This course provides an intermediate level study of international trade theory and policy. The issues that will be addressed are, among others, the fundamental gains from trade, the implications of imperfect competition for trade patterns and welfare, how firms of different sizes and productivities engage in trade Qualification targets: (1) To develop a solid grounding in the analytical work of modern trade theory; (2) to master some tools for use in practical trade analysis; and (3) to provide a better understanding of the circumstances within which international trade policy is provided Imparted soft skills: Analytical thinking, Independent studying and learning, Literature research and documentation, Presentation of scientific results, Presentation techniques/language competencies Faculty of Management and Economics RUB main campus None Week1: Introduction Week2: followed by Week3 to the Final Week Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sanne Kruse-Becher – 5 ECTS MA a) Lecture b) Tutorial 100 % Written exam (90 min) Jan Wüstenfeld: wiwi-international@ruhr-uni-bochum.de https://www.wiwi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/studium/service.html.de

This course provides a general introduction about Human Resource Management (HRM). It breaks into four main fields: (1) Recruitment (Talent selection), (2) Learning and Development (Talent incubation), (3) Performance management and compensation& benefit (Talent Motivation), (4) Human resource reservation (Talent Retention). Instructional methods will include lectures, case study, group discussion and inviting experience guest speaker to share their perspectives on the specific related topics. This course highly target at achieving below objectives:

1. Let our students establish the clear understanding about HRM

2. To provoke student’s interest about HRM

3. Bring cases scenario to simulate how HRM works in the real business world in the interactive learning environment

College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Litsung Chen 50 Tuesday 2,3,4 GMBA5020 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This class will emphasize the major driving forces behind eCommerce : business development and strategy, technological innovations, and social controversies and impacts. We will analyse eCommerce , digital market, and e-business firms just as we would ordinary business and markets using concepts from economies, marketing, finance, sociology, philosophy, and information systems.

Important new developments happen almost every day in eCommerce and the Internet. We try to capture as many of these important new developments as possible in each session. We will cover many real-company examples and extensive business cases that place coverages in the context of actual eCommerce businesses.

We will devote some time to an examination of B2B eCommerce. We will also cover different types of marketplace ( e-distributors, e-procurements, exchanges and industry consortia ) to help students to understand this complex arena of e-commence . We will address important changes for eCommerce include dramatic price reduction in eCommerce infrastructure, the explosive growth in the mobile platform and expansion in the development of social technologies.

We will pay special attention throughout the class to the social and legal context of eCommerce. take advantage of the evolving world of opportunity offered by eCommerce, which is dramatically altering the way business is conducted and driving major shifts in the global economy.

We hope eCommerce concept students lean in this class will help make you valuable to future potential employers. The information students learn in this class will be valuable throughout students’ career . We expect that students will be able to participate in , and even lead , management discussions of eCommerce for your company. College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Jia-King Chang 50 Friday 7,8,9 GMBA5021 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Class Participation 20%
Two Assignments 20%
Group Project Presentation 15%
Group Project Report 15%
Final exam 30%
1. Understand the role and importance of SOM in an organization.
2. Learn the fundamental concepts, tools and methodologies in SOM.
3. Acquire knowledge about context of application, managerial skills and better attitudes in learning.
College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to students in GMBA program.
Chialin Chen 66 Monday A,B,C GMBA7094 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Reading these news headlines flashing on the screen in a single day or two, you may wonder what is going on in the world now.

* Melania Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, in her Republican Convention speech plagiarized Michelle Obama’s convention speech in 2008. (July 20, 2016)

* HSBC foreign-exchange Executive arrested at JFK airport over £2.7billion exchange rate scam. (July 20, 2016)

* Russian track and field athletes will remain banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics following claims the country ran a state-sponsored doping program. (July 21, 2016)

* Malaysian PM under pressure over $1bn US fraud case of 1MDB. (July 21, 2016)

* Volkswagen accused of ‘destroying incriminating documents’ and ‘researching’ law before breaking it in emission testing scandal. (July 20, 2016)

* Fox News chairman Roger Ailes resigned amid sexual harassment allegations (July 21, 2016)

Plagiarism, currency trading scam, doping in sports, money fraud, emission testing scandal, or sexual harassment are all related with “ethics” and ethical violations.

Ethics is about what “principles” that you follow for your actions.

Ethics is about what “values” that lie at the core of your choice.

Ethics is about how you face “temptations” in your pursuit of success and purpose.

Ethics is about how you make a “right” decision and do the “right” thing.

Ethics is about how your “character” is cultivated to withstand the pressure when everybody else is doing it.

Ethics is about where to draw a “line” in the gray area of uncertainty.

Ethics is about how to “empower” yourself to make a difference in the world.

Ethics is what “sustains” you in good times and bad times.

Ethics keeps your name from appearing on the headlines like those above.

Ethics is the foundation of everything one can achieve and accomplish in life. Apart from it, success is on shaky ground. Hence the purpose for this course is “to inspire and to empower” students to make the right choice and to transform their life and career.

This course focuses on “Ten most important lessons in business ethics for your career,” with every lesson begins with a “guiding question” to be answered in the class and ends with a “practice question” to be discussed in groups for applying ethical lesson in practical issues.

Corporate visit will be arranged to familiarize students with business practices in real world.

This course is a journey and it is one journey you won’t regret!

Note: All students are welcome to this course. However, students with some working experiences are preferred as business cases will be discussed.

*For Students who are not in the Global MBA program but like to take this course, if you get rejected online in registration process, please come to the first class to get approval and authorization code from Dr. Hsieh or correspond with him by email (dr.edhsieh@gmail.com).

