JANUARY TO APRIL

Ivey Essentials and Core Courses

Core Courses

• Cross Cultural Management: In this era of globalization and its consequences, it is crucial for business leaders to have an understanding of cultural differences and to be able to manage them both to reduce conflict and to increase communication, learning, and innovation. This course explores what culture is and how cultural differences influence different management situations, from individual performance in international contexts, to multicultural teams and global organizations. Students will apply the lessons in a live, collaborative project. Students will develop a deep, theoretical understanding of the nature of cultures, gain analytical skills in diagnosing and mapping cultural differences, and develop behavioral skills for working effectively across cultures.
• Internationalization: This course introduces a variety managerial challenges face by businesses operating internationally, and applies several analytical perspectives to explain these challenges. Through journal articles and business cases it is designed to familiarize students with theories of the international business and their practical implications.

Ivey Essentials

This course focuses on business essentials: Accounting, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Operations and Strategy. Students will be introduced to Ivey’s high engagement case-based learning methodology. The course is designed to aid students in understanding materials for their courses throughout the program.

Some of the key learning outcomes include:

• Accounting: recording and using of financial business transactions to inform and support decision-making.
• Business Communications: develop an understanding about targeting your message and flexing your style to your audience.
• Finance: analyzing of financial problems corporations face including managing exchange risk, calculating the cost of capital, capital budgeting and taxation.
• Leadership / Organizational Behavior: managing and participating effectively in teams by understanding the factors that lead to effective and ineffective team behavior.
• Marketing: identifying and capitalizing on market opportunities.
• Operations: identifying and understanding how effectively managing operations contribute to customer value.
• Strategy: key concepts and tools in the context of competitive strategy; differences between corporate, competitive, and functional strategies.

MAY TO AUGUST

Ivey Global Lab and Global Communications

IGL Placement Assignment: Students are guaranteed a placement for the IGL, however, countries and projects are subject to change from year to year. While students may indicate preferences for a certain country and project, students are not guaranteed their preference of country or project. Placements are organized once a student is enrolled in the MSc program. The Ivey Global Lab is designed to fulfill the CEMS-MIM 8-week international internship requirement.