Hands on introduction to Bayesian data analysis. The course will cover the formulation, evaluation and comparison of Bayesian models through examples.
Mathematical review. Basics of Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods and sampling algorithms, with a focus on off-the-shelf software (e.g., OpenBugs, Stan, INLA). Approximation methods. Hierarchical modeling, with a focus on latent Gaussian models.
Themes covered
Introduction to the Bayesian paradigm
Formulation comparison and evaluation of Bayesian models
Sampling algorithms and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
Computational strategies for inference
Hierarchical models
Advanced topics
This workshop is designed to tailor coaching for students and the development of their personal leadership skills and impactfulness. It will give them a clear picture of their skill level as a manager and of their development priorities. The coaching program will assist in their reflection process.
This workshop is for MBA students with or without management experience. The workshop focuses on fundamental notions of mastering and taking ownership of the manager profession. Students will learn to become more conscious of their own management practices, styles, beliefs, and management values . Awareness will be built in class with every-day actions through self-assessment and reflection on students' behaviours. Managing in a post-pandemic world requires managers to revise their conception of work to be more human centred, to manage with more empathy for employees, and to revisit notions of control, delegation, and authority. Students can receive tailored coaching that is geared toward mastering and taking ownership of the manager profession and that goes beyond what can be achieved in the classroom.
Themes covered
Management philosophy/beliefs/style/practices
Going from technical expert to manager
Leadership authority and management roles: First level managers middle managers executives and CEO; boards of directors and governance
Decision making
Moving from more ''traditional'' management to ''post-pandemic'' management
Reflexivity identity and self-management
Defining coaching as a catalyzing relationship
Manager development and incorporating knowledge into actions
In this course, students will familiarize themselves with the fundamentals and applications of artificial intelligence in management. They will develop an application using artificial intelligence, while considering the ethical considerations associated with such applications.
Organizations are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence applications as part of their digital strategies, both to enhance their value proposition, understand, attract, and retain customers, personalize their relationships with them, and support employees in their tasks. This course is intended for future professionals who will assist organizations in the effective deployment of such applications. To this end, the course adopts an experiential approach that will enable students to master the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, understand the principles of developing AI-based applications, and gain hands-on experience in building such applications. Students will also become familiar with the ethical principles specific to the development and use of artificial intelligence applications in management and will experiment with applying an ethical framework in this context.
Themes covered
Fundamentals of artificial intelligence: origin recent developments types of systems etc.
Operating principles of various models used in artificial intelligence
Tools for developing artificial intelligence applications
Integration of artificial intelligence applications into an organization's business model
Methodological elements related to the development of artificial intelligence applications
Specific challenges associated with developing artificial intelligence applications
Ethical considerations related to the development of artificial intelligence applications
Important notes
Un ordinateur portable configuré selon les exigences technologiques de l'École est requis pour ce cours.
This course focuses on value creation in the context of SMEs. We will address the various management modalities present in the SME world while analyzing the different challenges that SME leaders must contend with.
As a workshop allowing back-and-forth between the theoretical and practical aspects, this course focuses on integrating key management concepts for value creation in the context of SMEs. The student will also experience, as part of a team, a practical exercise that will lead them to implement a consulting approach in an existing SME. At the end of this course, the student will be able to become a manager in an SME, act as a consultant to SMEs, or start their own SME.
Themes covered
Value creation for SMEs
The thought processes of SME leaders and their influence on the company's strategy
Innovation and entrepreneurial (intrapreneurial) processes to accelerate value creation
Operations and performance management
Human resources processes in SMEs
Marketing strategy in SMEs
Sustainable development in SMEs
Organic growth and growth through acquisition
Financing growth
Provide with the bases of business analytics and illustrate its concepts on practical management situations. Use of cases concerning several aspects of management, for example, in economics, finance, human resources, marketing, and operations management and logistics.
We live in a time when managers are asked to do more with less. In many situations it is possible to represent the impact of a decision with the help of mathematical expressions to evaluate its consequences. In addition, computer advances make it possible (in many cases) to quickly identify simultaneous decisions to optimize one or more criteria (e.g., expected benefits and environmental performances) while respecting management constraints. For that, one needs to be able to formalize the decision problem in a mathematical form and to solve it efficiently.
