Business involves creating and capturing different forms of value for diverse stakeholders. Considers customers and markets, and the wider context within which business operates. Develops an understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship and how to manage people. Develops personal and professional capabilities needed in business, including strategies to manage self and work effectively with others.
Develops understanding of how to manage people, processes and resources for the benefit of business and society. Focuses on the decisions and trade-offs involved in growing a business, managing customer relationships, and competing in international markets. Explores strategies to enhance productivity and ensure sustainability, and how legal tools can be used to protect value.
Develops understanding of how to manage people, processes and resources for the benefit of business and society. Focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, growing a business, managing customer relationships, competing in international markets, strategies to enhance productivity and ensure sustainability, and how to protect value. Develops professional capabilities by engaging students in assessing a ‘real world’ case and proposing solutions and recommendations.
Examines how understanding financial, non-financial and legal information is critical to business decision making. Considers the accounting and legal requirements, issues and mechanisms that impact management of an organisation. Develops skills in analysing, interpreting and communicating accounting information.
Considers how the economic and legal environment affects individuals, businesses, markets and the global economy. Explores the meaning and impact of price fluctuations, interest rate changes, exchange rate movements and balance of payments problems, standard of living comparisons, regional trading agreements, and regulatory and legal mechanisms and constraints.
Communication knowledge and skills are essential in business careers and for interpersonal and intercultural relationships. This course offers a theory-based approach combined with applied communication practices. Communication knowledge, competencies and skills are developed through exploring relationships, mediated communication, writing, team dynamics, oral presentation and technologies.
Equips students with an appreciation of the forces and actors at work beyond the market. In order to compete in the marketplace firms need to understand their nonmarket context - culture, law, regulations, politics and the physical environment - which all affect business opportunities and strategies. In turn, businesses can influence their environment, both through deliberate nonmarket strategies and as a result of their core operations.
Teams will apply multidisciplinary knowledge to solve complex problems in business scenarios. Builds skills in interpreting and presenting business information, project management, ethical decision-making and working in teams. Develops and advances core knowledge, including goals and strategy, organisational culture and structure, marketing, legal analysis, operations and supply chain management, within a dynamic macroeconomic environment.
Course taken at an approved academic institution abroad.
Course taken at an approved academic institution abroad.
Employers are demanding business school graduates with strong communication skills. Covers the theory and process of communication in today's knowledge and information intensive organisations. Develops oral and written communication skills, including professional presentations. Focuses on the role of interpersonal and team-based communication in building more effective business relationships.
Students will collaborate in international teams with peers across several universities to diagnose and propose innovative solutions to challenges presented by third- party organisations that fit within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Skills in interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration and Design Thinking are developed alongside academic mentors and third-party professionals. The course is delivered in collaboration with global Future17 partner universities.
Develops knowledge and skills in project management and report writing which will underpin BUSINESS 308 Internship and Report.
Develops practical knowledge and hands-on experience through a supervised internship and project in an innovative, entrepreneurial organisation.
Course taken at an approved academic institution abroad.
Course taken at an approved academic institution abroad.
Course taken at an approved academic institution abroad.
An integrated team-based capstone experience based on a business simulation requiring students to demonstrate their ability to work collaboratively as they engage in strategic decision-making.
A challenging ‘real world’ business case project requiring demonstration of personal and professional skills as teams assess a situation, propose solutions and communicate recommendations.
A project-based internship with a company or other appropriate organisation requiring written and oral reports of findings.
Students will become familiar with underlying theory and current best practice in quantitative research through discussion and application of topics including measurement, design (including survey design), and computer-based data analysis.
Students will become familiar with current theory and practice as well as methodological debates in the use of qualitative methodologies, including ethnography, case studies, archival research, participant observation, interview and focus group methods, as well as transcription and analysis. A workshop on coding qualitative data will be included.
The pursuit of new knowledge requires the ability to recognise and design appropriate and robust research studies. Students explore the principles and practices of research design, including the fundamentals of where knowledge comes from; if and to what degree we can be certain about our findings; the ethics of research activities; and how a topic might be investigated from multiple approaches and philosophical perspectives.
An advanced seminar on recent developments in the application of quantitative methods in business research.
An advanced seminar on recent developments in the application of qualitative methods in business research.
Develops awareness of the significance of connections with place in Aotearoa New Zealand for thriving and equitable communities, sustainable and enduring partnerships, and flourishing relationships through principled action. Equips students with practical knowledge and skills for advanced study in their subject, transdisciplinary work and student- led engagement.
Prepares students for an applied research consulting project to be conducted with a company or client. Develops an understanding of the consulting role, client engagement process, solution development, and presentation techniques. Introduces tools and frameworks required to engage in consultancy work, including problem framing, identifying, and employing appropriate methodologies, and developing and presenting solutions to specific problems. Business Accounting