ADMI - Business Administration
This course offers the conceptual foundations of Management, management and organisations from a historical and critical point of view, providing students with the different theoretical, classical and contemporary approaches, with emphasis in Latin America. Likewise, it gives a critical reflection on the status of research and managerial education in Colombia.
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3
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This course offers the conceptual foundations of Management, management and organisations from a historical and critical point of view, providing students with the different theoretical, classical and contemporary approaches, with emphasis in Latin America. Likewise, it gives a critical reflection on the status of research and managerial education in Colombia.
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3
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This course is orientated towards making a connection between accounting and the meaning of financial information in the analysis of a company's financial statements, training the student in the foundations, techniques and logic of accounting to develop an understanding of accounting figures, financial statements and their interpretation for use in financial analysis and decision making.
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3
Instructor
Castro Ortiz Jaime
This course is orientated towards making a connection between accounting and the meaning of financial information in the analysis of a company's financial statements, training the student in the foundations, techniques and logic of accounting to develop an understanding of accounting figures, financial statements and their interpretation for use in financial analysis and decision making.
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3
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Castro Ortiz Jaime
The course exposes the student to the financial planning process, which may be summarised by setting goals, the formulation of a model (financial statements), and projection of the model, sensitisation and analysis of results. For this, the student must use both accounting bases and financial instruments. Prerequisites: Financial Accounting
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3
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The workshop seeks to develop in the student the necessary skills for the informatics tools for management in order to strengthen self-learning abilities for continuous updating of this field. Internet tools, spreadsheets, presentation generators and databases.
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1
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Munoz Cifuentes Jesus
This course is orientated towards the fundamental elements of building the individual human being, projecting this being onto the social and transcendent being, incorporating it into the practice of day to day living. Its focus is on exploring the alternatives of thought which serve as a foundation for the development of the person and to visualise different modes of behaviour from that standpoint.
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2
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Organisational behaviour is a field of study which investigates the impact of persons, groups and structure in the performance of organisations, seeking then to apply this knowledge for more effective organisations. It is intended to identify the causes leading to greater job satisfaction, reduction of rotation and absenteeism, as well as improved productivity.
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3
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The course Innovation Workshop presents the essential tools to manage innovation in companies giving the opportunity of using them under real market conditions. The course makes emphasis in the development of observing capacity and from the observation made being able to create solutions skilfully throughout management in business.
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3
This course is aimed at providing students with an understanding of Colombian business people, in terms of their origins and evolution and to raise their awareness of the theoretical foundations of business history in relation to the economic behaviour of business people (innovation, risk, diversification, market coordination, response to opportunities, creation of markets), their social characteristics, motivations and the role of the visible hand of the market in economic development.
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3
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The course offers participants an organisational Management model in which the role of profit-making companies as facilitators of the integral development of societies is emphasised. The ideas presented are mainly based on the contributions of Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm, F. Schumacher, Manfred Max Neef and other humanist thinkers, whose primordial interest has been to succeed in the development of human beings being the conscious goal of all society's activities. It also uses some of the contributions of Transpersonal Psychology in relation to the evolution of human awareness.
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3
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This course looks at the process of human resource management, giving an overview of all the main functions. It will combine theoretical developments in the field, with practical processes and techniques.
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3
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The course is to provide students with an understanding of investment analysis tools from the financial point of view, including means to finance such investment and the risks inherent in it. The course essentially consists of three large blocks: financial mathematics, building a flow of funds and evaluation of investment alternatives in situations of uncertainty. Prerequisites: Finances 1: Planning.
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3
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This course completes the training received in the three previous courses in the area of finance and closes the basic cycle on this subject. After this course, the student is expected to be able to structure the financing strategy of an investment project, using the different sources of financing from the capitals and money markets. The course is essentially comprised of two main blocks: depth study of the basic aspects of corporate finance and the most important distinctive aspects of a capitals market. Prerequisites: Finances 2: Investment, Probability and Statistics I
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3
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The purpose of this course is for students to be capable of understanding the decision processes regarding purchases in consumers (individual and institutional) where they affect the external and internal variables of individuals. The course is aimed at stimulating the development of the skills to interpret and analyze marketing situations that companies go through day after day in relation to decision making processes. Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Marketing
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3
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This course is for the student to start understanding the Colombian context for private and public organisations. The course brings each student closer to a comprehension of current and actual situations in the Colombian environment and the role of the public and private institutions in the country’s setting.
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3
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The purpose of the course is that students acquire the basic knowledge to enable them to develop a global, generalised vision of the elementary principals which form the modern concept of marketing. The course is not only concentrated on transmitting the fundamental principals of marketing, but is also to apply them in the real world.