Themes covered
1. Introduction to Decision Support
2. Decision using Linear Programming
3. Decision in a Network Context
4. Making Discrete Choices
5. Taking into Account Non-Proportional Relationships
6. Taking into Account Multiple Decision Criteria
Important notes
Course in French : MATH 50604 Préalable(s) : MNGT 56126(A)(Co) ou être admis au programme 3792 - Visiteur - Entente mobilité.
Provide with the bases of business analytics and illustrate its concepts on practical management situations. Use of cases concerning several aspects of management, for example, in economics, finance, human resources, marketing, and operations management and logistics.
We live in a time when managers are asked to do more with less. In many situations it is possible to represent the impact of a decision with the help of mathematical expressions to evaluate its consequences. In addition, computer advances make it possible (in many cases) to quickly identify simultaneous decisions to optimize one or more criteria (e.g., expected benefits and environmental performances) while respecting management constraints. For that, one needs to be able to formalize the decision problem in a mathematical form and to solve it efficiently.
Themes covered
1. Introduction to Decision Support
2. Decision using Linear Programming
3. Decision in a Network Context
4. Making Discrete Choices
5. Taking into Account Non-Proportional Relationships
6. Taking into Account Multiple Decision Criteria
Important notes
Course in French : MATH 50671 Préalable(s) : MNGT 56180(A)(Co) ou MNGT 56108(A)(Co) ou MNGT 56109(A)(Co) et être inscrit au MBA à temps plein ou à temps partiel, ou être admis au programme 3792 - Visiteur - Entente mobilité.
Familiarization with several concepts that are part of business development: broad definition, value creation in customer relationships, implementation and execution of strategies to achieve organic growth, and interpersonal communication in customer relationships.
Students will be able to understand the importance of business development for themselves and their company. Specifically,
1.Students can assess how value is created across customer relationships.
2.Students can anticipate the consequences of decisions made during the business development process and assess them considering the company's success.
3.Students can apply the basic methods to sell a solution in personal interactions.
Themes covered
Business development: Definition and objectives
Value creation in customer relationships
Sales strategy and its execution
Customer relationships
Social Networking: The value of internal and external networks
Effective communication and active listening
Initial contact and prospecting
Needs analysis
Presentation of a solution product or service
Handling objections and closing
Introduction to the functioning and limits of markets. Strategic decision-making process, considering the economic environment in which the firm operates, including international trade, government interventions, market structures as well as the economic and financial situation.
This course covers all the concepts required to better understand constraints, opportunities and risks from the firm's internal and external points of view. The course focuses on developing a comprehensive strategic vision and contextually optimal decisions.
We study the competitive context of the firm as well as adapted strategies in terms of price, quality and quantity related to market structure, including the type of consumers and the industrial structure (competition, cost structure, etc.).
We also study the short- and long-term dynamics of the economy as a whole in order to better understand temporal considerations related to the economic context: interest rates, macroeconomic policies, inflation and exchange rates, unemployment and growth.
The global vision that emerges is all the more useful in that it can be directly applied to developing the firm's vision, strategies and decision-making.
Themes covered
Theme 1: The functioning of a market economy
Constraints and opportunity costs exchange and value creation; productivity and competition.
Theme 2: The market
Market supply and market demand. Surplus value. Shocks and adjustments. Elasticity.
Theme 3: Costs and the perfectly competitive firm
Structure and types of costs of the typical in the short run and in the long run.
Theme 4: Market power
Marketing and strategic behaviour. Induced and natural monopolies. Price strategies. Network effects.
Theme 5: Markets and production factors
Labour supply and demand; optimal labour-capital combination. Productivity and factor demand. Outsourcing and offshoring.
Theme 6: Market failures and government interventions
Market failures and government interventions. Interventions without market failures.
Theme 7: International trade and global markets
Internal market external market and total demand. Import prices and input prices. Unit labour costs. Industrial clusters.
Theme 8: Macroeconomic environment and strategic vision
Key macroeconomic trends and phenomena. Basic concepts relating to economic fluctuations and financial markets.
Important notes
Course in French : ECON 40830
Equivalent course(s) : ECON 40842
This course is offered for the graduate overseas programs only.
