Introduce the core knowledge in environmental and occupational health. Understand the real-world application and practical issues through site visits. (The site visits may be arranged outside regular class time.) Be familiar with environmental factors affecting human health. Can summarize and interpret variables and indicators commonly used in the field of environmental and occupational health. College of Public Health Downtown Campus-College of Public Health Required course for students in the Global Health program of College of Public Health. Restriction: Doctoral and master students not in College of Public Health but with background in natural sciences may take this course. Please consult with the instructor first. This course is offered in English. Chang-Fu Wu 10 Tuesday 2,3,4 OMIH5126 (841EU5780) 3 (College of Public Health) Graduate Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene http://omih.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

This is an elective course for students interested in toxicogenomics. Application of genomic technologies, i.e. genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics will be introduced. Genomic technologies will be first discussed. The course will then focus on application of genomic approaches to study the adverse effects of environmental stressors on health of human and environment at gene, protein, and metabolite level. The class is offered in English. To learn the technologies in toxicogenomics and be able to apply techniques to conduct toxicological studies. College of Public Health Downtown Campus-College of Public Health There will be a mid-term and a final examination. An oral presentation is also required. The class is offered in English. Ching-Yu Lin 12 Monday 3,4 EH5018 (844EU1260) 2 (College of Public Health) Graduate Institute of Environmental Health
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above. http://ieh.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

Hazardous exposures are usually complex extended temporal processes leading to the development of biological responses, “damage/adverse responses/health effects”. A study intended to determine the quantitative relationship between exposure and risk of the effect requires a careful matching of the temporal variation in exposure with the kinetics of uptake, distribution and metabolism and matching those to the dynamics of response. However, bias and attenuation of the health risk estimate can be introduced when there is exposure error in air pollution measurement. Adequate exposure metrics may provide a means of reducing error (leading to less bias and uncertainty in health risk estimates) if they capture variability in exposure, which depends on the study design, health outcome, and pollutant of interest. To enable this, the course will start from a review of the basic components of exposure assessment for air pollution and subsequently introduce exposure metrics for four types of health outcomes: different combination of reversible/irreversible and discrete/proportional outcomes. Students will develop knowledge of exposure determinants and its temporal behavior (variability), in conjunction with skills for modeling temporal behavior of exposures and outcomes through simulations using excel spreadsheets. Guided critical analysis of publications will be performed, and information from simulations will be used to design an exposure assessment matched to the biology of the adverse effect(s). In the finals, the class will culminate with a design project where small groups of students design a new study of a specific exposure and hypothesized effect(s) reported in a previously critiqued scientific paper. The overall goal of this class is to develop the student’s ability to perform a biologically-based exposure assessment suited for testing an agent based hypothesis about a causal exposure-risk relationship in an epidemiological study. The specific learning objectives are: 1. The student’s knowledge base of exposure characteristics and assessment methods, and their application will be broadened through presentations, readings, critiques, and discussions of exposure assessment for environmental and occupational epidemiology. 2. The students will be introduced to a temporal modeling approach for simulating environmental and occupational exposures (exposure metrics), formulating a model of a linked exposure and health effects process as the basis for designing an epidemiologic study, and they will apply this approach to four different types of disease outcomes. 3. The students will be able to apply the knowledge and use their analytical skills to critique the exposure assessments and linkage with the health outcomes in selected publications. 4. Given a previously critiqued publication with a limited exposure assessment, the students will develop an improved study design using the temporal model approach that will provide a better test of the epidemiologic exposure-risk hypothesis, and present that approach to the class. College of Public Health Downtown Campus-College of Public Health The course sessions will include presentation on the topic of the day by the lecturer, and discussions of reading, review of homeworks, paper critiques, and other topics of interest. Wan-Chen Lee 12 Wednesday 6,7 EH5026 (844EU1360) 2 *Registration eligibility: juniors and above.
