Required Core Courses (42 credits) **
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MGCR 211
Intro to Financial Accounting
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Jingjing Zhang, Dongyoung Lee
- Yongoh Roh
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MGCR 222
Intro to Org Behaviour
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Amandine Ody-Brasier, Sarah Gordon, Sylvia Miriyam Findlay
- Diana Dakhlallah, Roman Galperin, Jeraul Mackey
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MGCR 233
Data Programming for Business
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Introduction to data programming for management students.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U0 and U1 B.Com. students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Najib Mozahem, Taha Havakhor
- Najib Mozahem
NEW requirement for entering class of Fall 2024, not open to current BCom students
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MGCR 250
Expressive Analysis for Mgmt
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Focusing on skills with respect to analysis, writing and presentation in management.
Offered by: Management
- Open to U0 and U1 B.Com. students. Not open to students who have taken BUSA 250.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Lindsay Holmgren, John J Allaster, Emily Farmer, Ashley Hards
- Lindsay Holmgren
(formerly BUSA 250)
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MGCR 271
Business Statistics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Statistical concepts and methodology, their application to managerial decision-making, real-life data, problem-solving and spreadsheet modeling. Topics include: descriptive statistics; normal distributions, sampling distributions and estimation, hypothesis testing for one and two populations, goodness of fit, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MATH 122 and MATH 123 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 227D1/D2, ECON 257D1/D2, MATH 203 at McGill, MATH 204, MATH 324, PSYC 204; students with an exemption from High School or CEGEP for MATH 203 will NOT be exempt from MCGR 271.
- You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Gabriel Frieden, Rob Glew
- Gabriel Frieden, Rob Glew, Setareh Farajollahzadeh
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MGCR 293
Managerial Economics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: The course focuses on the application of economic theory to management problems and the economic foundations of marketing, finance, and production. Attention is given to the following topics: price and cost analysis; demand and supply analysis, conditions of competition.
Offered by: Management
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MGCR 294
The Firm in the Macroeconomy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Topics and tools of macroeconomics such as national accounting, the IS-LM model, the drivers of output and business cycles, and the basics of monetary policy and
inflation. Emphasis on financial markets, the role of expectations, and the reasons for possible deviations from full information market efficiency.
Offered by: Management
- Terms
- Instructors
- David Abramson
- Patrick Augustin, Anisha Ghosh
*(replacing ECON 295)
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MGCR 331
Information Technology Mgmt
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Introduction to principles and concepts of information systems in organizations. Topics include information technology, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, database and systems development. Students are required to have background preparation on basic micro computer skills including spreadsheet and word-processing.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Sol Tanguay, Matthew Goodman
- Sol Tanguay
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MGCR 341
Introduction to Finance
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.
Offered by: Management
- Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Vadim di Pietro
- Adolfo De Motta, Vadim di Pietro
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MGCR 352
Principles of Marketing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Hamid Etemad, Fabienne Cyrius, Aviva Aronovitch
- Clarice Zhao, Bruce Doré
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MGCR 372
Operations Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Design, planning, establishment, control, and improvement of the activities/processes that create a firm's final products and/or services. The interaction of operations with other business areas will also be discussed. Topics include forecasting, product and process design, waiting lines, capacity planning,
inventory management and total quality management.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 472.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Yichuan Daniel Ding, Maxime Cohen
- Rim Hariss, Rob Glew, Bing Bai
(formerly MGCR 472)
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MGCR 382
International Business
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
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MGCR 460
Social Context of Business
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues
with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner, Gina G Page, Anicet A Fangwa Nantcho
- Lindsay Holmgren
(formerly MGCR 360 (U2/U3)
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MGCR 423
Strategic Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Instructors
- Liliya Lyubman, Ghahhar Zavosh, Mitali Banerjee
- Robert James David, Karl J Moore, Kwangjun An
(U2/U3)
**Students entering the program as of Fall 2024 are required to complete 42 credits. Students admitted prior to Fall 2024 are required to complete 39 credits.
* Economics
New students considering the Major Program in Economics:
- replace MGCR 293 with ECON 230D1/ECON 230D2.
- replace MGCR 294 with ECON 332 (3 credits) and ECON 333 (3 credits) (taken in the second year)
For students who take MGCR 293 and/or MGCR 294 (ECON 295) before declaring a Major in Economics:
- 9 credits will be permitted within the BCom program for MGCR 293 and ECON 230D1/ECON 230D2
- 9 credits will be permitted within the BCom program for MGCR 294 (ECON 295) and ECON 332/ECON 333
Minor Concentration in Economics:
Students who declare a Minor Concentration in Economics and who took MGCR 293 for the Core requirement, may take ECON 230D1/ECON 230D2 toward the minor.
All students following programs offered by the Department of Economics must consult the Economics Departmental Advisors to confirm their course choices.
If you have started the Major or Minor in Economics and are now changing your program for another business specialization, please consult with a BCom advisor.