This course deals with advanced grammar, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Students will participate in oral exchanges, individual presentations, reading the texts from the current and specialized publications and discussing various notions of business English communication in the workplace.
Awareness of the particularities of oral and written communications in a professional context in English. Special attention will be given to the structure of business meetings, negotiations, interpersonal workplace exchanges, rules for oral presentations, exchanges at socio-professional meetings, business communications (e-mails and reports) and the use of electronic communication in the business world today.
Themes covered
1. Individual presentation on business topics from reputable business journals
This course deals with intermediate business grammar and vocabulary. Students will practice real-life oral exchanges, individual presentations, listening, and reading the texts from the current and specialized publications and various notions of business English communication in the workplace.
Successfully present brief presentations and case studies, apply the skills and knowledge that will serve one in a school and professional context well. The following aspects will be discussed: grammar, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. We will practice and acquire the skills necessary for oral business communication and real-life exchanges. We will read the texts taken from the current and specialized press as well as practice many formal and informal aspects of business communications.
Themes covered
1. Business terminology with regular quizzes
2. Grammar with regular quizzes
3 . Business article presentations in front of groups of three or four
4. Individual presentations (given once toward the end of the term)
5. Business correspond ence and summary assignments (drafts and revisions)
This course deals with high-intermediate grammar, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Students will participate in oral exchanges, presentations, reading the texts from the current and specialized publications and discussing various notions of business English communication in the workplace.
Working on language proficiency necessary to communicate with ease in the business world today. More specifically, the following aspects will be addressed: oral communication, business oral and writing exchanges, reading of academic texts, grammar, idiomatic expressions, oral presentations, advanced listening comprehension, case studies as well as some formal and informal aspects of business communication.
Themes covered
1. Business terminology with regular quizzes
2. Grammar with regular quizzes
3 . Business article presentations in front of groups of three or four
4. Individual PowerPoint presentations (given once toward the end of the term)
5. Business correspond ence and summary assignments (drafts and revisions)
This course will enable students to understand the predominant role that business processes play in the operation of companies and in the reformulation of their value proposition. They will learn to conduct performance diagnosis and quality appraisals of both the processes and the information systems that support them.
To achieve this, students will first learn to identify the main business processes involved in a company's value proposition. These business processes and the systems supporting them will then be analyzed in order to recommend improvement strategies that could be applied to the processes on the one hand, and to the data structure and processing found in the information systems supporting the improved processes on the other hand. Finally, students will learn to translate these recommendations into requirements and prepare a requirement specification document that will be used by the development team.
Themes covered
Digital transformation in organizations
Value proposition
User stories / User journey
Business analysis
Business process
Performance analysis
Diagnostic assessment
Process automation
Conceptual and logical data models
Normalization
Processing models
Acceptance criteria
Requirement specification document
Important notes
Préalable(s) : TECH 10701(A)
Course in French: TECH 20709
This course integrates knowledge and skills developed during the DESS. The course is anchored in a multi-disciplinary approach to management, and aims to integrate the concepts and practices of different functional areas in the resolution of strategic problems.
Strategic management enables companies to resolve complex problems that they face in competitive economic environments. The structure of the course, its readings and the simulation are designed to improve understanding of the nature of strategic activity, and to reinforce knowledge about organizational change in different contexts.
Themes covered
Compétences cognitives ciblées (savoir être)
Compétences relationnelles et attitudes ciblées dans un contexte multidisciplinaire
Compétences techniques ciblées (savoir faire)
Important notes
Course in French : MNGT 40450
This course is offered for the graduate overseas programs only.
Continued improvement in language use and development of effective emails, letters, and reports.
The purpose of this course is to help students improve and practice professional writing, so that they may perform competently in the workplace. The students will learn about the distinctive elements of professional writing in addition to practicing and perfecting the strategies and techniques to help them write successfully in these contexts. The students will also work on editing their own work, as well as the work of others, for structure, content, and tone. The students will also learn to eliminate errors in grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
Themes covered
- Communication and miscommunication in the workplace
- Business writing: process and development
- Daily business writing
- Informal reports
- Formal reports
- Tone and style in writing
- Proofreading and editing