Specialize your degree in Latin American business
Thunderbird's Distance Learning Global MBA for Latin American Managers prepares business leaders to advance their career with a global education that emphasizes the realities of living and working in an emerging market. The curriculum for the Global MBA for Latin American Managers focuses on three primary areas: basic and advanced global business strategy, management and leadership; cross-cultural and executive business communication; and international relations with a focus on global and Latin American business issues.
Taught by Thunderbird and Tec de Monterrey faculty, the Global MBA is delivered in lock-step format so that the entire cohort progresses through the program together in a prescribed sequence. The curriculum is a blended delivery method with three face-to-face seminars, live satellite broadcasts and local class facilitation every other weekend (Friday afternoon and Saturday).
Sample course descriptions
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Course Number: GM-6099Credit Hours: 1.50
This course introduces accrual accounting concepts including revenue recognition, matching, and asset and liability valuation. Topics covered include the recognition and measurement of accounting events, the preparation and analysis of financial statements (balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows), the use of international financial statements and an introduction to inter-corporate investments.
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Course Number: GM-6260Credit Hours: 3.00
This course presents an advanced treatment of the theory and practice of financial decision making in the firm. Topics include efficient markets, portfolio theory, capital-market theory, capital-structure theory, the cost of capital, capital budgeting, and dividend policy. Pedagogy involved lectures, textbook readings, and case studies.
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Course Number: BC-6001Credit Hours: 2.00
This course focuses on effective management communication for personal and corporate leadership development and illustrates how core concepts of communication strategy inform the various channels of management. Students analyze the components of effective communication with regard to theme, audience, style, clarity, cross-cultural sensitivity, structure and organization in both oral and written forms. Its thematic approach includes leadership, ethics, mergers, and acquisitions, e-commerce, public language and corporate culture, teaming, and project management.
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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-6464Credit Hours: 1.50
This course explores the mix of organizational practices and people that can be the basis of sustainable competitive advantage in the contemporary global business environment. Topics covered include cross-cultural issues in managing people; organizational culture; leadership; employee skills and motivation; reward systems; and change management.
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Course Number: GM-6468Credit Hours: 1.50
This foundation course in strategy covers a range of Core concepts and analytical techniques relating to competitive advantages in global organizations. It deals with both classical and contemporary issues of importance such industry analysis, Core competence of organizations, top management teams and corporate governance, product / market scope decisions, and value chain analysis. The emphasis is on the application analytical tools and framework to understand complex strategy issues.
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Course Number: GM-6880Credit Hours: 2.00
This course provides an intellectual and experiential forum for developing the interpersonal-intercultural communication and interaction skills necessary for international managers. While learning to identify cultural aspects of verbal and nonverbal behavior of persons from different cultures and themselves, students come to recognize cultural differences that can cause difficulties in management situations.
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Course Number: GM-6101Credit 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: GM-6210Credit Hours: 2.00
This course presents the basic principles and analytical techniques of financial management. Topics include financial analysis and planning; capital markets theory; cost of capital and capital budgeting; and long-term financing, decisions.
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Course Number: GM-4450Credit Hours: 3.00
Foundations for Global Business Leadership serves as an introduction to the Global MBA On-Demand program. As such, we will examine the changing international business environment. Our goal is to begin the program?s process of understanding the dynamics of the global political economy, examining its effects at the firm level, and identifying skills managers need to function effectively in this environment.
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Course Number: GM-6001Credit Hours: 3.00
This seminar will develop the concepts, framework, and vision necessary to successfully manage a global enterprise. Key elements will include the globalization of economic and political systems, as well as the globalization of business. Students will be required to apply the distance interaction tools they will be using later in the program. Thunderbird faculty will lead this seminar.
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Course Number: GM-6212Credit Hours: 1.50
This course investigates the nature of international financial markets; balance of payments; foreign exchange markets and hedging instruments; alternative international monetary arrangements and institutions; the respective adjustment mechanisms in fiscal and monetary policy changes.
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Course Number: GM-6404Credit Hours: 1.50
In global economies, entrepreneurship is the engine of economic growth and prosperity. As emerging global leaders, it is important for you to understand the underlying principles and concepts about entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process. This course covers the personal characteristics and qualities of the entrepreneur, innovation, creativity, the business plan, opportunity analysis, and the role of entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies.
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Course Number: GM-6000Credit Hours: 2.00
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-6770Credit Hours: 2.00
This course examines the essentials of negotiation and bargaining processes with repeated exercises to develop these skills. The first half of the course is devoted to increasingly complex negotiations in small groups. During the second half, students assume negotiating positions on a variety of international issues that are currently being negotiated and will present before the entire class.
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Course Number: GM-6510Credit Hours: 3.00
This foundation course in strategy covers a range of Core concepts and analytical techniques relating to competitive advantages in global organizations. It deals with both classical and contemporary issues of importance such industry analysis, Core competence of organizations, top management teams and corporate governance, product / market scope decisions, and value chain analysis. The emphasis is on the application analytical tools and framework to understand complex strategy issues.
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Course Number: GM-6211Credit Hours: 1.50
This course investigates the nature of trade theory; commercial policy; and selected trade and finance problems of developing countries.
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Course Number: GM-6900Credit Hours: 3.00
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Course Number: GM-6102Credit Hours: 1.50
This course covers the process of creating and using accounting information for long- and short-run decision making. Topics include cost allocations and their uses, cost behavior, relevant costs, and decision making.
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Course Number: GM-6320Credit Hours: 3.00
This course investigates the quantitative and analytical tools and techniques used by modern operations managers. Though most often used in production areas, these concepts have become central to the service disciplines as well. Topics include capital budgeting, linear programming, forecasting, inventory models, quality control, scheduling, analysis of some queuing models, PERT, CPM and decision theory.
