lays the ground for a full mastery of the program by describing the principles and the main packages used in advanced work with the program.

Stata

ECTS: 1

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The goal of this course is to provide students the basics of the econometric software “STATA”, a fundamental tool in Economics, Finance and Management areas, both in the professional environment and in the construction of the Msc thesis. 

 

Business Research Methods (B)

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces quantitative methods used to extract information from data with the ultimate goal of improving managerial decisions. The course’s approach is twofold. First, it develops concepts and methods which are useful in the current data-oriented business environment: from data collection to statistical models of data interpretation. Second, it introduces software tools to carry analyses of real-world datasets and to report results.

Database Management

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course introduces students to database management—from data modeling, to data collection, to data analysis—with a strong focus on Relational Databases and Structured Query Language (SQL). It addresses the theory, application, and management of relational databases, as well as alternative database paradigms.

Empirical Finance

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to introduce topics in empirical Corporate Finance and Investments and Financial Markets. The applied approach of this course will allow students to use real data and implement state-of-the-art models. Students will be asked to understand and critically think about the results obtained in light of the appropriate models. At the end of the course, students will be asked to develop a new conceptual idea and implement it.

Lean Entrepreneurship Project

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

This course is based on 12 challenges requiring interaction between the team and future clients or customers. The different challenges will help you understand what a good business idea is and how to get from the idea to a structured business. This process will be based on the Lean methodology to mitigate some risks and have more chances to succeed. During this course, students will apply to a business idea the concepts of Lean Startup (developed by Eric Ries), Business Model Design (created by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur), Customer Development (proposed by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf), and many other practical skills needed to get a business started.

Social Entrepreneurship: Building Impact Ventures

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: None

Social entrepreneurs are a driving force for societal change and business innovation, creating compelling ventures that align both profit and impact. What do social entrepreneurs do that is unique, and why do they succeed in addressing profound societal problems in areas where governments, markets, and charities fail? How are impact ventures built? This course will place you in a social entrepreneur’s role and help you learn in teams how to design and launch an impact venture.

Strategic Management Consulting Project

ECTS: 7

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The Strategic Management Consulting Project (SMCP) is a project-oriented course in which students work as teams of consultants to solve a given client’s real business challenge. Groups of five students work together on a given project for the whole duration of the course, in direct contact with the client organization and pursuing their own project. 

 

Language Courses

German Language Course | Level A1.1

ECTS:
4.5

Prerequisites: None

This course provides a general introduction to the German language, focusing occasionally on specific professional contexts of use related to the world of business. Students are expected to reach level A1.1 of the CEFR in German Language.

Portuguese Extensive Course | Level A1

ECTS: 
4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

This course is aimed at the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A1. The course also introduces certain aspects of Portuguese history, culture and ways of life in order to help participants gain the most from their time and experiences in the country as well as communicating with people and contemporary realities.

Portuguese Extensive Course | Level A2

ECTS: 4.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims at the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A2. 

Spanish Language Course | Level A1

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: None

The aim is that the students reach the objectives defined by the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at level A1.
In accordance with the syllabus, students are expected to develop skills in producing and interpreting different types of utterances, both oral and written, and in multiple situations. One primary aim of the discipline is also to promote both individual and collaborative learning, i.e., through group work.

Spanish Language Course | Level A2

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Our aim is that the students reach the objectives defined by the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at level A2 (Plataforma/Waystage).

 

Applied Economics

 

ECTS: 4.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course shows how analytical tools and data can be used by economists to address economic issues, including poverty, inequality, and economic growth. Students will learn how to use advanced economic analysis to reach reasoned conclusions about the drivers of these issues and the keys to anticipating, preventing, and managing disruptions. The course will explore how economics is used in professional, policy, and research settings. It will help students analyse economic data at a much deeper level while also forming their own opinions on economic issues and policy responses. 

