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In the Summer of 2004, the International School of Management will offer IeMBA students the opportunity to study in New York City on
the campus of St. John’s University. Over a period of 7 weeks from July 6 - August 20, 2004. The program will consist of five intensive seminars with top quality professors plus an extensive series of Business Site Visits. The subjects covered in the seminars are : Management & Leadership, Strategic Planning, Corporate Finance, Business Ethics and Organizational Risk Management. For lists of Businesses visited by ISM students in the past please look at the back of the Handbook.
Following the successful completion of the New York Program students will receive an official certificate from St. John's University. The certificate is awarded upon minimum attendance of 4 weeks.
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This seminar examines management as both science and art with special emphasis on its underlying skills, roles and philosophies. It will highlight the salient position of management in building a strong, cohesive organization. Topics include: the theory of management, effective leadership, roles and skills necessary to create the efficient manager, corporate social responsibility, corporate culture, motivation and managing change.
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Steve Shapiro served as Director of Education and Training for a 500 member automobile dealers trade association for ten years. He created the Association's Center for Automotive Education and Training which provided educational opportunities for over 20,000 dealership employees as well as management development programs and an active Job Bank. He initiated the Annual National Automotive Technology Competition at the New York International Automobile Show, which offered schools and students millions of dollars in prizes and scholarships. The Center was recognized nationally as a model program by the business and education communities. Mr Shapiro is a consultant to Pfizer Inc. He created the NY Headquarters Training and Development Center and served as director of The College At Pfizer for ten years. He also designed and implemented workshops and seminars for management and support staff personnel. He has taught management, career development and communication seminars.
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This seminar covers strategic planning using a specific industry where you will be able to apply your knowledge and skills in depth. Two case studies will introduce you to the dynamic world of strategic planning in a global framework. You are about to enter the market for refrigerated fresh and frozen food products that are transported in ocean-going vessels. You will soon be immersed in problem solving and decision making in a realistic planning environment. This seminar will challenge you to integrate various aspects of marketing and planning. You will discover and analyze market characteristics and make strategic, operational, marketing, and financial decisions.
In this process, you will see that the manager must know certain things. Key topics include:
- Marketing and business planning. What are the future prospects for a company's operations? What markets should it enter? How should its profits, balance sheet, and cash flow be improved?
- Presentation of a recommendation. What is the structure of a marketing plan? How should it be presented to the Board of Directors?
You will see that decisions are not made in a vacuum. A change in strategy must be evaluated in light of the capability to obtain and transport products. Fluctuating costs affect sources of products. Imbalances in supply and demand affect selling prices. Lags between obtaining products and delivering halfway around the world can affect profits and the success of business ventures.
This seminar serves as an introduction to corporate financial management. The underlying philosophy of the seminar is to demonstrate how finance follows a business person's intuition. Common sense and finance are closely related in the real world. As such, this seminar provides a practical perspective for graduate students who want to understand how the management of financial considerations helps shareholders achieve their financial goals. In addition, the seminar takes a managerial approach. The CFO, treasurer, and controller are primarily managers. Thus managerial skills are integrated into the seminar. The seminar challenges students to develop and apply critical thinking and decision making skills to financial opportunities.
This graduate seminar in Business Ethics will examine the implications of ethics on business practices and the business cost of ethical failure. Participants will cover several practical approaches to business ethics and how companies are addressing today's most pressing ethical issues. Participants will specifically:
- examine several current American and Global ethical crises
- determine the reasons that executives and senior managers are particularly vulnerable to ethical failure
- identify a personal code of conduct patterned on Stephen Covey's Principle-Centered Leadership Model
The focus of the program will be less on theory than on practical application.
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Thomas Schwartz is an operations oriented international business trainer and consultant with over thirty years of combined corporate and university training experience. Dr. Schwartz holds a PhD from UCLA, an M.A. from Brigham Young University, and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Schwartz's corporate experience as a Human Resources professional included significant work managing management and executive development and providing organizational development consulting services to a range of client companies. Most recently he served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources for a multi-national insurance brokerage firm. Currently, Dr. Schwartz runs his own small Connecticut-based business and is a frequent lecturer and speaker at universities and business conferences. In addition to teaching at St. John's University, Dr. Schwartz is an adjunct faculty member in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University.
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This seminar is for students with several years of management experience. The seminar assumes the students have a working knowledge of accounting, micro-economics, statistics, finance, organizational behaviour, and strategic management. Students combine these skills in this single seminar to learn an effective method to manage an organization's risks.
The seminar has four major objectives:
- Provide students with a risk management process to help the organization achieve their risk related goals. A key element of the seminar is to study in detail the steps used to efficiently manage pure risks;
- Provide students with the skills to make difficult managerial decisions. To understand the process of making decisions and the impact these will make on their business.
- Enhance the students ability to think critically and analytically in solving risky problems;
- Acquaint students with a myriad of tolls available to treat risks. Students may suspect insurance is the only tool available to them. This seminar introduces the alternative risk solutions.
The development of comprehensive plans allows participants to make decisions, receive feedback, and gain new insights into the key variables that determine successful marketing strategies.
The skills needed in marketing are also needed in general business. Thus, this seminar allows you to demonstrate skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and written presentations.
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