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Nejat Çapar (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University)

This course will provide an understanding of international business as an essential part of globalization. The international business environment will be evaluated in economic, cultural, political, and legal aspects to explore how international businesses are initiated and conducted. Economic integration among nations will be discussed with emphasis on Europe. Methods of entry into foreign markets via licensing, franchising, joint ventures, coventures, and foreign direct investment will be reviewed providing actual real life examples. 2 Bilkent Credits/4 ECTS.

Steven Seggie, Assistant Professor Faculty of Business Administration ,Bilkent University

This course focuses on the foundations and structure of retailing; role of the retailing executive; decision making in such problems as site selection, layout, organization, personnel policies, planning stock, buying, pricing, promotion, credit, customer services, merchandise control, budgeting, and research. 2 Bilkent Credits/4 ECTS.

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Destan Kandemir (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University)

This course focuses on the application of statistical techniques to business decision-making. The objectives of this course involve developing (1) an understanding of the value and importance of applying statistical procedures to business decisions, (2) the ability to recognize the appropriate statistical procedure for various decision making situations, and (3) skill in using statistical methods in practical business situations. Major topics will cover applications of difference of means tests, analysis of variance, correlation and regression, selected non-parametric tests, time series, and forecasting. 3 Bilkent Credits/6 ECTS.

Nuran Acur (Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent)

A capstone course utilizing comprehensive cases as the means of integrating all aspects of strategic management. Synthesizes the previous training in functional areas to address the evaluation, formulation and implementation of corporate and business level strategies in relation to the firm's environment. 4 Bilkent Credits/10 ECTS.

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Paulo Maio (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University)

The goal of this seminar course is to provide exposure to the recent literature on empirical asset pricing. There will be a brief presentation on the empirical methods employed in empirical asset pricing. Among the topics covered are the conditional CAPM and conditional Consumption-CAPM; Consumption-CAPM with habits and time-varying risk aversion; the Intertemporal CAPM; Consumption-CAPM with durable goods and housing; Consumption-CAPM with heterogeneous investors; long-run risks; portfolio choice and; present-value relations.

Yasemin Aksoy (Practitioner Professor, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University)

Supply Chain Management is about optimizing the flows of materials, information, and capital across supply chains formed by suppliers, producers (including service providers), distributors, retailers, and consumers. The course starts with an introduction to supply chain management and reviews the key competitive priorities of quality, cost, speed, and the right product mix along with the supporting philosophies of just-in-time/lean, total quality management/six sigma, and theory of constraints. Key performance measures are identified, supply chains of different companies are discussed and some of the key areas to improve to support the competitive priorities and the performance measures are addressed. These areas include supply chain alignment, cost-cutting partnerships, strategic sourcing decisions, achieving innovation and resilience across the supply chain, reduction of cycle-times, speedy delivery to the markets, and balancing the global risks and returns across supply chains. 2 Bilkent Credits/4 ECTS.

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Yeliz Eseryel (Adjunct Professor & Doctoral Candidate, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies)

This is a managerial overview course for Enterprise Resource Planning Systems implementations. With this course, the students are expected to become familiar with the whole Enterprise Systems implementation life cycle from deciding to implement to post-implementation support. Some of the strategic issues that will be covered are implementation planning, organizational change management, knowledge management, business process reengineering, best practices, implementation methodologies and project management for ERP systems. This course is the first step to prepare the students to take part in ERP implementation projects as a business user, business manager, implementation team member or to consider other ERP related careers. The course will also give the ability to hear experiences of ERP professionals in the United States (through video presentations). 2 Bilkent Credits/4 ECTS.

Özlem Sandıkçı (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University)

This course focuses on the impact of globalization on the emerging markets and examines the marketing strategies of domestic and foreign firms operating in emerging economies. The course consists of three subsections: the consumptionscape and business environment of the emerging markets; the multinationals operating in the emerging markets; emerging giants - opportunities, risks, and strategic alternatives facing emerging market companies. All three sections are supported by cases. 2 Bilkent Credits/4 ECTS.

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Jacques Couvas (Corporate Strategy Consultant , Senior Lecturer , Faculty of Business Administration , Bilkent University)

This course aims at providing the students with knowledge and skills to understand the dynamics of cross-cultural negotiations in the global business environment and apply in practice proven techniques in a variety of circumstances. After an initial skill assessment of the participants, theory and cases inspired from real-life situations alternate in order to immerse the participants and equip them with first-hand experience. Role playing, feed-back, self-evaluation, and multi-media aids are some of the pedagogical tools used. One-on-one, multiparty, cross-border, government, mediation, alternate conflict resolution approaches are addressed, to degrees tailored to the profile and needs of the students. The topic of negotiations in the work-place for personal achievement is also covered. Assignments are used for ongoing evaluation, and the final examination is in the form of a short essay. 2 Bilkent Credits/4 ECTS.