Brand Management

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this course is to teach you how to build, manage, and leverage world-class brands. The broad learning of this course are: 1) to increase your understanding of the important issues in planning and evaluating brand strategies; 2) to present relevant theories, conceptual models, and other tools and principles to make more effective branding decisions; and 3) to provide a forum for you to apply these principles. 

Business Ethics & Social Responsibility

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: None

This course will examine the most recent approaches to corporate social responsibility and a broad range of alternative applied ethics theories in support to managerial and professional decision making. Perspectives will include professional and applied ethics, law, public policy, organizational design, strategy, and organizational behavior.  

Business Model Innovation

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: None

During this course students get to know frameworks and practices on how to create new digital ventures. The course is ideal for students that plan to work in business development, strategy, consulting, or start their own company. You strengthen your digital mind-set and learn how to think strategically about the ideation, market, product, business model, go-to-market, and organizational and financial setup for a chosen digital product. This research-based and impact focused methodology has been tested by companies (e.g. Grundfos), accelerators (e.g. MIT Design X) and graduate programs (e.g. Digital Transformation courses). It complements strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation courses.  

Causality and Randomized Experiments

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The goal of this course is to teach students how to transform customer and user activity data into valuable business intelligence such as an understanding of user preferences and behaviors that allow for the development of better business policies, tactics and actionable strategies and plans.  

CFA Challenge

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The objective of this module is to help and assist students that wish to participate in this universities international competition that is sponsored by the CFA Society.
As the project is the valuation of a Portuguese listed company and its presentation to a jury of CFA members, the students get an insight into how is the work of a financial analyst.

Development Economics

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course explores the causes and consequences of economic (under)development. It focuses on 5 themes: (1) the current state of development and inequality across the world and its evolution; (2) some approaches used to account for these facts, including capital accumulation, institutions and culture; (3) micro topics: investments in human capital through health and education, behavioural economics insights, gender gaps and corruption; (4) macro topics: globalization and economic shocks and crisis; (5) critical reflection on the field of development economics. 

Digital Marketing

 

ECTS: 3.5

 

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course is intended for students who are not yet familiar with Digital Marketing. Along the course, the following objectives will be pursued: To understand the integration of digital marketing strategies in the overall marketing strategy of the company; to explore the impact of digital in transforming the marketing mix; to practice the principles of digital marketing planning; to provide an overview on best practices in digital marketing; to understand the main metrics and KPIs related to digital strategies. 

Digital Product Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

What do Apple, Instagram, and Netflix have in common? Technological products are used by millions of users around the planet. Behind their success are product managers, maestros of the technology world, working amongst engineers, designers, and data scientists making sure companies are building what users want. This course dives into the fundamentals of building and managing digital products as well as the practices that led companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook into building technology used by billions of people every single day. The course is structured to provide an in-depth view of the digital product management discipline, currently practiced at startups and large software companies. 

Econometrics

ECTS: 4.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

 The main objectives of the course are to introduce students to econometric techniques applicable when the regressors are not strictly exogenous and to prepare them to do their own applied work.

Economic Globalization

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Understanding of the globalization/protectionism debate with the economist lens. The myths and economic theory. Competitiveness and Productivity. Learning globalization through history. The past, the beginning of this century, the present, and the future. The hyperspecialization.  The distribution of the gains of globalization. Global value chains: efficiency and fragility. 
Multilateralism versus regionalism. Understanding the current debate: U.S. and China. Lessons from the Pandemics and the Russia/Ukraine war.

Economics of Business and Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course develops an understanding of firms’ strategic behavior and how they can influence the market structure. We will use game theoretic reasoning to analyze issues related to pricing, entry into new markets or exit from established businesses, changing the perceptions of competitors, level of product differentiation and product proliferation competition and its impact on market competition, and strategies aimed at alleviating price competition among firms. In the last topic, the course will give insights on the public policy perspective, in terms of economic regulation and antitrust. 

Entrepreneurial Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to provide students with an overview of the different skills required to raise capital throughout the lifecycle of growth of an early stage company and work in a new venture financing context. The course will be taught from the perspective of the entrepreneur, highlighting the specific aspects that are of relevance for someone negotiating with business angels, venture capitalists, or other types of financiers.

