Syllabus:

General Objectives:
1. To understand organization?s benefits of a strategic focus culture;
2. To monitor the evolutionary perspectives of strategic management;
3. To know the fundamental theories of management and administration;
4. To understand the management process based on its explanatory theories;
5. To structure critical thinking about the management process associated.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this Course, the student should be able to:
1. To apply the appropriate concepts to develop and implement a strategy at the level of a business;
2. To apply industry analysis techniques, environmental analysis, and competition analysis;
3. To select and implement a strategy and specify barriers typically underlying these practices;
4. To link the theoretical concepts and ideas that allow long-run risks minimization;
5. Critically evaluate the fundamentals of management based on students? theory and research.

CONTENTS

Part I: Basics of Management
1. Introduction to Strategy
2. Analysis of Strategic Positioning
3. Strategy Choice and Formulation
4. Information and Strategy
5. Strategic Management and Integrated Management Systems

Part II: Management Theories
1. Resource-based Theory
2. Theory of Transaction Costs;
3. Agency theory
4. Governance Theory
5. Knowledge-based theory

Syllabus:

This curricular unit has as one of its main objectives to provide students with fundamental and transversal skills in financial accounting and finance. It also aims to transmit knowledge about concepts, instruments, and techniques used in financial management and in investment and financing decisions that allow a balanced management of financial resources.
Upon completion of this course unit, students should be able to:
1 – Understand and interpret financial information from a management perspective;
2 – Know the fundamental elements of the economic and financial analysis;
3 – Evaluate the financial equilibrium;
4 – Understand the relation between profitability and risk;
5 – Understand the available sources of financial information;
6 – Analyse the capital management and financial asset management policies.

CONTENTS

1. Concept and objectives of Financial Management.
2. Analysis of financial documents and financial statements in the management perspective.
3. Performance evaluation and financial balance.
4. Financial function and financial management.
5. Profitability and risk relationship: capital structure; opportunity cost and time value.
6. Markets and Financial Assets.

Syllabus:

Objectives:
1) Understand and recognize the role of logistics and supply chain management in business performance;
2) Develop decision-making capacity within the scope of the strategies to be followed within the scope of logistics operations and the supply chain.

Specific objectives:
3) Identify Logistics Operations as a factor of organizational competitiveness and its integration in the value chain;
4) Critically analyze and understand the characteristics and implications of good management of the supply chain management;
5) Critically analyze and understand the main implications for supply chain management;
6) Evaluate the different means of transport available for logistical solutions and their implications for supply chain management.
7) Know the new trends in Operations and Logistics management.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 – Logistics and the Supply Chain
Chapter 2 Supply Chain Management
2.1 Strategic Alignment in Supply Chains
2.2 Planning in supply chain management
2.3 Management of Purchases in the supply chain.
Chapter 3. Transport Management in the Supply Chain
3.1 Inventory Management throughout the supply chain.
Chapter 4. Logistics and Distribution Concepts in Global Operations
4.1 Contracting and Relationship with Logistics Operators
4.2 Operations strategy and national and global logistics

Syllabus:

To Know the methods, and techniques of literature research;
To Know and apply correctly rules and standards for reports/projects;
To Know techniques for qualitative and quantitative analysis.

CONTENTS

1 – Research Methodologies
2 – Qualitative Research
3 – Available resources
4 – Quantitative Research

Syllabus:

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
GO1 – To use mathematical models, techniques and methods suitable for the analysis of the real situation, its interpretation and simplification
GO2 – To select and use the most appropriate methods and software to solve industrial optimization problems
GO3 – To analyze, interpret and evaluate industrial processes through simulation

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
O1 – To model industrial problems using Integer Programming (IP) and Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulations
O2 – To solve IP and MIP problems, using the appropriate techniques and tools
O3 – To know information systems and simulation technologies
O4 – To formulate and solve problems through industrial simulation

CONTENTS

C1 – Integer Programming
– Introduction to Integer Programming
– Resolution methods (branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut, …)
– Formulation of constraints using integer and binary variables

C2 – Formulation of IP and MIP Models
– Classic Problems (Knapsack, Transportation and Assignment problems, ?)
– Logistics Problems (Vehicle Routing problem, Location problems, ?)
– Production Problems (Production planning, assembly line balancing, ?)

C3 – Industrial Simulation
– Types of Simulation models. Simulation software.
– Statistical aspects of the simulation.
– Verification and validation of simulation models.
– Modelling of systems (goods and services) with a professional simulation tool – Anylogic.
– Analysis of results and iterative process of generating alternative scenarios

Syllabus:

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
OG1 – To acquire knowledge of decision support optimization models in organizations
OG2 – To contribute to the promotion of research in the field of optimization
OG3 – To select and use the most appropriate methods and software to solve industrial optimization problems

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this Course, the student should be able to:
O1 – Model problems using linear and non-linear optimization formulations
O2 – Know linear and non-linear optimization methodologies and techniques
O3 – Solve optimization problems
O4 – Use the appropriate software to solve optimization problems
O5 – Validate the models and interpret the solutions obtained in order to develop recommendations for the system under analysis.

CONTENTS

C1 – Optimization problems
General form of optimization problems
Modeling and classification of problems
Unconstrained and constrained problems,
Solver for each type of optimization problems: linear vs. non-linear, deterministic vs stochastic
C2 – Non-linear optimization problem solving methods
Quadratic problems,
Derivative-free optimization,
Multiobjective problems;
Use of software to solve industrial problems
C3 – Linear optimization problem solving methods:
Primal simplex (sensibility analisys)
Artificial Variables, Big M, Revised simplex and Dual simplex methods
Modeling of industrial problems using modeling languages
Solvings optimization problems using solvers available online at the NEOS Optimization Server platform and local resolution on the PC with data import and results writing in files

Syllabus:

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1. Examine and criticize themes present in the current theoretical and empirical debate on the management of organizations
2. Assess / criticize the role of management in organizations
3. Develop and support a management research program suggesting feasible research avenues

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this Course, the student should be able to:
1. Prepare, present, and discuss a dissertation/project proposal on a relevant topic in management.
2. Develop an article of a scientific nature applied in the area of management

CONTENTS

1. Management in Organizations
2. Management in the corporate, public and non-profit sector
3. Current Management Topics
4. Support Theories for Management Research