4000
The objective of this course is to familiarize participants and allow them to critically reflect on the nature, origin, historic evolution, current situation and perspectives of management in the west, based on the mindful reading of particular classic and contemporaneous authors who have led the way in the theoretic development of administration. Similarly, students are expected to develop an informed opinion on a manager´s work, the state of management in Latin America and about management training and its main challenges, in order to provide them with criteria to understand and play a role in their own educational process in the master’s program.
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2
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Instructor
Wan Hoof Bart
This course will study the fundamentals of probability and the basic statistical techniques that are used in the analysis of data and in the making of decisions within an organization. Furthermore, this course is intended to get students acquainted with the main statistic components, which will be useful in the different courses during their graduate program.
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3
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Instructor
Ospina Silva Jose
The participants will reflect upon the meaning of leadership and its role in the organizations. Leadership is a key theme in the study of organizational behavior. The effectiveness of groups and organizations have been recently analyzed from the leadership concept. This workshop will provide the students with the opportunity to develop basic skills in the dynamic of organizationaltransformation.
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1
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The purpose of the negotiation and effective team workshop is to introduce the fundaments for the development of the skills needed by a negotiation team to deal with common situations of bilateral negotiations. The teaching will be centered on the preparation and management of the negotiation through an efficient process. The objective of the workshop is the planning and implementation of negotiation strategies and conflict resolution through the theory and practice offered by the case methodology. Furthermore, it will emphasize on the creation of opportunities with mutual benefit, allowing for the strengthening of the analytical and diagnostic capability to approach any type of problem in a methodic manner as relates to strategic and tactical issues. It is intended, through practical exercises, for students to have a conceptual framework that will guide them to achieve a good performance of their teams as leaders or as followers. It is about strengthening essential capabilities to maximize performance.
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1
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Instructor
Azuero Isaza Marco
Creativity is the force that enables us to aim our ways of thinking toward innovation. This capacity to generate ideas is innate in human beings and can be developed based on interdisciplinary individual and group work. In this workshop, students identify, learn and implement the essential methodologies of creative work.
Credits
0.5
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This course recognizes the need to learn about the dynamics that have distinguished the Colombian business world, in the Latin American context, viewed from a historic and critical perspective, turning to studies on the matter as well as theoretic developments to gain more knowledge about this phenomenon. The course is focused on private business, a player in the more extensive context of the business world, which also includes: Managers (public and private), companies (public and private), families of businessmen, business associations (guilds) and economic groups.
Credits
2
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Instructor
Duran Amorocho Xavier
This course takes a quick but intense tour of the extensive world of Law, during which it analyzes and specifies legal concepts that are essential for business activity. It is designed for students with scarce or no training and experience in legal matters and its purpose is to provide them will tools for them to (1) become familiar with the main legal texts in the area of business law, (2) understand fundamental aspects as regards equity rights, partnerships, administrator responsibility, the right to competition and contracting, (3) interact better and more effectively with legal advisors, and (4) develop criteria to analyze and understand different management difficulties from the legal standpoint.
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2
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Instructor
Londoño Rivera Ignacio
The objective of this course is to provide students with a broad conceptual framework of the activity of the innovative, entrepreneurial individual and engage them in practical experience, where students develop an idea and a business model with potential for success.
Credits
2
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Instructor
Bernal Crespo Luis
Credits
2
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The course intends to introduce students to environmental issues that management is facing now and will face in the future. The student must understand in a holistic manner the environmental issues, as well as the barriers and constraints that have blocked their solution.
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1
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2
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2
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Instructor
Caspe Bob
This is a comprehensive course of the main topics relating to the financial function and analysis of a company, including issues relating to the analysis of financing and investment decisions under conditions of uncertainty. After completing the course, students will have acquired the conceptual and practical tools to deal with a broad range of financial problems. The course design is based on the idea that understanding problems through a solid conceptual model is the first, perhaps most important step to finding optimum solutions. In line with this idea, course content is theoretic and practical through applicability of the concepts learned through examples, real life cases and exercises.
Credits
4
Distribution
-
This course aims to familiarize students with the organization and the operation of institutions and the instruments that constitute money and capital markets in Colombia and the main financial centers worldwide, with emphasis on the United States market.
Credits
2
Distribution
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Instructor
Serrano Rodriguez Javier
The course is for the student to: 1) analyze, through the reading of the financial statements, the operational, investment and financing situation of an organization, 2) construct, from financial data, tools to measure the cost of resources and investment profitability, to measure and track the performance of them organization, 3) project business ideas and operations in the financial statements, understanding the sensitivity that exists between those decisions and the short and medium term financial results of the organization.
