International Marketing - International Business Core Track
This module aims to study how companies interested in entering international markets and/or expanding their activities abroad should go about designing, developing, implementing and monitoring their marketing strategies.
The module is based on the assumption that the students have some knowledge of basic and strategic marketing concepts and tools as well as of international management and basic analytical skills.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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International Finance - International Business Core Track
The International Finance is module which is intended to facilitate students the application to a real life situation of instruments available for an appropriate financial management. The context is an international sphere using a financial management simulation model and the discussion and presentation of real cases.
Language of Instruction: English
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Social Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Core Track
The module is designed for a broad range of students including those who, during their professional careers, are considering a leadership position in a social enterprise, interested in understanding the specifics of managing social enterprises, interested in consulting to social enterprises, planning to serve as board members or volunteers, become funders of nonprofit organizations, or interested in leveraging business to serve social transformation.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Global Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Core Track
This module seeks to familiarise you with concepts and models of relevance for entrepreneurs: in particular, starting up a new venture, and assessing its viability and value. In addition, it will introduce you to the particularities of corporate entrepreneurship in initiating, developing, and leading intrapreneurial projects that lead to the generation of new businesses within established companies.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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International Relations and Global Governance - Global Governance & Geopolitics Elective Track
The objectives of this moduel are to give business aspirants a solid perspective on the prevailing international situation and so to be able to:
− Present a general vision of the new arrangement of the international system and its actors, particularly from 1989 onwards
− Evaluate some of the techno‐economical, sociopolitical and cultural consequences that stem from the above mentioned changes
− Introduce the main attempts to construct new paradigms to understand the driving forces in the international environment
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Euro Zone, European Union, and Economic Crisis- Global Governance & Geopolitics Elective Track
The module revolves around the geopolitics of global governance. Specific issues dealt with: the institutional architecture of global governance, present and future of the EU as a relevant geopolitical actor, the ECB and the current euro crisis.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Spanish Language (EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK Levels A1, A2, B1.1, B1.2, B2.1, B2.2 C1) - Spanish Language Track
ESADE’S Spanish language courses, taught by native speakers with specific training in education, are an effective way of learning Spanish and improving language fluency. The course focuses on ensuring that students rapidly acquire the language skills they need in a Spanish-speaking setting. The classes in small groups are interactive, dynamic and enjoyable, focused on communication skills to help students to pick up the language right from the first day.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Spain: History, Art, and Culture - Spanish Language Track
The module will look at the history of Spain as well as some of the most relevant examples of its art and culture. They aim to give the students valuable insights into the Spanish and Catalan society.
The sessions will be completed by cultural excursions to Barcelona andsurroundings to get a deeper understanding of Spain and the culture.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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European Union Law - Business Law Core Track
This module aims to understand the basic concepts of European Union Law and differentiate the EU legal order from international and national legal orders. Have a clear sense of the evolution of EU institutions, decision‐making and EU constitutional principles. Understand the goals and content of the main EU policies
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Law and Economics - Business Law Core Track
The module objective is to analyze the incentives created by laws and legal institutions, as well as their implications for economic activity in a globalized world. We will use microeconomic models to conduct positive and normative analysis of certain legal rules and complement the analysis with real case studies.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Media: Shaping our Perceptions - Critical Thinking Core Track
The purpose of this module is to explore the role of media in western democracies and the ways in which such an influential sector shapes culture, politics and the economy. The course aims to achieve this goal through a critical perspective, that is, by highlighting the positive and, more importantly, the negative effects of Media on society and citizenship.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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In Search of Principles of a Life Philosophy: Lessons from Art, History, and Economics - Critical Thinking Core Track
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a time and a space for humanistic growth and learning. It is our firm belief that humanistic learning leads also to the improvement of professional capabilities. More cultivated human beings make better managers and executives.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Rhetoric for Persuasion and Public Speaking - Effective Interpersonal Communication Track
This module aims to improve students' communicative ability and performance by providing the opportunity to rehearse, deliver and critique a presentation on a business topic.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Negotiation, Communication, and Conflict Management - Effective Interpersonal Communication Track
Students will learn how to prepare for negotiation, understanding the key issues in a dispute resolution role. They will be able to create value in negotiations and how to share this value out. They will be able to handle negotiations according to different approaches and will be able defend themselves fromaggressive behavior.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Digital Entrepreneurship & Innovation - Technology for Entrepreneurs Elective Track
This module aims at introducing the basic aspects of the so‐called Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) as well as at discussing the impact that such technologies are having and will have in the near future in four main industrial sectors. ICT being transversal technologies, their presence in any business concept nowadays is not a choice but a must. Therefore, it seems interesting that any person having in mind a business project knows the possibilities that ICT are providing, and how such possibilities are being used in well‐established industrial sectors.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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E-Commerce & Technology - Technology for Entrepreneurs Elective Track
This module aims to provide students with a general overview of the E‐Commerce & Technology sector, focusing on the type of companies that predominate in Barcelona/Spain (Privalia, Letsbonus, Social Point) and including its main levers and stakeholders, as well as their interrelationship.
Specifically, it looks to introduce students to three main dimensions within the sector: e‐ commerce & technology industry,design & usability, and legal aspects.
Language of Instruction: English
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Design Thinking - Innovation & Methodology Elective Track
The main objective of this module is to help students develop creative thinking skills and the ability to move from conceptual thinking to taking action. The skills practiced in the course include the ability to gain deep insights about users, to use these insights for defining and reframing problems into actionable statements, and generating ideas aimed at creating alternative solutions and approaches to the identified problem. Furthermore, students will learn to carry out practical experiments that create new learning on aspects central to the successful realization of the idea.
Language of Instruction: English
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Project Management - Innovation & Methodology Elective Track
The aim of this module is to enable you to contribute to the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of organizational projects in order to link strategy to execution while improving your managerial practice.
Language of Instruction: English
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