Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration

Knowledge

  • Distinguish the fundamental theories, concepts, and relationships that explain the design (coordination and supervision mechanisms), behaviour (decision-making), and operation (processes) of business organisations.
  • Identify methods and techniques applicable to the various functional areas of the company, including marketing, finance and accounting, human resources, operations and production, information technology, and research and development.
  • Identify the company's competitive and technological environments and the adaptation strategies it has.
  • Recognise the mathematical, statistical, and econometric models necessary to diagnose and solve optimisation, simulation, and prediction problems in organisations.
  • Recognise business models, as well as the typologies and processes of company creation.
  • Remember the various leadership styles, as well as the skills and competencies of the managerial function.
  • Describe the regulatory context, as well as the historical and socio-economic evolution of business organisations throughout the various industrial revolutions.
  • Accurately describe the concepts and microeconomic and macroeconomic relationships that are key to understanding the economy and the decisions of economic agents.
  • Identify the supply, production and consumption processes involved in the preservation of biodiversity, ecological transition and sustainable development.

Skills

  • Analyse the design and operation of business organisations from the perspective of value generation.
  • Apply methods and techniques for problem solving in the various functional areas of the company, including marketing, finance and accounting, human resources, operations and production, information technology, and research and development.
  • In each case adapt the business strategies of adaptation to the competitive and technological environment.
  • Propose mathematical, statistical and econometric modelling appropriate for diagnosing and solving optimisation, simulation, and prediction problems in organisations.
  • Design business models and plans for the creation of companies leading to success and long-term sustainability.
  • Develop the necessary skills leading to leadership that effectively influences teams, projects and business organisations.
  • Provide accurate information on the regulatory, historical and socio-economic context of business organisations.
  • Using critical and systemic thinking, develop models that integrate the effects of business activity and consumption on biodiversity, the ecological transition and sustainable development.

Competences

  • Solve design and operation problems in organisations, adding value to the various stakeholders and providing innovative responses in contexts characterised by permanent social and technological transformation.
  • Solve business problems by taking a comprehensive and collaborative approach across the functional areas of marketing, finance and accounting, human resources, operations and production, information technology, and research and development.
  • Adapt business strategies to the competitive and technological environment, leading to the generation of value in a sustainable way over time by adopting innovative approaches and taking advantage of the opportunities offered by collaborations and alliances in the various business ecosystems.
  • Create mathematical, statistical and econometric models that help to diagnose, forecast and simulate specific economic and business problems.
  • Design business models and business creation plans, assessing the social, economic and environmental impact.
  • Lead work teams in functional areas and projects effectively and ethically with respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
  • Prepare reports on the social and economic norms and context of business organisations, in situations characterised by economic, social, educational, digital and sex/gender inequalities.
  • Solve economic and organisational problems using microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts and relationships.
  • Provide organisational, technological and monitoring solutions through quality systems in the processes of supply, production and consumption in accordance with the preservation of biodiversity, the ecological transition and sustainable development.