Financial Decision-Making in a Business Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Two questions are at the core of any study relating to corporate financial decision-making (and more broadly Corporate Finance):
- How do firms optimally choose their investment projects?
- How do they decide among the pool of financing options for these projects?
Answering these two questions and understanding the issues involved will be the focus of this course.

Financial Modeling

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Many training courses in the modeling area put their emphasis either on Excel functionality, financial theory, or on mathematical models, but seldom address the modeling process. This course aims to cover the modeling issues that are relevant to facilitate the construction of robust and readily understandable models.

Fundamentals of Business and Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

 The goal of the course is to present foundational concepts of business and economics to students with an academic background in the hard sciences. The focus is on concepts and models that are qualitatively different from the one’s students have learned in their previous academic training.

Game Theory

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course offers an introduction to non-cooperative game theory, with applications to relevant economic topics. The course is intended for master students who wish to develop a solid background in this area.

Healthcare Transformation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course provides basic sectorial knowledge, language, and culture pointers to make you a credible partner in a consulting or otherwise related healthcare transformation project and/or the beginning of work in an organization related to any parts of the complex healthcare supply chain much in need of young dynamic change agents.  

Industrial Organization

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Industrial Organization is the field of Economics that studies the behavior of firms in imperfectly competitive markets as well as the performance of such markets. Building on the standard oligopoly models covered in the “Imperfect Markets” course, Industrial Organization introduces additional instruments, strategic decisions, and market dynamics. The main goal of the course is to extend students’ knowledge about firm behavior and the functioning of imperfectly competitive markets, exposing them to some of the most widespread Industrial Organization topics and models with an emphasis on competition policy.

International Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In an increasingly globalized world, investors and executives have to understand how fluctuations in exchange rates create risks and rewards for multinational corporations. The course explains international risk factors and discusses several recent developments in the international financial markets such as the rise of cryptocurrencies, efforts to create a CBDC by central banks, and global geopolitical crisis and international sanctions.  The course combines theory with real world examples, data analysis, and practical case discussions. The analysis is focused on the perspective of the corporation concerned with managing the risk that arises from its international operations. 

International Financial Reporting Standards

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course is designed to provide an in-depth examination of some of the most economically significant international financial reporting topics and their impact on financial statements and decision making. Investments, mergers, and acquisitions decisions require a clear understanding and a careful examination of a company’s performance. So, we will start by analyzing financial investments and economic groups, the concepts of control, subsidiary company, associates, and how the group’s performance and financial position are reported. 

Investing in Short-Term Fixed Income Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The trading industry is in constant evolution. From Pit Trading to High Frequency and quantitative analysis the only constant is that each player is trying to have a positive P&L. This course has 2 main objectives. One is to understand the evolution of the industry and how that affects the entire market and the world. The second objective is to develop the “bridge” between concepts learned about financial markets and how to apply them to real market situations. 

Leadership Development

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is about leadership and is intended to help students become more effective when dealing with workplace demands for leadership, regardless of their previous work experience. 

Management of Digital Transformation & Disruption

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course highly contributes to an understanding about Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption using information systems & technology (IS/IT), and information management in organizations. The Digital Transformation & Disruption course broaches the mainstream Information Systems and technologies that managers may deploy in the Information Era for digital innovation, focusing on value creation, strategy and profitability.

Managerial Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The course is an introduction, or a refresher, to the basic concepts and models of the microeconomic analysis of the firm and markets. The focus is on firms’ conduct under different market structures. 
Market structures covered are competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. Firms’ strategies in oligopolies are discussed using conjectural variations models and the basic concepts of game theory. At the end of the course, students should be able to apply microeconomic principles to managerial decision-making related to the contents of the course.

