Prepare to lead in today's global economy
Thunderbird's Master of Science in Global Management curriculum is designed to give you a deep understanding of fundamental global business principles, along with an understanding of how cultural relations affect business interactions. We combine classroom instruction in global business with cross-cultural interactions for a truly immersive education. The program curriculum features a broad-stroke education with global business courses in all management disciplines, as well as a winterim/summerim study-abroad opportunity.
Economics bootcampsDepending on your undergraduate background, you may be required to take an online economics bootcamp prior to beginning the program. Read more. |
English proficiencyDepending on your TOEFL, IELTS or PTE score (if applicable), you may be required to take “Business English Communications” course(s) prior to beginning the program. |
Sample course descriptions
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Course Number: GF-4707Credit Hours: 3.00
This course will take participants to Shanghai, Suzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur and Bangalore, where the program will explore the high-tech business environment and how to do business in one of the world?s most dynamic regions. Program content will focus on applied knowledge, such as intellectual property protection or managing high tech talent that will help prepare students to lead and manage effectively in this diverse and complex region.
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Course Number: GF-4643Credit Hours: 3.00
This course is designed to give a non-stop comprehensive, integrated view of environment for Panamanian, investment and business opportunities, while broadening overall management perspectives.
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Course Number: GF-5640Credit Hours: 3.00
This course offers the students the opportunity to study the business, political, and cultural environment of Chile, Peru and Argentina, and the opportunity to meet and interact with important representatives of the governmental, commerce and cultural sectors.
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Course Number: GM-1200Credit Hours: 0.00
All entering students begin their degree program with this mandatory, one-week course. Foundations Week introduces tools and insights necessary for success and career effectiveness on a global scale. The course presents key aspects of leadership, team building, motivation, ethics, and cross-cultural communication. It also offers self-assessment tools and opportunities to explore career management and job search strategies. The program?s action-learning approach includes case discussions, exercises, simulations, group discussions, presentations, lectures and videos.
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Course Number: ST-4433Credit Hours: 1.50
Emerging Market Women Entrepreneurs Consulting is a course designed for students who want to get more involved in Thunderbird?s women entrepreneurs programs and in social business. Students will work with the professor to provide consulting for some of the women entrepreneurs? business plans that need further work in order to qualify for higher-level funding, like from USAID and other large funding sources. Thunderbird students will apply classroom knowledge and experiences and learn how to write and review business plans and work in multicultural student teams.
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Course Number: XM-1005Credit Hours: 0.00
The goal of this seminar is to challenge future global leaders, whether headed to business, government or the social sector, to reflect critically about their role in creating a more just, inclusive and sustainable world economy. The seminar will encourage participants to question their fundamental assumptions about the human condition, their personal values, and their understanding of leadership.
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Course Number: ES-4004Credit Hours: 3.00
This course is designed to strengthen the linguistic
skills of the non-native speaker of English. It focuses on both speaking and writing. Grammar, pronunciation, and presentation
are emphasized in the oral exercises, while grammar,
style, and organization are emphasized in the written. The course requires regular homework assignments, which are introduced and reinforced in the classes. -
Course Number: GF-5450Credit Hours: 3.00
This course provides an understanding of, and appreciation for, the development and implementation of entrepreneurial strategies and policy development from the perspective of the CEO/Founder of the entrepreneurial enterprise. Students will follow, from a ?been there-done that? point of view, the ?story? behind entrepreneurial ventures, and learn first hand both success and failure factors faced by the entrepreneur/CEO along the way.
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Course Number: GF-5425Credit Hours: 3.00
This course focuses on finance concepts as applied in the real world by entrepreneurs. From the firm perspective, the course covers topics relevant to entrepreneurial finance, including financial statements, forecasting of key financial variables, funding plans and venture capital. The course will prepare prospective general managers of entrepreneurial companies on how to make the financial decisions involved with building high-risk, high-growth enterprises. It prepares business-minded students for careers focused on entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.
