Global Health Live Pacific is a graduate seminar for PhD and Masters graduate students. The seminar is held once per week for ten (10) weeks via live video (eg www.zoom.us) with international guest lecturers.

The course extends the theory of global health to the practice of global health. The relationship of health, foreign policy, and global health leadership are the cutting edge of the scope of the course. 1. Discuss key issues of current global health from an application perspective.

2. Expand networking opportunities for future global health career opportunities.

3. Practice and hone presentation skills and participate in case studies.

4. Construct a Mission, Vision, and Values (Personal) Career Statement.

5. List and describe global health leader’s characteristics.

College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Medicine_ *Restrict to graduate students and Ph.D. students. Chang-Chuan Chan 20 Tuesday 2,3,4 MPH7008 2 Half Master of Public Health, National Taiwan University Distance Learning http://mph.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

This course provides an introduction to health policies and management. The primary objective of the course is to provide students with the tools and historical context to critically assess a wide variety of policies—past, current, and future. This course is designed for students to understand health care system, health insurance, health policy making and health care organizations management in global view and focus on Taiwan for example. This course includes three parts: The first part is “principles of health policy and evaluation”, which gives an introduction of the concepts and principles of health policy and evaluation. The second part is “health care system and health insurance”, which introduces infrastructure of health care system and its operations. Health insurance and related topics will be covered here. The third part is “health care organization management”, which gives an introduction on management theories and issues in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The readings draw on public health and health services research, economics, medical sociology and public health law:

1. To understand the main components and issues in health care systems

2. To discuss the policy process for improving the health status of populations.

3. To understand principles of management, program planning, development, budgeting, and evaluation in organizational initiatives.

4. To understand the role that insurance plays in the health care delivery system

College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Kuo-Piao Chung 12 Wednesday 2,3,4 HPM8014 3 Half Institute of Health Policy and Management http://ntuhpm.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

This last decade has seen many changes regarding how organizations  both profit and non-profit  are organized, as many so-called hybrid forms of business have emerged to blur this distinction. At the same time, recent economic developments all around the world are refueling the debate about the role and responsibility of business in global society. Genuine or authentic corporate social responsibility is, at its core, about the meaning and practice of constructive business  what such business might be, what (new) challenges are involved in the practice of social responsibility, and what (new) opportunities are offered in this domain.

The purpose of the course is to encourage a broader and deeper understanding of the meaning and practice of social responsibility in business and organizational contexts. As such it is a reflective course, with the instructor serving as a guide on a journey through various landscapes of practice involving complexities at both strategic and moral/ethical levels. The teaching format is highly interactive, and students are expected to actively participate in all elements of the course, including classroom discussions, case work and student-led seminars (see grading policy).

This course is taught in English.

This course follows the MBA format, hence the following classroom policy and etiquette apply:

1. Without special dispensation from the instructor, the use of any sort of personal computer during class is prohibited.

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. In the event a student is absent from a session, a make-up assignment shall be completed for that particular session. However, more than two absences will affect the gr On completion of the course the students will be:

1. familiar with the rhetoric surrounding CSR and its various meanings and implications

2. able to analyze and discuss challenges surrounding the implementation of CSR practices and how these can be addressed

3. able to develop CSR plans and value statements that reflect a wider view on business

College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Miriam Garvi 50 Tuesday 7,8,9 GMBA5016 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

This is a NTU-KAIST- PMSBE collaborative course whose purpose is to have students of three countries (Taiwan, Korea, and Indonesia) to understand the culture, business environment, industry and companies of the three countries. Students of three schools (NTU, KAIST and PMSBE) will form multinational teams and study together on the various issues of management in global context. Through the field trip opportunities, students will have a chance to meet face-to-face, do research on a project of real management issues, and produce business case reports. College of Management *Registration is by application only.
*Restrict to students in GMBA program. Chialin Chen 12 GMBA7110 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This course is the first course in quantitative business science for data analysts, detailing: (1) statistical programming, (2) stochastic simulation, (3) computationally intensive methods, (4) mixed and multilevel models, and (5) formal model comparison using information criteria. The practical goals of the course are to teach students how to specify, code, fit, and interpret model-based inference, and appreciate the powerful things ‘model thinking’ can do for analyzing dependent data when sampling is over time, space, or within clusters, which are common in digital operations (e.g., internet of things), platform business (e.g., Airbnb, Alibaba, Uber), and sharing economy (e.g., crowdfunding). The course is ‘heavy on code’ since having ‘computational thinking’ in the digital era entails a lot of scripting and programming. The objectives of this course are: (1) to familiarize the R language, (2) to perform statistical computing via computer programming, (3) to develop statistical models via R and the Stan package, and (4) to develop the skills in organizing an effective data-driven strategy in a real business world. College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above. Shu-Jung Yang 70 Friday 2,3,4 MBA5078 3 Half Department of Business Administration,
Graduate Institute of Business Administration http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/EiMBA

The purpose of this course is to provide you a systematic knowledge of management in a multi-cultural context. We will use examples, cases, movies, and group activities from Taiwan and from other cultures to familiarize you with the related concepts. For instance, we will discuss the leadership styles of Yung-Ching Wang (王永慶), Terry Guo (郭台銘), and Morris Chang (張忠謀) and how they handle problems such as the Foxconn crisis during May 2010 and the TSMC’s layoff incident during March-April, 2009. We will discuss especially the cultural aspects/implications of these incidents. I wish that you can apply the knowledge you learn in the semester to your future career and enhance your intercultural performance. The purpose of this course is to provide you a systematic knowledge of management in a multi-cultural context. We will discuss especially the cultural aspects/implications of these incidents. I wish that you can apply the knowledge you learn in the semester to your future career and enhance your intercultural performance.

1. Understand the importance and implications of cross-cultural organization management.

2. Learn the fundamental concepts of cross-cultural organization management.

3. Learn to apply the related concepts and theories in cross-cultural contexts.

College of Management *Majors-only (including minor and double major students).
*Restrict to 4th-year and above. Shu Cheng Chi 10 Monday 2,3,4 MBA5053 3 Half Department of Business Administration,
Graduate Institute of Business Administration http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/EiMBA

This course is designed to provide a framework for understanding the behaviors of market participants (consumers, producers, competitors, etc.) with whom firms interacts. The course objective is to give insight into how markets function; demand and supply driven by decisions of consumers and firms, govern the price and quantity sold in each economic transaction. Understanding how markets function is crucial for managers to achieve goals of maximizing profit and firm’s value. Students will learn fundamental economic theories, and how to apply those theories for better managerial decision making.
Beyond the level of individual decision making, a bigger picture of market structure will be studied, ranging from types of monopoly, oligopoly, to perfect competition. Market structure plays a significant role in determining industry competition level. Practical industry applications in relevant context and real business cases will be discussed. The objective here is to stimulate strategic thinking on possible economic competition and business situations a manager may encounter. College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to students of College of Management.
*Restrict to graduate students Steffi Yang 66 Tuesday A,B,C GMBA7001 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA