Curriculum

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.

This course is a continuation of Fundamentals I. It aims to help students further develop communicative skills in listening and speaking, with an additional emphasis on reading texts. The emphases of this course are: a) building up more vocabulary and grammatical structures for communications purposes, b) integrating the linguistic and cultural knowledge acquired in Fundamentals I with the new knowledge, c) introducing business content and terminology in instructions and activities.

This course explores the strategic management of the firm. Readings, cases, group projects and discussions are used to present the analytical tools and techniques that support strategy formulation, and the related managerial skills and decision processes that foster strategy implementation in the global business environment.

Contemporary Business in Europe deals with the physical, political, legal, social, economic, cultural, regional integration, and other dimensions of the business environment of contemporary Europe. These include consideration of how Europe's human and non-human resources, political and legal structures, socio-economic configurations and models, cultural attributes, and the European Union edifice impinge on a managers ability to manage business and non-business operations successfully in contemporary Europe.

Contemporary Business in North America is an introduction to the area of North America from perspectives useful to the international manager. The course focuses on the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It provides a geographical, demographic, and cultural overview of the region, and develops concepts useful for assessing the North American business environment. The course also covers major free trade agreements and their implications for doing business in the region.

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.

This course provides an understanding of entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial process, and corporate venturing in a global setting with special emphasis on new venture creation and growth.

This course is based in Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru, provides students the opportunity to visit companies and meet executives and government officials to learn firsthand about the challenges and opportunities business leaders currently face in South America. Meetings with government officials will further enhance students? understanding of the South American business environment.

This field seminar is designed to provide a hands-on opportunity for students to see, hear, and experience the culture and business environment of two of the leading capital cities in Europe and the world?Moscow and Berlin. Structured to start in Moscow and end in Berlin, the seminar is planned around a series of lectures, corporate and government visits, and cultural tours, intended to allow students to investigate the cultural, political, and economic forces that impact business in these important countries.