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Today’s companies have to compete in a globalised world and need to manage large value chains distributed across the world. They need capabilities to implement their strategy quickly and without risk. Business Process Management (BPM) provides a set of tools and techniques to deal with this challenge. BPM consists of planning, designing, optimising, implementing, and monitoring business processes in general and international value chains in particular. Organisations that implement the steps of BPM with high velocity and without risk are Real Time Enterprises. This lecture introduces these concepts and focuses on the following steps of BPM: designing, and optimising.

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Operations Management is the design and management of processes that transform inputs into final goods and services. Operations are one of the main functions of a company, and recent innovations in data analytics and digitalization have been transforming how they are managed. While marketing focuses on product demand and finance provides the capital, the operations function focuses on producing and delivering the product.

This course provides a foundation for understanding a company’s operations. Our goal by the end of the course is to provide the basic skills needed to critically analyze operational efficiency and its practical implementation in companies and organizations. Unlike other courses that tend to treat the company as a “black box,” we will be primarily concerned with “opening” the black box to discover what makes a company “work”—or, conversely, “stop working.”

Because a company’s operations vary widely from one industry to another, a course like this cannot cover all topics relevant to specific industries. Thus, we have selected a set of topics fundamental to understanding operations across a wide range of industries. These concepts are illustrated using cases from a diverse set of businesses.

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The main purpose of this course is to provide a general analytical framework to be applied on a cross-country basis for doing business globally. This means that essential concepts and tools for the analysis of cultural, competitive, economic, social, and political environments, and the creation and management of international business strategies, based on the objectives, opportunities and restrictions of the firm will be discussed.

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Through foreign direct investments (FDI), multinational enterprises (MNEs) are massively present in emerging markets and developing countries, partly to access rapidly growing markets and partly to access the vast human and natural resource potentials. It is pertinent that MNE managers understand how to plan, organize and manage activities in such countries, where institutional, market environment and cultural factors often are fundamentally different from those of more developed countries. The aim of this course is, based on practical examples and real life cases, to enable students to analyze, present and make recommendations for various strategic and managerial issues arising in connection with setting up and managing subsidiaries in emerging markets and developing countries. More specifically, the course will provide an overview of the specific issues that arise when a company establishes and manages a subsidiary in a developing country/emerging market.

The introduction to these issues will be based on research from concrete MNE investments in emerging markets and developing countries.This course will be divided in two parts: firstly students will study and discuss several frameworks, theories and articles related to FDI and, secondly, students will be challenged to work in cross-cultural groups, thinking analytically and applying concepts of international business to realistic case scenarios.

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Managerial Economics is a core class in the third year of the Business Engineering program. This course focuses on using economic principles and management science to tackle real-world business decisions. The course applies the concepts and tools learned in previous courses covering statistics, microeconomics, spreadsheet modeling and quantitative methods, to put them into practice through real-world examples with a global perspective. By the end of this course, students will gain analytical skills to critically evaluate pricing strategies, market dynamics and design mechanisms to align incentives within an organization and across supply chains.

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This course emphasizes international entrepreneurship education for the XXI century and its intersection with topics such as artificial intelligence, ethics, intercultural competences, SDGs and international business applications to real life scenarios, studying and creating case studies for SMEs and startups across diverse industries and countries.

One important characteristic of this course is that it is a COIL course. COIL stands for Collaborative Online International Learning, which refers to “online learning in an

international setting, with interactive involvement of students and faculty from different international and intercultural backgrounds in and outside the classroom”. COIL projects, like the ones students will develop in this course, are based on the involvement of teachers and students, with different geographical origins, language and culture, for the development of collaborative teaching and learning processes using online communication tools. These projects are an accessible alternative to democratise the experiences of internationalisation (at their home university) for students and teachers, as well as an opportunity to enrich the process of building individual and collective knowledge, offering challenging dynamics of working in heterogeneous teams. Consequently, the COIL project developed in the second half of this course will enable multidisciplinary student teams from four continents- South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia—to collaborate on solving real-world industry challenges while addressing challenges related to entrepreneurship, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), applications of AI, etc. By bridging industry insights from diverse regions, this project will foster cross-cultural business and entrepreneurial ideas, emphasizing the application of international business principles and entrepreneurship education.

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The general purpose of this course is to provide an understanding about key issues to consider when doing this type of strategic alliances in Latin America, with focus in South America. Consequently, the purpose of the course is to identify and recognize, different types of SA´s, M&A´s, main features, most common ways to invest in the region, key variables to consider before deciding on a foreign investment in some countries and risks related to investments and business in our countries.

Classes privilege active participation, permanent reading of key news related to our course. Students are expected to have a reasonable knowledge of finance, economics and political science.

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International marketing is a course that emphasizes how enterprises carry out marketing activities in foreign countries. Through the study of this course, students will have the capability to analyze the international marketing environment, understand the fundamental strategies and tactics to compete in the international market, develop an international perspective, and improve the ability to solve and deal with international marketing problems.

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The course will discuss the state of the art in Development Economics. The key question is why some countries are able to reach developed status and others remain mired in middle- or low-income conditions. Topics to be discussed: growth theory and empirical evidence; institutions as a constraint to growth; saving, investment, and capital market development; financial openness and foreign direct investment; industrial policies; and human capital accumulation.