Managing in an International Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Strategy in business typically is framed as orienting firms towards managing change, along with acquiring and sustaining competitive advantage (CA). Firms thus undertake transactions in markets with a view to gaining an edge, such as through reducing frictions or extracting rents. Strategies for CA tend to be separated into corporate, functional, and business-level dimensions, where theories such as the resource based view and dynamic capabilities explain how firm-differentiated CA accrues.

Managing Organizations

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The main objective of this course is to help students understand several core topics relating to organizational dynamics such as organizational structure, culture, learning, communication, and change. Through cases, class activities, lectures, and assignments, the course will engage students to reflect and apply organizational behavior concepts, theories, and practices to a variety of real-life organizational settings. 

Managing People

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Managing People is designed to provide you with a better understanding of individual perception and interpersonal behavior in organizations, and how these influence personal and organizational performance. The course focuses on how you, as an organizational member and manager, can experience, understand, and manage yourself, as well as other individuals, in organizations. 

Marketing Communication

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

One of the critical tools that brands use to engage with their consumers and shoppers is communication and advertising. But superior brand communication is part science and part art. This course will enable you to discuss and evaluate multiple elements of marketing communications, preparing you for a future role in this field.

Methods in Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to introduce topics in empirical Corporate Finance. The applied approach of this course will allow students to use real data and implement state-of-the-art econometric models. Students will be asked to understand and critically think about the results obtained in light of the appropriate models. 

Monetary Policy and Optimal Taxation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This is an introductory course on optimal fiscal and monetary policy. It covers principles of optimal fiscal policy and long-run monetary policy. 

Predictive Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Knowledge and Understanding: Master the concepts, Data Science, and Data Driven Decision Making; Have hands-on experience with data analytics for supporting management situations. Subject-Specific Skills: Build predictive models for classification and regression; Evaluate model fit and generalizability; Learn about bias variance decomposition of predictive models. General Skills: Be able to think systematically about how and when data can improve decision-making in contexts of management; Be able to understand and discuss topics of data analysis for business intelligence. In particular, know basic principles and algorithms of data mining to interact with data analytics professionals. 

Python for Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The main goal of the course is to develop problem solving and programming skills, Python in particular, for financial applications and data science.

Retail and e-Commerce Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aimed at students who want to: Get to know more about retail (omnichannel, online, offline and marketplaces); Find out how data can be used to analyse fundamental problems; Learn how company structures must adapt to make the most out of data."

Retailing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course provides an understanding of what is Retail and the environment in which Retail operates. It will therefore present the main concepts linked to the practice of retailing as well as the trends and hot topics linked to its activity. Our focus will be on the main managerial decisions, both strategic and tactical, that impact the retail operation. The course may be also useful for those who prefer to start with sales, marketing, or other management positions in a manufacturer or other companies dealing with retailers. 

Risk Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In this course, we will analyze different sources of risk for firms and discuss in detail the tools available to managers to mitigate those risks. Most of our analysis will be focused on risk management in financial institutions for two interrelated reasons. First, these institutions are more exposed to financial risks than non-financial firms, due to the nature of their activities. Second, the importance of adequately managing these risks fosters the permanent creation of new tools to address them.

Social Doctrine of the Church

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The present course attempts a presentation of the doctrine of the Catholic Church on social issues, with special attention to the economic topics, describing themes, documents, and proposals. Its purpose is to allow the students to have an axiological evaluation of the social, and in particular economic questions, based on the Christian values and commandments. In the end, the participants must know the position of the Catholic Church on the great social topics and the main documents, which define it. 

Strategic Business Transformation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

In this course students will learn how to be better prepared to address transformation in a successful, impactful and sustainable way, combining both lecture sessions - where debate and discussion will be promoted, together with real-life examples to illustrate the theory – and case studies where students will have the opportunity, both in teams and individually, to put into practice what they´ve learned.

Language Courses

Portuguese Intensive Course

ECTS: 1.5 ECTS

Prerequisites: None

This course is intended for absolute beginners in Portuguese as a foreign language and aims at preparing participants for their first contact with the language and the daily communicative situations they will come across whilst in the country. 

