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    Green Supply Chain Management

    Green Supply Chain Management

    The half-semester graduate course in Green Supply Chain Management will focus on the fundamental strategies, tools and techniques required to analyze and design environmentally sustainable supply chain systems. Topics covered include: Closed-loop supply chains, reverse logistics systems, carbon footprinting, life-cycle analysis and supply chain sustainability strategy. Class sessions will combine presentations, case discussions and guest speakers. All students will work on a course-long team project that critically evaluates the environmental supply chain strategy of an industry or a publicly traded company. Grades will be based on class participation, case study assignments and the team project.

    Subjects:
    Logistics and Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Keywords:
    Business logistics Industrial management
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Global Strategy and Organization

    Global Strategy and Organization

    This subject focuses on the specifics of strategy and organization of the multinational company, and provides a framework for formulating successful and adaptive strategies in an increasingly complex world economy. Topics include the globalization of industries, the continuing role of country factors in competition, organization of multinational enterprises, and building global networks. This particular version of the subject is taught and tailored specifically to those enrolled in the MIT Sloan Fellows Program.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    International business enterprises -- Management Globalization
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Game Theory

    Game Theory

    This course provides a rigorous treatment of non-cooperative solution concepts in game theory, including rationalizability and Nash, sequential, and stable equilibria. It covers topics such as epistemic foundations, higher order beliefs, bargaining, repeated games, reputation, supermodular games, and global games. It also introduces cooperative solution concepts—Nash bargaining solution, core, Shapley value—and develops corresponding non-cooperative foundations.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Game theory
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Free Online Course: Six Sigma: Define and Measure from edX | Class Central

    Free Online Course: Six Sigma: Define and Measure from edX | Class Central

    An introduction to the Six Sigma methodology and DMAIC cycle for process improvement with a focus on the Define and Measure phases.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
    OER
  • Courseware 
    Fintech Online Short Course

    Fintech Online Short Course

    In this course, you will walk away with an up-to-date examination of the maturing FinTech industry and an understanding of the technologies set to shape the future of finance. Insight into who is currently adopting and driving financial technology innovation and the potential for partnerships between incumbents, start-ups and investors. The ability to critically assess the future of the financial services industry, through exploring complex real-world problems and how FinTech can be used to find solutions.A strategic framework to apply within your own role, and the opportunity to share this with like-minded professionals at an additional conference week.

    Course related:
    COMP4142 E-Payment and Cryptocurrency and COMP5521 Distributed Ledger Technology
    Subjects:
    Finance and Computing
    Keywords:
    Financial services industry -- Technological innovations Finance -- Technological innovations
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Financing Economic Development

    Financing Economic Development

    This course focuses on the tools and programs available to economic development practitioners to address capital needs for businesses and economic development projects. It provides an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development, business accounting, financial statement analysis, federal economic development programs, and public finance tools. The course covers policies and program models, including revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community development loan funds and credit unions, micro-enterprise funds, and the Community Reinvestment Act. The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of economic development finance practice in the United States, and to develop a knowledge base and skills to either be a development finance practitioner, or apply economic development finance approaches to other fields of planning and community development.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Finance
    Keywords:
    Economic development -- Finance Business enterprises -- Finance United States
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Financial Management

    Financial Management

    Financial Management studies corporate finance and capital markets, emphasizing the financial aspects of managerial decisions. It touches on all areas of finance, including the valuation of real and financial assets, risk management and financial derivatives, the trade-off between risk and expected return, and corporate financing and dividend policy. The course draws heavily on empirical research to help guide managerial decisions.

    Subjects:
    Finance
    Keywords:
    Investments Finance Corporations -- Finance
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Farmer's Agribusiness Training Course: Module 3 - Entrepreneurship. Lesson 5: Credit Management

    Farmer's Agribusiness Training Course: Module 3 - Entrepreneurship. Lesson 5: Credit Management

    This Farmers' Agribusiness training course has been developed to help both farmers and farmer organisations. Its intention is to provide access to provide access to additional skills and knowledge that will allow farmers to move from a 'farm' to a 'firm'. This lesson describes funding possibilities, the process for sourcing funds, the measures that should be taken to ensure effective utilization of funds, repayment procedures.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Entrepreneurship Credit -- Management
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
    OER
  • Courseware 
    Ethical Practice: Leading through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design

    Ethical Practice: Leading through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design

    This course offers an introduction to ethics in business, with a focus on business management. Students explore theoretical concepts in business ethics, and cases representing the challenges they will likely face as managers. There is opportunity to work with guest faculty as well as business and other professional practitioners. Individual class sessions take the form of moderated discussion, with occasional short lectures from the instructor.

    Subjects:
    Business Ethics
    Keywords:
    Business ethics Social responsibility of business
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Entrepreneurship without Borders

    Entrepreneurship without Borders

    This course examines opportunities and problems for entrepreneurs globally, including Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Linkages between the business environment, the institutional framework, and new venture creation are covered with a special focus on blockchain technology. In addition to discussing a range of global entrepreneurial situations, student groups pick one particular cluster on which to focus and to understand what further development would entail. Classroom interactions are based primarily on case studies.

    Subjects:
    Management, Finance, and Business Information Technology
    Keywords:
    Entrepreneurship Blockchains (Databases) International business enterprises
    Resource Type:
    Courseware