Μαθήματα

Prof. Constantine Zopounidis

Dr. Ioanna Atsalaki

PhD Candidate Marianna Eskandar 

1st part

Lectures structure  

• Fiscal Policy, Taxation, Business Law, Investor Protection & Corporate Governance
• Optimization tools
• Market equilibrium & Comparative statistics

• The demand curve and the behavior of consumers

• Production theory and cost analysis

• Firm behavior, market structure 

2nd part

Lectures structure 

• Operational cycle of an industrial enterprise
• Financial statements
• Working Capital & cash balance
• Financial ratios & sustainability analysis
• Profitability, risk & breakeven
• Table of sources and uses of funds

The purpose of this course is to provide students with various methods and tools for the structuring, representation, analysis, and evaluation of decision making problems. Emphasis will be given to situations involving risk and uncertainty. Students will be also introduced to multicriteria decision analysis, optimization methods, and other quantitative tools for decision making and risk management, and will learn how they can be applied in practice. Case studies from management, finance, and engineering will be used to demonstrate the application of the examined methodological approaches. A presentation on Decision Support Systems and group decision making will complete the course.

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Course Description

The aim of the course is to highlight the importance of innovation management, strategic management, and entrepreneurship in the digital business environment.

To prepare future managers to leverage new skills in the adoption and change management of business ideas, opportunities, and strategies that organizations need to manage in order to plan and lead digital business initiatives.

Learning Objectives

- Recognize the characteristics of innovation systems

- Leverage innovation as a key development strategy

- Quickly respond to trends in competition and innovation while not losing sight of the strategic objective

- Identify organizational structures that fit particular strategies

- Develop the ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation

- Develop effective strategies in the digital business environment

- Gear up for the challenges of strategy formulation and implementation in a 21st-century business

Practical and intensive, this course examines the critical legal issues confronting start-up and emerging growth companies. Equally applicable to more mature, established companies, the context of the course is early stage companies, providing perspective on how to use the law strategically to manage risk, deploy resources, and maximize shareholder value. Topics include the enforceability of confidentiality, non-competition, and other restrictive covenants in employment agreements; choice of business form including the legal, financial, and tax advantages/disadvantages of general/limited partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies; tax and securities law aspects of raising capital; structuring venture capital, and private equity financing; letters of intent and mergers/acquisitions; employment law; and intellectual property law.

Understanding the Market, Marketing Environment, SWOT Analysis, Process, market analysis, Market research, Competition and Competitive Advantage, Environment, Five Forces, Segmentation and Targeting, Diversification, Positioning, forecasting methods, Marketing Planning Processes, models, analytical techniques and computer models in solving strategic marketing decisions, marketing decision support systems.

The course comprises of three main parts that cover the basic elements of the production and operations management discipline.

The first part studies the role of the supply chain management in every enterprise and every organization. All stages of the supply chain are presented and the most important problems of the supply chain such as production systems, inventory management, logistics management, etc., are formulated and analyzed.

The second part studies the management of processes including the whole range of activities from planning and organizing to controlling and directing. Particular emphasis is given to the organizational behavior and human resources management by examining issues related to job analysis, description and assessment.

Finally, the last part of the course is devoted to process analysis and management for quality improvement. The different stages of the process improvement methodology are presented along with several relevant tools including tools for analysis, measurement and control. A presentation of quality management systems such as ISO 9000 series completes this part of the course.

Καλώς ήρθατε! Στόχος μας σε αυτό το σύνομο σεμινάριο είναι η εισαγωγή στην ερευνητική μεθοδολογία και στο επιστημονικό λογισμικό. Οι 20 ώρες θα κατανεμηθούν έτσι ώστε οι μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές να ενημερωθούν στις βασικές αρχές της ερευνητικής μεθοδολογίας και της σύνταξης γραπτού ακαδημαικού κειμένου καθώς επίσης και στα βασικά 'εργαλεία' ποσοτικών αναλύσεων δεδομένων, όπως το Excel και το SPSS. Το υλικό θα το βρείτε στα Εγγραφα.

Ως επιπλέον βοήθημα, ειδικά για το γραπτό ακαδημαϊκό κείμενο, προτείνεται αφενός το βιβλίο "Πώς γράφεται μια επιστημονική εργασία. Ένας Οδηγός ακαδημαϊκής γραφής", του Μενέλαου Σαρρή, ISBN 978-618-202-127-9, Εκδ. ΔΙΣΙΓΜΑ, και αφετέρου οι λεπτομερείς διαφάνειες από τον σύνδεσμο https://www.tls.tuc.gr/el/ypostiriktiko-yliko/foitites/apothetirio