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Strategic Decision Making and Compromise Game
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New Product Design and Marketing Research
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| A multi-firm, competitive management simulation placed at the beginning of the program, designed to sharpen intra-firm communication skills using the art of compromise. In addition, team building, analytical and decision-making abilities are further developed. |
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Students address the interdisciplinary nature of product development and management, and market research in international markets. The course covers product issues that emerge during the product life cycle and the market research needs and nuances that contribute towards effective marketing and product development. |
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Cross-Cultural Communications for Management
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Risk Management and Technology Transfer
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| Students acquire the tools and information necessary to improve communication skills with new approaches and increased understanding, while taking into account the effects of cross-cultural differences in communication. |
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The course is designed to help the student identify various sources of international investment risk and the availability of financial and managerial techniques to deal with such risk. The course based on a combination of cases, historical data and theoretical interpretation concerning the analysis and allocation of risk in international investment and technology transfer. |
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| Analytical Tools for International Business |
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Human Resource Management
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| Designed to familiarize the student with the latest statistical and optimization tools, the course employs the most recent techniques that are useful for analyzing decision-making alternatives and selection. |
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Participants learn how to manage people to gain a global competitive advantage; international cases are used to apply such knowledge acquired through analysis and discussion. The course focuses on cross-cultural dimensions, internationalization of managers, expatriation and international compensation issues. |
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Organizational Behavior and Theory
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Strategy, Policy and Planning |
| Participants learn the basic concepts and principles of organizational behavior and use them to analyze and solve organizational decision-making problems, while managing the dynamics of interpersonal behavior. |
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This course teaches the design and implementation of corporate business and functional strategies that effectively achieve sustainable competitive advantage and utilize core competencies. |
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Economic Analysis in a Global Economy
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Comparative Management Systems
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| The course offers a non-traditional approach using an analytical method combined with a global perspective to the concepts and role of economics in the world environment. The economic basis for the program is introduced through the theory and tools of applied international economics in a dynamic setting. |
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The course emphasizes the cultural, political and economic variables and their influences on organizational and managerial processes within multinational companies. Extensive case studies of companies in various industries, with different national cultures, are analyzed to highlight organizational and cultural differences among major economies in the global environment. |
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Financial and Managerial Accounting
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Comparative Business Law |
| Financial reporting and analysis issues confronting international firms are covered, as well as the managerial accounting information necessary for planning, controlling, and decision-making within such firms. An international perspective is woven throughout all topics. |
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Students learn how to control and manage the legal aspects of their international business decisions across functional areas. The decision making implications of both the domestic and foreign legal environments and their correlation are discussed and analyzed. |
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Information Systems for Management.
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Managerial Finance in World Markets
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| Students focus on managing the information technology function, and make extensive use of cases to explore key information technology decisions that need to be made by the organization. The management of information technology is emphasized, lending to the programs’ competitive advantage as a technology orientation in a global setting. |
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This is a two-part course that first provides the student with the foundation of financial management and then continues with the conceptual and applied financial issues in an international environment. The course provides an understanding of finance concepts and how they are used to maximize the value of the firm and to decide alternative courses of action. Ethical considerations are also integrated throughout the class content. |
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Operations and Logistics Management
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Analysis of Emerging Technology |
| The concepts and issues critical to the globalization of manufacturing and services operations are analyzed. Students are introduced to the key issues for successful management of global operations, while identifying cultural and contextual differences. |
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The course is a case-based approach dealing with the role and impact of digital technology in large and small organizations, with a special emphasis on multinational companies. The course provides a discussion base on the role of technology in organizations as a tool for international competitiveness. Recent cases illustrate organizational adjustment to new technology in the international context. |
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| International Marketing and Consumer Behavior |
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International Business Negotiations
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| Students are provided with an understanding of marketing and consumer behavior theory, concepts, and tools under an international environment approach. The course first deals with strategic, marketing and management issues and follows with international marketing and cross-cultural consumer behavior dimensions, ultimately providing the strategic and behavioral tools for market analysis. Recent and relevant international cases are discussed and analyzed. |
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This is a role-play course involving the simulation of the complex international negotiations task faced by an international business enterprise in dealing with its relationships with one or more governments, domestic and foreign. The cases are based on recent conflicts between international companies and local governments in various regions of the world. |
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| Ethical Responsibility of Managers in an International Environment
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Managing Innovation
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| Examines the roles of business in society; the roles of government and regulation in monitoring business and its behavior; and the ethical responsibilities of managers in an international environment.
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This course addresses the processes involved in technological innovation, focusing on models, sources, flows, and the protection of innovation in the global environment. |
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