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Briefly examines the great legal families in the world: Common Law, Civil Law, Socialist Law, and Islamic Law. Within the Civil Law family, emphasizes French Contract Law and then explores the law of the European Union. Studies the legal aspects of international business transactions and uses major international and European projects to examine the principles discussed.

The Management Project Practicum offers students majoring or minoring in the programs offered by the Economics & Management department an opportunity to synthesize and apply the skills, knowledge and techniques learned in previous management courses. Students enrolled in the practicum will work with a team on an actual client project and receive valuable feedback from the group, the course faculty, and the client. The course requires in-class work as well as significant work outside of class each week. Depending on the project, the project work may need to be completed in groups or independently outside of the traditional classroom context. The specifics regarding course meetings and scope of work will be developed starting the first day of the course.

Any students interested in taking this course, but who do not meet the prerequisite requirements, should email the professor to express their interest.

This course introduces students to the international business environment domains. It covers multinational corporation strategic imperatives and organizational challenges. It also addresses the following questions: What differentiates a global industry from a domestic one? What are the sources of competitive advantage in a global context? What organizational structural alternatives are available to multinationals?

This course is an introduction to applied computational methods for finance and the valuation of financial firms and elements of capital structure: equity, bonds, and options and additional methods for optimization of securities portfolios and hedging risk. We emphasize implementation and use selected models. Aimed at providing the necessary technical and analytical skills useful for graduate school work, working in financial firms or investment banks.