This course is concerned with answering the question: "What industries/businesses should we participate in?" Drawing from relevant conceptual frameworks and real-life cases, this course initiates students to the latest methodologies for developing corporate strategies meant to improve the firm’s local and international competitiveness. Students will be exposed to analytical techniques for

This course emphasizes the importance of making business decisions in the light of moral principles and corporate social responsibility. It aims to introduce and familiarize students with the different ethical issues facing today businesses in order to help them develop appropriate organizational responses to such issues. The course examines frequent conflicts that may arise in conducting business

The course is intended to provide students with the latest advances in concepts and principles of finance, investments and economics. Investments will be examined as opportunities that need to be scientifically evaluated. Finance will be treated as a way of raising funds to finance investment opportunities. The economics environment and its impact on the investments valuation and financing will be

This course introduces the basic definitions, aspects of quantification, and how to identify the purpose and principles involved in the experiments. It discusses how to plan the experiment, including defining the problem, stating the hypotheses, and design the experiment in statistical terms. A crucial part of the work is how to plan the experiment in statistical term. The course includes: full

The course chronicles the value that innovative organizations find in better managing the flow and re-use of their knowledge, and effective practices to enhance knowledge, create and re-use for innovation. It discusses how, by managing knowledge, organizations can succeed in innovations and new product development. It addresses structural and cultural barriers to knowledge management (KM) to

To provide the students with the knowledge of rules, techniques, steps, and alternative methods to select, procure, transfer and acquire a technology. The course explains and discusses the different levels of considerations to select a particular technology from alternatives. It identifies the different routes through which a firm can acquire needed technologies. It provides a framework that helps

This course discusses emerging technologies, their evolvement, the effect of international, political, social, economic and cultural factors. Topics covered in the course include accuracy in forecasting of past technologies, how to improve them, international perspective on emerging technologies, future customer trends and forecasting methodologies. Emerging technologies will be examined through

In the first part, the course includes: Experimental design, statistical estimation and hypothesis testing from multivariate distribution. Topics covered will include: regression models, multivariate analysis of variance, canonical correlations, classification procedures and factor analysis. Computer applications of these techniques will be examined. In the second part, the course covers an

The course aims at enhancing academic writing skills pertinent to proposal and dissertation writing. The course builds on the Research Methods & Advanced Statistics course offered. The course moves through the different sections of writing a proposal/dissertation with a special focus on the language used for scientific and academic contexts. Using experiential learning as a main methodology, the

Pre-requisites: MOT 612 & 614, Research Methods and Statistics, or consent of the instructor. Regulations and rules of the Ph. D. dissertation are described above.

Pre-requisites: Consent of instructor The graduate internship is designed to provide doctoral students with more opportunities to test and experiment in industry, research organizations, government agencies, and other appropriate experiential venues associated with technology utilization, transfer, and innovation for the explicit purpose of developing knowledge in the specialization. A personal

The Ph.D. student will do at least two research seminars on advanced topics related to MOT. The topic will be chosen by the student and approved by his supervisor. The topic could be related and/or complementary to her/his dissertation. Seminars will be attended by university faculty, students, and external audiences

In this course, students follow an in-depth directed study in a given topic or field of their choice under the close supervision of a faculty member. A student may repeat the course for credit provided that the topic or field of choice is different. Repeating the course for credit requires the approval of the program director.

This course is tailored to introduce students to the latest advances in fields that are related to their specialization in the management of technology, and/or to focus on a specific area of particular interest to the discipline. Course contents may vary from term to term to address emerging subjects

The course focuses on integrating the organizational mission and strategy with the development of strategic marketing plans. It discusses how to deal with issues such as product creation, price, positioning, and communication that arise in developing markets. It evaluates the different variables affecting marketing plans from a managerial perspective. Students develop analytical skills, acquire a

This course aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage technology portfolios in different types of organizations. It includes an overview of the role of techniques used for technology assessment and describes different ways to evaluate the contribution of each technology to corporate competitiveness. The course explores the factors involved in establishing and