(College of Public Health) Graduate Institute of Environmental Health http://ieh.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

Managerial accounting focuses on how accounting and financial information is created and used inside an organization to assist an enterprise in implementing its business strategies to achieve its mission. Management accounting is a complement to financial statement analysis that tends to focus on annual reports, 10-K filings and similar other financial reports that are used primarily outside an enterprise by shareholders and the financial community when making decisions about investing in a company. The course intends to equip students with the ability to apply cost concepts in managerial decision making. At the end of the course, they are expected to have learned the methodology and techniques for application of cost and managerial accounting and information in the formation of policies and in the planning and control of the operations of the organization. College of Management Main Campus Chen, Kun-Chih 60 Wednesday 7,8,9 GMBA7004 (749EM0140) 3 (College of Management Global Mba

*Registration eligibility: students in GMBA program. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This core course on Organizational Behavior addresses some of the complexities facing individuals and groups in the organizational context. As such, it draws upon an extensive and interdisciplinary body of knowledge (OB) to provide perspectives and insights into structures, processes and dynamics that are inherent to life in organizations. By focusing both on the individual & group levels, as well as the organization system as whole, students are invited to reflect on how to stimulate desired behavior and avoid dynamics that are not productive/constructive. Students are also invited to consider structural and cultural aspects, and to what extent these can be influenced in view of achieving flourishing organizations, much in line with a Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) perspective. Topics covered include sensemaking and emotions, group dynamics and teamwork, leadership, conflict, culture, organizational politics, knowledge management, innovation and change, corporate responsibility and ethical commitment, as well as organizational design. The course is designed so as to encourage a deeper understanding of OB dynamics by stimulating students’ own reflections. As such it is a reflective course, with the course instructor serving as a guide as we jointly navigate through various landscapes of practice involving complexities at both strategic and ethical levels. The teaching format is interactive, and students are expected to actively participate in all elements of the course, including interactive lectures, classroom or small-group discussions, case work and workshops. Expected student commitment and classroom etiquette (please read this carefully): 1. Just like the instructor, students are expected to leave work and other social issues outside of the classroom during class time. The use of a laptop/pad in class requires special dispensation from the instructor, and is contingent on usage being learning-related. 2. Meals and snacks are reserved for break time; please do not bring food to the classroom to consume during the session. 3. Latecomers are expected to enter the classroom discreetly taking care not to disturb the ongoing session. 4. Active participation in class discussion is required. Students are expected to arrive prepared, having read the session materials beforehand. 5. Committed efforts are expected of all group members in group work. 6. Full attendance is required for successful completion of this course, see grading policy. College of Management Main Campus Classroom sessions: ‘the good conversation’ Active participation in the sessions is required and will be graded. This means that students are expected to come to class having read the assigned readings as well as the cases that apply to each session. The sessions will take the form of guided classroom conversations between students and instructor based on these materials, with the aim of sharing experiences and knowledge and generating a deeper understanding of the topic. Group Project/Poster Session: a reflective and creative contribution to the class During the course, students will form a total of 8 small groups and prepare a poster (5 students in each group) for the final seminar on June 15th. Groups must be registered with TA by March 16th. Each group will select an OB-related topic of their choice to investigate further. (An example of a topic might be to explore the importance of humility vs. confidence for leadership; or extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation for various roles/organizational contexts.) The choice of topic must be approved by Instructor by March 23rd. The project involves two parts: A. A literature review of the topic in question, that includes a minimum of 5 scientific articles on the topic (media articles and other data can be added additionally). The students’ task is to compile the important ideas in these articles, in terms of what they tell us about the topic. This should lead to a set of 1-3 questions that students will investigate empirically in stage B. Students shall prepare an interview guide in order to conduct interviews of 30 min 1 hour in order to investigate the selected questions. Students shall also explain their selection of interviewees. The conclusions from the literature review, the question(s) to investigate and the interview guide shall be submitted to Instructor by April 18th, 10AM, and will be discussed during the small group session on April 20th. All group members are expected to attend the session and to be knowledgeable about the topic. NB! Students must use the template provided for the literature review conclusions. B. An empirical study, where 5 individuals are interviewed about the topic based on the interview guide. Students will then analyze the material, using both the previous literature and relevant concepts from the course. The study will be presented as a poster to the class in the poster session on June 15th. The poster must include the rationale for the study (why is this topic important?), what the literature tells us about this topic, what we can learn from the interviews, how this relates to concepts discussed during the course, and finally what are the key learning points to be retained from your project. Clarity, depth of analysis and quality of reflection, as well as creativity will be rewarded. NB! All required elements of the course (incl. assignments, workshops and attendance) must be fulfilled in timely fashion for successful completion of the course. Miriam Garvi 66 Wednesday A,B,C GMBA7005 (749EM0150) 3 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: students in GMBA program. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This course is designed to provide a framework for understanding the theories and practices of financial management. The emphasis will be on applying fundamental financial problem solving techniques toward achieving solutions to basic, real world, practical situations. The focus of this class will be on discussing firm’s investment, financing, and dividend policies, along with subjects related to corporate valuation. This course is designed to provide a framework for understanding the theories and practices of financial management. The emphasis will be on applying fundamental financial problem solving techniques toward achieving solutions to basic, real world, practical situations. The focus of this class will be on discussing firm’s investment, financing, and dividend policies, along with subjects related to corporate valuation. College of Management Main Campus The grading of this course will depend on class participation (20%), case report (30%), and mid-term/final exams (25% each). The case report is group-based. Each group has three to four people. Please submit your group member list on the CEIBA Group Discussion Forum by 2/29. There are four cases (extra fees required). For each case, there will be questions provided beforehand. Each group has to write a maximum two-page text and submit it at the assignment area of the CEIBA website according to the deadline posted. You can also choose to supplement your grades by pre-committing homework (MINICASE on Ch. 6, 8, and 10) submitted on CEIBA. Yen-Cheng Chang 66 Monday 7,8,9 GMBA7006 (749EM0170) 3 (College of Management Global Mba *Registration eligibility: students in GMBA program. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Students will participate in business plans writing and critiques and enjoy vivid interactions with entrepreneurs and guest speakers for experience sharing and collaboration potentials. To develop students’ entrepreneurial spirit through practical training. College of Management Main Campus Seng-Cho Chou 50 Friday 2,3,4 GMBA7032 (749EM0580) 3 *Registration eligibility: juniors and above.
*Registration eligibility: students of College of Management.
(College of Management Global Mba http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

1. Understand the key concepts and practices for exploring, executing, exploiting, and renewing innovations. 2. Acquire knowledge and skills needed for managers and entrepreneurs whose goal is to play a leading role in innovation-driven firms. 3. Learn how to build an organization to successfully and repeatedly bring innovations to market. College of Management Main Campus Chialin Chen 50 Thursday 7,8,9 GMBA7061 (749EM0840) 3 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above.
*Registration eligibility: students of College of Management.
http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This unique course calls for a unique kind of students! Students, who want to ‘make a difference in a society,’ more than just to ‘make money in life.’ Students, who have a persisting spirit of ‘an entrepreneur’, a creative mind of ‘an innovator’ and a caring heart of ‘a missionary’! This course is for you! This is a very special course about ‘entrepreneurship, innovation, and social business.’ We are now living in a world with huge disparity gaps in wealth (1% vs. 99%), in technology, in health, in finance, in education, and in future opportunities. Such gaps exist between countries, between societies, between people groups, between the rich and the poor, between ones that have and the ones that have not. The questions go beyond just fair resource distribution, rather the accessibility to these resources for all people. In recent years, social entrepreneurs get recognized in the business world. Leveraging personal professional skills and business management experience, they create businesses with a mission to mitigate such disparities, to meet social needs, to make a change and impact in the world. Social entrepreneurs focus on social returns together with business profits for sustainability. As a result, a new form of business has emerged, ‘Social Business,’ which has a clearly stated social mission for its organizational purpose beyond profit seeking. Some of these social businesses even got successfully listed in major stock exchanges and at the same time they have fulfilled their social missions. Students who aspire to learn this exciting new business field will learn various business models related with social business, and entrepreneurship skills. Students may not all become social entrepreneurs some day, or engage in social business in future career, but we all definitely could be change makers in global societies. **Even this course is organized as a course in the Global MBA program, ‘all students’ are welcome, including international exchange students. If you could not register online, don’t give up! Please come to the first class to get approval and authorization code from Dr. Hsieh or you could correspond with him by email: dr.edhsieh@gmail.com This course will introduce the concept of social entrepreneurship and the toolkit for successful social entrepreneurs and the methodology to establish successful business model for social business. Students will learn how to work as teams and how to make contributions to team performance. Beyond classroom instruction, students will do case studies, will visit related organizations in Taipei, will create social business plans, and will put learning into practice, and make business plans work! College of Management Main Campus Students from all background are welcome to join this course, but must make a commitment to put efforts and focus in this course and most importantly must have a passion for the subject. Hsieh,Kuan-Hsiung 50 Thursday A,B GMBA7063 (749EM0860) 2 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above of College of Management. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Course Introduction: The course will cover financial statements mainly from an investor’s perspective. It is expected that students can learn the information in financial statements and technical tools for analyzing and valuing companies and communication of your analysis. This course is designed to take the students beyond the routine filling of boxes with standard financial ratios. The primary focus of the course is not on the accounting rules, but the use of accounting information. We will use firms’ publicly available financial statements to assess current performance, forecast future performance and estimate fundamentals of the firm. Course Objective: The primary learning objective/outcome of this course is to provide students with an in-depth exposure to various financial statements used in business activities — specifically to evaluate how statements and their construction vary from firm to firm within various legal and institutional requirements. Additionally, a perspective of the following will be explored: Be able to assess the business environment of the firm and its industry Be able to assess the financial condition of a firm. Be able to make a forecast of future financial statements. Be able to apply income-based and cash flow-based valuation models Be able to read analyst report and how companies communicate with their investors (e.g., conference call). Be able to perform a complete analysis of a company and present clearly a business and financial summary to a group. Be able to prepare the analyst report. College of Management Main Campus Class participation and discussion We expect active class participation. Please email the lecturer in advance if you will miss a class session. Class participation credit is awarded for the quality and frequency of your contribution to the class discussion. All students are expected to obey the following classroom rules: 1. Respect others and their property. 