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Course Number: GF-5451Credit Hours: 3.00
The Entrepreneurial CEO/Founder Seminar provides an understanding of, and appreciation for, the development and implementation of entrepreneurial strategies and policy development from the perspective of the CEO/Founder of the entrepreneurial enterprise.
In this course, students will follow, from a "been there-done that" point of view, the "story" behind entrepreneurial ventures, and importantly, learn first hand both success and failure factors faced by the entrepreneur CEO along the way.
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Course Number: GF-4430Credit Hours: 3.00
This course focuses on entrepreneurship and new venture creation in transition economies. It will focus on doing business and business opportunities in Hungary and Slovenia exemplifying doing business in transition economies. Students will have seminars from faculty members at the Budapest University of Economics and the University of Ljubljana, executives and managers of business organizations from various industrial sections, government officials of the two countries, and capital providers in each country. Company visits and cultural activities will also occur.
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Course Number: MGT-4405Credit Hours: 1.50
In recent years, the business world has become increasingly sensitized to the presence of institutional governance and defining the culture of a corporation and its core values. Stated explicitly or not, these issues not only impact the reputation of the venture or corporation, but also its sustainability and financial bottom line.
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Course Number: GF-4701Credit Hours: 1.50
This course covers in detail the techniques and procedures involved in successfully carrying out export and import transactions. Topics include the language of international trade, INCO terms, payment terms, trade barriers, export licensing, pricing, order handling, insurance, international collections, and international transportation. Documentation requirements of export and import operations are examined in detail. Import and customs clearance procedures are studied along with their relation to foreign product sourcing and international purchasing.
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Course Number: GM-1210Credit Hours: 0.00
All entering students begin their degree program with this mandatory, one-week course. Foundations Week introduces tools and insights necessary for success and career effectiveness on a global scale. The course presents key aspects of leadership, team building, motivation, ethics, and cross-cultural communication. It also offers self-assessment tools and opportunities to explore career management and job search strategies. The program?s action-learning approach includes case discussions, exercises, simulations, group discussions, presentations, lectures and videos.
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Course Number: FIN-4000Credit Hours: 1.50
This course will focus on the building blocks and the basic theories of Finance. Topics addressed include: Present value (and Net Present Value) concepts; the basics of stock and bond valuation (including the NPVGO model); capital budgeting (various tools of capital budgeting, and derivation of cash flows for capital budgeting); working capital management.
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Course Number: FIN-4001Credit Hours: 1.50
The second module of finance picks up where the Fundamentals course leaves off. Topics addressed include: Portfolio theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM); Weighted Average Cost of Capital; capital structure theories (including agency/signaling theories and dividend policy); financial market efficiency and its implications
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Course Number: FIN-4002Credit 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 and cross-border).
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Course Number: GM-4101Credit Hours: 1.50
This course covers the application of accounting models to the measurement of assets, liabilities, and stockholders? equity. Topics covered include, marketable securities, receivable and inventory valuation, fixed and intangible assets, bonds, leases, dividends, stock buybacks, stock splits and foreign currency translation. The emphasis of the course is on the evaluation of corporate financial reporting policy and the usefulness of financial reports for decision making. U.S. and international accounting standards are covered.
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Course Number: GF-5260Credit Hours: 3.00
This course provides the foundation for derivative
products used throughout finance. The first part introduces the basics of value and risk used throughout the course.Topics covered include futures, forwards, swaps, options,
introductory bond pricing concepts, such as yield-curve, duration,
immunization and hedge ratios. The concepts are
applied to problems in asset, liability and portfolio management.
Students also manage the risk management function of
a computer-simulated multinational corporation. This course is highly mathematical. -
Course Number: GF-5112Credit Hours: 1.50
This course focuses on analyzing financial statement
information in a variety of global decision contexts
including security valuation, credit decisions, strategy and competitive analysis, mergers & acquisitions, and litigation
support. Financial analysis uses cash flows and ratio measures of a company's operating, financing and investing performance
for comparison to past historical performance or with competitors. Accounting analysis uses an understanding of
