- Teacher: Thomas Maillart
The institutional project – Participation in the UNIGE – GEW Best idea competition - aims at encouraging students to follow their own ideas embracing business opportunities and to give them confidence that this endeavor is feasible and realistic. The Best idea competition is a unique opportunity to start the learning journey early, during bachelor or master’s cursus. Through a carefully prepared learning path, students will:
- · - Take an online course about entrepreneurship, which tackles the entrepreneurial journey from the problem, to the solution, covering all necessary tools to succeed.
- · Participate in the Best idea competition and pitch in front of its professional jury including representatives of Genilem, FAE, Fongit, Fondetec, Credit – Suisse, Softweb, etc.
- · Get acquainted with entrepreneurship related sustainability issues, such as the UN sustainable development goals and circular economy principles.
- · Develop best practice entrepreneurial competencies aligned with the EU Entrepreneurial Competence Framework.
- · Participate in weekly group meetings to review, practice and discuss e-learning contents.
- · Get trained for the 3 min pitch at the Best Idea competition.
- · Mingle with like-minded students and meet representatives of the Geneva entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Workload: 6 hours per week including the e-training review sessions (Thursdays 12:14-14:00, M2020 UniMail) + full bootcamp training day on 11.11.2023.
· Evaluation: participation in all events/ sessions is compulsory. Grades will be attributed based participation effort: asking questions and interacting on the e-training platform and physical sessions, discussing business idea with teachers and coaches, progressing towards launch of business venture (incl. pivoting idea to other idea if needed).
- Teacher: Julia Pion
- Teacher: Lammert Vrieling
i. have completed the first part of the bachelor program, and
ii. have acquired at least 30 credits of the second part
If there are more than 50 (2 x 25) students on the qualified student list, then students will be ranked based on the evaluation of their submitted motivation letter (writing in English). Students can register for the course during the presentation session Wednesday 20 September at 16:00 in room MR160 (presence is compulsory).
- Teacher: Christina HERTEL
- Teacher: Thomas Maillart
This institutional project has been developed by the Geneva Responsible Entrepreneurship Center (GREC) to support GSEM Bachelor students, who are members of the Junior Entreprise Geneva (JEG), an associated hosted at UNIGE and GSEM, in developing and running a Sustainable Entrepreneurship Hackathon during the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in November 2023, based on a first excellent mini-hackathon run by JEG and hosted at UBS Romandie Headquarters in 2022.
The institutional project involves weekly coaching sessions from early October until December 2023 (online or face-to-face) and ponctual support by the teachers to help students build, run and follow-up on the JEG Sustainable Entrepreneurship Hackathon. Hence, this project encourages students and JEG overall to organize the conditions for the initiation of responsible entrepreneurship, which in turn could be further developed as entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship projects, or social and/or not-for-profit entreprises, with the support of JEG.
- Teacher: Julia Pion
- Teacher: Lammert Vrieling
i. have completed the first part of the bachelor program, and
ii. have acquired at least 30 credits of the second part
If there are more than 50 (2 x 25) students on the qualified student list, then students will be ranked based on the evaluation of their submitted motivation letter (writing in English). Students can register for the course during the presentation session Wednesday 20 September at 16:00 in room MR160 (presence is compulsory).
- Teacher: Thomas Maillart
The institutional project on Entrepreneurial Action for Sustainable Finance (for Bachelor Students) aims at embarking students, respectively groups of students, in an hands-on learning adventure in responsible entrepreneurship on sustainable finance. Sustainable finance is considered as one of the most transformative evolution of finance and for development for the coming years, if not decades. Together with digitilization, sustainable finance implies numerous entrepreneurial opportunities. This institutional project on Entrepreneurial Action for Sustainable Finance offers students first-hand learning experience together with professionnals in the field, and major institutional partners.
Through a carefuly organised journey, students, will
- attend presentations on sustainable finance at the Building Bridges Conference (CICG, Oct. 3-5),
- develop concrete solution prototypes during the Sustainable Finance Hack by resorting to collective intelligence with fellow students and professionnals (Unimail, Oct. 6-7),
- learn about the entrepreneurail mindset (date tbc),
- Identify most promising entrepreneurial opportunities to continue developing their project (Oct. - Dec 2023)
- Teacher: Thomas Straub
Ce cours fait un tour d'horizon complet des diverses fonctions d’une entreprise responsable, et présente les notions fondamentales du Management et de la Gestion d’entreprise. L'entreprise, en tant que système social et responsable, est replacée dans son environnement complexe, et on analyse les notions de typologie et d'objectifs d'entreprise. Les diverses fonctions de l'entreprise sont présentées, telles que : le Marketing et la Vente, la Production et la Logistique & la Comptabilité et la Finance, l'Organisation et les Systèmes d’Informatique, les Ressources Humaines et le Leadership ainsi que la Stratégie de l’entreprise (Direction).
En sus de la partie théorique, nous inviterons pour chaque session des interlocuteurs du monde de l’entreprise pour mieux appréhender la gestion quotidienne de leur fonction.
La réalisation d’un Business Plan qui vise à répondre à des problématiques en liens avec les « Sustainable Development Goals » (SDGs) fait les liens avec la théorie et la pratique et permet à l’étudiant de mieux comprendre les liens entre les différentes fonctions d’entreprise. Au-delà ceci sensibilise les étudiants à la recherche, l’interprétation, à l’utilisation, et la fiabilité de l’informations.
- Teacher: Thomas Straub
As an outcome of this course, participants are expected to acquire knowledge and skills to help them manage effectively in a business environment. Since all organizations deal with strategic management in one form or another, this course gives a framework for analyzing and thinking about how organizations can develop a strategy as well as a clear understanding of the fundamental issues and techniques of strategy.
- Teacher: Thomas Maillart
- Teacher: Kerstin Preuschoff
- Teacher: Giuseppe Ugazio
The institutional project on Entrepreneurial Action for Sustainable Finance (for MRM Students) aims at embarking students, respectively groups of students, in an hands-on learning adventure in responsible entrepreneurship on sustainable finance. Sustainable finance is considered as one of the most transformative evolution of finance and for development for the coming years, if not decades. Together with digitilization, sustainable finance implies numerous entrepreneurial opportunities. This institutional project on Entrepreneurial Action for Sustainable Finance offers students first-hand learning experience together with professionnals in the field, and major institutional partners.
Through a carefuly organised journey, students, will
- attend presentations on sustainable finance at the Building Bridges Conference (CICG, Oct. 3-5),
- develop concrete solution prototypes during the Sustainable Finance Hack by resorting to collective intelligence with fellow students and professionnals (Unimail, Oct. 6-7),
- Identify most promising entrepreneurial opportunities to continue developing their project (Oct. - Dec 2023)
- Develop an entrepreneurial action as best fits (Jan. - May 2024)
- Teacher: Nathalie Simone Borgognon
- Teacher: Michele Marro
- Teacher: Laurent Moccozet
The study of the SCALA language will familiarize the student with the basic concepts of structured programming: variables, controls, data structures and functions; and object-oriented programming: classes, objects, methods and their application to the analysis and development of simple applications.
The main concepts covered in the course are:
- Variables
- Control structures: sequence, iteration and condition
- Collections
- Classes, objects, attributes and methods.
- Inputs / outputs
- Files
- Exceptions and their management
- Teacher: Enrico Alberto Chavez
- Teacher: Manon Felix
- Teacher: Nguyen Tran
- Teacher: Giuseppe Ugazio
Course Description
Philanthropy is characterized by a common goal: improving humanity’s well-being. This goal has been recently formalized by the U.N. 2030 Agenda to achieve the 17 Sustainable Developing Goals. The world revolving around this mission, however, is extremely complex and touches upon several different disciplines including Digital Transformation, Finance, Law, Philosophy, and Psychology. This class has two main focuses: one (morning sessions) at the main approaches to Philanthropy in the Western hemisphere, discussing the opportunities and challenges of each of these. The goal of the course is for students to acquire fundamental knowledge about the Philanthropic sector and related organizations (e.g. sustainable financial investors). The second (afternoon sessions) brings in a regional dimension: very little is known and taught about alternative approaches, such as the Asian (e.g. China, India), Middle Eastern/Arabic (e.g. U.A.E, Jordan), Latin American (e.g.Brazil, Mexico) and African (e.g. South-Africa) ways of doing Philanthropy. This part of the course offers an introductory overview of how philanthropy in each of these geographies approach key thematic areas of philanthropic engagement. Emphasis will be put on the thematic area that is most prevalent or relevant for the given geography, and include education, health, and women empowerment.
With over 3.000 foundations registered in Geneva alone including more than 1.200 philanthropic foundations, this course prepares students to make informed contributions to the philanthropic sector helping philanthropists to accomplish the goals they care about.
To complete this course...
Who is this course intended for:
Bachelor students from any discipline interested in learning about and preparing to getting involved with Philanthropic organizations and/or activities. This course welcomes also public audience (also non-UNIGE), permission to attend needs to be obtained in advance in that case. Only students registered for the credits will receive supervision from the instructor on the assignments.
