Lee Kong Chian School of Business

The primary aim of this course is to learn new skills and tools that will provide students with important quantitative acumen for understanding consumer analytics.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Develop a collaborative design thinking mindset that enables them to explore and communicate complex problems they face at the workplace;
• Critically evaluate a solution by reframing the problem, changing perspectives, or redefining the constraints by continuously iterating “How Might We?” questions;
• Integrate storytelling into a human-centered approach to problem-solving by engaging the audience and considering time in the solution narrative;
• Construct key user-centered design briefs, statements, and framework documents that reflect empathy with the user needs or a challenge; and
• Design and test simple prototypes that reflect the user’s needs and invite further iterations.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe how sustainable investing is defined and implemented by companies and investors across regions and asset classes
• Identify and describe traditional and “new” alternative investments, including size, growth, performance and profitability of asset classes, as well as common investment strategies
• Understand issues of due diligence, including key characteristics such as liquidity, scale, transparency, performance, fees and risk
• Assess the suitability of sustainable investing and alternatives to different classes of investors, and how products fit within an institutional investment framework
• Understand how to create sustainability-aware portfolios reflecting the tradeoffs between financial returns and sustainability
• Make informed decisions about allocation to sustainable investment strategies and alternative investments, including alternative investments with a sustainability tilt
• Incorporate concepts from FNCE6023 and previous courses into effective project solutions for corporate partners, delivered through written materials and presentations

The primary aim of this course is to learn new skills and tools that will provide students with important quantitative acumen for understanding consumer analytics.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the theories and practices in terms of: assessing ESG information in corporate and fund operations (including evaluating sustainability opportunities and risks), ESG financing and investment; innovative ssustainability-linked financial products and strategies
• Frame managerial and investment objectives in a way that is meaningful to financial decision-makers: how financial engagement fits with an organisation's broader strategy; and where opportunities for environmental leadership can be expanded.
• Describe how sustainable investing is defined and implemented by companies and investors across regions and asset classes, including key frameworks and strategies
• Describe how sustainability-based financial products and services (at transactional, financing and investment level) along the value chain provide support as well as an incentive for private capital allocation to ESG strategies.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe how sustainable investing is defined and implemented by companies and investors across regions and asset classes
• Identify and describe traditional and “new” alternative investments, including size, growth, performance and profitability of asset classes, as well as common investment strategies
• Understand issues of due diligence, including key characteristics such as liquidity, scale, transparency, performance, fees and risk
• Assess the suitability of sustainable investing and alternatives to different classes of investors, and how products fit within an institutional investment framework
• Understand how to create sustainability-aware portfolios reflecting the tradeoffs between financial returns and sustainability
• Make informed decisions about allocation to sustainable investment strategies and alternative investments, including alternative investments with a sustainability tilt
• Incorporate concepts from FNCE6023 and previous courses into effective project solutions for corporate partners, delivered through written materials and presentations

The primary aim of this course is to learn new skills and tools that will provide students with important quantitative acumen for understanding consumer analytics.

Students will learn from an experiential learning approach which prepares them to make effective marketing decisions.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Develop a collaborative design thinking mindset that enables them to explore and communicate complex problems they face at the workplace;
• Critically evaluate a solution by reframing the problem, changing perspectives, or redefining the constraints by continuously iterating “How Might We?” questions;
• Integrate storytelling into a human-centered approach to problem-solving by engaging the audience and considering time in the solution narrative;
• Construct key user-centered design briefs, statements, and framework documents that reflect empathy with the user needs or a challenge; and
• Design and test simple prototypes that reflect the user’s needs and invite further iterations.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Develop a collaborative design thinking mindset that enables them to explore and communicate complex problems they face at the workplace;
• Critically evaluate a solution by reframing the problem, changing perspectives, or redefining the constraints by continuously iterating “How Might We?” questions;
• Integrate storytelling into a human-centered approach to problem-solving by engaging the audience and considering time in the solution narrative;
• Construct key user-centered design briefs, statements, and framework documents that reflect empathy with the user needs or a challenge; and
• Design and test simple prototypes that reflect the user’s needs and invite further iterations.