 

Advanced Topics in Predictive Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In this course students will build upon the knowledge acquired in the data science fundamentals module. We will introduce more advanced tools in predictive analytics with a specific focus on deep learning techniques. Topics covered will include the use of deep neural networks to classify text and images, speech recognition using recurrent neural nets, and generative networks. Students will be exposed to different types of data problems to be solved using various deep learning techniques. 

B2B Marketing Strategy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Most companies of any dimension do not sell their products and services to consumers but to other companies. The buyers are organizations with a decision-making process that is complex and different from those of a final buyer of consumer goods. The marketing and sales challenges faced in business-to-business markets must be addressed based on the fundamentals of marketing but applied in a radically different way. The focus, levers, and processes of the marketing and sales efforts are different, and so must marketing strategy and communication be. This is especially relevant for small and medium enterprises. This course reviews the main components of business-to-business – “B2B”: strategy, marketing, and sales. 

Banking and Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Banks receive money from depositors and other investors and channel these funds to firms, households, and governments in the form of loans. In this course, we will discuss research papers to understand the main theoretical concepts of banking as well as related empirical evidence and policy questions.

Big Data Technologies

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In this course students will be introduced to the field of Big Data. Topics covered will include: 1) key concepts and how to extract value from Big Data; 2) frameworks and tools to process and manage Big Data; 3) cloud computing services to build highly scalable solutions for Big Data; 4) machine & deep learning frameworks for Big Data Analytics.

Brand Activation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

After Brand Development, including its Purpose, Character, Positioning and Campaign Idea, Brand Activation is fundamental to set in place the defined strategy and bring it to life! Knowing to whom you should activate your Brand or product as well as how and where to deliver it is fundamental to a successful consumer engagement and proximity with the brand. Materialize brand values, develop brand activations that allow brands to ‘Walk the Talk’ and amplify them to deliver as much return as possible.      

Business Cycles and Stabilization Policy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This is a course on economic fluctuations and optimal stabilization policy. It is a follow up course to Monetary Policy and Optimal Taxation.

Competitive Intelligence

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course highly contributes to an understanding of competitive intelligence and the intelligence environment overall. In a highly competitive and innovative environment, companies depend on their external knowledge acquisition capabilities, and this is true for large as well as for small companies; this is also especially true for start-ups. Companies should thus develop an intelligent attitude at all levels. This course thus proposes participants apply a set of the most advanced and relevant competitive intelligence methodologies in an integrated manner. 

Consumer Behavior

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Understanding consumers is important to every business. However, consumers’ minds are not always easy to understand. This course provides an overview of theories that best explain how consumers arrive at their judgments and choices. The course will review important theories in economics and psychology that provide the foundation for behavioural marketing.

Cross Cultural Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to deepen your understanding of the context-specific nature of management and to provide you with knowledge and skills helpful to navigate the increasingly global nature of contemporary work. To that aim, we will start by exploring the fundamentals of culture and cross-cultural differences. Subsequently, we will examine some critical aspects of working and managing in a global environment; including issues related to communication, leadership, motivation, teamwork, negotiation, and the management of expatriates and international careers.

Digital Product Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

What do Apple, Instagram and Netflix have in common? Technological products used by millions of users around the planet. Behind their success are product managers, maestros of the technology world, working amongst engineers, designers and data scientists making sure companies are building what users want. This course dives into the fundamentals of building and managing digital products as well as the practices that led companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook into building technology used by billions of people every single day. The course is structured to provide an in-depth view of the digital product management discipline, currently practiced at startups and large software companies.  

Digital Transformation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Can you imagine remote work from anywhere in the world? This would not have been possible in most industries just two years ago. During the COVID pandemic, companies accelerated the adoption of digital tools and irreversibly leaped forward into a new digital normal. There is no going back from this Digital Transformation (DT), and DT expertise has become a top competence.

Economic Growth

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Introduction to the main facts and theories of economic growth. Understanding the importance of Growth for Development. Introduction to the basic questions of economic growth and development. Theories: strengths and weaknesses.