Timeline:
This course starts on September 18, 2023 at Uni-Mail. It takes place on Mondays at:
10:15 - 12:00 – room M 1150
14:15 - 16h00 – room M 4220
- Teacher: Nathalie Simone Borgognon
- Teacher: Michele Marro
- Teacher: Laurent Moccozet
L'étude du langage SCALA vous familiarisera avec les concepts de base de la programmation structurée: variables, contrôles, structures de données et fonctions; et de la programmation orientée objet: classes, objets, méthodes et leur application à l'analyse et au développement d'applications simples. Au-delà du langage de programmation étudié, vous apprendrez à approcher un problème, à définir un algorithme et à le programmer. Les principaux concepts couverts dans le cours sont:
- Les types, les variables, les listes et collections
- Les structures de contrôle : séquence, itération et condition
- Les entrées / sorties
- Les classes, objets, attributs et méthodes
- Les fichiers textes en écriture et lecture
- La gestion des exceptions
A la fin du cours, vous serez capables d'analyser un problème simple, de construire la solution correspondante et de la programmer en SCALA. Vous maîtriserez les aspects de base de la programmation structurée et objet. Vous développerez des compétences d'analyse et de résolution de problème.
- Teacher: Sebastian Engelke
- Teacher: Manuel Hentschel
- Teacher: Dongmei Liu
- Teacher: Christophe Valvason
- Teacher: Judith Schrempf-Stirling
Please note, that Responsible Management is a mandatory course for all GSEM Master in Responsible Management students, and as such, these students have priority to attend. In general, the course is open for non-GSEM students, however it is dependent on the final enrollment numbers.
The society of the 21st century is in a crisis marked by resource scarcity, deforestation, climate change, social and economic inequality, and poverty, to mention just a few. Looking at this societal and environmental state of our planet, the role of business and capitalism requires rethinking. Business-as-usual is not an option anymore. Organizations need to pause and reflect on the negative societal and environmental impacts of their practices and operations, as well as opportunities for positive impact.
This course examines the transition to a more responsible, purposeful, and sustainable economy. The course introduces frameworks, approaches, and best practices on how organizations develop and implement a business model that has a positive impact on society and the environment while being profitable. Students will describe, analyze, and evaluate the social and environmental impact of organizations.
The course is delivered through a mix of lectures, case studies, and class discussions. The course includes continuing assessments comprised of a group project and an individual semester case study.
- Teacher: Eva Cantoni
- Teacher: Wenfei Chu
Statistical Modelling - Fall 2023
The topics covered during the course are:
- descriptive analysis of multivariate data (scatter plots, correlations, ...).
- multiple regression (normality, dummy variables, interactions, diagnostics of the residuals, ...)
- generalized linear models (logistic, Poisson, gamma, a little general formulation, ...).
- additive models in the context of descriptive analysis (GAM if possible...).
In addition, some concepts of causal analysis, mediation, and moderation will be addressed.
- Teacher: Nam Vera Chau
- Teacher: Philipp Krueger
- Teacher: Jing Xian
Objectif
Understand and price bonds
- Analyze and test basic asset pricing models including factor models
- Understand the Black-Scholes options pricing model
- Be exposed to new applications of asset pricing
Corporate Finance
- Describe how firms' capital structure choices are affected by market imperfections
- Learn about different company valuation methods and firms' payout policy choices
- Learn about venture capital, Initial Public Offerings, or Mergers and Acquisitions
Descriptif
Building on the tools and knowledge acquired in the preceding courses of the finance sequence (i.e., Financial markets (or Finance de Marché) and Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance I), this course tackles more advanced topics in both asset pricing and corporate finance.
The asset pricing section emphasizes applications of core valuation concepts in the modern investment industry. It introduces important financial instruments such as bonds and credit derivatives as well as key concepts such as yield curves and the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Students are presented with real-world data applications such as testing of asset pricing models. Students are also exposed to emerging applications of asset pricing tools including machine learning methods and pricing climate risk.
The corporate finance section will focus on issues related to the financial decisions of firms and the tools to value projects and companies. For instance, the section will explore how capital structure choices are affected by market imperfections. The section will also introduce students to different company valuation concepts such as WACC and the Adjusted Present Value method. Students will also learn about firms' payout policy choices. In the final part of the section, students will learn about more specialized corporate finance topics related to venture capital, IPOs and Mergers and Acquisitions.
Bibliographie
Corporate Finance, by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo, 3rd edition, Pearson International
Cours conseillés
Strongly recommended courses
S120004 Finance de marché ou
S120001 Financial Markets
S201029 Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance I
- Teacher: Igor Almeida Matias
- Teacher: Ashley Caselli
- Teacher: Katarzyna Wac
- Teacher: Shahin Tavakoli
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