** There are still openings so far, make sure to come to the first class on Sep 22 to secure your registration for this course.

1. students will clearly learn the concept and methodology for ethical decision,through instruction, presentation and illustration of different business cases;

2. students will gain clear understanding to incorporate ethical practices in personal life and career, through individual study and corporate visit report;

3. students will learn to participate in group discussions and to make contributions in a team, through organized group case study and presentation;

4. students will learn first-hand the difficulty of tug-of-war of business decisions in the real world, benefiting from the speaker’s broad executive experience;

5. students will learn to define the very fine line in life and say “No” to temptations and that is more significant than just “A+” grade as an objective.

College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Kuan-Hsiung Hsieh 50 Thursday A,B,C GMBA7095 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Statistics and data analysis are probably playing the most important roles in business analytics nowadays. With the ability to conduct scientific statistical studies and systematically analyze data, managers will be able to understand more about their customers, suppliers, competitors, and the business environment. The insights may then facilitate better decision making and help a company to attain competitive advantages. In this fundamental course in the Global MBA (GMBA) program, we will focus on the techniques for conducting basic statistical studies and data analysis. The hope is that students will be capable of doing scientific data analyses in their future GMBA courses and after graduations. Time will be spent on tools, applications, as well as theories. Statistical software will be taught and used throughout this course. For at least part of this course, I plan to adopt the “flipped classroom” principle, which may be new to some students. Please pay attention to the syllabus to get an idea about the design of this course.

This is a required course offered in the GMBA program in National Taiwan University. The GMBA office does not allow non-GMBA students to take or audit this course.

Week Date Topic Suggested Reading
1 9/13 Overview and in-class brainstorming LD, MK, B Ch. 1
2 9/20 (No class: the instructor is in UIUC)
3 9/27 MS Excel operations
4 10/4 (No class: Mid-Autumn Festival)
5 10/11 Exploratory data analysis (1) B Ch. 2
6 10/18 Exploratory data analysis (2) B Ch. 3
7 10/25 Probability B Chs. 4–6
8 11/1 Case study (1)
9 11/8 Distributions and sampling B Ch. 7
10 11/15 (No class: NTU’s birthday)
11 11/22 Hypothesis testing B Chs. 9–10
12 11/29 Regression analysis (1) B Ch. 12
13 12/6 Regression analysis (2) B Chs. 13–14
14 12/13 Case study (2)
15 12/20 Explanation vs. prediction
16 12/27 Data mining and machine learning
17 1/3 Review and preview
18 1/10 Final project presentations
College of Management *Restrict to students in GMBA program. Ling-Chieh Kung 66 Wednesday A,B,C GMBA7098 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

The purpose of this course is to provide students an opportunity to learn key concepts and frameworks in global business and apply them to current business cases as well as interact with professionals from the global area.

This course is designed to include three key agendas in global management, 1) Why globalization? 2) Global integration vs. Local adaptation and 3) Who is making a new rule?, with a focus on Asian markets. We will discuss several managerial issues (e.g. HR, corporate governance and new product development) related to globalization and Asian markets.

For each agenda, we will first learn basic concepts and frameworks and discuss real business cases focusing on Asian markets and/or Asian firms. After that, we will have guest speaker sessions and link our discussion in class to a specific context in which the guest speakers have experiences. Speakers with different professional/cultural experiences will share their insights and discuss future prospects with students.

Active participation and attendance is required. Preparation for class discussion (e.g. reading cases and articles) is also a crucial part for the success of the class.

The purpose of this course is to provide students an opportunity to learn key concepts and frameworks in global business and apply them to current business cases as well as interact with professionals from the global area. This course is designed to include three key agendas in global management, 1) Why globalization? 2) Global integration vs. Local adaptation and 3) Who is making a new rule? with a focus on Asian markets. We will discuss several managerial issues (e.g. HR, corporate governance and new product development) related to globalization and Asian markets.

For each agenda, we will first learn basic concepts and frameworks and discuss real business cases focusing on Asian markets and/or Asian firms. After that, we will have guest speaker sessions and link our discussion in class to a specific context in which the guest speakers have experiences. Speakers with different professional/cultural experiences will share their insights and discuss future prospects with students.

Active participation and attendance is required. Preparation for class discussion (e.g. reading cases and articles) is also a crucial part for the success of the class.

College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above. Jung Yun Han 50 Thursday 7,8,9 GMBA7102 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

“The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula necessarily cannot exist;because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to innovative. Indeed, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.” -By Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal

To create a new business, whether startup a new company or build it in an existed enterprise, is a dynamic progress with many uncertainties. It’s highly related to the entrepreneur for the chance to success. Even it’s hard to taught to teach entrepreneurship, this course will try to teach students attitude of being an entrepreneur through some concept, practices, as well as skills. Learning by doing will be the core spirit of the deliver method.

This course will try to show the key theories and methods, which is related to the progress of starting up a new business. Students need to develop a new business by practicing those concept taught in the class, step by step. This progress thorough whole class will bring students about the concept, attitude and skills of being a real entrepreneur.

The course consists of four parts:

1. Key theories for starting up a new business: business opportunity identification, product/service design, business model design.

2. Core competences for entrepreneur: teaming, fund raising, presentation skills, negotiation skills, and the mind-set to be a good entrepreneur.

3. Course delivery approach: For getting deeper understanding with those key theories, students need to go through four steps for each key theory: teach, exercise, review, and feedback.

4. Experience sharing: the experience in real world is crucial for an entrepreneur. This course will have two sessions, which will invite guest speakers to sharing their related experience or knowledge.

College of Management *Restrict to students of College of Management. Yen-Hau Chen 50 GMBA7106 2 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA