Commercial properties occupied by a business for its operations across office, industrial, logistics, and data centers. This course will provide an overview of the practice and execution of Corporate Real Estate including strategic planning, transaction management, capital markets, construction project management, facilities management and lease administration. Topics will include occupancy planning and trends, co-working, site selection, outsource partners, financing, own vs. lease decisions, sustainability and LEED, and portfolio management.

The most challenging decisions that business leaders have to make often require particular attention to core values and ethics. These situations can be triggered by a government investigation, ambiguous clinical trial results or product safety concerns. Others may involve a potential employee termination. In each case, the leader must understand the facts, grapple with nuances and consider the deeper dimensions of the required action.

In this course we'll see models of asset prices that try to explain observed features of asset prices using macroeconomic quantities. The goal is to discuss plausible microfounded models whose asset pricing predictions match empirical facts. We will go through the details of the models, trying to understand why they were constructed the way they are, and also work on linking models and data. We'll also discuss recent advances in asset pricing and their implications for future research.

This course provides an introduction to topics in managerial data mining, and related data retrieval and manipulation content. Models in regression, clustering, neural nets, classification, and association rule mining are applied to business data sets. In this managerially-focused course, students will learn how to use such models and interpret output. Students will also be introduced to a programming language for extraction and manipulation of data. Experiential exercises will be assigned using leading industry applications.

This course surveys classic and current conceptual and empirical research in services marketing and management in the context of the hospitality, leisure, tourism and other service sectors. Students have the opportunity to develop their creative capacity in the development of theoretical extensions of the research and applications in hospitality and other service intensive contexts including health care, educational and financial services

This course is designed to be a graduate level seminar in theory construction in general and as it applies to the tourism phenomenon and its impacts. It is designed to give students an introduction into the basic concepts of theory using published research from the fields of management, marketing, hospitality and tourism management. Students are expected to develop an understanding of classic theories within their specific areas of interest and create a foundation framework for three dissertation research.

This course provides an executive viewpoint of marketing concepts, such as branding and segmentation, for strategic and organizational decision-making. There is an emphasis on tools available for analysis and control of marketing activities, including the use of new media. Topics also include industrial life cycles, customer experience, and pricing strategy.