BUS

Supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel partners, which can be suppliers, intermediaries, third party service providers, and customers. In essence, supply chain management integrates supply and demand management within and across companies. This course prepares the students to manage modern supply chains, both domestically and globally.

This course examines how individuals behave in and around organizations and how organizations themselves behave. Every day, individuals share time with others and operate within organizations. When people understand the behavior of individuals and organizations in their lives, they can better establish expectations, operate efficiently, and achieve goals. This class examines concepts and develops perspectives that help students effectively manage individuals and organizations.

This course explores how people and organizations can innovate to fulfill our social and environmental needs efficiently and effectively. Using innovative business models as the foundation, each student selects a social sector to study throughout the term on the local, national, and international levels. Research includes reading articles, examination of financial data, and interviews. A series of research papers results in in-depth knowledge of the chosen sector. Knowledge is shared through public displays and presentations.

In this highly experiential course, students learn to generate new venture ideas and evaluate their viability. Lean start-up and business planning methodologies are utilized. Students develop creative problem solving, research, analytical and presentation skills. Students deepen their understanding of entrepreneurship and build their self-efficacy through reading, writing, experimenting and job shadowing. The in-depth job shadow results in the creation of a short documentary film.

The course expands students' knowledge and understanding of financial reporting and analysis by examining key questions of economic significance within the context of real companies and their reported financial information. The course includes analysis of U.S. companies that follow U.S. GAAP and global companies that use International Financial Reporting Standards. The underlying objective of financial analysis is to measure and compare risk and return characteristics of alternative investments when making investment and credit decisions.

This course introduces approaches to the valuation of public and private equity, including free cash flow, residual income, economic profit, and relative valuation models. Critical analysis of financial statements is highlighted, and applications to real-world companies is stressed. Course content is informed by the Chartered Financial Analyst curriculum. Students complete a sell-side equity research report on a public company. Course is recommended for students competing in the CFA Investment Research Challenge and for students managing the Puget Sound student-managed fund.

Corporate finance is concerned with a corporation's acquisition and allocation of capital. Students apply more advanced concepts in corporate finance in a decision making context. Valuation is discussed as a unifying theme. This includes such issues as how to value a firm that is not publicly traded, how to value a potential merger, and how to value an investment project. Students assess how the firm's capital structure or its dividend policy might impact firm value. Students examine the valuation of investment projects and the valuation of a firm that is not publicly traded.

This course is designed to introduce students to quantitative techniques for managing investment assets. These techniques are illustrated through the development of three main topics: portfolio theory, fixed-income portfolio management, and option valuation. Economic factors affecting investment management, particularly efficient markets concepts, are stressed. Satisfies the senior research seminar requirement for business majors.

This course introduces students to major sectors of the financial markets, focusing on the money market, the primary market, the capital markets for debt, and the secondary markets for equity. The qualitative aspects of these markets are stressed, including their legal and economic frameworks.

This course is designed to provide a broad range of tools and frameworks to understand how marketers can interact with sustainability issues. Students explore sustainability issues in today's marketplace and learn about marketing skills that meet sustainable market opportunities. In addition, students gain the knowledge and skills to develop a successful marketing strategy and branding approach for sustainable products, services, and companies.