Thunderbird’s innovative online dual degree partnership with Indiana University offers simultaneous instruction in domestic and international business from two top-ranked schools. Designed for working professionals, 80 percent of curriculum is delivered online, and the rest is divided among Thunderbird's Phoenix, Arizona campus, Indiana University’s campus in Bloomington, and residence weeks in locations abroad. You'll receive a truly global, experiential education that you can apply to your career immediately.
Classes are delivered by world-class faculty from both institutions. Descriptions of Thunderbird curriculum is below. See curriculum delivered by Indiana University.
Sample course descriptions
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Course Number: CS-1001Credit Hours: 0.00
The course equips students with a standard set of career management skills that can be used in any future career search process including: using self assessment and market research tools to identify your goal(s), developing an effective resume and cover letter, professional networking and interviewing skills, and job search ethics and etiquette. The course emphasizes a proactive job search process and teaches students how to leverage skills for future career moves.
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Course Number: GM-4800Credit Hours: 1.50
This dynamic and interactive course provides managers with an effective framework for achieving their goals in competitive global business settings. The course will assist students to prepare for and execute time-tested strategies for achieving communication competence with persons from different cultures. It will not only examine theories of culture and communication, but will also place students in an experiential situation to gain valuable skills for overcoming obstacles in global management environments.
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Course Number: DM-1005Credit Hours: 6.00
The course equips students with a standard set of career management skills that can be used in any future career search process including: using self assessment and market research tools to identify your goal(s), developing an effective resume and cover letter, professional networking and interviewing skills, and job search ethics and etiquette. The course emphasizes a proactive job search process and teaches students how to leverage skills for future career moves.
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Course Number: GM-4210Credit Hours: 1.50
This course investigates the nature of foreign exchange markets and hedging instruments; international financial markets and the transmission of funds; balance of payments; alternative international monetary arrangements and institutions; and the respective adjustment mechanisms in response to fiscal and monetary policy changes. The course also examines how countries grow successfully and the causes of economic crisis.
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Course Number: GM-4402Credit Hours: 1.50
This course focuses on the many aspects of creating and growing a global venture. The concepts of going to market, competitive sustainability and building a company to last are discussed along with the aspects and characteristics of global entrepreneurs and the global entrepreneurship process. The concepts of creativity, innovation and opportunity analysis are discussed in both an individual and corporate setting as are global ethics, citizenship and intrapreneurship (corporate venturing).
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Course Number: GM-4403Credit Hours: 3.00
In a global economies, entrepreneurship is the engine of economic growth and prosperity. As emerging global leaders it is critical to explore underlying principles and concepts about entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial process and how social responsibility and ethical values are woven into the fabric of entrepreneurial opportunity. This course provides an exploration into these basic concepts including how corporate and social organizations can act entrepreneurially.
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Course Number: GM-4203Credit Hours: 1.50
The third module of Finance examines corporate finance issues from managerial and strategic perspectives, and extends the concepts covered in the previous two modules to cross-border settings. Topics addressed include: financial and real options; risk management; corporate valuation (domestic cross-border).
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Course Number: GM-5486Credit Hours: 1.50
This course provides practical insights into those factors, both external and internal, which impact leadership effectiveness. Topics covered include the achievements of leaders, characteristics of leaders, leading across cultures, leading change and relationship between leaders and followers.
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Course Number: GF-5490Credit Hours: 3.00
An integrative capstone seminar led by a team of Thunderbird faculty. It is intended to examine issues related to management strategies, human resource management, services management, and the relationship to economic decision making.
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Course Number: GM-4501Credit Hours: 1.50
This course provides a managerial orientation to the topic of global marketing analysis in today?s complex and rapidly-changing business environment. Course participants will gain a framework for analyzing major risks and opportunities in foreign markets based on market analysis and an understanding of key marketing relationships (i.e., customer, competitor, value-chain and company). In addition, the primary strategic issues involved in global marketing?segmentation, market targeting, and market positioning?are developed.
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Course Number: GM-4801Credit Hours: 1.50
This course will focus on the introduction of negotiating in the global context. Students will participate in a variety of hands on activities, such as scenario-driven discussions, case study and student-to-student negotiation.
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Course Number: GM-4802Credit Hours: 1.50
This course will focus on the breakdown and impasse that occurs in global negotiation. Students will participate in a variety of facilitation, creativity and mediation activities through case study and experiential negotiations.
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Course Number: GM-4463Credit Hours: 1.50
The objective of this course is to help students enhance their skills to become more effective managers. The course focuses on human behavior in organizations when people work independently and in teams.
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Course Number: GM-4000Credit Hours: 3.00
This course offers an introduction to the fundamentals of the international business environment and its three major aspects: (1) the institutional framework and policy management of international economic relations, (2) risk assessment and strategic analysis of nation-states, and (3) the operational and organizational concerns of the transnational enterprise.
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Course Number: GM-5470Credit Hours: 1.50
This capstone course in global strategy focuses on the inherent tensions that global organizations encounter in formulating and implementing strategy such as localization v. standardization, and centralization v. decentralization. The treatment of issues transcends the typical multi-domestic or international template to address concerns of a transnational nature. Within framework, contemporary developments in joint ventures, strategic alliances, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and the management of the globally diversified organization will be addressed.
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Course Number: GM-4319Credit Hours: 1.50
This course provides an overview of the design, control, and improvement of manufacturing and service productions systems. Topics include operations strategy, product design and process selection, quality management and statistical process control, materials requirements planning, lean thinking, theory of constraints, service delivery and service quality, and global supply chain management.
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Course Number: GM-4650Credit Hours: 3.00
The Regional Business Environment courses deal with the political and social context in which business activities take place. This includes consideration of eight factors that shape or reflect the operational realities of management and business, including: Patterns of historical development cover political, social and economic events and structures. Geographic environment involves human and economic geography, covering population and natural resource distributions, regional financial and trade centers, and transportation systems.
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Course Number: GM-4600Credit Hours: 3.00
The Regional Business Environment courses deal with the political and social context in which business activities take place. This includes consideration of eight factors that shape or reflect the operational realities of management and business, including: Patterns of historical development cover political, social and economic events and structures. Geographic environment involves human and economic geography, covering population and natural resource distributions, regional financial and trade centers, and transportation systems.
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Course Number: GM-4620Credit Hours: 3.00
The Regional Business Environment courses deal with the political and social context in which business activities take place. This includes consideration of eight factors that shape or reflect the operational realities of management and business, including: Patterns of historical development cover political, social and economic events and structures. Geographic environment involves human and economic geography, covering population and natural resource distributions, regional financial and trade centers, and transportation systems.
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Course Number: GM-4640Credit Hours: 3.00
The Regional Business Environment courses deal with the political and social context in which business activities take place. This includes consideration of eight factors that shape or reflect the operational realities of management and business, including: Patterns of historical development cover political, social and economic events and structures. Geographic environment involves human and economic geography, covering population and natural resource distributions, regional financial and trade centers, and transportation systems.
