Business Venture and Research Possible Workshop Topics

Possible Workshop Topics

1. Business, Economics, Public Policy, and Advanced International Studies

• International business and relations
• Global economy and development
• Business & economics
• Business ethics (also corporate ethics)
• Business dynamics
• Business intelligence
• Industrial development and policy 
  
• Energy and environmental policy
  
• API economy (application programming interface economy)
• Internet-enabled business
• Data visualization, big data and business intelligence
• Knowledge management and big data in business
• Deriving business value from data science
  
• Applications of data science to manufacturing, transportation, trade, and finance
• Economic data science – the application and analysis of economic theories in web-based applications such as recommendation, search, and sharing economy
• Law and economics
• Law and business
• Antitrust
• Tax policy
• Securities regulation
• Regulation of financial institutions
• Economic development and policy
• Macroeconomics and microeconomics
• Applied macroeconomics 
• Applied microeconomics 
• International macroeconomics
• Monetary economics
• Quantitative economics
• Financial economics
• International economics
• Labour economics
• Development and environmental economics
• Neuroeconomics
• Foreign direct investment
• Health economics
• Applied econometrics 
• Regionalism and economic cooperation
• Globalization and economic growth
• International trade policy and WTO
• Political economy
• Financial econometrics

2. Marketing, Management, Organization

• Marketing theory and research
• Marketing management
• Revenue management
• Direct marketing
• International marketing
• Marketing strategy
• Retail management and technology
• Internet Marketing
• Service marketing
• Merchandise planning and control
• Sales strategies
• Professional sales
• Marketing data analysis
• New product development
• Advertising and communication
• Public relations
• Environmental marketing
• Legal and ethical decision making
• Customer service and relations
• Modern management
• Corporate governance
• Leadership, values, and corporate responsibility
• Organizational Behavior & Theory
• Organizational communication
• Production & operations management
• Data-driven operations management
• Data-driven decision management
• Product management
• Supply chain logistics
• Supply chain management
• Supply chain and inventory management
• Predictive analytics for demand forecasting 
• AI for warehouse management 
• Chatbots in procurement
  
• Brand management
• Strategy in technology-intensive industries
• Technology-based outsourcing and offshoring
• Human resource management
• Management of small business
• Contemporary issues in management
• Managing multinational enterprise
• Environmental management

3. Accounting, Finance, Banking, Computational Mathematics

• Capital market
• Capital markets research in accounting, corporate finance and governance
• Accounting for banks or other financial institutions
• Accounting information system
• Securities analysis
• Taxes and organizational design
• The economic impact of accounting policy
• Artificial intelligence in accounting and auditing
• Corporate financial decision-making, corporate security design, and issuance decisions
• Theoretical and empirical analyses of corporate governance systems and their impact on corporate performance and value
• Management accounting
• Evaluation of financial statement quality
• Financial reporting and statement analysis
• Financial reporting, governance and financial fraud
• Accounting for financial instruments
• Tax accounting
• Accounting for derivatives
• International accounting standards
• Foreign currency accounting
• Investment banking
• International finance
• Corporate strategic planning
• Development of financial service
• Cloud computing and financial services
• Financial information systems management
• Big data for finance
• Big data and financial technology
• Behavioral finance
• Corporate finance
• Project finance
• Healthcare finance
• Capital structure
• Cost of capital
• Financial supervision
• Financial data mining
• Financial diagnosis
• Financial time series forecasting
• Applications of computer science methods in finance
• Statistical Computing
  
• Mathematical Modeling
  
• Applied Mathematics
  
• Computational Mathematics
• Financial mathematics
• Hedge funds and asset-market dynamics
• Hedging strategies
• Arbitrage techniques
• Rational expectation models
• Game theory
• Risk management and systemic risk
• Risk capital and capital allocation
• Financial econometrics
• Actuarial science
• Empirical finance
  
• Asset pricing
• Risk management
• Risk assessment and analysis
• Securitization
• Primary and derivative securities valuation
• Term structure models
• Term structure of interest rate
• Interest rate modeling
• Investment management
• Portfolio optimization and management
• Portfolio models
• Private equity
• Swaps & derivatives trading or dealing
• Derivative markets
• Securities trading
• Option pricing and trading
• Futures pricing and trading
• Forward trading
• Stocks and exchange rates prediction
• Insurance pricing and modeling
• Distribution of insurance risk
• Bankruptancy prediction
• Financial & stock market monitoring and prediction
• Credit assessment
• Credit fraud detection
• Money laundering surveillance
• Bank capital adequacy, stress testing, market liquidity risk
• Fintech (financial technology): emerging financial services
• Bitcoin and blockchain technology

 4. Entrepreneurship and Venture

• Startup management
• Entrepreneurship and venture capital
• Venture creation and development