Updated on 05/05/2015

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Thanks for visiting my pages at the Glendale Community College web site. You can learn here about the Business Administration and Oceanography classes that I teach here, and my other professional interests (e.g.,  Financial Economics, Resource Economics, Physical Geology, Environmental Geology etc.). These pages, and the links therein, will also give you information about globalization, outsourcing, rational exhuberance, earthquakes, particularly the seismicity in Southern California, volcanism, plate tectonism, El Nino, global climate change, atmospheric and ocean circulation, energy and other earth resources, and the related environmental issues.

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Some interesting Periodicals/Journals:

	Business Week: Business News, Stock Market & Financial
	Economist: A weekly news-magazine for international politics and business news and opinion
	The Economist Intelligence Unit for all the global business intelligence you need on over 195 countries
	Business Ethics: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility
	B2B Magazine: Marketing News and Strategies for BtoB

Visit GCC Library online to access and read some of these materials

On This Page:

	Schedule of Lectures, Tests and the Final Exam: All meetings are 6-9.23 PM in CR-137 (click here for class details in PDF)
	Lectures, Tests and Presentations Module 1: Sept 4, 11, 18, 25 Class-Test 1: Oct 2 Module 2: Oct 2, 9, 16 and 23 Class-Test 2: Oct 30 Module 3: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, Dec 4 Class-Test 3: Dec 11 Dates for Case Study Presentations: Oct 16, 23; Nov 6, 13, 20; Dec 4 Written Report due at presentation time
	Grading and Class Policies: 60% for best 2 of 3 Class-Tests 20% for the Case Study 20% for Presence and Participation +5% to -5% for Extra-Credit work Automatic F for suspicion of cheating OR less than 70% attendance OR any other disruptive or anti-social behavior
	Textbook and Journals
	Other Reading Materials, Videos, Data Sources
	My lecture overviews (PDF) and PowerPoint (PPT) Presentations
	GCC Policy on Academic Honesty
	GCC Biz Ad certificates

About this Course:

BusAd 101 (Introduction to Business) is a 3-units college transfer course that

	helps you understand the environment in which business operates,
	by examining the following topics Module 1: Business and Business Environment A. Contemporary Business Environment 1. The framework of contemporary business 2. Business ethics and social responsibility 3. Understanding economic challenges 4. Competing in global markets B. Starting and growing your business 5. Small versus large businesses 6. The entrepreneurship challenge 7. E-business Module 2: Managing People and Markets A. Managing People and Organizations 8. Management and Leadership 9. Human Resources Management 10. Improving Performance 11. Production and Operations Management B. Marketing Management 12. Customer-Driven Marketing 13. Product and Distribution Strategies 14. Promotion and Pricing Strategies Module 3. Managing Technology and Finance A. Technology and Information 15. Technology to Manage Information 16. Accounting and Financial Statements B. Managing Financial Resources 17. Financial Management and Institutions 18. Security Markets
	and their implications for the every day business operations.

Access here the PDF files of selected chapters from my book Wealth Forever: The Analytics of Stock Markets by Sarkis J. Khoury, Poorna Pal, Chunsheng Zhou, and John Karayan (World Scientific, Sept 2003)
 

	Chapter 3: The Performance History of U.S. Equity Markets
	Chapter 4: The Performance Relative to Other Instruments and Markets
	Chapter 5: Balancing Risks and Returns: Three Theoretical Insights
	Chapter 6: Valuing the Equities, the Firms and the Market

Click here or on this interactive map below ('Business Around the World' from McGraw-Hill/ Irwin) to select a list of resources from your favorite regions of interest around the world.

Selected data sources:

	CIA World Factbook
	EarthTrends, a global database
	IMF World Economic Outlook Database
	Economic Report of the President: Downloadable Reports/Tables
	Federal Reserve Economic Data
	Census Bureau Home Page, also Census Bureau Economic Programs, Size Matters: from Census Bureau Population Projections
	U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Click here to access the PowerPoint slides from all chapters in Boone & Kurtz "Contemporary Business 12e"

Click here to access the PowerPoint slides from all chapters in Boone & Kurtz "Contemporary Business 11e"

Poorna's PDF and PPT Files

( denotes PDF files and   denotes PPT files)
 

	Why Business Education?
	The Framework of Contemporary Business
	Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
	Welchway
	"Rough week, but America's Era goes on"
	Manager's Job
	Mintzberg
	Some Business Ethics Case Studies

	Introduction to Business
	Framework of Contemporary Business
	Ethics

   Hofstede

   Chapter 8

   Chapter 9

  Oct 23, 2008

Experience Curve etc.

