Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Management

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS BRIEFING ***** An overseas course trip involving intensive meetings with company and commercial bank executives, directors in consulting and investment banking firms, executives in public sector and health care enterprises, and government officials and academics. The objective is to enhance students' appreciation of the opportunities and obstacles to doing business in different parts of the world and to heighten their interest in engaging in global ventures. Readings to prepare for the country visits and meetings will be assigned prior to the trip.The course grade will be based on students' active participation during the meetings and on a substantive paper to be submitted no later than Janurary 31. Attendance at all of the scheduled meetings during the course trip is required. The focus of the paper should be a synthesis of the insights and perspectives acquried from all aspects of the course trip. These may be related to the students' plans and aspirations, but the core of the paper must deal with the content of the trip, especially the pre-trip readings and the dialogues during the company meetings. In the paper, the management and strategy issues that were treated in at least two or three of the company meetings should be identified and integrated in the paper.