Credits
3
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Instructor
Rodriguez Lopez Jaime Eric
The course is divided in two large modules. The first one focuses on the theoretical elements of microeconomic analysis, the second one presents the core elements of macroeconomics in the context of an economy open to trade and international capital. The concepts will be applied to the study of Colombian economy-
Credits
3
Distribution
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Instructor
Azuero Zu?Iga Francisco
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2
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This course aims to present the theoretic and practical concepts of the role played by marketing in organizations and society. Students are expected to acquire a basic understanding of how an organization relates with the market and how it uses marketing instruments to approach the consumer and deal with the actions of the competition.
Credits
4
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2
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Instructor
Gomez Moreno Miguel
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2
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This course seeks to generate in students a strategic marketing thinking , from their exposure to marketing situations relative to which they must undertake a holistic analysis supported by the theories, methodologies and tools acquired during their graduate education, and then make strategic decisions that will set specific actions to deal with the situation being analyzed.
Credits
2
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Instructor
Serna Gomez Jose
Credits
2
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Immersed in the term logistics, this course seeks to combine aspects of operations management, information management and management of the supply chain for organizations to improve their competitiveness. It makes students aware of how qualitative, quantitative and technological tools can support effective decision making. Among other approaches, it will be determined that the availability of information reduces uncertainty and the need to manage both inventories and forecasts. Although the course implied reviewing models and operational and tactical decisions, it will focus on qualitative aspects that are needed by general managers and consultants.
Credits
3
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2
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This course attempts to cover the main concepts for strategic formulation and competitiveness in enterprises and the students to develop strategic analysis thinking. Among other subjects we find: types of strategy, industry analysis, generic definition of strategy, value chain, analysis of skills and resources and their impact on strategy, corporate strategy, business, functional and international planning scenarios. In addition, we discuss the models of strategic implementation, management control and integral control box (Balance Score Card).
Credits
3
Distribution
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This is an integrative course that seeks to expose participants to the exercise of implementing a strategy and to design different mechanisms for itsimplementation and control. Understanding and quantifying the risks inherent in the process of implementing a strategy and the impact derived from corrective measures. Other topics include: structure, management teams, management indicators and scorecards for control and strategic assessment. The course is supported by a management simulation package that allows it to integrate effectively most of the areas in an organization, their interrelations and complexities at the time of implementing a strategy.
Credits
3
Distribution
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This course analyzes organizations at three levels: first, the organization itself taken as a system and its relationship with the environment, the second, in relation with groups and, finally, the individual. Accordingly, the Organizations course intends, first, to facilitate the approaching to key notions of the organizational theory and to promote its appropriation as a basis for understanding and acting at the organization, and on the other hand, studying the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations and the effect they have on them. The course is divided into two modules in order to develop the above mentioned objectives: Organizational Theory and Analysis and Organizational Behavior.
Credits
4
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2
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2
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2
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2
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The course is divided into five parts, which are all interconnected: (1) The environment: how and what is globalization, its implications and how countries are inserted in a globalized world. (2) Insertion of Latin America in the globalized world. (3) Insertion of Colombia in the globalized world. (4) International trade, trade agreements and all institutions and instruments of globalization. (5) Finally, it will analyze the various strategies that companies may pursue in this environment of globalization and the various strategies they have applied for their internationalization, through the study of successful cases worldwide, Latin America and Colombia.
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2
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The objective of this workshop is to help improve students´ oral communication skills by carrying out individual and group exercises. In the context of informative and argumentative discourses, the course will cover the following topics, among others: Verbal and non-verbal communication, self-perception and perception of others, and the use of visual aids.
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0.5
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The thesis is the final paper written by students under the guidance of a full time professor as the final requirement to complete their studies. The scope of the project can be theoretic research, the development of a business plan or consultancy.
Credits
3
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Instructor
Bernal Crespo Luis
This workshop provides students with information about the world of work, tools aimed at the discovery of interests, needs, competences and personal values and complete the strategies for implementing the professional plan. The workshop is designed for full time BMA students and offers advice on how to manage the labor market and how to prepare properly to achieve their professional goals.
Credits
0
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Instructor
Ramirez Marcela
This course code is enrolled for students in the Master´s Program of Administration selected for a 3 or 6 month exchange program. The purpose of this course is for students to have an enriching experience, generating international relations to complement their academic and professional training, while they take interesting elective courses at a favorable cost.
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0
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Instructor
Bernal Crespo Luis
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2
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2
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2
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2
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