Weekly Schedule | Course Paper

2-Nov 3-Nov 4-Nov 5-Nov 6-Nov 7-Nov

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Class 1 0830-1000 BGR CBMR BGR CBMR MBA

1 14 2 15 16

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Class 2 1030-1200 EEBRM IB EEBRM IB MBA

11 2 217

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Class 3 1230-1400 MFI ESP MFI ESP MBA

15 1 16 2 18

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Class 4 1500-1630 SCRM SMDE SCRM SMDE MBA

16 1 17 2 19

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Class 5 1715-1905 CM CM MBA

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* Follow the timings given on the inner pages for Unilever Talent Hunt and Friday, November 06.

** Twenty minutes have been added for Maghrib Prayer.

MBA Class of 2016, Semester IIIB

Weekly Class Schedule

Auditorium A-203

FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 02 TO NOVEMBER 06, 2015

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Code Units Course Title Instructor

BGR 0.5 Business Government Relations Khalid Mirza

CBMR 1Consumer Behaviour and Market Research (Semester IIIA & IIIB) Farrah Arif

CM 0.5 Channel Management M Luqman Awan

EEBRM 0.5 Economic Environment and Business Risk Management Salman Khan

ESP 0.5 Entrepreneurship-Developing and Sustaining A New Venture M Shehryar Shahid

IB 0.5 Islamic Banking Saad Azmat

MFI 1Management of Financial Institutions (Semester IIIA & IIIB) Samir Ahmed

SCRM 1Supply Chain and Retail Management (Semester IIIA & IIIB) M Naiman Jalil

SMDE 0.5 Strategy and Management in Developing Economies Syed Zahoor Hassan

MBA 2 MBA Project Hassan Rauf

MBA CLASS OF 2016

SEMESTER IIIB (S IIIB)

LIST OF COURSES BEING OFFERED

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SULEMAN DAWOOD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

MBA PROGRAMME

CLASS OF 2016

AUDITORIUM A-203

SEMESTER III 2015-16 (SIIIB)

Assignments for the week of November 02 to November 06, 2015

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 02

0830 – 1000 BUSINESS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

KHALID MIRZA

Topic: Broad Overview of Business-Government Relations

Learning Objective: To understand the broad contours of the course by

adverting to and deliberating upon business-government relations in

general terms in a variety of situations

Read: Roles and Relationships of Business and Government (Pgs. 36)

1000 – 1030 Tea break

1030 – 1200 ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT AND BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT

SALMAN KHAN

Topic: Assessing Country Macroeconomics

Learning Objective: The students will be able to identify and evaluate the

macroeconomic performance of a country

Read:

1. Insights Through Indicators (Pgs. 1 – 9 = Total # 33)

2. A Framework for Assessing Pakistan Macro Economic Conditions

(Pgs. 19) (Supplementary reading)

1200 – 1230 Break

1230 – 1400 MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

SAMIR AHMED

Topic: IPOs, Privatisation and the Role of Intermediaries

Learning Objective: To understand the process of a major international

IPO and Privatisation transaction

Case: British Telecom PLC (Pgs. 25)

Assignment:

1. How should US investors value foreign equities?

2. How do equity underwriting risks vary across markets?

3. What are the benefits/risks to an issuer of distributing an equity

offering in several markets simultaneously? Should BT have

attempted a multi-market offering?

4. What are the implications of deregulation of foreign equity

markets for equity investors? For intermediaries? For issuers?

Read: A Note on the IPO Process (Pgs. 7)

1400 – 1500 Lunch break

1500 – 1630 SUPPLY CHAIN AND RETAIL MANAGEMENT