Economics of Business and Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Throughout this course you will dive into some of the best kept secrets on what makes content work will amaze and enrich your skills background, a true added value to today’s market demand. You will also be part of a challenge – a true brand will share a tough task to be solved only by the best: groups will be formed to share their creative vision, ideas, and content strategy for that brand so as to beat their competitors in the digital field. 

eContent

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

 This course develops an understanding of firms’ strategic behavior and how they can influence the market structure. We will use game theoretic reasoning to analyze issues related to pricing, entry into new markets or exit from established businesses, changing the perceptions of competitors, level of product differentiation and product proliferation competition and its impact on market competition, and strategies aimed at alleviating price competition among firms. We also focus on vertical relations, namely incentives for vertical integration and vertical restraints.

Equity Reports

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course is about the value of a company, how we can measure it, and what variables have a strong impact on it. The course is based on a practical case about the valuation of a listed company that has to be solved by students as if they are working for an investment bank, so a practical approach is used – the applied project. 
Students should gather all the information about the target company they have chosen, prepare a detailed model to make the valuation, solve it, and present it in as if they were working for an investment bank. 

Ethics for Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The purpose of this unit is to introduce the students to ethical reasoning in financial decisions. Participants must be able to identify ethical reasoning, as separate from a scientific or judicial approach. This approach is then applied to specific decisions in several aspects of the financial area. Several dimensions of the financial activity will be analysed, from the markets to specific services and corporate financial management. 

Ethics in Economics

ECTS: 2

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The present course analysis the ethical implications of economic science. The contributions that moral philosophy may give to economics and the ethical problems raised by the main economic models will be assessed.

Financial Decision-Making in a Business Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

There are two main questions that form the basis of any study relating to Corporate Finance or more specifically, corporate financial decision-making:
- What is the optimal choice of investment projects for the firm?
- How do firms decide among the pool of financing options for these projects?
In this course, we will attempt to understand these two questions and the issues involved.

FinTech

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed for students who plan to get involved with the disruption of the financial sector. Banks and insurance companies are facing one of the most pressured moments of the industry history. After a financial and credibility crisis, the drivers of this pressure are not only clients seeking for innovation and convenience, but also regulators. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing and the rise of a mobile first generation are some of the enablers but also drivers of a new reality that is already unbundling the financial sector as we know it. 

Go to Market Strategy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course’s roadmap takes students along the main stops of creating the right sales and marketing environment, which will enable them to start making sales from day one and growing from there, thus making any business launch a success. It also covers different types of strategies for entering a market, each one more effective in specific circumstances.

Group and Team Processes

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course provides an overview of the fundamental dynamics of teams and teamwork, focusing on the interactions between team members that contribute to team performance and team members’ satisfaction. The main goal of this course is to provide you with a better understanding of how you can contribute, as a member of a work team or as a team leader, to its success.

Impact Investing

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The goal of this course is to introduce participants to the growing global phenomenon of Impact Investing, broadly defined as the purposeful allocation of financial resources to entrepreneurial projects or ventures that generate sustainable impact. Participants will be able to understand the value proposition of impact investment, for both investors and entrepreneurs, and how this new sector is positioned in the emergent impact economy, which lies at the intersection of the commercial, social and public sectors. 

Information and Uncertainty

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course covers advanced topics related to decisions under uncertainty and optimal contracts with asymmetric information. After taking the course, students should be able to understand and derive models with uncertainty and asymmetric information.

Infrastructure Investing in an International Context

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

At the end of the course, students should be able to recognize what is understood as infrastructure from an asset class perspective; elaborate on the societal importance of infrastructure assets; understand the different approaches used to categorize infrastructure assets; learn about the academic work on infrastructure that has been conducted to date and understand the diversification potential that the infrastructure asset class adds to an investment portfolio(...)

International Industry Analysis

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Business leaders and strategy consultants must fully understand industries before developing corporate strategies. Therefore, the International Industry Analysis course will enhance the students’ strategic competencies to research and analyse specific industries on a global level.

