Below are details of the courses offered in Summer 2020. Some new courses will be offered in 2021; course information will be updated when available.
Recommended credits are shown in parentheses.
Portuguese History and Culture & Survival Portuguese Language – available for all students
In addition to the business courses all students can take survival Portuguese language and Portuguese History and Culture. These courses really help students make the most of their time in Lisbon and to better understand the city and country where they are living.
| SESSION A | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Corporate Negotiation and Influence |
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| The main purpose of this course is to enable students to better understand and use negotiation and influence to achieve goals in corporate contexts. At the end of the course, the participants will manage the concepts and basic elements of negotiation and influence in intra-organizational and inter-organizational contexts; identify and know how to manage the negotiation steps in a win-win perspective. To acknowledge and explore corporate cooperation opportunities; and to identify and use negotiation and influence tactics. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Trends in Digital Marketing |
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| At the end of this course, students should be able to understand de digital marketing scope and coordinate digital marketing strategy with business strategy. Theory and practice will be combined through various case studies coming from many different sectors and geographies. Based on the learnings, students will have the opportunity to develop a project to be presented at the end of the course, with the best group being announced in a final ceremony. | |
| SESSION B | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Leadership and Strategic Knowledge |
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| This programme focuses on how students become effective knowledge agents by addressing the importance of leadership, knowledge management and innovation. At the end students are expected to: understand the concept and the nature of organizational knowledge; learn about Knowledge Management, discuss the relationship between strategic knowledge management and innovation, understand the case for change – Aspiration; Anticipation; Desperation; differentiate Leadership Theories (Traits Theory; Great Events Theory; Situational Leadership; transactional leadership; Transformational Leadership); The Leadership Styles (Daniel Goleman) - Leadership that gets results (how to use the different styles for effective leadership); the eight-stage process of creating major change (Phillip Koter) | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Brand Management and Marketing Communication |
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This course aims to combine a perspective of brand management and marketing communications with a strong practical focus, reflected on an extensive scrutiny of contemporary cases, across a variety of sectors and geographies. At the end of the course students should be able to:
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| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | International Financial Management |
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| The globalization of trade and finance as a consequence of the great advances in information technologies, transportation, and communications, during the last century, has introduced a dramatic new commercial reality for the world citizens. This transformation of the world market economy, has important implications for business, which we will analyze in this course. Students will be able to examine the trade theories, policies, and instruments of international commerce and finance, as well as consider trade integration. Course content also focuses on the foreign exchange markets and the balance of payments and institutions of international trade. Macro policies in open economies, such as flexible exchange rates and the nature of foreign exchange markets, risk and hedging transactions will be examined. Theories and policies of foreign direct investment and political risk are also considered. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Fixed Income Markets |
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| Course description coming soon. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Energy and Environmental Economics |
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| Course description coming soon. | |
| SESSION C | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Cross Cultural Communication and Negotiation |
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This program is designed to introduce the participants to the management of crosscultural differences and leadership in the globalized world by being effective in communication and negotiation. Therefore, this program’s learning goals are:
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| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Innovation and Creativity in Marketing |
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| Students will deep dive in the world of innovation and creativity in marketing. They will be asked to create and propose an innovation project based on three real life challenges that they will experience. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand innovation scope, coordinate innovation with business strategy and be able to manage the innovation cycle. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | Entrepreneurial Marketing |
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| Course description coming soon. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Business (3) |
| Course Title: | International Business |
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In this course the students must learn how to identify the main opportunities and risks brought by foreign markets entry, both in the framework of decision making and search for research topics in this field. Program:
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