Program tanımları
One Year Full-Time MBA Program
One year Full Time KOÇ MBA Program offers a world-class MBA program which is consistently recognized as a leading program in Turkey.
The Koç University MBA program was started in 1993 to provide a comprehensive business education involving a rigorous and innovative curriculum taught by world class faculty. It is designed to possess the best features of MBA programs offered at major universities in North America and Europe and adapted to the Turkish environment. The language of instruction is English.
The primary objective of the Koç MBA program is to develop business leaders for the 21st century. Graduates of the program are prepared for a career in general management, or in a specialized field such as investment banking, marketing management or supply chain management. Since the most entry-level managerial positions are in such fields as marketing, finance or operations management, the program offers the opportunity to concentrate on one or two of these areas of business.
FULL-TIME MBA COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
CORE COURSES
ACCT. 501
ACCOUNTING
Financial accounting with a managerial emphasis. Generally accepted accounting principles, concepts, standards, and practices used in recording business transactions in order to prepare major financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. Accounting for inventories, plant, property, and equipment as well as measurement of liabilities, capital stock, and retained earnings; generation of accounting information for internal planning and control purposes are studied.Role of management accounting for decision making, determination of cost of products and services, and performance evaluation of business units are examined. Different methods of determining product costs using job costing, process costing, and activity based costing are examined. Use of cost, volume, profit analysis in order to determine product contribution margins and break-even point and study of cost behavior in relation to activity levels; determination of relevant information for decision making.
Credits: 3
MFIN. 501
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT I
Introduction to the time value of money and discounted cash flow analysis; coverage of financial decisions to maximize the value of the firm’s equity: valuation of assets, liabilities, and common equity; capital budgeting decisions; opportunity cost of capital; risk and return.
Credits: 3
MGEC. 501
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
Fundamental concepts and analytical tools of microeconomic theory: demand, supply, and equilibrium; market structure analysis with a brief introduction to game theory; risk and uncertainty;comparative advantage and gains from trade; market distortions and their welfare consequences. Brief intro into micro foundations of macroeconomics, open economy equilibrium, exchange rate and income determination; policy analysis in an open economy with frequent references to real life phonemenan and their analysis through the tool kit acquired during the course.
Credits: 3
MGIS. 501
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
The technological and institutional factors that influence the choice of hardware and software components of a management information system; introduction to systems analysis through teamwork on an actual business systems analysis problem.
Credits: 3
MGMT. 501
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
Extant research and theorizing on organizations employed in dealing with management problems. Goals and effectiveness, the external context of organizations, organization culture, organization design, and process issues like decision making, power, politics, conflict, and the management of change. Discussion is framed in a comparative perspective to develop a better understanding of the institutional context of organizational and managerial practice.
Credits: 3
MGMT. 504
NEW VENTURE DEVELOPMENT
An overview of the processes involved in starting, funding and investing in a new or growing entrepreneurial venture. Development of skills and knowledge required fro organizing and managing a new business enterprise and preparing the business plan.A Business Plan project is integrated into the course, requiring students to work in groups on the development of a business idea into an entrepreneurial project. Students will be able to use their creativity and sharpen their research, analysis and writing skills. The final evaluation of the project is partly conducted by a group of executives representing a broad range of industries.
Credits: 3
MGMT. 505
LEADING AND MANAGING IN ORGANIZATIONS
This course is designed to give participants an overview of competitive business strategy & leadership. More than tools and techniques to be applied for problem solving, this course emphasizes the importance and necessity of being extremely flexible in thinking, ability to adapt changing conditions, ability to think outside the box and come up with working strategies.
Credits: 3
MGMT. 506
BUSINESS POLICY AND STRATEGY
Management problems from the perspective of the entire enterprise in a domestic and international setting; strategy formulation, environmental analysis and strategy implementation applied to actual companies. Course relies heavily on cases and on presentations to business leaders.
Credits: 3
MGMT. 501
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
Extant research and theorizing on organizations employed in dealing with management problems. Goals and effectiveness, the external context of organizations, organization culture, organization design, and process issues like decision making, power, politics, conflict, and the management of change. Discussion is framed in a comparative perspective to develop a better understanding of the institutional context of organizational and managerial practice.
Credits: 3
MGMT. 502
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Human behavior and interpersonal relations as they occur in organizational context, particularly work teams.
Credits: 3
MKTG. 501
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Marketing management in modern organizations; knowledge and application of key strategic frameworks to customer analysis, environment, competition, and organizational strengths and weaknesses. Creative selection of target markets and planning the components of the marketing mix. The role and use of information in marketing planning, determinants of and the nature of buying behavior. The complexity of developing and managing the marketing process in a multinational arena.
Credits: 3
OPSM. 501
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Fundamental decisions and tradeoffs in control of a firm?s operations: obtaining and controlling the flow of materials through a production facility and distributing them to customers. Four modules: process fundamentals; cross functional integration, coordination and control; improving the performance of productive systems; and competing through technology and operations.
Credits: 3
QMBU. 501
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Fundamental quantitative methods used in business decision-making: mathematical programming, stochastic modeling, and simulation, with emphasis on formulation, analysis, and implementation.
Credits: 3
STAT. 501
STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS
Basic concepts and methods of statistics used in making business decisions. Frequency distributions and related descriptive measures, probability and random variables, sampling, statistical inference, regression, correlation analysis, and the general linear model.
Credits: 3
