Develop the tools you need to understand and master international working relationships.


Global Management

Enhance your management and practical global leadership skills. Core courses address managing relationships in complex organizations, leading change effectively from the middle of an organization, understanding global corporate strategy, building consulting skills and enhancing knowledge of technology and innovation management. In addition to the classroom, you test your skills in projects where leading change and business intelligence are key.

Courses

GF-4402 Corporate Strategy

This course focuses on issues that define the  scope of the firm and its competitive environment.  Organization scope is impacted by a variety of factors such as ownership structure, country context, and firm-specific resource endowments.  Consequently, this course will explore these influences within a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing on research and practice from areas such as finance, industrial organization economics, organization behavior and organization theory.  The objective is to provide students with a rigorous and practical course that offers a deeper understanding of several key management areas, including diversification, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and corporate restructuring.

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GF-4405 Contemporary Topics in Global Management

Current topics in management will be offered on a  timely basis to address cutting-edge issues.  The content and emphasis will vary by trimester.

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GF-5274 Global Supply Chain Leadership

This course offers a strategic approach to  competitive global supply chains and networks. It covers supply chain management and strategic sourcing/supply. Chains are analyzed using four essential underpinnings: physical, financial, information, and relationships for their fit with the firms competitive business models. Tools will be presented for successful diagnoses, implementation and management. How can and do companies and not-for-profits take leadership roles to compete globally with their supply chains/networks and through the use of strategic sourcing and supply? What are the most appropriate network designs, systems, and processes for specific firms and organizations?

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GF-5401 Strategic Management of Technology & Innovation

This course is an overview of the process of the  management of technology and innovation including the strategic, managerial and organizational structure variables that influence its success or failure.  Topics include the impact of new technologies on industries, dominant designs and platform leadership, incremental and transformational innovations, lifecycle dynamics, technology transfer, entrepreneurship, critical success factors in managing innovative projects and managing innovation professions in co-located and virtual environments.  Tools include technology audits, technology portfolios, technology road maps, make versus buy decisions, scenario planning and technology forecasting.

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GF-5408 Organizational Consulting: Basics & Practicum

This is an introductory applications course  exploring the profession and practice of management consulting.  The narrow view of consulting is limited to the field of private sector management consulting and those firms that are dedicated to the practice. A broader view acknowledges that mastery of the skills and practices required in planning, executing, and delivering a consulting project is useful to anyone considering a career in management, whether in the private, public, or NGO sectors. The goal of this course is to provide students with an introduction to consulting as it is practiced worldwide and across sectors.  Students will achieve this goal by undertaking a consulting engagement for a real-world client. Effort will be placed on developing proficiencies in a range of skills required to practice consulting.  Students will be provided an opportunity to become familiar with the typical phases in a consulting project: selling a project, entering the client firm, gathering data, diagnosing issues, implementing solutions, and leaving.  The overall objectives of the course are to: 1) provide an overview of the world of management consulting; 2) provide a direct application experience; and 3) provide participants an opportunity to develop a set of skills that will add value and depth to their personal and professional capabilities.

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GF-5412 Leading Change and Transformation

This course will (1) increase your understanding  of the nature of organizational change (through conceptual frameworks, readings and discussions), (2) increase your skill in managing change (through a project) and (3) enhance your sensitivity to the contribution and consequences of the human element as related to change.  As a pivotal requirement of this course, you will create and manage a change project.  This project will be the platform through which you will apply the issues and concepts that we cover in this course. Project efforts and analyses will include (1) the nature of the change agreement, (2) the goals of the change, (3) the identification and management of key stakeholders, (4) the challenges faced as change agents, (5) your own and youre a clients assessment of the relative success and failure of the change, and (6) the lessons learned in completing this leading change project.

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GF-5414 Managing Relationships in Global Context

This course covers concepts and skills essential  to managing work relationships in organizations of increasing cross-cultural complexity. Relationships examined include those with your direct reports, your boss, and your peers. Concepts and skills associated with self-management, interpersonal, one-on-one management and group/team management are covered and practiced. The course will use discussion, self-reflection, experiential exercises and lecture to help build hands-on self-awareness and relationship management competencies.

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GST-5430 Technology Policy & Entrepreneurship

Innovation has become a major source of competitive advantage for nations as well as companies. This course analyzes the innovation process highlighting the interaction between universities, goverment technology policies, corporate research and development, start-ups, and venture capital.  This course draws upon international comparisons, country case studies, and technology-specific cases including information technology.

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GF-5460 Global Energy Industry: Business & Management

This course examines in detail the business,  economic, and politics associated with the global energy industry.  The course, while not exclusively focused on hydrocarbon energy sources, devotes a large amount of time to this area because of its current energy role.  The depth and breadth of material includes history, culture, politics, and involves some of the largest, most profitable, most valued, and most influential multinational firms in the world.

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GF-5712 Business Intelligence

This course examines the role that business  intelligence the systematic collection, synthesis, and analysis of information on the external operating environmentshould play in strengthening corporate strategies and decision-making. Through lectures and client-sponsored competitive assessment projects, the course has two goals: to help students understand this management tool and to train them to be able to utilize it for competitive advantage. This course also addresses the related issues of corporate/industrial espionage and information security.

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