International Market Segmentation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Segmentation has been defined as the cornerstone of modern marketing. However, as competitive pressures on companies grow, short term implementation replaces the conceptual frameworks and analysis inherent in segmentation analysis and strategies. This course is designed to provide a conceptual and analytical platform to deal with both conceptual and practical issues related to the segmentation of international markets. In particular students will learn to use some statistical techniques to segment international markets.  

International Negotiation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Negotiation is a decision-making process in which two or more parties with non-identical preferences seek to reach an agreement about how to allocate resources (Bazerman & Carroll, 1987; Falcão, 2012). Students will learn a variety of frameworks in order to understand the process of negotiation and will have at least one face-to-face negotiation exercise per class in order to practice and develop skills. International and cross-cultural aspects of negotiation will also be explored. 

Intrapreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

Intrapreneurs are highly valued by firms and the broader business culture. Intrapreneurship, or corporate entrepreneurship as it is also known, entails acting like an entrepreneur within a larger organization. Intrapreneurship in firm strategy allows companies to innovate from within to become more competitive, and also helps incumbent firms address the so-called “innovator’s dilemma” where established entities are displaced by upstarts. 

Investing in Global Financial Markets

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

In the ever more complex and competitive world of investing, investors are being forced to examine alternative asset classes in order to understand their impact on financial markets and many have begun investing in these assets in the hope of increasing their returns and diversifying their risk. The global investor landscape continues to evolve with new types of investors (such as sovereign wealth funds) constantly emerging.  Today, investment banks compete with private equity funds and pension funds compete with university endowment funds for undervalued assets in countries that would have been ignored 10 years ago. This course hopes to demystify this international web of investment funds and their strategies using real world case studies.

Labor Economics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course is based in a course given by Pierre Cahuc. This course introduces the latest theoretical, methodological, and empirical developments in labor economics. It presents empirical methods (relevant for the policy makers) using contributions that have proved to be milestones in labor economics. 

Lean Entrepreneurship

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

In this course, students will learn about how to find a business idea, transform the idea into a business model, define a critical hypothesis, achieve product-market fit and plan the go-to-market strategy.  The course includes short talks, in-class exercises, experienced guest speakers, useful readings, videos about entrepreneurial topics, and practical individual and group homework.  

Luxury Strategy

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course is a dive into the luxury industry, with a focus on strategy, innovation, sustainability, internationalization, and on the marketing mix elements that shape luxury’s unique business model. It is structured to provide students with the distinctive principles for effective management of luxury brands, products, and services. The course explores how the luxury industry and its different subsectors have been successful, what challenges they are currently facing and how they try to overcome them, and what other businesses could learn from them and selectively apply luxury business model principles. 

Machine Learning in Finance

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The main objective is to get familiar with fundamental concepts in Machine Learning (ML), with an emphasis on practical finance applications. We focus on intuition and solution design, with hands-on coding exercises and real datasets. In this course, students will acquire: Broad knowledge of different ML categories and specificities of ML in Finance; Solid foundation in theory and design of ML algorithms; Hands-on experience with real life ML models; Ability to build and test models dedicated to finance applications.

Managerial Decision Making

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to provide you with a better understanding about how you and other people think, feel, decide, and behave. Ultimately, it aims at making you a better decision maker. To that aim, we will start by studying the psychological processes that underlie the choices that people make. We will further look at systematic biases that people have when making decisions, as well as a variety of other important influences on the decision making process (e.g., moods and emotions). We will also examine interventions or “brain hacks” which can help people become more effective in making decisions.  

Marketing Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Today’s marketing managers must be aware of the immense value of data and what it can reveal about consumer behavior and the likely effects of marketing actions. This course provides students with skills to improve marketing decision making by applying appropriate statistical analysis and optimization methods to market and consumer data. Using Excel as the basic tool, you will learn a set of useful methods for modeling consumer demand, forecasting sales, making pricing and advertising decisions, aligning product design with consumer preferences and managing customers.