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3
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Today, a Market Information System, which provides organisations with a guide to strategic and operative direction, is of vital importance. This is why the course is aimed at familiarising students with the different data analysis methodologies by providing the basic tools to enable them to interpret the results obtained from an investigation of decision making from the managerial perspectivToday, a Market Information System, which provides organisations with a guide to strategic and operative direction, is of vital importance. This is why the course is aimed at familiarising students with the different data analysis methodologies by providing the basic tools to enable them to interpret the results obtained from an investigation of decision making from the managerial perspective. Prerequisites: Consumer Behavior, Probability and Statistics II.
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3
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This course is orientated towards the development of abilities to use quantitative models in Management, basically those which influence operations, logistics and decision-taking. In addition to the aim of the course being to teach algorithms, it emphasises the development of decision-taking abilities based on the results produced by the models and discussion of the pertinent nature of the models looked considered when applied to real conditions. Some of the subjects covered are: description of operational research, linear programming, transport and transhipment, logistics and inventories. The SOLVER computational module is used for these subjects. The pertinence of the models and the concepts discussed when applied to real conditions, with reference to Colombian cases and in the international context, are examined. Prerequisites: Probability and Statistics I
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3
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Instructor
Orozco Luz
The course covers the subject of the production of goods and services from the perspective of processes and operations. Subjects such as quality, measurement, human resources, design and development of products (goods or services), prognoses, capacity planning, location of facilities (plant, offices, warehouses, etc.), global operations, role of information technology, design of facilities and work places, process guidance, handling materials, inventories and information, planning and programming, project control, synchronised production and decision taking models on the subject. Prerequisites: Models and Optimization.
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3
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The purpose of this course is for the student to gain a systemic and strategic view of the relationship between Colombian companies and their surroundings, both economic and social, through the acquisition of con¬ceptual frameworks and concrete abilities in the management of models and instruments for analysis. It likewise comprises the different actors, the parts they play and the relationships of a strategic nature which link them together. What is sought thereby is to enable the student to identify the potential obstacles, risk sources and opportunities which the Colombian business setting offers to the development of business. Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Macroeconomics
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3
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This course is an approach to the field of knowledge known as Organisational Theory. It aims to go deeply into the principal relationships and processes which occur in organisations and to develop abilities for the observation and description of such relationships and processes. At least five subjects must be studied: organisation and organisational theory, structure and design of an organisation, organisation as an open system, the power and control which arise in organisations and organisational culture. It also familiarises the student with empirical studies of Colombian and Latin American organisations.
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3
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This course is an approach to the field of knowledge known as Organisational Theory. It aims to go deeply into the principal relationships and processes which occur in organisations and to develop abilities for the observation and description of such relationships and processes. At least five subjects must be studied: organisation and organisational theory, structure and design of an organisation, organisation as an open system, the power and control which arise in organisations and organisational culture. It also familiarises the student with empirical studies of Colombian and Latin American organisations.
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3
Instructor
Ruiz Gutierrez Jaime
This course is to sensitize students to aspects of the management of public issues, with special emphasis on social problems. It discusses the fundamental concepts of: Constitution, State, citizen participation and decentralisation, with emphasis on health and education. Likewise, it provides important and useful management tools for the practice of public management.
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3
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The course provides a summary of the knowledge acquired during the Programme, gathering it together in a practical, real, applied project, in line with the interests of the students. The objective is for the student to identify and analyse different alternatives to solve concrete problems in a company or organisation. Within the structure of the curricular program, this course provides the opportunity to develop abilities and the integration of previous knowledge of different areas, such as technology, organisations, Management, finance and marketing. Prerequisites: Organizations, Finances 2: Investment, Consumer Behavior, Models and Optimization.
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3
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This course provides an opportunity for the student to explore a life option different from that of an employee by setting up his/her own business. Students who have no negotiating vocation can also find in this course an opportunity to discover their entrepreneurial potential, which is also a basic requirement for any professional wishing to be employed by a competitive, modern company. During this course, a business plan is drawn up and the technical aspects of the plan relating to marketing finance and production is complemented by discussions on both the human and the entrepreneurial spirit, life plan and career plan.
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3
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The aim of this course is for the participants to reflect on their long term personal and professional goals and consequently to identify the pros and cons of a business career. This promotes the generation of ideas for the creation of new companies which are viable for the participants to achieve on different time horizons, according to their own personal and professional development goals. Students develop the ability to inject the (Intra-enterprise) Entrepreneurial Spirit into already established companies to make them more willing to accept the continuous introduction of innovations in response to changing situations.
