• Introduction to Management
• Team-building and personal development
• Information systems
• Financial Accounting
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Marketing Principles
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate and Investment Banking
• Organizational Behaviour & Design
• Statistical Concepts for Business and Management
• Innovation Management

Introduction to Management

Course coordinator: prof. Simone Lazzini

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The course aims to grant students a fundamental knowledge on the key management sub-disciplines, providing them an overview on the development of these elements illustrating some managerial tools. Firms must seek success in the face of strong competition including the ever more sophisticated strategies of their competitors.
This course analyses role, functions and techniques of management and explores how they are used by modern enterprises to manage effectively in complex business environments. All topics are illustrated with case studies about real companies in various and different industries.
Students are expected to participate actively in the discussions and make final presentation.

OBJECTIVES:

• Skills:
  - Analyzing business opportunities and formulating managerial decisions
  - Essential techniques to planning, leading, and controlling business context

• Knowledge:
  - Principles, methodologies and technique to develop a managerial perspective in decision making activity
  - Strategic, organizational, and managerial approaches appropriate in different contexts

• Attitudes:
  - To understand the strategic, organization and financial implication to decision making process

1. The role of management in  the evolution of theory of the firm
2. The corporate decision making process in the competitive context
3. The management functions: planning, organizing; leading and controlling
4. The performance analysis  of the firms

• Case studies
• Role playing game