Mergers and Acquisitions

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

After taking this course students should be able to: Explain common motivations behind M&A activity; Identify the main players and describe their incentives; Describe the value creation options available to companies; Describe restructuring options and explain common reasons for restructuring;  Distinguish among equity carve-outs, spin-offs, split-offs, and liquidation; Distinguish among pre-offer and post-offer takeover defence mechanisms; Distinguish different types of M&A processes; Describe the M&A transaction process and timeline; Describe the most important documents in an M&A transaction and their major components (...).

Microeconometrics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The goal of this course is to provide students with a thorough understanding of a variety of econometric models that economists use for empirical microeconomic research. Special emphasis will be given to the application of these models to economic data in recent empirical research, in order to illustrate how they can be employed to answer empirical questions in different fields, labor or health economics or finance research questions. 

Operations Analytics

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course introduces the concepts and analytical methods used in Operations and Management Science. It aims to provide students with the tools to help practitioners solve decision problems in operations. It is designed to help students develop the required skills for understanding the logic behind model-based analysis, identify appropriate techniques on a case-by-case basis and to build/evaluate models for practical application. 

Operations Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course provides a basic comprehension of the OM within an organization. Operations are analysed from a strategic and operational perspective, focusing on the competitive advantage that they can create in organizations. Thus, students are provided with concepts, techniques and tools to design, analyse and improve operational capabilities of an organization. Rather than focusing on a particular sector, the course aims to cover a broad range of application domains from industry to services.

Political Economy of European Integration

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

The course takes a political economy approach to analysing the process of European integration. It discusses the evolution of European integration in terms of its various stages/levels, with emphasis on its regulatory character, notably the single market, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the European Green Deal, and examines the question of the optimal size of the Union (incl. Brexit). 

Private Equity

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

This course aims to provide students with an overview of the different skills required to work in a private equity context. The course will be taught from the perspective of the private equity fund manager (GP), highlighting the rational for acquisitions and intrinsic valuations and key aspects in supporting management of the portfolio companies. These lessons will also be applicable to someone working as an advisor to private equity investors and who needs to understand what their priorities are. 

Project Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The Project Management course aims to develop the specific project management related competencies of the students, by presenting and discussing world-class project management practices and concepts in the business context. In addition, it aims to apply Project Management tools to a practical case on a strategic approach.

Responsible Business

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The need to act as Responsible Business (RB) is now a key element of most strategic agendas of Corporations and has now passed a point of no-return.  RB is certainly not a Fad, but an unstoppable Macro Trend and Corporations can no longer avoid the fact that their actions (and omissions) will have a scrutinized impact in markets where they operate, and relevant stakeholders will hold them responsible for it. Factors like globalization, communication technology, rising awareness of consumers, citizens, and local communities, high profile breaches of Corporate Ethics, have all led to a place where leaders can no longer act without taking in consideration a holistic approach to Responsible Business. 

Robotic Process Automation

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: Yes (see syllabus)

Automation technologies are reshaping the business world, freeing people from repetitive uninteresting work for new value-creation tasks, and helping companies to become more competitive and resilient. As a result, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is now one of the top emerging jobs in the USA, with two-digit growth. RPA is centered on the definition, revision, automation, and optimization of business processes. The core competency within RPA is precisely the ability to analyze processes in the context of a business, focusing on value creation. This is the sort of competence a management school should ideally deliver.

Strategic Management Consulting

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of strategic management consulting. Students will learn the basics of the consulting industry, while also addressing what are the ingredients for success in both a career in consulting and in working with consultants. The course will equip students with knowledge and a reference binder on management consulting.

Supply Chain Management

ECTS: 3.5

Prerequisites: None

The Supply Chain Management (SCM) elective will introduce you to effective strategies for managing complex distribution networks and logistics operations. You will develop technical and practical skills to manage a coordinated system of suppliers, customers and other business partners. You will learn how to identify supply chain risks, design mitigation strategies and learn about daily operational decision rules
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