2. Come prepared to class. 3. Do not use “Laptop” and “Cell phone” in class. Problem set Assignments You are required to turn in the assignment to TA in the beginning of each class. You can discuss the homework assignments with your classmates, but you are expected to solve the problems and write-up the solutions on an individual basis. These problem sets will be graded on satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Group Case Assignments Students in the class will form groups and each group will need to prepare the presentation for the case. Final Exam Final exam will consist of numerical problems. The exam will be closed book. Final Group Project Each group needs to finish an analysis report for one company, including business strategy, ratio analysis, forecasting, and valuation analysis. Wen-Hsin Hsu 50 Tuesday 6,7,8 GMBA7071 (749EM0930) 3 *Registration eligibility: juniors and above.
*Registration eligibility: students of College of Management.
(College of Management Global Mba http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Marketing is a business function and a management process that creates, communicates, and delivers values. The course is designed to help GMBA students appreciate the role of marketing in the modern society, understand major conceptual frameworks of marketing management, and familiarize themselves with analytical tools that managers use upon addressing marketing problems. The course consists of lectures, demonstrations, case discussions, and a simulation. Lecture sessions are designed to introduce a series of important concepts in marketing management, case sessions provide course participants opportunities to explore how such concepts can be applied in business scenarios, whereas simulations sessions let participants taste the flavor of the real-world competitions. At the end of the semester, participants are expected to be familiar with the “language” of marketing (i.e., terms, concepts, and frameworks) that marketers use and be able to address marketing issues relating to customers, competitions, and/or markets. College of Management Main Campus 1. Form your group (6 participants in each group) and nominate a team leader by Mar. 7. 2. Choose and fix your seat in the classroom. Group members SHOULD sit together. 3. Bring and show your NAME PLATE for the WHOLE semester. 4. Groups are required to turn in case write-ups (CWs) for each assigned case BEFORE the corresponding discussion session. Case write-ups have to be word-processed, with reasonable line space and fonts, and signed by team members before turning in. Please limit your CWs within ONE A4 page. There will be no credit provided for overdue (i.e., handed in after 18:40) CWs and, for the sake of fairness, no excuse. 5. Groups are required to turn in small project write-ups (SPWs) for each assigned small project BEFORE the corresponding discussion session. SPWs have to be word-processed, with reasonable line space and fonts, and signed by team members before turning in. Please limit your SPWs within EIGHT A4 page. There will be no credit provided for overdue (i.e., handed in after 18:40) CWs and, for the sake of fairness, no excuse. 6. Active participation, both in class and in group, is emphasized in this course. 7. Before the start of a session, corresponding supplementary teaching materials will be posted on CEIBA (https://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/index.php?lang=eng ). Please note that for various reasons, some PPT pages we discuss in class will NOT be posted. Huang Jun-Yao 66 Monday A,B,C GMBA7003 (749EM0130) 3 (College of Management Global Mba
*Registration eligibility: students in GMBA program. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This course is offered for Information Systems majors, and the focus is naturally on the electronic aspect of marketing. Electronic marketing (e-marketing) is an area of study that combines marketing strategy with information technologies. It is one of the most significant developments in marketing in decades and represents an extremely dynamic area. E-marketing specifically addresses those marketing exchanges that are carried out, fully or partially, in an electronically networked marketplace. The primary form of instruction used in this course is the case method. Through the case method, you will be exposed to real-life situations that create a challenging learning environment in which you can share opinions and perspectives and learn from one another. Conceptual and real cases, international and local cases, and video and Web cases are all included. College of Management Main Campus Ming-Hui Huang 30 Thursday 7,8,9 IM3011 (705E33100) 3 (College of Management) Department of Information Management
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above. http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/IM