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3
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This is one of the integrative courses, which is intended to serve as a framework of experimentation for decision taking in a simulated real situation. It allows students to live through the decision making experience, analyse results and suggest courses of action in the different areas of management knowledge. The course includes essentially two groups of activities: the first is the incorporation of companies (creation, finding finance, global and functional strategy) and the second involves the decision making process necessary to put the company into operation in a competitive scenario. Prerequisites: Strategy
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3
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This course of elective character pretends to introduce and make the students sensible with the topics of: culture, cultural organisations and industries and their processes of management. The student must develop the analysis and comprehension skills for understanding the processes and the impact involved with these types of organisations. The course includes theory, case analysis, practical activities, conferences with experts, and cultural organisations visits.
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3
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The course Environment Management offers a program specially designed for students of different carriers who search to strengthen their leadership in public or private organisations of the third sector, which face threats of environment management.
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3
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The students are able to choose between being Research Assistances or to develop a Degree Thesis Project. It is intended that the student carry out research into a subject interest to him/her, thereby strengthening abilities in investigation and the integration of previous knowledge.
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3
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The course is intended to make a more in depth analysis of the institutions and instruments which it involves, money, financial and capitals markets in Colombia and the United States, Europe and Japan.
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3
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3
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With the globalisation process of financial flows and the internationalisation of the Colombian economy, both private and State companies in the industrial, agricultural and commercial sectors, as well as indivi¬dual investors, are or will be exposed to one or several of the following types of risk: exchange (peso / dollar
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3
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4
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This course is intended to go deeper into the different concepts of distribution as a market tactic, carry out studies of the factors which determine distribution, planning possible distribution programs and studying the Colombian distribution reality.
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3
This course is to familiarise the student with marketing management in an international context, which implies an evaluation of companies' internationalisation process, the analysis and selection of markets of interest (market intelligence), the evaluation of different means of penetrating international markets, drawing up a marketing plan for this entry and the development of a product or service in the market chosen. The focus of the course is application through market intelligence workshops, the development of interactive cases, interaction with lecturers on themes specific to international marketing management and the preparation of an exportation plan for a company in the Expopyme program.
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3
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3
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The aim of this course is to extend the basic traditional theory of project evaluation transforming it into a useful tool applied to capital budget and project management in uncertain scenarios.
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3
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In this course, the student addresses the subject of information technology from the point of view of all aspects of an organisation: strategy, decision taking in technology, structure of an organisation, informatics dependence and the use of certain specific technologies such as databases or the Internet. The course is aimed at preparing administrators who are capable of leading the application of information technology in an organisation, applying it in the functional areas, with an in depth understanding of its dimension in the organisation as a whole.
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3
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The course focuses on the most important aspects of a business strategy in both an entrepreneurial and a corporate setting. Different models and frameworks of reference are presented, to enable the student to relate the organisation strategically to its environment. A company and a corporation are taken as an analysis unit, seeking to identify the bases of competitive advantage.
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3
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This Negotiation Strategies course provides the essential skills to conduct an effective negotiation. This mechanism enables to achieve goals that involve others, as well as to solve difficult scenarios and manage conflicts where "capture valor" for the circumstances that are to be transformed. The course enables the development of the main tools and useful behaviors to plan the negotiation itself, its assessment and process follow-up, through an experience and participative methodology of case simulation and revised theory from the analysis of the same.
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The goal of this course is to understand the functioning of a business plan in the context of the sportsman, clubs, teams, tournaments, championship and federations. This course will discuss why to advertise through sports, interpret the sport as a product, the marketing mix in sports and specific topics such as sponsorship, merchandising, media and new media and grassroots marketing analysing international and national cases.
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3
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The course is to familiarise students with the international setting in which business is done, its variables, opportunities and threats of accelerated global development of society in the new millennium.
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3
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The objective of this course is to create a space for reflection on the principals and fundamentals of marketing and its application to both the private and public problems that characterize the food supply chain, in order to help students in the definition of marketing strategies for products in this sector. The course will focus on recent trends in production, processing and distribution of food on a global scale. It will also consider elements that affect the international trade of perishable products and the political framework that influences the food industry.
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3
Instructor
Gomez Torres Teresa
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4
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Gomez Torres Teresa
The purpose of this course is to integrate companies with students and the University. The intern continues to be an active student of the University while he/she carries out his/her work at the company. This activity is complemented with monthly evaluation sessions, in which students share their experiences with other interns, from the same school as well as others participating in the activity. Professors, students, parents and entrepreneurs also attend and participate in these meetings. During the internship, both the company and the students will send the University periodic reports regarding the work carried out as well as the students’ performance in the company.
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