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-6143Credit Hours: 1.50
This course covers the role of accounting information in controlling domestic and foreign operations, and strategic decision making. Topics include strategic cost analysis, management controls systems, budgeting, and control of foreign operations, including the effects of translation of foreign currencies on performance evaluation.
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Course Number: GM-6030Credit Hours: 2.00
The Regional Business Environment courses deal with the political and social contexts in which business activities take place. This includes consideration of the 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 center, and transportation systems.
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Course Number: GM-6060Credit Hours: 2.00
The Regional Business Environment courses deal with the political and social contexts in which business activities take place. This includes consideration of the 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 center, and transportation systems.