  The Critical Path Method

	Competitive Advantage of Nations
	Grant's Review of Porter's Diamond
	National Competitiveness
	Patterns of National Competitive Success
	From Accounting to Finance Ratios
	Market's Valuation

Michael Porter

Some interesting downloads, viewing materials etc.

Enterprise of the Future: A IBM Study

Henri Mintzberg's Harvard Business Review article on Managers

For profit or not-for-profit: LA Times Study or click here

The Small Business Economy 2007

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism

Small Business Survival Index 2007

Small Business Survival Index for 2006, 2005, 2004

Rough week, but America's Era goes on

   Eight steps open many paths in business

Make a Gantt chart in Excel

	Michael Porter on "Why America Needs an Economic Strategy
	Global Competitiveness Report
	Analysis of Porter's 5-forces Model
	Three Envelopes

Toward the Future

International Trade

The Evolving World Economy

Risk, Reward, Responsibility 

The Reform Impulse

The Rise of Capitalism

Globalization and the Flow of Knowledge

Globalization and Communication

Globalization Research Group at Duke

Anatomy of a Corporate Takeover

Globalization and Outsourcing

Colbert & Stewart: Bono and Globalization

Globalization: Think about it, fast!!!

Technical Support From: blueseagull

Welcome to Globalization, America

India Rising (from ABC News)

Rise of China (DavidChanNa2)

Stay Local to go Global: Globalization in Practice

Outsourcing - A Thomas Friedman/Discovery Channel look

Thomas Friedman with Charlie Rose

C.K. Prahlad on Globalization and the Environment

Bombay's Dubbawallahs ― India

An hour with Brzezinski, Scowcroft & Kissinger

Charlie Rose interviews LEE KUAN YEW

Joseph Stiglitz on Globalization and Economics of Information

Case-Study

Date of Presentation

Topic

Team

1.2

Oct 16

Pete’s Coffee and Tea Brews Good Business

KLINGENSMITH, JOHN
MORA, ROXANA
LUNA, MARTHA
PARSEKIAN, DALIDA

2.2

Oct 16

Ford Turns Green with Clean Energy

CHU, KYUNG JIN
JI, EUN SUNG
KU, NOLAN
HONG, KYUNGMI

3.2

Oct 16

BP Meets Global Energy Challenges Head-On

JOVEN, JASON
KHURANA, SUDEEP
MARCARIAN, VACHE
ZAKARYAN, MONIKA

4.2

Oct 23

Cold Stone Creamery Cools Off Consumers around the World

BALAYAN, ARMINEH
CHUN, JUN
MENJIVAR, YANIRA
SMITH, SHARON

5.2

Oct 23

The UL Mark of Approval

6.2

Oct 23

Culver’s: Great Food from a Good Business

HONG, DUSTIN
KIM, JI IN
KIM, MINJUNG
MORALES, JOSE

7.2

Nov 6

Manifest Digital: Putting the User First

DAVTYAN, LILIT
GARCIA, GENARO
OVSEPYAN, GAYANA
TERVARDANYAN, EDWARD

8.2

Nov 6

Made in the USA: American Approval

DAVTYAN, KAREN
HAHN JUSTIN T
NAZARI, TANIA
PALASANIAN, NARE

9.2

Nov 6

Allstate Employees Are in Good Hands

BAGHOOMIAN, JORES
GORELOVA, ALEKSANDRA
MUSHEGHYAN, VAHE
WANG, MENG YUN

10.2

Nov 13

Meet the People of BP

ASATRYAN, KARINE
ASSATURI, GARINEH

11.2

Nov 13

Washburn Guitars: Sound Since 1883

GUILLEN-MARIN, FATIMA
HA, DAVID
HAWLERY, GORAN
YOON, HEE JAE

12.2

Nov 13

Harley-Davidson: An American Icon Cruises into Its Second Century

CONTRERAS, YESENIA
MOLINA, STEPHANIE
NARANJO, RICARDO
ZARKARIAN, RAFIK

13.2

Nov 20

High Sierra Climbs to New Heights

HONG KIYOUNG

JIN XINXING
MILLER JOSEPH J

14.2

Nov 20

Wild Oats Promotes Local Foods

15.2

Nov 20

Pete’s Coffee and Tea: Just What the Customer Ordered

BAILEY, TOYA
BERBERIAN, ARPI
HONG, PAUL
RANIERI, FRANCESCA

16.2

Dec 4

Taking Account: The Little Guys

MARKOSYAN, ADRINE
SARGSYAN, ASTGHIK
TOROSSIAN, CHRISTINA

17.2

Dec 4

JP Morgan Chase Lends a Hand to Small Business

Davtyan, Lilit
Gazaryan, Eduard
Unanyan, Arthur

18.2

Dec 4

A.G. Edwards: Helping Businesses Grow