2000

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.