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The department offers a BA
Major in International Business Administration,
which addresses all the functional areas of
business within an international context. This
program includes a unique capstone course where
business students review and integrate their
knowledge of the business disciplines. This
capstone also allows the faculty to continually
assess student learning. The Division offers a
BS Major in International Finance, which
provides the student with the skills necessary
to work in a financial firm or investment bank,
through an extensive series of finance courses.
A BA Major in Entrepreneurship is also offered
for those students interested in creating or
working in a small business. Students with a
major in another AUP division can complement
their major with an undergraduate Minor in
International Business Administration.
The
Major in International Business Administration
emphasizes both discipline-based knowledge
(i.e., an understanding of basic business
disciplines with an ability to integrate the
concepts, models and techniques associated with
business) as well as the following skills:
Problem solving
Information technology
Leadership/Teaming
Effective Communication
Global understanding
Responsibility/Ethics
The
Entrepreneurship Major is a
generalist business degree geared towards
students who want to start their own business,
work in a small business, work in a family
business, etc. A BA Major in Entrepreneurship
will teach students the basics of small business
management and the activities required for the
planning and creation of new enterprises within
a single country as well as internationally.
Students majoring in entrepreneurship will be
well-grounded in the ways of financing a new
business, and will have hands-on experience
designing, marketing and delivering a product or
service.
The BS Major in
International Finance is the
application of economics within financial and
non-financial institutions and markets. As such,
finance is about the optimal allocation of
scarce financial assets (i.e., money, loans,
bonds, stocks, and currencies). Problems in
finance deal with time, information,
uncertainty, diversification, hedging and asset
management, and focus on empirical predictions.
The mission of the International Finance Major
is to prepare students to understand the
economic and financial environment, and enable
them to evaluate alternative investment
opportunities, finance those opportunities and
manage optimal portfolios. |
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Ali Fatemi
Professor Emeritus
BS, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
MA, PhD, New School for Social Research. |
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Requirements for the Major in
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 110 College Writing, EN 220 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 235 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Required
(70 credits)
MA 120 Applied Statistics I
EC 210 Principles of Microeconomics
EC 220 Principles of Macroeconomics
BA 201 Financial Accounting
BA 202 Managerial Accounting
BA 220 Management and Organizational Behavior
BA 240 Marketing in a Global Environment
BA 305 Decision Making Tools for Managers
BA 312 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
BA 350 International Financial Markets
BA 370 Operations Management
BA 375 Legal Environment of Business
BA 401 Information Systems for Competitive Advantage
BA 403 International Business
BA 480 Strategic Management: a Global Perspective
BA 450 Business Integration Capstone (2 credits)
Two additional business courses with an international
emphasis selected from the following list:
BA 301 Multinational Finance and Accounting
BA 345 International Marketing
BA 384 International Business Law
BA 405 International Entrepreneurship
BA 418 Multinational Business Finance
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 credits
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Requirements for the Major in
ENTREPRENEURSHIP |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 110 College Writing, EN 220 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 235 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Required
(28 credits)
BA 201 Financial Accounting
BA 220 Management & Organizational Behavior
BA 240 Marketing in a Global Environment
BA 320 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
BA 323 Entrepreneurial Finance
BA 405 International Entrepreneurship
BA 496 Entrepreneurship Practicum
ELECTIVES
Select four from the undergraduate business course offerings
(courses coded BA), building a personal focus with the help of your advisor.
(16 credits)
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 credits
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Requirements for the Major in
INTERNATIONAL
FINANCE |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 110 College Writing, EN 220 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 235 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Required
(48 credits)
MA 120 Applied Statistics I
MA 130 Calculus I
EC 210 Principles of Microeconomics
EC 220 Principles of Macroeconomics
EC 373 Money, Banking and Finance
BA 201 Financial Accounting
BA 310 Corporate Finance
BA 350 International Financial Markets
BA 398 Internship
BA 410 Investment Analysis
BA 418 Multinational Business Finance
BA 420 Computational Finance
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 credits
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Students exhibiting superior academic
performance are invited to participate in the IBA
Departmental Honors Program.
