Provides an introduction to frameworks, tools, and factual knowledge useful for understanding the institutional and competitive environment and managerial challenges of firms engaged in international business. Restricted to business administration majors. International business majors excluded.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

The business opportunities and threats for individuals, companies, and countries created by the growth of globalization, and how companies must operate in diverse foreign environments and engage in specialized transactions.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

The financial management of a multinational business enterprise.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Cultural, legal, political, and economic factors affecting international marketing of products and services. Emphasis on differences in life styles, beliefs, attitudes, etc., and their influences upon marketing decisions.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Develop a business plan for a global startup, integrate international strategy into the business model and financing strategy, analyze the costs of internationalization.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

An examination of the challenges and opportunities associated with the development, management, and use of global information systems.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

This course examines how human resources are managed within a global context. It examines how human resources are managed within global firms as well as across different cultural settings.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Analyze the relevance of anthropological theory for business, diverse business cultures, and their impact on global business practices.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

International market selection, global market entry, and growth and regional expansion strategies. Topics covered through readings, case studies, and an international marketing simulation game.

Understanding of cross-cultural differences and their effects on individual behavior and business practices in organizations.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

The conduct of international trade, including terms of sale (INCOTERMS), financing arrangements, means of payment, credit insurance, shipping and insurance issues, support services, and trade facilitation.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Strategies multinational companies use to compete in developing countries. Topics include management of political risk, impact of culture, and corporate responsibility and ethics.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

The course examines how to leverage the competitive advantage of the firm to another country, access comparative advantages of another location, and link these two to create cross-country advantages.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Survey of the managerial, political, economic, sociological and psychological foundations of global stakeholder management and engagement through extant theory and case study examples of successful and failed stakeholder management strategies in various industries and multiple countries.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Introduction to Islamic economics and financial systems and their relationship to multinational corporations and international business.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning

To analyze how innovation is approached by firms in different institutional climates around the world.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

This seminar introduces students to research issues related to conducting studies in a cross-cultural setting. Students also develop an awareness of current international research programs.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

How to recruit, lead, and collaborate more effectively in international teams by examining differences related to culture, work-values, economic climate, and career progression.

How to formulate and present a professional judgment on a corporate initiative (like services offshoring) with a sound business case based on the elements of cost, benefit, risk, and strategic flexibility.

Explore evolving and emerging issues facing international business leaders in the 21st century to develop a greater understanding of economic globalization and the intersection of the public, private, and non-profit sectors and their interrelationship with particular emphasis on security.

Survey of social network theories and evidence, such that you are able to better identify, build, and navigate the social settings in which your career unfolds. Concepts are applied to several case studies of multinational enterprises to illustrate the network coordination challenges of global business.

Theoretical and comparative empirical perspectives on the roles of state and business in the development of emerging markets, sociopolitical frameworks of economic reform, and the impact of business strategies on development.

An interdisciplinary understanding of how multinational enterprises interact with political, sociocultural and economic environments worldwide and the ability of leaders to develop effective strategies in navigating complex security risks.

Discussion of the contemporary business environment of and business practices in the countries of Latin America.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Discussion of business environments and business practices in countries in Asia.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Discussion of business environments and business practices in the countries from Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Discussion of business environments and business practices in the countries of Africa.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Topics in international business. Reading and research on selected topics in the practices in the international business environment. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Supervised work experience as approved by the department. Three hours of academic credit. Pass-Fail only. Not for major credit. Can be taken as audit as an alternate grade mode. Internship contract required.

The financial management of a multinational business enterprise.

Cultural, legal, political, and economic factors affecting international marketing of products and services. Emphasis on differences in life styles, beliefs, attitudes, etc., and their influences upon marketing decisions.

Develop a business plan for a global startup, integrate international strategy into the business model and financing strategy, analyze the costs of internationalization. No prerequisite for MIB Graduate students.

A survey of social network theories and evidence that provide theoretical, empirical and practical examples of how different social network configurations achieve different function goals. Concepts are applied to case studies of multinational enterprises to illustrate the network coordination challenges of global business.

Analyze the relevance of anthropological theory for business, diverse business cultures, and their impact on global business practices.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

To analyze how innovation is approached by firms in different institutional climates around the world.

Discussion and analysis of business environments and business practices in the countries of Latin America.

Discussion and analysis of business environments and business practices in the countries of Asia.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Discussion and analysis of business environments and business practices in the countries of Europe.

Discussion and analysis of business environments and business practices in the countries of Africa.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Topics in international business. Reading and research on selected topics in the practices in the international business environment.