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International Business Administration |
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In April,
Mehdi Majidi reached an agreement with
Akou Investment Management for an academic
cooperation which will begin with the
organization of an international case
competition in fall 2010. Graduate and
undergraduate students around the world
will be invited to develop viable business
plans for ‘off grid solar energy
electricity generation to serve small
communities, villages of 100-1000 people,
where electricity will enable new business
opportunities and local sustainable
development’. The winners will be rewarded
and winning projects will be presented to
a third party investor for financing from
large financial institutions such as the
Islamic Development Bank (IDB),
Kreditansalt fu Wiederaufbau (KfW), the
African Development Bank (AFD), etc…
Nadia Popova (AUP 2003) initiated the
collaboration between Professor Majidi and
Akou Investment after the successful
result of AUP’s first case competition in
spring 2010. For the first case
competition, AUP students offered
marketing strategy solutions for AINA, an
NGO providing photojournalism education to
girls in Afghanistan. Twenty-one graduate
and undergraduate students formed five
teams and competed in a collaborative
structured procedure. Students' proposals
were evaluated by a group of judges—AUP
faculty members and outside professionals.
In the fall, students will implement the
winning solution through the internship
program at AINA. |
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[AUP - Posted 17 June 2010] |
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Mehdi
Majidi was invited, and has accepted, to
be Regional Editor Europe of the International
Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and
Innovation (IJSEI). IJSEI provides
valuable insights into successful business
techniques and strategies in the emerging
field of social entrepreneurship,
including theoretical perspectives,
cutting-edge research, and actionable
solutions to identified problems of
particular interest to policymakers in
government and international agencies,
academics and researchers. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010] |
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James
Noel Ward was a member of an educational
mission team for Soutien à l’Initiative
Privée pour l’Aide à la Reconstruction des
Pays du Sud Est Asiatique (SIPAR) in
Cambodia, where he served as a site
inspector, instructor, photographer, and
resources coordinator and distributor. He
accompanied SIPAR Secretary and co-Founder
Bernadette Chaventon with the
eleven-member team of other patrons as
they visited SIPAR-funded libraries and
schools in remote rural areas.
SIPAR is active in the reconstruction
of Cambodia via education through
combating illiteracy, a source of poverty.
Since 1993 SIPAR has established and
funded 200 primary school libraries,
covering the entire country, 43 Centers
for Public Reading (community libraries)
in rural areas, seven traveling libraries
(Bookmobiles, Bibliobus) serving villages
near Phnom Penh, and has published 66
titles and 750,000 volumes of books in
Khmer for young people. Professor Ward and
his daughter Anita-Louise have co-authored
a forthcoming children’s story in Khmer
for SIPAR. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010] |
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Diane
Hamilton’s paper “Quality in
Business Education as Measured
by Accreditation and Ranking
Systems,” was presented at the
annual Academy of Management
conference, in August 2009, by
former AUP colleague and
co-author, Harry Costin. This
work was also published in a
special issue of the
International Journal of
Management in Education
(2009, Vol. 3., Nos. 3/4, pgs.
249-269). |
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[AUP - Posted 19 Sep 2009] |
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Michel Rakotomavo's paper entitled
“Payout and Asymmetric Information” has
been accepted by the refereed Applied
Economics Letters. This journal is
published by Taylor and Francis Group Ltd. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2009] |
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Michel Rakotomavo's paper,
"Microstructure and
Institutional Holdings", has
been accepted for publication
by the refereed Journal of
Money, Investment and Banking.
The paper’s results indicate
that institutions attempt to
minimize the costs of stealth
trading. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2009] |
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Michel
Rakotomavo's paper
entitled “Do
Retail Investors
and Institutions
Pay The Same
Spread?” has been
accepted by the
refereed journal
Investment
Management and
Financial
Innovations.
The study provides
evidence
suggesting that
the implicit costs
of institutional
trading are
generally low. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Nov 2008] |
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James
N. Ward’s Op-Ed “The Silence of The
Agencies” appeared in the September 26,
2008 edition of The Financial Times
(click
here to view the archived article). In his editorial, Professor Ward
criticized the actions of the credit
rating agencies Moody’s and Standard &
Poor’s during the current global credit
crisis by pointing out that they act as an
oligopolistic dupopoly that then follows
the Stackelberg leadership economic model
(1934), where there is a binary outcome of
either first-mover advantage, or inaction.
Professor Ward called for the voluntary
break-up of the two into five smaller
firms to restore a sustainable competitive
model for independent and accurate credit
ratings. |
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[AUP - Posted 4 Oct 2008] |
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